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Łaszewo & AVELLO - headrush
Read more . . . →You have heard a hundred melodic trap tracks called something like headrush and bounced off every one, I know. Give this one four minutes anyway. Łaszewo and AVELLO have made the rare version that earns the title, a track that actually produces the lightheaded lift it is named after. It opens almost like a pop song, clean vocal, simple piano, the kind of intro that usually signals a limp festival-trap drop is about to ruin everything. Then the first drop is restrained, almost polite, a pitched vocal and a rubbery bass doing a lot with a little. The second drop...
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Juelz, Zedd - START THE DRAMA (T3MPURA Mashup)
Read more . . . →Somebody at a festival is going to lose their mind to this and have no idea it was never an official release. START THE DRAMA is a T3MPURA mashup welding Juelz’s trap muscle to a Zedd topline, the kind of unofficial edit that lives on DJ USB sticks long before it ever troubles a label. That is half the fun of it. Mashups like this are the folk music of the festival circuit, stitched together by someone who just wanted the two things they loved to exist in the same track and could not wait for permission. It should be...
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VARI - Displace
VARI knocks everything off its axis with Displace. Heavy, twitchy and a little unhinged. Not for the faint of speaker. Seriously good.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Alison Wonderland, WINK - RESCUE U
Alison Wonderland's first independent single in fifteen years, with WINK on her own FMU Records. She calls it her favourite song she has written.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Koastle, Port London - lost on you
Koastle and Port London got lost on you and somehow we got found. Lost On You is the kind of track that sneaks up on a Tuesday.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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ARMNHMR & AVELLO - HAPPY 4 U
ARMNHMR and AVELLO named a track HAPPY 4 U and it sounds exactly like a good mood you can't fake. Put it on loud. Seriously good.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Nadia Ali & Alesso - Pressure (RemK Remix)
RemK drags Nadia Ali and Alesso's Pressure into trap territory and it works way better than it has any right to. Old rave ghosts, new knuckles.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Tiffany Day, slayr - CONSTANTLY (Yonexx Remix)
Yonexx remixes Tiffany Day and slayr's CONSTANTLY into trap that melts. Melodic, heavy, and stuck in our heads against our will.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Dillon Francis - Fall
Dillon Francis plays a straight-faced trap track in 2026 and Fall is a small time warp. Better than nostalgia alone has any right to be.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Ghost Jr - 2 Phones
Found Ghost Jr's 2 Phones at 1am down a Dim Mak rabbit hole and it was the first thing in an hour that stopped my scrolling. Genre-proof.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
