TuneLab
Soul Clap
for Club Space Miami (July 30, 2020)
Of course we were all livestream connoisseurs by July 2020, pretending a pre-recorded mix was a lifeline to the club. Soul Clap for Club Space Miami understood the assignment: a deep, meandering, sofa-surfing journey that felt like a whispered secret from the booth at 4am. The vibe is classic Space Terrace afterhours—warm, humid, and driven by a low-slung, bass-heavy heartbeat. Technically, this is a masterclass in deep and tech house, anchored around a steady 127.4 BPM and predominantly the warm, soulful key of 12A.
The energy profile is telling: a dominant low-end (0.59) provides a rubbery, hypnotic foundation, with the mids (0.35) carrying the melodic weight and just enough high-end sparkle (0.06) to keep it from being a pure bass bath. The mixing is patient, letting grooves like Aril Brikha's timeless 'Groove la Chord' breathe for over ten minutes. The crate digging here is impeccable. They open with the blissed-out cosmic disco of Sylk 130's 'Season's Change' and later drop a curveball with the gorgeous Turkish-inflected vocals of 'Sal Beni'.
We get a dose of classic NYC house from François K. with 'Enlightenment' and a truly left-field moment with Han Xiao Qian's melancholic Mandarin pop edit, proving no record is safe from the Soul Clap treatment. The journey is a sunset-to-sunrise arc, from the opening euphoria of 'Season's Change', peaking with the driving pulse of Terry Francis's 'Change', and closing on the smooth, jazzy chords of Carlos A's 'Soma'—a perfect comedown soundtrack.