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Festival Tickets Cost More Than Rent Now
A three-day festival GA pass now clears a month's rent once Ticketmaster fees pile on. Here's why flagship festivals priced you out — and why the basement wins.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Julian Jordan - Bad B*tch
Julian Jordan's Bad B*tch is exactly as unsubtle as the title promises. Electro house that doesn't ask permission to slap.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Ahmed Spins vs Mike Dunn - Phunky
Read more . . . →This one’s a proper collision of eras. Mike Dunn is Chicago house royalty and Ahmed Spins comes out of the newer Afro-house wave, and “Phunky” (extended mix, the only way house should ever be served) fuses the two into something that genuinely struts. The bassline is all analog warmth, that classic Chi-town bump, and Dunn’s vocal — you clock the voice the second it comes in — sits on top like a preacher working a Sunday crowd. Ahmed Spins brings the modern low-end weight and a hypnotic percussive swing rolling underneath it all. Give it until the 3-minute mark, where...
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IKU - 90 NUMBERS (w/ 24hrs)
IKU teams up with 24hrs for 90 NUMBERS and the trap beat hits like it owes us money. Short, loud, and completely unbothered.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Habstrakt - Everyday (VIP)
Habstrakt's Everyday VIP takes an already filthy bass house track and cranks it further. Not sure our speakers consented to this.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Fresh Laundry & Maya Sarkissian - Ghost Town
Read more . . . →MrSuicideSheep uploads have a house style, pretty and melodic and a little melancholy, and Ghost Town fits the mould while quietly being better than most of what lands there. Fresh Laundry builds the track around Maya Sarkissian’s vocal, which has a cracked, close-mic’d quality that makes the whole thing feel like it was recorded at 3am in an empty apartment. It’s electronic music more interested in mood than in a drop, and when the beat finally arrives it’s understated on purpose, more heartbeat than bassline. The production leaves a lot of space, reverb tails and a single held synth and...
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En:vy - Love Talk
En:vy's Love Talk is liquid drum and bass done right, smooth on the surface with a bassline that quietly ruins your speakers.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Zero - Stop Scheming
Read more . . . →Filthy. That’s the first word that came out of me when the bass hit on “Stop Scheming,” and I stand by it. Zero builds this around one of those detuned, talking basslines that sounds like a machine trying to form a sentence, and around the 1:30 mark it descends into a wobble that has no business being this precise. There’s a vocal snippet — a chopped “stop scheming on me” — that gets mangled a little more each time it comes back, the sort of small cruelty I love in this genre. This is proper UK dubstep, all weight and...
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Curbi - Down To The Sound
Read more . . . →Down To The Sound rides one rubbery bassline for its whole runtime and never once gets boring, which is its own kind of flex. Curbi was making festival-sized records before he could legally drink, and this is him sounding fully grown into the sound he’s chased since he was a teenager. It’s a groove-first house track, less concerned with a huge drop than with a low end that refuses to sit still. A vocal snippet gets chopped into the rhythm so tightly it becomes percussion. That’s the trick here: everything is groove and nothing is filler. The drop doesn’t explode...
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WINK & borne - Drown
Read more . . . →“Drown” is the kind of dubstep that doesn’t announce itself until it’s already got you. WINK and borne spend the first minute building something almost gentle — a vocal that sounds like it’s being sung underwater, a pad that keeps swelling and pulling back — and then the drop at 1:18 arrives heavier than anything the intro promised. That’s the trick: the melody sets you up soft so the low end lands like a slap. borne’s vocal is the anchor, doubled and pitched down until it’s less a lyric than a texture, and it keeps the whole thing from tipping...
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