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This Week on coldplaysucks — Aug 30 – Sep 6
Read more . . . →Thirty-seven tracks across two drops this week. House and drum and bass fought for dominance, dubstep crashed uninvited, and somebody dug up a Moby sample from 1999 and made it hit all over again. Big week. Track of the Week Everything But The Girl - Run A Red Light (Logistics Remix) Tracey Thorn’s voice is unmistakable inside two bars, and handing another EBTG song to a dance producer is a small piece of poetry if you know the history — “Missing” got turned into a global smash by a house remix in the nineties, basically writing the whole playbook. Logistics,...
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Small Potatoes
Read more . . . →Eighteen American soldiers are dead and the president called it small potatoes. That’s a direct quote. Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office on Thursday and said the war he started with Iran is “small potatoes” because only eighteen Americans died. He compared it to Vietnam — the logic being that because fewer people died than in a war that killed fifty-eight thousand over twenty years, this one barely registers. Eighteen is a rounding error. Eighteen is within the margin of acceptable loss. He delivered this with the same energy you’d use to explain why you’re not tipping. Those eighteen...
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DANIQ x DRIXS - IDK
Read more . . . →Who are DANIQ and DRIXS and why is their Spinnin’ debut this assured? “IDK” is slick, radio-shaped dance-pop with a drop that snaps clean, and it does not sound like a first outing. The vocal hook is chopped into that stuttered, half-sung “I-I-IDK” pattern producers reach for when they want a topline that doubles as a lead, and here it actually earns the trick instead of just riding it. It’s built for daytime radio and summer car speakers, polished within an inch of its life, and I don’t hold that against it for a second. The bass has a little...
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ARE WE DREAMING & Brian Tyler - Godlike
Read more . . . →You’ve heard Brian Tyler’s music whether you know his name or not; the man has scored Fast & Furious sequels and half the Marvel B-team, and here he is turning up on a track split between NCS and Monstercat, the two channels that soundtrack every gaming montage on Earth. “Godlike” leans all the way into that lineage: cinematic, chest-puffing, built to play under a slow-motion shot of someone winning something. And you know what, it works on those terms. The intro stacks strings and a choir-ish pad like Tyler’s scoring a trailer, then around the minute mark it hands off...
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Zero - SHOOTA
Read more . . . →The best sound on “SHOOTA” is a bass note that arrives bent slightly out of tune, like the track is sneering at you. I’ve got no biography for Zero and the tune doesn’t ask for one — it’s riddim-adjacent dubstep, all triplet bass stabs and empty space, built for the exact moment a crowd wants to headbang in unison. It’s repetitive by design; one nasty three-note figure locks in early and then spends four minutes refusing to let go. I put it on expecting to bail after thirty seconds and sat through the whole thing nodding like an idiot instead....
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2ACES - For The Ones
2ACES built pure arms-up electro-house for For The Ones — big, dumb, unshakeable, and my arms were up before my brain approved it.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Seven Lions & Kill The Noise - I Need
Read more . . . →Two producers from opposite corners of bass music made the exact track you’d hope for and somehow didn’t overthink it. “I Need” pairs Seven Lions’ weepy, trance-soaked melodrama with Kill The Noise’s appetite for making things hurt, and the seam between those two instincts is where all the fun is. The intro floats up on the kind of soaring, faintly Enya-adjacent vocal Seven Lions could write blindfolded, and just as you settle into the pretty part Kill The Noise kicks the legs out and the drop lands somewhere between euphoric and vicious. It’s melodic dubstep that actually earns the “dubstep”...
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Fix You Turns 21. Still Broken.
Read more . . . →21 years ago today, Coldplay released “Fix You.” It still sucks. Chris Martin wrote a ballad so emotionally manipulative it’s been played at sports montages, charity galas, and every reality TV elimination since 2007. The organ intro is a push notification for tears. You don’t feel anything when “Fix You” plays — your nervous system is being mugged by a chord progression that has been A/B tested by every TV producer on the planet. The song isn’t even sad. It’s a man who married Gwyneth Paltrow singing “lights will guide you home” like he’s writing fortune cookies for airport bookshops....
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RUZE & Chesster - Another Night (Ranger Trucco Remix)
Read more . . . →How is a song called “Another Night” this good at making a Tuesday feel like a Friday? The Ranger Trucco remix of RUZE & Chesster’s original strips it back to essentials — a rubbery bassline, a vocal chopped into a hook that repeats just past the point of comfort and then turns hypnotic, and a kick you feel more than hear. It’s tech-house that leans warm rather than clinical; there’s a swing on the hats that keeps it human instead of letting the grid take over. The whole thing is built for one job — get a room moving at...
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Rudimental, Original Koffee & Winny - Send Shots
Read more . . . →This is the most fun Rudimental have sounded to me in years, and I say that as someone who checked out around the third radio-friendly ballad. “Send Shots” drops the stadium-soul earnestness and remembers the crew came up making drum and bass that actually moves. Pulling in Original Koffee is the move that makes it — that unhurried Jamaican bounce that sits half a step behind the beat and drags the whole track into a swagger. Winny takes the faster bars and the two trade off like they’re winding each other up. Underneath, the drums do proper liquid-dnb business, rolling...
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