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IYRE x Makoto - SKYLINE FEVER
Makoto and IYRE's Skyline Fever turns a Sunday-morning intro into a 4am liquid dnb rush. Warmest thing we've heard in ages.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Kendrick Lamar - Money Trees (RemK Remix)
Read more . . . →Who is RemK and what gives them the sheer nerve to remix “Money Trees,” one of the most beloved rap songs of the last fifteen years? Turns out, exactly the right amount of nerve. This flip drags the Kendrick and Jay Rock classic bodily into trap territory: that iconic reversed guitar loop still there, still hypnotic, now sitting on top of skittering hi-hats and a sub-bass the original never once bothered with. Touching something this sacred is a genuine risk, the kind that ends most producers, and RemK mostly pulls it off by flatly refusing to overplay their hand. The...
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Kevin D'Angello & Doppenberg - Tranceformation
Kevin D'Angello and Doppenberg's Tranceformation is maximalist big-room-meets-trance that never once let us clean the flat.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Rollers: Drum and Bass for the Motorway and the Field
Read more . . . →Summer at 174 bpm hits different. Three drum and bass tracks for windows down, foot heavy, festival or motorway, whichever gets you there faster. 1. Sub Focus, Wilkinson - Air I Breathe Sub Focus and Wilkinson have been doing this together for over a decade and they still make it sound effortless. Huge vocal, production so clean you could eat off it, and a drop that just rolls forward without ever showing off. This is the one for the last hour of a long drive when you need the car to feel like it’s flying. 2. Kanine - Bloodstream Kanine...
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This Week on coldplaysucks — July 26–August 2
Read more . . . →August started and the genres split the week dead even — DnB, dubstep, and house each pulled seven posts, trance and trap held their corners with three apiece, and the rest landed across a wide sprawl of electronic that runs from future bass to big room to whatever Slow Magic is doing. Thirty-six tracks, no clear winner. Good week. Track of the Week Ninajirachi, Porter Robinson - WannaCry Named after the ransomware, and yes, that’s the kind of title choice that tells you exactly what you’re getting. Sugar-rush synths and pitched vocals that land as actual emotion, kept weird by...
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He Fired the Guards and Blamed the Neighbors
Read more . . . →Trump went on camera this week and blamed Minnesota for getting hacked. Not Iran, whose state-aligned hackers the FBI is actively investigating. Not his own administration, which fired a third of CISA’s workforce and is trying to slash another $700 million from the cybersecurity budget. Minnesota. Because they have a Democratic governor, and that’s apparently how threat attribution works now — not by forensic evidence, but by party affiliation. Hackers hit water systems in seven states starting July 27. Thirty-six municipal water systems in Minnesota alone — the kind of infrastructure where failure means people can’t drink the water. DOGE...
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Kisnou & Blure - Falling Deeper
Read more . . . →I’ll just say it plainly: this is the prettiest record I’ve put on in weeks. Kisnou makes these sweeping, cinematic melodic tracks that feel purpose-built for standing on a cliff at sunrise, and “Falling Deeper” with Blure is him at his most widescreen yet. It opens on a vocal that sounds like it was sung at the far end of an enormous empty hall, then slowly stacks strings and a soft four-on-the-floor pulse beneath it until the whole thing turns genuinely enormous without ever once getting loud. There’s no drop in the drop-the-bass sense; the payoff is entirely emotional, a...
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Silver Bullet - HIGHER
Read more . . . →NCS tracks live or die on the hook, and “HIGHER” has one that lodges itself immediately. Silver Bullet builds the whole thing around a vocal that soars into the drop with real momentum, and the production sitting underneath is cleaner and punchier than a lot of the copyright-free stuff that fills that catalogue. There’s a melodic-dubstep tilt to the drop, big detuned synths and a half-time switch that hands it weight without ever going full heavy. It’s unabashedly anthemic, aimed squarely at gaming streams and hype montages, and it does that job with more polish than it strictly had to....
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longstoryshort & Skybreak - WHIPLASH
Read more . . . →The drum fill that kicks off the second drop crams something like sixteen hits into a space most producers would fill with four, and that’s the exact moment “Whiplash” earns its name. Skybreak lives for this kind of hyper-detailed, faintly deranged sound design, and teaming with longstoryshort tightens it into something you can actually move to rather than only marvel at. It’s deep dubstep with a bad glitch habit, half-time weight down low and a top layer that stutters and skips like a scratched CD fighting for its life. The bass in the first drop has a wet, elastic snap...
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ROY KNOX - Falling 4 U
Read more . . . →Picture the exact melodic-bass track you’d want soundtracking the end credits of a game you just beat at 3am, and ROY KNOX have basically built it. “Falling 4 U” runs on a bright, wistful vocal and a drop that swells rather than slams, melodic dubstep with the aggression sanded right down to something closer to yearning. The duo have a real handle on emotional lift; the way the vocal cracks slightly right before the drop at 1:30 is a tiny detail doing an enormous amount of work. It’s NCS-catalogue stuff, made for streams and montages, and there’s zero cynicism in...
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