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Viperactive - MERCY x POP IT
Read more . . . →This is gleefully stupid in the best possible way. Viperactive takes two ideas that have no business in the same track, a “MERCY” chant and a “POP IT” bounce, and smashes them together into something built purely to make a crowd lose it. Trap Nation uploads can run together into one long beige drone of festival trap, so I notice when one of them actually has a personality, and this has personality to spare. The drop is obnoxious in the way good trap should be, with that detuned brass-honk lead that sounds like a malfunctioning car horn doing the heavy...
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Flux Pavilion - Bass Cannon (Flux's Version) [Crankdat Remix]
Crankdat took Flux Pavilion's Bass Cannon and turned the nostalgia up to eleven. The original was already dangerous, this is worse.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Chase & Status - BADDADAN (KNOCK2 RMX)
Chase & Status's BADDADAN was already a monster. KNOCK2 strips the UK swing and rebuilds it for American bass festivals. Both hit different.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Zomboy - Bromance Is Dead
Read more . . . →Zomboy naming a track “Bromance Is Dead” is exactly the kind of dumb-brilliant energy I want from dubstep in 2026. He was one of the faces of the brostep boom a decade ago, and instead of pretending that era never happened, he’s leaning into it with a wink. The track itself is huge, all swaggering mid-range and a drop that struts more than it stomps. There’s a confidence here that younger producers can’t fake, the sound of someone who has done this ten thousand times and still finds it fun. I appreciate that he didn’t chase whatever the algorithm currently...
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LAXX - Step 666
Read more . . . →LAXX has been quietly one of the most reliable names in dubstep for years and “Step 666” is him reminding everyone why. The track opens almost politely before the first drop arrives like a door getting kicked off its hinges. There’s a nasty, metallic quality to the lead that sits somewhere between a robot clearing its throat and a chainsaw with opinions. What I love is the restraint in the build, the way he lets the tension stretch just long enough that you start doubting whether the payoff is coming, and then it absolutely flattens you. The 666 in the...
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WHOiSEE - Ego Check
Read more . . . →Monstercat keeps quietly putting out dubstep heavier than their flagship playlists would lead you to believe, and WHOiSEE just made the case in about four minutes. “Ego Check” is a fitting name, because the drop will in fact check your ego right out of the room and into the hallway. This is the gnarly, metallic, felt-in-your-sternum kind of dubstep I assumed had gone out of fashion. Apparently not, and thank god. The sound design is filthy in the best way, all bent metal and growling sub, with just enough melody up top to keep it from collapsing into pure noise....
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Eptic - OCTANE
Read more . . . →Eptic makes dubstep that sounds engineered specifically to break cheap earbuds, and “OCTANE” is no exception. The Belgian has spent a decade perfecting this exact brand of cartoonishly heavy, gleefully obnoxious bass music, and he keeps finding new ways to make a drop feel violent. This one revs up like the title promises, all combustion-engine snarl and rising pressure before it detonates into a section that genuinely made me laugh out loud the first time. That’s the thing people miss about good dubstep, the best of it is funny, almost slapstick in how absurdly hard it goes. The sound design...
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Sully, SOH SOH - Pedal
Read more . . . →Last of the Sully run, and “Pedal” with SOH SOH might be my favorite of the three. Where “Temperature” leaned vocal and the “Disconnect EP” went long-form, this one is pure rhythmic mayhem, a collaboration that sounds like two producers daring each other to go harder. The groove is relentless, built on a bassline that bounces and stutters in ways that shouldn’t lock together but absolutely do. SOH SOH brings a slightly different flavor to Sully’s world and the friction between the two styles is exactly what makes the track pop. It’s playful and heavy at the same time, which...
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Sully - Disconnect EP
Read more . . . →If “Temperature” got you curious about Sully, the “Disconnect EP” is where you go to fall all the way in. A full EP instead of a single track means you actually get to hear the range, and Sully uses every minute of it. There’s heavy, contorted bass design here, but also quieter, more textural moments that prove this is a producer thinking in terms of a body of work rather than just chasing the next drop. WAKAAN gives artists room to be genuinely weird and Sully takes the invitation and runs straight off the map. Each track flows into the...
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Sully, Chozen feat. Nat James - Temperature
Read more . . . →WAKAAN is Liquid Stranger’s label and it’s where some of the weirdest, most forward-thinking bass music lives, so when Sully and Chozen show up with a Nat James vocal on top, you pay attention. “Temperature” is exactly the kind of off-kilter, future-leaning bass that the WAKAAN crowd eats alive. The production is glitchy and tactile, full of sounds I genuinely can’t identify, and Nat James glues it together with a vocal that keeps the whole experiment human. There’s a real song buried under all the sound design, which is the part a lot of experimental producers forget to include. The...
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