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Dani Thorne - The Afters (Hard Dance ViP)
Read more . . . →I didn’t expect to be this into a hard dance VIP on a weeknight, and yet here we are, three plays deep. Dani Thorne has spent the last stretch reinventing herself as a genuinely hard-hitting techno and hard-dance artist, and The Afters in this VIP form is the most convincing evidence yet that the pivot is real and not a celebrity-DJ cosplay. The original already had legs; this version straps a rocket to them. The tempo is up, the kick hits like a battering ram, and the whole thing has that euphoric-but-brutal quality the best hard dance lives for, where...
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Charlie Sparks x LAWTON - Feel The Vibe
Read more . . . →Techno got loud and fast again and Charlie Sparks is one of the main reasons why. The London producer has spent the last couple of years dragging hard techno back into the spotlight, all BPMs up in the 150s and a crowd that looks more like a mosh pit than a rave, and Feel The Vibe with LAWTON is a direct hit of exactly that. The title doubles as a chant, a vocal stab looped until it stops being language and becomes pure propulsion, riding over a kick built to assault, not groove. There’s a rave-era nostalgia baked into this...
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Conrad Taylor, Lewis Laite & Courtney Paige Nelson - Dopamine
Conrad Taylor, Lewis Laite and Courtney Paige Nelson basically bottled Dopamine and sold it as a track. We're hooked. No refunds.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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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 . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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AVAO - Bad Behaviour
AVAO's Bad Behaviour is hard techno for a warehouse where everyone's wearing black and nobody's checking the time. 150 BPM and mean.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow.
