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Habstrakt - Everyday (VIP)
Read more . . . →A VIP is usually an admission that the original was already good enough, so the bar for doing one is high, and Habstrakt clears it easily. The Everyday VIP takes a track that was already a floor-filler and swaps the drop for something with more teeth, a bassline that’s been re-greased and now grinds where it used to bounce. Habstrakt has spent years in the pocket between house and dubstep, too groovy for the headbangers and too heavy for the house purists, and this sits right in that gap where he’s most comfortable. The new drop hits at 1:05 and...
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Curbi - Down To The Sound
Read more . . . →Down To The Sound rides one rubbery bassline for its whole runtime and never once gets boring, which is its own kind of flex. Curbi was making festival-sized records before he could legally drink, and this is him sounding fully grown into the sound he’s chased since he was a teenager. It’s a groove-first house track, less concerned with a huge drop than with a low end that refuses to sit still. A vocal snippet gets chopped into the rhythm so tightly it becomes percussion. That’s the trick here: everything is groove and nothing is filler. The drop doesn’t explode...
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AC Slater x Lock 'N' Load - Blow Ya Mind
Read more . . . →That “blow ya mind” vocal is a rave relic, and AC Slater dragging it into 2026 is exactly the kind of chaos I’m here for. This flips Lock ‘N’ Load’s old anthem into a bass-house weapon — all rubbery low-end and a beat that swings harder than the original ever did. The drop at 1:14 is filthy in the best way, a growling bassline that struts rather than stomps, and the nostalgia of that vocal hook against the modern production is a genuinely fun collision. AC Slater’s whole Night Bass thing has always been about this: house music with the...
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2frers - FLIRT LIGHTS
2frers' FLIRT LIGHTS sounds like neon bar signage came to life and started flirting with you. Cocky bass house built for 1am courage.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Vluarr - Steppin'
Read more . . . →The vocal chop in Steppin’ hits like a hiccup on the offbeat and immediately makes the track impossible to sit still through. Vluarr works the bass-house end of things, and this is a lean, mean little groove: no wasted sounds, just a bouncing bassline, that stuttered vocal, and a drop at 1:00 that arrives fast and gets straight to business. House this functional can feel anonymous, faceless festival filler you forget by the next track, but Steppin’ has enough personality in that one hook to actually stand out on a big system. It’s built for a specific job, making a...
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Pegboard Nerds, Teminite & VGR - Disconnected Again
Pegboard Nerds, Teminite and VGR team up for Disconnected Again, three producers who somehow agreed on the assignment for once. Stupid fun.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Conni, Lynxie, THEBOYBENNIE - WOULD U
Conni, Lynxie and THEBOYBENNIE's WOULD U is an NCS track with an actual sneer in it, which is rarer than it should be. Worth a spin, louder than expected.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Body Ocean & Matsu - Pulse
Read more . . . →Dirtybird tracks always sound like they were made by people having way too much fun, and Pulse is no exception. Body Ocean & Matsu have absorbed the label’s whole ethos, that mix of booty-shaking low end and a wink that says don’t take any of this too seriously. The groove here is elastic and physical, built around a bassline that bounces like it’s made of actual rubber and a vocal snippet chopped into nonsense syllables. It’s house music for people who think most house music takes itself too seriously, which has always been Dirtybird’s entire reason for existing. The drop...
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Knock2 - JUMP in
Read more . . . →Knock2 has quietly become one of the most reliable names in the festival-trap-meets-house lane, and JUMP in is another reason why. The man understands momentum better than almost anyone working this sound right now, the way a track needs to keep moving forward or die. This one rides a bouncing bassline that practically demands the titular response, with a build at 1:40 that coils up so tight you can feel the drop coming in your teeth. What I appreciate is the economy of it, no wasted bars, no filler section where he’s vamping until the next idea arrives. Every part...
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HESTER - KYOTO
Read more . . . →NCS gets dismissed as the copyright-free background music factory for Twitch streamers, and that reputation is half-earned, but every so often something genuinely good slips through the gold-rush gates and “KYOTO” is one of them. HESTER builds this around a hooky, slightly off-kilter house groove with just enough bass-house grit to keep it from being polite. The title and the little melodic motif gesture at something East Asian without turning into a cheap pentatonic cliché, which is a trap a lesser producer would’ve walked straight into. What I like is the patience. It doesn’t dump everything in the first thirty...
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