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Leaving Laurel | Chillout Set |
Live at Anjunadeep pres. Explorations 2023 (4K)
After a festival day of relentless beats, the chillout set is not a nice-to-have; it’s a medical necessity. Leaving Laurel’s offering at Anjunadeep Explorations is the aural equivalent of a weighted blanket. The vibe is one of collective exhalation, watching the sun set over the Albanian coast with a warm drink in hand. This is ambient electronica at its most tender, with a slow, heartbeat-like average BPM of 118.9 and a harmonic bed often built around the melancholic, introspective 10B.
The energy is a delicate balance of soft, textural low-ends and richly detailed mid-range melodies, creating a space for reflection rather than movement. The curation is deeply personal and lush. Their own ‘and those guardian angels carried you away’ is the perfect, heartbreaking opener, setting a tone of bittersweet nostalgia. Chari Chari’s ‘across the universe’ is a sprawling, cosmic wonder, while Derzek’s ‘Do It’ introduces a subtle, almost Balearic groove.
DJ ARTMAN’s ‘Sunka Mulamu’ adds a touch of organic, global flavour, and JR Tacka’s ‘This Discotheque’ is a beautiful, slow-motion house gem. The journey begins in the delicate sorrow of their own track, meanders through a landscape of beautiful obscurities, and lands gently on Jericho Ismael’s ‘Vibe’ remix.