Thirty-seven tracks landed across two drops this week, and house walked off with the belt: eleven of them, more than any other genre by a comfortable margin. Dubstep came in swinging right behind it, and drum and bass turned up smaller in number but bigger in impact — the two loudest records of the week both came out of that camp. If you skipped a day you missed a lot, so here’s the part worth catching up on.
Track of the Week
Camo & Krooked & Mefjus - Redemption
Three of the most technical people in drum and bass got in one room and, against every instinct, left air in the track. Camo & Krooked bring the widescreen melody and Joe Killington’s ache-y vocal; Mefjus brings the metallic, engineering-degree bass that shows up in the drop and rearranges the room. They take turns instead of fighting, and the restraint is the whole thing — twelve years into both acts and they still sound hungry. I’ve played it back to back trying to work out whose track it is and given up. It’s both. Listen →
The New Drops
House (11 tracks) — House ate the week and didn’t apologize. Curbi brought the bass-house snap and Oden & Fatzo brought a peak-time weapon, and eleven deep, this was the sound doing most of the heavy lifting.
Dubstep (9 tracks) — Filthy in the good way. Modestep made it sound like sweat instead of software, and Feed Me leaned all the way into his deranged cartoon-bass voice. Buunshin went the other way and built something out of glass.
Drum & bass (6 tracks) — Fewer records, biggest swings. Redemption took the crown, but P Money & Whiney and a harder-edged Metrik remix were right on its heels.
Trance (4 tracks) — A quiet resurgence. Alex M.O.R.P.H got the Ben Nicky rework treatment, and Eelke Kleijn drifted toward melodic house.
Trap (3 tracks) — Low volume, high impact — NGHTMRE, IKU and a Knock2 flip held the corner down.
Dance & big room (4 tracks) — Galantis, Gryffin and Quintino & Deorro handled the festival-sized end of things.
Also Banged This Week
- P Money & Whiney - Photo Finish — grime energy over a rolling DnB engine, and you can hear both of them enjoying it. Listen →
- Feed Me - Bad Taste — a lead synth that sounds like a dial-up modem being tortured, meant as the highest compliment. Listen →
- Oden & Fatzo x Noa Milee - You Don’t Want To Think About It — peak-time house that wants one thing from you and just takes it. Listen →
- Metrik - Dawnbreaker (Subsonic Remix) — drags a euphoric liquid roller somewhere harder without losing the light. Listen →
- Habstrakt - Everyday (VIP) — a rework that earns its own slot instead of quietly replacing the original. Listen →
See you next week. Coldplay still sucks.