Thirty-eight posts this week. DnB took the biggest share, Amelie Lens showed up twice, Zeds Dead showed up twice, and a deep house track from March is sitting at the top of the weekly chart because this website has excellent long-term taste. Five new entries on the monthly board, five knocked off. Turnover season.
The Charts
- TLM feat. Merely - Summer Jam: holding the top for a second straight week. Listen →
- Isam Hadjih feat. Ormella - In My Dreams: new on the chart and already running the weekly board. Listen →
- Dimension & Subsonic - Ghost Town: new entry. Listen →
- Seven Lions & Kill The Noise - I Need: new entry. Listen →
- Born On Road & P Money - Bristol Style: cooling off, down from the two spot. Listen →
- Jay Baptiste - Melissa I’m Drunk And Outside: climbing, up from eight. Best title on the board. Listen →
- Skrillex - Bangarang (BRLLNT Edit): slipping. Listen →
- Blanke, EDDIE & Nevve - Entropy: new entry. Listen →
- EMBER, Gabriel Eli - CHEMISTRY: new entry. Listen →
- Frank Walker - All Cried Out (Flux Pavilion Remix): cooling, down from seven. Listen →
Knocked off this week: Nova Blue & EV - Weekend Cinderella, SKALAH & Riko Dan - Thriller in Manila, Crashguard - For A Moment, LÖVI - Virtual Love 2001, P Money, Whiney, Doktor & Fred V - Crash ‘N Burn.
Track of the Week
Isam Hadjih feat. Ormella - In My Dreams
We posted this back in March. Darker than his other stuff from that week, with Ormella pulling the mood somewhere heavier and a bassline doing genuinely criminal amounts of work. Six months later it’s sitting at the top of the weekly chart, which either means people are slow or the track is patient. I’m going with patient. Listen →
The New Drops
Drum and Bass (8 posts): DnB owned the week. Koven delivered melodic DnB with an actual song underneath it, Pola & Bryson and Sustance and Submorphics held the liquid end, Sota brought the jump-up, and Yash Bansal x Rausch and Boxplot & Kintsuku filled out the rest. The genre is eating right now.
Big Room / Dance (4 posts): HALŌ, Third Party, DubVision, and Matisse & Sadko crammed four names onto one progressive house track and it somehow didn’t collapse under its own weight. Blackcode brought NRG. Syn Cole went progressive. Dirty Signal and Josh Le Tissier went big.
House (3 posts): Illyus & Barrientos linked up with Angie Brown for a piano house cut that sounds like 1997 in the best way. Oden & Fatzo x Astels went tech house. Maribou State dropped a demo called “Acid Dad” and it’s better than most finished records.
Dubstep (3 posts): Phosphr went acid, Lens went deep, Zero & Killa P brought the grime. Three different corners of the genre, all heavy.
Trance (3 posts): ARTY went progressive, LAWTON and Trancemaster Krause (with Caroline Roxy) went uplifting, and Eynka kept things hypnotic. Three flavors of trance in one week. Nobody’s mad about it.
Bass (3 posts): Zeds Dead dropped two tracks in the same week. The Return is darker and meaner than what they’ve been putting out, and Angel 2 keeps the momentum going. Virtual Riot and Tokyo Machine on STATIC. This end of the genre isn’t slowing down.
Melodic / Future Bass (3 posts): NEOTEK & ARCTURA, Glitch Cat & prodBigMike, and excape. all working the emotional lane. If you want feelings with your bass drops, this was a good week.
Techno (2 posts): Two Amelie Lens tracks. “the energy is us” holds a room with repetition and pressure for six minutes and makes it look easy. “come closer” adds acid. Lens is running techno right now.
Trap (2 posts): k?d on “akio” and Tomatow with Papa Khan on “CTRL.” Hybrid trap continues to exist and be loud about it.
Also Banged This Week
- Koven - juST to breAThE: melodic DnB with a vocal you can actually hum. The capital letters are earned. Listen →
- Zeds Dead - The Return: made me miss my highway exit. That’s a review. Listen →
- Amelie Lens - the energy is us: the kick comes back in and the floor tilts. Listen →
- Phosphr - AcidBoy: acid and dubstep together the way they should be. Listen →
- Villano Antillano - XXL: the reggaeton curveball nobody expected from this blog. Listen →
See you next week. Coldplay still sucks.