Koven have been one of those acts where I keep hearing about them before fully paying attention, and then I actually sit with a track and go, okay, I get it now. bloOdliNEs is melodic DnB but with genuine tension running through it — the kind that makes you feel like something is about to go wrong even when everything sounds beautiful. The vocals don’t feel decorative here; they carry actual weight. There’s something unsettling about how pretty the build is before the drop hits. Koven write music that sounds like it should be on a soundtrack for something much bigger than a streaming playlist. The production is clean without being clinical. I’ve heard cleaner DnB that made me feel absolutely nothing and rougher stuff that hit harder — this lands somewhere in the middle and that’s exactly where it needs to be. Chucked it on during a commute and...
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May 29, 2026 at 9:39 AM 1 min read
Koven - bloOdliNEs
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May 29, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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Toolroom Ibiza 2026 - Tech House Mix
Read more . . . →Toolroom dropping their Ibiza 2026 tech house mix. Background music for when you’re pretending you’re in Ibiza but you’re actually in your living room. No judgment — it works either way.
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May 29, 2026 at 7:13 AM
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Salesforce Replaced the Engineers. The Salespeople Are Fine.
Read more . . . →Salesforce didn’t hire a single engineer last year. Not one. Marc Benioff — $145 billion company, personal net worth north of $10 billion — stood up and told the world that AI handles the coding now, so why pay humans to do it? Productivity’s up 30%, he said, clearly pleased with himself. Zero new engineers in fiscal year 2026. That’s the headline he volunteered. That’s the thing he thought was worth bragging about.
But here’s what he made sure to mention in the same breath: sales is booming. Nearly 20% more salespeople hired. Because someone still needs to walk into a room and convince your company to pay Salesforce for the AI that just replaced your engineers. The builders are gone. The sellers are thriving. One class of worker gets the AI treatment, the other gets a commission check and a quota.
That’s the new economy, laid out in plain...
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May 29, 2026 at 5:02 AM
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Toolroom Ibiza 2026 - House Mix
Read more . . . →The house version of the Toolroom Ibiza series. Same sunny vibe, fewer snares. Works either way.
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May 29, 2026 at 1:23 AM 1 min read
Timmy Trumpet x Frank Walker - All My Life (feat. John Martin)
Read more . . . →John Martin’s voice on a Timmy Trumpet track filmed live. If you’re not familiar: John Martin did “Antidote” with Swedish House Mafia. This is the same vibe, bigger room, trumpet.
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May 28, 2026 at 9:36 PM 1 min read
The Purge & Coldax & Hans Glock - SIDEQUEST (Tetris Mix)
Read more . . . →A hardstyle track called “SIDEQUEST (Tetris Mix).” The only thing missing is a boss fight. Dirty Workz going full gamer and I’m here for it.
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May 28, 2026 at 8:27 PM 1 min read
Kaizen - Wreker Cauze
Read more . . . →Trap Nation find. Kaizen with a track that sounds like its title — deliberately misspelled, deliberately heavy, probably intentionally annoying to people who only listen to deep house. The intentional-damage energy is real.
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May 28, 2026 at 6:30 PM 1 min read
Sustance - Take Cover
Read more . . . →Two Sustance tracks on Shogun in the same drop. “Take Cover” is more aggressive than “Loving You” — same artist, different mode. The range is impressive.
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May 28, 2026 at 4:47 PM 1 min read
Josh One vs Salomé Le Chat - Contemplation (King Britt Funke Remix)
Read more . . . →The title alone should get you in the mood. King Britt doing a funke remix of something called Contemplation — that’s a very specific vibe and it delivers exactly what it promises. Josh One vs Salomé Le Chat is already an interesting pairing on its own, but King Britt’s remix takes the original somewhere deeper. This is Defected doing what Defected does best — finding house tracks with genuine soul and giving them to the right people to make them something else entirely. The groove in this is the kind you don’t notice until you’re already moving. There’s an organ line about halfway through that I had to go back and listen to three times because I was convinced I misheard it. I didn’t. It’s just really good. King Britt has been in this music for three decades and it shows — he doesn’t remix things to stamp his name...
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May 28, 2026 at 2:46 PM 1 min read
Sustance - Loving You
Read more . . . →Sustance on Shogun Audio. The label has been putting out quality neurofunk for 20 years and “Loving You” fits right in. Misleadingly tender name for something that hits this hard.
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