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 2:15 PM 1 min read
BEANIE, Lauren Nicole, Gray Hoek - Groovy Chick
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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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August 03, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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House Party: Three Grooves for the Bad-Decision Hour
Read more . . . →We started the week sensible and it didn’t stay that way. Closing it out with three house records for the hour when the group chat says one more and everybody knows it’s a lie. 1. Dom Dolla, Daya - Dreamin Dom Dolla again, because the man is having an entire summer to himself. Daya’s vocal is all longing, the groove underneath is all confidence, and the two of them together sound like texting someone you absolutely should not be texting at 1am. The bass has that Dom Dolla bounce that makes standing still physically impossible. 2. Chris Lake x Abel Balder - Ease My Mind Chris Lake knows exactly which frequency makes a room move, and he parks on it for four straight minutes here. The vocal chop is hypnotic and the bassline does most of the talking, so give it a dark room and a proper system rather than...
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August 03, 2026 at 9:32 AM 1 min read
BAGG - BLAME IT (ilytedii flip)
Read more . . . →How is a bootleg flip harder than most of the official releases I’ve heard this month? BAGG’s “BLAME IT,” flipped by ilytedii, is a filthy little trap edit that takes a familiar vocal and drops it into a beat carrying way too much bass for its own good. The 808s here are tuned so low they stop being notes and start being weather. It’s the kind of thing that lives on SoundCloud reposts and Trap Nation uploads rather than any label’s release schedule, and it’s better for it: rough edges intact, no A&R sanding it into something safe. The switch-up halfway through, where the beat flips into double-time, is properly mean. ilytedii clearly built this for a specific job, that moment in a set where the crowd needs a jolt rather than a melody, and it does exactly that with zero hesitation. It’s over in a flash and leaves the...
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August 03, 2026 at 7:08 AM
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You're Paying to Power the Machine That Replaced You
Read more . . . →Oracle fired 30,000 people in March to free up cash for AI data centers. No warning. Employees got termination emails at 6am from “Oracle Leadership” — not from their manager, not from HR — a mass email from the void telling them their role had been eliminated and today was their last day. The company needed $50 billion for server farms, and the fastest way to find it was to stop paying humans. Call it what it is: a cash grab with a body count. Here’s where it gets good. Those data centers need electricity — obscene amounts of it — and the grid upgrades land on residential bills. Virginia residents watched their monthly costs jump $16 because Dominion Energy had to build capacity for server farms. One guy in Northern Virginia went from $100 in December to $281 in January. Areas with heavy data center concentration have seen electricity...
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August 02, 2026 at 8:15 PM 1 min read
IYRE x Makoto - SKYLINE FEVER
Read more . . . →This is the most alive I’ve felt about liquid dnb in a long while, and I’ve been trying to work out exactly why. Makoto has been making warm, musical drum and bass since before half the current scene owned a laptop, and pairing him with IYRE hands “Skyline Fever” both the polish and the hunger it needs. The intro fakes you out with these gorgeous jazzy keys, all Sunday-morning calm, and then the break kicks in and it’s suddenly 4am and you are not remotely tired anymore. The bassline sits round and full without ever going soft, and the drums have that rolling, tumbling quality that good liquid completely depends on. There’s a vocal chop floating over the second half that I can’t make out a single word of and have stopped trying to; it works far better as pure texture than it ever would as a lyric. What really...
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August 02, 2026 at 3:32 PM 1 min read
Kendrick Lamar - Money Trees (RemK Remix)
Read more . . . →Who is RemK and what gives them the sheer nerve to remix “Money Trees,” one of the most beloved rap songs of the last fifteen years? Turns out, exactly the right amount of nerve. This flip drags the Kendrick and Jay Rock classic bodily into trap territory: that iconic reversed guitar loop still there, still hypnotic, now sitting on top of skittering hi-hats and a sub-bass the original never once bothered with. Touching something this sacred is a genuine risk, the kind that ends most producers, and RemK mostly pulls it off by flatly refusing to overplay their hand. The vocal is left almost entirely alone, the new elements stay in service of the mood, and the 808s hit with real weight in the drop without ever collapsing into generic festival-trap. What actually got me is the restraint of it; a lesser producer would have buried Kendrick under a wall...
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August 02, 2026 at 11:07 AM 1 min read
Kevin D'Angello & Doppenberg - Tranceformation
Read more . . . →Meant to have this on as background while I cleaned the flat, and promptly did not clean the flat. “Tranceformation” is a big-room-meets-trance hybrid with a title so shameless I have no choice but to respect it. Kevin D’Angello and Doppenberg go straight for the euphoric jugular: a soaring supersaw lead, a build that keeps stacking well past the point of reason, and a drop engineered to level a main stage at peak time. It’s maximalist to the edge of absurdity and completely committed to the bit. The trance side turns up in the big emotional breakdown, the kind that hands forty thousand phone-torches something to sway to before the beat comes crashing back. This is sheer size treated as a value in itself, and on that one front it lands a clean knockout. I don’t reach for this style often, but every so often you want a track that...
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August 02, 2026 at 10:34 AM 1 min read
Rollers: Drum and Bass for the Motorway and the Field
Read more . . . →Summer at 174 bpm hits different. Three drum and bass tracks for windows down, foot heavy, festival or motorway, whichever gets you there faster. 1. Sub Focus, Wilkinson - Air I Breathe Sub Focus and Wilkinson have been doing this together for over a decade and they still make it sound effortless. Huge vocal, production so clean you could eat off it, and a drop that just rolls forward without ever showing off. This is the one for the last hour of a long drive when you need the car to feel like it’s flying. 2. Kanine - Bloodstream Kanine has quietly become one of the most dependable names in the newer DnB wave, and Bloodstream is all momentum and no fat. The kind of roller that makes 174 feel like a cruising speed instead of a sprint. Put it on and watch your speedometer creep up without permission. 3....
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August 02, 2026 at 7:15 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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