Naming a track “To Build A Home” sets a bar, because the Cinematic Orchestra song with that title is one of the most quietly devastating pieces of music of the last twenty years, and you do not borrow that title lightly. KAIVON either doesn’t know that or doesn’t care, and weirdly the confidence works in his favor. This is big, open-hearted melodic bass, the kind designed for that moment at a festival when the sun’s going down and ten thousand people decide to feel something at once. The chords are warm, the drop is more emotional than aggressive, and there’s a piano line threaded through it that keeps the whole thing from floating away. I tend to roll my eyes at music this earnest, but KAIVON commits so completely that the cynicism just slides off. He’s not winking at you. He means every swelling synth. The production is glossy without...
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June 24, 2026 at 10:49 AM 1 min read
KAIVON - To Build A Home
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June 24, 2026 at 7:10 AM 1 min read
WinWel - Until We're Old
Read more . . . →MrSuicideSheep remains the most reliable channel on the internet for finding music that makes you feel things you weren’t planning to feel, and WinWel’s Until We’re Old is a textbook example. This is gorgeous melodic electronic music with a vocal that hits the exact sweet spot between hopeful and heartbroken. The title alone tells you what you’re in for, and the track delivers on the promise. There’s a warmth to the production that a lot of electronic music forgets to chase, all rounded synths and a beat that never tries to dominate the emotion. WinWel understands restraint, which is the rarest skill in this whole scene. The drop, if you can even call it that, is more of a gentle lift than a slam, opening the track up into something that feels like a held breath finally released. I had this on repeat way longer than I’d like to admit....
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June 24, 2026 at 7:07 AM
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The train to Almere is the real pre-party, fight me
Read more . . . →Three days. There’s a specific kind of person who treats the journey to the festival as part of the set. Headphones in, watching the Dutch countryside blur past the window, slowly turning into someone who’s going to lose their voice by Friday night. This is the playlist for that. The packing, the commute, the standing in your hallway questioning whether you really need a third pair of socks. Euphoric stuff, mostly, because the pre-game is when you still have feelings left to spend. 1. Refuzion - Reach For The Skies Refuzion makes the kind of euphoric hardstyle that sounds engineered in a lab to make grown adults emotional in a field. This one builds like a sunrise you’re awake far too early to see, which is exactly the right energy for the morning you leave. 2. Sephyx - Futuristic Masterminds Sephyx has a way of making a breakdown feel like...
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June 24, 2026 at 7:07 AM
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Make Them Sell At A Loss
Read more . . . →There are more than four thousand finished condos sitting empty in Metro Vancouver right now, a 76 percent jump in a single year, in a city where people can’t find a place to live. The buildings are done. The lights are off. Developers put them up as investments, the bet went bad, and now they sit dark while families double up and rents keep climbing. This week Mark Carney and David Eby walked out with the fix: up to $3.2 billion over ten years to slash developer charges in half and convert 2,200 of those empty units into affordable homes. Carney explained, on camera, why the developers won’t just drop the price themselves. “They don’t want to sell at a loss.” He said it like it was the weather. That one sentence is the whole game. Somebody built luxury boxes nobody could afford, the market told him no, and the...
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June 23, 2026 at 8:21 PM 1 min read
Joey Dale & Dirty Signal - Get Up
Joey Dale and Dirty Signal making big room that doesn't embarrass you. Get Up does exactly what it promises and that's enough.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
June 23, 2026 at 6:23 PM 1 min read
Whales - Speed Of Light
Read more . . . →Whales is one of those Monstercat names that’s been quietly putting in work without ever becoming a household word, and Speed Of Light is a strong argument that more people should be paying attention. This sits right on the line between melodic dubstep and straight-up electronic, with a build that promises something euphoric before the drop yanks it somewhere heavier. I love a track that fakes you out like that. The melody in the intro is genuinely lovely, all shimmering synths and a vocal chop that hints at a future bass direction, and then the bass design comes in and reminds you what label you’re listening to. The contrast is the whole point. There’s a real craft to making something this big still feel emotional, and Whales threads that needle better than most. The second half opens up into a more anthemic space that earns every bit of its size....
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June 23, 2026 at 4:41 PM 1 min read
Iaco & remy - I'm Not Going Anywhere
Read more . . . →Dim Mak is Steve Aoki’s label, which usually means cake-to-the-face festival maximalism, so “I’m Not Going Anywhere” from Iaco & remy is a genuine left turn. This is softer, more songwriterly, the kind of indie-leaning electronic record that sounds like it was built around an actual feeling rather than a drop. The title is a promise and the track treats it like one, circling back to that reassurance over a gently insistent groove that never quite explodes the way you keep expecting it to. That refusal to detonate is the whole charm. It builds tension and then just sits in it, warm and a little aching, more interested in the mood than the payoff. I respect a track that trusts restraint, especially on a label not exactly famous for it. The vocal has a bedroom-recording intimacy that the clean production doesn’t sand away, and the synths shimmer without showing off....
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June 23, 2026 at 2:43 PM 1 min read
Tim Schaufert - Abundance
Read more . . . →Second MrSuicideSheep pick because the channel earned both slots this week and Tim Schaufert’s Abundance is too good to leave off. This one drifts further into ambient, downtempo territory than the usual Sheep upload, and it’s all the better for it. Abundance is a slow, patient piece of music that prioritizes mood over momentum, the kind of track you put on when the world is too loud. There’s a piano motif at the center that keeps circling back, picking up new textures each time, never rushing toward anything resembling a drop. Schaufert clearly comes from a more composed, almost cinematic background, and it shows in how carefully every element is placed. Nothing here is accidental. The track builds to a swell that feels genuinely emotional without ever announcing itself, which is a kind of confidence most electronic producers don’t have. Abundance is music for staring out a window while it...
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June 23, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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POV: You Requested A Song
Read more . . . →Static for a face, hands still on the mixer, dead air where the eyes should be. He heard you. He’s choosing not to.
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June 23, 2026 at 1:19 PM 1 min read
Hoax, So What & Dynamite MC - Thread The Needle
Hoax, So What and Dynamite MC bringing old-school jungle energy into the present. Thread The Needle is DnB with actual roots.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
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