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Da Hool - Meet Her At The Love Parade (Don Diablo ReHex)
Read more . . . →If you have ever been anywhere near a warehouse party, you already know this riff even if the name means nothing to you. “Meet Her At The Love Parade” has been detonating dancefloors since 1997, and Don Diablo’s ReHex is smart enough not to touch the part of your brain that already loves it. That hypnotic, slightly menacing bassline stays exactly where it belongs. What he does instead is modernise the frame around it, tighter drums and a cleaner low end and a bit more punch in the kick so the thing translates to a 2026 sound system rather than...
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Defected Owns This Summer
Read more . . . →Defected is running this summer and nobody held a vote. Ibiza residency at Chinois, a Most Rated compilation that reads like a hall of fame, and a run of singles that turned TikTok accidents into proper records. Three of the best. 1. Piem & SLM - Activated The bass hits like someone dropping a cabinet down a stairwell and the vocal loop latches on in about eight seconds. It started on Barcelona’s Jackies label, went viral when Luke Dean turned it into a TikTok mashup, and Defected made the official version before the hype cooled. Sometimes the internet A&Rs better...
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Five Records the Playlist Editors Missed
Read more . . . →How many of the 2026 releases in your library actually got finished? The full album, the whole EP, side B included. Summer buried some of the best electronic records of the year under festival playlists and seasonal mood tags, and five of them deserve better. 1. Joris Voorn - Horizon (Melatonin Version) Voorn premiered his ambient album Melatonin in a 360-degree planetarium in Amsterdam for an audience of 320. A nice stunt. The record is better than the stunt. This version of Horizon strips everything to pads and a pulse that barely qualifies as a beat — about four minutes...
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Stryv - Patigo (Extended Mix)
Read more . . . →Afro house is eating everyone’s lunch right now, and tracks like this are why. “Patigo” is Stryv working that rolling, percussive Afro-house groove, all congas and shakers and a bassline that bounces on the offbeat until your hips give in and do the same. The extended mix gives it room to breathe, seven-plus minutes of gradual build where a DJ can lock a floor into a hypnotic state without ever hitting a big obvious drop. That’s the trick of this sound: it rolls rather than peaks, relentless and circular, the kind of groove you look up from and realise you’ve...
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Route 94 - 4Get The Girl (Mellizos Remix)
Read more . . . →Heard this out of a passing car with the windows down and clocked the piano before I clocked the artist. “4Get The Girl” is Route 94, the guy responsible for “My Love,” that inescapable 2014 deep-house number, and the Mellizos remix drags it somewhere sweatier and more direct. It’s built on a vocal loop and a piano stab that’s pure UK house lineage, the kind of chord progression that’s been putting hands in the air since the early nineties. Mellizos keep the groove rolling and resist over-producing it. The drums stay dry and punchy, the bass stays simple, and the...
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L3VI - In Motion
Read more . . . →Caught this on shuffle at the gym and had to check what it was mid-set. “In Motion” by L3VI is exactly what the title promises, driving, forward-tilted electronic music that feels like acceleration. Another NCS release, leaning into the label’s brighter, more anthemic side: a soaring lead, a four-on-the-floor pulse, and a drop that opens into pure momentum. There’s a plucked arp running underneath that keeps the whole thing from ever sitting still, plus a vocal chop used sparingly, more rhythm than hook. The second half stacks a counter-melody over the first, and that small bit of extra lift is...
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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 . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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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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