2020: a year in dance music
To 150 and beyond Just when you thought conversations about tempo were over, along comes 2020 with the hot, new, must-have bpm: 150. Though technically there’s actually nothing new about it — nosebleed techno has been happily ramping itself up to around that speed the past few years, and hardcore/ jungle producers like Foul Play and LTJ Bukem were doing it in the early ’90s — this year has seen a fresh wave of 150bpm beats sweep the UK scene. There are two main reasons for this. The first is practicality; the past decade has seen multi-genre DJing explode like never before. With sound...