Hard techno.
Hard techno on BASSWAV is the melodic side of hard. The lane is melodic techno with bounce — bright hooks, a clear lead, and the kind of room-ready lift that carries a peak-hour set without losing the floor. AAVEX is the anchor project, building cuts that read as melodic techno first and as hard techno second: songs people sing on the way home, not only kicks people remember from the room. The catalog sits between schranz and high-BPM melodic techno; we sign for the bridge that gets schranz-leaning crowds to listen and melodic-techno crowds to move.
We sign hard techno that survives the headphone test and the warehouse test on the same night. The bar: a lead line you can hum at 150–160 BPM, a kick that does not duck the lead, and a breakdown that earns its drop with more than a riser. Stems-clean masters, dancefloor-tested before submission, and a second cut that proves the artist can repeat the trick — those three things move a submission from the inbox to the signing call. The catalog stays away from peak-tunnel industrial schranz and from EDM-melodic crossovers.