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HIGHSOCIETY & Gracie Van Brunt - Illuminate Me
Read more . . . →Enormous. “Illuminate Me” is built for a room with a proper light rig and no seats. HIGHSOCIETY has a knack for this kind of festival-ready melodic bass, and pairing it with Gracie Van Brunt’s soaring vocal gives the track a top end that actually earns the title. The build is patient — it holds the tension a beat longer than you expect before the drop cracks open at 1:30 — and when it lands, it’s all widescreen synths and a bassline that punches from underneath. Dim Mak has always had one foot in the festival world and this is a...
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The slow stages at Tomorrowland are where the grown-ups hide
Read more . . . →Not everyone at Tomorrowland wants their organs rearranged. Some people wander off to the melodic and progressive stages, order a beer, and let something with actual chords wash over them for an hour. This is the part of the festival nobody films, because a slow filter build doesn’t play well as a nine-second clip, and that’s precisely why it’s worth being there. Weekend two opens in two days. Here’s the quieter lane. 1. Above & Beyond feat. Richard Bedford - Sun & Moon Fifteen years on and this still makes trance skeptics go quiet. The Richard Bedford vocal does most...
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327 Trades the Day Before He Flipped the Switch
Read more . . . →Here’s the timeline, because it does all the work. April 8, 2025: the market is still falling off a cliff that Trump personally pushed it over the week before with his “Liberation Day” tariffs. That same day, accounts linked to him make 327 separate stock purchases — as much as $12.8 million total, six figures a pop into Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Alphabet and dozens more. The next morning he posts on Truth Social that it’s “a great time to buy.” A few hours after that he pauses the tariffs. The S&P 500 rips one of the biggest single-day gains...
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Chozen - Get Em Up
Read more . . . →There’s a sound about thirty seconds into “Get Em Up” that I genuinely can’t identify, somewhere between a detuned brass stab and a garbage truck reversing, and it becomes the entire hook. Chozen builds the track around it, and by the first drop you’re nodding along to something that has no business being catchy. This is WAKAAN’s whole thing done right: bass design that sounds broken on purpose, wet and rubbery and mixed to rattle the cheap parts of your car. The second drop switches the groove into a lurching half-time thing that feels like the track tripping down the...
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HerShe, Sportmode - PRETTY GIRLS
HerShe and Sportmode's 'PRETTY GIRLS' struts before it knocks you flat. Mean, nasty bass music with real swagger and zero apologies.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Fred V & Ayah Marar - Daydreaming
Fred V reunites with Ayah Marar for 'Daydreaming,' and this liquid DnB heartbreaker will convert people who swear they hate DnB.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Joris Voorn - Horizon (Eelke Kleijn Remix)
Read more . . . →Two of the Netherlands’ most tasteful producers in one credit is a promising sight, and the Eelke Kleijn remix of Joris Voorn’s “Horizon” lives up to it. Kleijn takes Voorn’s original and stretches it into a long, patient, melodic-house journey. This is a builder, the kind of track that takes four minutes to fully arrive and rewards every second of the wait. It opens with a hypnotic little synth motif and slowly stacks layers on top: a sub that creeps in, a string line that swells, percussion that gathers like weather. The payoff around the 4:00 mark, when the full...
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Chasing Kurt - From The Inside (Reznik Remix)
Read more . . . →The bassline walks in on the offbeat and never sits down — that’s the whole engine of Reznik’s remix of “From The Inside,” and it’s enough. Defected doesn’t put its name on things that don’t work on a dancefloor, and this is a pure floor tool: a rolling, hypnotic house groove that locks in around the 2:00 mark and refuses to let go. Chasing Kurt’s original vocal gets chopped and looped until it’s more rhythmic than lyrical, riding on top of a kick that’s mixed exactly right — present without being a headache. This is the kind of track that...
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Kym Sims - Too Blind To See It (Ridney & Richard Earnshaw Rework)
Read more . . . →Kym Sims’ “Too Blind To See It” has been a house record since 1991, and dragging a vocal that iconic into 2026 is a risk: get it wrong and you’ve defaced a classic. Ridney and Richard Earnshaw get it right by not overthinking it. This rework keeps Sims’ original vocal front and centre, all warmth and Chicago attitude, and simply gives it a modern, plush soulful-house bed to sit on. The bassline is round and organic, the kind that sounds like it was played rather than programmed, and there’s a piano riff around 1:50 that lifts the whole thing into...
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The hardstyle temple is where Tomorrowland stops being polite
Read more . . . →Somewhere off the mainstage, past the flower crowns and the couples filming their engagement, there’s a stage kicking at 150 BPM with a bassline built to loosen fillings. That’s the hardstyle corner, and it’s the most honest room at the festival. Nobody’s there for the aesthetic. They’re there because the kick hits like a car door and the euphoric leads make grown men hug strangers. With weekend two three days out, here’s the stuff that runs that tent. 1. D-Block & S-te-Fan & Headhunterz - Keepers Of Our Legacy Three of the genre’s founding names on one track, which should...
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