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Ben Remember - Truth
Read more . . . →You already know if this is your kind of thing by the second bar, which is exactly what good tech house should do. Ben Remember’s “Truth” on Toolroom is peak-time tech-house with zero wasted motion: a relentless rolling bassline, a chopped vocal stab repeating the title, and a groove that simply does not let up for the entire runtime. This is functional dancefloor music in the best sense, made by someone who clearly knows precisely what a DJ needs at 1am when the floor’s full and the energy has to keep climbing. The bassline has that rubbery, hypnotic bounce Toolroom...
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Justė - Just A Little (feat. Sam Harper)
Justė and Sam Harper's 'Just A Little' is engineered to be inoffensive and somehow has real teeth. Three minutes of pure sugar.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Two Tracks That Broke the Genre Field
Read more . . . →There’s a Brazilian funk vocal buried inside a modular techno track and it heads Mixmag’s best-of list for 2026 so far. There’s a house record on a Ninja Tune imprint that sounds like it was assembled across three time zones at once. Two tracks this week with no fixed address, and both of them are better for the homelessness. 1. Skrillex, Randomer, Blawan & MC Dricka - Thistle This was floating around DJ sets for years before its proper release in May, and the wait was the right call. Blawan’s shredded metallic textures, Randomer’s chopped drum programming, MC Dricka’s Brazilian...
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Overmono Made the Album of the Summer and It's Forty Minutes Long
Read more . . . →Three days with Pure Devotion and I’ve stopped opening Spotify for anything else. Overmono’s second album landed last Thursday — eleven tracks, forty minutes — and it rearranged the rest of my August. Their debut was a controlled detonation. This one is looser, warmer, and it wins every argument the first record started. 1. Overmono - Knight In Shining Prada (feat. John Joseph Holt) BBC Radio 1 gave this the Hottest Record tag and for once the hype was underselling it. John Joseph Holt sings over a beat that lands somewhere between 2-step and a headnod nobody’s named yet, and...
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John Alto - Waiting For
Read more . . . →John Alto’s “Waiting For” slid right into my rotation without asking for permission. It’s deep, melodic house that sits in that late-night, top-down-drive pocket, all warm chords and a bassline you feel more than hear. It never reaches for a huge festival drop, and that restraint is the whole reason it works; the track is about the groove staying locked while little details drift in and out around it. There’s a vocal sample buried low in the mix, pitched and looped until the words dissolve into pure texture, and it’s the glue holding everything together. The kick is soft and...
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John Summit & LAVINIA - Shadows (Ricky Remedy Remix)
Ricky Remedy takes John Summit and LAVINIA's overplayed 'Shadows' and makes it dangerous again by yanking the floor into half-time bass.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Nova Blue & EV - Weekend Cinderella
Nova Blue and EV's 'Weekend Cinderella' is vocal house with a hook that moved in rent-free after one listen. Summer in a bottle.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Bruno Furlan - Overdrive
Read more . . . →I’d drop this one in a set tonight without a second thought. Bruno Furlan makes tech house with a Brazilian swing most of the genre’s grid-locked producers simply can’t fake, and “Overdrive” rolls on one of those basslines that leans a fraction ahead of the beat and keeps tugging you forward by the collar. Toolroom put out a lot of functional peak-time tools, and this one clears that bar with room to spare: there’s real groove in it, more than the competent kick and vocal loop most of these tools settle for. The bassline is the whole star, fat and...
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Mau P - On Again (Butler Remix)
Read more . . . →You’ve heard Mau P even if the name’s new to you — he made “Drugs From Amsterdam,” the tech-house track that was completely inescapable a couple of summers back. “On Again” gets a rework from Butler here, who leans even harder into the hypnotic side than the original did. The bassline is pure rubber, that rolling tech-house groove that sounds simple right up until you try to stand still through it and physically cannot. Butler keeps everything minimal and lets the groove carry it, adding just enough extra percussion and a warped little vocal hook to earn the remix tag....
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Five Lanes, Five Tracks: Your Summer Subgenre Primer
Read more . . . →When did the dancefloor split into five dancefloors? Sometime between June and now, electronic music stopped being one genre and became a whole continent. The Beatport charts look like a census. Every festival stage is its own country with its own dress code. Here’s one track from each lane the summer is running on, for anyone who keeps hearing names they can’t place. 1. Prospa & Cloonee - Free Your Mind Prospa’s live rig meets Cloonee’s low end and what comes out is four minutes of your brain stem being politely relocated. The vocal loop is two words and they...
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