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Kompany & LAYZ - Hit Marker
Kompany and LAYZ's Hit Marker is dumb, ignorant dubstep named after a Call of Duty killstreak. Apologize to your neighbours.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Kaskade, Wooli & MAXINE - Hear Me Now
Kaskade goes heavy with Wooli and MAXINE on Hear Me Now, a tasteful house veteran discovering he likes it loud in his fifties.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Zero - SHOOTA
Read more . . . →The best sound on “SHOOTA” is a bass note that arrives bent slightly out of tune, like the track is sneering at you. I’ve got no biography for Zero and the tune doesn’t ask for one. It’s riddim-adjacent dubstep, all triplet bass stabs and empty space, built for the exact moment a crowd wants to headbang in unison. It’s repetitive by design; one nasty three-note figure locks in early and then spends four minutes refusing to let go. I put it on expecting to bail after thirty seconds and sat through the whole thing nodding like an idiot instead. The...
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Seven Lions & Kill The Noise - I Need
Read more . . . →Two producers from opposite corners of bass music made the exact track you’d hope for and somehow didn’t overthink it. “I Need” pairs Seven Lions’ weepy, trance-soaked melodrama with Kill The Noise’s appetite for making things hurt, and the seam between those two instincts is where all the fun is. The intro floats up on the kind of soaring, faintly Enya-adjacent vocal Seven Lions could write blindfolded, and just as you settle into the pretty part Kill The Noise kicks the legs out and the drop lands somewhere between euphoric and vicious. It’s melodic dubstep that actually earns the “dubstep”...
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WAKAAN and the American Bass Sound, Explained
WAKAAN, Liquid Stranger's label, made American bass a thing. Here's how it splits from UK dubstep, who's on the roster, and whether it's actually good.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Jkyl & Hyde x SampliFire - Play With Fire
Read more . . . →Two producers whose whole job is making a speaker cone regret its life choices, on one track, is bad news for your subwoofer and good news for the rest of us. “Play With Fire” is exactly the kind of maximal, mid-range-shredding dubstep that gets sneered at by people who think the genre peaked with a Loefah dubplate in 2007, and I do not care, because it works. The first drop is a growl that keeps mutating; every two bars the bass finds a new way to be uglier than it was, like it’s showing off. There’s a half-second of total...
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Flava D, Casey Club & DRIIA - Revival
Flava D stitches garage swing onto a dubstep low end on Revival, and Casey Club keeps it light enough for your mum and a warehouse in one week.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Doctor P - Shots
Doctor P's Shots proves the man still builds a drop like he's showing off at a house party. Fifteen years in and your neck still won't forgive him.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Blanke, EDDIE & Nevve - Entropy
Blanke and EDDIE turn Nevve's pretty vocal into bait before Entropy tries to remove your face. Turn it up till a neighbor reconsiders their lease.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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SHOSH & BEANIE - Villain
Read more . . . →This is the sound of a subwoofer being asked to do something it will regret. SHOSH and BEANIE built “Villain” to hurt, and the second drop is where it drops the last of its manners. The intro is almost a fakeout, a creeping little melody that draws you in close right before the floor gives out under you. What I like is how filthy the sound design gets without collapsing into pure noise; there’s a real groove holding the chaos together, a swing in the drums that keeps your head moving while your chest takes the hits. I made the...
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