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Shoby - back to friends
Shoby on Sensual Musique with deep house that isn't in a rush to prove anything. The groove is patient, the vocal is atmospheric. Works at any volume.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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This Week on coldplaysucks — May 25–31
Read more . . . →We started keeping score. From now on the newsletter opens with what you actually played the most this month, not what we felt like hyping. No view counts, no dashboards — just the order, and from next week, who’s climbing and who’s getting bumped. Consider this the opening bell. The Charts The inaugural board. Everything’s a debut this week, so nobody’s been knocked off yet — that bloodsport starts next issue. AVE – Meet Me In The Dark — top of the very first chart. You have taste. Listen → MXTR & Tyler Garrett – Disconnected — refused to leave...
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Executive bonuses are tariff-proof. Yours isn't.
Read more . . . →The 2026 proxy season is the clearest look yet at how this economy actually works. Companies are quietly rewriting their executive bonus metrics mid-cycle to exclude tariff impacts — adjusted EBITDA, adjusted operating income, adjusted until the payout math works again. Axon did it. Caleres did it. More are coming. The tariff uncertainty was apparently too unpredictable to hold executives accountable for. The same uncertainty has hit small businesses for 13 consecutive months of job losses. The average American household is paying $1,500 more this year in tariff taxes. There’s no adjustment committee for that. These are the same companies...
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SCHIAVONI - BIG BOY
SCHIAVONI on Scantraxx. BIG BOY is hardstyle aimed directly at your sternum. No irony, no restraint. The kick compression hits before you even hear it.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Sano - SET ME FREE
Never heard of Sano before this. SET ME FREE has someone thinking carefully about the space between sounds. The restrained drop hits harder for it.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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18 days out: the EDC 30th anniversary tracks worth loading before Vegas
Read more . . . →18 days until 150,000 people descend on the Nevada desert, and EDC’s 30th anniversary lineup is actually trying. Kaskade’s back on a proper label, FISHER’s got a collab that shouldn’t work but does, and Subtronics and Excision are apparently competing to see who can make the ugliest sound. Here’s what’s on the pre-game playlist. 1. Kaskade ft. EZI - Freedom Deep house for the drive out. Kaskade went back to OM Records — the label that basically built this sound — and “Freedom” lands right in that late-night, open-road pocket. EZI’s voice is the whole thing. 2. FISHER & Tones...
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Saco, Bram Bos - Never Going Home
Bram Bos is the iOS music apps guy — Rozeta, Grooverider — making deep house with Saco. The granular sound design shows. Niche but genuinely good.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Pete & Bas - Oldschool Gangsta
Pete & Bas are in their seventies making DnB and cooking younger practitioners. Oldschool Gangsta has more character than most artists half their age.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Mutual - Where I Wanna Be
Mutual on UKF with liquid DnB that actually has something to say. The vocal doesn't oversell it — states it and lets the track breathe. Classic find.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Mutilator - BOUNCE
The artist is Mutilator, the track is BOUNCE, the label is Dirty Workz. Hardstyle that lives up to all three. The reverse bass is properly nasty.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
