'Energy' arrived on this record with its story already written: it was one of the most sought-after unreleased tracks of the 2025 festival season, with support from Alesso, Pete Tong and Tiësto documented by Beatportal before the label even existed. Here it runs 6:05 at 129 BPM in G major and works as a double cornerstone: the inaugural single of Hyperreal, Chris Avantgarde's debut album, and the first release on Hyperreal, the imprint he set up in partnership with boom.records to move, in his own words, unconstrained by genre limitations. Out of eighteen tracks, three explain that idea better than any manifesto.
'Desolate Lands', the Adam Beyer collaboration — not their first, as Beatportal notes — is the centre of gravity of the record's middle stretch: 6:32 in C minor at 129 BPM, melodic house & techno with no radio trimmings, the cut where the album sounds more like a club booth than a festival stage. At the opposite pole sits 'Jester': 7:08, the longest piece here, at 140 BPM in E minor and yet filed under Dance/Pop. That crossover of tags reads less like an oversight than a statement: it shares the album's speed ceiling with 'Belter' and 'Obsessed' on a record that opens at 96.
And that is the other key: 'Origin' closes in D minor, at 101 BPM and 6:30, pulling the pulse almost back to where 'Like I Do' began. A debut that allows itself to open and close away from the dancefloor, with its peaks spread through the middle, trusts the arc more than the punch. Much of this material had already circulated as singles — 'Obsessed', 'The Other Side', 'Down For The Night', 'Dale', 'Concrete Professional', per FrontView — and yet the final sequence tells you something the loose advance cuts couldn't: that speed, here, is a narrative device rather than an obligation.
Sources: Beatportal · FrontView Magazine