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He Bought the Picket Line
Read more . . . →Tesla just ended the longest strike in modern Swedish history. One thousand and twenty-one days of industrial action, and the company’s resolution strategy was to write severance checks to every remaining striker until IF Metall had nobody left to represent. The walkout started in October 2023 over something basic: Tesla refused to sign a collective bargaining agreement. In Sweden, where those agreements cover 90% of the workforce, that refusal was never a negotiation tactic. It was a declaration. Three years later, the agreement is still unsigned, and Tesla operates in Sweden with zero union representation. At the strike’s peak, 500...
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Crashguard - For A Moment
Read more . . . →Four in the morning, the last hour of the set, and this is the track that either lands perfectly or reads as pure filler depending entirely on the room. “For A Moment” is competent uplifting trance. The build does what builds do, the supersaws stack the way supersaws stack, and the drop delivers its euphoria right on schedule. That predictability is also the problem. Crashguard hits every mark so precisely that the track never once surprises you, and you can call the next eight bars from the first eight, and being right every single time gets a little dull. The...
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Axel Boy - Proximity
Axel Boy's Proximity is dubstep for people bored of dubstep — glitchy, mechanical, and full of gaps that mess with your brain.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Andy C - Come Together (ft. Mali Koa)
Andy C and Mali Koa built a stadium-sized dnb anthem that's going to be everywhere this festival season. For once, deservedly so.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Defected Owns This Summer
Read more . . . →Defected is running this summer and nobody held a vote. Ibiza residency at Chinois, a Most Rated compilation that reads like a hall of fame, and a run of singles that turned TikTok accidents into proper records. Three of the best. 1. Piem & SLM - Activated The bass hits like someone dropping a cabinet down a stairwell and the vocal loop latches on in about eight seconds. It started on Barcelona’s Jackies label, went viral when Luke Dean turned it into a TikTok mashup, and Defected made the official version before the hype cooled. Sometimes the internet A&Rs better...
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He Broke the Window and Sold You the Glass
Read more . . . →Trump set a deadline of August 19 — tomorrow — for 50% tariffs on Canadian dairy, alcohol, and autos. The “deal” he’s offering to make them go away: Canada drops its retaliatory tariffs, opens up dairy markets, kills provincial procurement rules, and accepts the American interpretation of trade quotas. In exchange, the US would reduce some of the tariffs it imposed on Canada in the first place. That’s not a negotiation. That’s a guy who breaks your window and then offers to sell you the glass. Carney keeps saying Canada won’t accept a bad deal, but the framework leaking out...
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Andromedik & Teddy Bee - Up
Andromedik & Teddy Bee's dnb hook is built to get stuck in your head — mission accomplished, even if it fades by next month.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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DENIAL - Nutcase (Mark Eteson Remix)
Read more . . . →Mark Eteson found the industrial skeleton hiding inside “Nutcase” and stripped the rest away. The original was already a nervy little techno cut, but this remix slows the pulse and lets the kick do the intimidating, four-on-the-floor with a physical weight you feel in your sternum on a proper system. Everything is greyer here, more concrete and rebar, the melody reduced to a single acid line that coils around the beat and refuses to resolve. About two-thirds of the way through it drops to almost nothing, just that acid and a hi-hat ticking like a countdown, before the low end...
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Future Bass, Explained (Before It Disappeared)
Future bass owned 2016 — that detuned, breathing supersaw chop. Here's what the genre actually was, who built it (Flume, Cashmere Cat), and why it vanished.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Five Records the Playlist Editors Missed
Read more . . . →How many of the 2026 releases in your library actually got finished? The full album, the whole EP, side B included. Summer buried some of the best electronic records of the year under festival playlists and seasonal mood tags, and five of them deserve better. 1. Joris Voorn - Horizon (Melatonin Version) Voorn premiered his ambient album Melatonin in a 360-degree planetarium in Amsterdam for an audience of 320. A nice stunt. The record is better than the stunt. This version of Horizon strips everything to pads and a pulse that barely qualifies as a beat — about four minutes...
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