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Kbob - Let's Go
Read more . . . →Let’s Go is built on a synth arp that burrows into your brain around the one-minute mark and refuses to leave, which is exactly the kind of patient, hypnotic progression mau5trap built its reputation on. Kbob understands that progressive house lives or dies on the gradual reveal, the way a track adds one element at a time until you look up and realise it’s become enormous without any single obvious drop. There’s a deadmau5 influence all over the melodic sensibility here, that cold and precise prettiness, but Kbob brings enough of his own personality that it never feels like an...
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The Fake Cat Nobody Could Switch Off
Read more . . . →On Friday June 12, at 5:21pm ET, the US government handed Anthropic an export-control directive: cut off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for any foreign national, anywhere, in the country or out, including Anthropic’s own foreign-national staff. You can’t check the passport of hundreds of millions of users in real time, so Anthropic did the only compliant thing and pulled both models for everybody. Its statement pinned it on “the US government, citing national security authorities.” NBC named Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and the Bureau of Industry and Security; Bloomberg later published the letter. Anthropic says it disagrees and chalks...
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2ACES - All Night (What It Feels Like)
2ACES prove big-room house isn't dead, it's just been waiting for a drop this shameless. All Night is built for forty thousand hands going up at once.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Get Out of the Way, Says the Guy Who Wants You to Pay for It
Read more . . . →Yesterday Danielle Smith and Mark Carney rolled out a bitumen pipeline from Bruderheim, Alberta down to the BC coast — a line that’ll run somewhere between $35 and $44 billion depending on which contingency number you believe. Right on cue, Pierre Poilievre showed up to do the one thing he still knows how to do: blame Carney and cheer for oil. “You got one guy standing in the way of it all, and that’s Mark Carney,” he said. “Provide the permit, let the private sector build it, get out of the way and get it done.” Stirring stuff. One problem....
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KIMMIC - Where Do We Go
Read more . . . →Where do we go from a chorus this big? KIMMIC doesn’t seem to know either, and that restlessness is what makes the track worth your time. It opens like standard uplifting trance, the kind that telegraphs every move thirty seconds ahead, and then around the two-minute mark it does something I didn’t see coming with the breakdown, pulling the energy down into near-silence before rebuilding it from a single plucked melody. That patience is rare in a genre that usually sprints to the payoff. The vocal is emotive without spilling into melodrama, sitting in the sweet spot trance has always...
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Knock2 - JUMP in
Read more . . . →Knock2 has quietly become one of the most reliable names in the festival-trap-meets-house lane, and JUMP in is another reason why. The man understands momentum better than almost anyone working this sound right now, the way a track needs to keep moving forward or die. This one rides a bouncing bassline that practically demands the titular response, with a build at 1:40 that coils up so tight you can feel the drop coming in your teeth. What I appreciate is the economy of it, no wasted bars, no filler section where he’s vamping until the next idea arrives. Every part...
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LÖVI - Virtual Love 2001
Read more . . . →There’s a very specific kind of nostalgia that only works if you commit to it completely, and Virtual Love 2001 commits hard. LÖVI leans all the way into early-2000s trance-pop signifiers, the supersaw stabs and the slightly cheesy vocal hook, and somehow it reads as sincere rather than ironic. That sincerity is the reason it works on me. The melody at the chorus is the kind of thing that would have been a Eurodance radio smash twenty years ago, and hearing it now feels like finding a mixtape you forgot you made. NCS catches a lot of flak for being...
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LAR - Rewind
Read more . . . →LAR has a real feel for the slow burn, and Rewind is patient in a way that pays off if you actually let it. It’s deep house built for the small hours — hypnotic, understated, far more interested in groove and texture than in any big dramatic moment. The hook works by repetition, looping just long enough to lodge itself somewhere behind your eyes before a subtle shift quietly pulls you forward. The Anjunadeep world is the obvious home for this kind of restrained, atmospheric thing, and LAR fits the brief without ever sounding interchangeable with the rest of the...
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PECO Made $814 Million. Its Workers Are Striking on the Fourth of July.
Read more . . . →For the first time in more than a hundred years, the people who keep the lights on in Philadelphia are walking off the job. At 12:01 AM on July 4, roughly 1,600 PECO workers — the linemen and gas techs who climb the poles in the storms you’re hiding from — go on strike. They’re not asking for a yacht. They want pay that matches what the same job earns at every other utility, and an end to a two-tier retirement scheme that quietly shortchanges anyone hired after some arbitrary cutoff. PECO’s answer, across five months of talking, was a...
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Mesto - Listen To Me
Read more . . . →Mesto has been refining this bright, bouncy strain of house for years and Listen To Me might be the most fully realised version yet. The man has a gift for melodies that feel like sunlight, and this one rides a plucky lead that’s almost annoyingly catchy before the vocal even arrives. There’s a future-bounce snap to the drop, that signature rubber-band rhythm he helped popularise alongside Brooks and Mike Williams back in the day, and it still sounds fresh because he keeps tightening the screws on it. What gets me is how effortless the whole thing sounds, like the track...
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