This is the most fun I’ve had with a jump-up tune in ages. “Ok Ok” is four names crammed onto one track and somehow it never turns into a mess — everyone’s clearly there to make you gurn, not to show off. Hedex builds these basslines that basically talk, wobbling out syllables where a bassline has no business having consonants, and this one has a hook so bratty it feels illegal. The energy is pure Friday-night, sweat-dripping-off-the-ceiling dnb, the sort that gets a whole room bouncing on the same beat without anyone deciding to. There’s a vocal chop that keeps stuttering the title back at you until it stops being words and starts being percussion. I don’t reach for jump-up as often as I probably should, and every time something this daft and gleeful shows up I remember exactly why the genre exists. Zero pretension, maximum bounce, and gone before...
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August 04, 2026 at 2:22 PM 1 min read
Hedex, Travy, XTEN & Overlook - Ok Ok
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August 04, 2026 at 12:24 PM 1 min read
Delta Heavy - Set You Free
Read more . . . →Delta Heavy make the kind of drum and bass engineered to detonate in a field at sunset, and “Set You Free” doesn’t waste a second pretending otherwise. Big vocal, bigger drop, full euphoria, no apologies. The hook genuinely soars rather than just sitting there at volume, and there’s a low-end punch under all the brightness that stops it drifting into weightless trance-lite. It’s the sort of topline written to be screamed back by ten thousand people who never learned the verses, and that’s a feature. Two-thirds through comes a half-time switch I didn’t see arriving, ten seconds of gut-check before the final lift, and it’s the best moment here. Delta Heavy have been at this long enough that the mechanics go invisible; the build never feels like a build, it just feels like the ceiling of the room slowly lifting off. This is unapologetic crowd music that happens to be...
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August 04, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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This Week on coldplaysucks — July 26–August 2
Read more . . . →August started and the genres split the week dead even — DnB, dubstep, and house each pulled seven posts, trance and trap held their corners with three apiece, and the rest landed across a wide sprawl of electronic that runs from future bass to big room to whatever Slow Magic is doing. Thirty-six tracks, no clear winner. Good week. Track of the Week Ninajirachi, Porter Robinson - WannaCry Named after the ransomware, and yes, that’s the kind of title choice that tells you exactly what you’re getting. Sugar-rush synths and pitched vocals that land as actual emotion, kept weird by Ninajirachi’s production refusing to smooth anything over. There’s a breakdown where everything drops to a single vocal and a heartbeat kick, and it’s the part I keep going back to. This sounds like how the future used to sound, before it got optimized. Listen → The New Drops Drum &...
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August 04, 2026 at 10:42 AM 1 min read
Dyro x Dannic - Unstoppable
Read more . . . →Somebody put this on at pre-drinks and three of us went “wait, is this new?” at the same time. Dyro and Dannic were both massive in the 2013 electro-house boom, that big-room-with-teeth sound that took over festivals and then got run so far into the ground people apologise for having liked it. “Unstoppable” is the two of them back on that exact energy, and instead of sounding dated it plays like a well-timed hit of nostalgia with a modern low end bolted underneath. The lead is a snarling, distorted electro riff of a kind you basically never hear now that everyone’s gone tech-house or gone melodic. Around the two-minute mark it drops into a second, dirtier section that outdoes the first. This is unashamed main-stage music from an era a lot of people love to dunk on now, and it reminded me exactly why that sound blew up in the...
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August 04, 2026 at 6:56 AM
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The Guy Who Leaked Airstrikes Put His Third Wife in Charge of Military Families
Read more . . . →Trump signed an executive order yesterday creating a “Presidential Military Spouse Commission” to improve the lives of military families. He put Jennifer Rauchet in charge. Her qualifications: she’s Pete Hegseth’s third wife. That’s it. Former Fox News producer, no government title, no confirmed security clearance, no accountability to Congress. She does sit in on Pentagon meetings though, so at least she knows where the bathrooms are. This is the same Hegseth who leaked airstrike schedules to a Signal group chat she was in. The same Hegseth who purged so many Pentagon staff he had to start bringing her to work because nobody else was left. He cheated on his second wife with her, married her, and now she’s advising the president on how to take care of military families. If you put this in a screenplay, the studio would send it back for being too on-the-nose. Actual military spouses —...
