MEDUZA & James Hype Present Our House – Magazine London: The DJ Playlist
Magazine Open-Air is an outdoor summer event series and roofless dancefloor located on the Greenwich Peninsula, on the Magazine London site. Set on the banks of the River Thames, the venue offers direct views of the Canary Wharf skyline, the River Thames, The Millenium Dome and also overhead plans from London City airport. It’s also created and produced by Broadwick Live (the team behind Printworks and Drumsheds).
To launch the venue, MEDUZA & James Hype hosted ‘Our House’, a boundary-pushing event concept designed to capture the full spectrum of house music while challenging modern club culture, and the lineup was built upon MEDUZA, James Hype, Dombresky and not one, but two B2B sets from Layla Benitez & Brina Knauss, and also Cristoph & Nora En Pure. Throughout the evening, the standout tracks from the DJ sets included the following:
AIKON – To You (Original Mix): Features a haunting mix of dark electronic elements, rich analog synth layers, and subtle atmospheric depth. It also utilizes processed, murmuring vocal snippets and entrancing, evolving melodic lines that build tension through immersive breakdowns.
Kryder – Ascension (Extended Mix): Built around a smooth arrangement that gradually builds tension, culminating in an atmospheric breakdown where floating vocal chops repeat over the main melody before a high-energy drop.
Cassius, Cat Power, Pharrell Williams – Go Up (Butch Remix): Instead of keeping the original pop song structure, Butch chops Pharrell and Cat Power’s vocals into short, rhythmic fragments. The iconic phrase ‘everybody close your eyes, go up’ loops continuously, turning the vocals into an hypnotic, atmospheric texture rather than a standard melodic topline.
Dombresky – Soul Sacrifice (Original Mix): Features a highly soulful, bright saxophone instrumental hook that serves as the main melodic driver. It is mixed with pristine high-mid clarity to slice straight through club sound systems.
Cristoph – Come With Me (Extended Mix): Features a thick, punchy four-to-the-floor kick drum paired with a rolling, sub-heavy bassline. The low-end energy borrows structural cues from techno, giving it a heavier warehouse weight than classic light progressive tracks.
Nora En Pure – Memories (Extended Mix): The defining characteristic of the track is its use of rich, acoustic elements. It blends sweeping, cinematic violin arrangements with delicate, emotional grand piano chords. This orchestral layer creates a sophisticated, ‘organic house’ texture that elevates it beyond standard synthesizer fare.
Sam Tompkins, Meduza, Em Beihold – Phone (Extended): A prime example of high-gloss, commercial dance-pop and melodic house. The production masterfully balances radio-ready vocal structures with the driving, dark electronic energy that defined the Italian trio’s global breakthrough.
Steve Angello, Laidback Luke – Be (Original Mix): The track’s main identity relies entirely on a dead-simple, pitch-bent square or sawtooth lead synth, and a raw, minimalistic, and highly abrasive club sound that eventually served as the instrumental engine for their massive crossover hit with Robin S., ‘Show Me Love’.
HAYLA, Meduza – Another World (Extended Mix): Meduza’s collaboration with powerhouse vocalist HAYLA marked an evolutionary shift for the Italian production trio; keeping their signature rhythmic weight, the track steers away from their usual shadowy, tense club underground textures and expands into a highly cinematic, euphoric progressive house masterpiece.
Chicane, Moya Brennan, Claptone – Saltwater feat. Moya Brennan (Extended Mix): ) A masterclass in modernizing a classic; the production bridges the gap between euphoric late-90s progressive trance and sleek, modern deep/tech-house, modernizing its legacy for contemporary dancefloors.
