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There's an Avicii tribute at Tomorrowland this year and I'm not ready
Read more . . . →Quick heads up before the gates open: this year’s Tomorrowland includes an Avicii tribute, and if you were anywhere near dance music between 2011 and 2018 you already know why that lands hard. Tim Bergling more or less wrote the sound the mainstage still runs on, then he was gone at 28. The festival that helped build him is giving a whole moment back to him. Four tracks to have loaded before you’re standing in that field with everyone else. 1. Avicii - Levels The one that started it. An Etta James sample looped over a piano line so simple...
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Kkriegerz - Waiting For You
Kkriegerz actually commits to a mood on Waiting For You instead of coasting on the usual disposable NCS formula. Pitched-up vocal does the rest.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Kanine - Wide Awake
Kanine keeps making some of the most physical drum and bass going and nobody's giving him credit. Wide Awake is clean enough to eat off of.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Joel Corry - Whisper
Joel Corry is a producer I want to dislike on principle, and Whisper keeps ruining that plan. Lab-engineered chart-house that still burrows in.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Tomorrowland is in Belgium and the locals still run the place
Read more . . . →Reminder that Tomorrowland happens in Boom, a Belgian town of about 18,000 that swells to festival-sized every July and then goes quiet again. The polite thing is to respect the home team, and Belgium’s dance roster punches so far above the country’s weight it’s almost unfair. Four locals worth your time, running from radio-friendly to genuinely frightening. 1. Lost Frequencies - Are You With Me Felix De Laet was still a teenager when this became the first Belgian track to top the UK singles chart. It’s a country sample turned into a sunset anthem, and it should be corny, but...
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400 Companies Begged His Trade Office for a Break. That's the Confession.
Read more . . . →Trump has spent his whole second term telling you tariffs are a tax on China, on Europe, on whoever the villain is that week — the bill lands on foreigners, never on you. That’s the load-bearing lie of the entire project. So here’s the part he’d rather you skip: when his trade office opened the floor for public comment on the newest round, more than 400 companies wrote in, and almost every one of them was begging to be let off the hook. Ford. The electrical manufacturers. The people who import cigars. Nobody writes a panicked letter asking to be...
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Heirloom - Oh Don't Tell (Live from Bush Hall, London)
A live band recording on Anjunadeep wasn't on my bingo card. Heirloom's Oh Don't Tell, captured at Bush Hall, actually lets you hear the room.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Flux Pavilion x Liquid Stranger x AHEE - Move Your Body
Flux Pavilion, Liquid Stranger and AHEE trade blows instead of coasting on Move Your Body. Three producers daring each other to go weirder.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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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 . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Clockvice & Vorso - DUMFUK
Clockvice & Vorso's DUMFUK drop sounds like a server rack falling down a stairwell. Aggressively stupid dubstep, zero interest in your comfort.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
