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The Afterglow
Read more . . . →Everyone left. The music is still going. 1. Maribou State - Blackoak (Myd Remix) The original Blackoak was already a slow-dissolve kind of track — patient electronic music that trusts you to stay with it. Myd took that and added a pulse underneath, just enough kinetic energy to turn a headphone record into something you could almost dance to if the room were empty and nobody was watching. Released on Hallucinating Love Deluxe ten days ago, which makes it the newest track in this entire summer run. Ninja Tune holding this one until late August was the right call. It...
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One Last Drop
Read more . . . →Luude has over a billion streams and your uncle still thinks DnB died in 2003. 1. Luude ft. Inéz - Never Adds Up Inéz’s vocal gets chopped and pitched and rearranged like luggage on a budget airline and somehow it still makes emotional sense. Luude’s whole move is taking drum and bass to stadiums and festival mainstages and making it work without sanding the edges off. The bassline is wobbly in a way that’s clearly designed for a crowd to lose their minds to, and then the vocal comes back in clean for the chorus and it hits different after...
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Last Call
Read more . . . →The lights haven’t come on yet but the DJ is checking the time. Three house records for the part of the night where nobody’s taking photos anymore and the music is the only thing keeping the room standing. 1. Sonny Fodera & Chrystal - My Loving Chrystal’s vocal is the kind that makes you angry nobody told you about her sooner. Fodera put this out in February and it’s been slow-burning through every set since — a house groove with a proper vocal performance, not a topline stitched on by a writing camp. The breakdown strips everything to her voice...
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Summer Died at a Good Time
Read more . . . →August 31st. The calendar doesn’t care about your playlist. Four records that made summer 2026 worth the sunburn and the regret, and none of them are by Coldplay. 1. Disclosure - The Sun Comes Up Tremendous Howard Lawrence singing lead on a Disclosure track for the first time, and it turns out the voice they’ve been hiring session vocalists to replace has been sitting in the other half of the studio. Cinematic pads and a bass drop that takes its time arriving. The mountainside video looks nothing like any Disclosure visual they’ve released before. The title is doing exactly the...
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Last Light on the Terrace
Read more . . . →You’ve got an hour before the sun’s gone and these three records are exactly the right length. Summer’s best music is the last thing playing before the night takes over. 1. Sasha - Hollow Sun 25 Seven minutes and the acid line only fully arrives at the halfway mark. The rest is buildup — not the big-room kind, the kind where you realize you’ve been holding your breath and the track hasn’t even started pushing yet. This is the 200th release on Sasha’s Last Night On Earth label. Two hundred records, and he saved the acid for the anniversary. 2....
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The Remix Won a Grammy and Said Nothing
Read more . . . →Gesaffelstein walked onstage at the Grammys in a black reflective mask and gloves, accepted the award for Best Remixed Recording, bowed, kissed the air, and left without saying a word. That is a better argument for the remix as art form than anything anyone has written about it. Three records from the 2026 Grammy class that prove the remix stopped being a B-side a long time ago. 1. Lady Gaga - Abracadabra (Gesaffelstein Remix) The original is a pop record on a blockbuster album. This is four minutes of Gaga’s vocal stripped to its bones and rebuilt inside pulsing darkness....
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Two AM, Somewhere Concrete
Read more . . . →The ceiling is low and the kick drum is not. Three records for the point in the night when the playlist stops being about mood and starts being about weight. 1. Amelie Lens - Falling Into Acid Dreams Her own voice is in there somewhere, buried under acid and four-on-the-floor like a message from a parallel version of herself. Released on EXHALE to mark exactly a decade since her debut EP. Ten years later and the 303 still does most of the talking — tight and rolling, the kind of thing that only works when the sound system can handle...
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Defected Owns This Summer
Read more . . . →Defected is running this summer and nobody held a vote. Ibiza residency at Chinois, a Most Rated compilation that reads like a hall of fame, and a run of singles that turned TikTok accidents into proper records. Three of the best. 1. Piem & SLM - Activated The bass hits like someone dropping a cabinet down a stairwell and the vocal loop latches on in about eight seconds. It started on Barcelona’s Jackies label, went viral when Luke Dean turned it into a TikTok mashup, and Defected made the official version before the hype cooled. Sometimes the internet A&Rs better...
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Five Records the Playlist Editors Missed
Read more . . . →How many of the 2026 releases in your library actually got finished? The full album, the whole EP, side B included. Summer buried some of the best electronic records of the year under festival playlists and seasonal mood tags, and five of them deserve better. 1. Joris Voorn - Horizon (Melatonin Version) Voorn premiered his ambient album Melatonin in a 360-degree planetarium in Amsterdam for an audience of 320. A nice stunt. The record is better than the stunt. This version of Horizon strips everything to pads and a pulse that barely qualifies as a beat — about four minutes...
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Jungle Came Back and Brought Friends
Read more . . . →I’ve got two browser tabs open and neither one is work. One is a jungle EP from a speed garage producer. The other is Nia Archives’ second album. Both came out this summer. Both are the reason my neighbours now know what an amen break sounds like. 1. Conducta - Soundboy Johnny Rolling breaks, Reese bass that wobbles properly, and Conducta’s tag sitting right on top. His Soundboy Johnny EP came out on Nia Archives’ Up Ya Archives label in May, and the title track is three minutes of a garage producer making jungle without losing the swing from his...
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