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Sully - Shake
Read more . . . →WAKAAN experimental bass and the title is not lying to you. “Shake” does exactly what it says. Sully’s keeping the WAKAAN weird-bass tradition alive and this one has a low-end you’re going to want good speakers for. More like this Sully - No Signal Dirt Monkey feat. Mississippi The Truth - Marshmallows Liquid Stranger, Dr. Fresch, Bok Nero - Bass Shake Buy / stream this track →
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SubDocta & Acemyth - Back In It
Read more . . . →SubDocta and Acemyth going in on the WAKAAN sound and the result is the kind of experimental bass track that takes two or three listens before you realize how deep the production actually goes. “Back In It” is a good name for a track that sounds like re-entry. More like this Dirt Monkey feat. Mississippi The Truth - Marshmallows Liquid Stranger, Dr. Fresch, Bok Nero - Bass Shake SubDocta - Iced Up VIP Buy / stream this track →
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Spinnin' Sessions Radio - Episode #681
Read more . . . →Spinnin’ Sessions is one of those mixes where I put it on to have something in the background and then suddenly realize I’ve been standing in my kitchen for twenty minutes not doing what I came to do. Episode 681 keeps the energy up without ever feeling like it’s working too hard to impress you. The track selection is solid across the board. There’s a moment about a third of the way in where the tempo drops just slightly and you get this breather before it picks back up — whoever sequenced this mix knows exactly what they’re doing. The...
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Shoby - back to friends
Read more . . . →Sensual Musique is a channel that does exactly what its name suggests — the music is warm, late night, and built for situations where you want something that doesn’t demand your full attention but rewards it if you give it. Shoby’s back to friends is exactly that. The vocal is chopped and processed enough to feel atmospheric rather than song-like, which is exactly the right call here. The bassline groove is patient. This is deep house that isn’t in any rush to prove it’s deep house, which is usually a good sign. Deep house has been underrepresented on this blog...
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This Week on coldplaysucks — May 25–31
Read more . . . →We started keeping score. From now on the newsletter opens with what you actually played the most this month, not what we felt like hyping. No view counts, no dashboards — just the order, and from next week, who’s climbing and who’s getting bumped. Consider this the opening bell. The Charts The inaugural board. Everything’s a debut this week, so nobody’s been knocked off yet — that bloodsport starts next issue. AVE – Meet Me In The Dark — top of the very first chart. You have taste. Listen → MXTR & Tyler Garrett – Disconnected — refused to leave...
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Executive bonuses are tariff-proof. Yours isn't.
Read more . . . →The 2026 proxy season is the clearest look yet at how this economy actually works. Companies are quietly rewriting their executive bonus metrics mid-cycle to exclude tariff impacts — adjusted EBITDA, adjusted operating income, adjusted until the payout math works again. Axon did it. Caleres did it. More are coming. The tariff uncertainty was apparently too unpredictable to hold executives accountable for. The same uncertainty has hit small businesses for 13 consecutive months of job losses. The average American household is paying $1,500 more this year in tariff taxes. There’s no adjustment committee for that. These are the same companies...
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SCHIAVONI - BIG BOY
Read more . . . →SCHIAVONI delivers BIG BOY on Scantraxx and the energy is exactly what that title suggests it would be. There’s no irony here, no restraint — this is hardstyle doing what hardstyle does when it’s not trying to be anything other than itself. The track identifies its target (your sternum) and doesn’t miss. The kick compression on this is the kind that you feel before you hear it properly, which is either a sign of excellent production or a speaker-destroying mistake, and here it’s definitely the former. Scantraxx putting out a batch this strong is having a moment right now. SCHIAVONI...
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Sano - SET ME FREE
Read more . . . →I didn’t know Sano before this and now I’ve looked them up twice. SET ME FREE has that very specific feeling of electronic music where someone has clearly thought carefully about the space between sounds — each element earns its place. The drop is restrained in a way that actually makes it hit harder. There’s no kitchen sink approach here, just the right sounds in the right place at the right moment. NCS has gotten better at surfacing stuff like this: less pure hype, more actual electronic music with something going on underneath the surface. The vocal chop in the...
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18 days out: the EDC 30th anniversary tracks worth loading before Vegas
Read more . . . →18 days until 150,000 people descend on the Nevada desert, and EDC’s 30th anniversary lineup is actually trying. Kaskade’s back on a proper label, FISHER’s got a collab that shouldn’t work but does, and Subtronics and Excision are apparently competing to see who can make the ugliest sound. Here’s what’s on the pre-game playlist. 1. Kaskade ft. EZI - Freedom Deep house for the drive out. Kaskade went back to OM Records — the label that basically built this sound — and “Freedom” lands right in that late-night, open-road pocket. EZI’s voice is the whole thing. 2. FISHER & Tones...
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Saco, Bram Bos - Never Going Home
Read more . . . →Bram Bos is primarily known for iOS music apps — Rozeta, Grooverider, Kosmonaut — and watching that guy make a straight deep house track is genuinely interesting. Never Going Home with Saco has the DNA of someone who thinks about sound design at a more granular level than most producers, and it shows in the texture work. The track has a slight lo-fi quality that feels deliberate rather than lazy. There’s warmth here without any of the manufactured “we’re being warm” feeling that a lot of deep house suffers from. The groove is minimal — just enough to keep things...
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