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  June 18, 2026 at 11:14 AM 1 min read

  KC & The Sunshine Band - That's The Way (Party Pupils Remix)

  You already know the song. “That’s The Way (I Like It)” has been soundtracking weddings and roller rinks since 1975, and Party Pupils just gave it a modern dancefloor polish without sanding off the joy. This is the rare disco edit that doesn’t feel like a cash grab. They keep KC’s vocal front and center, fatten up the low end for a club system, and add just enough four-on-the-floor muscle to make it land in 2026. I usually brace for the worst when someone remixes a certified oldie, because most of these flips strip out the soul and leave a karaoke backing track. This one keeps the grin intact. It’s pure serotonin, the kind of thing you put on at a backyard party when the older relatives and the kids both need to be on the floor at once. No reinvention, no deep concept, just a great song made bouncier....

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• June 18, 2026 at 9:21 AM 1 min read

  The euphoric side of Defqon.1 is for crying in a field, and that's allowed

  Not all of Defqon.1 is trying to break your sternum. There’s a whole melodic wing of hardstyle built for the moment the sun comes up and you decide you love everyone in the field. Cheesy? Completely. I’m not above it. Three for the soft hour. 1. Da Tweekaz - Sunrise Da Tweekaz are the costume-wearing kings of the big melodic singalong, and Sunrise is them doing exactly what they do best. You will hate yourself a little for how much you enjoy this. Lean in anyway. 2. Devin Wild - Silent (Left The System) Devin Wild does the emotional-anthem thing without tipping all the way into schmaltz, mostly. Silent has a melody that lodges in your skull for a week straight. Last year’s me would be annoyed about it; this year’s me hit repeat. 3. Atmozfears & Galactixx - Alive Atmozfears basically wrote the euphoric-hardstyle rulebook, and pairing with Galactixx...

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• June 18, 2026 at 7:29 AM 1 min read

  Whirlpool Got Its Tariffs. It's Building in Mexico Anyway.

  If you want to know what tariffs actually protect, look at Whirlpool. This is the company that spent years lobbying for them — it got Trump to slap a 20% levy on imported washing machines back in 2018 because LG and Samsung were eating its lunch. Whirlpool wrote the playbook everyone’s running now: tax the foreign stuff, save the American factory, bring the jobs home. And in 2026, with that exact policy back in full force, Whirlpool is laying off 341 people at its plant in Amana, Iowa and moving the work to Mexico. A second round of cuts is already on the calendar for later this year. Five years ago that Amana plant ran on more than 3,000 workers. It’s down to about 1,200 now, and the machinists union figures it could bottom out around 500 once Whirlpool finishes the job. In April of last year Trump stood up...

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  June 17, 2026 at 8:15 PM 1 min read

  Juelz - wakeup(crazy) [feat. Angst]

  Juelz operates in that blurry zone where trap, dubstep and straight-up bass music all bleed together, and “wakeup(crazy)” lives right in the chaos. The feature from Angst pushes it somewhere darker and more aggressive than your standard Trap Nation upload, with a vocal that sounds genuinely agitated rather than just menacing for show. The sound design is the star here. Juelz layers these gnarly, detuned bass stabs that hit like a system error, then leaves enough silence around them that each one actually lands. I respect producers who understand that heaviness comes from contrast, not just volume. The drop has that lurching, half-time swagger that makes your head move whether you signed off on it or not. It’s not a track for everyone, and it’s not trying to be. This is for the people who like their bass music a little unstable, a little ugly, a little willing to make...

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  June 17, 2026 at 3:32 PM 1 min read

  [IVY], Xira - Car Crash

  Naming a track “Car Crash” is a dare, and [IVY] with Xira actually deliver the wreckage. This is the heavier, darker end of drum and bass, where the bassline snarls instead of rolls and every transition feels like it’s daring you to flinch. Xira’s vocal is the genius move, because it’s pretty and haunted right up until the drop turns it into shrapnel. That contrast is the whole trick. You get lured in by something delicate and then the floor disappears. The sound design is filthy in the best way, all metallic growls and reese bass twisting around itself like it’s trying to escape the mix. I’ve got a soft spot for DnB that commits to being genuinely menacing rather than just fast, and this commits hard. It’s not background music. Put it on in the car and you’ll be doing nine over the limit before the second drop. Play...

