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Dubdogz, Voltech, Faiolli - California Dreamin'
Read more . . . →Flipping “California Dreamin’” is a high-risk move — the Mamas & the Papas original is so lodged in the collective memory that most dance edits end up sounding like karaoke with a kick drum bolted on. This one earns it. Dubdogz and company keep the melancholy of that famous melody fully intact and build a big, open-air drop around it that somehow never tramples the source material. The vocal chop lands right on the beat at 1:15 and the bass that answers it has real punch, that bouncy Brazilian-bass warmth made for festival fields at golden hour. It won’t change...
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Julian Jordan - Bad B*tch
Julian Jordan's Bad B*tch is exactly as unsubtle as the title promises. Electro house that doesn't ask permission to slap.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Ahmed Spins vs Mike Dunn - Phunky
Read more . . . →This one’s a proper collision of eras. Mike Dunn is Chicago house royalty and Ahmed Spins comes out of the newer Afro-house wave, and “Phunky” (extended mix, the only way house should ever be served) fuses the two into something that genuinely struts. The bassline is all analog warmth, that classic Chi-town bump, and Dunn’s vocal — you clock the voice the second it comes in — sits on top like a preacher working a Sunday crowd. Ahmed Spins brings the modern low-end weight and a hypnotic percussive swing rolling underneath it all. Give it until the 3-minute mark, where...
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Habstrakt - Everyday (VIP)
Habstrakt's Everyday VIP takes an already filthy bass house track and cranks it further. Not sure our speakers consented to this.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Curbi - Down To The Sound
Read more . . . →Down To The Sound rides one rubbery bassline for its whole runtime and never once gets boring, which is its own kind of flex. Curbi was making festival-sized records before he could legally drink, and this is him sounding fully grown into the sound he’s chased since he was a teenager. It’s a groove-first house track, less concerned with a huge drop than with a low end that refuses to sit still. A vocal snippet gets chopped into the rhythm so tightly it becomes percussion. That’s the trick here: everything is groove and nothing is filler. The drop doesn’t explode...
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It's here again. Weekend two opens today.
Read more . . . →Gates open in Boom in a few hours and the second, better weekend of Tomorrowland is officially on. You either flew to Belgium or you’re doing what the rest of us are doing, which is refreshing the livestream at your desk and pretending to work. Either way the mainstage wants your hands in the air, so I’m not going to fight it. These four are the pure sundown-singalong anthems, the ones with no shame and no subtlety, and today is the one day of the year you’re allowed to love them out loud. 1. Tiësto - Red Lights The Belgian...
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deadmau5: The Troll Who Took EDM Seriously
deadmau5 is a mouse-headed Twitter troll, sure. He's also one of the most serious producers in EDM. 'Strobe' settles the argument.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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The slow stages at Tomorrowland are where the grown-ups hide
Read more . . . →Not everyone at Tomorrowland wants their organs rearranged. Some people wander off to the melodic and progressive stages, order a beer, and let something with actual chords wash over them for an hour. This is the part of the festival nobody films, because a slow filter build doesn’t play well as a nine-second clip, and that’s precisely why it’s worth being there. Weekend two opens in two days. Here’s the quieter lane. 1. Above & Beyond feat. Richard Bedford - Sun & Moon Fifteen years on and this still makes trance skeptics go quiet. The Richard Bedford vocal does most...
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Chasing Kurt - From The Inside (Reznik Remix)
Read more . . . →The bassline walks in on the offbeat and never sits down — that’s the whole engine of Reznik’s remix of “From The Inside,” and it’s enough. Defected doesn’t put its name on things that don’t work on a dancefloor, and this is a pure floor tool: a rolling, hypnotic house groove that locks in around the 2:00 mark and refuses to let go. Chasing Kurt’s original vocal gets chopped and looped until it’s more rhythmic than lyrical, riding on top of a kick that’s mixed exactly right — present without being a headache. This is the kind of track that...
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Kym Sims - Too Blind To See It (Ridney & Richard Earnshaw Rework)
Read more . . . →Kym Sims’ “Too Blind To See It” has been a house record since 1991, and dragging a vocal that iconic into 2026 is a risk: get it wrong and you’ve defaced a classic. Ridney and Richard Earnshaw get it right by not overthinking it. This rework keeps Sims’ original vocal front and centre, all warmth and Chicago attitude, and simply gives it a modern, plush soulful-house bed to sit on. The bassline is round and organic, the kind that sounds like it was played rather than programmed, and there’s a piano riff around 1:50 that lifts the whole thing into...
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