120 tracks this week. Amelie Lens showed up six times. DnB ran the table. House flooded the zone. Zero Coldplay. Best week in a while.
Track of the Week: Visages & Alix Perez - Unity
Alix Perez doesn’t miss. The bassline on “Unity” sits deep and just rolls for the entire track — I put it on and couldn’t stop hitting replay. When a track makes you think “this is why DnB runs circles around everything else,” that’s your Track of the Week.
The Breakdown
Drum & Bass (19 tracks)
DnB owned this week. Delta Heavy went melodic with Nu-La on “Glow” and it actually works. Emily Makis on Shogun with Pola & Bryson delivered emotional DnB done right — vocals that add something, bass that doesn’t wait. Logistics dropped “ARP80” on Liquicity, named after a 1980 synth, sounding more alive than half this list. DC Breaks & Prolix got two remixes of “Purge” and both went hard. Fred V on Hospital stayed consistent as always, and Flint & Figure brought liquid warmth with “Day Off.”
House (33 tracks)
Biggest pile of the week by far. Route 94 on Defected doing what Defected does — no pretense, just house music that knows exactly what it is. Ben Böhmer’s continuous mix locked you in for the duration. Three Melarmony deep house cuts. Mark Knight and CASSIMM held down tech house. Armand Van Helden still out here making records that feel like 2003 and I’m not complaining.
Techno (11 tracks)
This was Amelie Lens week and everyone else just lived in it. Five solo tracks — Activate, Serenity, Young Forever, Falling Into Acid Dreams, Whatever You Do — plus she remixed Anyma & Argy’s “Voices in My Head” into something harder and darker. The Black Virgin and Funk Et Tone kept minimal techno alive on the margins.
Dubstep (10 tracks)
Doctor P & Flux Pavilion named a track “Le Tit Drop” and it absolutely bangs. Wraz dropped three deep dubstep tracks on DDD — all Dune references — Bene Tleilax, Memories of Caladan, The Vessel. Listen in order. Of The Trees x LYNY made something that opens up in the middle like a sinkhole. And Killa P showed up on a UKF dubstep track with Spektiv & Umbra — bass pressure heavy enough to qualify as structural damage.
Trance (12 tracks)
Ferry Corsten & Marsh on Anjunabeats — Ferry’s old enough to have his own mix of someone else’s track and young enough that his version bangs harder than the original. Armin showed up twice with the ASOT 2026 anthem and “Vem Comigo.” CEAUS, Diøn, and Madism filled out the rest without embarrassing themselves.
Bass & Experimental (6 tracks)
Super Future dropped four tracks that all sound like they were made without an inside voice. KING SH!T in all caps because that’s the only appropriate volume. Liquid Stranger brought two — “Cracked” with TVBOO and “Crush” with Avello. WAKAAN stays WAKAAN.
Hardstyle (5 tracks)
Heavy Machinery - ULTRA VIOLENCE. The name tells you everything you need to know. Coone went oldschool. Sub Zero Project and Sub Sonik rounded it out.
Also Banged This Week
- Gammer - Sun Will Rise Again — happy hardcore in 2026, the piano riff will embarrass you and you’ll play it three more times anyway
- Synthetic & CLV - Funk Star (Be Polite) — UK garage with a Monstercat budget that works way better than expected
- Frank Ocean - Ivy (Noobody remix) — rare good remix of an untouchable track
- KLAXX & San Holo - I Feel Alive — trap that earns the play button
- Virtual Riot - Burning Out — if this is what burning out sounds like, sign me up
- DROELOE - Kings and Queens — indie electronic done well
- Parra for Cuva - Towards Amber — the quiet one on the list, and it earned its spot
120 posts. Zero Coldplay. See you next week.