HUGO LX soulful house set in The Lab LDN

In a scene often obsessed with the next big drop, HUGO LX's soulful house set in The Lab LDN is a blessed, hour-long reminder of the genre's foundational principle: feeling. This is music for closing your eyes and getting lost in a chord progression, for that moment when a vocal hits just right and the room collectively sighs. The atmosphere is intimate, warm, and decidedly mature, the sonic equivalent of a perfectly mixed negroni. Technically, it's a masterclass in deep house pacing, holding at a classic 131 BPM average and using the emotive, open quality of key 12A as its guiding light.

The energy is beautifully balanced, with a strong mid-range presence (avg 0.4419) allowing pianos, horns, and lush pads to breathe over a supportive, but not overpowering, low-end foundation. His mixing is patient and harmonic, giving epic tracks like the 20-minute 'Get Another Plan' the space they deserve to unfold. The selections are impeccable. He begins with the soaring, vocal-led majesty of Sunkids' 'Rescue Me'.

The centerpiece is Abstract Truth's 'Get Another Plan (Trumpet Jam)', a legendary, jazzy deep house expedition. Kerri Chandler's 'Rain (Atjazz Remix)' is a lesson in sublime melancholy, and dropping Nuyorican Soul's 'It's Alright, I Feel It' is the ultimate soulful payoff. The journey starts with the uplifting rescue of Sunkids, journeys through the extended jazz-funk improvisation of 'Get Another Plan', and lands softly with the subtle, bumping groove of Jonatas C's 'Jack'.