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Ricey - Years
Read more . . . →Second mau5trap pick in a row because the label is just cooking right now and I refuse to apologize for it. Ricey’s Years is the more emotional cousin to the usual progressive house template, the kind of track that sounds like it was made at 4am about a specific person. The melody does this thing where it almost resolves and then slips sideways, which keeps you leaning in waiting for a landing that takes its sweet time. I’m a sucker for a lead that sounds slightly sad even when the BPM says you should be dancing. The bassline underneath is...
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7 Minutes Dead - SWEET OUTSIDE
Read more . . . →7 Minutes Dead landing on mau5trap is a little funny if you remember them from the grimier corners of the internet years back, but SWEET OUTSIDE earns the deadmau5 stamp. This is progressive house with the patience the genre keeps forgetting it’s allowed to have. It builds slow. It does not panic. There’s a synth line that just keeps unfolding, adding one more layer every eight bars until you’re somewhere completely different from where you started and you can’t point to the moment it happened. That’s the whole trick with good prog house and most producers fumble it by rushing...
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Feed Me at Babylon June 2, 2011 part 3 of 3
Feed Me live at Babylon Ottawa, June 2 2011. Part 3 of 3 — the final video. Check the other two parts for To The Stars and Silicon Lube.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Feed Me at Babylon June 2, 2011 part 2 of 3
Feed Me live at Babylon Ottawa, June 2 2011. Part 2 — end of Silicon Lube plus two IDs. Still no idea what those unreleased tracks were.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Feed Me at Babylon June 2, 2011 part 1 of 3
Feed Me live at Babylon Ottawa, June 2 2011. Part 1 — To The Stars and Silicon Lube. Great set even if the Ottawa scene was a bit lame that night.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow.
