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V. Christie - Say You Love Me
Read more . . . →The first thing you hear is a vocal sample flipped so hard it takes a second to register there’s a human under there, and that little disorientation is the hook before the actual hook arrives. V. Christie builds “Say You Love Me” around that chopped voice, pitching and stretching it until it’s basically another synth, and the effect is genuinely lovely — pop songwriting smuggled inside a dancefloor track. About a minute in the drums finally commit and it turns into a proper future-bass-leaning banger, all wide chords and a warm wobble sitting on the low mids. This is another...
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zensei ゼンセー & Holochrome - far away (ORACLE Remix)
Read more . . . →The first thing you hear is a vocal sample sped up until it’s basically a bird, and that pitched-up chirp becomes the entire emotional core of the track. ORACLE’s remix of zensei ゼンセー and Holochrome’s “far away” is future bass with the melancholy dialled all the way up, the kind of thing MrSuicideSheep has built a whole channel on. The drop trades the usual festival maximalism for something more delicate, supersaws that shimmer instead of scream. It’s washed-out and a little sad in a way that feels like scrolling old photos on your phone at 2am. The percussion is light,...
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Ninajirachi, Porter Robinson - WannaCry
Read more . . . →This one genuinely made me sit up. Ninajirachi has been one of the most exciting producers in the hyper-melodic corner of electronic music for a while now, and getting Porter Robinson onto a track called “WannaCry” is the kind of pairing that could go either magic or mess. It’s magic. The whole thing has that specific 2010s-internet-nostalgia sheen both artists do so well, all pitched vocals and sugar-rush synths that somehow land as genuinely emotional instead of merely cute. Porter’s fingerprints are all over the melodic writing, but Ninajirachi’s production keeps it weird and a little broken, glitchy in the...
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k?d - breathe (feat. Nevve)
Read more . . . →k?d has spent years building this whole sci-fi mythology around his project, the lost-in-space visuals and the question-mark name, and the funny thing is the music usually backs up the theater. “breathe” pairs him with Nevve, who has quietly sung on half the melodic dance records you’ve loved without ever getting the credit, and she’s the secret weapon again here. The track opens like it’s going to be a gentle one and then the drop arrives with teeth, that crunchy melodic dubstep snarl that k?d does better than almost anyone working right now. What keeps it from being just another...
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KAIVON - To Build A Home
Read more . . . →Naming a track “To Build A Home” sets a bar, because the Cinematic Orchestra song with that title is one of the most quietly devastating pieces of music of the last twenty years, and you do not borrow that title lightly. KAIVON either doesn’t know that or doesn’t care, and weirdly the confidence works in his favor. This is big, open-hearted melodic bass, the kind designed for that moment at a festival when the sun’s going down and ten thousand people decide to feel something at once. The chords are warm, the drop is more emotional than aggressive, and there’s...
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