This one genuinely made me sit up. Ninajirachi has been one of the most exciting producers in the hyper-melodic corner of electronic music for a while now, and getting Porter Robinson onto a track called “WannaCry” is the kind of pairing that could go either magic or mess. It’s magic. The whole thing has that specific 2010s-internet-nostalgia sheen both artists do so well, all pitched vocals and sugar-rush synths that somehow land as genuinely emotional instead of merely cute. Porter’s fingerprints are all over the melodic writing, but Ninajirachi’s production keeps it weird and a little broken, glitchy in the exact places a glossier version would have smoothed over. The title nods to the ransomware, a very online joke I refuse to explain and you either get or you don’t. Underneath the cleverness is a real song: a proper hook, a build that means it, a payoff that arrives as...
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August 05, 2026 at 3:32 PM 1 min read
Ninajirachi, Porter Robinson - WannaCry
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August 05, 2026 at 2:00 PM 4 min read
Melodic Techno, Explained (Or: Why Everyone Cries at Afterlife)
Melodic techno explained: the genre that tricked techno-haters into loving techno. Tale of Us, Afterlife, Anyma, and why 40,000 people cry in a field.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
August 05, 2026 at 12:31 PM 1 min read
Bruno Furlan - Overdrive
Read more . . . →I’d drop this one in a set tonight without a second thought. Bruno Furlan makes tech house with a Brazilian swing most of the genre’s grid-locked producers simply can’t fake, and “Overdrive” rolls on one of those basslines that leans a fraction ahead of the beat and keeps tugging you forward by the collar. Toolroom put out a lot of functional peak-time tools, and this one clears that bar with room to spare: there’s real groove in it, more than the competent kick and vocal loop most of these tools settle for. The bassline is the whole star, fat and elastic, doing a little syncopated skip that keeps everything feeling loose even at full tilt. Halfway through it strips right back to the drums and that bass alone, and you realise how much work those two elements are doing by themselves. It’s understated the way the best tech house always...
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August 05, 2026 at 11:07 AM 1 min read
Mau P - On Again (Butler Remix)
Read more . . . →You’ve heard Mau P even if the name’s new to you — he made “Drugs From Amsterdam,” the tech-house track that was completely inescapable a couple of summers back. “On Again” gets a rework from Butler here, who leans even harder into the hypnotic side than the original did. The bassline is pure rubber, that rolling tech-house groove that sounds simple right up until you try to stand still through it and physically cannot. Butler keeps everything minimal and lets the groove carry it, adding just enough extra percussion and a warped little vocal hook to earn the remix tag. This is peak-time DJ fuel, the sort of track that slowly annexes a room until everyone’s locked into the same swing without ever agreeing to it. There’s a stripped-back stretch in the middle where it drops to almost nothing but that bassline and a hi-hat, and it’s the part that’ll...
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August 05, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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Five Lanes, Five Tracks: Your Summer Subgenre Primer
Read more . . . →When did the dancefloor split into five dancefloors? Sometime between June and now, electronic music stopped being one genre and became a whole continent. The Beatport charts look like a census. Every festival stage is its own country with its own dress code. Here’s one track from each lane the summer is running on, for anyone who keeps hearing names they can’t place. 1. Prospa & Cloonee - Free Your Mind Prospa’s live rig meets Cloonee’s low end and what comes out is four minutes of your brain stem being politely relocated. The vocal loop is two words and they do more work than most hooks manage with a full chorus. This had a Coachella tent in ruins back in April and it’s the track I keep hearing bleed through walls at every house party that crosses the line from responsible to regrettable. CircoLoco released it, which tells you less...
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August 05, 2026 at 6:53 AM
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He Lost in Court So He Changed the Name
Read more . . . →The Supreme Court told him the tariffs were illegal. So he kept the rates, swapped the legal citation, slapped “forced labor” on the label, and went right back to taxing 99.4% of U.S. imports like nothing happened. Twenty-five state attorneys general filed suit yesterday because they can read a calendar — the old tariffs expired and the new ones showed up at the same rates, on the same goods, the next business day. His own trade rep went on record promising “continuity.” That’s not even a cover story. That’s a guy plagiarizing his own paper after the professor caught him and resubmitting it with a different font. The forced labor angle would be funny if it weren’t so cynical. This is a man whose businesses have been fined for labor violations, whose supply chains have never once been audited on camera, suddenly positioning himself as the global champion of worker...
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August 05, 2026 at 6:39 AM 1 min read
Calcou - 24 (Live from Leipzig)
Read more . . . →If you’ve written deep house off as background music for hotel lobbies, Calcou would like a word. “24,” recorded live in Leipzig, is the sound of the genre with a proper pulse and a full room in front of it. You can genuinely hear the space on this recording — the low end has that slightly loose, physical quality that studio versions tend to sand right off, and there’s a faint wash of crowd sitting underneath the whole thing that tells you this actually happened, that people were present and moving while it did. The groove is deep and patient, a warm rolling bassline with a single vocal sample looped just enough to hypnotise without ever wearing out its welcome. Live electronic recordings usually lose something crucial in the trip to headphones, and this one somehow gains instead; the imperfections turn out to be the point rather than a flaw....
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August 04, 2026 at 11:38 PM 1 min read
Conrad Taylor, Alessia Labate - Action
Alessia Labate's hook on Action ambushes you two days later mid-meeting. NCS strikes again, generic drop and all — the vocal carries it.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
August 04, 2026 at 7:05 PM 1 min read
Luvstruck x Leena Punks x Ethan - In My Heart
Read more . . . →Big, dumb, and completely irresistible. “In My Heart” is the kind of hands-in-the-air dance record I have zero defenses against. It runs on a piano riff that could power a small town and a vocal hook clearly engineered in a lab to be stuck in your head by lunchtime. Three names on it, all obviously on the same mission: maximum serotonin, minimum fuss. The drop is pure sunshine, the sort of thing that would sound faintly ridiculous in a dark room and absolutely perfect at a festival at golden hour. There’s a breakdown where the piano goes solo for a few bars, just long enough to make you miss the beat before it crashes back in twice as bright. I put it on walking to the shop and caught myself grinning at nothing in particular, then played it again on the walk home. It made me feel eighteen and invincible...
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August 04, 2026 at 4:49 PM 1 min read
Dabin x William Black - Flutters (feat. Audra Miller)
Read more . . . →Heard this one first through a friend’s phone speaker at a kitchen table, which is the worst imaginable way to meet a Dabin record, and it still got me. “Flutters” is peak melodic dubstep comfort food, and I mean the good kind — Dabin and William Black are two of the best alive at this exact sound, and Audra Miller’s vocal lends it a genuine ache instead of the usual placeholder topline. The build is all shimmering guitar and rising synths, and the drop trades aggression for these huge emotional stabs that land somewhere between a festival and a good cry. The second drop slips in a guitar lead I didn’t expect and now can’t unhear. This is unashamedly pretty music for people who like feeling things at 130 with the sub cranked, executed clean enough that the usual formula complaints slide right off. On a proper system those drops...
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