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Jasper Tygner - 28 eyes
Read more . . . →How do you make glitchy, broken electronic music that still feels warm? 28 eyes has an answer. This is a MrSuicideSheep upload, which usually promises something pretty and emotional, but Jasper Tygner roughs the formula up, running a fragile vocal through stutters and cuts until it sounds like it is buffering on purpose. The beat underneath is skittery and off-grid, closer to early Mount Kimbie than the channel’s usual glassy future-bass. It should feel cold and it does not, because the melody keeps tugging it back toward something human. The restraint is the smart part: Tygner never lets the processing...
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AK & Liam Thomas - Soft Touch
Read more . . . →Soft Touch is a feature track dressed up as a duo, AK handling the production and Liam Thomas the vocal, and it is pleasant in a way I kept wanting to push harder. This is melodic, future-bass-adjacent electronic music of the sort MrSuicideSheep uploads constantly, all glassy synths and a yearning topline, engineered to soundtrack someone’s emotional moment on a screen somewhere. Liam Thomas has a genuinely lovely voice, breathy and controlled, and he is the best thing here by a distance. The problem is the production plays it safe at every turn. The drop, when it finally comes, swaps...
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Jack Garratt - Higher
Read more . . . →If you lost track of Jack Garratt after the 2016 hype cycle chewed him up, Higher is a good reason to check back in. He was briefly anointed the future of British music, won the BRITs Critics’ Choice, and then mostly stepped away to deal with the weight of all that, which is its own long story. This track is him doing the thing he was always best at, a huge gospel-sized vocal welded to electronic production that lurches between delicate and enormous with no warning. The drop is less a drop than a full-body swell, organ-ish synths and a...
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gabriawll, Ada Petcu - Desire
Read more . . . →This is far better than an NCS release has any right to be. Desire puts gabriawll with vocalist Ada Petcu for a melodic electronic track that sidesteps most of the copyright-free blandness the label is known for, and it does it by actually committing to a feeling. Petcu’s vocal is the anchor, breathy and a little desperate, sitting over a production that builds patiently toward a drop trading the usual EDM supersaw wall for something cleaner and colder. The synth carrying the hook has a slightly melancholy detune that keeps the euphoria from going fully plastic. What I like is...
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Fink & Jan Blomqvist - More
Read more . . . →Driving home after midnight with this on, I missed my exit and did not especially mind. More is a collaboration between Fink and Jan Blomqvist, two artists who come at electronic music from the song side, not the club, and it shows in the best way. Fink’s voice is a worn, intimate thing, all breath and cracked grain, and Blomqvist builds a patient, hypnotic groove beneath it that unfolds slowly. Nothing here detonates. It accumulates: a muted kick, a bassline you feel more than hear, little granular textures layering up until the whole thing has taken over the room without...
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MatricK - Loneliness
How many dance tracks called Loneliness does the world need? One more, apparently, because MatricK's big room take beats the rest of them.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Detmex - Free
Read more . . . →The breakdown at 2:10 drops out every drum and leaves a single searching synth line hanging for four bars, and that pause is the best idea on the record. Free is a Detmex track on Revealed sitting in the melodic, big-room-adjacent lane the label has leaned into lately, euphoric and polished and aimed squarely at a sunset festival slot. The build is textbook, a vocal cut repeating the title, a riser that runs slightly too long, then a drop with a bright plucky lead reaching for the sky. What saves it from the Revealed sameness pile is that lead melody,...
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onte - halcyon
Read more . . . →Three plays in and I still cannot decide whether halcyon is genuinely moving or just very good at pretending, which is probably the most interesting thing about it. onte is an NCS artist, which means this is built to be dropped into a gaming montage or a creator’s video royalty-free, part of a catalogue engineered to be useful first and personal second. And yet halcyon has a real wistfulness to it, a melodic electronic track with a vocal cut and a drop that picks glow over aggression. The melody is strong enough that it would survive well outside the NCS...
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Ravekings & JSPH - Acid Fire
Ravekings and JSPH built a big room festival weapon called Acid Fire. It does exactly what the name says and your speakers will file a complaint.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Retro Kid - Let It Out
Read more . . . →Caught this one on a late drive with nobody else on the road and it fit the mood so exactly it felt rigged. Let It Out turned up on MrSuicideSheep, the channel that has introduced half a generation to melodic electronic music through a sheep logo and zero hype, and it is a prime example of what that channel does best. It is bright, emotional, melodic electronic music built around a vocal and a drop that goes for uplift over impact. Retro Kid is not a name you will see on a festival poster, and that is sort of the...
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