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The dark Tomorrowland tents where you lose track of time
Read more . . . →Eight days out. There’s a whole side of Tomorrowland that trades drops for hypnosis. The melodic techno rooms, where the point is to lose track of time entirely and wander out at sunrise wondering what happened. Mind Against are on the bill this year, so here’s a run through the sound they came up in: 1. Mind Against - Walking Away The Afterlife aesthetic in one track: patient, cold, gorgeous. It takes almost three minutes to fully arrive and every second of that build earns it. This is 4am music, played to a room that has stopped checking the time....
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Tomorrowland is 11 days out and the internet has lost its mind
Read more . . . →Tomorrowland kicks off in Boom in eleven days, and the internet has already decided it’s the greatest thing to ever happen to a Belgian field. Two weekends, sixteen stages, five hundred names, one castle-shaped mainstage that costs more than most people’s houses. You don’t need a €500 ticket to hear the tracks that’ll actually run the place, though. Here’s the pre-game: the songs the Mainstage will lean on before Guetta pretends he built them from scratch. 1. Martin Garrix - Animals The one that turned a Dutch teenager into a headliner. That three-note lead still detonates a crowd on contact,...
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MNK & RayRay - TECHNO BOY TECHNO GIRL
MNK & RayRay named a track TECHNO BOY TECHNO GIRL and it's exactly as dumb and fun as that sounds. Built to detonate a festival tent.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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The History of Techno: From Detroit to Berlin
Techno wasn't born in a Berlin bunker. The real history of techno starts in Detroit with the Belleville Three. Detroit made it, Europe scaled it.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Oxia - Domino (Space 92 Remix)
Space 92 remixes Oxia's Domino without wrecking a classic. Harder, more driving techno with the iconic spine still intact. Respect.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Amelie Lens - whatever you do
Amelie Lens drops relentless Belgian techno and the title sounds like advice she's giving herself. Dark, loud, not for your neighbors.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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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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Amelie Lens - our frequency
Amelie Lens made something built to destroy a warehouse at 4am. Lowercase title, maximum force. Your neighbors will not thank you.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Daniel Avery - Lazy Dreams
Daniel Avery drops Lazy Dreams on the deluxe edition and it's the prettiest thing on the whole record. Dark, slow, restrained, ambient done right.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
