Marco Lecaro's Draft Chart: A Personal Blueprint for Peak-Time Techno
Marco Lecaro, a rising force in high-impact techno, unveils Marco's Draft Chart — a 20-track selection that reads as a precise map of his current sonic world. Far from a generic playlist, this chart demonstrates genuine editorial instinct: genre cohesion, dynamic arc, and a curation spanning established veterans to emerging voices worth watching.
The backbone is built around his own productions on Orange Recordings: Turn the Night, Slow It Down and Lucky open the chart with driving techno at 133–135 BPM, anchored by solid kicks, G Major modulations and structures engineered for late-night peak moments. Functional in the finest sense — no unnecessary ornamentation, just direct impact.
Depth arrives through Tom Wax — a stalwart of the German scene — with two cuts on Phuture Wax Records: Definitely Maybe alongside DIST_42 and saidflorence, and Tisatek with Rico Puestel. Both bring an industrial gravity that counterbalances the more agile energy of the opening section.
The chart's emotional core belongs to Nicole Moudaber: Eyes On Me with Space 92 (137 BPM, TAKEOFF) and the monumental Common Dreams (8:41, MOOD Records) stand as the most texturally rich moments in the selection. BAUS delivers twice — via Hypnostate and Set About Music — while Pan-Pot's Zeit in a DEAS Remix on Second State Audio offers an essential nod to Berlin's architecturally precise techno tradition.
The closing stretch raises the temperature: Sam Paganini's Decode on JAM (138 BPM), Emmanuel Top delivering the chart's sole raw trance moment with Acid Phase, and Franco Smith & Lautaro Ibañez sealing the sequence with Master Control on Hypnostate. A selection that doesn't aim to please everyone — it aims to define a session with character.
- Highlights: Common Dreams – Nicole Moudaber
