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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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Justin Mylo - Worries
Read more . . . →Justin Mylo has been quietly putting out solid house for years now, never the headline name but always the guy whose tracks somehow end up in every set you actually liked. “Worries” doesn’t break that streak. It’s clean, warm, the kind of groove that doesn’t announce itself so much as just decide your mood for the next four minutes. The bassline does most of the heavy lifting, bouncing under a vocal chop that loops just enough to stick without wearing out its welcome. No big trick, no gimmick drop engineered for a TikTok edit. Just a producer who knows what...
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No Tax on Overtime. Also No Overtime.
Read more . . . →The Big Beautiful Bill is bragging about “no tax on overtime.” Zero percent tax on overtime pay — a real thing they announced as a worker win. What they didn’t announce, in the same breath, is that the Department of Labor just proposed a rule making it dramatically easier to call your employees “independent contractors.” Independent contractors don’t get overtime. They don’t get minimum wage. They don’t get workers’ comp or unemployment. There’s no tax on overtime when there’s no overtime to tax. This isn’t an accident. The rule rolls back Biden’s 2024 contractor classification protections — the rule that...
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James Poole, JAYC & Kim Payton - Story Of My Life
Read more . . . →Trance with proper vocals, which is rarer than it should be. So much of the genre treats the singer as set dressing, a pretty noise to fill space before the big synth payoff. Not here. Kim Payton carries the whole thing. It’s the kind of voice you’d build a track around, and that’s exactly what James Poole and JAYC did. When the breakdown clears out and it’s just her sitting on top of a single pad, you stop waiting for the drop and just listen. Then the drop comes anyway and you remember why you pressed play. This landed on...
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J Ribbon - Man On Fire
Read more . . . →Anjunabeats finding another one. J Ribbon’s “Man On Fire” builds like it’s got somewhere to be. Classic Above & Beyond label energy — emotional dance music that doesn’t apologize for being emotional. Anjunabeats has a type, and the type is exactly this: a melodic progressive house producer who treats a drop like a payoff you have to earn rather than something you bolt on every 32 bars. J Ribbon fits it cleanly. He came up through the double A-side “Redemption / Lights On,” the one that got picked up by people like Dom Dolla and Joris Voorn out in the...
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IOA - Bassline Soldiers
Read more . . . →IOA on Revealed Recordings with “Bassline Soldiers.” The name tells you what’s happening here. Hardwell’s label staying on brand. There’s something honest about a track called “Bassline Soldiers” — it isn’t hiding the assignment, and neither am I when I tell you it does exactly what the title promises. Revealed is the Dutch label Hardwell started back in 2010, the home of a particular kind of big, room-filling dance music that doesn’t have a quiet setting, and IOA fits there like they were grown in a lab for it. The bassline is the whole personality. It marches, it doesn’t ask...
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HEDEGAARD, Arash - Say My Name
Read more . . . →Arash has been at this for 20 years and still landing on Spinnin. “Say My Name” is exactly the kind of dance track that ends up in every summer playlist. HEDEGAARD makes it work. The Danish guy with the so-called “Car Music” production — that big, glossy, windows-down sound he’s built a whole lane out of — turns out to be the right setting for an Arash topline, because Arash has always been most at home over something shameless and bright. There’s a thread of that Middle Eastern melodic phrasing running through the hook that keeps it from being just...
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goddard. - day & night
Read more . . . →goddard. keeps appearing in my recommendations and I keep clicking, and at this point I’ve stopped pretending it’s an accident. “day & night” has this looping melodic thing that burrows into your brain. Good looping thing though. This one landed on UKF, which is basically the front door for anyone trying to find out what’s actually moving in drum & bass right now, so the placement tells you the gatekeepers already nodded. What gets me is how light it stays. A lot of liquid-leaning DnB tips over into background-coffee-shop nothingness, the kind of thing that’s pleasant and forgettable in equal...
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The $1.8 Billion Thank-You Note
Read more . . . →While the government cuts Medicaid for 12 million people, it’s apparently flush with cash for the important stuff: $1.8 billion in taxpayer money to compensate Trump’s MAGA allies who claim Biden’s DOJ wrongfully targeted them. Mike Lindell gets a check. Enrique Tarrio, former Proud Boys leader, gets a check. Pardoned January 6 rioters, a check. The kid who needs their insulin stays screwed. There’s also a White House ballroom in there — $220 million buried in the same reconciliation bill that stripped SNAP to the bones. A room for parties, a room for dancing. The Senate parliamentarian blocked that piece,...
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Giuseppe Ottaviani, Gabry Ponte & Crooked Bangs - Astra
Read more . . . →Giuseppe Ottaviani and Gabry Ponte on the same track is the kind of Italian name-on-name pairing that should not need a third producer, and yet here’s Crooked Bangs making the case for one. “Astra” goes exactly where you think it’s going, and I mean that as a compliment. Ottaviani has spent years being the guy who keeps proper uplifting trance alive while everyone else chased festival drops, and Ponte is, well, Ponte, the man who has been writing big obvious Italo hooks since before half the Tomorrowland crowd was born. Put them together and you get a track with zero...
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