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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 . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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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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Nordfold - Collide
Read more . . . →The bassline on “Collide” walks. It’s got that rolling, slightly rubbery deep-house pulse that Anjunadeep has basically trademarked, and the whole track locks into it within the first thirty seconds and never lets go. Nordfold keeps everything patient here: a vocal snippet floating in the distance, a pad that swells and recedes, and percussion that clicks and shuffles just enough to keep your head moving. It’s late-night music, the 2am-in-a-dark-room kind, built for the deep-house lane where the point isn’t the drop but the groove holding steady while small details drift in and out. Around 3:00 a filtered synth line...
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Deep House vs Tech House, Explained
Deep house vs tech house, explained: listen to the bass. Hummable and looping is tech house, warm and chord-driven is deep house. The rest follows.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Weekend two is the one that actually matters
Read more . . . →Weekend one wrapped yesterday and your feed is already unbearable, full of drone shots and people crying at the mainstage like they invented feelings. Fine. But everyone who actually knows Tomorrowland knows the second weekend is the better one. The DJs have shaken off the rust, the crowd skews more heads and fewer influencers doing a bit for the camera, and the set that flopped on Friday the 17th gets quietly fixed by Friday the 24th. Boom, Belgium goes again this Friday, and here are the five tracks I want the mainstage to earn. 1. Hardwell - Spaceman Hardwell headlines...
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AC Slater x Lock 'N' Load - Blow Ya Mind
Read more . . . →That “blow ya mind” vocal is a rave relic, and AC Slater dragging it into 2026 is exactly the kind of chaos I’m here for. This flips Lock ‘N’ Load’s old anthem into a bass-house weapon — all rubbery low-end and a beat that swings harder than the original ever did. The drop at 1:14 is filthy in the best way, a growling bassline that struts rather than stomps, and the nostalgia of that vocal hook against the modern production is a genuinely fun collision. AC Slater’s whole Night Bass thing has always been about this: house music with the...
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