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Ghost Jr - 2 Phones
Read more . . . →Stumbled into this at 1am somewhere down a Dim Mak rabbit hole and it was the first thing in an hour that made me stop scrolling. 2 Phones is hard to pin to a single genre, which is most of why I like it, a dark, bass-heavy electronic track that pulls from trap, from G-house, from whatever Ghost Jr felt like grabbing, held together by attitude more than any one sound. The title nods at the Kevin Gates track and the whole thing carries that same menacing late-night swagger, a slow tempo, a bassline that drips, a vocal sample chopped...
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Tape B - No Fool
Read more . . . →Tape B does not make quiet music and No Fool is him refusing to start. The build barely bothers pretending it’s a build, just a quick breath before the first drop lands like a dropped engine block. He’s been one of the loudest names in American dubstep for a couple of years now and this is the sound that got him there: wobbles that sound wet, a low end that behaves more like weather than bass, and just enough melody up top to stop the whole thing from being a pure beating. What I like is how little air there...
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Joel Corry - Whisper (Karim Naas Remix)
Read more . . . →If you only know Joel Corry from the radio-pop smashes, this remix is going to reframe him for you a little. Karim Naas takes Whisper and drags it off the daytime airwaves into darker, sweatier territory, trading the glossy pop-house sheen for a stripped, driving tech-house groove with real menace in the low end. The vocal, that breathy whispered hook, survives the move intact and actually works better here, sounding less like a chart play and more like something murmured across a crowded dark room. Naas builds the drop around a tight, insistent bassline and a filtered synth that tightens...
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Ableton vs FL Studio: The War That Won't End
Ableton vs FL Studio, settled. Ableton for live sets, house and techno; FL for beatmaking, trap and that piano roll. The war is just DAW tribalism.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Great View
Read more . . . →The evacuation plan has one seat and a selfie stick. Thumbs up, big grin, visor reflecting flames. Behind the helmet, the planet is on fire. Not a wildfire, not a region: the whole visible landmass is lit, and the smoke column is the biggest thing in the photo besides the astronaut’s ego. He is not heading back. The selfie is for the shareholders, or the memoir, or whichever platform still has signal at the edge of the atmosphere. Everyone else is down there, and the escape velocity cost more than their zip code.
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Submorphics - Archive Dust
Read more . . . →You already know whether liquid drum and bass is your thing, so let me just tell you this is a very good one. Archive Dust is Submorphics working the warm, musical end of the genre, the stuff that sounds like someone sampled a jazz record off dusty vinyl and then handed it to a breakbeat. The drums roll instead of batter, brushed and rounded off at the edges, and there’s a Rhodes-ish chord progression underneath that could carry the track on its own with the drums muted. What keeps it from sliding into coffee-shop wallpaper is the bassline, which hides...
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John Summit - Don't Believe It (GRiZ Remix)
Read more . . . →Had this on in the car at a red light and bounced hard enough that the guy in the next lane looked over. GRiZ taking a John Summit record is a genuinely odd pairing on paper, the tech-house hit machine handing his track to a man best known for strapping a saxophone to funk-bass, and the remix leans all the way into that strangeness. Summit’s original is a clean, driving club tool with a nagging vocal hook. GRiZ keeps the vocal and then detonates everything underneath it, swapping the tidy four-on-the-floor for a swung, greasy bassline that struts where the...
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Four Weeks and a Ballroom
Read more . . . →Donald Trump is at 32 percent approval, the lowest of his political career, with four weeks until midterms. And what did he spend his last political capital on? A taxpayer-funded ballroom renovation and a 1.8 billion dollar “anti-weaponization” slush fund so brazen that his own party gagged on it. The man who promised to drain the swamp just remodeled it. Now the Republican senators who rubber-stamped two years of this are discovering their spines. Roger Marshall is sweating a re-election race in Kansas, a state so red it practically bleeds. Vulnerable House Republicans are “distancing themselves” from Trump, which is...
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SLANDER & Nejvex - Booster Ignition
Read more . . . →The riser in the first thirty seconds of Booster Ignition keeps climbing past the point your ear expects it to tip over, and by the time it finally does you’re already braced wrong. That misdirection is the whole trick here. SLANDER spent years being the melodic, teary end of American dubstep, the duo you’d put on to feel something at a festival, and pairing with Nejvex drags them somewhere with far more teeth. The first drop is still recognisably them, big and emotional and designed for forty thousand phone lights. Then around 1:45 it resets and comes back as something...
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Silver Bullet - NOBODY ELSE
Silver Bullet aims straight at the main stage with a drop that wants forty thousand people singing along. Clean, bright and built to be enormous.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
