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Blackcode & Gaz Meeko - Take Me
Read more . . . →“Take Me” sounds like a rave track that grew up and got a mortgage without ever losing the plot. Blackcode and Gaz Meeko build it on a warm, rolling progressive-house pulse, the kind that cares more about momentum than any single big moment, so it plays better across a fourteen-minute stretch of a DJ set than as a three-minute single you skip through. The vocal is chopped into a wordless hook that works more like an instrument than a lyric, floating over a bassline that keeps rolling forward like it’s late for something. Revealed usually trades in bigger, brasher material,...
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IDM, Explained (And Why the Name Is a Joke)
IDM means 'intelligent dance music' — the dumbest genre name ever. What it actually is: Aphex Twin, Autechre, Boards of Canada, and headphones music.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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SHOSH & BEANIE - Villain
Read more . . . →This is the sound of a subwoofer being asked to do something it will regret. SHOSH and BEANIE built “Villain” to hurt, and the second drop is where it drops the last of its manners. The intro is almost a fakeout, a creeping little melody that draws you in close right before the floor gives out under you. What I like is how filthy the sound design gets without collapsing into pure noise; there’s a real groove holding the chaos together, a swing in the drums that keeps your head moving while your chest takes the hits. I made the...
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ARMNHMR, Whales & Adalaide Adams - Stay Away
ARMNHMR and Whales bolt big feelings to a drop with real teeth, and Adalaide Adams' vocal survives getting swallowed whole. Rafters, reached.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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He Renamed the Water
Read more . . . →Donald Trump signed an executive order yesterday renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” The name Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io — “beautiful lake” — and it’s been on maps since before the Declaration of Independence existed. Four hundred years of Indigenous naming, erased because a man who can’t find most countries on a map decided a body of water shared with another country needed a more patriotic brand. The Interior Department has 30 days to update the federal database. Canada is not required to adopt the change. Canada will not. This is what happens when you run out...
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Rival, Biometrix, CRVN - Nobody Around
Read more . . . →Why does music this aggressive make me this happy? “Nobody Around” is Rival, Biometrix and CRVN piling into one track and refusing to leave anything on the table. It’s a bass-heavy, mid-tempo stomp with a vocal that turns brattier every time it circles back, and a drop that hits like a car door slamming in the best possible way. Three producers on one tune usually means a pile of competing ideas, and instead this feels weirdly focused, everyone pulling in the same nasty direction at once. The bass in the second drop has a metallic snarl to it that I...
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Oden & Fatzo x Noa Milee - You Don't Want To Think About It
Read more . . . →Oden & Fatzo have basically cracked the cheat code for a certain kind of house track. “You Don’t Want To Think About It” with Noa Milee is exactly what the title promises: a groove built to switch your brain off and your hips on. The bassline is that fat, slightly cheeky Oden & Fatzo signature, the one that always sounds like it’s smirking at you, and Noa Milee’s vocal loops over the top just enough to lodge in your skull for the rest of the day. At 1:15 the whole thing snaps into the pocket and flatly refuses to leave,...
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NGHTMRE & Jordin Sparks - No Air
Read more . . . →Remember crying to “No Air” in 2008? NGHTMRE just turned it into a festival weapon and somehow kept the heartbreak intact. Getting Jordin Sparks herself back on the hook is the move that makes this work — it would have been so easy to chop the old vocal and call it a flip, and instead she re-sings it with seventeen more years of weight sitting in her voice. NGHTMRE builds the first half like a proper pop record, all space and tension, letting that famous melody breathe before he detonates it. The drop is huge and bass-forward without ever burying...
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$133 Billion and a Three-Minute Call
Read more . . . →Microsoft posted $133.7 billion in net profit this year. Up thirty-one percent. Then they fired 3,200 Xbox workers, some of them in three-minute phone calls from Montreal. Fifth round of layoffs in three years. The gaming division pulled in $21.8 billion and added two hundred million players. The people who built the games those players showed up for got a call shorter than a cigarette break telling them September is their last month. Hundreds of those workers are CWA union members who just organized and are fighting for first contracts. Microsoft started cutting while negotiations were still open. The union...
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