Nothing on this cover prepares you for the piano. It is a bare vinyl label on … [Read More...]
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Lumine – Here For Us
Nothing on this cover prepares you for the piano. It is a bare vinyl label on black, halftone speckle, SIDE A stamped at the rim, the look of a white label promo nobody bothered to make a sleeve for. Then the record … [Read More...]
Sikdope – Overload
The hook is four words. "No, we don't come down," and Sikdope buries it inside the drop instead of floating it above the bass. By the third pass it has stopped being a lyric and turned into a chant. That repetition … [Read More...]
Killin’ Void – SABOTAGE
Vocal drum and bass usually uses the singer as a fuse. Light it in the intro, get clear, let the break handle the rest. SABOTAGE keeps sanna frankie in the room a lot longer than that, and Killin' Void builds the … [Read More...]
STELLA LEFTY – i know i know (SAiiLOR Remix)
STELLA LEFTY wrote a country song. Banjo, fiddle, pedal steel guitar, and a lyric about drinking with your friends until going back to your ex starts sounding like a reasonable plan. SAiiLOR kept her vocal and built … [Read More...]
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Rules – In Your Love
Rules broke through by reworking Womack and Womack's "Teardrops" until the internet ran off with it, and the official release came after the fact. Everything since has been quieter and, to my ear, better. "In Your … [Read More...]
IKU – OBS3SS3D W U
IKU had this one sitting in the ID pile for over a year, teasing clips on socials with the same question attached every time: drop 1 or drop 2. Trap Nation has OBS3SS3D W U up on the channel now. Poll closed. I … [Read More...]
CIElll – Tethered
A few bars before the drop, the bottom drops out entirely. No riser swelling underneath it, no snare roll climbing toward a ceiling. CIElll holds Tethered flat and hollow for a stretch, nothing but top end and air, … [Read More...]
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Alaia & Gallo – Lipstick (Tony Romera Remix)
Tony Romera does the thing I always want from a remixer and saves his best idea for the second half. The drums cut out, the vocal hangs there by itself for a few bars, and once the kick returns the bottom end has … [Read More...]
KDH, Reflect, & Barmuda – Fear My Name
A motivational vocal on a bass house record usually gets treated like a fuse. You let it burn for eight bars, then blow it up and never hear from it again. KDH and Reflect went the other way on "Fear My Name". … [Read More...]
RAVEN – TOLD YOU
Thirteen seconds of a thin melody up top with nothing underneath it, and then the bottom arrives all at once. I measured that swing because it did not seem real, and the sub climbs from basically absent to the … [Read More...]