Three in the morning, headphones on, the ceiling doing slow laps, this is the track for that exact coordinate. Driftline is progressive trance that earns the word drift, a long, unhurried builder that is in no rush to get anywhere because the travelling is the entire point. ANUQRAM and Julian Nates layer pad on pad until the low end feels less like bass and more like weather, and a single arpeggio threads through the middle of it like a light you are following through fog. There is barely a drop in the traditional sense; the track just keeps gathering mass and intensity until you realise you have been holding your breath. This is the deep, heads-down end of the Anjunabeats sound, pure 6am afterparty music for when the sun is coming up and nobody wants to admit it is over. Long beatless stretches that most producers would be too nervous to leave alone. Melt into it.
January
Chrome Daydream
Chrome stars, jelly hearts and holographic colour. A nod to the glossy, optimistic graphics of the early web.