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JNATHYN - Ricochet
Read more . . . →This one knocked me sideways on a grey afternoon and I did not see it coming from the title. Ricochet showed up on MrSuicideSheep, still the most reliable channel on the platform for catching producers right before anyone else does, and JNATHYN clearly belongs in that company. The track works a melodic-bass seam where a fragile intro gets ambushed by a drop with real teeth, except the restraint is the trick: the heavy part never overstays, ducking out again before you can get used to it. There is a plucked lead running through the back half that sounds like it...
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Tiffany Day, slayr - CONSTANTLY (Yonexx Remix)
Read more . . . →Did not expect to get got by a melodic-trap remix on a Tuesday, yet here we are. CONSTANTLY started life as a Tiffany Day and slayr vocal cut, all raw longing and bedroom-pop fragility, and Yonexx has rebuilt it into something that hits like a wave without drowning the voice that made it worth remixing in the first place. That is the trap this subgenre usually falls into, burying a good vocal under so much bass that the feeling gets lost somewhere around the first drop. Yonexx resists it. Day’s voice stays front and centre, the drop blooming around it...
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BraydenK, Duke Gray - Feel Alive
BraydenK and Duke Gray swap the trap snare for a detuned choir glitching mid-hymn. Sweet topline, nasty low end. Best call on the record.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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NEOTEK & ARCTURA - Fire
NEOTEK & ARCTURA's Fire is maximum feeling at maximum volume and it never once flinches about being uncool. Huge and earnest.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Oliverse - Need You
Oliverse cuts the drums out of Need You for two whole bars just to make the payoff hit nastier. Melodic bass, done exactly right.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Lynxie - Nothing Left To Lose
Lynxie's Nothing Left To Lose is bigger and sadder than an NCS release has any right to be. Worth more than the algorithm will pay it.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Seven Lions & Kill The Noise - I Need
Seven Lions' weepy melodrama meets Kill The Noise's appetite for pain on I Need, melodic dubstep that actually earns the dubstep half.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Elderbrook - Is It Over Now? (IONITY Remix)
IONITY takes Elderbrook's 'Is It Over Now?' and blows it up into widescreen melodic bass. A rare remix that beats the original.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Said The Sky, ILLENIUM & Heather Sommer - When The Light Breaks
Said The Sky and ILLENIUM run their melodic-bass formula at full power with Heather Sommer. Made for ugly-crying in a parked car.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Sace, defyer - jandro
Sace and defyer's 'jandro' has a lead synth that sounds like a detuned foghorn learning to sing. Somehow that's exactly as fun as it reads.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
