Lush FM Trance Fingers (Live at Alexandra Palace London, 24th May 2023)

At 133, this is technically techno territory, yet the energy sits at a deceptively low four, meaning it moves like a slow-release vapour rather than a peak-time juggernaut. The twelve-A key keeps everything cloaked in a minor-key haze, with those trance-tinged textures flickering across the mix like faulty neon in a cavernous room. You can feel the Ally Pally air in it: spacious, slightly raw, built for heads-down introspection rather than hands-up euphoria.

In a set, I’d slot this after midnight when the floor is primed for hypnosis, not heroics. The rhythm is steady but unhurried, leaving acres of space for the textures to smudge and bleed into one another. It is functional only in the sense that it builds a very specific room: grey, immersive, and resolutely leftfield. For the crate-digger, it is pure pedigree.