LazerGazer

LazerGazer’s set for Patta x Keep Hush in Amsterdam is the kind of wild ride that makes you question everything you thought you knew about club music. This is not techno, despite what the file says – it’s a bass-heavy, genre-bending collision of grime, trance, breaks, and pop, all filtered through a punk attitude. The venue is a narrow canal-side space, the windows fogged up, the floor sticky with spilled Heineken. A kid in a Patta hoodie is recording every drop on his phone. The BPM average is 136.8, but the range dips as low as 94 and peaks at 146, so expect whiplash. The energy profile is bizarrely low-heavy (0.68 low, 0.17 mid, 0.15 high) – this suggests a set that uses deep sub-bass and sparse drum patterns, letting the low end do the heavy lifting.

The dominant key is 12A (four tracks), giving the set a cohesive minor-key feel despite its chaos. LazerGazer mixes like a thrill-seeker: abrupt changes, tempo shifts, and the occasional beat-matched blend that lasts just long enough to tease. The standout tracks are a motley crew. Ziko Beats’ ‘Senin olsun’ is a Turkish pop track that somehow gets a club edit – it’s the kind of curveball that works only if you commit, and LazerGazer does. Sir Spyro’s ‘Topper Top’ brings grime energy with Teddy Bruckshot and Lady Chann, a track that should be on a pirate radio set but works here too. System F’s ‘Out of the Blue’ is a trance anthem dropped as a pure nostalgia bomb – but played at a higher speed, it becomes something else entirely.

And closing with The Prodigy’s ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ is a bold move that either clears the floor or ignites it. Here, it does the latter. The opening track – that Turkish pop edit – sets a disorienting tone. The peak comes with Typekast’s ‘Drill Bite’ (again, but here it’s shorter and more direct), a moment where the room loses its collective mind. The closing is that Prodigy classic, a fist-in-the-air ending that feels both predictable and utterly earned. LazerGazer is a DJ who thrives on contradiction.