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Ricey - Years
Read more . . . →Second mau5trap pick in a row because the label is just cooking right now and I refuse to apologize for it. Ricey’s Years is the more emotional cousin to the usual progressive house template, the kind of track that sounds like it was made at 4am about a specific person. The melody does this thing where it almost resolves and then slips sideways, which keeps you leaning in waiting for a landing that takes its sweet time. I’m a sucker for a lead that sounds slightly sad even when the BPM says you should be dancing. The bassline underneath is...
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The History of Techno: From Detroit to Berlin
Techno wasn't born in a Berlin bunker. The real history of techno starts in Detroit with the Belleville Three. Detroit made it, Europe scaled it.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Calle Lebraun vs Breach - Visions (Jack)
Calle Lebraun vs Breach turning Visions into a tech house moment that won't leave you alone. Jack energy done right.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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RAVEN - TOLD YOU
Read more . . . →Trap Nation closing out the list with RAVEN’s TOLD YOU, and this one’s got the kind of confidence the title promises. This is trap built for impact, all booming 808s and a vocal chop that struts through the track like it owns the place. RAVEN isn’t reinventing the formula here, but the execution is sharp enough that it doesn’t matter. The drop hits with real weight, the bass tuned low enough to test whatever you’re playing it through. What sets it apart is the melodic element threaded through the aggression, a haunting little synth line that gives the whole thing...
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Arcando & Charlotte Haining - Release Me (Drum & Bass Edit)
Arcando and Charlotte Haining took Release Me to the DnB edit and it hits harder than the original. This version is the one.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Defqon.1 is 5 days out and these are the 2026 IDs that'll actually go off
Read more . . . →Five days. The wristband’s been sitting on my kitchen counter since the lineup was still a rumor, and now it’s real. Every other festival this summer is trying to sell you a sunset and a seltzer sponsor. Defqon sells you a field full of people who drove from four countries to scream at a kick drum. So here’s the new stuff from this year, the tracks that are going to do damage on the mainstage, not the catalogue classics the whole field already knows by heart. 1. Primeshock & Villain - Deep Dive Technically this is the Relevatez anthem, but...
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The Tariff Refund Only Flows One Direction: Up
Read more . . . →So the Supreme Court finally struck the tariffs down, 6-3, and ruled that Trump never had the authority to impose them in the first place. Good. Except the customs agency already collected about $133 billion before anyone made him stop. That money came out of the country one checkout line at a time — the average household paid somewhere north of a thousand bucks last year, manufacturing shed tens of thousands of jobs, and the whole thing was sold as toughness. Now a court has confirmed it was illegal the entire time. You’d think the obvious next step is giving...
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Pamex - brainwash
Read more . . . →Trap City surfaces a lot of disposable festival trap, so I went in skeptical, and Pamex’s brainwash slapped the skepticism right out of me. This is the kind of trap that doesn’t bother with subtlety because subtlety was never the point. The 808s are tuned to rattle whatever cheap speaker you’re playing it on, and the vocal chop in the build is genuinely unsettling in the best way, like a sample warped just past the point of being recognizable. The drop is mean. There’s a half-time switch in the second half that I did not see coming and it completely...
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MatricK - Can't Stop Us Now
Read more . . . →Revealed Recordings is Hardwell’s house, which usually means festival fireworks engineered to detonate at exactly the right second for the drone footage. MatricK plays that game but doesn’t sound like he’s reading the manual. Can’t Stop Us Now front-loads a vocal that should be corny and somehow isn’t, then drops into a lead that’s all teeth. I went in expecting the usual big-room paint-by-numbers and got something with actual snarl in the low end. The kick hits like it has a grudge. There’s a moment around the second drop where the whole thing tightens up and you realize he’s been...
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WAKE & Luma - In The Dark
Read more . . . →Dim Mak still operating in 2026 is its own small miracle, and “In The Dark” from WAKE and Luma is a reminder the label can still find producers with teeth. This sits in that bass-house pocket where the groove is sleek but the drop has bite, a moody little number that earns its title. The vocal is processed into a ghost, more texture than message, floating over a bassline that prowls. I like that it doesn’t oversell. There’s a temptation in this genre to pile on the screeching mid-range until everything sounds like a malfunctioning robot, and WAKE and Luma...
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