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Trance Is Back and You're Late
Trance never left. You did. The 138 BPM revival, FSOE, Will Atkinson, and why techno being too cool for melody backfired. You're late.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Same Wagon
Read more . . . →Same wagon, different century. The bottles even look the same. The snake-oil salesman never left. He got a TED Talk, swapped the wagon for a keynote stage, and replaced “MIRACLE TONIC” with “AI POWERED.” The crowd in this painting has the same expression as the one at CES: half skeptical, half reaching for their wallets. It does not matter that the product does the same nothing it did in 1885. The banner is large enough to read from the back of the crowd and the man is confident enough to hold up the bottle like it cures cancer. The moustache...
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Sam Divine - Paradise
Sam Divine's Paradise is house music doing the one thing it's best at: making a stranger's sweaty shoulder feel like family. Pure warmth.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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ZYNØX - Gimme Love
ZYNØX's Gimme Love is future-rave by numbers and the sound of a label running low on ideas. Pretty, loud and forgotten by Thursday.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Sea Master - From the ocean
Sea Master sounds like being underwater in the best way. The loop builds in a way you don't see coming. Good weird one.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Zenar, Nicky Jam - Te Conocí
Nicky Jam over a Spinnin dance beat is as glossy and oversized as it sounds. Zenar's Te Conocí is Latin house built for a rooftop at sunset.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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This Week on coldplaysucks: Oct 11 - Oct 18
Read more . . . →Thirty-seven drops this week. House ran the count with eleven, dubstep and drum and bass tied at seven each, and the monthly chart now includes both a budget earbuds review and a tech article about running Bundler as root. I genuinely cannot explain this blog sometimes. The Charts Isam Hadjih feat. Ormella - In My Dreams: five weeks at number one, not budging. Listen → TLM feat. Merely - Summer Jam: locked at two for six straight weeks. Listen → Crashguard - For A Moment: climbed two spots to three, second week on the board. Listen → Cheap Earbuds Review:...
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Twenty-Two Days
Read more . . . →Federal agents raided a sitting congresswoman’s home before sunrise on October 12th. Twenty-two days before the midterms. The Department of Justice sent Homeland Security Investigations to Ilhan Omar’s D.C. house, seized her phone, and issued a dozen subpoenas to her family members. The stated reason: they want to know if her family lied about her age when she immigrated from Somalia in 1995. She was twelve. A prior inquiry in 2019 found insufficient evidence to pursue the claim. Nothing new surfaced. No charges filed. But three weeks before an election the administration desperately needs to win, federal agents showed up...
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sensacya - got my heart on sale
sensacya's got my heart on sale is the saddest cute thing we've heard this week. Heart's discounted, speakers are not. Go listen.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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The Loudness War Never Ended, It Just Moved to Streaming
Streaming normalization was supposed to end the loudness war. It didn't. Why producers still crush masters, and why it wrecks dance music and DnB.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
