Twenty-one years after 'Confessions on a Dance Floor', Madonna walks back onto the dancefloor through the same door she left by: Stuart Price at the controls and an album built to be played front to back, like a set....
Five of the thirty-six cuts in this dig carry the Nano Records stamp; none of the other twenty-four labels present gets past three. That imbalance is the key to reading it: more than a track selection, this 'Crate...
Few warm-up weapons are as reliable as Objekt's 'Theme from Q': 7:20 at 123 BPM in G minor, TJ Hertz's tribute to Berlin's long-gone Basement Q, crowned best track of 2017 by Mixmag. The same take-off...
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Forty cuts into this Crate Diggers garage and bassline edition, three are enough to read the whole selection. None of them is the loudest; they are the ones carrying the most history. First, 'Baked Beans', with the most...
Seven minutes against two and a half: Girl Unit's 'Wut', the longest cut in this Crate Diggers, sits alongside 'BALLY ON' by AM, Xten and Skengdo, the shortest. And the gap isn't just about runtime....
The lion roars of 'Harlem Shake' open the ride, and that is no accident. Baauer's 2012 debut under the Mad Decent umbrella blew up months later as a global meme, holding the Billboard Hot 100's number one spot...
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Twenty-nine of the thirty-six cuts in this jackin house selection sit in a minor key. That number undercuts the cliché of the genre as perpetual party: here the jack plays out in half-light, with the groove as the only lamp left...
On paper, this selection reads like a faulty ECG: 37 cuts leaping from 65 to 164 BPM with no warning. The key sits in Tywi's double entry: 'Reality Checkpoint' shows up twice, the original clocked at 138 and the...
Opening with 'Hackney Parrot' is a statement in itself. The track Tessela used to launch his Poly Kicks label in 2013 had been doing the rounds since late 2012 —Jackmaster championed it at Boiler Room before a pressing...
Thirty-four labels across thirty-eight tracks: the number is the portrait. This electro edition of Crate Diggers has no single catalogue imposing its line — it is a federation of small structures where only four names manage to...
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One track confesses its job right in the title: 'Pressure (Intro)' by Unlimited Soul and Djy Fresh runs 3:45 and clocks the fastest tempo of the whole selection at 116 BPM — a pure opening or reset tool. Everything else...
Out of a forty-track dig, three cuts demand the full spotlight: two because they seat dancefloor producers next to musicians with real jazz biographies, and a third because it is the longest ride of the lot and comes from a duo...
Twenty-six seconds versus seventeen minutes. The Orphic Hymns' 'Deeper' flickers past at 0:26; RedEye's 'Within Ours' stretches to 17:13, nearly forty times longer. This ambient edition of Crate...