Eptic makes dubstep that sounds engineered specifically to break cheap earbuds, and “OCTANE” is no exception. The Belgian has spent a decade perfecting this exact brand of cartoonishly heavy, gleefully obnoxious bass music, and he keeps finding new ways to make a drop feel violent. This one revs up like the title promises, all combustion-engine snarl and rising pressure before it detonates into a section that genuinely made me laugh out loud the first time. That’s the thing people miss about good dubstep, the best of it is funny, almost slapstick in how absurdly hard it goes. The sound design here is filthy in the best way, every wobble sculpted to within an inch of its life. I have no idea how he keeps the energy this high without it becoming exhausting, but he does. If you’ve got a subwoofer, this is the track you use to find out whether...
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June 09, 2026 at 8:21 PM 1 min read
Eptic - OCTANE
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June 09, 2026 at 6:23 PM 1 min read
Viridity - Up To Fate
Read more . . . →Shogun Audio has been a quiet powerhouse in DnB for years, the label that puts out the stuff serious heads geek out over while the mainstream looks elsewhere. Viridity’s “Up To Fate” is squarely in that lineage: technical, deep, and built with obvious care rather than chasing a trend. This sits in the darker, more cerebral end of the genre, where the focus is on detailed drum programming and a low end that hums with quiet menace instead of screaming for attention. It’s headphone music in the best sense, full of small details that only reveal themselves on the third or fourth listen. The bassline has a hypnotic quality that pulls you deeper the longer you stay with it. Viridity clearly cares about craft, and the restraint on display is the kind that takes years to develop. This won’t go viral and it doesn’t want to. It just wants the...
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June 09, 2026 at 4:41 PM 1 min read
Eelke Kleijn - Feel It, See It
Read more . . . →Eelke Kleijn operates in this beautiful space between melodic house and progressive that few people do as well, and “Feel It, See It” is a masterclass in patient, emotional dance music. The Dutch producer builds tracks like an architect, every element placed with intent, the tension accumulating slowly until the release feels genuinely earned. There’s a cinematic depth to his work that goes way beyond standard club fare, the kind of music that scores a moment rather than just filling a dancefloor. The melody here is gorgeous and slightly melancholy, the sort of thing that hits different at 3am with the lights low. His basslines have this hypnotic, rolling quality that pulls you deeper without you noticing. I’ve followed Eelke for years and he almost never disappoints, which is a rare thing in a scene this fast-moving. This is grown-up, emotionally literate electronic music. Give it your full attention and...
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June 09, 2026 at 2:43 PM 1 min read
Unsenses - Far From Home
Read more . . . →We don’t post nearly enough hardstyle around here and that’s a crime, so let’s fix it with Unsenses and “Far From Home.” Dirty Workz knows exactly what this genre is supposed to do to your nervous system, and this track delivers the full euphoric-hardstyle package without apology. The melodic build is huge and unashamedly emotional, the kind of thing that would have a festival crowd screaming the lyrics back with tears in their eyes. Then the kick drops and the whole thing turns into a beautiful controlled stampede. Hardstyle gets unfairly mocked by people who haven’t actually felt one of these kicks hit through a real system, and “Far From Home” is the perfect track to shut them up. It’s massive, it’s heartfelt, and it does not care if you think it’s too much. That’s the entire appeal. Reverse bass for the soul. Throw it on, jump around your living...
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June 09, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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A Church Worth Showing Up Early For
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Lasers through the rafters, sub in the stained glass. This is the only service we’d get there on time for.
