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Klangkarussell & Tailor - Drifter
Read more . . . →I heard this coming out of a café speaker before I knew what it was and stood in the doorway until the barista clocked me. “Drifter” is Klangkarussell doing the thing that made “Sonnentanz” lodge in a million heads over a decade ago — melancholy dressed up as a dancefloor track, a melody that reads happy and sad at the exact same time depending on how your week is going. Tailor’s vocal is understated to the point of a whisper, more texture than lyric, and it lets the bassline and that gently loping house groove carry the emotional weight. There’s...
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WAKAAN and the American Bass Sound, Explained
WAKAAN, Liquid Stranger's label, made American bass a thing. Here's how it splits from UK dubstep, who's on the roster, and whether it's actually good.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Jkyl & Hyde x SampliFire - Play With Fire
Read more . . . →Two producers whose whole job is making a speaker cone regret its life choices, on one track, is bad news for your subwoofer and good news for the rest of us. “Play With Fire” is exactly the kind of maximal, mid-range-shredding dubstep that gets sneered at by people who think the genre peaked with a Loefah dubplate in 2007, and I do not care, because it works. The first drop is a growl that keeps mutating; every two bars the bass finds a new way to be uglier than it was, like it’s showing off. There’s a half-second of total...
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One Last Drop
Read more . . . →Luude has over a billion streams and your uncle still thinks DnB died in 2003. 1. Luude ft. Inéz - Never Adds Up Inéz’s vocal gets chopped and pitched and rearranged like luggage on a budget airline and somehow it still makes emotional sense. Luude’s whole move is taking drum and bass to stadiums and festival mainstages and making it work without sanding the edges off. The bassline is wobbly in a way that’s clearly designed for a crowd to lose their minds to, and then the vocal comes back in clean for the chorus and it hits different after...
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Vanic - Miserable (feat. The Duchess)
Read more . . . →Remember when Vanic was all over the remix circuit and then just sort of receded into the background hum of the internet? “Miserable” is the sound of him remembering he’s good at this. The Duchess sings the title like a flex instead of a confession, and Vanic wraps her in that plush, faintly melancholy future-bass chord work he’s always had a knack for, the kind that feels like a sunset you’re a little sad to be watching alone. The drop swells rather than lunges, all supersaws and a vocal chop cut from her own line, gathering the melody up instead...
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The Child Was Infrastructure
Read more . . . →The US military bombed a wedding in southern Iran on Monday. Five dead, including a child. Sixty-eight wounded — fifty of them women and children. The Pentagon called it a strike on Revolutionary Guard infrastructure. The infrastructure was a family home in Kuhestak where people were celebrating a marriage. The guests were infrastructure. The child was infrastructure. Central Command released a statement about “IRGC assets.” An asset, in Pentagon English, is whatever was standing where the missile landed. This is the third time a US strike in this war has hit a civilian gathering. In Minab they hit an elementary...
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The Upbeats - Haunted
The Upbeats' Haunted is neurofunk built like a horror sound designer got hold of a break. It wants your attention, not your hands in the air.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Flava D, Casey Club & DRIIA - Revival
Flava D stitches garage swing onto a dubstep low end on Revival, and Casey Club keeps it light enough for your mum and a warehouse in one week.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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SILK x Emie x JIUZ - DAYDREAM (HIT THE WAVE)
SILK, Emie and JIUZ built DAYDREAM to be screamed back by ten thousand people an hour after they learn it. Sunshine in track form, no clouds.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Gratuity, Vended
Read more . . . →It has no hands, no shift, and no feelings. It would still like 30%.
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