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- June 04, 2026 at 11:10 AM 1 min read
  Defqon.1 is 22 days out and everything else looks soft
  
  The Gathering kicks off June 20th. Three weeks out and Defqon.1 is already making every other summer lineup on the calendar look like a Coldplay concert. Hardstyle in a field in the Netherlands, multiple stages worth of it, crowd that made a deliberate choice to be there. If you’ve been sleeping on this: here’s the lineup doing the talking.
  
  1. D-Sturb ft. E-Life - Sacred Oath
  
  D-Sturb got handed the 2026 anthem and made something that actually deserves the title. “Sacred Oath” builds properly, drops hard, doesn’t overstay — and the theme this year is right in the name. This is the one that’ll be playing when 50,000 people lose their minds on the first night.
  
  2. D-Block & S-te-Fan & Rebelion - Save The Day
  
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- June 04, 2026 at 11:10 AM 1 min read
  Armin van Buuren & Argy feat. Marlo Rex - Like A Child (Live @ EDC Las Vegas 2026)
  Armin at EDC Las Vegas is always going to be Armin at EDC Las Vegas. The Argy collab adds some texture to what would otherwise be predictable trance territory. The crowd reaction says everything you need to know.
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- June 04, 2026 at 8:33 AM 1 min read
  Above & Beyond - 1001 (Live From ABGT200 at Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam)
  ABGT200 at Ziggo Dome was the kind of night that people still talk about, and this live version of 1001 is the reason. Above & Beyond playing trance to 15,000 people in Amsterdam hits different when you can see the crowd losing it in real time.
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- June 04, 2026 at 7:11 AM 1 min read
  They Named It a 'Jobless Boom' Out Loud
  
  Economists came up with a name for 2026 and said the quiet part straight into a microphone: the “jobless boom.” Corporate profits are sitting at the highest share of the economy since 1950. Workers’ share of what they actually produce just hit the lowest point since the government started counting in 1947. The 500 biggest companies grew earnings 28% last quarter. The seven tech giants grew theirs 63%. And they’re spending that money to fire you. Meta’s own internal memos described its May layoffs as a way to “offset the cost of AI investments” — corporate for: we swapped your paycheck for a data center and we’d love a round of applause.
  
  This is the part where someone tells you it’s just the market doing what markets do. It isn’t. Somebody chose this. Eight hundred billion dollars is going into AI compute this year, nearly double last year, and the...
  
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- June 03, 2026 at 9:31 PM 1 min read
  Jonas Blue - Girl
  
  Jonas Blue has been one of those names you either write off as too pop or genuinely enjoy without worrying about what that says about you. “Girl” leans harder into the house side than a lot of his recent output, and landing on Defected was the right call for a track like this. The groove is clean from the jump, the chord progression does exactly what you want it to, and the vocal is warm without being saccharine. It’s not a complicated track and it’s not trying to be — sometimes the most useful thing a song can do is work without demanding anything from you. This isn’t Jonas Blue reinventing himself; it’s Jonas Blue being very competent at a thing he’s clearly good at. Defected energy through and through. The kind of track that plays at a rooftop bar and everyone wonders what it is for about thirty seconds...
  
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  Made for people who left the room during Yellow.
  
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- June 03, 2026 at 9:14 PM 1 min read
  2ACES & Josh Le Tissier - Like Home
  Revealed Recordings doing the big melodic electronic thing and this one lands. 2ACES and Josh Le Tissier have the “stadium at midnight” energy dialled in — not subtle, not trying to be, and better for it.
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- June 03, 2026 at 5:34 PM 1 min read
  Wet Velvet & Shaded - Vice City
  Dirtybird doing Dirtybird things. “Vice City” has that slightly unhinged tech house energy Claude VonStroke’s label specializes in. Wet Velvet and Shaded earn the track name.
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  Looks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument.
  
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- June 03, 2026 at 4:48 PM 1 min read
  Guz & Mischa Daniels - Take Me Higher
  
  Three trance tracks from Armada in one batch — the label clearly had a productive week. Guz & Mischa Daniels’s “Take Me Higher” is the most straightforward of the three, which is not a knock. Sometimes a track that simply does the job cleanly is the most valuable thing in the pile. The melody is big without being overwrought, the drop lands with the kind of satisfying inevitability that good trance is built on, and nothing overstays its welcome. Guz has been consistent in this lane for years and Mischa Daniels brings the right energy to a collaboration that could’ve easily gotten too polished to feel like anything. There’s a moment toward the back half where the track just opens up and runs — no gimmick, no extra layer, just the melody doing its job without any help. That’s harder to make than it sounds. Armada is going to have...
  
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- June 03, 2026 at 2:12 PM 1 min read
  Wet Velvet & Life On Planets - Dance 4 Me
  Second Wet Velvet track this week on Dirtybird. “Dance 4 Me” with Life On Planets is a little smoother than “Vice City” — same label, different mode. The range is there.
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- June 03, 2026 at 1:26 PM 1 min read
  EVAN GIIA, Pauline Herr - Born Again
  
  EVAN GIIA has a voice that’s been showing up on good tracks for a couple of years now and she’s the primary reason to pay attention to this one. “Born Again” with Pauline Herr is darker and more emotionally complicated than the title might suggest — it’s not the triumphant rebirth track the name implies, it’s something more conflicted and worth your time. The production sits in that space between trap and something closer to alt-pop, which Trap Nation has been exploring more lately to generally strong results. Herr’s production gives GIIA room to actually perform rather than compete with the beat, and you can hear the difference immediately. The drop arrives when you need it and doesn’t rush to get there. This one takes a few listens to fully land — the first time through you’ll think it’s good, the second time you’ll realize it’s better than that. Give...
  
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