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UPxMT - Bang
Read more . . . →“Bang” is a lot more fun than a track this moody has any right to be. UPxMT thread a nervy little synth riff through the whole thing and then keep interrupting it with a drop that stutters and cuts out like a bad connection, and somehow the glitchiness is the hook. It sits in that CloudKid pocket where indie songwriting meets electronic production without either one winning, which is a hard balance and they nail it. The best moment is around 2:10 when everything drops to just the vocal and a single pulsing bass note before the last chorus kicks...
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Stacey Pullen - I Wanna Dance (Extended Mix)
Read more . . . →Detroit veterans do not make music for your phone speaker, and Stacey Pullen’s “I Wanna Dance” is a nine-minute reminder of what a record built for a real room feels like. The extended mix takes its sweet time — you’re two and a half minutes in before the vocal even shows up — and that patience is the entire pleasure. Pullen has been doing this since the Belleville days and it shows in how little he panics; the track trusts a single hypnotic groove to carry you, adding a hi-hat here, a filter sweep there, never once begging for attention....
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WHIPPED CREAM - home was always me (remixes)
Read more . . . →What happens when a producer known for absolutely caving your chest in decides to make something soft? WHIPPED CREAM’s “home was always me” gets the remix treatment here, and the whole package leans into the tender side of an artist who usually deals in damage. Caroline Cecil built her name on trap and bass heavy enough to crack a windshield, so hearing these versions unfold into warm, lo-fi, almost weightless territory is a genuine turn. The Monstercat-meets-Chillhop framing tells you the temperature: muted drums, tape hiss, chords that just sort of exhale. There’s a remix in the set where the...
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It's here. Tomorrowland weekend one opens today.
Read more . . . →This is it. Weekend one opens today, David Guetta and Martin Garrix and Calvin Harris are somewhere over Belgium right now, and 200,000 people are about to pretend they didn’t pay a fortune to stand in a field. Say what you want about Tomorrowland, the mainstage singalong at golden hour is a real thing that does real damage to whatever cynicism you showed up with. Three tracks built for exactly the moment when the whole field sings the same line back. 1. Axwell Λ Ingrosso - More Than You Know Two-thirds of Swedish House Mafia in their solo years, and...
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MUST DIE! - BLOODBATH AND BEYOND
Read more . . . →MUST DIE! spent years being the guy other producers quietly ripped off, and this whole record is him collecting the debt. The title track wastes about forty seconds on a fake-out intro that sounds almost pretty before the first drop caves the floor in around 0:48. What gets me is how dry the low end is — no reverb smear, no wash, just a bass patch that hits like someone slamming a car door in an empty garage. I had it on in the kitchen and physically stopped chopping vegetables to check my speakers weren’t broken. He’s always written this...
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Record Buybacks, Record Insider Selling. Do the Math.
Read more . . . →In July, S&P 500 companies announced $166 billion in stock buybacks — the biggest July on record. That’s the corporate treasury spending shareholder money to hoover up its own shares and tell everyone the stock is a bargain too good to pass up. So here’s the number they’d rather not put in the same sentence: the executives signing off on those buybacks sold $77.6 billion of their own stock in the first half of the year, the second-fastest insider selling pace in more than two decades. With their own cash, those same insiders bought back $6.9 billion. They sold roughly...
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Melé - Soul Makossa
Read more . . . →Sampling “Soul Makossa” in 2026 takes some nerve, given Manu Dibango’s original has already been looted by everyone from Michael Jackson to Rihanna. Melé’s version earns the theft by treating it as a proper house workout instead of a lazy interpolation — that famous “mama-ko” chant gets chopped, pitched, and ridden over a stripped kick that Defected could bottle and sell. The groove is deceptively simple; there’s maybe four elements in the mix at any given moment, and the space between them is where all the swing actually lives. It hit its stride for me around the three-minute mark when...
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Zenar - Te conocí
Read more . . . →“Te conocí” is unashamedly built for a beach at 6pm with a drink in your hand. Zenar wraps a Spanish-language vocal around a bouncy, sunlit dance beat and lets the hook do all the work. And what a hook: the kind of melody you’ll be humming after one listen whether you speak the language or not, with a drop at 1:10 that keeps the vocal front and centre instead of burying it under a synth stab. There’s a plucky little riff that answers the vocal line back and forth like a conversation. None of it is deep, and it doesn’t...
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Marc Kiss x Yasmin Hutchins - I Love You Always Forever
Read more . . . →Covering Donna Lewis’s “I Love You Always Forever” as a trance record is either a war crime or a stroke of genius, and I’ve decided it’s the second one. That 1996 chorus is pure sugar and it turns out it was secretly engineered all along for a big euphoric build — Yasmin Hutchins sells the vocal with total sincerity and never once plays it as a nostalgia gag. Marc Kiss keeps the arrangement patient, holding the drop back until you’re genuinely aching for it, then falling into a clean supersaw wash that would light up any main stage on earth....
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ZKG - Right Here
Read more . . . →“Right Here” has more bite than the label it’s on usually gets credit for. NCS tracks get written off as gaming-stream wallpaper, and ZKG mostly ignores that ceiling: this is built around a catchy vocal hook, sure, but the drop earns its keep with a punchy, mid-tempo bass groove and a lead that snaps rather than soars. It’s clean, radio-ready electronic pop with just enough grit in the low end to keep it from floating away. The best bit is the second drop at 2:05, where a counter-melody sneaks in over the top and gives the whole thing a lift...
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