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Ferreck Dawn - Say What You Mean
Read more . . . →Defected putting out a Ferreck Dawn track is just Tuesday at this point. Say What You Mean is reliable peak-hour stuff — soulful, just funky enough, does exactly what it says. More like this Spinnin' Sessions Radio - Episode #678 Spiller feat. Sophie Ellis Bextor - Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (not without friends Remix) Lego - El Ritmo De Verdad (Aitor Astiz Remix) [DFTD] Buy / stream this track →
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FELICIA - My System (Blasterjaxx Remix)
Read more . . . →Blasterjaxx doing what Blasterjaxx does. My System gets the big-room treatment and the result is exactly what you’d play at 1am when the crowd needs a push. More like this Alok, Zeeba, Bruno Martini - Hear Me Now Spinnin' Sessions Radio - Episode #679 AFROJACK - Take Over Control (feat. Eva Simons) [Nitefreak Remix] Buy / stream this track →
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ESSED - Anytime
Read more . . . →ESSED on STMPD is clean house music. Anytime is exactly the kind of track you put on when the energy needs to sustain but not peak yet. Does its job well. More like this Boogie Vice feat. Luukhanyo - 2AM (Extended Mix) [DFTD] Dames Brown - Take Me As I Am (Moodymann Remix) Dam Swindle x 95 North - Find a Way to Believe Buy / stream this track →
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Eats Everything & Stella Browne - Every Woman Needs Love
Read more . . . →Eats Everything wandering into Armada territory is a move. Stella Browne’s vocals pull it somewhere neither of them usually go. Weirder and better than expected. More like this Tchami & Poo Bear - cry for me Kaskade, Layton Giordani, Natalie Jane - Meet Again Megisto & Laidback Luke - Don't Look Back Buy / stream this track →
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Trump's Tariffs Killed More Small Business Jobs Than COVID Did
Read more . . . →The math is in. The smallest American businesses — fewer than 10 employees — lost 4.5 times more jobs in 2025 than they did during the entire pandemic year of 2020. No lockdowns. No virus. Just Trump’s tariffs running for 13 straight months. 292,000 jobs gone from businesses that can’t offshore, can’t lobby, can’t absorb a 145% cost shock and survive it. The Joint Economic Committee broke it down by sector. Leisure and hospitality — restaurants, hotels — down 48,000 jobs and 15% of revenue. Small manufacturers down 38,000 jobs and 11% of revenue. These aren’t abstract numbers. These are...
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Diøn - Taka Tribe
Read more . . . →New name on my radar. Taka Tribe has this restless energy that doesn’t want to sit still — good problem to have. More like this Diøn - Come Alive Armin van Buuren & Andrew Bayer - Serendipity (Live at A State of Trance Rotterdam 2026) CHANEY - Love Claim Buy / stream this track →
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CHANEY - Love Claim
Read more . . . →CHANEY is building something. Love Claim is another step in the direction of trance that doesn’t apologize for being trance. I’m paying attention now. More like this Armin van Buuren & Andrew Bayer - Serendipity (Live at A State of Trance Rotterdam 2026) Diøn - Taka Tribe Super8 & Tab - Needs To Feel (Farius Remix) Buy / stream this track →
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They Fired the Humans. The AI Still Doesn't Pay.
Read more . . . →They had a story about this. AI transformation. The robots would do the work, profits would climb, shareholders would cheer, and the humans — well, the humans would figure it out. It was always a tidier story for the people who write the memos than for the people who receive them. Gartner just studied 350 companies — all over $1B revenue, all running AI tools — and found that the ones cutting the most workers saw no better return than the ones that kept people. Zero correlation. The study dropped May 5. The layoffs kept coming anyway. 38,000 jobs gone...
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borne & Scrufizzer - Original Style
Read more . . . →Scrufizzer on a dubstep track is not what I expected but here we are and it works. Grimy UK energy from start to finish. More like this Ruti - Monster (Mala Remix) Geode - Skywalker (Chord Marauders) ObeyGrey - HARD KNOX Buy / stream this track →
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Blossom - Good Vibrations
Read more . . . →Monstercat putting out a DnB version of Good Vibrations. This one actually earns it — the breaks hit clean and Blossom keeps it melodic without going soft. More like this TANTRON & Wiguez - ICARUS (feat. Moneo) Andromedik, Arcando & Raphaella - Hold Me In Heaven Articulated Movement - Devour Buy / stream this track →
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