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Oldboy b2b Prozak at Anara, Boomtown
Keep Hush Takeover
The beauty of a Boomtown set is the unapologetic chaos; when Oldboy and Prozak tag-teamed the Anara stage for this Keep Hush takeover, we knew we were in for a ride through every guilty pleasure from the last two decades of UK bass music. Under the festival lights, with sound systems throbbing, this was less a curated journey and more a shotgun blast of peak-time energy, where the only rule was to keep hands in the air. Technically, the set locked into a steady 134-135 BPM groove, finding its harmonic home in the 12A Camelot key to glue together wildly different eras seamlessly.
The energy profile—dominated by a thick low-end at 0.687, with crisp mids at 0.212—created a relentless, floor-shaking pulse that never overwhelmed, while smooth transitions masked the consistent tempo. The mixing style was pragmatic and crowd-pleasing, using long blends and quick cuts to maintain momentum, with the BPM range from 133 to 136 allowing subtle shifts in intensity. For crate diggers, this was a treasure trove of millennial nostalgia weaponized for the dancefloor: So Solid Crew's '21 Seconds' arrived as a seismic garage throwback, while Enur's 'Calabria 2007' (in both Club and Radio Edit forms) triggered mass singalongs.
The inclusion of Rank 1's trance-vocal edit of 'Airwave' was a left-field curveball that somehow worked, and the closing mashup of SOFI TUKKER with Drowning Pool's 'Bodies Hit The Floor' was the kind of absurd, brilliant joke that only lands at 4 AM. Deeper cuts like Midas Field & Fyza's 'Cool Vibration' and Luke Dean's 'Coast2Coast' offered moments of pure, unadulterated tech-house propulsion. The journey was a rollercoaster: it opened with the euphoric vocals of 'Airwave', peaked with the sax-driven frenzy of 'Calabria', and closed with that genre-mashing anthem, proving that in the right hands, chaos is a perfectly valid mixing philosophy.