Tech house often gets labelled as dumb. It's no surprise; there are some stupid tech tracks right now. But what gets overlooked is that, when done well, its simplicity is one of its superpowers. No one exemplifies that more than Miguel Bastida. A master of the simple yet brilliant hook, Bastida has been delivering titanic three-note totems to an adoring DJ crowd since 2008. Starting on his and Ruiz dB's Be One label and quickly joining other scene-setting imprints like La Pera and elRow, he soon got the attention of all the big DJ-friendly labels. By now, his discography reads like a who's who of the biggest tech labels: Hellbent, Sola, Suara, Deeperfect, Natura Viva, etc. For his GU debut, he sticks to what he does best and delivers a rolling percussive groove with minimal flourishes and maximum heads-down groove. Add a raucous ragga vocal on the drops, and you've got a peak-time rave banger. Thunderous!
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