Layla Benitez signs two of the thirteen cuts on her own Marquee Dayclub chart, and that double presence says more than any press blurb. 'Memory Leak', shared with Jono Stephenson and Henri Bergmann on Interstellar Recordings, opens the selection at 124 BPM in F minor; 'All The Time', her collaboration with 19:26, came out on 'The Passage', 19:26's EP for Afterlife, as reported by Electronic Groove. Her Resident Advisor biography places her sound exactly where this list points: melodic techno, electronica and vocals over trance-leaning textures, with releases on Afterlife, Interstellar and her own Sheep At Night imprint, home to a monthly residency at Floyd in Miami.
The rest of the cast confirms she moves between two worlds. RA cites support from Anyma, Tiësto and David Guetta, and Guetta shows up here not as a patron but as a credit: 'Prayer', alongside Kiko and Olivier Giacomotto on Spinnin', keeps the mainstage lane at 126 BPM in A minor. Kevin de Vries turns Don Diablo and Wiz Khalifa's 'Go Home With A Stranger' into 130 BPM melodic material, while Eli Brown pushes the tempo ceiling with 'Be The One' at 136.
Labels that rarely share a folder
Anjunabeats ('Redemption' by J Ribbon, main-floor trance at 127), Drumcode ('It's All Around' by Martin Costas and Gabriel Gil, peak-time techno at 131) and Purified ('Mosaic' by Khainz and Stone Van Brooken) sit next to HEXAGON and Future House Music without the list falling apart: almost everything breathes between 124 and 131 BPM, save for the festival-sized exceptions of Eli Brown and the closer from Quintino, Breathe Carolina and GIACOBBI, which at 135 BPM and 3:30 is the shortest, most direct cut of the lot. KREAM and Korolova ('Annihilation') plus the Carlo Whale and TH;EN pairing round out a cast where the big names don't bury the mid-sized ones: they organize them.
Sources: RA · Electronic Groove
