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Lucca Saettone - Take Me Deeper
Lucca Saettone's 'Take Me Deeper' is proper uplifting trance, no irony anywhere in it. That supersaw drop is pure emotional blackmail.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Nero & Taiki Nulight - We're Not Alone (ft. Emily Makis)
Nero making dubstep again feels like a postcard from 2011. 'We're Not Alone' is shameless, enormous, and our neck genuinely hurts.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Voltage, Yung Saber & Doktor - Buss One
Read more . . . →When did Hospital Records start putting out music this rowdy? “Buss One” is a long way from the label’s liquid-and-lovely reputation, a jump-up-leaning roller with Yung Saber and Doktor on MC duties that sounds built for a rig rather than a living room. Voltage handles the production and the bassline is a properly gnarly thing, growling and rolling in equal measure, the sort that pulls that involuntary screwface out of people. The MCs bring a raw, half-shouted energy that most polished dnb is too shy to include these days, and it’s the best call on the whole track. This is...
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Nova Blue & EV - Weekend Cinderella
Nova Blue and EV's 'Weekend Cinderella' is vocal house with a hook that moved in rent-free after one listen. Summer in a bottle.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Two Records, No Connection
Read more . . . →If you only have ten minutes today, spend them on these two. They share no DNA. One went number one in three countries, the other cracked Beatport’s top 100 from a label most people can’t name. Both of them own a piece of this summer from opposite ends. 1. Adam Port & Stryv ft. Malachiii - Move You hear this once in a bar and then it follows you home. Malachiii’s vocal sits on a rhythm that splits the difference between Afrobeats and melodic house, and standing still to it is physically unreasonable. It went to number one in Belgium,...
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V. Christie - Say You Love Me
Read more . . . →The first thing you hear is a vocal sample flipped so hard it takes a second to register there’s a human under there, and that little disorientation is the hook before the actual hook arrives. V. Christie builds “Say You Love Me” around that chopped voice, pitching and stretching it until it’s basically another synth, and the effect is genuinely lovely — pop songwriting smuggled inside a dancefloor track. About a minute in the drums finally commit and it turns into a proper future-bass-leaning banger, all wide chords and a warm wobble sitting on the low mids. This is another...
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Walmart Gets $2.4 Billion Back. You Get the Receipt.
Read more . . . →Walmart just got a $2.4 billion refund check from the federal government. Apple got $2.19 billion. Amazon, $600 million. Ford, $1.3 billion. Your refund: zero. Trump spent two years collecting $166 billion in tariffs that the Supreme Court ruled were illegal, and now the money is flowing back — to the corporations that filed the customs paperwork. You paid the markup at the register for two straight years. You ate the price hikes on everything from groceries to sneakers. The refund process is designed so that only the “importer of record” can claim a cent. You were never the importer...
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Tape B & Dani King - Underneath Your Skin
Read more . . . →Tape B is having the kind of run where you stop being surprised and start being suspicious. “Underneath Your Skin” pairs his heavy, gummy bass design with Dani King’s vocal, and the contrast is the whole reason it lands: her voice stays soft and close while the low end underneath is doing something genuinely rude. Most bass producers who bring in a singer treat her like a garnish sitting on top of the drop. Here the vocal is load-bearing, the thing the bass is answering to. When the second half opens up, the sub doesn’t just get louder, it gets...
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Vizzen - BOUNCE!
Read more . . . →The title is the entire instruction manual. Vizzen’s “BOUNCE!” is UK bass built for one purpose, and it gets there around the first drop, which lands like a trampoline with a personal vendetta. This is that springy, rubbery bass-house sound the UK does so well, where the low end pogos, all spring and no dead weight. The vocal is chopped into a single repeated syllable that turns into its own percussion. What gets me is how much space is in the mix: there’s room to breathe between the bass stabs, so each one lands clean instead of smearing into mud....
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Tantrum Desire - Lift You Up (ft. Gracie Van Brunt)
Read more . . . →There’s a moment near the two-thirds mark where the drums drop out entirely and Gracie Van Brunt’s vocal hangs alone for a bar before Tantrum Desire slam everything back in, and it’s the best three seconds on the track. “Lift You Up” is festival drum and bass made by people who’ve been engineering it long enough to make it look effortless. The build is enormous, the drop is bright and clean, and Van Brunt’s topline is exactly the kind of thing ten thousand people scream back without ever learning the verse. Tantrum Desire have a real gift for the euphoric...
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