How is a song called “Another Night” this good at making a Tuesday feel like a Friday? The Ranger Trucco remix of RUZE & Chesster’s original strips it back to essentials — a rubbery bassline, a vocal chopped into a hook that repeats just past the point of comfort and then turns hypnotic, and a kick you feel more than hear. It’s tech-house that leans warm rather than clinical; there’s a swing on the hats that keeps it human instead of letting the grid take over. The whole thing is built for one job — get a room moving at midnight and keep it there — and it never wastes a bar getting there. The breakdown is the smart part: it thins everything down to that vocal and a single reverb tail, holds a beat longer than feels comfortable, then lets the low end back in right as your patience...
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September 04, 2026 at 11:38 PM 1 min read
RUZE & Chesster - Another Night (Ranger Trucco Remix)
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September 04, 2026 at 4:49 PM 1 min read
Rudimental, Original Koffee & Winny - Send Shots
Read more . . . →This is the most fun Rudimental have sounded to me in years, and I say that as someone who checked out around the third radio-friendly ballad. “Send Shots” drops the stadium-soul earnestness and remembers the crew came up making drum and bass that actually moves. Pulling in Original Koffee is the move that makes it — that unhurried Jamaican bounce that sits half a step behind the beat and drags the whole track into a swagger. Winny takes the faster bars and the two trade off like they’re winding each other up. Underneath, the drums do proper liquid-dnb business, rolling and warm rather than technical, with a bassline that hums more than it snarls. What I like is that nobody’s straining for a festival moment; the drop is almost polite, and the groove carries everything anyway. Rudimental have always been better when they let the low end do the talking...
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September 04, 2026 at 2:00 PM 2 min read
Bonobo: Electronic Music for People Who Hate EDM
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September 04, 2026 at 12:24 PM 1 min read
REAPER & DON DARKOE - SUFFOCATING (ft. Adalaide Adams)
Read more . . . →When did drum and bass decide it wanted to sound like a panic attack, and why do I like it this much? “SUFFOCATING” lives in the darker, half-industrial corner of the genre — REAPER and DON DARKOE build the drop out of a bassline that grinds like machinery with a bearing about to go, and Adalaide Adams sings over the top with a fragile, almost pretty topline the production keeps trying to swallow whole. That tension is the entire point: the more delicate the vocal gets, the heavier and more claustrophobic the low end presses in around it. When the second drop hits it genuinely feels like the walls moving in, which for a track literally called “Suffocating” is either very on the nose or exactly right, and I’ve decided it’s exactly right. This is not background music and it will not be ignored. It wants a dark room, a...
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September 03, 2026 at 9:25 PM 1 min read
No Mana, Wintersix & Sines From Saturn - Fire
Read more . . . →The synth lead on “Fire” sounds like a modem having a religious experience, which is exactly why it works. No Mana has always made electro-house a little too clever for whatever room it’s in, and with Wintersix and Sines From Saturn aboard that brainy streak gets bolted to an actual body-mover. The drop is all serrated, detuned stabs stacked at angles that shouldn’t lock together and somehow do, mechanical and funky in the same breath. It’s the kind of design-forward dance music that rewards good headphones — there’s stuff panning around the edges you’ll miss entirely on a phone. The middle section pulls back into a woozy, near-weightless stretch before the second drop reloads, and that swing between calm and carnage is what keeps four minutes of this from turning into a headache. Four minutes of a producer showing you the homework and making it bang anyway. My one gripe...
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September 03, 2026 at 5:08 PM 1 min read
Net Zero
Read more . . . →One plastic tree, forty thousand stumps, and a press release calling it a milestone.
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September 03, 2026 at 3:39 PM 1 min read
Moby, Jacob Lusk, BLOND:ISH, Kiko Franco - Natural Blues (TECIE) (Live from Way Out West)
Read more . . . →I did not expect a 1999 Moby track to be the thing that got me this week, and yet here we are. “Natural Blues” was already one of the great uses of a sample in dance music — that keening Vera Hall field recording, “Oh Lordy, trouble so hard,” lifted off an Alan Lomax tape and dropped into a house track — and this live reworking finds a way to make it hit new. Jacob Lusk from Gabriels takes the vocal that was originally a sample and sings it live, and a gospel-trained voice turns the sorrow in it from a ghostly loop into a person standing right in front of you. BLOND:ISH and Kiko Franco rebuild the track underneath into something warmer and more organic than the original’s clipped electronic bones, all rolling percussion and a bassline that breathes. Hearing it come off a festival stage, you can feel...
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September 03, 2026 at 11:14 AM 1 min read
Melé & RIA - Ay Sí (Extended Mix)
Read more . . . →If your summer needs one more track before the weather turns, make it this one. “Ay Sí” is Melé working the Latin-tinged house that’s become a whole signature over the years, and RIA’s vocal rides the groove with a swagger that turns the track into a night going to end somewhere nobody planned. The extended mix earns its length — it takes its time on the intro, letting a single conga pattern and a bassline do all the seduction before the vocal even shows up. There’s a piano stab in the back half that’s pure sun-on-your-face, the kind of chord a thousand terraces will erupt to next season. RIA doesn’t oversing it either — the delivery stays loose and half-smiling, like the hook is an inside joke you’re being let in on. It’s unpretentious, physical, joyful dance music with hips. I’ve had it on a loop and my mood keeps...
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September 03, 2026 at 10:17 AM 1 min read
The Afterglow
Read more . . . →Everyone left. The music is still going. 1. Maribou State - Blackoak (Myd Remix) The original Blackoak was already a slow-dissolve kind of track — patient electronic music that trusts you to stay with it. Myd took that and added a pulse underneath, just enough kinetic energy to turn a headphone record into something you could almost dance to if the room were empty and nobody was watching. Released on Hallucinating Love Deluxe ten days ago, which makes it the newest track in this entire summer run. Ninja Tune holding this one until late August was the right call. It needed warm air. The synths in the second half do something I can’t describe without sounding like a wine reviewer, so I’ll just say they’re worth the runtime. That’s the summer. See you when it gets cold.
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September 03, 2026 at 6:17 AM
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Twelve and a Half Percent Is an Answer
Read more . . . →Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives held Chicoutimi-Le Fjord with 34.1% of the vote twelve months ago. On Monday the riding voted again. They got 12.5%. Third place. Behind the Bloc. That’s not a bad night at the polls — that’s the kind of number you see when a party stops existing in a region. Twenty-two points gone in a year, and the Conservative response is to demand Carney cancel a gas tax increase. All three byelections went Liberal with over 50% of the popular vote. Carney didn’t squeak these out. Nobody came remotely close. The Conservative share dropped in every single riding, including the two they were never going to win. The Conservative Party of Canada is becoming the Conservative Party of Alberta plus whatever Pierre can personally shout into a microphone on a given Thursday, and the math keeps confirming it. Poilievre built an entire identity on being the guy who...
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