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Gardna & Shapes - Snakes & Ladders
Read more . . . →Shogun Audio DnB with Gardna doing the MC thing and it actually works. “Snakes & Ladders” has that UK bass music grit that the label’s been putting out for years — sounds like it was made by people who actually go to raves, not just make music for them. More like this The Elite - Illumination (Used Remix) (Official Drum & Bass) Kanine, Sota & Mila Falls - Toucown Oliverse & Molly Morgan - Secret For You
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Flux Pavilion - U Want Me
Read more . . . →Flux Pavilion has been around long enough that some of you reading this were in diapers when “Bass Cannon” came out, and yet here he is, still making a drop feel like a personal attack. “U Want Me” reminds you why dubstep got big in the first place, back before everyone decided it was cringe to admit they liked it. The vocal hook is simple and a little bratty, which is exactly the right call. Then the low end shows up and flattens everything in the room. I played this at a normal volume once and immediately felt stupid, so...
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Flux Overload - Violence
Read more . . . →Flux Overload called it Violence and that’s a promise they keep. Scantraxx releases tend to hit a specific quality floor and this one is near the top of the range. The production on the kick drums here is particularly sharp — there’s a punch-through clarity in the low frequencies that doesn’t get muddy even at full volume, which is genuinely difficult to achieve in hardstyle where everyone’s competing to be the loudest thing in the room. The lead after the breakdown is the kind of melodic hook that sticks whether you want it to or not. I’ve had it running...
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Felix - Don't You Want Me (Delta Heavy Remix)
Read more . . . →This is a remix of a rave anthem that’s been bouncing around dance music since before half the internet existed, and somehow Delta Heavy made it feel brand new. “Don’t You Want Me” as a hook is basically undefeated, so dropping it into a modern DnB frame was always going to be either lazy nostalgia bait or genuinely great. Good news: it’s the second one. Delta Heavy don’t slap the vocal over a beat and call it quits. They build real tension underneath it, let the melody breathe for a second, then detonate the whole thing on the drop. The...
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Flava D, SKALAH & D Double E - Different
Read more . . . →This is UK garage DNA crammed into a dubstep shell, which sounds like a terrible idea until you actually hear it work. Flava D’s been doing things with bass music for years that most producers don’t even know to attempt. D Double E is on here and that alone should be enough to get you to click play. The way his flow rides the beat is effortless — this is what MC culture over electronic music should sound like. SKALAH brings a harder edge to the bass work. Together the three of them make something that doesn’t fit neatly into...
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Sub Zero Project: 2025-2026 in three tracks
Sub Zero Project is one of the most consistent acts in hardstyle. Our World doesn't reinvent anything — it doesn't need to.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Eynka feat. Låpsley - Promises
Read more . . . →Låpsley’s voice does something specific to electronic music — it cools it down by a few degrees in a way that makes the warm parts hit harder by contrast. Eynka have clearly understood this and built an entire track around it. Promises is melodic trance but it doesn’t push into the overwrought territory a lot of melodic trance tends toward. The restraint is what makes it. There’s a sense of longing running through the whole track that the production matches without overselling it. Armada puts out a lot of music and a lot of it blurs together, but this one...
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Eelke Kleijn - Tonco Liveset (Armada Invites)
Read more . . . →Sometimes you don’t want a three-minute hit, you want to disappear into a full set, and Eelke Kleijn’s Armada Invites session at Tonco is built for exactly that. This is melodic, progressive, deeply-patient house and trance from a guy who has been doing it long enough to have nothing left to prove. The setting helps: gorgeous location, golden-hour light, the kind of crowd that came to listen rather than film. Kleijn reads a room better than almost anyone, layering tracks so smoothly you stop noticing the transitions and just let the thing carry you. Put this on while you work,...
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Yomanda - Sunshine (MDDLTN Re-Edit)
Read more . . . →Yomanda’s “Sunshine” has been quietly iconic in UK trance circles since the late 90s, and MDDLTN’s re-edit does exactly what a good re-edit should — it makes you hear the original differently without touching what made it work in the first place. The production update modernizes the sound without scrubbing the soul out of it, which is a line a lot of re-edits badly fail to walk. The bassline gets a bit more presence, the arrangement breathes differently, and the hook still absolutely slaps. This is the kind of trance that has genuine emotional weight rather than just the obligatory...
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X&Y turns 21 and it still sucks
Read more . . . →21 years ago today, Coldplay released X&Y. It still sucks. Thirteen tracks of a band straining to sound enormous and landing on damp. “Speed of Sound” is just “Clocks” with the batteries dying. “Fix You” is a motivational poster you can cry to at both weddings and funerals, depending on the open bar. The whole thing is so airless that Chris Martin spent the next decade telling interviewers it wasn’t very good — and when the guy who made the record is the one running cleanup on it, that’s not humility. That’s a confession. Here’s what you should listen to...
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