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Emmit Fenn - Lungs
Read more . . . →Emmit Fenn has a real gift for making electronic music that feels like weather, and Lungs is overcast in the best way. It moves slow and patient, built around a vocal that sits low and close like it’s being murmured rather than performed for anyone in particular. There’s almost no drop in the traditional sense — instead the track swells and recedes, which is a braver structural choice than people give this kind of music credit for. MrSuicideSheep uploads can blur together if you let them, but this one has a distinct emotional shape that stuck with me well after...
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Habstrakt & Badjokes - Right Here (Silcrow Remix)
Silcrow drags Habstrakt & Badjokes' Right Here somewhere darker and grittier. A remix good enough to make you forget the original existed.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Rikki, Matty x Kenny, Antheros - Eternity
Read more . . . →The vocal chop that runs through Eternity sounds like it was sampled from a voicemail and then tortured into a hook, and I mean that as the highest compliment. It’s the detail that pulled me in on first listen and the thing I’d point to if someone asked why this rises above the Revealed Recordings conveyor belt. The track itself is festival progressive-house built to exact specifications, but the producers sneak in enough texture to keep it from feeling anonymous. There’s a moment right before the second drop where everything thins out to just that chopped voice and a sub...
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He's Locked In
Read more . . . →Forty minutes on the same patch and it’s still just noise. Do not interrupt. He knows exactly what he’s doing. (He does not.)
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Hedex - Beat On My Drum (ft. Inéz)
Hedex and Inéz built a DnB anthem with zero interest in being subtle. Beat On My Drum was stuck in our head before the first chorus ended.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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SKALAH, Riko Dan - Thriller in Manila
Riko Dan's voice makes Thriller in Manila sound dangerous before the bass even drops. Filthy, mean dubstep with no melodic safety net.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 — June 21–28
Read more . . . →Big week. House ran the table — tech house, deep house, disco house, the works — and for once I’m not mad about it. Drum and bass and dubstep split the heavy end down the middle, trance showed up to make grown adults cry on schedule, and somewhere in the mix a trance legend and a techno purist shared a Coachella stage and didn’t blow it up. Forty-one tracks. Not all of them are keepers, but the hit rate was better than it had any right to be. Track of the Week Armin van Buuren & Adam Beyer - No...
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They Found Forced Labor In 60 Countries The Same Week Their Tariffs Got Struck Down
Read more . . . →The Supreme Court threw out Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs, so the administration needed a new doorway to walk the exact same policy back through, and on June 3 it found one: forced labor. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced it had investigated 60 trading partners — China, Japan, the U.K., the EU, basically everyone — and discovered that all 60 of them fail to properly ban goods made with forced labor. Every single one, guilty. The proposed punishment is a tariff of 10 to 12.5 percent, which, by pure coincidence, lands almost exactly where the old illegal tariffs were...
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MNK & RayRay - TECHNO BOY TECHNO GIRL
MNK & RayRay named a track TECHNO BOY TECHNO GIRL and it's exactly as dumb and fun as that sounds. Built to detonate a festival tent.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Tujamo x Chester Young - PYRO
Read more . . . →PYRO is exactly as subtle as its title, which today is precisely what I wanted. Tujamo builds it for the front row and nowhere else, all coiled tension in the verse and then a drop at 1:30 that detonates like the name promises. Chester Young’s vocal gives it a spine so it isn’t just a sound effect with a BPM, and that’s the part that elevates it above a hundred interchangeable festival weapons. I’ll admit big-room can feel like a solved equation at this point, every track hitting the same beats in the same order, but there’s a reason the...
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