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 4:41 PM 1 min read
Iaco & remy - I'm Not Going Anywhere
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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
Read more . . . →Dynamite MC has been the voice of UK drum and bass for so long that hearing him on a Hospital release feels like coming home, and “Thread The Needle” puts him exactly where he belongs, riding a beat instead of decorating it. Hoax and So What handle the production, and they’ve built something with real jungle attitude under the polish, those chopped breaks doing the heavy lifting while the sub does the damage. The title’s a good one because the whole track is a balancing act, dancefloor-ready but still rough enough at the seams to feel like it came from a sweaty club and not a laptop in a bedroom. Dynamite’s delivery is the secret weapon, that effortless authority that younger MCs spend years trying to fake. Hospital Records can sometimes lean too clean for my taste, the corners sanded off until the danger’s gone, but this one keeps the...
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June 23, 2026 at 11:21 AM 1 min read
Tayo Ricci - WORLD CUP
Read more . . . →Second Elysian pick because the label earned it and WORLD CUP is ridiculous in the way I want trance to be ridiculous. The title is dumb and the track absolutely backs it up with a main riff that sounds like a stadium full of people who all lost their minds at once. Tayo Ricci builds the energy with zero patience, which is usually a complaint but here it’s the entire appeal. You get maybe thirty seconds before it’s already trying to peel your face off. The kick pattern is relentless and the synth stabs are tuned to that perfect uncomfortable frequency that makes a sound system feel dangerous. This is festival trance with no apologies and no chill section to catch your breath. I respect a producer who decides the whole song is going to be the best part and just commits to it. Not every track needs a journey....
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June 23, 2026 at 9:39 AM 1 min read
HESTER - KYOTO
Read more . . . →NCS gets dismissed as the copyright-free background music factory for Twitch streamers, and that reputation is half-earned, but every so often something genuinely good slips through the gold-rush gates and “KYOTO” is one of them. HESTER builds this around a hooky, slightly off-kilter house groove with just enough bass-house grit to keep it from being polite. The title and the little melodic motif gesture at something East Asian without turning into a cheap pentatonic cliché, which is a trap a lesser producer would’ve walked straight into. What I like is the patience. It doesn’t dump everything in the first thirty seconds the way so much streaming-bait does, it lets the groove establish itself and trusts you to stick around. The drop has a satisfying physical snap, the kind that makes you nod before you’ve decided to. For a free download from a channel built on algorithmic reach, it’s got more...
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June 23, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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Power Hour is the worst hour of your life and you'll fly across the planet for it
Read more . . . →Four days out, so let’s talk about the dumbest, best tradition Q-dance ever invented. Power Hour. Sixty minutes of the hardest, fastest edits they can get away with, the whole RED crowd packed in like it’s the last hour the species gets. Your heart rate has no business being where it ends up. People genuinely plan their entire weekend around being in that crowd at that moment. Here’s the kind of chaos that lives in that hour. 1. Sub Sonik - Aftermath Sounds exactly like what’s left of you afterward. The kind of track Power Hour was built to weaponize, all forward momentum and zero mercy. You don’t dance to this so much as survive it. 2. Warface - S.O.S. Warface has spent years figuring out how to make a track feel like a threat, and this one lands. It’s not asking you to move. It’s informing you that you...
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June 23, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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Ubisoft Kept The Jewels And The Family Name
Read more . . . →Ubisoft just cut another 380 people. The Winnipeg studio is dead after eight years, Belgrade is gone, and the Rainbow Six team in Montreal lost 120 heads in one swing. That’s the sixth round of layoffs in a single calendar year — sixth — and the official reason is a €1.5 billion loss and a cost-cutting plan that runs all the way to 2028. They say it like there’s no money anywhere in the building, like the doors are about to close, like everybody’s just got to understand. Except there was money. Last fall Tencent wired €1.16 billion in cash into a brand-new Ubisoft subsidiary called Vantage, and Vantage just happens to be the box they put all the franchises that actually print cash into — Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Rainbow Six. They valued that one slice at €3.8 billion and handed the CEO’s own son a seat running it....
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June 23, 2026 at 6:45 AM 1 min read
Spinnin' Sessions Radio - Episode #683
Read more . . . →Not a single track this time but a full Spinnin’ Sessions Radio episode, and honestly these mixshows are an underrated way to keep your finger on the pulse of what the big dance labels are about to shove down everyone’s throat. Episode #683 is an hour of exactly what you’d expect from Spinnin’, which is to say wall-to-wall festival house and dance bangers mixed with the precision of people who do this every single week. I’m not going to pretend every track in here is a masterpiece. Mixshows are a numbers game and some of these will be forgotten by next month. But that’s also the fun of it. You put it on in the background, half-listening, and then something cuts through and you’re scrambling to find the tracklist. There’s a stretch in the back third where the energy really locks in and the transitions get genuinely smooth. Spinnin’ has...
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June 22, 2026 at 11:44 PM 1 min read
Rueben - Tired Of Fighting
Read more . . . →Another UKF Dubstep pull, and Rueben’s Tired Of Fighting hits a softer, sadder note than the genre usually allows itself. The title isn’t lying. This is dubstep with actual feelings underneath the bass weight, the kind of track that pairs a heavy drop with a vocal that sounds genuinely worn down. I love that contrast. The whole thing rides this tension between wanting to collapse and wanting to go absolutely feral, and Rueben never fully picks a side. The bass is huge but it’s tuned warm rather than aggressive, more of a hug than a punch. There’s a vocal cut that loops the title until it stops sounding like words and starts sounding like a mood. By the second half the track gives up trying to be melancholy and just lets the low end take over, which feels like the emotional arc of a bad night out in the best...
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