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2frers - FLIRT LIGHTS
2frers' FLIRT LIGHTS sounds like neon bar signage came to life and started flirting with you. Cocky bass house built for 1am courage.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Microsoft Fired the People Who Make Your Games. On a Three-Minute Call.
Read more . . . →Microsoft just deleted roughly 3,200 jobs out of Xbox — about a fifth of the whole division — closed or spun off a handful of studios, and in Montreal it fired a dozen unionized developers at Bethesda over a three-minute video call where they weren’t allowed to ask a single question. Sit with that for a second. Not the 3,200. The three. The people who built the worlds a lot of us disappeared into for a thousand hours — Doom, Fallout, the games that got some of us through a couple of bad winters — got less time to absorb...
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Five days to Tomorrowland: the anthems doing laps in your head
Read more . . . →Five days out. This is the part of the run-up where the packing lists appear and the Mainstage anthems start doing laps in your head at 3am. Two records built for the exact moment the fireworks go off over the castle: 1. Hardwell - Spaceman The 2012 anthem that basically invented the modern Tomorrowland mainstage drop. That siren lead is pure adrenaline and the build is engineered to launch an entire field off the ground on the same beat. Hardwell is back on the bill this year stepping in for Guetta on the second Friday, and this is the one...
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This Week on coldplaysucks — July 5–12
Read more . . . →Sixty-odd tracks went up over the last week and the house crowd quietly ran the table, though drum and bass and dubstep were right behind it swinging. The recurring theme was old songs getting dragged somewhere they didn’t ask to go: a 1997 trance anthem turned into a trap crime scene, a 1972 afrobeat staple rebuilt as a peak-time house workout, and Vicetone’s “Nevada” flipped twice by two different people in the same seven days. If you like a producer robbing the past and getting away with it, this was your week. Track of the Week Da Hool - Meet...
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They're Boiling You Slowly So You Don't Notice
Read more . . . →The New York Fed just described, in polite economist language, a scam being run on you in real time. Companies are done eating Trump’s tariffs. They’re passing the cost to you — but not all at once, because a sudden jump would make you angry and paying attention. Instead they’re doing it a few cents at a time, month after month, a strategy the Fed’s own people call “trickle up.” Corporate America has a friendlier name for it internally: boil the frog. Turn the heat up so gradually the frog never jumps out of the pot. You’re the frog. The...
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XIRA - Feel (J Ribbon Remix)
J Ribbon knows exactly why Anjunabeats built an empire on XIRA's voice and keeps it front and center on this proggier, driving Feel remix.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Vluarr - Steppin'
Vluarr's Steppin' hits like a hiccup on the offbeat and makes sitting still physically impossible. Lean bass house, zero wasted sounds.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Vicetone - Nevada (Drum & Bass Mix)
Vicetone's Nevada soundtracked ten thousand gaming montages in 2016. This drum and bass remix proves the melody was built for it all along.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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The Tomorrowland bass stages exist to rearrange your organs
Read more . . . →Six days. For everyone convinced Tomorrowland is all euphoric hands-in-the-air stuff, the bass stages exist to rearrange your internal organs. This is the corner of the festival with the fewest phones out and the most damage done to necks and knees: 1. REZZ - Edge The goggles, the hypnosis-spiral visuals, the mid-tempo dread. REZZ built a whole world and this is a clean way into it. It sits around 110bpm and hits harder than tracks running twice the speed. Nobody else on a mainstage-level bill sounds remotely like her, and that’s the point. 2. GRiZ & Subtronics - Griztronics Two...
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The Weeknd & Playboi Carti - Timeless (RemK Remix)
RemK justifies remixing an already-everywhere hit by dragging The Weeknd and Playboi Carti's Timeless into a harder, bass-forward trap edit.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
