4am in a Rave 2025

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“This album is us appreciating how amazing this thing we have is. The realisation of how lucky we are that we get to be part of something like this for 25 years, and to have built a community that cares for each other in the way it does. It’s not about any of us individually. When we all work together to make something happen, something bigger happens.” - Jono, Paavo and Tony – Above & Beyond. 

If much of the mindset and mantra behind Above & Beyond over the last quarter of a century has been born from the idea of connection, then their fifth artist album ‘Bigger Than All Of Us’ is best summed up in one word: reconnection. 

Introducing, then, Quicksand (Don’t Go), the new single that is, in all the right and best ways, the comeback of Above & Beyond. The lead track from a record where the power, strength, range, appeal and adaptability of the band is baked into the title: their fifth album is Bigger Than All of Us.

Debuted during the bands’ sold out global Group Therapy 600 broadcast in Mexico last October, it reunites Jono, Paavo and Tony with Zoë Johnston – partner in ‘We’re All We Need’, ‘Good For Me’ and ‘Love Is Not Enough’ among countless other favourites. 

“It's classic Zoë Johnston”, explains Above & Beyond. “We've been working with her for 22 years now, so she's a part of the band. By that token, a song with her vocals is a very reassuring thing for our audience. It says: Above & Beyond are back, in a very recognisable form.”

As Johnston puts it of her deeply personal but sublimely universal lyrics: “I think most of us can relate to that feeling of desperation and dread when it comes to losing someone we love so deeply. The despair can be massive when you’re watching the grief rattle down the track towards you for quite some time before the moment of impact actually happens. Disappearing into quicksand. It’s scary, it hurts, and it’s lonely. Hopefully a song like this one makes anyone going through the pain of a seismic loss feel a little bit less alone.”

‘Quicksand (Don’t Go) with Zoë Johnston is out now on Anjunabeats.

Quicksand (Don't Go)

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Love Is Gonna Save Us

Beloved Dundee DJ and producer Hannah Laing drops an addictive double single via her own doof label. Second cut ‘Speed Is A Deed’ embodies a breathless rave energy, as lyrics spinning a cautionary tale of drug use are woven between pulsating techno rhythms.

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Speed Is A Deed

Dundee DJ and producer Hannah Laing drops an addictive double single via her own doof label. Hannah unites with rhys from the sticks in the high-energy club heater ‘4am In A Rave’. The turbo-charged new single is a playful affair, as driving beats undercut sampled conversations from the rave, transporting the listener between the hypnotic rhythms of the dancefloor and the hazy glow of the smoking area. The track is already heating up dancefloors with spins from Patrick Topping, Sara Landry, Armin Van Buuren, Sim0ne, Charlie Sparks, Armin Van Buuren and more.

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4am In A Rave feat. rhys from the sticks

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SOSA - Sexy Sturdy

YouTube Link - https://youtu.be/9e2nZu9kmqw

Original By Real Tears 
https://soundcloud.com/real_tears/better-off-alone-corsa-mix-1

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