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The dark Tomorrowland tents where you lose track of time
Read more . . . →Eight days out. There’s a whole side of Tomorrowland that trades drops for hypnosis. The melodic techno rooms, where the point is to lose track of time entirely and wander out at sunrise wondering what happened. Mind Against are on the bill this year, so here’s a run through the sound they came up in: 1. Mind Against - Walking Away The Afterlife aesthetic in one track: patient, cold, gorgeous. It takes almost three minutes to fully arrive and every second of that build earns it. This is 4am music, played to a room that has stopped checking the time....
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Argy x Paul Oakenfold x Planet Perfecto Knights - ResuRection
Argy drags Planet Perfecto's 1999 trance anthem ResuRection into 2026 and the hair on my arms still stood up. A respectful, hypnotic update.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Oxia - Domino (Space 92 Remix)
Read more . . . →“Domino” is one of those tracks that’s been welded into dance history since 2009, the kind of record that gets played at the moment a festival crowd loses its collective mind. So Space 92 taking it on is a high-wire act, and to his credit he doesn’t wreck a classic. He drags it into harder, more driving techno territory, beefing up the kick and adding that propulsive Space 92 pressure while keeping the spine of the original melody intact. This version is captured live in Buenos Aires, and you can feel the room in it, that specific Argentine crowd energy...
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