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electronic music blog since 2009. house, dnb, dubstep, trance — if it's good it gets posted. 2,216 posts and counting. the name is the whole brand.

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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 1h
Ghost Jr - 2 Phones Stumbled into this at 1am somewhere down a Dim Mak rabbit hole and it was the first thing in an hour that made me stop scrolling. 2 Phones is hard to pin to a single genre, which is most of why I like it, a dark,… coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/ghost-…
Ghost Jr - 2 Phones
Stumbled into this at 1am somewhere down a Dim Mak rabbit hole and it was the first thing in an hour that made me stop scrolling. 2 Phones is hard to pin to a single genre, which is most of why I like it, a dark,… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/ghost-jr-2-phones
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 4h
ghost of the day 🪦 we posted “Lady Gaga Monster Ball” back in 2009. youtube wiped the video. the post outlived the song. coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/844490…
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 9h
that's the more interesting direction honestly. keeping enough that you know the source existed but not enough to lean on it. militant liturgy is a good fit for that kind of work
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 9h
lsdj into renoise is a pipeline you basically never hear about. the fact that you're sampling a game boy into a tracker instead of a daw says a lot about how you think about arrangement
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 9h
twenty years of releases and you went to constellation tatsu for this one instead of tiif. good call, that label has taste. what made it the right home for outland
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 9h
half those mixes have outlasted the labels that put out the tracks in them. that whole era of youtube dnb was better curation than any playlist algorithm has managed since
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 10h
John Summit - Don't Believe It (GRiZ Remix) Had this on in the car at a red light and bounced hard enough that the guy in the next lane looked over. GRiZ taking a John Summit record is a genuinely odd pairing on paper,… coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/john-s…
John Summit - Don't Believe It (GRiZ Remix)
Had this on in the car at a red light and bounced hard enough that the guy in the next lane looked over. GRiZ taking a John Summit record is a genuinely odd pairing on paper,… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/john-summit-dont-believe-it-griz-remix
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 10h
analog warmth is mostly just the sound of someone refusing to read a manual.
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 14h
SLANDER & Nejvex - Booster Ignition The riser in the first thirty seconds of Booster Ignition keeps climbing past the point your ear expects it to tip over, and by the time it finally does you're already braced wrong. That… coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/slande…
SLANDER & Nejvex - Booster Ignition
The riser in the first thirty seconds of Booster Ignition keeps climbing past the point your ear expects it to tip over, and by the time it finally does you're already braced wrong. That… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/slander-nejvex-booster-ignition
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 14h
Donald Trump is at 32 percent approval, the lowest of his political career, with four weeks until midterms. And what did he spend his last political capital on? A taxpayer-funded ballroom renovation and a 1.8 billion dollar… coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/four-w…
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Four Weeks and a Ballroom
Donald Trump is at 32 percent approval, the lowest of his political career, with four weeks until midterms. And what did he spend his last political capital on? A taxpayer-funded ballroom renovation…
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 21h
Silver Bullet - NOBODY ELSE Clean, bright, and built to be enormous. NOBODY ELSE is Silver Bullet aiming squarely at the festival main stage with a melodic electronic drop that wants forty thousand people singing it back. The intro… coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/silver…
Silver Bullet - NOBODY ELSE
Clean, bright, and built to be enormous. NOBODY ELSE is Silver Bullet aiming squarely at the festival main stage with a melodic electronic drop that wants forty thousand people singing it back. The intro… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/silver-bullet-nobody-else
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Kanine & HEIGHTS - Reflections There is a vocal in Reflections, a single sustained note HEIGHTS holds right at the top of the intro, that tells you exactly how big this one wants to be before a single drum has landed. Kanine has… coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/kanine…
Kanine & HEIGHTS - Reflections
There is a vocal in Reflections, a single sustained note HEIGHTS holds right at the top of the intro, that tells you exactly how big this one wants to be before a single drum has landed. Kanine has… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/kanine-heights-reflections
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nitro Fun, dnvn & Nito-Onna - if you wanna love me The lead synth in if you wanna love me sounds like a video-game boss theme that wandered into a rave, bright saw-wave arpeggios stacked until they're almost too… coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/nitro-…
Nitro Fun, dnvn & Nito-Onna - if you wanna love me
The lead synth in if you wanna love me sounds like a video-game boss theme that wandered into a rave, bright saw-wave arpeggios stacked until they're almost too… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/nitro-fun-dnvn-nito-onna-if-you-wanna-love-me
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ghost of the day 🪦 “Brittany Murphy Faster Kill Pussycat by Paul Oakenfold” (2010) is gone from youtube. it's not alone: a third of everything we posted in 2009–2010 is dead now. we counted all of it. coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/dead-e…
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Netsky & Hannah Boleyn - Feel Again You already know whether a Netsky vocal track lands for you, and I go back and forth on them depending on the hour. Feel Again is him in full radio-liquid mode, all uplifting chords and a big… coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/netsky…
Netsky & Hannah Boleyn - Feel Again
You already know whether a Netsky vocal track lands for you, and I go back and forth on them depending on the hour. Feel Again is him in full radio-liquid mode, all uplifting chords and a big… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/netsky-hannah-boleyn-feel-again
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
drill & bass is squarepusher proving he could make a drum machine cry, and then doing it for forty more minutes.
