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Raphi - Who Told You?
Who told Raphi she could keep making tracks this immediate? Who Told You? is another hit in a run that refuses to cool off. Fine by us.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Jasper Tygner - 28 eyes
How do you make glitchy, broken electronic music feel warm? Jasper Tygner has an answer in 28 eyes and it's the best thing I heard today.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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AK & Liam Thomas - Soft Touch
AK and Liam Thomas make future bass feel like a hand on the back of your neck. Soft Touch is smoother than it has any right to be.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Five Years of Music of the Spheres and It Still Sucks
Read more . . . →Five years ago today, Coldplay released Music of the Spheres. It still sucks. They literally named tracks with emoji. Not ironically. Someone in a boardroom approved this. “Higher Power” sounds like it was focus-grouped in an airport lounge, and “My Universe,” the BTS collab, was the most transparent grab for a younger audience since a Fortune 500 company hired a meme intern. Chris Martin sang “you are my universe” over a Max Martin beat and the entire internet pretended this was a cultural event. Salon called the album “an unholy mess.” They were being kind. The whole record is a...
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Jack Garratt - Higher
Lost track of Jack Garratt after the 2016 hype cycle chewed him up? Higher is a great reason to check back in. He's still got it.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Dyro & DJ Tora - Rocket Ship
Dyro and DJ Tora strap a rocket to big room and it's pure 2013 nostalgia with a fresh coat of paint. Your inner festival kid will cope.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Hel:sløwed & Nina de Koning - Give It To Me
When did hardstyle vocals get this good? Hel:sløwed and Nina de Koning go hard on Give It To Me and my neck is still recovering.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Eric Prydz: One Man, Three Names, Zero Misses
Eric Prydz, Pryda, Cirez D: one obsessive guy, three aliases, zero filler. The progressive house and techno catalog with no bad era, explained.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Denied
Read more . . . →Four years of med school, overruled by a rubber stamp. A doctor holds a chest x-ray. You can see ribs, lungs, a whole human being on that film. Behind him a suit is pressing a red rubber stamp into it: NOT MEDICALLY NECESSARY. The suit hasn’t glanced at the film once. The stamp already says what it’s going to say, and it was going to say that before the patient walked in. Insurance as a system where the person making the call has the least medical training in the room, a stamp that has never once said yes, and a...
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Eynka - Make You Happy
Eynka went for vocal trance and got a polite lift out of me on a grey afternoon. Not a bad thing, just don't expect fireworks.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
