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Fred again.. and the voice-note sound that changed dance music
Fred again.. turned voicemails and internet clips into the biggest dance records of the decade. How the voice-note trick made house music confessional.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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One Lever
Read more . . . →He showed up early to avoid the line. There was no line. One booth, one lever, bold text: MORE OF THE SAME. The man in the baseball cap and navy fleece is standing at it like someone who takes this seriously, which somehow makes it worse. The lever is a heavy industrial switch, the kind that implies something consequential happens when you pull it. Nothing consequential happens when you pull it. Democracy as a carnival game where every ring lands on the same bottle. He’ll pull it anyway. Everyone always does.
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zero point & Nyrus - Never
zero point and Nyrus drop Never, a dubstep track that does not care about your feelings or your subwoofer. Brutal. We mean that kindly.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Pirapus - Dance Disruptor
Pirapus goes absolutely feral on Dance Disruptor and I mean that with affection. A Monstercat bass tune with zero interest in manners.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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ATLiens & GG Magree - Black Sheep (Blankface Remix)
Blankface flips ATLiens and GG Magree's Black Sheep into a proper dubstep wrecker. Bring a neck brace, because the drop is rude.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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The Crowd Cheered
Read more . . . →The President of the United States stood in Bullhead City, Arizona, on Wednesday and told a rally that people who leak information to the press should be shot. His exact words: “In my opinion, leakers should be shot.” The crowd cheered. He called them “the scum of the earth” for good measure. This was a campaign rally. On camera. Into a microphone. The man running a midterm blitz to protect his Congressional majority said the appropriate punishment for talking to a reporter is death, and said it out loud to applause. This is the same week his Defense Secretary floated...
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Moyo - Catch Me
You've heard a hundred tracks shaped like Catch Me and Moyo knows it. Melodic NCS electronic where the little details do the heavy lifting.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Kevin D'Angello - Dirty Bitch
Get past the juvenile title and Kevin D'Angello made a properly nasty bass house track. Dirty Bitch sounds exactly as rude as it reads.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Every Type of Trance, Explained
The seven types of trance that matter: uplifting, psy, progressive, tech, vocal, hard and Goa. Tempos, the feel, and the one name to know for each.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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More Nachos
Read more . . . →Somewhere in there a saxophone is trying. Three musicians in suits playing sax, upright bass, and drums in a candlelit club. Right in front of them, occupying the entire foreground like a noise complaint given human form, a man in a green sweater is yelling with his whole chest. One hand cupped, other hand up. In front of him sits the most loaded plate of nachos ever committed to oil paint, sour cream peak and all. He is louder than the band and he has always been louder than the band. The drummer’s face says everything you already knew. Every...
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