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Etherwood - Roam (ft. Lottie Jones)
Etherwood and Lottie Jones's Roam sounds like the montage where the character finally gets their life together. Sincere liquid dnb, zero cynicism.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Pegboard Nerds, Teminite & VGR - Disconnected Again
Pegboard Nerds, Teminite and VGR team up for Disconnected Again, three producers who somehow agreed on the assignment for once. Stupid fun.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Eats Everything & Descent - Moonblower
Eats Everything and Descent's Moonblower is proper UK tech house, all bouncing bassline and a groove built for the moment nobody's cool anymore.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Domeno - Where I'm From
Read more . . . →Where I’m From has a chip on its shoulder and I’m here for it. Domeno turns in a piece of festival electronic with an actual point of view — there’s a vocal running through it about roots and not forgetting where you started that could have been corny and instead comes off defiant. The production is big-room adjacent but smarter than the average main-stage banger, the drop at 1:25 leaning on a gritty, almost industrial lead instead of the usual polished supersaw. There’s a real physicality to the low end, a kick that thuds rather than clicks, and the whole...
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Lexurus - Mesa
Read more . . . →Lexurus has been quietly making some of the prettiest liquid around, and Mesa is him operating at the top of his game. The whole track glides, a warm rolling break paired with chords that feel more like ambient music than anything designed for a dancefloor. What separates Lexurus from the crowd of Liquicity soundalikes is his sense of restraint; where others pile on layers, he leaves space, and that space is where Mesa breathes. There’s a bassline that comes in around the two-minute mark that is so smooth it almost slips past you, doing all the emotional work without ever...
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Calvin Harris headlines Tomorrowland and the man just prints money
Read more . . . →Ten days out, and Calvin Harris is one of three names holding down the Mainstage for opening weekend. Somewhere along the way the skinny Scottish kid who made “Acceptable in the 80s” became the highest-paid DJ alive and started writing pop songs for anyone with a pulse. His Tomorrowland set is basically a greatest-hits victory lap. Three that’ll show up: 1. Calvin Harris, Rihanna - This Is What You Came For Built on about four notes and unbeatable because of it. The restraint is the trick. The whole track is tension waiting for a chorus that barely arrives, and Rihanna...
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Digital X - The Night
Read more . . . →Some tracks are built for headphones and some are built for a field at 1am, and The Night is unmistakably the second kind. Digital X delivers a widescreen piece of festival electronic that’s made to be heard through a wall of speakers with a few thousand people around you. The vocal is anthemic and slightly anonymous in the way these things always are, but the build is where the craft lives — a full ninety seconds of tension-winding before the drop at 1:35 finally lets go into a huge, euphoric lead. It’s big, and it only really makes sense at...
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A 'Nonprofit' With $18 Billion Sent Untrained Nurses to the Nursery
Read more . . . →A “nonprofit” hospital chain sat on $18 billion in cash and decided the place to save money was the room with the newborns. Ascension’s nurses at Saint Agnes in Baltimore walked out this week because management has been floating med-surg nurses into the postpartum unit — nurses who don’t have the training to care for a baby in its first vulnerable hours — rather than hire the people the floor obviously needs. The union’s phrase for it was “trying to save pennies by shifting people around.” Pennies. On $18 billion. And the money is right there. Ascension cleared $608 million...
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Leftwing : Kody - I Feel It
Read more . . . →This is the sound of a club at exactly the right hour, lights low, floor packed, nobody checking their phone. Leftwing : Kody have quietly become one of the most dependable duos in tech house, and I Feel It is them doing what they do best: a rolling, hypnotic groove with just enough vocal to give you something to hold onto. The bassline is deceptively simple, a two-note pulse that locks in around the thirty-second mark and refuses to let go for the next five minutes. Toolroom releases can blur together into one long functional groove, so I notice when...
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Conni, Lynxie, THEBOYBENNIE - WOULD U
Conni, Lynxie and THEBOYBENNIE's WOULD U is an NCS track with an actual sneer in it, which is rarer than it should be. Worth a spin, louder than expected.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
