The tempo extremes of 'Spring Trance 2026' are settled inside the first three cuts: Forceuser's 'Beyond Horizons' sets the floor at 135 BPM in second position and, right after it, Master Beat Projekt's 'Gaia' nails the ceiling at 142. A seven-beat swing in under twenty minutes, like showing you the whole map before setting off. From there the compilation runs itself with remarkable discipline: the remaining seventeen cuts live in the 136–140 corridor.
The backbone is 138: nine of the twenty tracks turn at that speed, from the opening 'L'inno del Sole' by 40THAVHA to the closing 'Energize' by Dimassive, which lands the record exactly on the tempo where it began. It is uplifting's natural cruising speed, and here it also carries the most ambitious builds: Aretusa's 'Blue Thunder' stretches its 8:41 —the longest cut of the set— without moving off that figure. The 140 peaks work as peak time spread across five stations, with Polzn Bladz signing two of them ('Chancer' and 'End of an Error'), always parked in the upper energy band.
On paper the sequence draws itself: the three 136 cuts —'Red Sunset', 'Silhouette' and 'Eternal Travellers'— as the entry ramp, the 138 cushion doing the long haul, and the 140s rationed into two or three climbs, saving 'Gaia' and its 142 for the moment you break the ceiling. That 'Eternal Travellers' pairs the mid-section's most restrained tempo with an 8:10 running time makes it the ideal long transition between blocks.
The label explains part of this coherence. Gert Records has operated out of Moscow since 2012 and its catalogue, per its RA profile, spans chillout, progressive and uplifting trance; this volume is its most direct main-floor side. Twenty different producers landing within a spread of barely seven BPM —ninety percent of it concentrated in four values— says less about coincidence than about an A&R compass tuned very precisely to tempo.
Sources: RA · Labelsbase
