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Eelke Kleijn - Answer Every Question
Eelke Kleijn is criminally underrated outside melodic house. 'Answer Every Question' gave us chills on laptop speakers. Imagine a real system.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Windows Down, Nothing Else
Read more . . . →Some tracks exist for dancefloors. These two exist for tarmac. 1. Tinlicker - Reborn The arpeggios come in and immediately it’s the late 90s and trance is the most important thing in the universe. Tinlicker spent three albums getting more refined, and then just went back to what got them started — rippling synths and urgent stabs, the kind of build that makes you grip the steering wheel tighter without realising. It runs close to nine minutes and earns every one of them. The third single off their fourth album, and the first Tinlicker track in a while that made...
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Eelke Kleijn x Budakid feat. Nathan Nicholson - Another Life
Read more . . . →That opening synth arpeggio hooked me before the vocal even arrived. “Another Life” is progressive-trance-leaning melodic house from a genuinely top-tier pairing — Eelke Kleijn’s cinematic sensibility meeting Budakid’s deeper touch, with Nathan Nicholson’s vocal floating over the whole thing. It’s the kind of track that builds for a full four minutes and makes every second of that build feel earned rather than padded. The breakdown strips back to just voice and pads before the main melodic line comes surging back around 4:00, and that return is honest goosebump territory if you’re on the right system in the right mood....
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Joris Voorn - Horizon (Eelke Kleijn Remix)
Read more . . . →Two of the Netherlands’ most tasteful producers in one credit is a promising sight, and the Eelke Kleijn remix of Joris Voorn’s “Horizon” lives up to it. Kleijn takes Voorn’s original and stretches it into a long, patient, melodic-house journey. This is a builder, the kind of track that takes four minutes to fully arrive and rewards every second of the wait. It opens with a hypnotic little synth motif and slowly stacks layers on top: a sub that creeps in, a string line that swells, percussion that gathers like weather. The payoff around the 4:00 mark, when the full...
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Eelke Kleijn x Layla Benitez feat. Leo Wood - Beg You
Read more . . . →That descending piano figure opening Beg You does an unreasonable amount of emotional lifting before a single drum arrives. Eelke Kleijn has been one of the more reliably classy names in melodic house for years, and teaming with Layla Benitez plus Leo Wood’s vocal gives this a proper song at its center instead of just a groove with a sample dropped on top. It builds slow, the way the good melodic house always does; the bassline doesn’t fully arrive until past the two-minute mark, and by then you’re leaning in for it. Leo Wood’s voice has a smoky quality that...
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Grum - You Make Me Feel
Read more . . . →Chopped and stretched until it stops being words, the vocal on You Make Me Feel becomes pure texture, and that processing is the smartest decision on the whole track. Grum has settled so completely into the Anjunabeats sound that he’s now one of the people defining it, that gleaming melodic-house-meets-trance hybrid the label made its signature. It rides a bassline that pulses with real forward motion under a melody designed to go straight for the emotional jugular. It’s euphoric without being naive about it, the kind of build that knows exactly how to delay gratification before the release at 2:30...
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Kbob - Let's Go
Read more . . . →Let’s Go is built on a synth arp that burrows into your brain around the one-minute mark and refuses to leave, which is exactly the kind of patient, hypnotic progression mau5trap built its reputation on. Kbob understands that progressive house lives or dies on the gradual reveal, the way a track adds one element at a time until you look up and realise it’s become enormous without any single obvious drop. There’s a deadmau5 influence all over the melodic sensibility here, that cold and precise prettiness, but Kbob brings enough of his own personality that it never feels like an...
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Trilucid - Too Good
Read more . . . →Anjunadeep is one of the few labels left where the brand basically guarantees the mood, and “Too Good” by Trilucid is exactly the kind of melodic deep house the label has spent fifteen years perfecting. Warm, unhurried, a little melancholy around the edges even when the chords are technically happy. The groove sits in that sweet spot where it’s too pretty for the peak-time floor and too propulsive for the chillout room, which is precisely the Anjunadeep zone and the reason their festival stages always feel like the adults’ table. The vocal sample floats in and out without ever fully...
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STELLA LEFTY - i know i know (SAiiLOR Remix)
Read more . . . →SAiiLOR has quietly become one of those remixers whose name on a track is a reason to click, and the “i know i know” rework keeps the streak alive. We’ve posted SAiiLOR before because the man has a gift for taking a fragile vocal and building a warm electronic cocoon around it without smothering the original feeling. STELLA LEFTY’s voice carries this real ache, that 3am texting-your-ex energy, and SAiiLOR is smart enough to let it sit out front. The production glows. Soft synths, a kick that nudges rather than punches, and just enough movement to qualify it for the...
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Eelke Kleijn - Feel It, See It
Eelke Kleijn builds tracks like an architect. Feel It, See It is patient, melancholy progressive house that scores a moment, not just fills a room.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
