Auracul

Auracul’s set for Keep Hush x Wingstop’s Local Flavours in Birmingham is a love letter to the UK’s rich history of bass music. With a BPM average of 132.3 but a range that dips to 109 and peaks at 140, this is a set that plays with tempo like a cat with a ball of yarn. The venue was a small, intimate space with a Funktion-One rig that made every sub-bass hit feel personal—the kind of room where you can feel the music in your teeth. The harmonic landscape is again dominated by 12A (five out of eight tracks), providing a steady anchor despite the rhythmic twists.

The energy profile is low-end heavy at 0.79, with mids at 0.19 and highs minimal—this is a set that lives in the bassline, with vocals and percussion used as accents. The opening track, AVISION’s ‘Big Shot (Paco Osuna Remix)’, is a tech-house stomper that immediately grabs attention, but the real magic happens when Auracul drops El-B & J Da Flex’s ‘When I Fall In Love (Vocal Mix)’—a UK garage classic that still sounds impossibly fresh. Joy Orbison’s ‘Hyph Mngo’ is stretched to 21 minutes, becoming a hypnotic centerpiece that allows the crowd to lose themselves in its rolling percussion. The crate digger’s prize is Eric Cloutier’s ‘Heuristic’, a deep, dubby techno cut that provides a moment of calm before the storm, and Paleface’s ‘Warlord (Vox)’—a grime staple that reminds everyone where this sound came from.

The set closes with TR!C’s ‘Wobbler, Pt. 3 (feat. Trilla & Asher)’, a bassline monster that leaves the room shaking. This is a set for the heads: a thoughtful, well-paced journey through the best of UK bass culture.