Eighteen tracks dropped and every single one landed on Saturday. DnB brought actual names, dubstep got genuinely strange in the right direction, and two separate DENIAL cuts proved that techno built on one bullied note can be the scariest thing in any room. Quiet week on paper. Loud week on speakers.
Track of the Week
Andy C - Come Together (ft. Mali Koa)
Andy C made a vocal drum and bass record that sounds like it was designed to detonate forty thousand people at dusk, and it does not miss. Mali Koa sings it like a real vocalist, not a topline hired by the hour, and the drop has just enough grit in the bassline to stop the whole thing from tipping into an advert. This is going to be everywhere by September, and for once the ubiquity will be completely earned. Listen →
The New Drops
DnB (4 posts) — Drum and bass had the strongest showing by sheer quality this week. Andy C went big and vocal, goddard. and Charlotte Haining made liquid I forgot I was analyzing by the second drop, and P Money linked with Whiney, Doktor, and Fred V for what might be the tightest thing Hospital has put out all year — four MCs and producers in one room, zero seams. Andromedik and Teddy Bee added the bright festival end, hook-forward and unapologetically catchy.
Dubstep & Bass (5 posts) — Seven Lions delivered two tracks in the same week and the Fiora collaboration is the one to save, built around patience and a vocal that cracks in exactly the right place. Truth went full deep-dubstep on “Fight Game,” sub-bass you feel in your sternum a full second before your ears register it. Zaytoven teaming with Tape B for a trap-piano-meets-wobble experiment shouldn’t work but mostly does — genre tourism that actually produced something neither of them would’ve made alone. Axel Boy’s “Proximity” brought the glitchy, syncopated weirdness, dubstep for people who find most dubstep boring.
House & Progressive (3 posts) — Don Diablo remixed Da Hool’s “Meet Her At The Love Parade” and was smart enough not to touch the riff. 1997 stays undefeated. BlackGummy got two remix treatments this week: Blood Vision pushed “Raze” euphoric and wide-open, while FRANK (UK) and SHAW turned “Euphoria” into a shameless trance-adjacent peak-time thing with zero irony anywhere in sight.
Trance (2 posts) — Mr Sam’s “Lyteo” got a BLR remix that bolts a trance melody onto a techno body and sits right in that rare spot where both halves serve each other. Crashguard’s “For A Moment” hits every mark in the uplifting-trance playbook, never once surprises you, and the melody in the breakdown is genuinely pretty — just nothing you haven’t heard before.
Techno (2 posts) — DENIAL dropped “Nutcase” and its Mark Eteson remix in the same batch, and hearing them side by side is a study in how one idea goes two directions. The original is lean and hypnotic, a single note and a slow tightening screw. Eteson strips it further to industrial rebar and patience. Both are 3am music for different rooms.
Indie Electronic (2 posts) — Didier Sinclair and Baron did French filtered-disco that earned its sunset cliche. Perel’s “Ich Ich” is half-sung, half-muttered in German, patient analog synths and a bassline that walks — you feel it more than you parse it.
Also Banged This Week
- P Money, Whiney, Doktor & Fred V - Crash ‘N Burn — four people, one room, zero seams. Listen →
- Truth - Fight Game — your subwoofer’s new favourite felony. Listen →
- Seven Lions, Fiora - Breathe It Out Slowly — the quieter half of Seven Lions’ double drop this week, and the better half. Listen →
- Da Hool - Meet Her At The Love Parade (Don Diablo ReHex) — 1997 called and the riff still works. Listen →
- goddard. & Charlotte Haining - Stamina — liquid dnb with actual songwriting underneath it. Listen →
Back next week. Coldplay still sucks.