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PROFF at the Yacht Club
Anjunadeep Explorations
Of course it's at the Yacht Club; because nothing says 'underground' like sipping a G&T while PROFF unpacks a 73-track deep house odyssey for Anjunadeep Explorations. We're here for the musical navigation, not the nautical decor. The setting is sun-drenched and breezy, with that distinct festival-afternoon energy where the crowd is properly warmed up but not yet delirious. Technically, this is a wide-ranging voyage, averaging 123 BPM but stretching from 122 to 162, anchored heavily in the moody 5A key.
PROFF's style is patient and textural, building layers of percussion and subtle melodic motifs that coil around each other. The energy profile is overwhelmingly low-end focused, with deep, undulating basslines holding court, while the mid-range is reserved for atmospheric pads and the occasional piano flourish. This creates a immersive, heady atmosphere perfect for a daytime session, with harmonic shifts into 12A and 3B providing necessary lifts. The tracklist is a proper dig.
He opens with the hypnotic, vocal-loop minimalism of Anna Caragnano & Donato Dozzy's 'Parola', a bold statement that this won't be a predictable journey. Marcos Salas' 'Obreros' brings a raw, driving groove, while Maywave's 'Renegade (Piano Mix)' is a beautiful, melancholic detour. Simon Vuarambon's 'Afrika' injects a tribal, percussive energy, and Dmitry Molosh's 'Resistance' offers a darker, more techno-oriented moment. The journey starts in the deep, hypnotic waters of 'Parola', peaks with the expansive, driving force of tracks like 'Afrika', and concludes with the warm, dubby embrace of PROFF's own remix of The Midnight's 'Kids', a perfect sunset soundtrack.