XBreakingEdgeX - XBreakingEdgeX

What this video is

Lorenzo Senni's 'XBreakingEdgeX' is the second track on *Scacco Matto* (Warp Records, April 24, 2020), his first full-length for the label. The title is a direct reference to straight edge hardcore subculture — the 'X' bracketing being a typographic convention of the sXe scene — reflecting Senni's biographical roots: he inhabited the punk-hardcore straight edge scene as a teenage drummer before absorbing trance and…

Why it matters

Represents Lorenzo Senni's 'pointillistic trance' practice at its 2020 peak — a drumless, arpeggio-driven deconstruction of 1990s hard trance and gabber that strips the genre to its synthetic emotional core. The track's BPM (150, G# minor) and lack of drum machine underscores Senni's signature…