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SILK x Cat Dealers x HRRTZ - Hear U
Read more . . . →This is a summer track that turned up right as summer’s leaving, and it stings a little. “Hear U” pairs SILK, Cat Dealers, and HRRTZ for a bright, festival-facing dance tune with a Brazilian bounce in its bones, and Cat Dealers can’t help bringing that sunlit, hands-up energy to everything they touch. The vocal hook lands at 1:12, the kind of simple, wordless topline built to be sung back by a field of people who don’t share a language. Underneath it the groove is deceptively springy, a plucky bass that keeps the whole thing from feeling as generic as the...
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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 digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Renaisshouse & Maria Mathea - Seeking
Read more . . . →This crept up on me. Renaisshouse and Maria Mathea made “Seeking” for Revealed, a label I associate with much brasher stuff, and it turns out to be genuinely tender. It’s a melodic, vocal-driven progressive number where Mathea’s topline does the emotional heavy lifting and the production is smart enough to get out of her way. The build takes its time, letting tension stack rather than dumping a drop the second it possibly can. When the release finally lands it leans emotional rather than aggressive, the kind of drop you hug a stranger through. There’s a plucked synth pattern running under...
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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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MatricK - Devotion
Read more . . . →“Devotion” is the kind of track that rewards patience, which makes it the odd one out on a label better known for detonations. MatricK builds this around a hypnotic, driving groove closer to a progressive-house pulse than a mainstage explosion, and it’s better for the discipline. The drop at 1:40 doesn’t blow up so much as unfold — a rolling bassline and a shimmering lead that build pressure gradually instead of dumping it all at once. There’s a genuinely hypnotic quality to how the main motif repeats and slowly mutates over four minutes; I stopped noticing time passing about halfway...
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ARTY x Laidback Luke feat. James Hersy - Lost In The Crowd
Read more . . . →You can hear a couple of decades of dance music shaking hands on Lost In The Crowd, and the handshake holds. ARTY brings the soaring progressive instinct he’s built a career on while Laidback Luke brings that old-school house weight, and James Hersy’s vocal ties it to something that could actually live on daytime radio. The result is warmer than I expected from a collaboration that on paper looks like a label trying to manufacture a crossover hit. The hook is genuinely sticky, the kind that’s still rattling around your head on the walk home long after you’ve forgotten whose...
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Ishimaru & Trevizan - Take Control
Read more . . . →There’s a piano line buried in the back half of Take Control that does more emotional work than the entire front half combined, and it’s the reason this one stuck. Ishimaru & Trevizan keep things deceptively simple, a rolling house groove and a vocal that repeats its way into your skull, but that piano is the hook that turns a functional dancefloor tool into something you actually remember the next morning. STMPD has a house sound at this point, polished and slightly euphoric, and this fits the mould while still feeling like the work of people rather than a brand...
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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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Rikki, Matty x Kenny, Antheros - Eternity
Read more . . . →The vocal chop that runs through Eternity sounds like it was sampled from a voicemail and then tortured into a hook, and I mean that as the highest compliment. It’s the detail that pulled me in on first listen and the thing I’d point to if someone asked why this rises above the Revealed Recordings conveyor belt. The track itself is festival progressive-house built to exact specifications, but the producers sneak in enough texture to keep it from feeling anonymous. There’s a moment right before the second drop where everything thins out to just that chopped voice and a sub...
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Matisse & Sadko - Endless Sunrise [Extended Mix]
Read more . . . →Matisse & Sadko have been Martin Garrix’s go-to collaborators for so long that people forget they’re genuinely excellent on their own, and “Endless Sunrise” is a reminder that the Russian duo can build a progressive house cathedral without anyone holding their hand. This is the extended mix, which is the only way to actually hear what they’re doing, because the radio edit chops out exactly the patient build that makes the payoff land. The intro takes its time, layering pads and a plucked melody until you almost forget a drop is coming, and then it arrives wide and golden like...
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