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Great View
Read more . . . →The evacuation plan has one seat and a selfie stick. Thumbs up, big grin, visor reflecting flames. Behind the helmet, the planet is on fire. Not a wildfire, not a region: the whole visible landmass is lit, and the smoke column is the biggest thing in the photo besides the astronaut’s ego. He is not heading back. The selfie is for the shareholders, or the memoir, or whichever platform still has signal at the edge of the atmosphere. Everyone else is down there, and the escape velocity cost more than their zip code.
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Submorphics - Archive Dust
Submorphics works the warm, musical end of liquid drum and bass on Archive Dust. You already know if you're in. If you are, it's a very good one.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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John Summit - Don't Believe It (GRiZ Remix)
GRiZ taking a John Summit record is an odd pairing on paper. Bounced hard enough at a red light that the next car looked over. Worth the stares.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Four Weeks and a Ballroom
Read more . . . →Donald Trump is at 32 percent approval, the lowest of his political career, with four weeks until midterms. And what did he spend his last political capital on? A taxpayer-funded ballroom renovation and a 1.8 billion dollar “anti-weaponization” slush fund so brazen that his own party gagged on it. The man who promised to drain the swamp just remodeled it. Now the Republican senators who rubber-stamped two years of this are discovering their spines. Roger Marshall is sweating a re-election race in Kansas, a state so red it practically bleeds. Vulnerable House Republicans are “distancing themselves” from Trump, which is...
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SLANDER & Nejvex - Booster Ignition
SLANDER and Nejvex let a riser climb way past where your ear expects it to tip over. You're braced wrong by the time Booster Ignition lands. Nasty trick.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Silver Bullet - NOBODY ELSE
Silver Bullet aims straight at the main stage with a drop that wants forty thousand people singing along. Clean, bright and built to be enormous.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Kanine & HEIGHTS - Reflections
One sustained note from HEIGHTS tells you how big Kanine's Reflections wants to be before a single drum lands. Drum and bass that aims for the rafters.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Welcome Mat
Read more . . . →The dollar on the mat is doing a lot of work for 400% APR. Rendered like an old engraving, which is generous. Payday lending has been around long enough to be illustrated in the style of a Victorian warning poster, and the image still undersells the damage. The door is a bear trap. A real one, spring-loaded, teeth out, with a single bill on the welcome mat in front of it. Subtle like a car alarm. The sign says PAYDAY LOAN and the building says the rest. Whoever walks in there for one dollar walks out owing the trap.
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Nitro Fun, dnvn & Nito-Onna - if you wanna love me
Nitro Fun, dnvn and Nito-Onna stack saw-wave arpeggios until they're almost too much. Sounds like a video game boss wandered into a rave. Love it.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Netsky & Hannah Boleyn - Feel Again
Netsky in full radio-liquid mode with Hannah Boleyn on Feel Again. Uplifting chords, big clean top end. I go back and forth on these depending on the hour.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
