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Fliss Mayo b2b Yemz
Keep Hush Live: EC2A x Love Saves The Day Festival 2023
When a back-to-back set opens with a chopped-and-screwed Afrobeats trap edit, you know you're not in for a standard-issue techno slog. Fliss Mayo and Yemz at Keep Hush Live for EC2A x Love Saves The Day Festival 2023 deliver a gloriously chaotic fusion of UK bass, breakbeat, and hard dance. The vibe is pure warehouse energy, where genre boundaries are happily blurred in a haze of strobe lights and sub-bass. Technically, it's a high-octane ride averaging 145.6 BPM, firmly rooted in the 12A key for maximum driving force.
The energy balance leans heavily on a powerful low-end (0.54) and a robust mid-range (0.37), creating a sound that's both physically punishing and melodically engaging. Their style is fearless and rapid-fire, stitching together disparate sounds with a punkish disregard for purity. The tracklist is a treasure hunt: After King's 'Enamorado del guaratech' injects a shot of frenetic Latin rhythm, while Klaudia Gawlas's 'Dark Space' offers a moment of pounding, tunnel-vision techno. The crown jewel is the epic, nine-minute journey of Chloé Robinson & DJ ADHD's 'Pax (Four Tet Remix)', a masterwork of skittering UK garage-inflected percussion.
Logan_olm & INVT's 'WE INSIDE (CULEBRA VIP)' is a blistering reggaeton-tekno hybrid, and Hodge's 'Sub 100' brings a dose of Bristolian dub pressure. They start with the warped intro of DJ Tjaey's 'Look Like You', hit a peak with the sheer audacity of dropping Drake's 'Way 2 Sexy' into a techno framework, and close with the stone-cold classic euphoria of Missy Elliott's 'Lose Control (Stonebridge Mix)'.