Seventy-one bpm against one hundred forty-five: that's the gap separating Finalversion3's “Mal de Ojo” from SERA J's “Bionic Function,” the track that opens “Veta 001.” Ten producers, one label, one genre tag — raw/deep/hypnotic techno — and yet the record doesn't move as a single block. Two almost-opposite tempo readings share the same catalog, which means this one reads better through contrast than through continuity.
The fast lane belongs to Bionic Function (145), Adreno's Ground Shakes (139, one of only two major-key tracks on the record, D Major) and Laia (ES)'s Buried Layers (139, Db Major, the other). Everything else sits in minor — eight of ten tracks — pulling the record's center of gravity toward the dark register typical of the raw/hypnotic catalog. That's where Reeko's Flasher lands — an Asturian producer with more than two decades making dense, experimental techno, the most recognizable name on the tracklist — with the record's longest track, 6:21 in D Minor at 109 bpm: neither the fast extreme nor the slow one, but the middle ground the rest of the catalog barely touches.
The other extreme, duration, belongs to Not a Headliner's Evasive: the shortest at 4:40 and 138 bpm, nearly in the same range as Ground Shakes and Buried Layers but without their major-key lift. Down at the tempo floor, alongside Mal de Ojo, sit Kaiser (K S R)'s Mina at 100 bpm in Gb Minor — the darkest key on the record — and Ikari's A Titulo Postumo at 102. That slow block doesn't read as compilation filler; it reads as the record's other half, as deliberate as the fast one.
“Veta 001” isn't chasing catalog uniformity for a debut; it's chasing range, and it proves the point by putting an internationally touring name like Reeko on the same tracklist as aliases just getting started.
Sources: Resident Advisor