Cortado

I hear this rolling at 120 BPM in 10A as less of a peak-time bomb and more of a precision-engineered sustained breath, though that energy reading of 9 ensures it never quite settles into mere background warmth. The groove locks in with the kind of tasteful restraint that, to my ears, only comes from producers who understand that progressive house works best when it withholds as much as it releases, letting tension accumulate gradually across the bars.

I’d slot this comfortably in the deeper end of a warm-up or the rolling centre of a sunset set, its organic textures fleshing out the low end without cluttering the mids. There is a distinctive pedigree here—clean, purposeful, and confidently understated—that makes it a reliable weapon in my bag rather than a fleeting novelty, one that rewards patient floors without ever pandering to them.