CRi - Live From Mile-Ex, Montréal [@CRiMusic]
Nothing screams "I just discovered deep house" quite like freezing your bollocks off in a Canadian industrial estate while sipping a £15 craft IPA. The Mile-Ex crowd tonight looks like a North Face catalogue threw up on a Shoreditch pop-up, absolutely desperate to feel a spiritual connection to a synth patch. Bless them, they're having a proper go of it. The CRi Live From Mile-Ex, Montréal set captures that crisp, hyper-urban twilight energy perfectly, all stark concrete bathed in warm amber light. This CRi live set is a masterclass in controlled momentum, cruising at a breezy 130.4 BPM average while completely owning the Rominimal space.
Pushing heavily through 5A and 10B Camelot keys, the energy arc is a steady, rolling wave that relies on fat low-end frequencies rather than cheap top-end tricks. The mixing is butter-smooth, blurring the lines between live instrumentation and deck wizardry. The CRi Mile-Ex, Montréal tracklist is an absolute goldmine for the crate diggers, balancing esoteric groove with cheeky nostalgia. Dropping Christian Smith's "Traction (Paride Saraceni Remix)" alongside an edit of deadmau5's "The Veldt" is a mad flex, but it properly goes off. The journey kicks off with the opening track, "I Can Make It (Mixed)", setting an intensely hopeful tone.
A massive peak hits when Avicii's "Wake Me Up" somehow slithers its way into the Rominimal framework, causing absolute scenes. Finally, the closing track, "Losing My Mind (feat. Jesse Mac Cormack)", sends the shivering techno tourists home fully sorted.