MaRLo - Give Me Tech Energy

This one made me double-check the tracklist, because MaRLo mostly lives in the big uplifting-trance world and “Give Me Tech Energy” is him going harder and dirtier than his usual widescreen mode. The title is a thesis statement: it welds tech-trance drive to a nasty, tunneling bassline that owes more to a blacked-out warehouse than a festival main stage. At 1:35 the drop kicks in with a relentless, rolling low end and a single pitched vocal stab barking the title at you like an order you’d be foolish to ignore. There’s very little melody here by MaRLo standards; it’s all propulsion and grit where he’d normally hand you a soaring hook to cry to. It’s the sound of a guy who fills arenas deciding, for four minutes, that he’d rather make you a little uncomfortable. The energy is genuinely relentless; I put it on to test something else entirely and lost four minutes of my life standing up out of my chair. Peak-time, lights-low, no-mercy stuff, and it’s a great look on someone who could coast on the euphoric formula until he retires. I’d take a whole EP of him in this exact mood.

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