LUSU Drops 'Lose Your Head Chart': A Masterclass in Contemporary Techno Curation
Producer LUSU arrives on Beatport with a personal selection that reads as a sonic manifesto: fourteen tracks mapping the landscape of high-impact techno in 2024. Featuring three of his own cuts across Arcane Music, TRAGEDIE, and the ever-authoritative Drumcode, LUSU cements his position as a firm fixture in the Peak Time / Driving vanguard.
The chart opens with his own 'Lose Your Head' (136 BPM, Eb Major) — a direct hit to the nervous system that sets the tone immediately. TOYZZ follows with 'Earthquake' on Truesoul, five minutes of crushing percussion in E Major at 132 BPM, before Simone Zino's 'Signals' for TRSN shifts the energy into Raw / Deep / Hypnotic territory at 143 BPM, its G minor tension slicing cleanly through the momentum.
The chart's core is where the curation earns its credibility. Julian Jeweil's 'Derbouka' on Pluriel Records weaves North African percussive textures into a relentless 133 BPM groove, while LUSU's own 'Move 2 the Groove' — backed by the institutional weight of Drumcode — lands as a peak-hour weapon that works equally well in the build-up or at the summit of a set.
- Standout track: 'Coming In Heavy' – Pan-Pot & Eli Brown (Arcane Music, 138 BPM) — a heavyweight collaboration bridging generations
- Chart surprise: 'Derbouka' – Julian Jeweil, bringing North African rhythmic DNA into the European techno matrix
- Hypnotic peak: 'Similar Minds' – SERA J (Mutual Rytm, 145 BPM, Eb minor) — the chart's highest tension point
- Unexpected finale: 'Coming On Strong' – Signum, Scott Mac & LUSU (Armada Music) — a nod to nineties trance that breaks the mould
The chart closes with a bold and deliberate narrative twist: 'Coming On Strong' on Armada Music, a collaboration with Signum and Scott Mac that pivots toward Main Floor Trance at 137 BPM. Far from jarring, it functions as a perfectly calibrated emotional epilogue after the accumulated intensity of the preceding thirteen tracks.
Taken as a whole, Lose Your Head Chart is a focused and characterful listening guide — contemporary European techno at its most functional, and at moments, its most compelling.
