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Hardwell - Encoded (2ACES Remix)
2ACES remixes Hardwell's Encoded with festival fireworks energy turned up another notch. Subtlety left the building years ago.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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HEDEGAARD, Waka Flocka Flame - Control
HEDEGAARD and Waka Flocka Flame shouldn't work together, but Control is dumb, danceable, and absolutely fills a festival main stage.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Barely Alive & Ragga Twins - We Set It
Read more . . . →Barely Alive pulling the Ragga Twins onto a riddim tune is the kind of move that shouldn’t work on paper and absolutely demolishes in practice. The Ragga Twins have been around since the jungle and hardcore days, so hearing those vocals chopped over a 2026 dubstep skank is a small time-travel trick. The drop doesn’t try to reinvent anything. It locks into that wobble-and-skip groove Barely Alive have spent a decade perfecting, then lets the toasting carry all the swagger. I keep coming back to how mean the low end sits without ever sliding into wall-of-noise brostep. There’s actual space...
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Daft Punk Were Always Early
Daft Punk's legacy in one move: house before house broke, a pyramid before EDM, then they blew up a robot and left. Why the French house duo mattered.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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IVORY & Hammerhead - CLIQUE
Read more . . . →Another UKF Dubstep upload, and this one is pure riddim menace. IVORY and Hammerhead both come from the school of dubstep that treats the drop like a fistfight, and CLIQUE leans all the way into it. The metallic, gremlin-voiced bass design here is exactly the kind of thing that sounds ridiculous in your kitchen and apocalyptic in a dark room with a real rig. There’s a swagger to the groove that keeps it from being a pure headache, which is the difference between riddim that bangs and riddim that just annoys you after thirty seconds. The track barely lets up,...
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This Week on coldplaysucks — May 31 – June 7
Read more . . . →Drum and bass didn’t just win this week, it showed up to everyone else’s set and unplugged the gear. The liquid pile alone could fill a digest, and we still found room for an EDC hangover, a Basement Jaxx remix nobody saw coming, and Sully dropping a whole EP like it’s still 2014. House and the heavy stuff filled in the rest. Annoyingly good week. Track of the Week Hybrid Minds - Avalanche Liquid drum and bass gets written off as dinner-party background by people who have clearly never heard it loud. “Avalanche” is the rebuttal — the vocal sits...
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AVAO - Bad Behaviour
AVAO's Bad Behaviour is hard techno for a warehouse where everyone's wearing black and nobody's checking the time. 150 BPM and mean.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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They Fired You to Pay for the Data Center
Read more . . . →Oracle made $3.7 billion last quarter. Profit up 27 percent. Then it emailed 30,000 people at six in the morning to tell them they were done — no manager, no warning, just a note from “Oracle Leadership” while the coffee was still brewing. The company isn’t broke. It’s the opposite of broke. It cut all those people to free up eight to ten billion a year, and that money isn’t going to you or to anyone who survived the round. It’s going into concrete and graphics cards. You got laid off so a data center could get built. That’s the...
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Jay Baptiste - Melissa I'm Drunk And Outside
Read more . . . →The title alone earns a post. Melissa I’m Drunk And Outside is the kind of name that tells you the whole story before a single beat drops, and Jay Baptiste backs it up with a track that sounds exactly like a 2am decision you’ll regret in the best possible way. Spinnin put this out and it’s got that big accessible dance energy the label has built an empire on, but the writing has more personality than the average festival filler. It’s playful and a little chaotic, which fits a song literally named after drunk-texting someone from their front lawn. The...
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JON CASS & FADENT - FLUTTER
Read more . . . →Monstercat surfaced this one and FLUTTER lands right in that melodic-dubstep sweet spot the label has been mining for years. JON CASS and FADENT build it like a proper emotional rollercoaster, all soaring synth work in the intro before the bass design crashes in and reminds you this is still a heavy track underneath the pretty exterior. That contrast is the entire appeal. You get the goosebumps build and then you get the face-melt, and FLUTTER threads both without feeling stitched together. The melodic writing is genuinely strong here, not just a thin excuse to get to the drop. Monstercat...
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