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Amelie Lens - the energy is us
Read more . . . →This is exactly what techno should do to a room. Amelie Lens became one of the biggest names in techno by keeping things relentless and physical, and the energy is us is peak Lens: a driving four-to-the-floor pulse, a hypnotic vocal loop, and a build that keeps tightening until something has to give. Her whole appeal is that she doesn’t overthink it, she locks a groove and rides it, trusting repetition and pressure to do what a hundred fussy edits can’t. That sounds simple and it absolutely isn’t, because holding a room on almost nothing for six minutes is the...
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Amelie Lens - come closer
Amelie Lens's come closer holds the tension for minutes and then just stops, lights on mid-thought. Play it loud in the dark.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Eli Brown - Damaged
Read more . . . →Eli Brown has turned into one of the most dependable names in peak-time techno, and Damaged is another brick in that wall. This is 2am music, dark and driving, built for a room with no windows and a fog machine working overtime. The bassline is a relentless, distorted throb that doesn’t let up for the full runtime, and over it Brown lays a vocal chopped and processed into something between a threat and a come-on. It’s the sound of the big warehouse techno that took over the UK these last few years, and Brown does it about as well as...
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DENIAL - Nutcase
Read more . . . →The bassline on “Nutcase” is basically one note bullied into submission for four minutes, and it is hypnotic. DENIAL builds the original around repetition as a weapon: a tight dry kick, a rubbery low end that barely shifts, and little bursts of static that flicker across the top like a fault in the wiring. It is techno that trusts you to lock in rather than begging for attention, and about halfway through a warped vocal fragment surfaces just long enough to unsettle you before the groove swallows it again. The trick is in what DENIAL leaves out. There is no...
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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
Amelie Lens doing acid techno. That 303 line runs the whole thing and I am completely fine with that.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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DENIAL - Nutcase (Mark Eteson Remix)
Read more . . . →Mark Eteson found the industrial skeleton hiding inside “Nutcase” and stripped the rest away. The original was already a nervy little techno cut, but this remix slows the pulse and lets the kick do the intimidating, four-on-the-floor with a physical weight you feel in your sternum on a proper system. Everything is greyer here, more concrete and rebar, the melody reduced to a single acid line that coils around the beat and refuses to resolve. About two-thirds of the way through it drops to almost nothing, just that acid and a hi-hat ticking like a countdown, before the low end...
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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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Drumcode: Adam Beyer's Techno Empire
Drumcode is Adam Beyer's Stockholm techno label: one man, one sound, 30 years, and the discipline to never blink. The most single-minded bet in techno.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Two Tracks That Broke the Genre Field
Read more . . . →There’s a Brazilian funk vocal buried inside a modular techno track and it heads Mixmag’s best-of list for 2026 so far. There’s a house record on a Ninja Tune imprint that sounds like it was assembled across three time zones at once. Two tracks this week with no fixed address, and both of them are better for the homelessness. 1. Skrillex, Randomer, Blawan & MC Dricka - Thistle This was floating around DJ sets for years before its proper release in May, and the wait was the right call. Blawan’s shredded metallic textures, Randomer’s chopped drum programming, MC Dricka’s Brazilian...
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