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Rebelion gets a full stage at Defqon.1 and they've been building to this
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Sub Zero Project: 2025-2026 in three tracks
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Rawstyle vs euphoric: the two camps you're walking into
Read more . . . →Three weeks to Defqon.1 and if you’re new to this, hardstyle has a civil war inside it. Rawstyle is the darker, harder, more industrial side — distorted kicks, aggressive energy, not interested in making you feel things in a warm way. Euphoric is the other thing: massive melodic builds, soaring vocals, the stuff that makes people raise their hands at 3am and mean it. Defqon.1 has room for both and so does the lineup. Here’s what each side sounds like. 1. Brennan Heart - Interstellar Brennan Heart is closing the Spotlight this year — the closing set of the entire...
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Defqon.1 is 22 days out and everything else looks soft
Read more . . . →The Gathering kicks off June 20th. Three weeks out and Defqon.1 is already making every other summer lineup on the calendar look like a Coldplay concert. Hardstyle in a field in the Netherlands, multiple stages worth of it, crowd that made a deliberate choice to be there. If you’ve been sleeping on this: here’s the lineup doing the talking. 1. D-Sturb ft. E-Life - Sacred Oath D-Sturb got handed the 2026 anthem and made something that actually deserves the title. “Sacred Oath” builds properly, drops hard, doesn’t overstay — and the theme this year is right in the name. This...
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Four days left before it officially becomes someone else's problem
Read more . . . →Four days until the window closes on spring and everyone pretends they were a house music person all along. Before festival season swallows the conversation whole, here are the tracks that landed right as the weather stopped being a personal attack. No preamble, no Coldplay. 1. Jungle - Carry On Jungle announced a whole album called Sunshine (out in August, mark it) and dropped “Carry On” as the first taste. It sounds exactly like the weather turning — warm, unhurried, like the city collectively exhaling after five months of grey. No notes. 2. SOFI TUKKER - BOBA SOFI TUKKER have...
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Movement Detroit is 19 days out — here's your pre-game
Read more . . . →Memorial Day weekend, Hart Plaza, Detroit. While the rest of North America fires up a grill and watches cars go in circles, the real pilgrimage is to the birthplace of techno. Movement 2026 is 19 days away and the lineup actually means something — Carl Cox headlining, Blawan on the bill, Sara Landry bringing the hard stuff, Terrence Dixon and Juan Atkins playing their own city’s festival. Five tracks to get your head right before you go. 1. Loco Dice & Carl Cox - Road Runner Cox headlines Hart Plaza this May and this is exactly why nobody else on...
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18 days out: the EDC 30th anniversary tracks worth loading before Vegas
Read more . . . →18 days until 150,000 people descend on the Nevada desert, and EDC’s 30th anniversary lineup is actually trying. Kaskade’s back on a proper label, FISHER’s got a collab that shouldn’t work but does, and Subtronics and Excision are apparently competing to see who can make the ugliest sound. Here’s what’s on the pre-game playlist. 1. Kaskade ft. EZI - Freedom Deep house for the drive out. Kaskade went back to OM Records — the label that basically built this sound — and “Freedom” lands right in that late-night, open-road pocket. EZI’s voice is the whole thing. 2. FISHER & Tones...
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