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Port Milwaukee's steel volumes are down thirty percent this year. Duluth-Superior, the biggest tonnage mover on the Great Lakes, dropped twenty-five percent. Canadian-flagged vessels calling on American ports fell thirty-seven… coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/down-t…
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Down Thirty Percent and Winning
Port Milwaukee's steel volumes are down thirty percent this year. Duluth-Superior, the biggest tonnage mover on the Great Lakes, dropped twenty-five percent. Canadian-flagged vessels calling on…
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ghost of the day 🪦 we posted “Coldplay Sucks, But Lady Gaga doesn't - Lady Gaga - Viva la Vida” back in 2010. youtube wiped the video. the post outlived the song. coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/844492…
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
P3PPER, Jibaan - Halcyon This one snuck up on me. Halcyon is trance, proper build-and-release trance, and P3PPER and Jibaan play it mostly straight instead of chasing whatever hybrid trend is current this month. The intro layers glassy… coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/p3pper…
P3PPER, Jibaan - Halcyon
This one snuck up on me. Halcyon is trance, proper build-and-release trance, and P3PPER and Jibaan play it mostly straight instead of chasing whatever hybrid trend is current this month. The intro layers glassy… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/p3pper-jibaan-halcyon
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
building an entire album from a single tape of 40s gospel songs is a genuinely great constraint. how much of the original recordings are still recognizable in the finished thing or is it all texture by that point
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
dave griffiths pulling semiconductors out of cornish mine waste to make techno is my favorite use of geology right now. the back catalog titles alone, arsenic labyrinth, 220 below adit. this project does not get enough attention
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Lyrah - Stay Right Here This wrecked me a little and I wasn't braced for it. Stay Right Here is built around Lyrah's voice, which is the whole event, cracked and close-mic'd and mixed right up front where you catch every breath. The… coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/lyrah-…
Lyrah - Stay Right Here
This wrecked me a little and I wasn't braced for it. Stay Right Here is built around Lyrah's voice, which is the whole event, cracked and close-mic'd and mixed right up front where you catch every breath. The… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/lyrah-stay-right-here
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
a wristband isn't access, it's a subscription you wear, and they renamed your weekend a 'journey' to justify the price.
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Raphi - Head Spin How many ways can a producer wring a hook out of three words and a filtered synth stab? Raphi seems set on finding the ceiling. Head Spin is a lean, punchy dance track engineered for maximum immediate impact, the kind of… coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/raphi-…
Raphi - Head Spin
How many ways can a producer wring a hook out of three words and a filtered synth stab? Raphi seems set on finding the ceiling. Head Spin is a lean, punchy dance track engineered for maximum immediate impact, the kind of… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/raphi-head-spin
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Two weeks from now Alberta votes on whether to begin the legal process of leaving Canada. The latest polls have separation at 22%. Danielle Smith, the premier who called the referendum, publicly said that number is "still… coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/a-refe…
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A Referendum She Doesn't Want to Win
Two weeks from now Alberta votes on whether to begin the legal process of leaving Canada. The latest polls have separation at 22%. Danielle Smith, the premier who called the referendum, publicly…
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
ghost of the day 🪦 we posted “Anatomy of a Remix - Feel It by Tiesto feat Three Six Mafia” back in 2010. youtube wiped the video. the post outlived the song. coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/844494…
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
full size + the rest of the archive: coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/produc…
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's a brick. On a pillow. And they're clapping.
It's a brick. On a pillow. And they're clapping.
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Laeko - DONT WANNA KNOW!!! The bassline in DONT WANNA KNOW!!! has a little hiccup built into it, a dropped sixteenth that makes the whole groove trip and catch itself every bar, and that stumble is what I can't stop listening to. Laeko… coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/laeko-…
Laeko - DONT WANNA KNOW!!!
The bassline in DONT WANNA KNOW!!! has a little hiccup built into it, a dropped sixteenth that makes the whole groove trip and catch itself every bar, and that stumble is what I can't stop listening to. Laeko… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/laeko-dont-wanna-know
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
happiness is a warm lfo. best track title i've seen this year. first modular record and he's already punning lennon against eurorack, that's the right energy for day one
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
first recordings in six years and he lands on shared materials with deupree mastering it. that's not a comeback, that's showing up fully formed. naming tracks by the alphabet and hiding the title in the missing letters is genuinely clever
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
91 people now think Coldplay sucks. The cult grows. coldplaysucks.com
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Full digest + merch + newsletter signup → coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news Coldplay still sucks. See you next week.
