HECTOR & DAVID GTRONIC
Enter the Vatos Locos crew. This is where you will find tech-house lads in oversized black tees and gold chains, aggressively throwing up hand signs to a beat that is barely pushing 122 BPM. It is an amazing juxtaposition—trying to look incredibly tough while dancing to the most stripped-back, bouncy minimal grooves imaginable. But the swagger is undeniable, and the New York Lab is absolutely bouncing with that late-night, after-party energy.
The Hector & David Gtronic The Lab NYC tracklist is a blueprint for rolling, undeniable Rominimal sleaze. Locked at a chugging 122.3 BPM, the duo strictly bounces between the 12A and 3B keys, maintaining a dark, unbroken groove that feels like 4 AM in an Ibiza villa. Their mixing is slick and stripped back, relying on heavy sub-bass and crisp, swinging hi-hats rather than massive melodic breakdowns. The crate digging on this Hector & David Gtronic live set is brilliantly cheeky.
Mixed amongst the underground minimal rollers, they casually drop Milky Chance's "Stolen Dance" and absolutely tear the roof off with Robin S.'s legendary "Show Me Love". The set begins mysteriously with an "Unknown" opening track, peaking with a hypnotic seven-minute spin of Igluu's "Stutter". After an hour of pure rolling heat, they close out the session with Paul Johnson's classic "The Groove" as the closing track. Proper sorted.