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Amapiano, Explained: How South Africa Took Over Dance Music
Amapiano, explained: the South African genre that slowed house down and built everything on a log drum. From Gauteng townships to Tyla's Grammy.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Perks
Read more . . . →The table stays. You don’t. Two guys playing ping pong in one of those offices with a dark accent wall, pendant lighting, and a kombucha tap you’ve seen in every Series B sizzle reel. The screen on the wall behind them says Layoffs 3pm. Two words. The ball is mid-air. Neither player has looked up. This is the whole pitch deck in one photo: the perks are real, the culture is real, and the screen announcing that half the floor is gone by dinner is also real, mounted on the same bracket as the Sonos. The ball is still in...
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WinWel - Memories
WinWel's Memories lands right in the bittersweet melodic pocket MrSuicideSheep built its name on. You can guess the mood before you press play.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Freaks & Geeks - Free Your Mind
A decade of grimy trap from Freaks & Geeks and now this weightless drum and bass? Free Your Mind is a sideways step I did not expect to love.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Timmy Trumpet x Alle Farben - Chase The Feeling (feat. ALEXX)
Yes, Timmy Trumpet brought the trumpet. There is always a trumpet. Alle Farben smooths the edges and Chase The Feeling is hard to be mad at.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Two Hundred Feet and a Clean Record
Read more . . . →“I’ll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval.” That’s the president of the United States describing his own administration like a crime scene with a blast radius. If proximity to your office requires legal immunity, that’s not a workplace. That’s a RICO case with a dress code. He’s citing Biden’s farewell pardons as precedent, which is like citing a fire escape to justify arson. Biden pardoned people who were threatened for doing their jobs. Trump is pardoning people before anyone’s even figured out what they did. The cleanup crew showed up before the body’s cold. The...
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Ghost Jr - 2 Phones
Found Ghost Jr's 2 Phones at 1am down a Dim Mak rabbit hole and it was the first thing in an hour that stopped my scrolling. Genre-proof.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Tape B - No Fool
Tape B does not make quiet music and No Fool refuses to start politely. The build barely pretends, then the drop lands like a dropped engine block.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Joel Corry - Whisper (Karim Naas Remix)
Karim Naas drags Joel Corry's Whisper off daytime radio into darker, sweatier territory. If you only know Corry from the pop hits, this reframes him.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Ableton vs FL Studio: The War That Won't End
Ableton vs FL Studio, settled. Ableton for live sets, house and techno; FL for beatmaking, trap and that piano roll. The war is just DAW tribalism.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
