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OWSLA in The Lab LA with ARYAY
When an OWSLA in The Lab LA set opens with Ghastly and closes with a Neville Bartos coke-diet anthem, you know you're in for the kind of gleefully chaotic genre-hopping that makes Shazam throw up its hands in despair. The vibe is a sweaty, bass-blasted house party, a glorious mess of flashing laptop screens and spilled drinks, with a BPM range that lurches from 91 to 140 across its bass house and future bass journey. Technically, it's a wild ride held together by a playful disregard for convention, though keys like 12A and 4B provide some harmonic glue between left-field edits, while the energy balances a thick low-end with choppy, vocal-heavy mid-range samples.
The crate dig here is deeply online: Sam Gellaitry's 'Powder' is a lush, beat-centric interlude, the sample of Gajendra Singh Miswapur is pure, mischievous crate-digging, Lil B's 'Hipster Girls' over a four-to-the-floor kick is meme magic, and dropping Daft Punk's 'High Fidelity' is a flex of pure taste. ARYAY takes us from the wobbly synth intro of 'Every Night' on a tour through internet culture, with the Dillon Francis & Skrillex collab as a peak-time riot, before the slinky, late-night comedown of 'Coke Diet'.