SAFETY TRANCE’s 2022 debut on Boysnoize Records found a runaway hit in “El Alma Que Te Trajo,” an industrial reggaeton number with machine-gun-flow vocals from ARCA. Since then, the Venezuela-born, Barcelona-based producer’s razor sharp toolkit of dark atmospheres, menacing rave leads and deconstructed dembow beats has made him an increasingly in-demand remixer and collaborator for reggaeton artists (LA GOONY CHONGA, LA FAVI, MJ NEBREDA) and experimental club producers (SEGA BODEGA, MANUKA HONEY, BRODINSKI) alike. Now, SAFETY TRANCE drops his most audacious—and polished—work yet with “On 1,” alongside pop-surrealist DORIAN ELECTRA.

The track literally crashes in with an ominous, detuned synth line and a swelling, horror film drone before ripping into action with a death march bassline and dembow drums. The melody is only two notes, yet the track feels dense and electric as SAFETY TRANCE deftly builds an architecture of layered harmonics, dissonance, metallic textures, psychedelic effects and breakbeat flourishes. DORIAN ELECTRA’s dizzying, syncopated delivery warps and bends between mumble and moan, drilling deep into the subconscious mind like violent ASMR. The arrangement, however, pushes the experience over the red line, with hallucinatory switch-ups, stutters and chops that transmute into gunshots, certain to be mimicked by the crowd with fingers up. As erotic as it is apocalyptic, “On 1” is a rewind and re-rewind ready anthem for a rave at the end of the world. It couldn’t be released at a better time.