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18 days out: the EDC 30th anniversary tracks worth loading before Vegas
Read more . . . →18 days until 150,000 people descend on the Nevada desert, and EDC’s 30th anniversary lineup is actually trying. Kaskade’s back on a proper label, FISHER’s got a collab that shouldn’t work but does, and Subtronics and Excision are apparently competing to see who can make the ugliest sound. Here’s what’s on the pre-game playlist. 1. Kaskade ft. EZI - Freedom Deep house for the drive out. Kaskade went back to OM Records — the label that basically built this sound — and “Freedom” lands right in that late-night, open-road pocket. EZI’s voice is the whole thing. 2. FISHER & Tones...
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Saco, Bram Bos - Never Going Home
Read more . . . →Bram Bos is primarily known for iOS music apps — Rozeta, Grooverider, Kosmonaut — and watching that guy make a straight deep house track is genuinely interesting. Never Going Home with Saco has the DNA of someone who thinks about sound design at a more granular level than most producers, and it shows in the texture work. The track has a slight lo-fi quality that feels deliberate rather than lazy. There’s warmth here without any of the manufactured “we’re being warm” feeling that a lot of deep house suffers from. The groove is minimal — just enough to keep things...
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Pete & Bas - Oldschool Gangsta
Read more . . . →Pete & Bas are two guys in their seventies making drum and bass and absolutely cooking the genre’s younger practitioners in the process. Oldschool Gangsta is exactly what the title says — there’s a swagger here that comes from not caring what anyone thinks, and it absolutely works in a DnB context. DnB Allstars championing these two is one of the better things to happen to the scene in years. The MCs bring the old school UK grime energy that DnB has always had a relationship with, and hearing it pushed this far to the foreground feels like someone finally...
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Mutual - Where I Wanna Be
Read more . . . →Liquid DnB that actually has something to say. The vocal sits right in that pocket where it doesn’t oversell the emotion — just states it and lets the track breathe around it. Classic UKF find. Buy / stream this track → More like this Keeno x Sam Welch x Noppo - The Simple Life Junk Mail x Bugwell - Stronger Technimatic - Day That I Once Knew
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Mutilator - BOUNCE
Read more . . . →The artist name is Mutilator and the track is called BOUNCE and it is released on Dirty Workz, which tells you everything you need to know about what’s coming before you press play. Hardstyle gets dismissed a lot by people who have never stood in a crowd of twenty thousand people while something exactly like this is playing at 150 BPM over a speaker system the size of a small house. The reverse bass here is properly nasty and the kick drums hit with the kind of physical force that the genre exists for. Mutilator builds well — there’s a...
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Trump's Name Is Getting Etched in Marble at Penn Station. You're Paying For It.
Read more . . . →Penn Station has been a disaster for decades. Cramped, sweaty, falling apart — New Yorkers have been begging for a renovation forever. Now they’re getting one: $8 billion, raised ceilings, two new entrances. And “President Donald J. Trump” etched in marble next to a presidential seal, gold railings, columns, and escalators throughout. Of course. This is a public train station. The busiest in the country. Hundreds of thousands of commuters a day, most of them not billionaires. Design renderings leaked this week showing a monument to the sitting president built into a transit hub that working people depend on to...
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Mike Griego & David A Diaz - Clarity
Read more . . . →Anjunadeep doing what Anjunadeep does best — deep house that sounds like it was engineered for that exact moment when the sun starts coming up and everyone’s still going. Mike Griego and David A Diaz have the formula and it works. Buy / stream this track → More like this NOAM, AALLAR - Leave My Hand Spencer Brown - Comeback Kids Spencer Brown - Sweat Equity
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Weekly Digest: Amelie Lens Took Over and Nobody Stopped Her
Alix Perez doesn't miss. Unity rolls deep for the whole track and I can't stop playing it. This is why DnB runs circles around everything.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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MCN2, rivve - Brighter Days
Read more . . . →MCN2 and rivve do something smart here: the title promises “brighter days” and the production actually delivers it, which sounds obvious but is harder than it seems when you’re working with deep house instrumentation that naturally trends moodier. The chords are warm without being saccharine. There’s a real sense of forward motion to this — it doesn’t sit in one place and brood, it moves. Sensual Musique has been consistent in finding this specific register of deep house and putting it in front of people who need it. The lead vocal is minimal enough that it doesn’t overpower the groove,...
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Malaa (Alter Ego) x ÆON:MODE - Gave Birth
Read more . . . →Malaa’s alter ego stepping out of the house shadows and into full DnB territory, because apparently one alias wasn’t weird enough. This actually slaps — the collab with ÆON:MODE gives it a harder edge than you’d expect from either of them. Buy / stream this track → More like this Tyrone - Warriors Above & Beyond and Zoë Johnston - Carry Me Home (Koven Remix) Brookes Brothers & Danny Byrd - Feelin' This Way
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