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Egzod, Lost Sky, Alaina Cross - Fight In Me
Read more . . . →Heard this soundtracking somebody’s gym montage and had to pause the clip to hunt down what it was. Fight In Me is a big, earnest, melodic-dubstep anthem of exactly the sort built to score that kind of moment, three names stacked on the credit, a soaring Alaina Cross vocal about finding the fight inside yourself, and a drop designed to make you load another plate onto the bar. Cynically, I know precisely which buttons it is pressing. It does not matter. The chord progression is pure uplift, the kind of major-key climb that has reliably moved people for decades, and...
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WinWel - Memories
Read more . . . →If MrSuicideSheep put it out, you can usually guess the temperature before you press play, and Memories sits right in that bittersweet melodic pocket the channel built its whole identity on. WinWel works with soft, glassy synths and a vocal cut into little sighing fragments, the words barely there, more feeling than sentence. It’s future-bass adjacent without the genre’s worst habit of exploding into a wall of detuned saws at every drop. Instead the lead is almost shy, a plucked melody circling the same four notes, letting the space around them do the emotional work. There’s a warmth to the...
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Ghost Jr - 2 Phones
Read more . . . →Stumbled into this at 1am somewhere down a Dim Mak rabbit hole and it was the first thing in an hour that made me stop scrolling. 2 Phones is hard to pin to a single genre, which is most of why I like it, a dark, bass-heavy electronic track that pulls from trap, from G-house, from whatever Ghost Jr felt like grabbing, held together by attitude more than any one sound. The title nods at the Kevin Gates track and the whole thing carries that same menacing late-night swagger, a slow tempo, a bassline that drips, a vocal sample chopped...
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Silver Bullet - NOBODY ELSE
Silver Bullet aims straight at the main stage with a drop that wants forty thousand people singing along. Clean, bright and built to be enormous.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Nitro Fun, dnvn & Nito-Onna - if you wanna love me
Read more . . . →The lead synth in if you wanna love me sounds like a video-game boss theme that wandered into a rave, bright saw-wave arpeggios stacked until they’re almost too much. Nitro Fun has always made music that grins, chiptune DNA bleeding into festival electro, and teaming with dnvn and Nito-Onna just piles on more sugar and more punch. The vocal is a simple pleading hook, chopped and pitched around until it’s basically another synth line in the stack. At 1:28 the drop hits and it’s pure serotonin, the kind of thing that would turn a tired Monstercat crowd back into teenagers...
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Naeleck - Came To Meet My Fate (feat. Jeremy Lister & F8)
Read more . . . →Had this on in the kitchen and caught myself conducting the drop with a wooden spoon, which is about as honest a review as I can give. Came To Meet My Fate is Naeleck in full widescreen mode, the French producer who’s spent the last couple of years welding motorsport energy onto big melodic electronic drops. Jeremy Lister’s vocal is the anchor, a proper singer rather than a chopped sample, selling a slightly overwrought lyric with enough conviction that you buy it anyway. The build is pure anticipation, strings and a four-on-the-floor kick ratcheting up until the drop arrives on...
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P3PPER, Jibaan - Halcyon
P3PPER and Jibaan play Halcyon as proper build-and-release trance, no hybrid trend chasing. Snuck up on me and I'm not mad about it.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Lyrah - Stay Right Here
Lyrah's cracked, close-mic'd voice sits right up front on this one and it wrecked me a little. Wasn't braced for it. Fair warning.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Laeko - DONT WANNA KNOW!!!
Read more . . . →The bassline in DONT WANNA KNOW!!! has a little hiccup built into it, a dropped sixteenth that makes the whole groove trip and catch itself every bar, and that stumble is what I can’t stop listening to. Laeko builds this out of bright, rubbery house synths and a vocal chop that sounds like someone shouting the title down a hallway, and the three exclamation marks turn out to be accurate. It moves. The whole track has a restless, forward-leaning energy, nothing sitting still long enough to get comfortable, new little details flicking in and out of the mix every few...
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Blake Farfan - Contours
Blake Farfan keeps dropping melodic house that belongs in a car ad to almost nobody. Contours deserves way more ears than it's getting.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
