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Sudley, Ekko & Sidetrack & What Eva - Cool For Me
Read more . . . →That’s a lot of names on one track, and somehow nobody’s stepping on anybody’s toes. Monstercat keeps a steady pipeline of this glossy, festival-ready liquid DnB, and “Cool For Me” is a clean example of the formula done right. The vocal is sweet without being saccharine, the kind of hook that gets stuck in your head on the walk to work whether you invited it or not. Underneath, the drums roll with that effortless Monstercat polish where every hit lands exactly where your body expects it. I sometimes give the label grief for being a little too clean, a little...
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En:vy - Call Me
En:vy blurring the line between melodic dubstep and actual feelings. This one hits different and you can't explain why.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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STELLA LEFTY - i know i know (SAiiLOR Remix)
Read more . . . →SAiiLOR has quietly become one of those remixers whose name on a track is a reason to click, and the “i know i know” rework keeps the streak alive. We’ve posted SAiiLOR before because the man has a gift for taking a fragile vocal and building a warm electronic cocoon around it without smothering the original feeling. STELLA LEFTY’s voice carries this real ache, that 3am texting-your-ex energy, and SAiiLOR is smart enough to let it sit out front. The production glows. Soft synths, a kick that nudges rather than punches, and just enough movement to qualify it for the...
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Document One - Hold On Me
Document One with a DnB cut that doesn't beg for your attention — just earns it. The bassline alone is worth your Tuesday.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Gunz For Hire are closing Defqon.1 2026 and that's the only correct ending
Read more . . . →Ran-D and Adaro have a side project where they put on bandanas and make the meanest, dumbest, most fun hardstyle on the calendar. It’s called Gunz For Hire, and Q-dance just handed them the slot that closes Defqon.1 2026. Whoever signed off on that decision deserves a raise. Three reasons it’s going to be chaos. 1. Gunz For Hire - Bolivia The one that put the project on the map. Bolivia is gangster-movie samples over a kick that absolutely means it, and somehow it never got old. Pure villain energy. 2. Gunz For Hire - Hard Knock Life They flipped...
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They Bought The Stock, Not The Workers
Read more . . . →Meta cut roughly 8,000 jobs this year — about ten percent of a division — and dressed it up the way they always do: getting disciplined, freeing up resources for the AI bet, tough choices nobody wanted to make. Except in the same stretch of months the company authorized another forty billion dollars to buy back its own stock, and burned through more than seventeen billion of it in a single quarter. So the money was there. It was sitting right there the whole time. It just wasn’t earmarked for the people who got walked out by security. Here’s what...
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Siege, David LeSal - Burn Down The House
Read more . . . →Toolroom is the spiritual home of clean, peak-time tech house, and Siege teaming with David LeSal on “Burn Down The House” is right in that wheelhouse. This is built for one job: keeping a club moving at midnight without anyone having to think too hard. The groove is rubbery and relentless, that classic tech-house swing where the bassline does a little dance under your feet and refuses to quit. The vocal sample gives it just enough attitude to stand out from the endless conveyor belt of similar tracks the genre churns out. I’ll be honest, tech house is a genre...
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Sentinel - Bring The House Down
Read more . . . →STMPD has become Martin Garrix’s playground for the harder, clubbier end of the dance spectrum, and Sentinel’s “Bring The House Down” fits the brief with a title that’s basically a mission statement. This is muscular house music, the kind with a bassline that drives rather than glides and a hook engineered for a festival tent full of sweaty people. It does what it says on the tin, no overthinking required. I keep flip-flopping on STMPD as a label, because some of their output feels like it was assembled by committee to test well in a stadium. But this one has...
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Darren Styles feat. MERYLL - Miss You
Darren Styles is hard dance royalty and this one with MERYLL hits like nostalgia weaponized. You already know what it does.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Rova - Think I Am
Read more . . . →Rova keeps quietly turning out drum and bass that sounds like it was built for a 6am room when the lights start coming up and nobody wants to leave yet. “Think I Am” rides a vocal hook that’s equal parts longing and defiance, the kind of line you mumble to yourself on the night bus home. The rolling break underneath is clean enough to feel polite and heavy enough to keep your feet honest. What gets me is the restraint. There’s no big festival switch-up, no needless second drop screaming for attention. Rova trusts the groove to do the work,...
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