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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 . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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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 . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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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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Calcou - 24 (Live from Leipzig)
Read more . . . →If you’ve written deep house off as background music for hotel lobbies, Calcou would like a word. “24,” recorded live in Leipzig, is the sound of the genre with a proper pulse and a full room in front of it. You can genuinely hear the space on this recording — the low end has that slightly loose, physical quality that studio versions tend to sand right off, and there’s a faint wash of crowd sitting underneath the whole thing that tells you this actually happened, that people were present and moving while it did. The groove is deep and patient,...
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Luvstruck x Leena Punks x Ethan - In My Heart
Read more . . . →Big, dumb, and completely irresistible. “In My Heart” is the kind of hands-in-the-air dance record I have zero defenses against. It runs on a piano riff that could power a small town and a vocal hook clearly engineered in a lab to be stuck in your head by lunchtime. Three names on it, all obviously on the same mission: maximum serotonin, minimum fuss. The drop is pure sunshine, the sort of thing that would sound faintly ridiculous in a dark room and absolutely perfect at a festival at golden hour. There’s a breakdown where the piano goes solo for a...
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D.O.D & Izzy Bizu - Careful
Izzy Bizu's husky vocal reframes her completely on D.O.D's Careful — grown-up house that still remembers how to have fun.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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BEANIE, Lauren Nicole, Gray Hoek - Groovy Chick
Read more . . . →Heard this blasting out of a passing car before I ever saw the title, which is the correct way to first encounter a track called “Groovy Chick.” It’s an NCS release, that copyright-free pipeline that soundtracks half the internet without ever getting a credit, and every so often something on there is genuinely great rather than merely useful. This is one. The groove is exactly what the name promises: a bouncy, slap-happy bassline and a vocal from Lauren Nicole that struts more than it sings. BEANIE and Gray Hoek keep the production clean and punchy, all air and snap, nothing...
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