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XIRA - Feel (J Ribbon Remix)
J Ribbon knows exactly why Anjunabeats built an empire on XIRA's voice and keeps it front and center on this proggier, driving Feel remix.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Vluarr - Steppin'
Read more . . . →The vocal chop in Steppin’ hits like a hiccup on the offbeat and immediately makes the track impossible to sit still through. Vluarr works the bass-house end of things, and this is a lean, mean little groove: no wasted sounds, just a bouncing bassline, that stuttered vocal, and a drop at 1:00 that arrives fast and gets straight to business. House this functional can feel anonymous, faceless festival filler you forget by the next track, but Steppin’ has enough personality in that one hook to actually stand out on a big system. It’s built for a specific job, making a...
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Vicetone - Nevada (Drum & Bass Mix)
Read more . . . →Nevada soundtracked roughly ten thousand gaming montages back in 2016, so a drum and bass remix of it could easily have been a lazy nostalgia cash-in. This lands on the smart side instead. Speeding the vocal up and dropping it onto a rolling break gives that impossibly catchy chorus somewhere new to go, and it turns out the melody was always built for more tempo than the original ever gave it. The drop at 1:30 hits harder than the four-on-the-floor version did, because the breakbeat lends it a forward motion the older arrangement never had. It’s cheesy, obviously; Nevada was...
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The Tomorrowland bass stages exist to rearrange your organs
Read more . . . →Six days. For everyone convinced Tomorrowland is all euphoric hands-in-the-air stuff, the bass stages exist to rearrange your internal organs. This is the corner of the festival with the fewest phones out and the most damage done to necks and knees: 1. REZZ - Edge The goggles, the hypnosis-spiral visuals, the mid-tempo dread. REZZ built a whole world and this is a clean way into it. It sits around 110bpm and hits harder than tracks running twice the speed. Nobody else on a mainstage-level bill sounds remotely like her, and that’s the point. 2. GRiZ & Subtronics - Griztronics Two...
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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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Yere - Special
Read more . . . →Special is the rare NCS track I’d happily put on outside of a Fortnite lobby. Yere turns in a piece of melodic electronic with more emotional weight than the copyright-free catalogue usually bothers with — a wistful topline, a drop that prioritises melody over sheer volume, the whole thing carrying a slightly bittersweet glow. The lead synth in the drop at 1:20 has this bell-like tone that rings out over the beat rather than smashing through it, and the restraint is what makes it land. There’s a moment in the second breakdown where everything strips back to just piano and...
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One Day Out, Four Days Locked Out
Read more . . . →Four thousand nurses at Brigham and Women’s walked off the job for exactly one day. Mass General Brigham locked them out for four. Read that again: you protest for a single shift over pay and staffing, and management’s answer is to bar the doors and tell you to come back Sunday. That’s not a labor dispute anymore, it’s a punishment, and it’s the clearest confession of who these people actually are that you’ll get all year. Here’s the part that should make your teeth hurt. The hospital says the nurses’ ask — roughly 7% over eighteen months, and please stop...
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Projects in Blue - Believe In Me
Read more . . . →MrSuicideSheep uploads are a coin flip between forgettable and quietly great, and Believe In Me is the second kind. Projects in Blue work in that widescreen melodic-electronic zone where the goal is less a drop than a swell, and this one swells beautifully: the lead synth at 1:40 has a slight detune that makes it sound like it’s about to cry. The vocal is gentle, almost buried, more instrument than message, and it works better for staying back there. This is headphone music, the sort that makes a boring commute feel like the closing scene of a film you’d actually...
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MUST DIE! - VOGUE
Read more . . . →MUST DIE! makes music that sounds like a server room catching fire, and VOGUE is him leaning all the way into it. The first minute is almost polite by his standards, a clipped vocal and some negative space, and then around 1:20 the whole thing folds in on itself and starts screaming metal. I’ve heard a lot of design-y dubstep that mistakes ugliness for aggression; this one earns the ugliness because there’s an actual hook underneath, a two-note motif that keeps surfacing between the chaos so you never lose the thread. It’s the rare heavy track I could hum afterwards,...
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Justin Hawkes & scribe - Wayward
Read more . . . →This one made me miss shows I’ve never even been to. Justin Hawkes writes drum and bass like a songwriter first, and Wayward with scribe is all yearning, a vocal that sits somewhere between pop and prayer, riding a break that never gets in its way. The drop doesn’t detonate so much as bloom, which is the whole appeal; at 1:55 it opens up and you feel your chest do the thing rather than your feet. Hawkes has a knack for chords that stay just slightly sad even at full tempo, and scribe’s top line leans into that instead of...
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