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A Church Worth Showing Up Early For
Read more . . . →Lasers through the rafters, sub in the stained glass. This is the only service we’d get there on time for.
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Dawn Wall - You Believe
Read more . . . →Dawn Wall keep flying slightly under the radar and I don’t fully understand why, because tracks like “You Believe” are exactly what people claim they want from modern drum and bass. It’s got that uplifting, slightly euphoric quality the genre does better than almost any other, built around a vocal hook that lodges itself in your skull within one listen. The drums are crisp and snappy, the bass is rolling and full, and the whole thing just moves with this effortless forward pull. What gets me is how clean the arrangement is, nothing wasted, every drop earning its place. There’s...
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SUPERSTRINGS - NEON DUSK PROTOCOL (Live at EDC Las Vegas 2026)
Read more . . . →Second EDC 2026 clip in the queue and SUPERSTRINGS went a darker, more cinematic route than Ship Wreck. “NEON DUSK PROTOCOL” sounds exactly like its ridiculous name, in the best possible way, all sci-fi tension and arpeggios that feel like a synthwave movie chase scene scored for 40,000 sweaty people. The all-caps title had me bracing for cheese and instead I got genuinely menacing trance with teeth. The breakdown around the midpoint strips everything back to a single pulsing line before the whole machine roars back to life, and the crowd reaction on the clip says it landed in person....
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DASH - Without You (Ft. Tara Carosielli)
Read more . . . →Trap Nation surfaced DASH’s “Without You” featuring Tara Carosielli and it’s a reminder that melodic trap can still land an emotional gut-punch when it’s done right. Carosielli’s vocal is the heart of this one, fragile and aching over a beat that gives her plenty of room before the bass drops in. There’s a real heartbreak running through the lyrics, and the production matches it with these wide, atmospheric synths that feel genuinely lonely. When the drop finally arrives it doesn’t bulldoze the emotion, it amplifies it, the bass swelling rather than stomping. I appreciate trap that uses its weight in...
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Defqon.1's hard half: where hardstyle is the warm-up
Read more . . . →Defqon.1 hits Biddinghuizen at the end of June and most of the coverage fixates on the mainstage hardstyle. Fine. But the reason this festival makes every other summer lineup look soft lives one stage over, where the kicks stop being polite. Hardcore, frenchcore, uptempo, the harder end of the site. If regular hardstyle already feels too gentle for you, here’s your map for the rest of the week. 1. Angerfist - The Nightmare Man Angerfist has been the face of Dutch hardcore for two decades and “The Nightmare Man,” out last November, is him doing the thing nobody does better....
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Poilievre Treats Breaking Up Canada Like a Bargaining Chip
Read more . . . →Alberta is putting a question on the October 19 ballot about whether to start the legal process of leaving Canada. The Leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition went out there this week and the strongest thing he could bring himself to say was that the people who want to break up the country “are not our enemies.” Carney called the referendum what it is — a dangerous bluff. Poilievre called it a feeling we should sit with. “We do not need a different country, Alberta. We need different government policies in Ottawa.” Read that again. The man who wants to...
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Sully, SOH SOH - Pedal
Read more . . . →Last of the Sully run, and “Pedal” with SOH SOH might be my favorite of the three. Where “Temperature” leaned vocal and the “Disconnect EP” went long-form, this one is pure rhythmic mayhem, a collaboration that sounds like two producers daring each other to go harder. The groove is relentless, built on a bassline that bounces and stutters in ways that shouldn’t lock together but absolutely do. SOH SOH brings a slightly different flavor to Sully’s world and the friction between the two styles is exactly what makes the track pop. It’s playful and heavy at the same time, which...
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Sully - Disconnect EP
Read more . . . →If “Temperature” got you curious about Sully, the “Disconnect EP” is where you go to fall all the way in. A full EP instead of a single track means you actually get to hear the range, and Sully uses every minute of it. There’s heavy, contorted bass design here, but also quieter, more textural moments that prove this is a producer thinking in terms of a body of work rather than just chasing the next drop. WAKAAN gives artists room to be genuinely weird and Sully takes the invitation and runs straight off the map. Each track flows into the...
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Axel Knox - Set You Free
Read more . . . →Dim Mak has always had an ear for the bigger, brasher end of electronic music, and Axel Knox’s “Set You Free” fits that lineage neatly. This is a confident, festival-minded track with a vocal hook designed to be screamed back by ten thousand people at once. The build is patient and deliberate, stacking tension until the drop arrives with genuine impact rather than just noise. There’s a euphoric streak running through it that recalls the golden era of big-room without feeling like a stale rehash. Knox clearly knows his way around an emotional payoff, the breakdown lands with real weight...
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Sully, Chozen feat. Nat James - Temperature
Read more . . . →WAKAAN is Liquid Stranger’s label and it’s where some of the weirdest, most forward-thinking bass music lives, so when Sully and Chozen show up with a Nat James vocal on top, you pay attention. “Temperature” is exactly the kind of off-kilter, future-leaning bass that the WAKAAN crowd eats alive. The production is glitchy and tactile, full of sounds I genuinely can’t identify, and Nat James glues it together with a vocal that keeps the whole experiment human. There’s a real song buried under all the sound design, which is the part a lot of experimental producers forget to include. The...
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