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Reece Rosé - The People
Read more . . . →NCS built an empire on tracks Twitch streamers can use without getting muted, and the knock on the label is that the music can feel a bit anonymous. The People is Reece Rosé quietly arguing against that. It’s a piano-house tune with an actual soul to it: the chords have that gospel-adjacent lift house has been borrowing from Chicago for forty years, and Rosé plays them like he means it. The vocal is a chopped, looped “the people” hook that should get annoying and instead becomes the thing you’re waiting for each time it circles back. The drop at 1:20...
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Feed Me - Bad Taste
Read more . . . →Feed Me. Jon Gooch has been making that grinning, cartoon-menace bass sound for over a decade and “Bad Taste” is him leaning all the way into it. The lead synth on the first drop sounds like a dial-up modem being tortured, and I mean that as the highest compliment. There’s a swing to the drums that most modern dubstep forgets about — it bounces instead of just stomping, which is the whole difference between something you headbang to and something you actually move to. About ninety seconds in the whole thing drops to almost nothing before the second half comes...
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Four Tet: The Shapeshifter Who Never Misses
Where to start with Four Tet: Rounds, There Is Love in You, the Skrillex/Fred again.. MSG rave, and why Kieran Hebden's taste is the real product.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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QZB & SOLAH - Into The Dark
Read more . . . →There’s a specific kind of drum and bass that only makes sense at 2am when the lights have gone properly blue, and Into The Dark is engineered for exactly that hour. QZB build the intro slow, all held breath and a SOLAH vocal that keeps threatening to resolve and won’t, and then the drop arrives as a rolling, mid-heavy thing that’s more menace than aggression. It’s not the surgical neurofunk QZB usually deal in. It’s cleaner, more designed for a big room than a basement. The bassline has a slight detune on it that makes the whole track feel like...
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Eelke Kleijn x Budakid feat. Nathan Nicholson - Another Life
Read more . . . →That opening synth arpeggio hooked me before the vocal even arrived. “Another Life” is progressive-trance-leaning melodic house from a genuinely top-tier pairing — Eelke Kleijn’s cinematic sensibility meeting Budakid’s deeper touch, with Nathan Nicholson’s vocal floating over the whole thing. It’s the kind of track that builds for a full four minutes and makes every second of that build feel earned rather than padded. The breakdown strips back to just voice and pads before the main melodic line comes surging back around 4:00, and that return is honest goosebump territory if you’re on the right system in the right mood....
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This Week on coldplaysucks — July 22–29
Read more . . . →Thirty-seven tracks landed across two drops this week, and house walked off with the belt: eleven of them, more than any other genre by a comfortable margin. Dubstep came in swinging right behind it, and drum and bass turned up smaller in number but bigger in impact — the two loudest records of the week both came out of that camp. If you skipped a day you missed a lot, so here’s the part worth catching up on. Track of the Week Camo & Krooked & Mefjus - Redemption Three of the most technical people in drum and bass got...
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This Week on coldplaysucks — July 22–29
Read more . . . →Thirty-seven tracks landed across two drops this week, and house walked off with the belt: eleven of them, more than any other genre by a comfortable margin. Dubstep came in swinging right behind it, and drum and bass turned up smaller in number but bigger in impact — the two loudest records of the week both came out of that camp. If you skipped a day you missed a lot, so here’s the part worth catching up on. Track of the Week Camo & Krooked & Mefjus - Redemption Three of the most technical people in drum and bass got...
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He Dug Up a 1930 Law to Put a 50% Tax on Hockey Sticks
Read more . . . →Trump found a tariff law from 1930 lying in a drawer and decided the real threat to America was hockey sticks. On August 19 a 50% tax lands on a stack of Canadian goods — wine, cement, dairy, furniture, wigs, and yes, hockey sticks — under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930. That’s the same era of trade law that helped turn a stock crash into a decade of soup lines. He didn’t write new policy. He went to the attic, found the exact legal instrument that made the Great Depression worse, blew the dust off it, and...
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NGHTMRE, Staysick - Chemicals
Read more . . . →From the first bar you can hear the sternum-rattle Chemicals was built for. This is big and weaponised and unapologetically maximal, a drop designed to be felt from forty rows back. NGHTMRE has been quiet-ish lately by his standards, and this feels like the guy remembering he helped define festival trap in the first place. Staysick’s vocal gives it a punk-adjacent snarl that pulls the track out of generic festival-trap territory and into something with real attitude. The build does the classic NGHTMRE move of promising one drop and delivering a harder one, and the fake-out at the first breakdown...
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Mojjo, No One Knows, SARRIA - Cash On Cash
Read more . . . →Some tech house is content to be wallpaper for a Saturday night and some of it actually grabs you by the collar. Cash On Cash is firmly the second kind. Three names on the credit and somehow it doesn’t sound like a track built by committee. It sounds mean and focused. The groove is driving and slightly darker than the Toolroom norm, with a bassline that stabs rather than rolls, and a vocal hook that repeats the title until it stops being words and becomes rhythm. There’s a filtered, almost industrial texture running through the drop that gives it an...
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