Big room house has gotten stale. If you’ve read my articles in the past, you’ll know that I’ve held this belief for awhile. Catchy melodies often lead to no exciting climax, and the listener feels as if they’ve heard the synth patterns before simply because they are so similar to the last hit played immediately before it. Luckily for fans [...]

There is an acknowledged problem in dance music of artists putting virtually no thought into the structure of their releases.  I suppose music primarly intended to be DJed with can’t always be expected to be released in a form that flows like a rock album.  But once in a while it’s still nice to get a release that isn’t just [...]

Fans of techno music are spoiled.  I feel like it’s every other week that Umek drops a new track.  100% Sure is his latest in a long series of thumptastic bass odysseys and as you would expect it does not disappoint.  The track is out now on Beatport.  Pick it up if you like it.  If you don’t like it [...]

Coming off of Sharooz’s La Bombe label based in London, we’ve got a brand new EP from Surrender!.  The 13 track Surrender! EP is a flurry of electronic disco tunes, built on funky and jazzy rhythms with elegant synth production.  As you start off, Surrender! gives you just a tiny taste of the EP with the epic 54 second “Ab [...]

What the fuck happened to UK Garage like this? Where has the funk gone? Why is it so hard for me to get down to these crunchiest of grooves in a warehouse downtown? There are a few reasons – each of which this most recent update of the UK Garage Classics series can help fix. First off, we here at [...]