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Flux Pavilion, Freestylers & Belle Humble - Cracks Begin To Show
Flux Pavilion, Freestylers, and Belle Humble let the bass fracture on purpose mid-drop, and it's the best idea on the whole track.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Glitch Cat - u-know
Read more . . . →This one’s just pure serotonin. Glitch Cat make the kind of Monstercat electro-house that has no interest in being cool and every interest in making you grin like an idiot, and “u-know” is a big dumb hit of exactly that. It rides a vocal chop that bounces around like a superball in a small room, over a bassline that struts like it owns the place. The drop is bright, springy, almost cartoonish, all primary colours and no shame about any of them. There’s a synth lead in the second half that sounds like video-game boss music got a glow-up and...
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Eelke Kleijn - Answer Every Question
Eelke Kleijn is criminally underrated outside melodic house. 'Answer Every Question' gave us chills on laptop speakers. Imagine a real system.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Overmono Made the Album of the Summer and It's Forty Minutes Long
Read more . . . →Three days with Pure Devotion and I’ve stopped opening Spotify for anything else. Overmono’s second album landed last Thursday — eleven tracks, forty minutes — and it rearranged the rest of my August. Their debut was a controlled detonation. This one is looser, warmer, and it wins every argument the first record started. 1. Overmono - Knight In Shining Prada (feat. John Joseph Holt) BBC Radio 1 gave this the Hottest Record tag and for once the hype was underselling it. John Joseph Holt sings over a beat that lands somewhere between 2-step and a headnod nobody’s named yet, and...
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Hardstyle for People Who Think They Hate Hardstyle
Hardstyle isn't loud cheesy nonsense — it's Dutch festival music built around a sculpted kick drum. The euphoric vs. raw cheat sheet, and 5 tracks to start.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Dion Timmer - BE URS
Read more . . . →You already know if you’re the audience for this one. It’s Dion Timmer, so it’s clean, melodic, and engineered within an inch of its life. “BE URS” puts as much care into the pretty half as the heavy half: a sung hook and glassy synths up top, then a drop that’s precise rather than filthy, every sound sitting exactly where he wants it. Timmer’s been doing this since he was a teenager and the polish shows, sometimes almost too much, like the track’s been sanded smooth enough to lose a little danger. But the melody carries it. The second drop...
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Greta Svabo Bech - Shut Up & Sing (AG Rewrite)
Read more . . . →Heard this come on in a friend’s car at night on the motorway and it fit the moment so perfectly I made them rewind it. Greta Svabo Bech is the voice behind Deadmau5’s “Raise Your Weapon,” which got her a Grammy nomination back when that still meant something, and her own material has always deserved more ears than it gets. “Shut Up & Sing” in this AG Rewrite is built around her voice, which is the correct decision, because it’s a genuinely strange and beautiful instrument, all air and edges. The production keeps things restrained, a pulsing low end and...
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A Little Sound & Kelvin 373 - Same Thing
A Little Sound's been on half the dnb that mattered these two years. With Kelvin 373 she finally gets to sing, not just top a drop.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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The Economy Lost 23,000 Jobs and Unemployment Went Down
Read more . . . →The U.S. economy shed 23,000 jobs in July and the unemployment rate went down. Not a typo. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that payrolls went negative and the rate “improved” to 4.1 percent, because 264,000 people left the workforce entirely. Stopped looking, stopped being counted. Labor force participation is at 61.4 percent, lowest in five years. The rate didn’t improve. The pool just got smaller. This is the number they’ll wave around. Four point one. Strong. Meanwhile average monthly job gains this year sit at 34,000. May’s numbers got revised down by 66,000 after the fact. June got...
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John Alto - Waiting For
Read more . . . →John Alto’s “Waiting For” slid right into my rotation without asking for permission. It’s deep, melodic house that sits in that late-night, top-down-drive pocket, all warm chords and a bassline you feel more than hear. It never reaches for a huge festival drop, and that restraint is the whole reason it works; the track is about the groove staying locked while little details drift in and out around it. There’s a vocal sample buried low in the mix, pitched and looped until the words dissolve into pure texture, and it’s the glue holding everything together. The kick is soft and...
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