Twenty-five years ago today, US airspace shut down and 38 planes carrying 6,500 people dropped into Gander, Newfoundland — a town of about ten thousand that wasn’t expecting any of them. The people of Gander emptied their fridges, opened their churches, dragged cots into community halls, and took care of complete strangers for days. They didn’t negotiate terms. They didn’t send an invoice. They just did it, because that’s what you do when your neighbor’s house is on fire. Today, on the anniversary of that, the president of the United States is banning Canadian beer. Canadian rye whisky. Canadian motorcycles. Canadian whey protein. He’s using Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 — the same Depression-era law he dusted off in July — to outright prohibit Americans from buying a beer brewed ninety miles from the border. On September 29 the ban takes effect, and until then those products...
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September 11, 2026 at 6:16 AM
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Twenty-Five Years and a Beer Ban
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September 10, 2026 at 4:11 PM 1 min read
Oden & Fatzo x Noa Milee - You Don't Want To Think About It (Live Session)
Read more . . . →There’s a Defected live session shot in some sun-drenched room and it makes you want to quit your job and learn to DJ badly. Oden & Fatzo have been turning into one of the most fun house acts going, all bouncing basslines and vocal hooks that lodge before the first chorus is done, and “You Don’t Want To Think About It” with Noa Milee is peak them. The live-session format suits it; you can see the thing being built, hands on the gear, Noa Milee’s vocal happening in the room rather than comped together after the fact. At 2:41 the bass drops out entirely and it’s just her voice and a clap for four bars, and the room visibly loses it. It’s feel-good house with no apology in it, the sort of track that turns a kitchen into a small illegal party. The groove does that Oden & Fatzo trick...
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September 10, 2026 at 2:09 PM 1 min read
Golden Years
Read more . . . →The retirement plan was a vest. He is 78, he is smiling, and he is the first face you see at the door because the pension was the first thing to leave. The poster behind him sells a beach. His shift ends at six.
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September 10, 2026 at 12:31 PM 1 min read
Netrum, Halvorsen - Glowing
Read more . . . →If you’ve spent any time in the NCS corner of YouTube, Netrum and Halvorsen are practically furniture by now, and “Glowing” is them doing the bright, melodic thing they’ve gotten excellent at. This is copyright-free music, a category people love to sneer at, and the best of it has more craft than the sneering allows. “Glowing” is one of the good ones. It rides a plucky, feel-good lead and a vocal that stays just this side of saccharine, and the drop opens up into something genuinely warm rather than just loud. Halvorsen’s fingerprints are all over the topline; he’s got a knack for melodies that sound like the good part of a memory. There’s a key change going into the final chorus that I did not see coming and grinned at like an idiot. It’s optimistic music, and it earns the feeling instead of faking it. Sometimes you just want...
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September 10, 2026 at 6:39 AM 1 min read
Modestep & H808 - Bugatti (Pythius Remix)
Read more . . . →Pythius doesn’t remix so much as repossess. He’s taken Modestep and H808’s “Bugatti” and dragged it into neurofunk territory, which means the bass no longer wobbles, it snarls, folds in on itself, and comes out sounding like a modem having a breakdown at 174 BPM. The original had that Modestep dubstep-rock swagger; Pythius keeps the attitude and swaps the engine for something with teeth. Modestep have always straddled the line between live-band chaos and studio bass music, so handing this to a producer who deals purely in precision is a funny move that pays off. The tear-out section past the halfway mark abandons the tune’s rock bones entirely and just becomes a machine eating itself. The bassline in the second drop does a metallic, talking-modem thing that I’ve rewound more times than is reasonable for a Wednesday. If you like your drum and bass mean and mechanical, the kind Blackout...
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September 10, 2026 at 6:16 AM
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Twenty-Four Million and a Straight Face
Read more . . . →Wynn Resorts pocketed $2.22 billion in profit last year. Their Encore casino in Boston cleared $237 million on its own. CEO Craig Billings collected $24 million in compensation. And last week, 1,350 housekeepers, cooks, valet drivers, and cashiers walked out because the company decided a $10-an-hour raise spread over three years was asking too much. Three dollars and thirty-three cents a year. Then the company offered to fund their healthcare coverage out of that raise — so the raise just pays for what they already had. A $24-million man looked at his $237-million casino and told the people who clean the rooms that $3.33 was the line. The casino stayed open through Labor Day weekend. Management worked the floor while the picket line went up outside a building that cost $2.6 billion to build. Ninety-seven percent of the workers voted to strike. You don’t get 97 percent on anything unless...
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September 09, 2026 at 11:38 PM 1 min read
LUMBERJVCK - CALL ME
Read more . . . →Heard the drop on this through a friend’s phone speaker across a table and still made the face. “CALL ME” is LUMBERJVCK on Dim Mak, and it’s bass house with its collar up, a filthy, rubbery low end and a vocal chop stabbing the same two syllables until they stop being words. Dim Mak has been the home for this kind of loud, slightly obnoxious dancefloor weapon since Aoki was throwing cakes, and this fits the roster like a glove. The drop doesn’t do anything clever; it just hits the sweet spot where a bassline is gross enough to make you laugh and heavy enough to move you. The second half tweaks the bass patch just enough to keep it from going stale on the loop, which is more thought than a track this rowdy owes you. I threw it on twice more once I got home to confirm it...
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September 09, 2026 at 4:49 PM 1 min read
LP Giobbi, Bruno Be & Carola feat. Clover County - Do For Love
Read more . . . →If you’ve caught LP Giobbi live, you know she plays actual piano over house music like her life depends on it, and that keyboard-forward energy is all over “Do For Love.” Team her with Bruno Be and Carola and you get a warm, four-to-the-floor house record built around a big, hands-in-the-air piano riff and a vocal hook that wants to be sung back at it. This is feel-good house with real chops under the hood; LP Giobbi comes from a jazz-piano background and it shows in the little runs she can’t help sneaking into the breakdown. The groove is sturdy and unfussy, more interested in keeping you moving than impressing you. There’s a moment where the piano drops out and leaves just the vocal and a kick, and the second it comes crashing back is the payoff the whole track is built around. It’s the kind of record that makes...
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September 09, 2026 at 2:47 PM 1 min read
Fast Fashion Carousel
Read more . . . →Ride’s a dollar. Somebody downstairs paid the rest. The carousel spins, the dresses change every week, and the pile underneath keeps growing. One person is stitching the next ride out of the last one. One person has champagne. Guess which one the haul video is about.
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September 09, 2026 at 12:24 PM 1 min read
Leetthews & Cammie Robinson - Who Do You Run To
Read more . . . →This one snuck up on me. “Who Do You Run To” is Leetthews and Cammie Robinson doing melodic drum and bass on Monstercat, and it’s got that clean, emotional-but-danceable thing the label has basically turned into a house style. Cammie Robinson has one of those voices Monstercat keeps in heavy rotation for a reason, warm, a little fragile, easy to build a big release around. The drop rolls rather than slams, all rounded bass and quick breaks, the kind of DnB you can play for people who swear they don’t like DnB and watch them nod along anyway. It’s the sort of crossover cut that does the recruiting for the genre without anyone noticing it happened. It’s a smooth, well-oiled version of a sound Monstercat has spent years sanding to a shine, and the vocal in the second breakdown is what keeps pulling me back, held just a beat longer...
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September 11, 2026 at 6:16 AM
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