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Sustance - Take Cover
Read more . . . →Two Sustance tracks on Shogun in the same drop. “Take Cover” is more aggressive than “Loving You” — same artist, different mode. The range is impressive. More like this Sustance - Loving You Sustance - Dub Special w/ Mad Sam Sustance - Digital Waveband
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L.A.O.S x SOL:US - No Less Than Never
Read more . . . →Two artists with punctuation in their names teaming up on Liquicity sounds like a recipe for trying too hard, and then “No Less Than Never” turns out to be one of the most assured liquid tracks I’ve heard all month. L.A.O.S and SOL:US lock into a groove that’s slick without being slippery, the bassline rounded and deep enough to feel in your chest on a decent system. The title is a little nonsensical when you sit with it, but the music more than covers for the wordplay. What stands out is the production polish. Every element has room to breathe,...
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JUNIVERZ & BOSEP - Energy
Read more . . . →Revealed Recordings remains Hardwell’s house of relentlessly upbeat festival fuel, and JUNIVERZ and BOSEP fit that brief without sounding like every other Revealed clone. “Energy” is named with zero subtlety and honestly I respect that. The track does precisely what the title promises and then a little more. There’s a euphoric main-stage build that you can already picture exploding over a crowd, but the drop has a slightly harder, more aggressive bite than the usual Revealed gloss, which is what saves it from being forgettable. I’m not always in the mood for this much pure sugar, but when I am,...
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SubDocta - Iced Up VIP
Read more . . . →WAKAAN is one of those labels where you never quite know what you’re getting genre-wise, but the quality control is high enough that it doesn’t matter. SubDocta’s Iced Up VIP takes whatever the original version of Iced Up was and does something weirder and more interesting with it. The production here is genuinely strange — there are moments where it sounds like it’s going to resolve into something familiar and then veers off somewhere else entirely. Experimental bass as a genre description is almost uselessly broad, but in this case it fits: this is bass music that’s still working out...
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This Week on coldplaysucks — May 25–31, 2026
Read more . . . →Sixty-three posts this week, which sounds excessive until you look at the list and realize the music was the one being excessive — we just kept up. DnB showed up like it had a meeting scheduled, trance quietly loaded nine entries while no one was watching, and SubDocta dropped three separate WAKAAN releases inside 72 hours. Not a light week. Track of the Week Sub Focus - Elevate (SOTA remix) SOTA took a solid Sub Focus track and made something better out of it. The bassline sneaks in patient before everything kicks off, and the drop around two minutes is...
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This Week on coldplaysucks — May 31 – June 7
Read more . . . →Drum and bass didn’t just win this week, it showed up to everyone else’s set and unplugged the gear. The liquid pile alone could fill a digest, and we still found room for an EDC hangover, a Basement Jaxx remix nobody saw coming, and Sully dropping a whole EP like it’s still 2014. House and the heavy stuff filled in the rest. Annoyingly good week. Track of the Week Hybrid Minds - Avalanche Liquid drum and bass gets written off as dinner-party background by people who have clearly never heard it loud. “Avalanche” is the rebuttal — the vocal sits...
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He Flew to Moscow to Ask Permission
Read more . . . →The manosphere’s hardest man spent this week in Moscow. Andrew Tate — the guy who sells teenage boys a religion of never needing anyone’s approval — showed up at Putin’s economic forum visibly looking for some. He was reportedly invited to promote “Christian values,” which is a choice, given that he’s a Muslim convert under criminal investigation for sex crimes in two countries. He got the bread-and-salt welcome, posted a folk-dance video to his timeline, and drew a grand total of three fans outside his hotel after his people promised a swarm. Here’s the part the algorithm won’t push to...
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Horyzon - Sky Blue
Read more . . . →Dirty Workz hardstyle and it’s doing exactly what hardstyle is supposed to do — kick drums that feel like a bad decision and a melody that makes you think it was worth it. Horyzon’s been putting in work in the hardstyle space and this is the proof. More like this Horyzon - RAVECODE KATALYZE & Wolv - Bury The Light Polish Punisher & Nightcraft - Walls Of Fever
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Gracie Van Brunt - HOURGLASS
Read more . . . →Gracie Van Brunt on Monstercat with this DnB-flavored electronic thing that has no right being this good. The title track energy is real — feels like something ticking down toward a drop that keeps getting delayed just long enough to make you anxious. More like this OB1 - Jasmine Nights Primate - Booyah Sabre - The Hex
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Ghosts - lose you
Read more . . . →Searching “Ghosts” on any streaming platform is a nightmare, so good luck, but the hunt is worth it for “lose you.” This is melodic electronic music with one foot in indie-pop and one foot on the dancefloor, and it never fully commits to either, which turns out to be the whole charm. The vocal is fragile in a way that feels real rather than performed for TikTok. Around the halfway mark the beat drops in and suddenly the sad little bedroom song becomes something you could actually move to, without losing the heartbreak underneath. That balance is deceptively tricky and...
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