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Hel:sløwed & Nina de Koning - Give It To Me
Read more . . . →When did hardstyle vocals get this good? Give It To Me puts Hel:sløwed with Nina de Koning, and her performance is the thing dragging the track clear of the genre’s usual cheese. This is hard dance on the classic template, a euphoric vocal intro, a screaming reverse-bass kick, and a drop designed to make a field of people in bucket hats lose their minds. What de Koning brings is actual longing in the topline, selling the emotional build so that when the kick finally punches through it feels like release instead of just volume. The reverse bass is enormous and...
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Jessica Audiffred & RayRay - Back To You
Jessica Audiffred and RayRay, two bass music lifers, wander into hard techno and absolutely wreck the place. Back To You is not polite.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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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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DJ Rob Fabrie - Make Some Noise (weirdtechnogirlfriend & PAUL LE BÁY Remake)
weirdtechnogirlfriend's remake of Make Some Noise has a rave whistle I still can't decide is genius or a crime. Maximalist hard dance.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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909 RACING TEAM x DJ Melvin - L.O.I.S.
909 RACING TEAM x DJ Melvin's L.O.I.S. is trance at its rowdiest, least tasteful mode. Sweaty festival tent energy, not candlelit Anjuna.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Darren Styles feat. MERYLL - Miss You
Darren Styles is hard dance royalty and this one with MERYLL hits like nostalgia weaponized. You already know what it does.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Unsenses - Far From Home
Unsenses drops classic Dirty Workz hardstyle — massive melodic build, euphoric kicks, and absolutely no apologies. Your neighbors will hate you.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Strixter - Let Him Cook
Strixter's rawstyle hardstyle actually builds something instead of just screaming for four minutes. The kick will dislodge fillings. That's the intended use.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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RayRay - Move Your Body [Hard Dance]
RayRay on Monstercat hard dance. Move Your Body is pure chaos on a leash — your body will move whether you want it to or not.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Bossfight - Shock Limit
Bossfight - Shock Limit sounds exactly like a video game boss fight. That's the highest possible compliment and it's relentless.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.