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Route 94 - 4Get The Girl (Samm Remix)
Samm strips Route 94's 4Get The Girl to the skeleton and rebuilds it for 1am in a loud room. Real damage, generic breakdown.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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LEYO & Thierry Ganz - Stamina (Extended Mix)
Read more . . . →You already know if a Defected extended mix is for you, and Stamina is a good one. LEYO and Thierry Ganz turn in a piano-and-bassline house cut built for the long haul, which the seven-minute runtime makes clear from the jump. This is proper daytime-terrace house: a rolling groove, a vocal chopped into a mantra, and a piano riff that shows up at the halfway mark and lifts the whole thing into the sky. Defected have a formula and it’s a good formula, and Stamina hits every beat of it without feeling lazy about it. The bassline has a lovely...
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Eli Brown - Damaged
Read more . . . →Eli Brown has turned into one of the most dependable names in peak-time techno, and Damaged is another brick in that wall. This is 2am music, dark and driving, built for a room with no windows and a fog machine working overtime. The bassline is a relentless, distorted throb that doesn’t let up for the full runtime, and over it Brown lays a vocal chopped and processed into something between a threat and a come-on. It’s the sound of the big warehouse techno that took over the UK these last few years, and Brown does it about as well as...
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Reece Rosé, STREETSINEZ - Just Need Ya
Read more . . . →This is a proper little earworm and I’m mildly annoyed about it. “Just Need Ya” from Reece Rosé and STREETSINEZ is bouncy, garage-tinged house on NCS, the kind of track engineered to be immediate and absolutely succeeding at it. At 1:18 the beat strips back to just the vocal and a shuffling hi-hat before the bass rolls back in, and that little reset is the hook that got its claws in me. The vocal’s got a UKG lilt to it, all swing and cheek, riding a bassline that skips instead of thudding. STREETSINEZ keeps turning up on these bright house...
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Oden & Fatzo x Noa Milee - You Don't Want To Think About It (Live Session)
Read more . . . →There’s a Defected live session shot in some sun-drenched room and it makes you want to quit your job and learn to DJ badly. Oden & Fatzo have been turning into one of the most fun house acts going, all bouncing basslines and vocal hooks that lodge before the first chorus is done, and “You Don’t Want To Think About It” with Noa Milee is peak them. The live-session format suits it; you can see the thing being built, hands on the gear, Noa Milee’s vocal happening in the room rather than comped together after the fact. At 2:41 the...
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LP Giobbi, Bruno Be & Carola feat. Clover County - Do For Love
Read more . . . →If you’ve caught LP Giobbi live, you know she plays actual piano over house music like her life depends on it, and that keyboard-forward energy is all over “Do For Love.” Team her with Bruno Be and Carola and you get a warm, four-to-the-floor house record built around a big, hands-in-the-air piano riff and a vocal hook that wants to be sung back at it. This is feel-good house with real chops under the hood; LP Giobbi comes from a jazz-piano background and it shows in the little runs she can’t help sneaking into the breakdown. The groove is sturdy...
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Don Diablo - I Miss The Old Don Diablo Mix (2012-2014 Era)
A fan-made mix resurrects 2012-2014 Don Diablo, back when future house was new and he wasn't chasing playlist real estate.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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ARE WE DREAMING & Brian Tyler - Godlike
Read more . . . →You’ve heard Brian Tyler’s music whether you know his name or not; the man has scored Fast & Furious sequels and half the Marvel B-team, and here he is turning up on a track split between NCS and Monstercat, the two channels that soundtrack every gaming montage on Earth. “Godlike” leans all the way into that lineage: cinematic, chest-puffing, built to play under a slow-motion shot of someone winning something. And you know what, it works on those terms. The intro stacks strings and a choir-ish pad like Tyler’s scoring a trailer, then around the minute mark it hands off...
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RUZE & Chesster - Another Night (Ranger Trucco Remix)
Read more . . . →How is a song called “Another Night” this good at making a Tuesday feel like a Friday? The Ranger Trucco remix of RUZE & Chesster’s original strips it back to essentials: a rubbery bassline, a vocal chopped into a hook that repeats just past the point of comfort and then turns hypnotic, and a kick you feel more than hear. It’s tech-house that leans warm rather than clinical; there’s a swing on the hats that keeps it human instead of letting the grid take over. The whole thing is built for one job, to get a room moving at midnight...
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Moby, Jacob Lusk, BLOND:ISH, Kiko Franco - Natural Blues (TECIE) (Live from Way Out West)
Read more . . . →I did not expect a 1999 Moby track to be the thing that got me this week, and yet here we are. “Natural Blues” was already one of the great uses of a sample in dance music (that keening Vera Hall field recording, “Oh Lordy, trouble so hard,” lifted off an Alan Lomax tape and dropped into a house track) and this live reworking finds a way to make it hit new. Jacob Lusk from Gabriels takes the vocal that was originally a sample and sings it live, and a gospel-trained voice turns the sorrow in it from a ghostly...
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