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The closing track on 'from memory' is called 'maybe (intro)': 47 seconds of ambient that end the record exactly where anyone else would have started it. That structural joke sums up the debut album from Aydn, a Bristol producer:...

'Pick Up The Tempo' is not a promise: it is the only moment 'The Mission' actually steps on the gas. Mark Williams places his fastest cut, 132 BPM in F major, second in the running order, and from there the record never climbs...

Fifteen of the twenty tracks on X Years VA live in a minor key. That's not an accident or an empty statistic; it's the climate 1985 Music, the label run by Alix Perez since he built his name in mid-2000s melodic drum & bass, has...

Twenty cuts and a curve you can read at a glance: Becking's 'Back The Funk' opens at 140 BPM, the fastest tempo in the whole selection, and from there the journey never climbs — it paces itself. 'Hypa' by Specialist Moss and...

There's a curious decision built into 'Summer Sessions 2026, Vol. 1': the record runs its own route twice. The first lap, from the opener through track ten, travels almost entirely in club mixes; the second retraces the course in...

Sketch this chart onto a stave and you get an almost entirely nocturnal territory: 52 of its 59 cuts sit in minor keys, with E-flat minor as the capital — nine tracks, from 'Pull Over' to 'Pull Up'. And since the genre column is...

Few compilations read like a map of their own tensions, but this one begs for it: slots 20 and 21 hold two versions of 'Lazer Beams', the Green Velvet & Harvard Bass club staple now closing in on a decade of service. The Adam Beyer...

Three cuts are enough to justify this week's batch of exclusives, and the first arrives with a double pedigree: Basement Jaxx's 'Jump N' Shout' in the hands of Gorgon City. The duo return to Toolroom to reimagine the Jaxx...

VA – Yesenia's Choice Vol. 174: Deep House with Its Own Character The Yesenia label returns with the 174th instalment of its well-established compilation series, and the selection does not disappoint. Yesenia's Choice Vol. 174 brings...