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ZKG - Right Here
Read more . . . →“Right Here” has more bite than the label it’s on usually gets credit for. NCS tracks get written off as gaming-stream wallpaper, and ZKG mostly ignores that ceiling: this is built around a catchy vocal hook, sure, but the drop earns its keep with a punchy, mid-tempo bass groove and a lead that snaps rather than soars. It’s clean, radio-ready electronic pop with just enough grit in the low end to keep it from floating away. The best bit is the second drop at 2:05, where a counter-melody sneaks in over the top and gives the whole thing a lift...
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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
Read more . . . →The vocal on “Waiting For You” is pitched up just enough to sound like it’s calling from the next room over, and that slightly uncanny quality is what pulls the whole track together. This is an NCS release, which usually means disposable background music for Twitch streams, and Kkriegerz mostly transcends the format by actually committing to a mood. It’s melodic bass with a real melancholy streak, the kind of track that manages to sound euphoric and a little heartbroken at once. The drop trades screaming synths for a supersaw lead that swells rather than stabs, and it hits harder...
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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
Read more . . . →Borgeous is still alive and making festival bangers, which in 2026 counts as a genuine plot twist. “In Da Booth” is unapologetic big-room throwback material — the exact sound that ate EDM alive around 2014 and then got laughed straight out of the room a couple years later. Here’s the thing though: played this confidently, it still works on a lizard-brain level. A nagging vocal chant, a supersaw lead built for a hundred thousand phone lights, a kick you feel in your sternum. There’s no reinvention on offer and Borgeous clearly wants none of it; this is comfort food for...
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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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