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Body Ocean & Matsu - Pulse
Read more . . . →Dirtybird tracks always sound like they were made by people having way too much fun, and Pulse is no exception. Body Ocean & Matsu have absorbed the label’s whole ethos, that mix of booty-shaking low end and a wink that says don’t take any of this too seriously. The groove here is elastic and physical, built around a bassline that bounces like it’s made of actual rubber and a vocal snippet chopped into nonsense syllables. It’s house music for people who think most house music takes itself too seriously, which has always been Dirtybird’s entire reason for existing. The drop...
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miirabelle, Stadiumx - Pongo
Read more . . . →The bassline on Pongo struts in around the thirty-second mark and immediately owns the room, and from there miirabelle and Stadiumx barely have to do anything but let it ride. This is tech house built on attitude, a vocal that swaggers more than it sings sitting over a low end with real menace to it. The drop doesn’t explode so much as sidle up and start moving, which is a harder and frankly cooler thing to pull off than a big obvious payoff. There’s a percussion fill around the 2:10 mark that snaps the whole groove into a higher gear,...
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OFFAIAH - I'm Out (Extended Mix)
Read more . . . →Seven minutes that feel like four, that’s the trick OFFAIAH pulls on I’m Out, an extended mix that never once drags. The groove is the star, a swinging, slightly dirty bassline that locks in around the thirty-second mark and basically never lets go. He built his name on “Trouble” a few years back and you can hear the same instinct here, that knack for a vocal snippet looped just enough to hook you without grating. The extended mix gives the DJ tools room to breathe, long intros and outros that’ll mix beautifully in a set even if they test your...
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Body Ocean & Matsu - Fall To The Ceiling
Read more . . . →Fall To The Ceiling earns its upside-down title with a drop that genuinely disorients you the first time, flipping the rhythmic emphasis so you lose track of where the downbeat is for a couple of bars. Body Ocean & Matsu clearly enjoy messing with your sense of gravity here. Where their other Dirtybird cut rides a straightforward bounce, this one is weirder and more interesting, full of off-kilter percussion and a bassline that seems to fall away just when you expect it to land. That tension between expectation and what actually happens is the entire appeal. It’s tech house for...
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Redondo, KOATES & Mike Mago - Circulate
Read more . . . →Armada filed this under trance but don’t be fooled, “Circulate” is a house record through and through, and a sneakily good one. Redondo and Mike Mago both have long résumés in the groovier end of dance music, and pulling KOATES into the mix gives the whole thing a slightly tougher edge than either tends to make alone. The track is built on a rolling, hypnotic bassline that does exactly what the title says, circling back on itself until you stop noticing the loop and just start moving. There’s a vocal chop that surfaces every few bars like it’s checking in...
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PIEM & SLM vs DJ Technics & Kotton The Cutie - Activated (I Just Wanna)
Read more . . . →That’s a four-name pileup on the credits, and normally a “vs” track with that many cooks in the kitchen ends up as mush, but “Activated” is lean and mean in a way that surprised me. PIEM and SLM bring the modern tech-house chassis while the DJ Technics and Kotton The Cutie side drags in some genuine Baltimore club DNA, and the collision is sharper than the metadata suggests. The “I just wanna” vocal does that thing where a chopped phrase becomes more hypnotic the more it repeats, until you stop hearing words and just hear rhythm. The drums hit with...
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Calle Lebraun vs Breach - Visions (Jack)
Calle Lebraun vs Breach turning Visions into a tech house moment that won't leave you alone. Jack energy done right.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Siege, David LeSal - Burn Down The House
Read more . . . →Toolroom is the spiritual home of clean, peak-time tech house, and Siege teaming with David LeSal on “Burn Down The House” is right in that wheelhouse. This is built for one job: keeping a club moving at midnight without anyone having to think too hard. The groove is rubbery and relentless, that classic tech-house swing where the bassline does a little dance under your feet and refuses to quit. The vocal sample gives it just enough attitude to stand out from the endless conveyor belt of similar tracks the genre churns out. I’ll be honest, tech house is a genre...
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Alex Nocera & Roy Batty - Interference
Read more . . . →Second Revealed Recordings pick this week, and Interference from Alex Nocera and Roy Batty is a different beast from the MatricK track that opened the list. This one’s got a darker, more tech-leaning edge to it, trading festival euphoria for something you’d hear in a sweaty basement closer to sunrise. The groove is relentless and stripped back, built around a bassline that just will not quit and a vocal sample chopped into pure rhythmic texture. Roy Batty being a Blade Runner reference is not lost on me, and the track does have a certain replicant coldness to it in the...
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Illyus & Barrientos, MALU - Right Here
Read more . . . →Illyus & Barrientos have been a reliable Toolroom export for years, the kind of duo who turn up with a vocal house cut that just works and never asks for much credit. “Right Here” keeps that streak going, pairing a warm, soulful MALU vocal with a groove that splits the difference between proper house and tech house. It’s got more heart than the average peak-time tool, which is exactly why it stands out. The vocal carries real feeling, that yearning, reach-for-someone energy, and the production gives it room instead of burying it under a wall of percussion. I appreciate house...
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