Fae

Outlook Festival UK 2022 promised bass in all its forms, and Fae’s Keep Hush live set delivers with a chaotic, joyful precision that has us frantically taking notes. This is breakbeat and UK garage with a punk attitude, a celebration of sound system culture where genre lines blur. Imagine a sweaty tent at dawn, strobes cutting through smoke, as the first notes of Dreadzone's 'Biological Radio' signal the start of something special. Locked at an average 137.8 BPM, the set thrives in keys like 12A and 7A, ensuring a harmonically cohesive yet energetically varied ride.

The low-end is powerful (avg 0.63), providing a sturdy foundation for the skittering percussion, while mids (0.28) carry melodic hooks and highs (0.09) add crispness to the breaks. Fae’s mixing is agile and assertive, seamlessly blending from dubwise excursions into four-to-the-floor moments, keeping the energy high and unpredictable. Dreadzone's 'Biological Radio' is a perfect opener, its dub-inflected breaks setting a psychedelic tone. DJ Deeon's 'Who-U-Wit?' injects raw Chicago juke energy, while Psychic TV's 'Alien Be-In (Silent Servant Remix)' brings a dark, industrial edge.

Bailey Ibbs' 'Clocked It Got Long' is a marathon 16-minute journey into abstract percussion, and Ruff Sqwad's 'Together' offers a dose of classic grime nostalgia. Joy Orbison's 'pinky ring' appears as a sleek, modern garage weapon, tying the set's eclectic strands together. This full tracklist is a masterclass in bass music curation. It begins with the trippy 'Biological Radio', builds to a frenetic peak with tracks like 'Who-U-Wit?', and winds down with Sol Ortega's 'Itaewon', leaving us buzzing from the genre-hopping adventure.