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k?d - breathe (feat. Nevve)
Read more . . . →k?d has spent years building this whole sci-fi mythology around his project, the lost-in-space visuals and the question-mark name, and the funny thing is the music usually backs up the theater. “breathe” pairs him with Nevve, who has quietly sung on half the melodic dance records you’ve loved without ever getting the credit, and she’s the secret weapon again here. The track opens like it’s going to be a gentle one and then the drop arrives with teeth, that crunchy melodic dubstep snarl that k?d does better than almost anyone working right now. What keeps it from being just another...
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KAIVON - To Build A Home
Read more . . . →Naming a track “To Build A Home” sets a bar, because the Cinematic Orchestra song with that title is one of the most quietly devastating pieces of music of the last twenty years, and you do not borrow that title lightly. KAIVON either doesn’t know that or doesn’t care, and weirdly the confidence works in his favor. This is big, open-hearted melodic bass, the kind designed for that moment at a festival when the sun’s going down and ten thousand people decide to feel something at once. The chords are warm, the drop is more emotional than aggressive, and there’s...
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WinWel - Until We're Old
Read more . . . →MrSuicideSheep remains the most reliable channel on the internet for finding music that makes you feel things you weren’t planning to feel, and WinWel’s Until We’re Old is a textbook example. This is gorgeous melodic electronic music with a vocal that hits the exact sweet spot between hopeful and heartbroken. The title alone tells you what you’re in for, and the track delivers on the promise. There’s a warmth to the production that a lot of electronic music forgets to chase, all rounded synths and a beat that never tries to dominate the emotion. WinWel understands restraint, which is the...
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The train to Almere is the real pre-party, fight me
Read more . . . →Three days. There’s a specific kind of person who treats the journey to the festival as part of the set. Headphones in, watching the Dutch countryside blur past the window, slowly turning into someone who’s going to lose their voice by Friday night. This is the playlist for that. The packing, the commute, the standing in your hallway questioning whether you really need a third pair of socks. Euphoric stuff, mostly, because the pre-game is when you still have feelings left to spend. 1. Refuzion - Reach For The Skies Refuzion makes the kind of euphoric hardstyle that sounds engineered...
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Make Them Sell At A Loss
Read more . . . →There are more than four thousand finished condos sitting empty in Metro Vancouver right now, a 76 percent jump in a single year, in a city where people can’t find a place to live. The buildings are done. The lights are off. Developers put them up as investments, the bet went bad, and now they sit dark while families double up and rents keep climbing. This week Mark Carney and David Eby walked out with the fix: up to $3.2 billion over ten years to slash developer charges in half and convert 2,200 of those empty units into affordable homes....
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Joey Dale & Dirty Signal - Get Up
Joey Dale and Dirty Signal making big room that doesn't embarrass you. Get Up does exactly what it promises and that's enough.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Whales - Speed Of Light
Read more . . . →Whales is one of those Monstercat names that’s been quietly putting in work without ever becoming a household word, and Speed Of Light is a strong argument that more people should be paying attention. This sits right on the line between melodic dubstep and straight-up electronic, with a build that promises something euphoric before the drop yanks it somewhere heavier. I love a track that fakes you out like that. The melody in the intro is genuinely lovely, all shimmering synths and a vocal chop that hints at a future bass direction, and then the bass design comes in and...
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Iaco & remy - I'm Not Going Anywhere
Read more . . . →Dim Mak is Steve Aoki’s label, which usually means cake-to-the-face festival maximalism, so “I’m Not Going Anywhere” from Iaco & remy is a genuine left turn. This is softer, more songwriterly, the kind of indie-leaning electronic record that sounds like it was built around an actual feeling rather than a drop. The title is a promise and the track treats it like one, circling back to that reassurance over a gently insistent groove that never quite explodes the way you keep expecting it to. That refusal to detonate is the whole charm. It builds tension and then just sits in...
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Tim Schaufert - Abundance
Read more . . . →Second MrSuicideSheep pick because the channel earned both slots this week and Tim Schaufert’s Abundance is too good to leave off. This one drifts further into ambient, downtempo territory than the usual Sheep upload, and it’s all the better for it. Abundance is a slow, patient piece of music that prioritizes mood over momentum, the kind of track you put on when the world is too loud. There’s a piano motif at the center that keeps circling back, picking up new textures each time, never rushing toward anything resembling a drop. Schaufert clearly comes from a more composed, almost cinematic...
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POV: You Requested A Song
Read more . . . →Static for a face, hands still on the mixer, dead air where the eyes should be. He heard you. He’s choosing not to.
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