Melodic techno keeps winning the late set for a reason. Big melody, real tension, and a bassline that does not let the floor breathe. Chris Giuliano’s new Club Mix of Whispers, made with Taber, is built for that exact moment: festival stages, dark rooms, and the last hour when the lights stay low.
The track sits in Tech House, Progressive House, and Melodic Techno, and it wears those lanes without sounding like a checklist. A beefy rolling bassline carries the whole thing. Melodies come in wide. Vocals cut through instead of floating on top. The arrangement is about pressure: build, hold, then drop with enough weight for a packed room. If you like records that feel designed for peak time rather than background streaming, this is that kind of cut.
What gives Whispers its edge is not only the club structure. Giuliano grew up in Los Angeles skating and surfing, and he spent childhood years playing guitar in a punk band. That raw push shows up here in distorted synth textures and a relentless rhythmic drive. It is still polished electronic music, but it does not sound overly clean. There is grit in the midrange and a forward motion that feels closer to a live band than a grid-only studio session.
Taber is the other half of the chemistry. This Club Mix is framed as their boldest collaboration yet, and the vocal performance is what keeps the record human. Vulnerable lyricism sits against high-energy production instead of getting swallowed by it. That contrast is the hook: emotion in the topline, muscle in the low end. You can hear why they keep coming back to each other. The vocal does not just decorate the drop. It is part of the tension that makes the drop land.
Giuliano is an LA-born-and-raised producer, DJ, and sound engineer whose work has reached Armada, Insomniac, Anjunabeats, and Enhanced. His tracks have found Spotify editorial playlists and Beatport and iTunes chart space, and they have been played in rooms and festivals that matter, including EDC and Miami Music Week. On the live side he has played Exchange LA, Dreamstate SoCal, and The Gorge. Those rooms explain the mix: this is not a headphone sketch. It is written to travel.
He also works beyond the artist alias. Giuliano produces across dance, pop, hip hop, and rock, builds custom music for podcasts, TikTok, commercials, and film, and handles post-production audio and video. He is co-founder and sound engineer at LA’s AHC Studios and in-house engineer for Northern Haus Studios and Immersed Records. That studio background is audible. The Club Mix is tight where it needs to be and messy only where the distortion is meant to bite.
The wider scene is hungry for this blend right now. Melodic techno and progressive house keep pulling festival main stages toward records that feel cinematic and physical at the same time. Rolling bass, striking vocals, and drops built for late sets are the current language of a lot of peak-time programming. Whispers speaks that language without pretending it invented it. It just executes it with a personal stamp: punk-era drive, LA outdoor energy, and a vocalist who can hold the emotional center.
If you are here for the music first, start with the bassline and the way the vocals ride the build. Then listen for those distorted synths. That is where Giuliano’s roots sneak into a festival-ready frame. Chris and Taber have clearly figured out how to make a collab feel like a single idea instead of two people stacking parts.
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What do you think of this Club Mix? Does the punk grit come through for you, or is it the vocal that sticks? Drop your take in the comments.