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June 09, 2026 at 1:19 PM 1 min read
Dawn Wall - You Believe
Read more . . . →Dawn Wall keep flying slightly under the radar and I don’t fully understand why, because tracks like “You Believe” are exactly what people claim they want from modern drum and bass. It’s got that uplifting, slightly euphoric quality the genre does better than almost any other, built around a vocal hook that lodges itself in your skull within one listen. The drums are crisp and snappy, the bass is rolling and full, and the whole thing just moves with this effortless forward pull. What gets me is how clean the arrangement is, nothing wasted, every drop earning its place. There’s an optimism baked into this that feels almost defiant given how grim everything else is right now. Sometimes you need music that just believes in something, and this delivers exactly that without going saccharine about it. I keep hitting repeat. Stick it on, let the second drop hit, and try...
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June 09, 2026 at 11:21 AM 1 min read
SUPERSTRINGS - NEON DUSK PROTOCOL (Live at EDC Las Vegas 2026)
Read more . . . →Second EDC 2026 clip in the queue and SUPERSTRINGS went a darker, more cinematic route than Ship Wreck. “NEON DUSK PROTOCOL” sounds exactly like its ridiculous name, in the best possible way, all sci-fi tension and arpeggios that feel like a synthwave movie chase scene scored for 40,000 sweaty people. The all-caps title had me bracing for cheese and instead I got genuinely menacing trance with teeth. The breakdown around the midpoint strips everything back to a single pulsing line before the whole machine roars back to life, and the crowd reaction on the clip says it landed in person. I love when a producer commits this hard to a concept and refuses to wink at the camera about it. There’s no irony here, just full-send drama, and it works because they mean it. Trance has been quietly getting weird and good again, and sets like this are the proof....
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June 09, 2026 at 9:39 AM 1 min read
DASH - Without You (Ft. Tara Carosielli)
Read more . . . →Trap Nation surfaced DASH’s “Without You” featuring Tara Carosielli and it’s a reminder that melodic trap can still land an emotional gut-punch when it’s done right. Carosielli’s vocal is the heart of this one, fragile and aching over a beat that gives her plenty of room before the bass drops in. There’s a real heartbreak running through the lyrics, and the production matches it with these wide, atmospheric synths that feel genuinely lonely. When the drop finally arrives it doesn’t bulldoze the emotion, it amplifies it, the bass swelling rather than stomping. I appreciate trap that uses its weight in service of a feeling instead of just flexing for the sake of it. The contrast between the delicate vocal and the heavy low end is where the whole thing lives. It’s the kind of track for driving alone at night with too much on your mind. DASH clearly understands restraint....
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June 09, 2026 at 9:10 AM 1 min read
Defqon.1's hard half: where hardstyle is the warm-up
Read more . . . →Defqon.1 hits Biddinghuizen at the end of June and most of the coverage fixates on the mainstage hardstyle. Fine. But the reason this festival makes every other summer lineup look soft lives one stage over, where the kicks stop being polite. Hardcore, frenchcore, uptempo, the harder end of the site. If regular hardstyle already feels too gentle for you, here’s your map for the rest of the week.
1. Angerfist - The Nightmare Man
Angerfist has been the face of Dutch hardcore for two decades and “The Nightmare Man,” out last November, is him doing the thing nobody does better. Distorted, mean, zero interest in your comfort.
2. Dr. Peacock & Sefa - Incoming
Frenchcore’s two biggest names in one track. 200 BPM, a kick that gallops instead of stomps, the entire genre’s...
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June 09, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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Poilievre Treats Breaking Up Canada Like a Bargaining Chip
Read more . . . →Alberta is putting a question on the October 19 ballot about whether to start the legal process of leaving Canada. The Leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition went out there this week and the strongest thing he could bring himself to say was that the people who want to break up the country “are not our enemies.” Carney called the referendum what it is — a dangerous bluff. Poilievre called it a feeling we should sit with. “We do not need a different country, Alberta. We need different government policies in Ottawa.” Read that again. The man who wants to run the place just told a secession movement their demand is basically fair, he’d only like to handle the paperwork himself.
This is the entire Poilievre move compressed into one speech: never be the guy who says no. Pipelines, repealing Bills C-69 and C-48, “different policies in Ottawa” — he...
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