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Five Lanes, Five Tracks: Your Summer Subgenre Primer
Read more . . . →When did the dancefloor split into five dancefloors? Sometime between June and now, electronic music stopped being one genre and became a whole continent. The Beatport charts look like a census. Every festival stage is its own country with its own dress code. Here’s one track from each lane the summer is running on, for anyone who keeps hearing names they can’t place. 1. Prospa & Cloonee - Free Your Mind Prospa’s live rig meets Cloonee’s low end and what comes out is four minutes of your brain stem being politely relocated. The vocal loop is two words and they...
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Conrad Taylor, Alessia Labate - Action
Alessia Labate's hook on Action ambushes you two days later mid-meeting. NCS strikes again, generic drop and all — the vocal carries it.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Dabin x William Black - Flutters (feat. Audra Miller)
Dabin and William Black's Flutters is melodic dubstep comfort food, cooked by chefs who could open a restaurant. Audra Miller adds the ache.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Dyro x Dannic - Unstoppable
Dyro and Dannic revive their 2013 electro-house sound on Unstoppable and it plays like a perfectly timed, snarling nostalgia hit.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Dirty Signal & 2ACES - Rocking
Dirty Signal and 2ACES' Rocking has been stuck in our head for two days straight — simple, chest-punching festival bait that works.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Kevin D'Angello & Doppenberg - Tranceformation
Kevin D'Angello and Doppenberg's Tranceformation is maximalist big-room-meets-trance that never once let us clean the flat.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Rollers: Drum and Bass for the Motorway and the Field
Read more . . . →Summer at 174 bpm hits different. Three drum and bass tracks for windows down, foot heavy, festival or motorway, whichever gets you there faster. 1. Sub Focus, Wilkinson - Air I Breathe Sub Focus and Wilkinson have been doing this together for over a decade and they still make it sound effortless. Huge vocal, production so clean you could eat off it, and a drop that just rolls forward without ever showing off. This is the one for the last hour of a long drive when you need the car to feel like it’s flying. 2. Kanine - Bloodstream Kanine...
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Kisnou & Blure - Falling Deeper
Kisnou and Blure's Falling Deeper is the prettiest record we've heard in weeks — a last-train-home, forehead-on-glass anthem.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Silver Bullet - HIGHER
Silver Bullet's HIGHER is melodic dubstep that earns the all-caps title with a drop that actually lifts you. Loud and proud.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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longstoryshort & Skybreak - WHIPLASH
longstoryshort and Skybreak's Whiplash crams sixteen drum hits where four would do. Deep dubstep with a bad glitch habit.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
