- Golden-era tech house meets golden-era rave.
- Liverpool party promoters Glass have been making a name for themselves by booking across the alternative spectrum of the UK underground, from Pearson Sound to Willow. Local favourite Covalent steps up with an EP that acts like a crash course through Britain in the '90s. On "The Massive Wasp's Junkyard," the vocal samples and dramatic chord breakdown nod to rave, there's an earworm synth that has a shade of progressive and the swung drums and effervescent bassline are all golden-era tech house. But even with all these references, the track never feels overly crowded—is this what minimal harcore would sound like? For a city where the '90s are synonymous with the extravagance of superclub Cream, this is the sound of a new guard carving out a separate niche from their own storied dance music history.