Put P Money on anything with a half-step rhythm and the whole thing tilts toward grime before the bass even shows up, which is exactly what happens here. Taiki Nulight has been quietly one of the most reliable people in UK bass for years and nobody outside the scene gives him enough credit, so a three-way link with Casey Club and Diligent Fingers feels overdue rather than random. The drop hits like a fire door slamming in a stairwell, all metal and echo, and P Money rides it like he’s been waiting his whole life for a beat this rude. What I love is how little it tries to be pretty. There’s no melodic wink, no breakdown begging you to put your hands up, just pressure and a vocal that refuses to back off. It’s the kind of track that sounds wrong on laptop speakers and absolutely correct on a...
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June 26, 2026 at 11:21 AM 1 min read
Taiki Nulight, Casey Club & Diligent Fingers - Take Out Your Team (ft. P Money)
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June 26, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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The Fat Kitten That Fooled the Whole Timeline
Read more . . . →In late May, Mistral renamed its chatbot Le Chat — French for “the cat” — to “Vibe.” The fans mourning the cat did what the grieving do online: they built a replacement. Le Chaton Fat. Franglais for “the fat kitten,” an oxymoron with a face. It started in Mistral’s own community, hit X around June 11, and within hours actual machine-learning researchers were asking out loud if it was real. Cody Blakeney posted, dead serious, “Can someone tell me if Le Chaton fat is real or an amazingly elaborate joke?” No weights. No API. No model card. It never hit a real leaderboard. The only chart anyone saw was one somebody drew as a bit. And the specs kept getting fatter. It launched at 24 trillion parameters — a number Mistral itself floated in a since-deleted post — then the crowd shoved it to 30 trillion, then 100 trillion on...
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June 26, 2026 at 7:07 AM
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Friday opens with Sefa and that's how you start a weekend
Read more . . . →Tomorrow it’s real. Friday the gates open, and somewhere around 11:30 Sefa walks out for “This is Sefa” and sets the tone for everything that follows. Opening sets are underrated by people who show up at 4pm. Nobody’s tired yet, nobody’s lost their friends yet, the whole thing is still pure potential. These are the tracks for that first hour, when the field is filling up and you still genuinely believe you’ll make it through to the Endshow. 1. Sefa - The Omega Sefa operates in his own lane and barely anyone can follow him there. Piano, frenchcore, classical training, all of it folded into something that should not work and absolutely does. This is the right way to open a weekend, with the one act nobody else can imitate. 2. Sephyx - Ascension The title does the work here. It climbs and climbs and you go with it. A...
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June 26, 2026 at 7:07 AM
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Yellow turns 26 and it still sucks
Read more . . . →26 years ago today, Coldplay released “Yellow.” It still sucks. The whole song rides one metaphor a 15-year-old would’ve crossed out: you’re a star, I went yellow, the end. Chris Martin found four notes on a guitar, decided that was plenty, and pushed the falsetto until “earnest” started doing the job that “good” was supposed to do. Then the ad agencies got hold of it, and for the next decade you couldn’t watch a car drift down a coastal road or a phone spin on a white background without that mopey little riff leaking out of the speakers. It didn’t soundtrack a generation. It sedated one. The real crime is everything it drowned out. 2000 was a monster year for dance music — French house was at its absolute peak and Warp was untouchable, and the clubs were having a better time than any man whining about his own complexion...
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June 26, 2026 at 6:45 AM 1 min read
Spinnin' Sessions Radio - Episode #684
Read more . . . →I don’t usually post radio shows because most label mix series are just glorified release calendars with a four-on-the-floor stapled underneath, but episode 684 of Spinnin’ Sessions is a decent hour if you treat it for what it is. This is the sound of a major dance label showing its hand, an hour of upcoming and recent Spinnin’ material strung together for people who want the new stuff without doing the digging themselves. The mixing is functional rather than artful, which is fine, because the point is the tracklist not the transitions. What’s useful about something like this is the early warning. Half of what’s on here will be all over festival main stages by summer, so you can hear the trends forming in real time and decide which ones you’ll defend and which you’ll mock in three months. I put it on while cleaning the apartment and it did...
