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They're Spreading the Tariff Out So You Won't Notice Who Did It
Read more . . . →The New York Fed just published the part of the tariff story nobody at a podium will read aloud. Ask companies what they’re doing with the bill and 47% of service firms and 44% of manufacturers say the same thing: raising prices, with more to come. But the word that matters in that report isn’t “raising.” It’s how. The Fed calls it “trickle up” — you don’t jack the price all at once, because a jump big enough to notice is a jump big enough to get blamed on. You leak it in. A little on this order, a little...
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Tokyo Project & BB Cooper - Silhouette
Read more . . . →The vocal on “Silhouette” comes in almost whispered, so close to the mic you can hear the breath between lines, and that intimacy is what the whole track hangs on. Tokyo Project and BB Cooper have made one of those indie-electronic songs that sounds enormous and lonely at the same time, with big reverby drums, a shimmering synth lead, and a hook that plants itself in your head by the second chorus. CloudKid has quietly become the home for exactly this sound, the melancholy-but-danceable lane, and this is a strong example of why. There’s a drop around 1:50 that trades...
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Surf Mesa & Stace Cadet - The Moment (Sunset Mix)
Read more . . . →Surf Mesa has spent his whole career trying to recapture the lightning of “ily,” and “The Moment” is the first time it doesn’t sound like a man chasing his own shadow. Teaming up with Stace Cadet drags him toward a housier, bouncier lane, and the Sunset Mix leans on a warm plucked bassline that practically skips. It’s golden-hour music in the most literal sense — the kind of track that makes a fairly ordinary evening feel briefly cinematic. There’s a filtered breakdown around 2:10 where the drums drop out and one lonely vocal chop just floats, and it’s the closest...
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UPxMT - Bang
Read more . . . →“Bang” is a lot more fun than a track this moody has any right to be. UPxMT thread a nervy little synth riff through the whole thing and then keep interrupting it with a drop that stutters and cuts out like a bad connection, and somehow the glitchiness is the hook. It sits in that CloudKid pocket where indie songwriting meets electronic production without either one winning, which is a hard balance and they nail it. The best moment is around 2:10 when everything drops to just the vocal and a single pulsing bass note before the last chorus kicks...
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Stacey Pullen - I Wanna Dance (Extended Mix)
Read more . . . →Detroit veterans do not make music for your phone speaker, and Stacey Pullen’s “I Wanna Dance” is a nine-minute reminder of what a record built for a real room feels like. The extended mix takes its sweet time — you’re two and a half minutes in before the vocal even shows up — and that patience is the entire pleasure. Pullen has been doing this since the Belleville days and it shows in how little he panics; the track trusts a single hypnotic groove to carry you, adding a hi-hat here, a filter sweep there, never once begging for attention....
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WHIPPED CREAM - home was always me (remixes)
Read more . . . →What happens when a producer known for absolutely caving your chest in decides to make something soft? WHIPPED CREAM’s “home was always me” gets the remix treatment here, and the whole package leans into the tender side of an artist who usually deals in damage. Caroline Cecil built her name on trap and bass heavy enough to crack a windshield, so hearing these versions unfold into warm, lo-fi, almost weightless territory is a genuine turn. The Monstercat-meets-Chillhop framing tells you the temperature: muted drums, tape hiss, chords that just sort of exhale. There’s a remix in the set where the...
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It's here. Tomorrowland weekend one opens today.
Read more . . . →This is it. Weekend one opens today, David Guetta and Martin Garrix and Calvin Harris are somewhere over Belgium right now, and 200,000 people are about to pretend they didn’t pay a fortune to stand in a field. Say what you want about Tomorrowland, the mainstage singalong at golden hour is a real thing that does real damage to whatever cynicism you showed up with. Three tracks built for exactly the moment when the whole field sings the same line back. 1. Axwell Λ Ingrosso - More Than You Know Two-thirds of Swedish House Mafia in their solo years, and...
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MUST DIE! - BLOODBATH AND BEYOND
Read more . . . →MUST DIE! spent years being the guy other producers quietly ripped off, and this whole record is him collecting the debt. The title track wastes about forty seconds on a fake-out intro that sounds almost pretty before the first drop caves the floor in around 0:48. What gets me is how dry the low end is — no reverb smear, no wash, just a bass patch that hits like someone slamming a car door in an empty garage. I had it on in the kitchen and physically stopped chopping vegetables to check my speakers weren’t broken. He’s always written this...
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Record Buybacks, Record Insider Selling. Do the Math.
Read more . . . →In July, S&P 500 companies announced $166 billion in stock buybacks — the biggest July on record. That’s the corporate treasury spending shareholder money to hoover up its own shares and tell everyone the stock is a bargain too good to pass up. So here’s the number they’d rather not put in the same sentence: the executives signing off on those buybacks sold $77.6 billion of their own stock in the first half of the year, the second-fastest insider selling pace in more than two decades. With their own cash, those same insiders bought back $6.9 billion. They sold roughly...
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Melé - Soul Makossa
Read more . . . →Sampling “Soul Makossa” in 2026 takes some nerve, given Manu Dibango’s original has already been looted by everyone from Michael Jackson to Rihanna. Melé’s version earns the theft by treating it as a proper house workout instead of a lazy interpolation — that famous “mama-ko” chant gets chopped, pitched, and ridden over a stripped kick that Defected could bottle and sell. The groove is deceptively simple; there’s maybe four elements in the mix at any given moment, and the space between them is where all the swing actually lives. It hit its stride for me around the three-minute mark when...
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