Coffee Shop has the easy, sun-drenched swing of a track designed for a beach club rather than a dark basement, and Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano have always been comfortable operating in that lane. Raluka’s vocal gives it a pop sheen, while the groove keeps enough genuine house weight underneath to stop it floating off into background music entirely. It’s polished, breezy, the sort of record that sounds expensive and goes down very easy on a warm afternoon. There’s a real craft to making something this effortless-feeling actually function on a floor — the simplicity is deceptive, and the restraint is doing more work than it lets on. It won’t change your life, but it will measurably improve the next pool party you find yourself at, and there’s real value in a track that knows precisely what it is. The kind of thing that gets stuck in your head three...
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June 28, 2026 at 9:39 AM 1 min read
Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano x Raluka feat. Kes Kross - Coffee Shop
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June 28, 2026 at 6:50 AM
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This Week on coldplaysucks — June 14–21
Read more . . . →Big week, and house ran it. We posted a pile of tracks and the four-on-the-floor crowd showed up deepest — tech house, soulful house, afro house, the works. Drum and bass kept pace right behind, trance refused to die, and somewhere in the middle a bunch of producers flipped songs that have no business still hitting this hard in 2026. Coldplay released nothing. The week improved accordingly. Track of the Week Sigma, Soul II Soul, Capo Lee & Zimma - BACK 2 LIFE (ft. Liv Campbell) Flipping “Back to Life” is a way to get yourself run out of town, so Sigma did the smart thing and brought the actual originators along instead of sampling them and praying. Liv Campbell gives the vocal room, the grime side keeps it from turning into a heritage act, and the breakdown where the original melody surfaces gave me genuine goosebumps — not a...
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June 28, 2026 at 6:50 AM
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They Threatened Him, Interrogated Him, Then Fired Him — But Sure, The Timing Was A Coincidence
Read more . . . →On Tuesday the Fifth Circuit handed down its ruling in the Starbucks union case out of Sylmar, California, and you have to read it twice to believe the shape of it. The court looked at what the company did to a worker named Untaran during the 2022 organizing drive and agreed, on the record, that Starbucks broke the law. It agreed a manager illegally threatened him over the union. It agreed he was illegally interrogated about it. The judges signed their names to all of that. And then the same worker got fired, and the court turned around and said you can’t actually prove the firing had anything to do with the union, because — and this is the whole holding — “timing alone is not substantial evidence of anti-union animus.” Sit with the logic for a second, because it’s the entire game. A company can threaten you for organizing....
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June 27, 2026 at 7:11 PM 1 min read
T-Pain, DJ DIESEL, San Holo, NGHTMRE, Kompany, SampliFire & IVORY - STFU
Read more . . . →Read that artist list again, because somebody really did get T-Pain, Shaq in his DJ DIESEL costume, San Holo, NGHTMRE and three more bass producers into one room for a track literally called STFU. By all rights a seven-name posse cut should collapse into an incoherent mess of egos, and the genuinely surprising thing is how much it bangs anyway. It’s maximalist dubstep that knows exactly how stupid and fun it’s being, T-Pain’s vocal tying together a drop that hits like a collapsing scaffold. Monstercat releases tend to land somewhere between meme and mosh pit, and this is squarely in the overlap where the two stop being distinguishable. The miracle is that with that many cooks it still has a shape, a clear arc rather than a contractual pile of features. You are not going to put this on to relax. You are going to put it on to ruin...
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June 27, 2026 at 3:31 PM 1 min read
TLM feat. Merely - Summer Jam
Read more . . . →Some tracks are just honest about what they’re for, and Summer Jam wears its entire purpose in the title. TLM build an uplifting, sun-soaked trance record around Merely’s airy vocal, and the whole thing is engineered to make a festival field feel ten degrees warmer than the forecast. The melody is big and unguarded, the kind that would have soundtracked a main-stage sunset twenty years ago and still does the exact same job today without updating much. There’s a long tradition of trance being a little cheesy and entirely unbothered about it, and this slots happily into that lineage with no apology. It builds the way you want it to, holding the tension a beat longer than expected before finally letting the release land. This is not the track for a moody Tuesday indoors; it’s the one for the precise moment the sun finally breaks through. Pure serotonin, delivered without...
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June 27, 2026 at 2:59 PM 4 min read
Serum 2 vs Vital: Stop Overthinking It
Serum 2 vs Vital for music production: Vital's free and nobody hears the difference. You're paying Serum for the preset ecosystem, not the sound.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
June 27, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Stop Calling Everything 'EDM'
'EDM' is a marketing word from 2012, not a genre. House, techno, DnB, dubstep — different countries, different histories. Stop throwing the map away.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
June 27, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Best Free VSTs for Electronic Music in 2026 (Ranked, With Opinions)
The free VST chain that out-produces a $1,000 stack. Vital, OTT, TDR Nova, Valhalla and more — ranked, with opinions, for electronic music in 2026.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
June 27, 2026 at 12:09 PM 1 min read
YDG, SampliFire & Z3LLA - Heart On Fire
Read more . . . →Three producers, one track, and somehow it stays focused instead of turning into a sound-design pile-up. Heart On Fire pairs a genuinely catchy vocal hook with the kind of drop that justifies the word ‘heavy’ without descending into pure noise. YDG and SampliFire both know their way around a metallic, aggressive low end, and Z3LLA keeps a melodic thread running so the song never forgets it’s a song. The result is bass music you can actually hum afterward, which is rarer in this corner than it should be, and it’s the part that keeps me coming back. It moves between pretty and punishing fast enough to keep you on edge the whole way through, never settling long enough to get comfortable. Collabs this stacked usually feel like a contract obligation with three names slapped on top; this one feels like the three of them were genuinely feeding off each other....
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June 27, 2026 at 9:32 AM 1 min read
LAR - Dragging You Down
Read more . . . →Where LAR’s other recent cut floats, Dragging You Down has more pull to it — there’s a gentle undertow in the groove that quietly earns the title. It trades some of the airy openness for a slightly heavier, more insistent bassline, the kind that nudges you onto the floor rather than letting you drift past it. The vocal fragments drift in and out like half-heard conversation through a wall, processed down into pure texture rather than anything you’d sing along to. What I appreciate about hearing two LAR tracks close together is how clearly they’re cut from the same cloth and yet aim at completely different parts of the night. This one’s later, darker, a touch more dancefloor than the headphones, where the other is the warm-up. The restraint is still very much there, but it’s coiled tighter, with more intent behind every loop. Deep house this controlled is genuinely...
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