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Sidewalks and Skeletons - Crawlspace
Sidewalks and Skeletons crawl out of the Crawlspace with something genuinely good. Moody, scrappy and a little creepy. Love it.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Desh - Wherever You Are (Telomic Remix)
Read more . . . →Liquicity remains undefeated at making me emotional over a breakbeat. Telomic’s remix of Wherever You Are is liquid drum and bass doing the thing only liquid can really do, pairing a heart-on-sleeve vocal with rolling, glassy production until the sadness and the momentum become the same feeling. Telomic has one of the warmest low ends in the scene, a bass that hugs instead of hits, and the remix leans entirely on that warmth. The original was already a gorgeous bit of songwriting; what Telomic adds is motion, a rhythm section that keeps the whole thing gliding at that specific liquid...
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SGGLERS - Babalù (feat. KEL)
SGGLERS and KEL turn Babalù into a full-on party starter. Latin-tinged, loud and impossible to sit still through. Move. Seriously good.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Incident Report
Read more . . . →One cup, two hundred fingers, zero solutions. Aerial view. The whole office pointing at one spilled coffee like it personally attacked their quarterly targets. The cup is on its side in a puddle. Nobody is picking it up. That is the part that’ll follow you out of this image. We have perfected the art of surrounding a problem and screaming at it from every direction while the puddle quietly dries on its own. Two hundred people and not one of them is reaching for a napkin. The response gets bigger every year. The spill stays the same size.
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Calyx & Kemal - Above The Sun
Read more . . . →Veterans making this kind of effortless noise should be illegal. Calyx and Kemal have been welded together as a duo for years, and Above The Sun is them operating at the altitude the title promises, a big melodic drum and bass roller that never once feels like it is trying too hard. The pads open the thing up like a skylight and then the drums arrive with that signature snap these two have always had, crisp enough to cut but swung enough to move. There is a vocal sitting way back in the mix, more texture than lyric, and it...
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Sace - Caramel
Sace pours Caramel all over your afternoon and it's sticky in the best way. Smooth, sweet and dangerously replayable. Seriously good.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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ANUQRAM & Julian Nates - Driftline
Read more . . . →Three in the morning, headphones on, the ceiling doing slow laps, this is the track for that exact coordinate. Driftline is progressive trance that earns the word drift, a long, unhurried builder that is in no rush to get anywhere because the travelling is the entire point. ANUQRAM and Julian Nates layer pad on pad until the low end feels less like bass and more like weather, and a single arpeggio threads through the middle of it like a light you are following through fog. There is barely a drop in the traditional sense; the track just keeps gathering mass...
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11 Years of Adventure of a Lifetime: Still Sucks
Read more . . . →11 years ago today, Coldplay released “Adventure of a Lifetime.” It still sucks. The music video is the four of them in motion-capture suits, rendered as CGI monkeys dancing in a jungle. Nobody in the room stopped this from happening. And honestly, it’s the most accurate visual representation of the band’s creative process to date: primates pressing buttons and hoping something sticks. The song itself is a disco-funk guitar riff that sounds like it was pulled from a Maroon 5 reject pile, Chris Martin singing “turn your magic on” over it like a man reading a fortune cookie aloud at...
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Infected Mushroom & Blastoyz present Psy Trance Mafia - Smashing Pumpkins
Infected Mushroom and Blastoyz run Psy Trance Mafia, and Smashing Pumpkins is a wild, acid-soaked ride. Hold on to something.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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NOISECREAM - NCID
NOISECREAM's NCID sounds like a fire alarm with great taste. Chaotic, abrasive and exactly what your playlist was missing.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
