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Nohr & AMRAC - About You
Read more . . . →How many ways are there left to write a song about missing someone? Nohr and AMRAC found a fresh one on “About You,” or at least a fresh enough arrangement to make the old feeling land again. It’s built on a chopped vocal that repeats the title until it stops being words and starts being texture, riding over a bassline that’s deep and rounded rather than aggressive. The drop at 1:25 is more of a lift than a slam, and the whole track kind of levitates instead of hitting the floor. That lightness is the appeal. There’s a piano line...
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Alie, HIKING - FLIRT (if i don't mean it)
Read more . . . →This one sounds like a text you shouldn’t have sent. “FLIRT (if i don’t mean it)” pairs Alie’s breathy, conversational vocal with HIKING’s clean electronic-pop production, and the whole thing has the jittery energy of overthinking a situationship at 1am. The beat is light and skittering — plucky synths, a bassline that stays out of the way — and it leaves a lot of room for the lyric, which is doing that modern thing where the casualness is the whole vulnerability. The hook lands at 1:08 and it’s sticky in the way good pop should be; I caught myself humming...
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oncor - Seasons Change
Read more . . . →“Seasons Change” is a slow-burn: no huge drop, no fireworks, just a warm chord progression and a vocal that sits somewhere between hopeful and resigned. oncor builds the whole thing on restraint. The production detail is where it wins, with little granular flecks of sound scattered through the mix, a bassline that pulses rather than pounds, and a build around 2:15 that swells and then, instead of exploding, just gently opens up. It’s the musical equivalent of the exact moment summer starts tipping into autumn, which I assume is the point. The vocal never pushes; it stays almost conversational, like...
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Weekend two is the one that actually matters
Read more . . . →Weekend one wrapped yesterday and your feed is already unbearable, full of drone shots and people crying at the mainstage like they invented feelings. Fine. But everyone who actually knows Tomorrowland knows the second weekend is the better one. The DJs have shaken off the rust, the crowd skews more heads and fewer influencers doing a bit for the camera, and the set that flopped on Friday the 17th gets quietly fixed by Friday the 24th. Boom, Belgium goes again this Friday, and here are the five tracks I want the mainstage to earn. 1. Hardwell - Spaceman Hardwell headlines...
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Vicetone - Nevada (Dubstep Remix)
Read more . . . →Somebody took Vicetone’s “Nevada,” a track that soundtracked roughly nine thousand gaming montages back in 2016, and dragged it into a dark alley. This dubstep flip keeps Cozi Zuehlsdorff’s vocal mostly intact through the verse and then obliterates the drop, swapping the original’s shiny festival lift for a filthy half-time wobble. It shouldn’t work — the source is pure sunshine and the remix is pure grime — and yet the contrast is exactly why it does. Hearing that innocent topline lead straight into a bassline this rude is legitimately funny the first time through. The remixer resists the urge to...
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Tokyo Project & BB Cooper - Silhouette
Read more . . . →The vocal on “Silhouette” comes in almost whispered, so close to the mic you can hear the breath between lines, and that intimacy is what the whole track hangs on. Tokyo Project and BB Cooper have made one of those indie-electronic songs that sounds enormous and lonely at the same time, with big reverby drums, a shimmering synth lead, and a hook that plants itself in your head by the second chorus. CloudKid has quietly become the home for exactly this sound, the melancholy-but-danceable lane, and this is a strong example of why. There’s a drop around 1:50 that trades...
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Surf Mesa & Stace Cadet - The Moment (Sunset Mix)
Read more . . . →Surf Mesa has spent his whole career trying to recapture the lightning of “ily,” and “The Moment” is the first time it doesn’t sound like a man chasing his own shadow. Teaming up with Stace Cadet drags him toward a housier, bouncier lane, and the Sunset Mix leans on a warm plucked bassline that practically skips. It’s golden-hour music in the most literal sense — the kind of track that makes a fairly ordinary evening feel briefly cinematic. There’s a filtered breakdown around 2:10 where the drums drop out and one lonely vocal chop just floats, and it’s the closest...
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UPxMT - Bang
Read more . . . →“Bang” is a lot more fun than a track this moody has any right to be. UPxMT thread a nervy little synth riff through the whole thing and then keep interrupting it with a drop that stutters and cuts out like a bad connection, and somehow the glitchiness is the hook. It sits in that CloudKid pocket where indie songwriting meets electronic production without either one winning, which is a hard balance and they nail it. The best moment is around 2:10 when everything drops to just the vocal and a single pulsing bass note before the last chorus kicks...
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WHIPPED CREAM - home was always me (remixes)
Read more . . . →What happens when a producer known for absolutely caving your chest in decides to make something soft? WHIPPED CREAM’s “home was always me” gets the remix treatment here, and the whole package leans into the tender side of an artist who usually deals in damage. Caroline Cecil built her name on trap and bass heavy enough to crack a windshield, so hearing these versions unfold into warm, lo-fi, almost weightless territory is a genuine turn. The Monstercat-meets-Chillhop framing tells you the temperature: muted drums, tape hiss, chords that just sort of exhale. There’s a remix in the set where the...
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It's here. Tomorrowland weekend one opens today.
Read more . . . →This is it. Weekend one opens today, David Guetta and Martin Garrix and Calvin Harris are somewhere over Belgium right now, and 200,000 people are about to pretend they didn’t pay a fortune to stand in a field. Say what you want about Tomorrowland, the mainstage singalong at golden hour is a real thing that does real damage to whatever cynicism you showed up with. Three tracks built for exactly the moment when the whole field sings the same line back. 1. Axwell Λ Ingrosso - More Than You Know Two-thirds of Swedish House Mafia in their solo years, and...
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