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Defected Owns This Summer
Read more . . . →Defected is running this summer and nobody held a vote. Ibiza residency at Chinois, a Most Rated compilation that reads like a hall of fame, and a run of singles that turned TikTok accidents into proper records. Three of the best. 1. Piem & SLM - Activated The bass hits like someone dropping a cabinet down a stairwell and the vocal loop latches on in about eight seconds. It started on Barcelona’s Jackies label, went viral when Luke Dean turned it into a TikTok mashup, and Defected made the official version before the hype cooled. Sometimes the internet A&Rs better...
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He Broke the Window and Sold You the Glass
Read more . . . →Trump set a deadline of August 19 — tomorrow — for 50% tariffs on Canadian dairy, alcohol, and autos. The “deal” he’s offering to make them go away: Canada drops its retaliatory tariffs, opens up dairy markets, kills provincial procurement rules, and accepts the American interpretation of trade quotas. In exchange, the US would reduce some of the tariffs it imposed on Canada in the first place. That’s not a negotiation. That’s a guy who breaks your window and then offers to sell you the glass. Carney keeps saying Canada won’t accept a bad deal, but the framework leaking out...
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Andromedik & Teddy Bee - Up
Andromedik & Teddy Bee's dnb hook is built to get stuck in your head, mission accomplished, even if it fades by next month.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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DENIAL - Nutcase (Mark Eteson Remix)
Mark Eteson strips DENIAL's Nutcase down to just a kick and an acid line, paranoid, concrete-grey techno built for a dark room at 2am.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Future Bass, Explained (Before It Disappeared)
Future bass owned 2016 — that detuned, breathing supersaw chop. Here's what the genre actually was, who built it (Flume, Cashmere Cat), and why it vanished.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Five Records the Playlist Editors Missed
Read more . . . →How many of the 2026 releases in your library actually got finished? The full album, the whole EP, side B included. Summer buried some of the best electronic records of the year under festival playlists and seasonal mood tags, and five of them deserve better. 1. Joris Voorn - Horizon (Melatonin Version) Voorn premiered his ambient album Melatonin in a 360-degree planetarium in Amsterdam for an audience of 320. A nice stunt. The record is better than the stunt. This version of Horizon strips everything to pads and a pulse that barely qualifies as a beat — about four minutes...
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BlackGummy - Euphoria (FRANK (UK) & SHAW Remix)
FRANK (UK) and SHAW remix BlackGummy's Euphoria into shameless, supersaw-stacked trance. Zero irony, maximum hands in the air.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Seventeen Said It Out Loud
Read more . . . →Seventeen Conservative MPs told CTV, off the record, that they don’t think Pierre Poilievre can beat Mark Carney. Not two backbenchers griping into a pint glass. Seventeen elected members of his own caucus, speaking to a camera crew, saying out loud what the polling has been screaming since spring: the man is underwater. His favourability sits at 34 percent. His unfavourability is 52. Carney leads him on every single policy question pollsters can think to ask — cost of living, housing, trade, health care — by gaps of nine to fourteen points. The Liberals are up 43 to 34 nationally....
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This Week on coldplaysucks — Aug 10–16
Read more . . . →Eighteen tracks dropped and every single one landed on Saturday. DnB brought actual names, dubstep got genuinely strange in the right direction, and two separate DENIAL cuts proved that techno built on one bullied note can be the scariest thing in any room. Quiet week on paper. Loud week on speakers. Track of the Week Andy C - Come Together (ft. Mali Koa) Andy C made a vocal drum and bass record that sounds like it was designed to detonate forty thousand people at dusk, and it does not miss. Mali Koa sings it like a real vocalist, not a...
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312 to 1 and Nobody Blinked
Read more . . . →The AFL-CIO dropped its annual number this week: 312. That’s how many times the average S&P 500 CEO out-earned the median American worker last year. It was 285 the year before. Average package: $22.8 million. Average worker: $73,000. One of these people sat in meetings. The other one did the work those meetings were about. CEO pay went up 21% in a single year while the people who generate the revenue got whatever their annual review felt like giving them. Then there’s Musk, who broke the spreadsheet entirely. His Tesla comp package was $158 billion — fourteen times the total...
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