MARK FARINA groovy house set in The Lab NYC
New York crowds always think they invented the groove, standing around in perfectly curated vintage streetwear with their arms crossed. The Lab NYC is packed with crate-digger snobs analyzing every single transition like it’s a final exam. You’ve got the guy who won't stop talking about his rotary mixer nodding vigorously in the corner. Proper heads-only territory. A warm, dusty, vinyl-crackling atmosphere in a room that smells like expensive coffee and IPA.
This MARK FARINA live set is the definition of a pocket groove, rolling at a laid-back 120.2 BPM. Locked firmly in 12A and 5A keys, the mix is impossibly smooth, defining the jazzy end of Rominimal. The thick low-end average gives those classic basslines plenty of room to breathe. The MARK FARINA The Lab NYC tracklist is a masterclass in underground digging. Pulling out Stephen Encinas' "Disco Illusion" alongside the Acid Dub Mix of Los Sucios' "Sucias" is exactly the kind of flex the purists came to see.
After an unidentifiable opening track sets the mood, the groove just gets deeper. The Nicson remix of Luca Lozano & Mr. Ho's "Different Circles" provides a perfectly weird highlight, before he brings it all home with the massive closing track, Oliver Dollar's "Granulated Soul".