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Glitch Cat, prodBigMike - once more
Glitch Cat and prodBigMike's once more is genre-fluid NCS bait that got stuck in my head against my will. Free-to-use isn't disposable.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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P3PPER, Jibaan - Again (In My Mind)
Read more . . . →If you write off everything on NCS as faceless gaming-video fuel, Again (In My Mind) is the kind of track that argues back. P3PPER and Jibaan turn in a melodic electronic cut with a vocal hook that’s genuinely stuck in my head, that half-sung “in my mind” refrain looping long after I’d closed the tab. NCS gets dismissed as a copyright-free content mill, and plenty of it is exactly that, but every so often the label puts out something that would hold its own on a proper release. This is one. The production is bright and clean, the drop trades...
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Dejector - Run Together (feat. Ella Clayton)
Read more . . . →Found this at midnight through the MrSuicideSheep rabbit hole and it kept me up another hour. Run Together pairs Dejector with Ella Clayton for a melodic electronic track that sits somewhere between future bass and something softer, and it caught me off guard with how much it actually feels. Clayton’s vocal is the anchor, a little fragile in a way that reads as real rather than performed, and the production gives it room instead of burying it under maximalist noise the way this style usually does. When the drop finally opens up it’s warm and wide, more sunrise than fireworks....
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Netrum, Halvorsen - Glowing
Read more . . . →If you’ve spent any time in the NCS corner of YouTube, Netrum and Halvorsen are practically furniture by now, and “Glowing” is them doing the bright, melodic thing they’ve gotten excellent at. This is copyright-free music, a category people love to sneer at, and the best of it has more craft than the sneering allows. “Glowing” is one of the good ones. It rides a plucky, feel-good lead and a vocal that stays just this side of saccharine, and the drop opens up into something genuinely warm rather than just loud. Halvorsen’s fingerprints are all over the topline; he’s got...
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Lynxie, Pat - LABELS
Read more . . . →Found this soundtracking a stranger’s gaming clip and had to go hunting for the ID, which is the exact path NCS was built to send you down. “LABELS” pairs Lynxie and Pat on a bit of melodic, future-bass-leaning electronic that’s more emotionally invested than the copyright-free-music tag usually implies. The vocal (one of them, or both, hard to tell in the stacked harmonies) carries a genuine ache under the polish, all longing about being defined by other people’s names for you, which the title spells out plainly enough. The drop trades screech for melody, supersaws swelling up into something almost...
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Vanic - Miserable (feat. The Duchess)
Read more . . . →Remember when Vanic was all over the remix circuit and then just sort of receded into the background hum of the internet? “Miserable” is the sound of him remembering he’s good at this. The Duchess sings the title like a flex instead of a confession, and Vanic wraps her in that plush, faintly melancholy future-bass chord work he’s always had a knack for, the kind that feels like a sunset you’re a little sad to be watching alone. The drop swells rather than lunges, all supersaws and a vocal chop cut from her own line, gathering the melody up instead...
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NGHTMRE & Jordin Sparks - No Air
Read more . . . →Remember crying to “No Air” in 2008? NGHTMRE just turned it into a festival weapon and somehow kept the heartbreak intact. Getting Jordin Sparks herself back on the hook is the move that makes this work. It would have been so easy to chop the old vocal and call it a flip, and instead she re-sings it with seventeen more years of weight sitting in her voice. NGHTMRE builds the first half like a proper pop record, all space and tension, letting that famous melody breathe before he detonates it. The drop is huge and bass-forward without ever burying her,...
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Cartoon, Jozels, Kazhi - Like A Melody
Read more . . . →Somewhere right now a Twitch streamer is queuing this up as background music, and honestly it’ll do that job beautifully, but it deserves an actual listen too. “Like A Melody” is NCS melodic bass done with more care than the label usually gets credit for. Cartoon has a real ear for a wistful topline, and here the vocal from Jozels floats over a build that takes its time before opening into a warm, glowing future-bass drop. The sound palette is bright and a little nostalgic, the kind of production that scores a montage of a good year you’re already missing...
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Future Bass, Explained (Before It Disappeared)
Future bass owned 2016 — that detuned, breathing supersaw chop. Here's what the genre actually was, who built it (Flume, Cashmere Cat), and why it vanished.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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gabriawll - One Day
gabriawll's 'One Day' is a small heartbreak with a beat under it. Some days you just want the track that makes you sad on purpose.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
