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Golden Hour: Three Tracks for the Best Sixty Minutes of Summer
Read more . . . →The best hour of summer is the one right before the sun clocks out. Nobody’s peaking yet, everybody’s grinning, the drink is still cold. Here’s what that hour sounds like when you get it right. 1. Barry Can’t Swim - Dance Dance Dance! Barry Can’t Swim makes music for exactly this window, that gold-light stretch where the day hasn’t decided to become a night yet. The piano loop is stupidly joyful and the whole thing swings instead of thumps, which is a harder trick than it sounds. Twenty seconds in and your shoulders are already gone. 2. Jamie xx -...
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The Widdler - Echo Chamber (Ternion Sound Remix)
Read more . . . →Put this on in a car with decent speakers and watched the rear-view mirror physically buzz on the low notes. Ternion Sound do that to a track — they might be the most precise crew in deep dubstep right now, three people who treat sub-bass the way watchmakers treat gears. Their remix of “Echo Chamber” barely raises its voice and still clears a room’s worth of air with every hit. The original was already spacious; Ternion just widen the gaps between the sounds until the silence starts doing half the work. Every element gets room to ring out and decay...
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He's Taxing Your Prescriptions and Building Himself a Ballroom
Read more . . . →The White House confirmed today that construction on a $200 million ballroom starts in September. Ninety thousand square feet. Capacity for 650. Designed after Mar-a-Lago, because the man looked at the people’s house and decided it needed more of his living room. “Private donors” are covering it, which is Washington for people who need something from this administration and are buying the most expensive receipt in the country. Also today: 100% tariffs on imported patented drugs kicked in. Seventeen pharmaceutical companies were big enough to negotiate their way out. The rest pass the cost straight to you. He is taxing...
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[IVY] - Vertigo
Read more . . . →Who is [IVY] and why has nobody put them in front of me sooner? “Vertigo” is neurofunk-adjacent DnB with a bassline that genuinely lurches — the name is earned, because there’s a woozy pitch-bend running through the drop that makes the floor feel like it’s tilting under you. The drum programming is razor-tight, all crisp snares and rolling breaks, but it’s that seasick low-end wobble that hands the track its identity. It lives at the dark, technical end of drum and bass without ever disappearing up its own complexity; you can still nod to it, it still moves a body....
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Gryffin, BUNT., Inéz - World Away
Read more . . . →The banjo-adjacent pluck that runs through “World Away” is the thing that makes it. Strip that texture out and you’ve got a fairly standard Gryffin builder; leave it in and the track suddenly has an organic ache most festival-melodic stuff can’t fake. BUNT.’s folk-leaning touch gives the whole thing roots, and Inéz’s vocal carries real hurt in it, not the workshopped kind. It builds exactly the way you’d expect and the drop at 1:20 hits exactly the emotional note it’s aiming for, and honestly, knowing the mechanism doesn’t stop it from landing. That’s its own kind of craft. It lives...
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Galantis - Do You Mind
Read more . . . →I have complicated feelings about Galantis and this track did nothing to simplify them. “Do You Mind” is exactly the sort of gleaming, hyper-produced pop-EDM they’ve built an entire career on, and I keep bouncing between thinking it’s a bit much and then catching myself humming the hook three hours later. The chopped vocal in the drop is pure Galantis, pitched up into that chipmunk-euphoric register that either delights you or makes you want to launch your phone across the room. Today it delighted me. There’s genuine craft in how the whole thing is stacked; the pre-drop around 1:05 builds...
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Summer Anthem Season: Five Tracks for Open-Air Stages and Bad Decisions
Read more . . . →It’s the last week of July, the sun doesn’t quit until nine, and every festival lineup you screenshotted back in March is happening somewhere without you. Fine. Here are five tracks built for open-air stages and the bad decisions that follow them, whether you make those decisions in a field or in your kitchen at midnight with the neighbours awake. 1. John Summit - Focus (feat. CLOVES) John Summit spent 2025 quietly turning into a stadium act, and this is the track that did it. CLOVES sounds genuinely wrecked on the hook, and when the low end lands around the...
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Shiba San, Zack Darza - Touch Me
Read more . . . →The whispered “touch me” hook on this is equal parts seductive and slightly menacing, the kind of vocal that works precisely because it’s a little uncomfortable. Shiba San has been moving floors since “Okay” became inescapable a decade ago, and teamed with Zack Darza he still knows exactly where the pocket is. The groove is classic Shiba San: deep and minimal, a bassline doing an enormous amount with very few notes. There’s a swing to the drums that a lot of tech house misses entirely, that human, slightly-behind-the-beat feel that makes you move instead of just nod. The track opens...
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He Told You It's the Same Tariff
Read more . . . →The Supreme Court told him no. Six justices, including three he appointed, said the tariffs were illegal. That was February. By July he’d slapped tariffs on sixty countries under a different statute and walked up to a microphone at a GM proving ground in Michigan to say, out loud, that the new ones are “doing the same thing” as the ones the court struck down. He said it was “a shame” he had to “go a harder way.” The man described his own workaround for a Supreme Court ruling like he was complaining about a detour on his commute. A...
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Feiertag, Jody Wisternoff & James Grant - Nomad
Read more . . . →Anjunadeep in full sunset mode, and I’m not remotely mad about it. “Nomad” pairs Feiertag’s live-band warmth with the Wisternoff and Grant production polish, and the result is deep house that actually breathes — real-sounding drums, a bassline with genuine give in it, none of that rigid grid stiffness that plagues the genre. It unfolds slowly, the way the best Anjunadeep tracks always do, layering in elements until around 3:30 when the groove hits full stride and you realize you’ve been nodding along without even noticing you started. Jody Wisternoff has been doing this for literally decades and his fingerprints...
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