The Cover Mix: Amelie Lens
Mixmag
The Berghain queue cosplayers have arrived, furiously marching in place and sweating through their leather harness belts in a desperate bid for techno authenticity. They've practiced their angry rave faces in the mirror for hours, absolutely terrified of looking like they're actually having fun. But when the strobe lights kick in at the Mixmag studio, all the posturing melts away into pure, unadulterated warehouse chaos. This Amelie Lens live set completely ignores its bizarre Rominimal tag to deliver an absolute masterclass in punishing, acid-laced rave.
The technical stats are a high-speed pursuit, pushing a 133.8 average BPM that climbs from 116 to 140 BPM, utilizing massive 12A and 3B key transitions to keep the adrenaline permanently spiked. The Amelie Lens Mixmag tracklist is a crate digger's dream of old-school acid and trance anthems. Smashing out the 'Three 'n One Remix' of 'Energy 52 - Café Del Mar' is a euphoric masterstroke, while the acid squelch of 'Bam Bam - Where's Your Child' is proper mental. The journey is an absolute rollercoaster.
Starting with a dark, thumping unreleased opening track, she annihilates the room before ending the absolute scenes with the most ridiculous, cheeky closing track imaginable: 'USHER - DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love (Jump Smokers Club Mix)'. Absolutely having a laugh.