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Kendrick Lamar - Money Trees (RemK Remix)
Read more . . . →Who is RemK and what gives them the sheer nerve to remix “Money Trees,” one of the most beloved rap songs of the last fifteen years? Turns out, exactly the right amount of nerve. This flip drags the Kendrick and Jay Rock classic bodily into trap territory: that iconic reversed guitar loop still there, still hypnotic, now sitting on top of skittering hi-hats and a sub-bass the original never once bothered with. Touching something this sacred is a genuine risk, the kind that ends most producers, and RemK mostly pulls it off by flatly refusing to overplay their hand. The...
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NGHTMRE, Staysick - Chemicals
Read more . . . →From the first bar you can hear the sternum-rattle Chemicals was built for. This is big and weaponised and unapologetically maximal, a drop designed to be felt from forty rows back. NGHTMRE has been quiet-ish lately by his standards, and this feels like the guy remembering he helped define festival trap in the first place. Staysick’s vocal gives it a punk-adjacent snarl that pulls the track out of generic festival-trap territory and into something with real attitude. The build does the classic NGHTMRE move of promising one drop and delivering a harder one, and the fake-out at the first breakdown...
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Knock2, Sophia Gripari - Hold my hand (sportmode flip)
Knock2 and Sophia Gripari's Hold My Hand gets the sportmode flip treatment and turns into a proper festival-trap weapon. Loud and proud.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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IKU - 90 NUMBERS (w/ 24hrs)
IKU teams up with 24hrs for 90 NUMBERS and the trap beat hits like it owes us money. Short, loud, and completely unbothered.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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The Weeknd & Playboi Carti - Timeless (RemK Remix)
Read more . . . →Timeless was already everywhere, so a remix has to justify itself in the first thirty seconds, and RemK’s does. This takes the Weeknd and Carti’s swaggering original and drops it into a harder, bass-forward trap edit that keeps the vocal attitude while adding a low end the radio version was missing entirely. The flip at 1:05 reworks the beat into something you’d actually hear rattle a car at a red light, all sub and space, Carti’s ad-libs suddenly sitting in a much meaner pocket. Remixes of songs this famous usually just slap a generic festival drop under an acapella and...
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QUIX - FEAR
Read more . . . →QUIX has always been more interested in dread than drops, and FEAR is basically a thesis statement. The New Zealander built a reputation on trap that trades the genre’s usual bombast for something colder and more paranoid, and this one leans all the way into the unease the title promises. It opens on a detuned vocal sample that sounds like it’s being played through a broken phone, then the low end creeps in underneath rather than announcing itself, and by the time the first drop lands at 1:18 the whole thing feels like walking down a stairwell that’s darker than...
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Da Hool - Meet Her at the Loveparade (Hex Cougar Remix)
Read more . . . →Meet Her at the Loveparade is a 1997 track older than a lot of the people who’ll hear this remix, and that riff, the dun, dun-dun-dun of it, is permanently lodged in dance music’s collective memory. Hex Cougar takes it somewhere Da Hool never imagined: a filthy half-time trap flip that treats the original melody as bait before the drop swallows it whole. The genius is leaving the riff almost untouched so the recognition lands clean, then detonating underneath it at 1:22 with a bass sound like a garbage truck compacting. It shouldn’t work. A 90s trance classic has no...
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BROKN - Feel It
Read more . . . →What separates good trap from the wall of interchangeable stuff on channels like this? Usually one weird decision, and Feel It has a couple. BROKN builds the drop around a vocal sample pitched down until it sounds genuinely haunted, then pairs it with a bassline that swings instead of just thudding in place. The result at 1:18 has actual groove, which is rarer in this lane than it should be; most trap drops are content to sit there heavy and static, and this one moves its hips. There’s a snare roll going into the second drop that’s programmed with real...
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IKU - OBS3SS3D W U
Read more . . . →The spelling alone tells you this isn’t taking itself too seriously, and OBS3SS3D W U is all the better for it. IKU makes the kind of melodic trap that lives on the border of hyperpop, glitchy and bright and unafraid of a big, sugary vocal. The whole track is built around a chopped-up love-song sample that gets more mangled every time it comes around, until by the final drop it’s barely words at all, just texture. The drop at 1:15 is where it clicks, a skittering, detuned mess that somehow resolves into something you can actually move to. This is...
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Eliminate - Open Your Eyes (SLICK FLIP)
Read more . . . →That flip turns a track you’ve half-heard a hundred times into something that actually grabs you by the collar. Eliminate has been one of the more reliable names in the colour-bass and trap crossover for a while, and this SLICK FLIP of Open Your Eyes leans into everything that makes his stuff work: bright, almost cartoonish synth leads over a low end that means business. The drop at 1:08 is a wall of colour, the kind of maximal, saturated sound design that either delights you or gives you a headache with no middle ground. I’m firmly in the delighted camp....
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