From Spanish Makina to the Main Stage, DJ POTXO Builds In Time at 150 BPM
A Spanish Euro Rave Single From the Producer Who Reworked Flying Free for Revealed
In Time runs at 150 BPM in E-flat major, eight beats a minute slower than the 1999 makina classic Flying Free. DJ POTXO, a DJ and producer based in Bilbao, Spain, released In Time on 18 September 2026 through Bangerang Network. It is main-floor trance with a vocal hook, and it links Spanish makina to today’s festival main stage.
DJ POTXO’s single is in the playlist below, with the makina and Euro Rave coverage collected on the DJ POTXO profile. In Time reached this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news titles. Give it a spin, then read on for the scene it comes from.
Europe’s 1990s Rave Tempos and Vocal Hooks Are Back on the Festival Main Stage
DJ POTXO calls his sound Euro Rave, and the name looks back to the 1990s as much as forward. In Spain, the rave sound of that decade was makina. It was fast and energetic, and its piano lines and rhythm tie it closely to hard trance.
One of its most famous records came from Pont Aeri, a family-run club that opened in Terrassa, near Barcelona, in December 1991. The club wanted a signature track of its own. So the Escudero brothers, Marc and Xavi, whose parents ran the club, went to the makina producer Rubén Moreno.
Together they slowed the track to 158 BPM, below the 165 to 175 BPM that makina usually ran at. They also brought in Marian Dacal, known in Spain as the voice of makina. Flying Free came out in 1999 and never really left. It still plays at weddings and town festivals, and it now has its own documentary, Flying Free. Historia de un himno, directed by Jordi Papasey.
Meanwhile, since 2019 the international festival circuit has been pulling that kind of rave energy back in. Producers began taking the build, the vocal and the hard edge of 1990s European dance music and scaling them up for festival systems. The acts at the end of this piece show how that happened, and where In Time fits among them.
DJ POTXO Builds In Time at 150 BPM, the Tempo of Most of His Singles Since Flying Free
DJ POTXO was born on 1 August 1998, a year before Flying Free came out. He lists his territory as festival main-stage music: big room, techno, progressive house, Future Rave, trance, Eurodance, hypertechno and hardstyle. Under the same banner he curates a Spotify playlist, EURO RAVE 2026. He also programmes his own radio show, Festival Mainstage Radio.
His link to Spain’s rave past is direct. In December 2024, Revealed Recordings released his official rework of Flying Free, featuring Liliia Kysil, 25 years after the original. That rework set the tempo for most of what followed.
Rising From The Ashes, also on Revealed, kept it in June 2025. So did three collaborations: Get Me High with 24KARAT, Until We Make It with Jones 2.0 and UNYKE, and Break My Fall with DJ Peach. You And Me, his October 2025 Revealed single with HIFEER, is one of the few that sit lower, at 145 BPM.
DJ POTXO, credited as Jon Mikel Taboada Alonso, wrote the music and words of In Time. It stays in the same lane, as a 2:24 original mix and an Extended Mix for DJs. Beatport files it under main-floor trance.
The record pairs its vocal hook with a euphoric lead melody and drops that bounce. It is built for clubs and big outdoor stages alike. The vocal is the accessible part, since it gives a large crowd a line to follow while the tempo stays high.
Six Radio Shows Programmed the Single Between 17 September and 4 November
DJs found a slot for In Time by DJ POTXO fast. XABI ONLY played it at the end of Journeys 474 on 17 September, the day before release. Then it reached Lisboa Dance 309 from DJ mythi on 21 September, and Banger Radio 085 from DNRBW and Rectik two days later.
On that show it came straight after Jaxx & Vega’s festival mix of Another Way by Gigi D’Agostino, an Italian dance single from July 1999. So a record from the year of Flying Free handed straight over to In Time.
UNYKE, who worked with DJ POTXO on Until We Make It, put it on UNYKE Show 124 on 29 September. Then on 30 October, POIZZONED played it 38 minutes into Rave Potion Radio 016. There it sat between Like No Other by Latsge and DJ JayKo and Loneliness by MatricK, a Revealed release.
Five days later, Jordy Copz played it ninth on Opti’mix Mainstage 202, a show shared with FRNKROK. It came straight after Echoes by Arkins, Mixo and ATMOX, and right before Born Loud by Blasterjaxx. Across the six shows, the record keeps main-stage company, in sets built for a big floor.
Where In Time by DJ POTXO Sits Next to Hardwell, Gabry Ponte, David Guetta and MORTEN
These acts help place In Time, and each one adds a piece of the story.
Hardwell is the closest connection, through his label. He founded Revealed in 2010 to release music by young producers. After stepping away from touring in 2018, he closed Ultra Music Festival in Miami on 27 March 2022 with a new, techno-led sound. Since then he has reinvented himself as a big room techno DJ. DJ POTXO’s Revealed singles share that move toward speed and hard edges, and In Time carries it onto a trance floor.
Gabry Ponte shows how far a Eurodance career can travel. In 1997 he formed Eiffel 65, whose debut single, Blue (Da Ba Dee), topped charts around the world after its 1998 release. Today he also makes Future Rave records, and in 2025 he represented San Marino at Eurovision with Tutta l’Italia. Eurodance is one of the styles DJ POTXO names, and the hook on In Time keeps that pop instinct.
David Guetta and MORTEN gave the new sound its name. In 2019 the pair began making records in a style they later called Future Rave. Their first two in it were Never Be Alone, with Aloe Blacc, and an official remix of Avicii’s Heaven. A four-track EP, New Rave, followed in 2020, and in 2022 they toured the United States under the Future Rave name. In Time works with the same raw materials, a euphoric melody and a festival drop.
In Time Keeps the Job Flying Free Was Built For
That is where In Time lands. Twenty-seven years after Flying Free, it does the job that record was built for, keeping a full floor moving at speed. The difference is the room, because this floor can be a festival stage as well as a club.
ElectronicMusic.News curator team: “We would put In Time at the point of a set where big room hands over to rave speed. The vocal keeps the crowd with you through that change.”
Stream In Time on Spotify and Apple Music. Follow DJ POTXO across platforms: the Spotify artist page, Apple Music profile, Beatport, SoundCloud, Deezer, Instagram, TikTok, X, his YouTube channel and Linktree.
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