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BlackGummy - Euphoria (FRANK (UK) & SHAW Remix)
Read more . . . →How many times can a producer name a track “Euphoria” before the word just gives up? FRANK (UK) and SHAW make a decent case for one more go. Their remix of BlackGummy’s cut is trancey progressive house in the old hands-in-the-air sense, and it commits to that with zero irony anywhere in sight. The build runs long, maybe too long if you have no patience, stacking supersaw layers until the release finally lands and hits like the first cold drink after a genuinely brutal day. It is shameless, which is exactly why it works. The lead is bright to the...
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Seventeen Said It Out Loud
Read more . . . →Seventeen Conservative MPs told CTV, off the record, that they don’t think Pierre Poilievre can beat Mark Carney. Not two backbenchers griping into a pint glass. Seventeen elected members of his own caucus, speaking to a camera crew, saying out loud what the polling has been screaming since spring: the man is underwater. His favourability sits at 34 percent. His unfavourability is 52. Carney leads him on every single policy question pollsters can think to ask — cost of living, housing, trade, health care — by gaps of nine to fourteen points. The Liberals are up 43 to 34 nationally....
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This Week on coldplaysucks — Aug 10–16
Read more . . . →Eighteen tracks dropped and every single one landed on Saturday. DnB brought actual names, dubstep got genuinely strange in the right direction, and two separate DENIAL cuts proved that techno built on one bullied note can be the scariest thing in any room. Quiet week on paper. Loud week on speakers. Track of the Week Andy C - Come Together (ft. Mali Koa) Andy C made a vocal drum and bass record that sounds like it was designed to detonate forty thousand people at dusk, and it does not miss. Mali Koa sings it like a real vocalist, not a...
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312 to 1 and Nobody Blinked
Read more . . . →The AFL-CIO dropped its annual number this week: 312. That’s how many times the average S&P 500 CEO out-earned the median American worker last year. It was 285 the year before. Average package: $22.8 million. Average worker: $73,000. One of these people sat in meetings. The other one did the work those meetings were about. CEO pay went up 21% in a single year while the people who generate the revenue got whatever their annual review felt like giving them. Then there’s Musk, who broke the spreadsheet entirely. His Tesla comp package was $158 billion — fourteen times the total...
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The Second Voice - LET ME BE (Hypaton Remix)
Read more . . . →Give this one about ninety seconds before you write it off. “LET ME BE” opens like standard melodic-dance filler, pretty vocal, big supersaw chords, the sort of thing scoring a phone ad, and then the Hypaton remix earns its keep at the drop, which is meaner and more mechanical than the intro lets on. Hypaton has a knack for taking euphoric source material and bolting a harder, almost tech-leaning spine underneath it, and that’s exactly the move here. The vocal stays emotive up top while the bottom half turns into a proper stomping groove, and the tension between those halves...
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The Country That Invented Labor Day Is on a Watchlist Now
Read more . . . →The International Trade Union Confederation put the United States on its Global Rights Watchlist this year. First time ever. The category is “systemic violations of worker rights.” The ITUC represents 200 million workers across 169 countries, and they looked at a nation that stripped collective bargaining from over a million federal employees by executive order and said yeah, that belongs on the list. The same kind of list the US waves around when it wants labor provisions in a trade deal. The ITUC called it “perhaps the biggest act of union busting in the nation’s history.” Not one union. Not...
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Stryv - Patigo (Extended Mix)
Read more . . . →Afro house is eating everyone’s lunch right now, and tracks like this are why. “Patigo” is Stryv working that rolling, percussive Afro-house groove, all congas and shakers and a bassline that bounces on the offbeat until your hips give in and do the same. The extended mix gives it room to breathe, seven-plus minutes of gradual build where a DJ can lock a floor into a hypnotic state without ever hitting a big obvious drop. That’s the trick of this sound: it rolls rather than peaks, relentless and circular, the kind of groove you look up from and realise you’ve...
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SILK x Cat Dealers x HRRTZ - Hear U
Read more . . . →This is a summer track that turned up right as summer’s leaving, and it stings a little. “Hear U” pairs SILK, Cat Dealers, and HRRTZ for a bright, festival-facing dance tune with a Brazilian bounce in its bones, and Cat Dealers can’t help bringing that sunlit, hands-up energy to everything they touch. The vocal hook lands at 1:12, the kind of simple, wordless topline built to be sung back by a field of people who don’t share a language. Underneath it the groove is deceptively springy, a plucky bass that keeps the whole thing from feeling as generic as the...
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Drumcode: Adam Beyer's Techno Empire
Drumcode is Adam Beyer's Stockholm techno label: one man, one sound, 30 years, and the discipline to never blink. The most single-minded bet in techno.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Said The Sky, ILLENIUM & Heather Sommer - When The Light Breaks
Read more . . . →This is going to be enormous and there’s no point pretending otherwise. Said The Sky and ILLENIUM are the two producers who basically built the modern melodic-bass sound, the one where emo-adjacent vocals meet a drop designed to make a stadium cry, and “When The Light Breaks” is them running it at full power with Heather Sommer carrying the roof. You know the shape: an aching build, a beat of silence, then a drop that’s more emotional than heavy. It works because Sommer is genuinely great rather than a topline placeholder. There’s a crack in her delivery on the final...
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