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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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Deadcrow & Caster - Euphoria
Deadcrow & Caster's Euphoria is a total fake-out, nothing about this trap tune is euphoric, it's menacing and it physically moved the air in my room.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Chevron Bought a $53 Billion Company. The Bill Went to 8,000 Workers.
Read more . . . →Chevron is cutting up to 8,000 jobs — a fifth of its people — to save $3 billion. Keep that number in your head, because two months ago the same company closed a $53 billion deal to swallow Hess, and this year it’s shovelling $20 billion into share buybacks, five billion a quarter, like clockwork. So the math was never tight. Chevron has never had more money to move around. It just decided the cheapest place to find three billion dollars was the payroll, and CEO Mike Wirth called it “stronger long-term competitiveness,” which is executive for “you, specifically, are...
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Don Diablo - Elephant
Read more . . . →Don Diablo basically invented future house as a commercial force, so it’s interesting to hear him in 2026 still chasing the sound he helped codify, and Elephant suggests he’s not done refining it. The track is built on a metallic, slightly aggressive lead that stomps with the heft the title promises. He’s always had a knack for melodies that are catchy and a little melancholy at once, and that bittersweet quality is here under the festival sheen. The drop is more restrained than his early stuff, trading some of the plucky brightness for a darker, weightier stomp that suits where...
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Grum - You Make Me Feel
Read more . . . →Chopped and stretched until it stops being words, the vocal on You Make Me Feel becomes pure texture, and that processing is the smartest decision on the whole track. Grum has settled so completely into the Anjunabeats sound that he’s now one of the people defining it, that gleaming melodic-house-meets-trance hybrid the label made its signature. It rides a bassline that pulses with real forward motion under a melody designed to go straight for the emotional jugular. It’s euphoric without being naive about it, the kind of build that knows exactly how to delay gratification before the release at 2:30...
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BCee & Javeon - What You're Missing
BCee and Javeon make liquid dnb for the taxi home, not the 3am peak. What You're Missing is warm, melancholy, and worth rewinding.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Ishimaru & Trevizan - Take Control
Read more . . . →There’s a piano line buried in the back half of Take Control that does more emotional work than the entire front half combined, and it’s the reason this one stuck. Ishimaru & Trevizan keep things deceptively simple, a rolling house groove and a vocal that repeats its way into your skull, but that piano is the hook that turns a functional dancefloor tool into something you actually remember the next morning. STMPD has a house sound at this point, polished and slightly euphoric, and this fits the mould while still feeling like the work of people rather than a brand...
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ANUQRAM & Anfulage - Sonderwave
ANUQRAM & Anfulage drop a trance arpeggio at 1:50 that's been stuck in my head since. Anjunabeats does it again with Sonderwave.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Burial: The Ghost Who Defined a Decade
Who is Burial and why does Untrue still own UK electronic music? William Bevan made the saddest dance record of the decade — and nobody's matched it.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
