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Ebony Red b2b Aumni
North Carolina | NO VISA Takeover
Ebony Red and Aumni at the NO VISA Takeover deliver a set that laughs in the face of genre purity, a chaotic and exhilarating blast of hard techno, trance, booty bass, and pop edits that feels like scrolling through a truly unhinged SoundCloud feed at 5 AM. This is for the degenerates who believe Jeff Mills and DaBaby belong on the same waveform. The vibe is rowdy, unpredictable, and joyfully irreverent, a North Carolina bunker where every genre-bending drop is met with equal parts confusion and ecstasy. Technically, it's a wild ride from 125 to 162 BPM, averaging a peak-time-ready 139.5, and it’s held together—barely—by the relentless drive of the 12A key.
The energy is solidly low-end heavy at 0.61, with mids at 0.31 carrying the melodic hooks from trance and pop, and highs at 0.08 adding necessary bite to the techno kicks. Their mixing is bold and sometimes brash, using hard cuts and dramatic contrasts to keep everyone on their toes, a style that perfectly matches the eclectic content. The track selection is gloriously meme-worthy. Jeff Mills's 'The Bells' is the ultimate, no-nonsense techno opener.
Throwing Armin van Buuren's 'Blah Blah Blah' into the mix is a masterstroke of irony. DaBaby & Sexyy Red's 'SHAKE SUMN' remix and DJ KS 011's slowed 'Faz Silêncio Sapeca' represent the booty-shaking bass continuum. Other Side's 'Double Damage' and Extreme Trax's 'Final Fantasy' deliver pure, unadulterated hard trance energy, while Anita Baker's 'Been So Long' offers a 12-minute soulful respite before the final techno slam of Elektrorama's 'Phat'. The journey is a beautiful mess: it starts with the iconic terror of 'The Bells', peaks with the absurdity of 'Blah Blah Blah' or 'SHAKE SUMN', and closes with the pneumatic thump of 'Phat'.