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Mau P - On Again (Butler Remix)
Read more . . . →You’ve heard Mau P even if the name’s new to you — he made “Drugs From Amsterdam,” the tech-house track that was completely inescapable a couple of summers back. “On Again” gets a rework from Butler here, who leans even harder into the hypnotic side than the original did. The bassline is pure rubber, that rolling tech-house groove that sounds simple right up until you try to stand still through it and physically cannot. Butler keeps everything minimal and lets the groove carry it, adding just enough extra percussion and a warped little vocal hook to earn the remix tag....
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Oden & Fatzo x Noa Milee - You Don't Want To Think About It
Read more . . . →Peak-time house that wants one thing from you and just takes it. Oden & Fatzo have quietly been one of the most reliable names in club house for a minute now, and this collab with Noa Milee is them at their most direct. It’s a proper weapon: a chunky, insistent bassline, a vocal hook that repeats the title until it burrows a hole in your skull, and drums that flatly refuse to quit. The whole thing runs on tension and release, and the release at 2:30 is a real fist-in-the-air moment when the filter finally opens and the bass comes...
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Shiba San, Zack Darza - Touch Me
Read more . . . →The whispered “touch me” hook on this is equal parts seductive and slightly menacing, the kind of vocal that works precisely because it’s a little uncomfortable. Shiba San has been moving floors since “Okay” became inescapable a decade ago, and teamed with Zack Darza he still knows exactly where the pocket is. The groove is classic Shiba San: deep and minimal, a bassline doing an enormous amount with very few notes. There’s a swing to the drums that a lot of tech house misses entirely, that human, slightly-behind-the-beat feel that makes you move instead of just nod. The track opens...
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Mojjo, No One Knows, SARRIA - Cash On Cash
Read more . . . →Some tech house is content to be wallpaper for a Saturday night and some of it actually grabs you by the collar. Cash On Cash is firmly the second kind. Three names on the credit and somehow it doesn’t sound like a track built by committee. It sounds mean and focused. The groove is driving and slightly darker than the Toolroom norm, with a bassline that stabs rather than rolls, and a vocal hook that repeats the title until it stops being words and becomes rhythm. There’s a filtered, almost industrial texture running through the drop that gives it an...
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Loz Seka - Rude Boi
Read more . . . →Tech house lives and dies on the groove, and Rude Boi has one that could power a small city. Loz Seka builds it on a Latin-tinged percussion loop, congas and a shaker doing overtime, that slightly sweaty rhythm that makes tech house feel like a warm night rather than a cold warehouse. The “rude boi” vocal is the hook, chopped and drenched in just enough delay to feel like it’s bouncing off the back wall of the club. What makes it work is the bassline, which is deep and round and utterly relentless, the sort of low end you feel...
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Ferreck Dawn - Lost At The End
Read more . . . →There’s a warmth to proper Toolroom house that a lot of the streaming-optimized stuff has sanded off completely, and Lost At The End has it in spades. Ferreck Dawn writes house that actually grooves, that slightly loose, organic swing that gets you nodding before you’ve consciously decided to, and this rides a piano stab and a rubbery bassline into a chorus almost too pretty for the club. The vocal hook lodged immediately; I had it going round my head on the walk to get coffee this morning, a full day after one play the night before. It builds without ever...
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Dirtybird Radio 536 - Ustrell
Read more . . . →Not a single track this time but a whole Dirtybird Radio episode, and if you don’t know the label, this is a decent hour-long crash course in why they matter. Dirtybird built its reputation on tech house with a sense of humor: weird vocal samples, basslines that sound like cartoon frogs, a flat refusal to take the club too seriously. Episode 536 is full of that spirit. Ustrell handles the selection here, and it rolls from stripped-back groovers into the label’s signature goofy-but-heavy bombs without a single dull stretch. This is what I put on while cleaning the apartment or...
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Dario Nunez, Danny Rhys - No Pares Sigue
Dario Nunez and Danny Rhys built No Pares Sigue for a sweaty room at 1am, Spanish vocal chant included. Deep listening was never the plan.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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The Tomorrowland tents where the actual dancing happens
Read more . . . →Nine days out. Not everything at Tomorrowland is fireworks and confetti cannons. The tech house tents are where the real dancing happens, no pyro required, and they’ll be rammed all weekend. Two names that’ll have people sweating through their shirts at 2am: 1. Fisher - You Little Beauty The follow-up to Losing It, and arguably the better track. That bouncing bassline is criminally simple and the vocal loop worms into your skull inside eight bars. This is the whole Fisher method: nothing clever, everything built to make a room move in unison. 2. James Hype - Ferrari The mixing-desk wizard...
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Eats Everything & Descent - Moonblower
Eats Everything and Descent's Moonblower is proper UK tech house, all bouncing bassline and a groove built for the moment nobody's cool anymore.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
