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Anushka
Mixmag Lab Goa
We’ve all been there: sweating in a makeshift Goa booth, pretending we’re too cool for the trance revival, while secretly aching for a 4am piano riff. Anushka’s Mixmag Lab set understands this dichotomy perfectly. The venue is all sticky floors and retina-searing LED walls, a cathedral for the unironically euphoric. Technically, this is a powerhouse of progressive house, maintaining a 136.6 BPM average with the harmonic comfort of 12A.
The energy is meticulously stacked, using the robust mid-range for melodic payoff and a rock-solid low-end to keep the faith. It’s mixing as endurance sport, with long blends that let tracks like the epic 'Harmony' by Hi Profile unfold over eleven minutes. The BPM climbs from 128 into the 140s, locking the crowd into a hypnotic, driving stride without ever feeling frantic. The crate digging is exquisite: she opens with the vocal trance sanctity of 4 Strings’ 'Take Me Away', then jolts the system with The Chemical Brothers’ glitchy, broken-beat 'No Geography'.
The 'Spit & Polish Club Mix' of 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' is a brazen, brilliant pop detour that shouldn’t work but absolutely does. Mella Dee’s 'Techno Disco Tool' provides the necessary percussive grit, while C.Y.B.’s 'Now (Drumcomplex Remix)' and Andy Compton’s 'That Acid Track' ensure the acid lines bite deep. The journey starts with celestial vocals, peaks with the raw, squelching energy of the acid track, and closes on the communal hymn of Faithless’s 'We Come 1 (Rollo & Sister Bliss Remix)'. A full tracklist that serves as a masterclass in peak-time narrative.