This is the drum and bass collab I didn’t know I’d been waiting for. Camo & Krooked bring the widescreen melody, Mefjus brings the engineering-degree bass design, and somehow the two halves don’t fight each other. They take turns. Redemption opens like a Camo & Krooked tune, all cinematic pads and Joe Killington’s voice doing that ache-y thing he does, and then Mefjus’s fingerprints show up in the drop, which is tighter and nastier than either act tends to go alone. The bass at the first drop has a metallic edge that could only be his. What gets me is the restraint: three of the most technical people in the genre in one room and they resisted the urge to cram it full. There’s air in it. The breakdown gives Killington’s vocal room to actually land before the second drop comes back harder. Twelve years into both these acts and...
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July 24, 2026 at 2:15 PM 1 min read
Camo & Krooked & Mefjus - Redemption (feat. Joe Killington)
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July 24, 2026 at 2:00 PM 5 min read
Dubstep Didn't Die, It Got a Green Card
UK dubstep vs American brostep: how one Croydon sub-bass sound split into two genres that share a birth certificate and barely speak.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
July 24, 2026 at 12:24 PM 1 min read
Rameses B - 3AM
Read more . . . →Some tracks are named after a time of night and don’t earn it; “3AM” earns it. Rameses B has been making this lush, emotional strain of electronic music for over a decade, and this is him in full comedown mode — soft piano-ish keys, a vocal that sounds like it’s confessing something, and a beat that stays deliberately low-key instead of exploding. The drop, if you can call it that, arrives around 1:50 as a warm wave rather than an impact, and it’s the right call: this isn’t a track for a peak-time crowd, it’s for the drive home after. There’s a specific sadness to the chord progression, the kind that feels good to sit in rather than escape. MrSuicideSheep has been championing exactly this sound for years and it still lands. What I keep noticing is the restraint — Rameses B clearly could have made this bigger, and choosing...
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July 24, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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It's here again. Weekend two opens today.
Read more . . . →Gates open in Boom in a few hours and the second, better weekend of Tomorrowland is officially on. You either flew to Belgium or you’re doing what the rest of us are doing, which is refreshing the livestream at your desk and pretending to work. Either way the mainstage wants your hands in the air, so I’m not going to fight it. These four are the pure sundown-singalong anthems, the ones with no shame and no subtlety, and today is the one day of the year you’re allowed to love them out loud. 1. Tiësto - Red Lights The Belgian godfather of all this playing to a Belgian crowd, and Red Lights is still his cleanest festival weapon. That vocal hook is engineered in a lab to be screamed by 50,000 sunburned people, and every time it lands it works exactly as designed. 2. Nicky Romero - Toulouse No words,...
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July 24, 2026 at 9:32 AM 1 min read
Alex M.O.R.P.H feat. Sylvia Tosun - An Angel's Love (Ben Nicky & WUKONG Remix)
Read more . . . →An Angel’s Love has been a trance staple since the late 2000s, one of those Sylvia Tosun vocals anyone who spent time in a trance room can hum on command. Ben Nicky and WUKONG have taken it and dragged it into 2026 with zero sentimentality. The euphoric original is still in there, but now it’s strapped to a harder, faster, more psy-leaning engine. The vocal soars exactly where you remember it soaring, and then the drop hits with a bassline that’s got real aggression to it, built for a festival main stage at midnight rather than a candlelit trance basement. Purists will grumble that it flattens the emotion of the original, and they’ve got half a point, but they’re also not the ones this is for. The rework keeps the melody sacred and rebuilds everything underneath it. There’s a moment right before the last chorus where it strips back to...
