Barrow Boot Boys

The needle drops and the room tilts: 200 BPM of raw electro that refuses to negotiate. I hear Hauff working in Bb minor with energy pegged at ten, the breaks rolling with a hypnotic, leftfield swagger that belies the speed. There is no breathing room here, just soldered analogue grit and a forward momentum that feels more like a controlled demolition than a groove.

In my set, this is the moment the walls sweat. It belongs to the hours when the floor is too committed to leave, a late-night weapon that clears polite company and rewards the faithful. On Ninja Tune, the track keeps its Bb minor centre ice-cold while the 200-BPM frame runs white-hot, a chokehold that does not relent until the final bar.