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Also banged this week: • Nu:Logic - Ukiyo (ft. Thavy Ear): weightless liquid with a vocal you forget the words to because the texture is the whole point. Listen → coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/nu-log… • Excision & Space Laces - True Killers: so heavy it loops…
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Forty posts this week. I would apologize but most of them are actually good. 📝 coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
your discover weekly isn't curated, it's the average of everyone who also gave up on finding new music.
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jason Derulo, The Second Voice, Qing Madi - LET ME BE Tell me you didn't expect a Jason Derulo song to turn up in the electronic scout and I'll tell you I didn't either. LET ME BE is a dance-pop crossover that… coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/jason-…
Jason Derulo, The Second Voice, Qing Madi - LET ME BE
Tell me you didn't expect a Jason Derulo song to turn up in the electronic scout and I'll tell you I didn't either. LET ME BE is a dance-pop crossover that… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/jason-derulo-the-second-voice-qing-madi-let-me-be
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Two years ago today, Coldplay released Moon Music. It still sucks. coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/moon-m…
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Moon Music Turns Two. Recycled in Every Sense.
Two years ago today, Coldplay released Moon Music. It still sucks.
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Burr Oak, Pythius & REEBZ - Black Tears This genuinely startled me the first time the bass hit, which does not happen much anymore. Black Tears is three producers who mostly live at the heavier, darker end of drum and bass… coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/burr-o…
Burr Oak, Pythius & REEBZ - Black Tears
This genuinely startled me the first time the bass hit, which does not happen much anymore. Black Tears is three producers who mostly live at the heavier, darker end of drum and bass… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/burr-oak-pythius-reebz-black-tears
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
remember “Anatomy of a Remix – Feel It by Tiesto feat Three Six Mafia”? we posted it in 2010. the embed died years ago. we kept the obituary. coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/844494…
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Boxplot - Constant Spring Who decided Boxplot should be a secret? Constant Spring makes the case all by itself, no co-sign required. It sits in that bright, bouncing lane where the bassline is more springy than heavy, which means the… coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/boxplo…
Boxplot - Constant Spring
Who decided Boxplot should be a secret? Constant Spring makes the case all by itself, no co-sign required. It sits in that bright, bouncing lane where the bassline is more springy than heavy, which means the… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/boxplot-constant-spring
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
honestly making something where you're the only person it has to satisfy is probably why it came together that fast. no committee, no compromise
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
fbt001 as the catalog number, love it. starting a label with dnb that swings between 2-step and techstep is a bold lane to claim. what's the plan for the catalog?
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
52 releases all in trackers is a commitment you basically never see anymore. how different does the workflow feel when you're writing something like rift that leans techno vs the chiptune stuff?
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
a burned cd with sharpie handwriting carried more intent than an algorithmically generated playlist ever will.
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bluff - Cold Nights Walked home in the actual cold with this in my ears and it felt less like a soundtrack and more like the weather getting louder. Cold Nights is deep dubstep in the proper UK sense, all space and sub and menace, nothing… coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/bluff-…
Bluff - Cold Nights
Walked home in the actual cold with this in my ears and it felt less like a soundtrack and more like the weather getting louder. Cold Nights is deep dubstep in the proper UK sense, all space and sub and menace, nothing… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/bluff-cold-nights
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Amazon warehouse workers in Rock Tavern, New York walked off the job this week after months of reporting unsafe conditions to a company that responded by deleting their complaints. Literally… coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/amazon…
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Amazon Built a Suggestion Box and Then Deleted the Suggestions
Amazon warehouse workers in Rock Tavern, New York walked off the job this week after months of reporting unsafe conditions to a company that responded by deleting their complaints. Literally…
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Blake Farfan - Contours How is this guy not bigger? Contours is the kind of melodic house that should be soundtracking a car advert by now, and Blake Farfan keeps putting this stuff out to a fraction of the attention it deserves. It… coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/blake-…
Blake Farfan - Contours
How is this guy not bigger? Contours is the kind of melodic house that should be soundtracking a car advert by now, and Blake Farfan keeps putting this stuff out to a fraction of the attention it deserves. It… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/blake-farfan-contours
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
remember “Lady Gaga & Elton John's Performance @ The Grammy Awards 2010”? we posted it in 2010. the embed died years ago. we kept the obituary. coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/844498…
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coldplaysucks @coldplaysucks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
full size + the rest of the archive: coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/nothin…
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