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Lykke Li - Future Fear (Killen. Remix)
Read more . . . →It is one in the morning and a Lykke Li song has somehow become a weapon, which is not a sentence I expected to type this year. Future Fear already lived on The Afterparty, the album where she finally gave in and made the breakup record a dance record, and Killen. takes that impulse the rest of the way. He keeps her voice almost untouched, that specific Swedish melancholy that always sounds like it is being sung through a closing door, and builds a patient, pulsing house track underneath it until the sadness has a four-four heartbeat. The restraint is...
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Junior Jack, Mark Knight, James Hurr - Feelings
Read more . . . →There is a disco string stab in Feelings that sounds like it was lifted straight off a 1979 twelve-inch, and the moment it drops in, the whole track grins. Getting Junior Jack in a room with Mark Knight and James Hurr is a genuinely exciting prospect if you have any history with this music, Junior Jack being the man behind E Samba and Thrill Me, records that basically soundtracked a decade of European clubs. Feelings leans into that lineage hard. It is tech house with the disco left in, a filtered loop that struts rather than stomps, topped with a...
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Jay Sync - Midnight Blues
Read more . . . →First thing in a while that made me want to be in a sweaty room full of strangers. Midnight Blues is deep, slightly melancholy house, the sort that understands the dancefloor is also where people go to feel their feelings in public. Jay Sync builds it on a warm, rolling bassline and a vocal that floats somewhere between a hook and a sigh, and the whole thing has a blue-hour glow to it, lonely but not sad, the specific mood of the last hour before a club turns the lights up. There is a piano figure that comes in late...
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Habstrakt & Nostalgix - Split Signal
Read more . . . →When did bass house get this mean, and why is nobody stopping it? Split Signal is Habstrakt and Nostalgix feeding off each other in the worst way for your speakers and the best way for your night. Habstrakt has been a reliable supplier of that French, rubber-ball bass house bounce for years, all springy low-end and precision drops, and Nostalgix brings the thing it was missing: an actual presence on the mic, bars spat with real attitude instead of a borrowed pop vocal dropped in from a sample pack. The result is a track with a chip on its shoulder....
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SGGLERS - Babalù (feat. KEL)
SGGLERS and KEL turn Babalù into a full-on party starter. Latin-tinged, loud and impossible to sit still through. Move. Seriously good.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Sace - Caramel
Sace pours Caramel all over your afternoon and it's sticky in the best way. Smooth, sweet and dangerously replayable. Seriously good.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Mason Collective & VLAD vs Route 94 - Tell You Why
Mason Collective & VLAD vs Route 94: Tell You Why is a house throwback with zero shame. Groove first, questions never. Play it.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Oden & Fatzo x THEOS - Someone Like You
Oden & Fatzo x THEOS took Someone Like You and dragged it onto a dance floor. Yes, that one. Somehow it works. Hate us. Seriously good.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Rae Sada - MAKE IT HOT! (Extended Mix)
Rae Sada refuses to let you sit still on this peak-time house cut from Defected's DFTD. The capital letters and exclamation mark aren't lying.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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HESTER - I Need An Angel
HESTER's euphoric vocal house sounds like a 2009 trance throwback nobody asked for, and it ambushed us anyway. Annoyingly good.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
