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Heirloom - Oh Don't Tell (Live from Bush Hall, London)
Read more . . . →A live band recording on Anjunadeep is the last thing I expected to be my favourite find this week, and yet here we are. “Oh Don’t Tell” was captured at Bush Hall in London and you can actually hear the room in it — the slight bloom on the vocal, the way the bass guitar breathes instead of loops. Heirloom sit in this hazy space between electronic and live indie where the drum machine and a real kit seem to be having a quiet conversation. The song itself is a slow-burn heartbreak thing, all restraint and held tension, and the...
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Flux Pavilion x Liquid Stranger x AHEE - Move Your Body
Read more . . . →I did not expect a Flux Pavilion collab in 2026 to sound this hungry. “Move Your Body” is three producers who could easily coast trading blows instead, and the seams show in the best way — you can hear one of them dare the next to go weirder. The vocal hook is a single looped command chopped into confetti, and by the second drop it’s been mangled into something that barely reads as a word anymore. Liquid Stranger’s fingerprints are all over the low mids, that rubbery detuned wobble that sounds like a didgeridoo having a bad day. There’s a...
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Is the Superstar DJ Era Over? Yeah, and Good Riddance
The superstar DJ era is over and good riddance. How the press-play frontman lost to Boiler Room, collectives, and amapiano. Yes, we're talking about the cake.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Clockvice & Vorso - DUMFUK
Read more . . . →The first drop of “DUMFUK” lands at 0:52 and it genuinely sounds like a server rack falling down a stairwell. Clockvice and Vorso have made something almost aggressively stupid in the best possible way — a Monstercat dubstep cut with zero interest in melody, mood, or your comfort. It’s all texture and impact, growls layered so thick they start to sound organic, like a large animal that is very much not okay. There’s a rhythmic stutter in the second half where the bass gets chopped into a triplet pattern and the whole track briefly turns into a machine gun. I...
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The one genuinely new thing at Tomorrowland this year
Read more . . . →Here’s the actual news out of this year’s lineup, buried under the headliner circus: on opening Friday, Tomorrowland is running its first full afro house day at the Melodia stage. Not one token DJ shoved into an afternoon slot, a whole bill of South African producers who’ve spent years turning drum patterns into something closer to church. If you only know this festival as big-room fireworks, this is the corner worth walking to. 1. Caiiro - The Akan Caiiro builds tracks like they’re supposed to run twenty minutes, and you resent it when they don’t. The Akan is all rolling...
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Citi Paid Fraser $42 Million to Cut 20,000 Jobs
Read more . . . →Jane Fraser is running Citigroup through the biggest layoff in its modern history — 20,000 jobs on the chopping block, 7,000 already gone — and the board handed her a 22% raise for it. Forty-two million dollars for 2025. The reorganization that emptied those desks is the same reorganization her pay package rewards. She didn’t get paid despite the cuts. She got paid for them. Here’s the part nobody says out loud: at the top, mass firing is a resume line. Every worker she cut was a number that made a slide look better, and the slide is what the...
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Charles D x TMPR x Inner City - Good Life
Rebooting Inner City's untouchable Good Life is a bold swing. Charles D x TMPR mostly get away with it, keeping Paris Grey's vocal front and centre.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Borgeous - In Da Booth
Read more . . . →Borgeous is still alive and making festival bangers, which in 2026 counts as a genuine plot twist. “In Da Booth” is unapologetic big-room throwback material — the exact sound that ate EDM alive around 2014 and then got laughed straight out of the room a couple years later. Here’s the thing though: played this confidently, it still works on a lizard-brain level. A nagging vocal chant, a supersaw lead built for a hundred thousand phone lights, a kick you feel in your sternum. There’s no reinvention on offer and Borgeous clearly wants none of it; this is comfort food for...
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BAGO - COMPOSURE
Read more . . . →How does a track called “COMPOSURE” end up being the least composed thing I’ve heard all week? BAGO builds the first ninety seconds like a proper liquid roller, all warm pads and a bassline that just purrs, and then torches the whole thing at the drop into something jagged and mechanical. The switch is genuinely disorienting the first time — I caught myself checking the tracklist to make sure it hadn’t skipped to a different song. That contrast is the entire hook: he lulls you into a comedown and then reminds you the club is still very much going. The...
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Tomorrowland turns 20 and the hype is insufferable and mostly earned
Read more . . . →Four days out and my feeds are 90% people you’ll never see again posting the same drone shot of the mainstage. Tomorrowland hits its 20th edition this year, they’ve branded it Consciencia, and yes, most of it is a very expensive Instagram backdrop with a castle stuck on top. But the thing didn’t get this big on nothing. Five tracks that will actually go off in Boom and won’t make you feel stupid for humming them on the flight home. 1. Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike vs Ummet Ozcan - The Hum The Belgian duo are basically Tomorrowland’s house band,...
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