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DJ SWISHA | Jersey, Baltimore club, Drum & Bass | Berlin
Keep Hush Live: Banoffee Pies Takeover
The description says 'Jersey, Baltimore club, Drum & Bass,' and we believed it, because DJ SWISHA’s set for the Banoffee Pies Takeover is a gloriously chaotic collage of everything that makes dancefloors sweat and scramble for Shazam. This is the sound of a selector with ADHD in the best way, piecing together a puzzle where footwork, jungle, and classic club edits are all part of the same hyper-kinetic language. The vibe is a joyful, floor-clearing energy, the kind where you’re equally likely to bust a move or just stand there grinning at the audacity of the next transition.
On a technical level, SWISHA operates at a brisk 155 BPM average, using the common tonal center of 12A as a home base to dart into 3B and 10B, creating a harmonic thread through the mayhem. The energy balance—0.59 low, 0.30 mid, 0.10 high—tells the story of a set built on jacking rhythms and bassweight, with the highs reserved for vocal samples and snare cracks. His mixing is fast and fearless, stitching together Danny Wabbit’s juke weapon 'Gotta Kill Bill' with the raw Chicago house of RP BOO’s 'Chi-Town Ghetto Christmas' and the pure drum & bass frenzy of a Randall & Andy C edit.
Standout digs include the surreal Russian flip 'Лилон - Kill Bill', the smooth French touch of Couns’s 'Carton Jaune', and the absolutely unhinged Eurodance mashup 'Dj Jfk - Around the World (Euro Mix)'. It’s a journey that starts with the skittering attack of 'Gotta Kill Bill', hits a peak with the soulful chaos of Bost & Bim’s Mary J. Blige edit, and winds down (relatively) with the nostalgic, chopped-up warmth of DJ Markuz’s 'Someone Call a Dj' edit.