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Jump-Up: The Drum & Bass Subgenre Everyone Pretends to Hate
Jump-up is the bass-led DnB subgenre purists pretend to hate and then rinse at the rave. What it is, the labels, the MCs, and why it always wins.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Justin Hawkes - Stomp
Read more . . . →Justin Hawkes has quietly become one of the most reliable names in dancefloor drum and bass, and Stomp is him doing what he does best, which is make something that detonates a room without overcomplicating it. The build is patient, the kind that has a whole crowd’s hands creeping up before the drop even hits, then it pays off with this big stomping low end that earns the title literally. Hawkes always brings a little musicality to his heavier stuff, so even when this thing is bouncing your skull around there’s a hook holding it together. It’s festival DnB engineered...
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MIND - Out Of Reach
MIND's Out Of Reach is MrSuicideSheep at its best — melancholy electronic with real restraint. Headphones on, window out.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Defqon.1 let a meme collective close the mainstage and honestly, good
Read more . . . →The strangest booking of Defqon.1 2026: GPF, a collective whose entire brand is treating gabber as the world’s loudest inside joke, get the RED mainstage on Sunday. That’s the ceremonial closing slot, normally handed to a hardstyle institution with a decade of history behind it. This year it goes to the people making uptempo bootlegs of pop songs. I’m fully on board. 1. GPF, DJ Gollum, BassWar & CaoX - I Want It That Way (Uptempo) Yes, it’s the Backstreet Boys. Yes, it’s pushing 180 BPM and completely sincere about being ridiculous. The whole point of GPF is that you...
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This Week on coldplaysucks — June 7–14, 2026
Read more . . . →Sixty-two tracks went up this week and house ate most of the plate, which is very on brand for a blog that claims to love everything and clearly has a type. Drum & bass kept pace, the bass crowd got fed, and Hardwell apparently decided to move in. We didn’t change the locks. Here’s what mattered. Track of the Week Chase & Status - BADDADAN (KNOCK2 RMX) “BADDADAN” was already a UK jungle monster that refused to leave festival sets alone, so KNOCK2 dragging it across the Atlantic and rebuilding it for the American bass scene was always going to...
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They Made 200 Years of Your Salary, Then Called You the Cost Problem
Read more . . . →The number that should be on every front page: at half the companies in the S&P 500, the median worker would have to clock in for 200 years to make what their CEO made last year. Two hundred. Last year that figure was 192, so the math is getting worse on schedule. Median CEO pay climbed almost 6% to $17.7 million in 2025, rewarded for “bigger profits and higher stock prices,” which is corporate for “we found new ways to pay you less.” At Coca-Cola the boss pulled roughly 1,739 times the median worker’s $17,947. Read that wage again. That’s...
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Of The Trees x Tape B - Brackish
Of The Trees and Tape B made something that sits between pretty melodic design and absolutely filthy bass. Crank it on a real system.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Rules - In Your Love
Rules turned In Your Love into a glowing little anthem that plants itself in your head on first listen. Didn't know them. Now I do.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Goldie and the Birth of Metalheadz
Goldie co-founded Metalheadz in 1994 and made jungle symphonic. How Timeless, the Blue Note nights, and gold teeth built drum and bass.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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SFRNG, SOVAGI, Aizu - IN MY HEAD
Read more . . . →NCS keeps cranking out tracks that soundtrack a million Twitch streams and gaming montages, and IN MY HEAD is a strong one from a three-way link between SFRNG, SOVAGI and Aizu. It’s got that polished slightly melancholic electronic sound the NCS catalogue runs on, built around a vocal that digs into the kind of overthinking the title spells out. The production is clean and modern, with a drop that hits hard enough for a hype moment without tipping into pure noise. What surprises me is how much emotional weight they fit into a track clearly designed to be background-friendly. Three...
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