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Quoone - Don't Stop
Read more . . . →Viper does this thing where they round up the up-and-comers nobody’s heard yet and dump them on a Future Fire comp, and you end up finding your next favourite producer between two names you’ll forget by Friday. This is Vol.9, and Quoone is the reason to bother. “Don’t Stop” is exactly what it tells you it is. No fake-out intro, no two minutes of pads before anything happens. It walks in, the bass drops, and it just refuses to let up. Quoone’s been kicking around the Viper orbit for a while now — turned up on the comps before, did...
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Oden & Fatzo x Barney Bones - My Temptations (Live from Defected Malta)
Read more . . . →Live from Defected Malta, which, let’s be honest, sounds like a fairly enviable way to spend an evening. This is “My Temptations” out in the wild, off the studio leash, and it’s got that raw, slightly unhinged energy you only get when a track built for the dancefloor finally meets an actual dancefloor. Oden & Fatzo are the Parisian duo trading in glossy French touch business, all filter sweeps and basslines that funk harder than they have any right to, and you can hear them feeding off the crowd here. Barney Bones is the LA voice on top, a writer...
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MXTR & Tyler Garrett - Disconnected
Read more . . . →Tyler Garrett’s vocals draped over a MXTR liquid DnB track, and yeah, this is exactly the kind of thing you stumble into on a playlist at 1am and then lose twenty minutes screenshotting the title and chasing down the artist. MXTR is a Chelmsford producer who came up with metal, trance and UK hardcore in his ears, which sounds like a recipe for something messy but actually explains a lot. There’s a euphoric, slightly anthemic streak running through his stuff that pure liquid heads don’t always reach for, and it gives “Disconnected” a lift most of this genre is too...
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Mistafil & Beth Clayton - Run
Read more . . . →Another one pulled off Future Fire Vol.9, which is Viper’s roundup of names you’re about to start seeing everywhere. Comps like this are usually a minefield, half the tracklist is filler you skip after eight seconds, but Beth Clayton’s voice yanks “Run” straight out of that pile. She’s got that thing where the vocal sits right on top of the mix and still feels weightless, like it could float off if the drums weren’t holding it down. And Mistafil clearly knows the assignment, because the production gives her room instead of burying her under a wall of bass. That’s the...
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MANIA - On The Gas
Read more . . . →DnB Allstars dropping this from MANIA and the track name is not lying to you. “On The Gas” is full throttle from the first bar and stays pinned there. There’s no slow seduction, no two-minute intro pretending to be a journey. It just kicks the door in and starts swinging. This is dancefloor DnB built for a room with no air conditioning and no patience, the kind of thing that sounds borderline rude on headphones and absolutely correct at volume on a proper rig. DnB Allstars have basically become the channel where you go to find out what’s actually destroying...
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Work Requirements Don't Create Jobs. They Create Paperwork.
Read more . . . →Nebraska just became the first state to tell poor people they need to file monthly paperwork proving they work 80 hours to keep their health insurance. Miss the form or confuse DHHS’s bureaucracy — coverage gone. Not because you stopped working. Because you failed a government quiz while sick and broke. This is what “work requirements” actually are. Not a ladder, not a job program — a filter. The Urban Institute says Nebraska alone will kick 25,000 people off Medicaid from this. The CBO found that work requirements will strip coverage from over 5 million Americans by 2034 and produce...
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Logistics - Hyperspace
Read more . . . →Logistics doing what Logistics does, which is make a rolling bassline feel like the most natural law in the universe. That bass drops in around 40 seconds and never once lets you off the hook. Matt Gresham has been one of Hospital’s most reliable producers since he signed there back in 2004, and you can hear exactly why: the surface is smooth and melodic, almost polite, and then underneath it there’s this machine that just keeps turning over. “Hyperspace” leans hard into the dancefloor side of his catalogue, all bright synth hooks and a build that earns its payoff instead...
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Lamorn - Dead Internet Theory
Read more . . . →A track called “Dead Internet Theory” landing on deadmau5’s label in 2026. The joke is almost too on the nose. We’re at the point where half the internet is bots talking to other bots, and here’s a progressive house tune named after exactly that, dropped on mau5trap of all places. I went in fully expecting a wink and a shrug, a clever title slapped on a forgettable beat. Then the music actually slaps, which I did not see coming. Lamorn isn’t some random signing either. He’s a genuine deadmau5 protégé, discovered during the mau5trap Monday streams back in 2020 and...
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KLAXX, yetep - STARLIGHT (feat. Aviella)
Read more . . . →KLAXX and yetep teaming up again, and this time they’ve roped in Aviella, which turns out to be the move. These two already have form together with “Runaway,” another Aviella feature, so this isn’t a one-off experiment so much as a trio that figured out they work and decided to run it back. Good call. Her voice is the whole engine of “STARLIGHT.” It floats clean and bright through the intro, and then when the drop lands it’s her vocal getting chopped and twisted into the melody itself rather than just sitting on top of the beat. That’s the trick...
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KDH & Kage - Dump Truck
Read more . . . →Track’s called “Dump Truck.” It’s on Dim Mak. That’s basically all the information you need before you press play, and somehow it tells you exactly what’s coming. This is hard house with no interest in being subtle. The whole thing rolls in like the name promises, all weight and momentum, the kind of track built to be felt in your chest rather than analyzed with your ears. KDH and Kage aren’t trying to reinvent anything here. They found a groove, made it hit like a wrecking ball, and called it a day. And it works precisely because it’s not overthought....
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