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CYRIL - That's Her (feat. Wiz Khalifa)
Read more . . . →Wiz Khalifa on an electronic track via MrRevillz. CYRIL pulled it off — this thing is surprisingly smooth. More like this 808 BEACH, Belle Humble - Here's Where The Story Ends Ahmed Helmy & Doppenberg pres. HEL:BRG - Mind Control Alok, Zeeba, Bruno Martini - Hear Me Now Buy / stream this track →
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kwn - idea of love
Read more . . . →kwn is playing “idea of love” for a COLORS session and delivering like there are twenty people in the room instead of two. That quiet intensity is exactly why COLORS keeps finding artists before everyone else. More like this AJULLIACOSTA - Nasci Pra Ser Buju Banton - Driver A James Blake - Trying Times Buy / stream this track →
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Clarx & Brother Gabriel - Fun
Read more . . . →Sometimes a track is exactly what the title says. CloudKid finds another one. We've posted Clarx & Brother Gabriel before — Clarx - Relentless (feat. Vanessa Campagna) More like this Clarx - Relentless (feat. Vanessa Campagna) Drove - All Along Ashley Sienna - I Win Buy / stream this track →
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Braaheim - Hooked On A Feeling
Read more . . . →Braaheim doing “Hooked On A Feeling” as a chill electronic thing instead of BJ Thomas or Blue Swede. The vocal chops hit differently in this context. More like this 808 BEACH, Belle Humble - Here's Where The Story Ends Ahmed Helmy & Doppenberg pres. HEL:BRG - Mind Control Alok, Zeeba, Bruno Martini - Hear Me Now Buy / stream this track →
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Kryder - All My Love
Read more . . . →Kryder’s “All My Love” is proper trance — big euphoric synths, the whole thing. No shame in that. More like this Airbase - Disappear Avenue One - The Future Is Ours Christian Burns & Paul Thomas - The Two of Us Buy / stream this track →
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Boogie Vice feat. Luukhanyo - 2AM (Extended Mix) [DFTD]
Read more . . . →DFTD has been on a streak lately. This 2AM extended mix is exactly what 2am deserves. More like this Dames Brown - Take Me As I Am (Moodymann Remix) Dam Swindle x 95 North - Find a Way to Believe Tchami & Poo Bear - cry for me Buy / stream this track →
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Azotix - Ego
Read more . . . →UKF dropped this and it sounds exactly as reckless as the title suggests. Azotix has been building something — this feels like a statement. Azotix back on coldplaysucks — SOLAH, Makoto, Hugh Hardie & Azotix - Lovesick More like this SOLAH, Makoto, Hugh Hardie & Azotix - Lovesick Benda & Z3LLA - Sleepless Flava D, SKALAH & D Double E - Different Buy / stream this track →
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Ahmed Helmy & Doppenberg pres. HEL:BRG - Mind Control
Read more . . . →Revealed Recordings going darker with this HEL:BRG collab. The artist credit is overcomplicated but the track is not. Not the first time Ahmed Helmy & Doppenberg pres. HEL:BRG has shown up here — Ahmed Helmy - Who I Am More like this Ahmed Helmy - Who I Am BUNS - ITCHTOPAY Dillon Francis, Allenora, America Foster - RIDDEM Buy / stream this track →
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James Blake - Trying Times
Read more . . . →James Blake on COLORS. “Trying Times” is exactly what you’d expect — spare, heavy, sounds like it was recorded in an empty church at 4am. Perfect. More like this London Grammar - Baby It's You [BORDERS] - Anywhere But Nowhere Day Hacker Zero One Buy / stream this track →
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808 BEACH, Belle Humble - Here's Where The Story Ends
Read more . . . →Covering The Sundays is a terrible idea on paper. “Here’s Where The Story Ends” from 1990 is one of those songs that feels carved out of a single afternoon, Harriet Wheeler’s voice doing more with restraint than most singers manage with their whole range. Touch it wrong and you have desecrated something. So when I saw 808 BEACH had dragged it into a house record I braced for the worst, and then the worst never came. The trick here is that nobody got greedy. 808 BEACH is the New York pair of John Carr and Bill Coleman, two people with...
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