Somebody at a festival is going to lose their mind to this and have no idea it was never an official release. START THE DRAMA is a T3MPURA mashup welding Juelz’s trap muscle to a Zedd topline, the kind of unofficial edit that lives on DJ USB sticks long before it ever troubles a label. That is half the fun of it. Mashups like this are the folk music of the festival circuit, stitched together by someone who just wanted the two things they loved to exist in the same track and could not wait for permission. It should be a mess. Instead the Zedd melody rides the trap drums like it was always meant to be there, bright and bratty over the low-end crunch. T3MPURA clearly has an ear for which two records are secretly the same record underneath, and that is a real skill even when the paperwork says it does not count. It exists for one specific sweaty moment and nails it. Catch it before it gets taken down.
January
Chrome Daydream
Chrome stars, jelly hearts and holographic colour. A nod to the glossy, optimistic graphics of the early web.