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Body Ocean & Matsu - Pulse
Read more . . . →Dirtybird tracks always sound like they were made by people having way too much fun, and Pulse is no exception. Body Ocean & Matsu have absorbed the label’s whole ethos, that mix of booty-shaking low end and a wink that says don’t take any of this too seriously. The groove here is elastic and physical, built around a bassline that bounces like it’s made of actual rubber and a vocal snippet chopped into nonsense syllables. It’s house music for people who think most house music takes itself too seriously, which has always been Dirtybird’s entire reason for existing. The drop...
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Fractures - Block (I'm not what you need)
Read more . . . →When did Fractures start making music this openly heartbroken? Block, subtitled ‘I’m not what you need’, is the kind of electronic-soul record that wears its sadness on the outside, all cracked falsetto and a beat that drags its feet on purpose. The Australian producer has always had a voice that sounds a little bruised, and here he leans all the way into it over production that stays deliberately sparse until it doesn’t. The drop, if you can even call it that, comes at 2:05 and it’s less a drop than a swell, the whole track blooming outward for about thirty...
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Above & Beyond - Major Drop (Extended Mix)
Read more . . . →Above & Beyond have been making grown adults cry on dancefloors for two decades, and Major Drop is them doing exactly what they’re best at with zero interest in reinventing anything. This is trance in its most emotionally direct form, all swelling chords and a build engineered to put a lump in your throat right before the release. The extended mix stretches everything out, giving the breakdown room to really sit in its feelings before the drop arrives like sunrise after a long night. Some people find this stuff impossibly corny and I understand why, but when you’re in the...
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This Week on coldplaysucks — June 28–July 5
Read more . . . →The low end ran the table this week — nine drum and bass tracks, seven dubstep, seven house of one flavour or another. Somewhere in the pile two ghosts from the ’90s wandered back onto the site: a Paul Oakenfold trance anthem from 1999 and a Detroit house record older than half the people who’ll dance to it. Good week to own a subwoofer. Bad week to have downstairs neighbours. Track of the Week Etherwood - Roam (ft. Lottie Jones) This is the liquid drum and bass that soundtracks the montage where the character finally sorts their life out —...
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This Week on coldplaysucks — June 28–July 5
Read more . . . →The low end ran the table this week — nine drum and bass tracks, seven dubstep, seven house of one flavour or another. Somewhere in the pile two ghosts from the ’90s wandered back onto the site: a Paul Oakenfold trance anthem from 1999 and a Detroit house record older than half the people who’ll dance to it. Good week to own a subwoofer. Bad week to have downstairs neighbours. Track of the Week Etherwood - Roam (ft. Lottie Jones) This is the liquid drum and bass that soundtracks the montage where the character finally sorts their life out —...
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You Pay $900 More So a Guy With Three Houses Can Pocket $66,000
Read more . . . →They finally put a number on it, and the number is $900. That’s what the middle 60 percent of American households will pay extra in 2026 once you add up Trump’s tariffs and the tax bill he signed — $900 out of your pocket, this year, for the crime of being in the middle. Now here’s where the $900 went. The richest one percent are getting an average net tax cut of $66,000. The top tenth of one percent — the yacht tier — clears roughly $200,000. So you handed over nine hundred bucks and a guy who owns three...
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Eptic - The End (WINK Remix)
WINK took an already-mean Eptic dubstep track and somehow made The End meaner. Play it loud and your neighbours will introduce themselves.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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ARTY x Laidback Luke feat. James Hersy - Lost In The Crowd
Read more . . . →You can hear a couple of decades of dance music shaking hands on Lost In The Crowd, and the handshake holds. ARTY brings the soaring progressive instinct he’s built a career on while Laidback Luke brings that old-school house weight, and James Hersy’s vocal ties it to something that could actually live on daytime radio. The result is warmer than I expected from a collaboration that on paper looks like a label trying to manufacture a crossover hit. The hook is genuinely sticky, the kind that’s still rattling around your head on the walk home long after you’ve forgotten whose...
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Eliminate - Open Your Eyes (SLICK FLIP)
Read more . . . →That flip turns a track you’ve half-heard a hundred times into something that actually grabs you by the collar. Eliminate has been one of the more reliable names in the colour-bass and trap crossover for a while, and this SLICK FLIP of Open Your Eyes leans into everything that makes his stuff work: bright, almost cartoonish synth leads over a low end that means business. The drop at 1:08 is a wall of colour, the kind of maximal, saturated sound design that either delights you or gives you a headache with no middle ground. I’m firmly in the delighted camp....
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Culture Shock - Feel Again
Read more . . . →The breakdown on Feel Again lands around 2:20 and it’s the part I keep rewinding, where Culture Shock strips the drums out entirely and lets the vocal hang in open air for a few bars before the second drop caves the floor in. He has been making this exact brand of melodic-but-muscular drum and bass for years, and it would be easy to take his consistency for granted until you hear someone else attempt it and fall flat. The 174 rolls here are clean without being polite, propulsive enough to wreck a Friday night and pretty enough that you could...
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