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Seven Lions, Fiora - Breathe It Out Slowly
Read more . . . →Fiora’s voice is the whole reason this one works. She has been the not-so-secret weapon across a run of these melodic-bass collaborations, and on “Breathe It Out Slowly” she finally gets enough space to carry the track herself instead of just decorating somebody else’s drop. Her vocal stays fragile and tightly controlled through the verses, all restraint and held breath, and then it opens right up at the exact moment the production swells underneath her, a genuine hair-standing-up moment if you catch it at the right volume. Seven Lions builds the whole thing with real patience, aiming the arrangement at...
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Cartoon, Jozels, Kazhi - Like A Melody
Read more . . . →Somewhere right now a Twitch streamer is queuing this up as background music, and honestly it’ll do that job beautifully, but it deserves an actual listen too. “Like A Melody” is NCS melodic bass done with more care than the label usually gets credit for. Cartoon has a real ear for a wistful topline, and here the vocal from Jozels floats over a build that takes its time before opening into a warm, glowing future-bass drop. The sound palette is bright and a little nostalgic, the kind of production that scores a montage of a good year you’re already missing...
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Grand Opening
Read more . . . →He evicted them in March and cut the ribbon on their soup kitchen in August. Vertical integration.
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Best Free VSTs for Electronic Music in 2026 (Ranked, With Opinions)
The free VST chain that out-produces a $1,000 stack. Vital, OTT, TDR Nova, Valhalla and more — ranked, with opinions, for electronic music in 2026.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Seven Lions - A Crown of Seven Moons
Read more . . . →Is anyone else still a little surprised that Seven Lions makes this exact sound work as consistently as he does? “A Crown of Seven Moons” is peak Jeff Montalvo, that fusion of trance-sized melody and dubstep weight that basically nobody else pulls off convincingly. The intro is all gauzy, celestial atmosphere before the first drop shows up and reminds you there is a serious sound designer under the fairy dust who knows his way around a bass patch. What keeps it from sliding into fantasy-soundtrack territory is the drop’s actual grit, a growl where a lesser producer would just twinkle...
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Andrew Bayer & Vancouver Sleep Clinic - Burn For You
Andrew Bayer lets Vancouver Sleep Clinic's falsetto carry a 2am comedown record home. Patient, pretty, and it never wears thin.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Last Light on the Terrace
Read more . . . →You’ve got an hour before the sun’s gone and these three records are exactly the right length. Summer’s best music is the last thing playing before the night takes over. 1. Sasha - Hollow Sun 25 Seven minutes and the acid line only fully arrives at the halfway mark. The rest is buildup — not the big-room kind, the kind where you realize you’ve been holding your breath and the track hasn’t even started pushing yet. This is the 200th release on Sasha’s Last Night On Earth label. Two hundred records, and he saved the acid for the anniversary. 2....
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The Ref Works for Management Now
Read more . . . →The agency that exists to protect your right to organize just got handed to the people who spent their careers making sure you can’t. Senate confirmed two Trump picks to the National Labor Relations Board on August 7th, locking in a 3-1 Republican majority. One of them is a former chief labor counsel for Boeing — yes, the Boeing currently under investigation for retaliating against workers who reported safety defects. Trump already fired the general counsel who was actually enforcing the law. A federal judge ruled he illegally fired the board chair. The administration shrugged and kept going. The NLRB...
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Perel - Ich Ich
Read more . . . →The vocal on “Ich Ich” is half-sung and half-muttered in German, and it turns the whole track into something you feel more than parse. Perel builds this out of patient, analog-sounding synths and a bassline that walks rather than pounds, the kind of indie-electronic groove that could soundtrack a sweaty basement or a slow drive home equally well. Not understanding a word of the lyrics barely matters. The repeated “ich, ich” becomes pure texture, a rhythmic hook that lodges regardless of what language you think in. There is a warmth to the production that a lot of colder electronic music...
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P Money, Whiney, Doktor & Fred V - Crash 'N Burn
Read more . . . →This should not hang together as well as it does. You have got P Money and Doktor trading bars over a Whiney and Fred V production, which on paper reads like a posse cut destined to sprawl into a mess, and instead “Crash ‘N Burn” is one of the tightest things Hospital has put out this year. The two MCs bounce off each other with real chemistry, P Money’s clipped aggressive delivery set against Doktor’s rowdier, more elastic flow, and the beat gives them room without ever going soft underneath. Whiney and Fred V keep the drums rolling and rock...
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