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DAYNAMIX - Energy
Read more . . . →Viper Recordings has been a reliable source of high-octane DnB for years and DAYNAMIX fits the label aesthetic perfectly. “Energy” does exactly what it says — it comes in fast, stays fast, and doesn’t let up until it’s done. The drums are crisp and aggressive, the bassline hits exactly where it’s supposed to, and the whole thing has a forward momentum that’s hard to manufacture. DAYNAMIX isn’t going for anything subtle here and that’s completely appropriate, because subtlety is not what Viper releases are built for. This is a gym track, a dance floor track, a running-full-speed-to-miss-your-train track. The title...
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Tim Green & PROFF - Sopia
Read more . . . →Tim Green and PROFF dropping deep house on Anjunadeep and it sounds exactly as good as that sentence implies. “Sopia” is the kind of track that makes the room feel bigger without being obvious about it. More like this Josh One vs Salomé Le Chat - Contemplation (King Britt Funke Remix) MCN2, rivve - Brighter Days Mike Griego & David A Diaz - Clarity Buy / stream this track →
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BUNS - ITCHTOPAY
Read more . . . →Two Dim Mak tracks in the same batch and both of them are genuinely worth posting — good week for the label. BUNS and “ITCHTOPAY” is the weirder of the two, which is saying something given both the artist name and the track name. The production is compressed chaos in the best possible way, like someone decided to fit four different ideas into a three-minute runtime and then committed fully to the bit. There’s a manic energy to this track that should not function as well as it does, and yet. The drop in particular sounds like a fire alarm...
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Tian - Smooth
Read more . . . →Smooth is an earned title. Tian drops something here that lives up to its name without becoming boring — which is harder to do than it sounds in DnB where “smooth” often means “neurofunk with fewer sharp edges and twice the blandness.” This isn’t that. The track has a warmth running through it that feels intentional at every point. Shogun Audio has been putting out releases that sit at the more refined end of the spectrum for years, and Tian fits right in that space. The bass work in the low end here is particularly good — it rolls without...
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Basement Jaxx - Jump N' Shout (Gorgon City Remix)
Read more . . . →Gorgon City remixing Basement Jaxx is the crossover nobody was expecting but everyone should want. “Jump N’ Shout” was already a banger in its original form — one of those late 90s/early 2000s tracks that still holds up in ways most music from that era simply doesn’t. Gorgon City strip it back to the essentials and rebuild it around a tech house groove that feels completely current without being disrespectful to what the original was. The vocal gets deployed cleverly — you recognize it immediately but it’s working in a different context now and that contrast is most of the...
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Thyron - echoes of time
Read more . . . →Lower case title, which is either an aesthetic choice or a statement, and either way it fits a track that’s a bit more restrained than your typical Scantraxx release. Thyron has a specific style where the hardstyle elements are all present but the whole thing has a more atmospheric texture than you’d expect from the label. echoes of time leans into that — the name is doing some work here, there’s a sense of the track pulling you through different phases in a way that isn’t just “build, drop, build, drop.” The melodic line running through the verses is genuinely...
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Alcemist, DRIIA - Search Deep
Read more . . . →Shogun Audio putting out Alcemist and DRIIA’s “Search Deep” is a good match — the label has always had taste and this track has that Shogun quality of being polished without being sterile. The DnB here is on the more introspective end of the spectrum, which given the label makes complete sense. There’s real space in the production — elements come in and out with intention, which is harder to pull off in DnB than most people realize because the genre naturally wants to fill everything. DRIIA’s contribution gives it an atmospheric quality that stops “Search Deep” from just being...
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Monthly Digest: April Ran at 174 BPM
Read more . . . →April was a lot. Somewhere north of 150 posts and the DnB queue never once cleared. Track of the Month Visages & Alix Perez - Unity Alix Perez doesn’t miss. Unity is the proof — the bassline sits deep and rolls the full runtime without flinching, and I’ve been playing it on repeat since it landed without getting tired of it. That’s the real test. This is why DnB runs circles around everything else. Listen → The Breakdown DnB ran the month It wasn’t close. Logistics - Only An Emotion did the liquid DnB thing right: hits you somewhere you...
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Taiki Nulight & Scott Garcia feat. MC DT - It's A London Thing
Read more . . . →Scott Garcia made “It’s A London Thing” in 1997 and it became one of the defining tracks of the UK garage era. Taiki Nulight doing a 2025 take on it was always going to be a moment. The original had that specific bouncy shuffle that’s impossible to replicate without it sounding like parody, and somehow this version navigates that without embarrassing itself. MC DT is on here which makes sense — you need that MC energy for a track with this much history attached to it. Whether this is technically trance or garage or something in between depends on who...
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Fire 290 People, Then Wave a Million Dollars at the Survivors
Read more . . . →ClickUp just cut 290 people — 22% of the company — and the CEO announced it on X like he was shipping a feature. Zeb Evans calls the new structure a “100x org”: roughly 3,000 internal AI agents that now outnumber his remaining humans three to one. The money saved by firing nearly a quarter of the staff doesn’t go back to customers or get banked for a rainy day. It goes to the people who survived the cut, in the form of salary bands that climb to a million dollars a year in cash. Get laid off, or get...
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