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  June 17, 2026 at 2:00 PM 3 min read

  Spotify Killed Crate-Digging and We Said Thanks

  Spotify's algorithm doesn't curate, it mirrors. Why streaming made everyone's taste converge, what crate-digging got right, and how to actually find new music.
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  June 17, 2026 at 11:07 AM 1 min read

  Illyus & Barrientos, MALU - Right Here

  Illyus & Barrientos have been a reliable Toolroom export for years, the kind of duo who turn up with a vocal house cut that just works and never asks for much credit. “Right Here” keeps that streak going, pairing a warm, soulful MALU vocal with a groove that splits the difference between proper house and tech house. It’s got more heart than the average peak-time tool, which is exactly why it stands out. The vocal carries real feeling, that yearning, reach-for-someone energy, and the production gives it room instead of burying it under a wall of percussion. I appreciate house records that remember the genre came from soul and disco, not just a drum machine and a side-chain. There’s a swing to this that makes you want to move rather than just nod along. It’d sit beautifully in a sunset set, the moment a festival crowd softens up and starts...

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  June 17, 2026 at 10:16 AM 1 min read

  Raw hardstyle's new wave is who you should actually be scared of

  Everyone talks about the legends. Nobody warns you about the kids. Raw hardstyle’s younger crew has spent the last couple of years making the screech kick nastier than it has any right to be, and they’re all over the Defqon.1 undercard this year. Three of them, loud. 1. Rooler - BOSS Rooler builds drops like he’s actively trying to get the stage shut down. BOSS is two minutes of menace and one kick that sounds like a building coming down on schedule. Perfect. 2. Vasto - The New Sound Vasto’s whole thing is making the raw kick groove instead of just punch, and The New Sound is the cleanest example of it. Funky and brutal at once, which shouldn’t be possible but here we are. 3. Killshot - One Shot Killshot has quietly been one of the most reliable raw producers going, and One Shot is him deciding to stop...

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  June 17, 2026 at 7:10 AM 1 min read

  Nico Szabo & Aske Izan - Paranoid

  Anjunadeep continues its unbeaten streak of making me want to move to a city I can’t afford. Paranoid from Nico Szabo and Aske Izan is exactly the kind of sophisticated after-hours deep house the label has spent over a decade perfecting. It’s hypnotic without being boring, riding a groove that slowly tightens its grip while these moody restless synths circle overhead. The title fits, because there’s a tension running through the whole thing that never fully resolves, which is what keeps you locked in for the full runtime. Anjunadeep tracks live or die on atmosphere and this one builds a genuinely immersive one, the sort of record that works at 1am in a dark club or 8am watching the sun come up. Szabo and Izan clearly understand the assignment, leaving plenty of room for the groove to breathe instead of cluttering it with noise. Deep house this patient takes real...

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• June 17, 2026 at 6:39 AM 1 min read

  The Manosphere Recruiter Got a White House Number

  Here’s the part of the Barron Trump dating-advice story nobody wants to say out loud: the campaign did this on purpose. Trump handed his youngest son the job of pulling in young male voters, and the pipeline ran straight through Andrew Tate — a guy under human-trafficking charges in Romania and facing four women in a UK rape lawsuit this month. Tate’s move was to send Justin Waller, who calls himself the “third brother” to the Tates and teaches that a woman’s only born value is how she looks. That’s who got handed a White House family number. Not a tabloid footnote. A hire. Waller’s actual pitch is “one-sided monogamy” — a man keeps several women, the woman keeps one man. That’s not an edgy podcast opinion you argue about over beers. It’s the worldview of the men he calls his brothers, the ones currently answering trafficking charges, and the...

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