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Big Beat, Explained: When Dance Music Got a Mohawk
Big beat explained: the mid-90s British dance music of Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim and The Prodigy, built on distorted breakbeats and zero subtlety.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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IMANU & A Girl Named Sue - All U Need
IMANU makes dnb feel weightless and crushing in the same eight bars. 'All U Need' bends bass in directions your ear can't predict.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Skrillex - Bangarang (BRLLNT Edit)
BRLLNT gives 'Bangarang' a 2026 tune-up, tighter low end and cleaner drums. Still an absurd amount of fun fourteen years on.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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A Rush of Blood to the Head Turns 24. Still No Pulse.
Read more . . . →Twenty-four years ago today, Coldplay released A Rush of Blood to the Head. It still sucks. This was Peak Coldplay, which is like being the tallest building in Winnipeg. You can see it from far away but nobody flew there on purpose. The album gave us “The Scientist” and “Clocks,” two songs that have been emotionally weaponized by every university orientation video and Grey’s Anatomy death montage since 2002. Chris Martin played piano like he was apologizing for something he hadn’t done yet, and twenty-four years later I still don’t know what it was. The whole record sounds like a...
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Oliverse - Risk It All
Oliverse rarely misses, and 'Risk It All' pairs a yearning synth build with a drop that actually bites. That growl won't leave my head.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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HESTER - Brighter Days
HESTER's 'Brighter Days' is NCS uplift with real spine under the piano and pitched vocal chop. Perfect gateway drug, no snobbery here.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Moby, Jacob Lusk, BLOND:ISH, Kiko Franco - Natural Blues (TECIE)
BLOND:ISH and Kiko Franco rework Moby's sacred 'Natural Blues' sample with Jacob Lusk's gospel voice. Somehow they earned the risk.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Crowd Control
Read more . . . →Eight men in body armour, one woman with a thermos and a folding chair. Guess who’s winning.
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Friction & IRAH - Lead Dem
Friction puts IRAH's voice dead center of dnb, dry and close, giving orders instead of riding along. 'Lead Dem' hasn't left rotation since lunch.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Melé & IRAH - Body Move (Extended Mix)
Mele and IRAH built 'Body Move' to do one job on a system at 1am. Afro-house swing that gets your ankles moving before your coffee does.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
