You already know if this is your kind of thing by the second bar, which is exactly what good tech house should do. Ben Remember’s “Truth” on Toolroom is peak-time tech-house with zero wasted motion: a relentless rolling bassline, a chopped vocal stab repeating the title, and a groove that simply does not let up for the entire runtime. This is functional dancefloor music in the best sense, made by someone who clearly knows precisely what a DJ needs at 1am when the floor’s full and the energy has to keep climbing. The bassline has that rubbery, hypnotic bounce Toolroom has basically trademarked, and the vocal hook is annoying in the specific way that means you’ll be muttering it in the shower tomorrow. There’s a filter sweep before the breakdown that’s older than I am as a trick and lands perfectly regardless. Tech house this tight is why the genre...
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August 11, 2026 at 11:38 PM 1 min read
Ben Remember - Truth
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August 11, 2026 at 8:21 PM 1 min read
Justė - Just A Little (feat. Sam Harper)
Justė and Sam Harper's 'Just A Little' is engineered to be inoffensive and somehow has real teeth. Three minutes of pure sugar.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
August 11, 2026 at 4:49 PM 1 min read
Circadian - Energy In Motion (A.M.C Remix)
Read more . . . →Some remixes politely improve on the original. A.M.C just bulldozes Circadian’s “Energy In Motion” flat and builds something meaner on the rubble. The man is a machine-gun on the drums, and this remix is him at full tilt: a bassline that snarls and reloads, drums so tight they sound programmed by someone holding a grudge. This is the aggressive end of dnb, the neuro-tinged jump-up stuff that clears the casual listeners out of the room and leaves the goblins up front. The second drop flips the bass pattern just when you’ve gotten comfortable, which is the whole art of this style. It’s ugly and precise and mean, built to detonate a rave at 1am and do nothing else with its life. A.M.C has been the reference point for technical dnb for years and tracks like this are the reason why. Get it on a big rig, turn it up past...
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August 11, 2026 at 4:41 PM 1 min read
Jai Wolf, SAYAK DAS - Bad Habit
Jai Wolf and SAYAK DAS get grittier than the gauzy festival-sunrise sound he's known for. There's a kalimba through a broken amp in here.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
August 11, 2026 at 1:22 PM 1 min read
Two Tracks That Broke the Genre Field
Read more . . . →There’s a Brazilian funk vocal buried inside a modular techno track and it heads Mixmag’s best-of list for 2026 so far. There’s a house record on a Ninja Tune imprint that sounds like it was assembled across three time zones at once. Two tracks this week with no fixed address, and both of them are better for the homelessness. 1. Skrillex, Randomer, Blawan & MC Dricka - Thistle This was floating around DJ sets for years before its proper release in May, and the wait was the right call. Blawan’s shredded metallic textures, Randomer’s chopped drum programming, MC Dricka’s Brazilian funk bars, and Skrillex holding the seams — four separate records happening at once, and nobody tried to smooth them into one. It dropped ahead of CONTRA at Kraftwerk Berlin, and that venue is exactly the right room for it — concrete walls and nowhere for the bass to hide....
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August 11, 2026 at 1:19 PM 1 min read
GROUPLOVE x Snakehips - Tongue Tied 2026
Read more . . . →Does the world need a dance remake of “Tongue Tied” fifteen years on? I asked that too, then played it four times, so apparently yes. GROUPLOVE’s 2011 original scored every coming-of-age trailer of that era, and Snakehips have flipped it into a proper 2026 club track without gutting what made it work. The “take-take-take” hook is still there, still absurdly catchy, now riding a garage-leaning beat with a bassline they clearly had a blast building. Hearing that chorus over a modern low end is a genuine time-warp for anyone who was around the first time. I got a jolt of being nineteen the second it kicked in. The remix keeps the ramshackle, hand-clappy charm of the original instead of steamrolling it into generic festival goo, which was the exact thing I feared they’d sand off. Snakehips kept the joy and added weight, which is the only way a remake like...
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August 11, 2026 at 12:24 PM 1 min read
David Guetta, Marten Hørger & Men Machine - Engage (feat. Vitalic)
Read more . . . →When did David Guetta get interesting again? Genuine question, because “Engage” has no business being this good. It’s a collaboration with Marten Hørger and Men Machine that features Vitalic, and if you know Vitalic’s “La Rock 01” you already know the exact brand of buzzsaw electro-bass this is reaching for. The whole thing is built on that filthy, distorted French-electro lead, the sound that ate dancefloors in 2007 and apparently never fully died. Guetta’s usually the guy sanding these sounds down for the pop charts, so hearing him lean into something this aggressive and analog is a genuine shock. The drop is all snarl and no gloss, a nasty saw-bass riff that stomps where his radio hits usually shimmer. It’s got that Justice-adjacent grime to it, the dirt EDM mostly forgot how to make. That Guetta’s name is on something this feral is the surprise of my week. Filed under...
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August 11, 2026 at 9:39 AM 1 min read
gabriawll - One Day
gabriawll's 'One Day' is a small heartbreak with a beat under it. Some days you just want the track that makes you sad on purpose.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
August 11, 2026 at 6:21 AM
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They Fired You and Blamed the Robot
Read more . . . →Almost six out of ten companies now admit they frame layoffs as “AI-driven” when the real reason is financial. Straight up. Into a survey. Block fired forty percent of its workforce and the stock jumped twenty-four percent the same day. Dorsey posted $2.87 billion in gross profit that quarter. Cloudflare axed eleven hundred people — a fifth of the company — while reporting record revenue up thirty-four percent. These aren’t companies in trouble. These are companies doing better than ever who figured out Wall Street pays you more per share when you have fewer employees. Meta’s internal memos said the layoffs “enable the company to offset the cost of AI investments.” Not that AI does the work. That firing people funds the hardware. Seven hundred billion dollars in AI infrastructure spending this year, industry-wide, backed by headcount reductions at companies that have never been more profitable. Your job didn’t get...
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August 10, 2026 at 9:25 PM 1 min read
Garnic - Wake Up
Read more . . . →If you spent any time gaming in the last ten years, you already know the NCS sound in your bones even if you never learned the label’s name. Garnic’s “Wake Up” is a clean shot of exactly that: melodic, big-hearted electronic music engineered to soundtrack a montage. The vocal is anthemic and just vague enough to be about whatever you need it to be about, which is half the genre’s trick. The drop is bright and driving, built on a plucky lead that lodges in your head on the very first pass. It’s unpretentious to the bone and completely unbothered about that fact. NCS gets dunked on by people who think enjoying things is embarrassing, and Garnic makes their snobbery look exhausting. The breakdown has a genuinely pretty piano moment before the second drop kicks the door back in. Stick it on next time you need to trick your brain...
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