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MNK, MasN Kutcher - Voltage
Read more . . . →Why does the nastiest bass house so often come out of the least serious labels? Voltage lands on Dim Mak, Steve Aoki’s shop, and MNK with MasN Kutcher keep it stripped to the essentials, one mean little riff and a kick that flat refuses to quit. The track lives in that sweet overlap where house swing meets dubstep attitude, enough groove to actually dance to and enough snarl to feel slightly dangerous doing it. The lead is the hook, a distorted stab that worms its way in and sets up shop, the kind of riff you catch yourself imitating under...
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Wouter S, No Boundariez - Stutter (VIP)
Read more . . . →This one made me grin like an idiot on the first bar, which almost never happens before coffee. Stutter in its VIP form is bass house with the safety off, a Heldeep collaboration between Wouter S and No Boundariez that takes a simple vocal stab and mangles it into a rhythmic gremlin. The whole hook is the title made literal: the voice stutters, catches and trips over itself until the drop turns the glitch into the groove. It is loud and a bit stupid and completely sure of itself, which is a combination I will defend to anyone. The VIP...
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Curbi - Caliente
Curbi's Caliente is bass house at the exact temperature the name promises. Sweaty, loud, a little dumb, and we're completely in. Play it loud.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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SMACK - Back Once Again
Read more . . . →Back Once Again does exactly what a Dim Mak record promises and no more, which this time I am completely fine with. SMACK deals in hard, festival-weight electro and bass house, and this one is a blunt instrument, a looping vocal yelling the title and a drop built to make a crowd jump in unison. There is no emotional subplot and no melodic ambition past a two-note stab, just a mean bouncy bassline and a kick that lands like a door slamming. The vocal sample runs on pure rave nostalgia, that 90s shout-along energy dragged onto a 2026 mainstage. It...
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Kevin D'Angello - Dirty Bitch
Read more . . . →Get past the frankly juvenile title and Kevin D’Angello has made a genuinely nasty little bass-house weapon. Dirty Bitch is all attitude, a growling distorted bassline and a vocal snippet chopped into pure percussion, the sort of thing built to drop the moment a tech-house set needs to turn mean. D’Angello works the harder, more aggressive end of the house spectrum, and this leans fully in, no melodic softening anywhere on it. The bass patch is the star, a dirty talkbox-ish growl that bites down on the off-beat and will not let up for the runtime. It rides a relentless,...
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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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Raphi - Head Spin
Raphi wrings a whole hook out of three words and a filtered synth stab. Head Spin is lean, punchy and built to stick in your head by the second listen.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Vluarr - Walk The Walk
Vluarr's Walk The Walk is bass house with swagger and no interest in your approval. Distorted bassline jabs, no filler. Friday, sorted.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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DJ Kuba, Neitan, Beat & Encore & CERES - I Like The Bass
I Like The Bass is exactly what it sounds like: a huge, dumb bass-house battering ram. Never at home. Every time at a festival.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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LUMBERJVCK - CALL ME
LUMBERJVCK's CALL ME is gross, rubbery Dim Mak bass house that made the face happen through a friend's phone speaker at dinner.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
