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Strawman Bonfire
Read more . . . →The town is on fire. The town is also thrilled, because they finally got the scarecrow. Somebody built the enemy out of straw and the whole square turned out to watch it burn. Behind them every house is already gone. Nobody looks back, because looking back means admitting the scarecrow never lit a single match.
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NCS & Friends - NCS Greatest Hits Mashup
NCS's greatest-hits mashup is more nostalgia trip than new song, but if you grew up on Minecraft montages, it'll hit a memory.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Luchi dj - Ese Beso (Fruta Fresca)
Luchi flips a beloved Carlos Vives song into a Spinnin' dance record and somehow it works. Grab a drink with an umbrella in it.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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The Smallest Slice Since 1947
Read more . . . →Since 1947, the government has tracked how much of the economy goes to the people who actually do the work. This year it hit 52.8 percent, the lowest number in the entire dataset. Not during Reagan. Not during the 2008 crash. Not during COVID. Right now, with corporate pre-tax profits at $4.8 trillion in a single quarter. The economy is doing fine. Your cut of it isn’t. Elon Musk’s Tesla compensation last year came out to $158 billion, 2.5 million times what the median Tesla employee made. Two and a half million times. The S&P 500 has gained 600 percent...
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LEYO & Thierry Ganz - Stamina (Extended Mix)
LEYO and Thierry Ganz's Stamina is Ibiza in a file, no flight required. Defected's formula, done right, for the long haul.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Joker - SETI
Joker's SETI sounds like a cathedral organ rewired into a spaceship. The Bristol legend still makes the strangest dubstep around.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Steering as a Service
Read more . . . →The car still turns. It just wants to know if you’re on the annual plan. You bought the car. You did not, apparently, buy the part of the car that goes left. Heated seats were the warning shot and the wheel was always the plan. Cancel anytime, ideally at a red light.
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Joel Corry - Whisper (Will Sparks Remix)
Will Sparks drags Joel Corry's Whisper into Melbourne bounce territory, sweatier and grittier for it. Heard it from a passing car. Good taste.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Hyper Potions & Nokae - 1-2 Finish (feat. Nat James)
Hyper Potions and Nokae crack speed house that doesn't exhaust you: fast, giddy, weirdly joyful. My mood went up two notches.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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This Week on coldplaysucks: Sept 6-13
Read more . . . →Forty-one tracks posted, a completely new top 10, and every artist who held a chart position last month got bounced. House led the volume, DnB kept pace, dubstep stayed heavy, and a trance track from June is somehow running the board as summer refuses to end. The Charts Full reset. Every track on last month’s chart dropped off and ten new entries took their places. Nobody held, nobody climbed. They all got replaced. TLM feat. Merely - Summer Jam: new on the chart and sitting at the top, three months after posting. Listen → Born On Road & P Money...
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