“The PC Music alum surveys the history of rave, sucking serotonin from its gleaming extremes: teeth-chattering trance, Thunderdome-worthy techno, and psychedelic chill-out.”
“Releasing a club album in the middle of a global pandemic can go one of two ways. It can feel like the record is tapping into something resilient and joyful, like the perfect disco of Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia, which had us all shimmying around our kitchen months into lockdown, or it can feel devoid of context, like something integral is missing, like Lady Gaga’s Chromatica, which despite being ”
“Old school trance and rave vibes are back with a vengeance on Harlecore. Then MC Boing crashes the party.”
“With clubs still closed, dance producers are having to get creative. This gonzo 13-track opus from PC Music affiliate Danny L Harle also soundtracks an interactive club experience featuring four distinct “rooms”, covering gabber, hardcore, ambient and makina, a frenetic subgenre of hardcore techno. Each genre comes with a guest producer working under a ludicrous pseudonym (MC Boing, anyone?), plus”
