January
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Virtual Riot & Whales - Insanity
Virtual Riot near trap tempo is worth stopping for, and with Whales on board, Insanity earns its name. Hybrid trap that actually hits hard.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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DRAMA & Sultan + Shepard - Emotions
Via Rosa could sing a grocery list and I'd still feel it. DRAMA and Sultan + Shepard wrap that warm voice in lush melodic house. Emotions earns the title.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Anjunabeats and the Trance Faithful
Anjunabeats is Above & Beyond's London trance label, and Anjunadeep is its mellow sister. Here's the difference, and why the fans tattoo it on.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Plus One
Read more . . . →Nobody invited him. He was in the terms and conditions. Every face in the portrait belongs there except one. Mom has pearls, the kids are scrubbed and beaming, it’s a 1950s family shot right down to the warm lighting. Then there’s the man in the back row: half in shadow, corporate lanyard, grinning like he already knows what’s in your cart. The color goes cold and blue at his outline because whatever he represents walked in through the WiFi and never signed out. The family posed for this photo. He just showed up in the frame.
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YORK x Bella Claxton & Mike Momburg - On The Beach
YORK, Bella Claxton and Mike Momburg bring On The Beach back from the radio-trance year 2000. Your older cousin's car stereo is crying.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Egzod, Lost Sky, Alaina Cross - Fight In Me
Egzod, Lost Sky and Alaina Cross made the gym montage anthem. I paused somebody's workout clip to find it. Big, earnest melodic dubstep, no apologies.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Raphi - Bibriso
Raphi slaps a nonsense title on a perfectly sensible dance record and gets away with it again. Bibriso is the kind of house you just move to.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Eighty Hours or Your Health Insurance
Read more . . . →As of October 1, if you’re on Medicaid in over forty states, you have to document eighty hours of work every month or you lose your health insurance. Most people on Medicaid already work. Congress just wanted the paperwork. The forms aren’t for verification. They’re there because enough people will miss one and lose coverage that the budget projection looks better. Five to ten million people are projected to lose their insurance over this. Half the adults at risk already deal with poor physical or mental health but don’t qualify for disability exemptions. Bad knees, depression nobody diagnosed, a condition...
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Excision & Space Laces - True Killers
Excision and Space Laces on one track and nobody showed up to be polite. True Killers is two bass heavyweights doing exactly what they're famous for.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Formula - Too Deep
Put Formula on at the end of a long day expecting to skip it. Ended up frozen in my kitchen until it finished. Too Deep refuses to hurry and wins.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
