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'Best of Croquet Club' presented by Anjunadeep
Let us take a moment of silence for the Instagram influencers doing the candid laugh by the speakers, totally oblivious to the actual music. They spend half the night trying to find the perfect lighting, completely missing the absolute scenes unfolding right in front of them. Thankfully, the sheer weight of the sound system at Ministry of Sound forced everyone to put their phones away and actually behave like ravers. If you are searching for this DJ Solomun Ministry of Sound tracklist, you know a proper groove when you hear one.
This Electronica set was a wild ride, with the BPM swinging from 105 all the way to 179, settling at a 125.5 BPM average. The DJ Solomun live set kept the energy perfectly balanced, leaning on 8B and 3B keys to deliver a dark, driving progression. The crate-digging here was mad, featuring an unexpectedly brilliant run of cuts. Highlighting 'Croquet Club - Solace' alongside the bizarre but infectious 'Uzeyir Mehdizade - Yaxsi Olar' proved the selector was definitely having a laugh in the best way possible.
The journey was nothing short of cinematic. The opening track, 'Budd - Ghost', crept into the room with an eerie, captivating tension. The emotional peak hit during the longest tune, 'Croquet Club - Awake (6:30)', before finally dissolving into the closing track, 'Alberto Costas - Utopía'. It left the influencers genuinely speechless, which is a miracle in itself.