The kick on this remix has a specific rounded thud I could pick out of a lineup, the kind that fills a room without ever going harsh. Justė takes “LET ME BE” by The Second Voice and reshapes it into a clean, driving dance record that knows exactly what floor it’s built for. The original vocal gets stretched and filtered into something closer to an instrument than a lyric, surfacing in the breakdown just long enough to hand you a hook. What Justė does well is the patience of the build, a long slow filter-open that keeps promising a payoff and delaying it until you’re leaning into the speaker. When the drop finally lands it isn’t the biggest one you’ll hear this week, but it’s placed perfectly, and placement beats size nine times out of ten. There’s a warmth to the production that plenty of Spinnin releases trade away for...
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August 28, 2026 at 11:38 PM 1 min read
The Second Voice - LET ME BE (Justė Remix)
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August 28, 2026 at 6:40 PM 1 min read
Blanke, EDDIE & Nevve - Entropy
Read more . . . →Two seconds of quiet and then “Entropy” tries to remove your face. Blanke has been sharpening this exact sound for a while now, that hybrid where color-bass prettiness and full dubstep violence share a single drop, and this is one of the cleaner distillations of it he’s put his name to. Nevve’s vocal is the bait, airy and pop-shaped, floating you up to a comfortable height right before EDDIE and Blanke saw the floor out from under you. The first drop is a jagged, glass-shattering thing, all mid-range aggression and stutter edits that flip so fast they blur, and yet there’s a melody threaded through the carnage that keeps it from being noise for its own sake. What I respect is that the pretty parts and the ugly parts are obviously built by people who love both equally; there’s no sense that either half is filler waiting for the other...
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August 28, 2026 at 4:49 PM 1 min read
SUPERSTRINGS - Balearic Temptation
Read more . . . →There’s a guitar line in here, actual plucked strings, sitting right where you’d expect a synth arp, and it reframes the entire track. “Balearic Temptation” is SUPERSTRINGS doing exactly what the name promises, trance with one foot in the Ibiza sunset and the other on a festival mainstage. The build is patient in that classic uplifting-trance way, layering strings and a rising synth over a four-on-the-floor kick until the tension is almost too much, and then it releases into a euphoric lead that goes straight for the throat of anyone who grew up on this sound. I did, so it worked on me on contact. Big euphoric trance fell out of the conversation years ago, which somehow makes the breakdown here land even harder, all shimmering pads and that bittersweet chord progression the genre does better than anyone. The Balearic touches keep it from tipping into pure cheese, the guitar...
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August 28, 2026 at 2:47 PM 1 min read
Market Rate
Read more . . . →Five guys, one lever, and whatever number comes out they all agree to call it “the market.”
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August 28, 2026 at 2:15 PM 1 min read
Blackcode & Gaz Meeko - Take Me
Read more . . . →“Take Me” sounds like a rave track that grew up and got a mortgage without ever losing the plot. Blackcode and Gaz Meeko build it on a warm, rolling progressive-house pulse, the kind that cares more about momentum than any single big moment, so it plays better across a fourteen-minute stretch of a DJ set than as a three-minute single you skip through. The vocal is chopped into a wordless hook that works more like an instrument than a lyric, floating over a bassline that keeps rolling forward like it’s late for something. Revealed usually trades in bigger, brasher material, so this restrained, hypnotic mode is a slightly surprising look on the label. The best stretch is the long central breakdown where everything blurs into a warm haze and then the beat sneaks back in almost apologetically, like it doesn’t want to wake you. It doesn’t grab you by the...
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August 28, 2026 at 2:00 PM 4 min read
IDM, Explained (And Why the Name Is a Joke)
IDM means 'intelligent dance music' — the dumbest genre name ever. What it actually is: Aphex Twin, Autechre, Boards of Canada, and headphones music.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
August 28, 2026 at 12:24 PM 1 min read
SHOSH & BEANIE - Villain
Read more . . . →This is the sound of a subwoofer being asked to do something it will regret. SHOSH and BEANIE built “Villain” to hurt, and the second drop is where it drops the last of its manners. The intro is almost a fakeout, a creeping little melody that draws you in close right before the floor gives out under you. What I like is how filthy the sound design gets without collapsing into pure noise; there’s a real groove holding the chaos together, a swing in the drums that keeps your head moving while your chest takes the hits. I made the mistake of previewing it on earbuds first, then corrected that on a proper system, and the gap between the two is basically the whole point of the track. The bass has a physical texture to it, grimy and half-broken, like the patch got left out in the rain overnight. Two...
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August 28, 2026 at 9:32 AM 1 min read
ARMNHMR, Whales & Adalaide Adams - Stay Away
Read more . . . →Adalaide Adams gets one line out clean before the whole arrangement starts pulling at her from underneath, and that tug is the entire emotional engine of “Stay Away.” This is melodic dubstep in the ARMNHMR mold, big feelings bolted to a drop with real teeth, the Monstercat house style where the yearning and the aggression are meant to be the same gesture. Whales brings the low-end nastiness, a growl in the first drop that sounds like it’s trying to swallow the vocal whole, and the standoff between her clean topline and that grinding bass is where the track actually lives. Around 2:15 they gut the whole thing back to just her voice and a piano before the second drop hits noticeably harder than the first. The vocal is carrying weight a lesser hook would buckle under. Three producers who could each headline a track alone, deciding to pile into one,...
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August 28, 2026 at 6:36 AM
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He Renamed the Water
Read more . . . →Donald Trump signed an executive order yesterday renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” The name Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io — “beautiful lake” — and it’s been on maps since before the Declaration of Independence existed. Four hundred years of Indigenous naming, erased because a man who can’t find most countries on a map decided a body of water shared with another country needed a more patriotic brand. The Interior Department has 30 days to update the federal database. Canada is not required to adopt the change. Canada will not. This is what happens when you run out of leverage. The 50% tariffs on Canadian imports kicked in last week — lumber, dairy, furniture, hockey sticks — all hit with duties that American consumers will pay at American cash registers. The USMCA, the trade deal Trump personally signed, says none of this is supposed to happen. And instead...
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August 27, 2026 at 9:25 PM 1 min read
Rival, Biometrix, CRVN - Nobody Around
Read more . . . →Why does music this aggressive make me this happy? “Nobody Around” is Rival, Biometrix and CRVN piling into one track and refusing to leave anything on the table. It’s a bass-heavy, mid-tempo stomp with a vocal that turns brattier every time it circles back, and a drop that hits like a car door slamming in the best possible way. Three producers on one tune usually means a pile of competing ideas, and instead this feels weirdly focused, everyone pulling in the same nasty direction at once. The bass in the second drop has a metallic snarl to it that I keep rewinding just to feel my headphones flex. It’s dumb fun, full stop, which is exactly the mood some days demand. I played it walking to the store and nearly missed my turn. Not every track needs to mean something, and this one is proof you can get by on...
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