SUB FOCUS d'n'b set in The Lab LDN
You have to love the sheer awkwardness of a Thursday afternoon office rave at Mixmag, where music journalists try to skank while holding lukewarm cans of Red Stripe. It's a room full of people pretending they aren't thinking about their looming deadlines, desperately trying to channel 4 AM warehouse energy at 6 PM. The cramped, sticker-covered walls of The Lab LDN vibrate violently under the heavy basslines, turning the tiny room into a proper sweatbox. This SUB FOCUS live set is an absolute lesson in high-octane pressure for the Drum & Bass purists.
Tearing through the mix at a blistering 165 BPM average, he leans on 12A and 3B Camelot keys to keep the melodies uplifting while the low-end does the damage. The mixing is rapid-fire and relentless, maintaining a peak-time energy arc from the very first drop. If you're hunting through the SUB FOCUS The Lab LDN tracklist, you're looking at a goldmine of modern classics and dubplates. Dropping Dimension - UK is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser that absolutely detonates the tiny office space.
He kicks the doors off their hinges with an unidentified Unknown - Unknown as the opening track. The undisputed highlight of the session is the massive singalong to Sub Focus - Tidal Wave (feat. Alpines), causing absolute scenes before he signs off with a legendary closing track, Congo Natty - Junglist (S.P.Y Remix).