ED BANGER RECORDS w/ BUSY P in The Lab LA
It is always a laugh watching French touch nostalgists chain-smoking outside the venue, pretending it is still 2007 and Justice just dropped 'Cross' for the first time. They are all wearing tight leather jackets and aggressively distressed denim, looking deeply offended that anyone else in the room dares to enjoy the music. The Los Angeles warehouse is absolutely cooking, bathed in a sleazy neon glow as the crowd sweats out their overpriced cocktails. For the heads pouring over the BUSY P The Lab LA tracklist, this BUSY P live set is a glorious, disjointed trip through electronic history.
Sitting at a laid-back 119.4 BPM average, the set meanders through 3B and 12A keys, blending Rominimal grooves with unashamed disco sleaze. The mixing is charmingly rough around the edges, focusing purely on track selection and raw party energy rather than clinical beatmatching. The crate digging is exactly what you would expect from the Ed Banger boss: a mad clash of eras. Squeezing Kraftwerk's 'Trans Europe Express' next to Imagination's 'Music and Lights' is an absolute flex of musical knowledge.
The journey kicks off mysteriously with the opening track 'Unknown - Unknown', building a chunky, funk-laden groove that peaks with Kaytranada's massive 'TOGETHER'. He brings everyone down gently with the closing track, Thundercat's smooth 'Show You the Way'. Proper legendary stuff.