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August 03, 2026 at 9:25 PM 1 min read
Dirty Signal & 2ACES - Rocking
Read more . . . →Stuck in my head for two days on a single listen, which is either a great sign or a minor medical concern. “Rocking” is a lean festival weapon from Dirty Signal and 2ACES, built around a chant vocal and a bassline that bounces like it’s on a trampoline. Where a lot of big-room gets bogged down stacking enormous melodic builds, this one just wants to punch you in the chest on a loop and let you enjoy it. The drop is all rhythm and low end, a simple call-and-response between the vocal shout and one fat synth stab, and the simplicity is precisely the strength. There’s a beat switch in the back half that flips the groove sideways and had me rewinding to work out what actually happened. This is body music, aimed at the exact second a crowd loses its collective mind. I put it on walking to the...
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August 03, 2026 at 6:40 PM 1 min read
D.O.D & Izzy Bizu - Careful
Read more . . . →If you only know Izzy Bizu from her soulful pop stuff, this will reframe her for you. D.O.D pulls her onto a proper house record for “Careful” and her voice turns out to be perfect for it, that slightly husky, conversational tone cutting clean through a bassline that bumps along like it has somewhere to be. D.O.D has been reliably turning out this kind of polished, radio-ready house for years, and this is one of his catchiest in a while. The drop is deceptively simple: a bouncing bass under a filtered stab, with Bizu’s vocal chopped into the gaps so the groove and the hook end up being the same thing. It works at a festival and equally at a summer barbecue where nobody’s technically dancing but everyone’s moving anyway. What sells it is Bizu, who brings warmth to what could easily have been a faceless, functional house tune. There’s...
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August 03, 2026 at 3:39 PM 1 min read
Fred V - Vortex
Read more . . . →How is Fred V still this consistent this far into it? “Vortex” is him doing the thing he’s been better at than almost anyone: melodic drum and bass with actual songwriting underneath the sound design, not a pretty pad slapped over a breakbeat. The lead melody in the drop is genuinely memorable, the sort you could hum with no drums at all and it would still stand up. There’s a real chord progression driving the whole thing, tension resolving in ways most dnb producers don’t bother with because a dancefloor doesn’t strictly demand it. Fred bothers. That is the difference. The energy stays lifted the whole way through and never once tips into exhausting, a tightrope a lot of this genre walks straight off. I’ve played it maybe six times today and the melody is still lodged in my skull. Since the split from Grafix he’s grown into a producer...
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August 03, 2026 at 2:15 PM 1 min read
BEANIE, Lauren Nicole, Gray Hoek - Groovy Chick
Read more . . . →Heard this blasting out of a passing car before I ever saw the title, which is the correct way to first encounter a track called “Groovy Chick.” It’s an NCS release, that copyright-free pipeline that soundtracks half the internet without ever getting a credit, and every so often something on there is genuinely great rather than merely useful. This is one. The groove is exactly what the name promises: a bouncy, slap-happy bassline and a vocal from Lauren Nicole that struts more than it sings. BEANIE and Gray Hoek keep the production clean and punchy, all air and snap, nothing cluttering up the pocket. It’s disco-adjacent house with a modern gloss, the sort that makes a kitchen feel like a small party for as long as it’s on. There’s a filtered breakdown in the middle that teases the groove away and then hands it straight back, fatter than before. I’ve...
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August 03, 2026 at 11:14 AM 1 min read
Hypho, Neumonic, PAV4N & Who Knew - Low Down Deep
Read more . . . →Four names on one track usually means four egos and no song. Not here. “Low Down Deep” is a proper 140 roller: Hypho and Neumonic laying down a bassline that creeps instead of screams, PAV4N riding it with that half-menace, half-grin delivery he’s carried since the Foreign Beggars days. The bass patch has a hollow, throat-clearing growl that sounds better the lower your neighbours’ opinion of you sinks. Who Knew slots in on the back end and the whole thing gets grimier without losing an ounce of the groove. I ran it back three times before I noticed the drums barely change across the full six minutes; the movement is all in the low end, shifting a little every eight bars so you never quite settle. That’s the flex. Nobody’s trying to out-loud anybody here. Just four people who clearly own the same records agreeing on how heavy is heavy...
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