If you lost track of Jack Garratt after the 2016 hype cycle chewed him up, Higher is a good reason to check back in. He was briefly anointed the future of British music, won the BRITs Critics’ Choice, and then mostly stepped away to deal with the weight of all that, which is its own long story. This track is him doing the thing he was always best at, a huge gospel-sized vocal welded to electronic production that lurches between delicate and enormous with no warning. The drop is less a drop than a full-body swell, organ-ish synths and a beat that stomps in late and hard. His voice is the instrument here, cracking at the top of the range in a way that reads as effort rather than a plugin. There is a rawness to it the glossy MrSuicideSheep catalogue does not usually carry. It feels like a man...
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October 14, 2026 at 8:15 PM 1 min read
Jack Garratt - Higher
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October 14, 2026 at 4:11 PM 1 min read
Dyro & DJ Tora - Rocket Ship
Read more . . . →Dyro turning up on Revealed again hits a specific nostalgia button for anyone who was paying attention to big-room around 2013. He was one of the first artists Hardwell ever signed to the label, a kid with a gift for filthy electro-house leads back when that sound owned the main stages, and then he mostly faded out of the spotlight. Rocket Ship, with DJ Tora, is him back in that lane, and it is a pleasant surprise how little he has lost. The lead synth has that signature Dyro snarl, a growling, detuned electro stab that sounds genuinely nasty in a way most modern big-room has sanded away in favour of politeness. The track is unapologetically throwback, four-four stomp and a drop that goes straight for the jugular, no future-rave gloss or tech-house restraint anywhere near it. It is dated, no question, but dated in a way I actively missed....
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October 14, 2026 at 3:32 PM 1 min read
Hel:sløwed & Nina de Koning - Give It To Me
Read more . . . →When did hardstyle vocals get this good? Give It To Me puts Hel:sløwed with Nina de Koning, and her performance is the thing dragging the track clear of the genre’s usual cheese. This is hard dance on the classic template, a euphoric vocal intro, a screaming reverse-bass kick, and a drop designed to make a field of people in bucket hats lose their minds. What de Koning brings is actual longing in the topline, selling the emotional build so that when the kick finally punches through it feels like release instead of just volume. The reverse bass is enormous and clean, that signature hardstyle growl that sounds like a dragon clearing its throat. Hardstyle usually loses me in the sugar rush, but the vocal keeps this one tethered to something real. There is a melodic lead in the second drop that genuinely got me. Hard dance that remembers the human...
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October 14, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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Eric Prydz: One Man, Three Names, Zero Misses
Eric Prydz, Pryda, Cirez D: one obsessive guy, three aliases, zero filler. The progressive house and techno catalog with no bad era, explained.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
October 14, 2026 at 2:47 PM 1 min read
Denied
Read more . . . →Four years of med school, overruled by a rubber stamp. A doctor holds a chest x-ray. You can see ribs, lungs, a whole human being on that film. Behind him a suit is pressing a red rubber stamp into it: NOT MEDICALLY NECESSARY. The suit hasn’t glanced at the film once. The stamp already says what it’s going to say, and it was going to say that before the patient walked in. Insurance as a system where the person making the call has the least medical training in the room, a stamp that has never once said yes, and a doctor whose face looks like he stopped arguing about it three years ago.
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October 14, 2026 at 12:31 PM 1 min read
Eynka - Make You Happy
Read more . . . →Put this on during a grey afternoon hoping for a lift and got a polite one. Make You Happy is Armada-issue trance doing exactly what the title promises and not one thing beyond it. Eynka is a new-ish name on the biggest trance label in the world, and this is a clean, uplifting vocal trance record of the kind Armada ships by the crate: a soaring female topline, a supersaw drop engineered for a festival sunrise, that familiar surge designed to make a field full of people throw their hands up. It is cleanly made and completely weightless. I kept waiting for one moment that actually stopped me, and it never arrived, because stopping you is not what this track is for. It is for the drop at the main stage when everyone already has their arms in the air, and in that exact context it will probably do the...
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October 14, 2026 at 11:07 AM 1 min read
gabriawll, Ada Petcu - Desire
Read more . . . →This is far better than an NCS release has any right to be. Desire puts gabriawll with vocalist Ada Petcu for a melodic electronic track that sidesteps most of the copyright-free blandness the label is known for, and it does it by actually committing to a feeling. Petcu’s vocal is the anchor, breathy and a little desperate, sitting over a production that builds patiently toward a drop trading the usual EDM supersaw wall for something cleaner and colder. The synth carrying the hook has a slightly melancholy detune that keeps the euphoria from going fully plastic. What I like is the discipline, it never clutters, letting a handful of elements do the work and trusting the gaps between them. NCS gets written off as background music for Minecraft montages, and plenty of it earns that, but every so often the catalogue turns up a genuinely affecting record. This is one....
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October 14, 2026 at 7:15 AM
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A Lot Less
Read more . . . →Elon Musk told the press in 2025 he planned to spend “a lot less” on politics. His disclosure filings say otherwise: $276 million to Republican groups since July alone. $158 million to the Senate Leadership Fund. $76 million to America PAC. $20 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund. $10 million to get Ken Paxton a Senate seat in Texas. His cycle total is now $366 million, more than the $290 million he spent getting Trump elected in 2024. The man who ran DOGE to slash federal agencies and fire thousands of government workers has a personal political budget that dwarfs the departments he gutted. Nobody spends $366 million on something they don’t expect a return on. Musk isn’t donating. He’s investing, and the dividend is a Congress that keeps cutting his tax bill and looking the other way while he union-busts his factories. One person outspending the entire Democratic fundraising...
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October 14, 2026 at 6:39 AM 1 min read
Flava D & Stush - Energy (Napes Remix)
Read more . . . →The original Energy was a dubstep tune, all weight and half-time swagger, so hearing Napes drag it up to drum and bass tempo does something clever: the Stush vocal that sat heavy over the original now has to sprint to keep up, and it sounds better for the chase. Flava D has spent years refusing to pick a lane, bouncing between UKG, dubstep and a whole drum and bass album on Hospital, and her tracks survive this kind of surgery because the bones are strong. Stush brings that raw, patois-inflected toughness UK dance music has always been better with, a voice with actual grit on it. Napes keeps the vocal front and centre and builds a rolling, slightly rude bassline underneath that nods to the jump-up end of things without going full cartoon. It is the rare remix that justifies its own existence rather than just slapping a faster drum...
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October 13, 2026 at 11:38 PM 1 min read
Hamdi & D Double E - Heart & Soul
Hamdi and D Double E on one track sounds obvious the second you hear it. Grime vocals over dubstep weight, and Heart & Soul gets it right.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
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