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Cephas Azariah & Kidnap - Lightning
Cephas Azariah and Kidnap bottle Lightning into melodic house that actually hits. Headphones on, phone away, stare out a window.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Fink & Jan Blomqvist - More
Read more . . . →Driving home after midnight with this on, I missed my exit and did not especially mind. More is a collaboration between Fink and Jan Blomqvist, two artists who come at electronic music from the song side, not the club, and it shows in the best way. Fink’s voice is a worn, intimate thing, all breath and cracked grain, and Blomqvist builds a patient, hypnotic groove beneath it that unfolds slowly. Nothing here detonates. It accumulates: a muted kick, a bassline you feel more than hear, little granular textures layering up until the whole thing has taken over the room without...
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DRAMA & Sultan + Shepard - Emotions
Read more . . . →Via Rosa could sing a grocery list and I would still feel it. On Emotions she lays that warm, lived-in voice over a bed of lush melodic house from Sultan + Shepard, and the whole thing plays less like a club track than one long exhale. The groove is patient and deep, a soft rolling bassline and a kick you feel more than you hear, built for that 6am slot when the hard stuff has burned off and you only want to feel something. She sings about emotions with a plainness that should be corny and instead lands, because she...
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Blake Farfan - Contours
Blake Farfan keeps dropping melodic house that belongs in a car ad to almost nobody. Contours deserves way more ears than it's getting.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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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 . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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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
Eelke Kleijn x Budakid with Nathan Nicholson's Another Life is melodic house built for staring out windows dramatically. We recommend it.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Joris Voorn - Horizon (Eelke Kleijn Remix)
Eelke Kleijn stretches Joris Voorn's 'Horizon' into a four-minute melodic-house slow burn. Patient, gorgeous, worth the wait.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Eelke Kleijn x Layla Benitez feat. Leo Wood - Beg You
Eelke Kleijn teams with Layla Benitez and Leo Wood on Beg You, and that piano intro does more emotional lifting than most tracks manage all song.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Grum - You Make Me Feel
Grum chops the vocal on You Make Me Feel into pure texture and it's the smartest call on the whole track. Anjunabeats at its gleaming best.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
