April was a lot. Somewhere north of 150 posts and the DnB queue never once cleared.
Track of the Month
Visages & Alix Perez - Unity
Alix Perez doesn’t miss. Unity is the proof — the bassline sits deep and rolls the full runtime without flinching, and I’ve been playing it on repeat since it landed without getting tired of it. That’s the real test. This is why DnB runs circles around everything else.
The Breakdown
DnB ran the month
It wasn’t close. Logistics - Only An Emotion did the liquid DnB thing right: hits you somewhere you weren’t expecting and you’re not ready for it even though you should’ve been. Cyantific - So Real held up the whole way through on Viper — Cyantific’s been around long enough to coast and doesn’t. Fred V - Mistakes on Hospital Records earned the drop by actually building to it, which is more than most tracks bother to do.
Then Koven did the unexpected: took an Above & Beyond trance track and turned it into DnB. Carry Me Home (Koven Remix) works better than it has any right to — Zoë Johnston’s vocals holding at 174 BPM like they were always supposed to live there.
Hardstyle had a full month
Rebelion and Warface released Filthy Rave, which is filthy and is a rave, exactly as advertised. Heavy Machinery called theirs ULTRA VIOLENCE and delivered without apology. Coone pulled off the hardest trick in the genre — Trippin On That Oldschool sounds current instead of nostalgic, which is almost impossible. And Flux Overload released a track called Piss Sniffer. I genuinely don’t know what else to tell you. It rips.
Amelie Lens ran a campaign
Four tracks in April. Activate was the first: hard, precise, not for the weak-wristed. Serenity, Young Forever, and Falling Into Acid Dreams followed the same logic. Techno as a sustained assault.
House showed up properly
BadComppany - Loco on Dirtybird: slightly unhinged, exactly where tech house needs to be right now. Defected Ibiza - House Music Summer Mix 2026 dropped in April because summer is apparently happening whether you’re ready or not — two-plus hours of deep, vocal, underground, afro and tech house. Put it on and pretend it’s warm outside.
Also Banged This Month
- Delta Heavy & ÆONE:MODE - Glow — Delta Heavy going melodic and making it land
- Seven Lions & Brieanna Grace - Free — emotional dubstep, that drop at the midpoint is massive
- Hedex & Ray Volpe - BrAiNdEaD — two people who individually go very hard, colliding on one track
- Brookes Brothers & Danny Byrd - Feelin’ This Way — two DnB lifers and it should not be this easy to listen to
- Alok & ILLENIUM - To The Moon — stadium electronic with feelings attached, no complaints
- Ben Böhmer - Begin Again — continuous mix, the good kind of locked in
- Virtual Riot, Said the Sky & HYMNALS - Yellow Lights — three artists, sounds like none of them compromised
- CØNTRA - Big Skank — the rowdier half of DDD183, exactly as it should be
- K/DA - MORE — a League of Legends virtual band going harder than it has any right to. Madison Beer and (G)I-DLE, no weak links
- Joost - Coachella — COLORS session, track called Coachella, somehow doesn’t feel desperate