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Ian Redman - Rave It
Read more . . . →“Rave It” does not have a single subtle bone in its body, and thank god for that. Ian Redman turns in a proper Revealed-style banger — a pumping, festival-primed beat, a chopped vocal barking the title, and a drop at 1:08 that’s built for a field full of people losing their minds at midnight. Revealed has a house style and this fits it like a glove: high energy, big hooks, zero patience for anyone who wants nuance. The bassline on the drop has a satisfying elastic snap, and there’s a rave stab buried in the second half that’s a direct...
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deadmau5: The Troll Who Took EDM Seriously
deadmau5 is a mouse-headed Twitter troll, sure. He's also one of the most serious producers in EDM. 'Strobe' settles the argument.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Bishu - FADEAWAY
Read more . . . →“FADEAWAY” is built around a vocal hook that’s genuinely sad, a lyric about someone slipping away that could soundtrack a breakup, and then the drop reframes all that melancholy as something you can move to. Bishu has been quietly reliable for years and this is a clean reminder why. The production is glossy without being sterile; there’s a plucked synth line in the verses that gives it a heartbeat before the bass takes over. Around 1:30 the drop hits with a growl that’s more melodic-dubstep than straight bass, wobbly but tuneful, sitting right under the vocal instead of stomping on...
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HIGHSOCIETY & Gracie Van Brunt - Illuminate Me
Read more . . . →Enormous. “Illuminate Me” is built for a room with a proper light rig and no seats. HIGHSOCIETY has a knack for this kind of festival-ready melodic bass, and pairing it with Gracie Van Brunt’s soaring vocal gives the track a top end that actually earns the title. The build is patient — it holds the tension a beat longer than you expect before the drop cracks open at 1:30 — and when it lands, it’s all widescreen synths and a bassline that punches from underneath. Dim Mak has always had one foot in the festival world and this is a...
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The slow stages at Tomorrowland are where the grown-ups hide
Read more . . . →Not everyone at Tomorrowland wants their organs rearranged. Some people wander off to the melodic and progressive stages, order a beer, and let something with actual chords wash over them for an hour. This is the part of the festival nobody films, because a slow filter build doesn’t play well as a nine-second clip, and that’s precisely why it’s worth being there. Weekend two opens in two days. Here’s the quieter lane. 1. Above & Beyond feat. Richard Bedford - Sun & Moon Fifteen years on and this still makes trance skeptics go quiet. The Richard Bedford vocal does most...
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327 Trades the Day Before He Flipped the Switch
Read more . . . →Here’s the timeline, because it does all the work. April 8, 2025: the market is still falling off a cliff that Trump personally pushed it over the week before with his “Liberation Day” tariffs. That same day, accounts linked to him make 327 separate stock purchases — as much as $12.8 million total, six figures a pop into Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Alphabet and dozens more. The next morning he posts on Truth Social that it’s “a great time to buy.” A few hours after that he pauses the tariffs. The S&P 500 rips one of the biggest single-day gains...
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Chozen - Get Em Up
Read more . . . →There’s a sound about thirty seconds into “Get Em Up” that I genuinely can’t identify, somewhere between a detuned brass stab and a garbage truck reversing, and it becomes the entire hook. Chozen builds the track around it, and by the first drop you’re nodding along to something that has no business being catchy. This is WAKAAN’s whole thing done right: bass design that sounds broken on purpose, wet and rubbery and mixed to rattle the cheap parts of your car. The second drop switches the groove into a lurching half-time thing that feels like the track tripping down the...
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HerShe, Sportmode - PRETTY GIRLS
HerShe and Sportmode's 'PRETTY GIRLS' struts before it knocks you flat. Mean, nasty bass music with real swagger and zero apologies.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Fred V & Ayah Marar - Daydreaming
Fred V reunites with Ayah Marar for 'Daydreaming,' and this liquid DnB heartbreaker will convert people who swear they hate DnB.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Joris Voorn - Horizon (Eelke Kleijn Remix)
Read more . . . →Two of the Netherlands’ most tasteful producers in one credit is a promising sight, and the Eelke Kleijn remix of Joris Voorn’s “Horizon” lives up to it. Kleijn takes Voorn’s original and stretches it into a long, patient, melodic-house journey. This is a builder, the kind of track that takes four minutes to fully arrive and rewards every second of the wait. It opens with a hypnotic little synth motif and slowly stacks layers on top: a sub that creeps in, a string line that swells, percussion that gathers like weather. The payoff around the 4:00 mark, when the full...
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