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ZKG - Right Here
ZKG's 'Right Here' has more bite than NCS usually gets credit for. Free to use, easy to like, built for a thousand videos.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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There's an Avicii tribute at Tomorrowland this year and I'm not ready
Read more . . . →Quick heads up before the gates open: this year’s Tomorrowland includes an Avicii tribute, and if you were anywhere near dance music between 2011 and 2018 you already know why that lands hard. Tim Bergling more or less wrote the sound the mainstage still runs on, then he was gone at 28. The festival that helped build him is giving a whole moment back to him. Four tracks to have loaded before you’re standing in that field with everyone else. 1. Avicii - Levels The one that started it. An Etta James sample looped over a piano line so simple...
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Kkriegerz - Waiting For You
Kkriegerz actually commits to a mood on Waiting For You instead of coasting on the usual disposable NCS formula. Pitched-up vocal does the rest.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Is the Superstar DJ Era Over? Yeah, and Good Riddance
The superstar DJ era is over and good riddance. How the press-play frontman lost to Boiler Room, collectives, and amapiano. Yes, we're talking about the cake.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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The one genuinely new thing at Tomorrowland this year
Read more . . . →Here’s the actual news out of this year’s lineup, buried under the headliner circus: on opening Friday, Tomorrowland is running its first full afro house day at the Melodia stage. Not one token DJ shoved into an afternoon slot, a whole bill of South African producers who’ve spent years turning drum patterns into something closer to church. If you only know this festival as big-room fireworks, this is the corner worth walking to. 1. Caiiro - The Akan Caiiro builds tracks like they’re supposed to run twenty minutes, and you resent it when they don’t. The Akan is all rolling...
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Borgeous - In Da Booth
Borgeous is still alive and making festival bangers in 2026, which is a genuine plot twist. In Da Booth is unapologetic big-room throwback.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Tomorrowland turns 20 and the hype is insufferable and mostly earned
Read more . . . →Four days out and my feeds are 90% people you’ll never see again posting the same drone shot of the mainstage. Tomorrowland hits its 20th edition this year, they’ve branded it Consciencia, and yes, most of it is a very expensive Instagram backdrop with a castle stuck on top. But the thing didn’t get this big on nothing. Five tracks that will actually go off in Boom and won’t make you feel stupid for humming them on the flight home. 1. Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike vs Ummet Ozcan - The Hum The Belgian duo are basically Tomorrowland’s house band,...
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Aphex Twin for Beginners (Yes, Start Here)
Where to start with Aphex Twin? Skip the dare-you records. Begin with Selected Ambient Works 85-92, then Richard D. James Album. Start pretty, the terror waits.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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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 blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Five days to Tomorrowland: the anthems doing laps in your head
Read more . . . →Five days out. This is the part of the run-up where the packing lists appear and the Mainstage anthems start doing laps in your head at 3am. Two records built for the exact moment the fireworks go off over the castle: 1. Hardwell - Spaceman The 2012 anthem that basically invented the modern Tomorrowland mainstage drop. That siren lead is pure adrenaline and the build is engineered to launch an entire field off the ground on the same beat. Hardwell is back on the bill this year stepping in for Guetta on the second Friday, and this is the one...
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