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Crowd Control
Read more . . . →Eight men in body armour, one woman with a thermos and a folding chair. Guess who’s winning.
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Friction & IRAH - Lead Dem
Friction puts IRAH's voice dead center of dnb, dry and close, giving orders instead of riding along. 'Lead Dem' hasn't left rotation since lunch.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Melé & IRAH - Body Move (Extended Mix)
Mele and IRAH built 'Body Move' to do one job on a system at 1am. Afro-house swing that gets your ankles moving before your coffee does.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Dani Thorne - Miss Behave (ft. SHMANI)
Dani Thorne and SHMANI make bratty electro house that's way more fun than the title deserves. Tight, squelchy, clearly enjoying itself.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Your Mailbox Just Became a Checkpoint
Read more . . . →The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 yesterday to let Trump’s mail voting executive order move forward. The one that creates a federal voter eligibility list and puts the Postal Service and the Department of Homeland Security in charge of deciding whose ballot gets delivered. Two months before the midterms. A federal judge blocked the whole thing in June because it’s flatly illegal under existing election law. The Court didn’t say it was legal now — they said the government can start building the machine while everyone argues about whether the machine should exist. By November, the argument won’t matter. This is...
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Loboski & Elipsa - Another World
Loboski and Elipsa's melodic dnb has a snare crack I keep rewinding just to hear again. Tighter and more ambitious than either alone.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Croell & PITM - Red Lights
Read more . . . →If you’ve been waiting for bass house to remember it’s supposed to be sleazy, Croell and PITM heard you. “Red Lights” struts in on a bassline that sounds genuinely up to no good, all late-night neon and bad decisions, exactly the mood the title is selling. It’s built lean, a tight vocal hook chopped into a taunt over a low end that grinds instead of just thumping. Dim Mak has always had a taste for this kind of maximal, slightly trashy dance music, and this sits right alongside their best without feeling like a retread. The drop doesn’t waste a...
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In Loving Memory
Read more . . . →Grief used to be a private thing. Now it’s a post, and the lighting is good.
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Klinical - 2003
Klinical's '2003' is deep dubstep so patient and skeletal it hypnotizes. Feel the sub behind your knees before you hear it.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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COSTA - You Got Me (feat. Fortune Favor)
Read more . . . →Three plays deep before I even clocked the vocal hook, which is not how I usually listen to anything. COSTA’s “You Got Me” is dubstep with the melodic dial turned up, a big emotive topline from Fortune Favor riding into a drop that actually has teeth. The design in that first drop is the sell: a growl that sounds like it’s straining to form a word and can’t quite get there, and that human strain does more work than any amount of screech ever could. There’s a half-time section near the back where the drums cut out and the sub...
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