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June 25, 2026 at 11:44 PM 1 min read
Sigma, Soul II Soul, Capo Lee & Zimma - BACK 2 LIFE (ft. Liv Campbell)
Read more . . . →Flipping “Back to Life” is a dangerous game because that Soul II Soul record is sacred to a lot of people, and the wrong remix gets you run out of town. Sigma know this, which is probably why they brought the actual originators along instead of just sampling them and hoping. Liv Campbell takes the vocal and gives it air, then Capo Lee and Zimma drop in on the grime side to remind you this is 2026 and not a heritage act. The drum and bass underneath is the polished, festival-ready Sigma sound that I usually have complicated feelings about, because it can tip into cheese fast. Here it works because the soul in the source material keeps it grounded, that warm London swing that no amount of big-room production can sand off. The breakdown where the original melody surfaces gave me actual goosebumps, and I don’t say that about...
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June 25, 2026 at 5:13 PM 1 min read
Redondo, KOATES & Mike Mago - Circulate
Read more . . . →Armada filed this under trance but don’t be fooled, “Circulate” is a house record through and through, and a sneakily good one. Redondo and Mike Mago both have long résumés in the groovier end of dance music, and pulling KOATES into the mix gives the whole thing a slightly tougher edge than either tends to make alone. The track is built on a rolling, hypnotic bassline that does exactly what the title says, circling back on itself until you stop noticing the loop and just start moving. There’s a vocal chop that surfaces every few bars like it’s checking in on you. What sells it is the groove’s patience, that slow-burn quality where nothing dramatic happens but you can’t stop nodding. This is functional dance music in the best sense, built to keep a room moving rather than to win a YouTube comment section. I’ve got time for that. Not...
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June 25, 2026 at 2:36 PM 1 min read
PIEM & SLM vs DJ Technics & Kotton The Cutie - Activated (I Just Wanna)
Read more . . . →That’s a four-name pileup on the credits, and normally a “vs” track with that many cooks in the kitchen ends up as mush, but “Activated” is lean and mean in a way that surprised me. PIEM and SLM bring the modern tech-house chassis while the DJ Technics and Kotton The Cutie side drags in some genuine Baltimore club DNA, and the collision is sharper than the metadata suggests. The “I just wanna” vocal does that thing where a chopped phrase becomes more hypnotic the more it repeats, until you stop hearing words and just hear rhythm. The drums hit with that snappy club bounce, all stuttered kicks and breath samples, and the house low end keeps it grounded for a normal dancefloor instead of a niche one. I keep coming back to how much restraint is in the arrangement. It could’ve been cluttered and it just isn’t. Defected pulling Baltimore...
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June 25, 2026 at 11:14 AM 1 min read
Ookay, Veronica Bravo - dontwakemeup
Read more . . . →Ookay will forever be the “Thief” guy to a lot of people, that one inescapable 2016 record, and the funny thing is he’s spent the years since quietly being a much more interesting producer than that single suggests. “dontwakemeup” pairs him with Veronica Bravo, and it’s a moodier, more emotional take on trap than the genre’s reputation for chest-beating would lead you to expect. The all-lowercase no-spaces title is doing some heavy lifting, signaling the bedroom-pop melancholy threaded through what’s underneath. Bravo’s vocal is half-asleep in the best way, drifting over a beat that hits hard but never loses its softness. That tension between the heavy low end and the tender topline is the whole appeal, and Ookay threads it without spilling into either corny ballad or generic festival trap. I went in with low expectations because the trap well has been poisoned by years of soundalikes, and this one...
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June 25, 2026 at 7:03 AM 1 min read
The second name on the track is quietly stealing Defqon from the headliners
Read more . . . →Two days. Everyone buys the ticket for the names in the biggest font, fair enough. But the most interesting hardstyle right now is happening in the feature credits. The second name on the track, the kid a veteran pulled in because they heard something the rest of us hadn’t. By next summer half of these are headlining their own slots. Here’s who to clock before that happens. 1. Primeshock & Cryex - Higher Rush Cryex keeps showing up on tracks that punch above their billing, and this is a clean example. Primeshock bring the polish, Cryex brings the edge that keeps it from going soft. The handshake works. 2. Primeshock & NLCK - Speedrun The title is a warning. NLCK pushes the tempo and the whole thing feels like it’s trying to outrun itself. The good kind of restless. You can hear someone young in the room who hasn’t learned...
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