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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 blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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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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Sace, defyer - jandro
Read more . . . →The lead synth on “jandro” sounds like a detuned foghorn that learned to sing, which is exactly as fun as it reads. Sace and defyer team up here for proper melodic bass on NCS, big and bright and built for the montage-and-gaming crowd the label made its name on. The build is patient for the genre, holding the payoff back longer than you’d expect, and when the drop finally lands it’s all wide detuned synths over a bassline that punches clean. There’s a chopped vocal that only shows up in the second half, pitched into a hiccup that quickly becomes...
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You Built the Bridge and Paid the Toll
Read more . . . →Canada spent $6.4 billion building the Gordie Howe International Bridge. Then agreed to share the toll revenue with the United States for fifteen years. Then scrapped the digital services tax. Then killed the Netflix tax. Then pulled its own retaliatory tariffs off the table. A reporter asked Carney what Canada got back for all of that. He couldn’t name one thing. Not a reduced rate, not a delayed deadline, not a handshake agreement scribbled on a napkin. Six and a half billion dollars and a stack of policy surrenders bought exactly zero goodwill from a man who doesn’t sell it....
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Route 94 - 4Get The Girl (Mellizos Remix)
Read more . . . →Heard this out of a passing car with the windows down and clocked the piano before I clocked the artist. “4Get The Girl” is Route 94, the guy responsible for “My Love,” that inescapable 2014 deep-house number, and the Mellizos remix drags it somewhere sweatier and more direct. It’s built on a vocal loop and a piano stab that’s pure UK house lineage, the kind of chord progression that’s been putting hands in the air since the early nineties. Mellizos keep the groove rolling and resist over-producing it. The drums stay dry and punchy, the bass stays simple, and the...
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