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Slow Magic & artermis orion - Half Alive
Slow Magic and artermis orion's Half Alive sounds like a field at dusk with the last light going. Gentle, handmade, never raises its voice.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Pegboard Nerds, Teminite & VGR - Disconnected Again
Pegboard Nerds, Teminite and VGR team up for Disconnected Again, three producers who somehow agreed on the assignment for once. Stupid fun.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Domeno - Where I'm From
Domeno's Where I'm From has a chip on its shoulder, a gritty, defiant big-room track with an actual point of view. Proud, angry, stuck in my head.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Calvin Harris headlines Tomorrowland and the man just prints money
Read more . . . →Ten days out, and Calvin Harris is one of three names holding down the Mainstage for opening weekend. Somewhere along the way the skinny Scottish kid who made “Acceptable in the 80s” became the highest-paid DJ alive and started writing pop songs for anyone with a pulse. His Tomorrowland set is basically a greatest-hits victory lap. Three that’ll show up: 1. Calvin Harris, Rihanna - This Is What You Came For Built on about four notes and unbeatable because of it. The restraint is the trick. The whole track is tension waiting for a chorus that barely arrives, and Rihanna...
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Digital X - The Night
Digital X's The Night is widescreen festival electronic that only makes sense at volume with a few thousand strangers around you. Save it for the dark.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Conni, Lynxie, THEBOYBENNIE - WOULD U
Conni, Lynxie and THEBOYBENNIE's WOULD U is an NCS track with an actual sneer in it, which is rarer than it should be. Worth a spin, louder than expected.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Every Festival Lineup Is the Same Eight Names
Every festival headliner is the same eight names because the top of the poster is a spreadsheet. The undercard is where the fun actually is.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Tomorrowland is 11 days out and the internet has lost its mind
Read more . . . →Tomorrowland kicks off in Boom in eleven days, and the internet has already decided it’s the greatest thing to ever happen to a Belgian field. Two weekends, sixteen stages, five hundred names, one castle-shaped mainstage that costs more than most people’s houses. You don’t need a €500 ticket to hear the tracks that’ll actually run the place, though. Here’s the pre-game: the songs the Mainstage will lean on before Guetta pretends he built them from scratch. 1. Martin Garrix - Animals The one that turned a Dutch teenager into a headliner. That three-note lead still detonates a crowd on contact,...
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Fractures - Block (I'm not what you need)
Fractures goes full heartbreak on Block, all cracked falsetto and a beat dragging its feet on purpose. Late-night music for people going through it.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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2ACES - All Night (What It Feels Like)
2ACES prove big-room house isn't dead, it's just been waiting for a drop this shameless. All Night is built for forty thousand hands going up at once.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