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July 24, 2026 at 6:45 AM
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Poilievre Ran Out Of Enemies He's Allowed To Name
Read more . . . →Poilievre is sitting at 37% while Carney runs a 66% approval rating, his own seat is now something pundits openly game out losing, and the party that was supposed to stroll into government is watching two-thirds of the country say they’d rather keep the banker. So he did the thing every cornered politician does when the affordability pitch stops selling: he found someone smaller to blame. This week it’s “very hard caps” on immigration, and the line he said out loud is that he wants more people leaving the country than coming into it. That’s not a housing plan or a grocery plan. It’s a plan to make the newcomer the reason your life costs too much. Here’s the part he’s counting on you not to notice. The guy whose entire brand was the price of a house and a cart of food has quietly stopped talking about the price...
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July 23, 2026 at 9:25 PM 1 min read
R3SPAWN, Stereohats & Linnea Schossow - Brighter Days
Read more . . . →Linnea Schossow has one of those voices that makes an average track good and a good track excellent, and “Brighter Days” is firmly in the second camp. R3SPAWN and Stereohats build a warm, melodic electronic backdrop for her — uplifting without tipping into cheese — and the drop at 1:26 opts for an emotional, vocal-led lift rather than a bass-heavy slam. It’s a smart choice; Schossow’s voice carries the hook and the production stays out of her way. Revealed doesn’t always operate in this softer, more melodic register, and it’s a nice reminder that the label has more than one gear. There’s a plucked-synth motif that runs through the whole thing and quietly ties it together, and the moment at the second drop where the vocal harmonises with itself is genuinely lovely. It’s optimistic music without being naive about it — the “brighter days” of the title feel earned rather...
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July 23, 2026 at 3:39 PM 1 min read
Papa Khan - SUFFOCATE
Read more . . . →“SUFFOCATE” is darker than most of what NCS puts out, and that’s exactly why it works. Papa Khan builds this around a claustrophobic, mid-tempo bass groove and a vocal that sounds genuinely strained — fitting for a track with that title — and the result has a menace the label’s gaming-stream catalogue usually sands off. The drop at 1:24 doesn’t go big, it goes tight and low, a compressed snarl of bass that feels like the walls closing in rather than opening up. I respect the restraint; the easy move would have been a festival-sized lead, and Papa Khan resists it. There’s a metallic percussion loop running under the second half that adds a real sense of unease, like something mechanical breathing in the corner. This is copyright-free music you could actually score a tense scene with, which is not a sentence I get to write often about NCS. It...
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July 23, 2026 at 11:14 AM 1 min read
Matt Pridgyn, Pontifexx - Hero
Read more . . . →Big, dumb, and completely irresistible — “Hero” knows exactly what it is. Proximity built its whole channel on this flavour of anthemic electro, and Matt Pridgyn and Pontifexx have delivered a textbook example: a soaring vocal about being someone’s hero, a build that telegraphs the drop from a mile off, and then a drop at 1:12 that lands with all the subtlety of a firework in a phone booth. The lead synth is pure serrated euphoria, the kind that was everywhere around 2015 and has quietly come back into fashion. I’m a sucker for it and I refuse to be embarrassed. What keeps it from being pure nostalgia bait is the vocal performance, which is genuinely committed — no autotuned detachment, just full-throated corn served straight. The second half throws in a half-time switch I didn’t see coming and it’s the best eight bars in the track. This won’t win...
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July 23, 2026 at 10:49 AM 1 min read
The techno stage doesn't care that you're on holiday
Read more . . . →The techno tent at Tomorrowland is a strange thing to walk into after the mainstage. There’s no confetti and no vocalist begging you to put your hands up, and the drops aren’t telegraphed forty-five seconds in advance. Just a relentless grey kick and a room full of people staring at the floor in bliss. It’s the least Instagrammable corner of the whole site and, on the right night, the best one. Weekend two lands tomorrow. Here’s what that room sounds like this year. 1. Eli Brown x HI-LO - Pyramid Rave Oliver Heldens moonlighting as HI-LO next to Eli Brown, and the result is peak-time techno with a genuinely evil acid line. It’s built for exactly one purpose, which is a festival tent at 1am, and it does that job with zero subtlety and total confidence. 2. HI-LO - The Answer (Oliver Heldens Edit) Take the old ATB trance classic,...
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