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TSHA
Mixmag Lab London
TSHA's Mixmag Lab London set is a glorious, genre-hopping mess in the best possible way, a reminder that club music can be both intellectually stimulating and utterly fun. The Lab's clinical booth provides a stark contrast to the chaotic energy she summons, a vibe of focused experimentation where you're as likely to shazam a bassline as you are to just gawp. Technically, it's a rollercoaster, starting in a housier 122 BPM and aggressively climbing to 140, with a dominant 12A key providing a harmonic throughline. The energy balance is fascinating—significant high-end spikes cut through the deep low-end, creating a dynamic, almost breakbeat-like tension where four-to-the-floor grooves collide with broken rhythms.
Her mixing is bold and punchy, prioritizing impactful track selections over smooth blends. The tracklist is a historian's delight. Alex Dolby's timeless 'Sintesi' lays down a foundation of raw, driving techno, while Airwolf Paradise's 'Only Man' injects a shot of classic Chicago house soul. The sheer audacity of dropping a pitched-down, tool-like version of Usher's 'My Way' is the kind of move we live for, and Deetron's 'Dr.
Melonball' offers a masterclass in jacking, acid-tinged funk. It opens in a cloud of mystery with an unknown cut, builds to a euphoric, hands-in-the-air moment with the trance-inflected 'Gigi D'Agostino - Star', and closes with the raw, dubby emotion of Pagan's 'Like A Fool'.