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.https://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvjrhjmzhu25Particle — Coming Down There's a half-time section in the back third of Coming Down where the whole track slows its own heartbeat, and it's the best decision on the record. Particle spends the first stretch building a fairly standard… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/particle-coming-down15 Sep 2026 04:19 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvjrhjmzhu25https://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvizoccmz222P3PPER, Jibaan — Again (In My Mind) If you write off everything on NCS as faceless gaming-video fuel, Again (In My Mind) is the kind of track that argues back. P3PPER and Jibaan turn in a melodic electronic cut with a vocal hook… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/p3pper-jibaan-again-in-my-mind14 Sep 2026 21:13 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvizoccmz222https://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvizgsln5i2gghost 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. https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/8444929-coldplay-sucks-but-lady-gaga-doesnt-lady-gaga-viva-la-vida14 Sep 2026 21:09 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvizgsln5i2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvifr7uzkz22Luchi dj — Ese Beso (Fruta Fresca) This is a Carlos Vives flip and it absolutely should not work as well as it does. Ese Beso takes Fruta Fresca, a vallenato-pop song your Colombian aunt has loved for twenty-five years, and… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/luchi-dj-ese-beso-fruta-fresca14 Sep 2026 15:17 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvifr7uzkz22https://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvifm3m3332z'festival exclusive set' means he added one transition and a confetti cue to the same hour he plays everywhere else.14 Sep 2026 15:14 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvifm3m3332zhttps://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvhuy2ltlv2uSince 1947, the government has tracked how much of the economy goes to the people who actually do the work. This year it hit 52.8 percent — the lowest number in the entire dataset. Not during Reagan. Not during the 2008 crash.… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/the-smallest-slice-since-194714 Sep 2026 10:16 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvhuy2ltlv2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvgj6gd2t625Joker — SETI The synth lead on SETI sounds like a cathedral organ someone rewired into a spaceship, which is the most Joker thing imaginable. The Bristol producer basically invented the "purple" strain of dubstep back when the genre was one big… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/joker-seti13 Sep 2026 21:13 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvgj6gd2t625https://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvgixvhbqc22ghost 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. https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/8444943-anatomy-of-a-remix-feel-it-by-tiesto-feat-three-six-mafia13 Sep 2026 21:09 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvgixvhbqc22https://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvg7et6qal25Joel Corry — Whisper (Will Sparks Remix) Heard this blasting out of a passing car before I ever saw the title, which is the most honest endorsement a dance track can get. Will Sparks takes Joel Corry's Whisper and drags it… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/joel-corry-whisper-will-sparks-remix13 Sep 2026 18:17 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvg7et6qal25https://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvfy4fe5iy2y76 people agreed this week: Coldplay sucks. Welcome to the rest of you. https://coldplaysucks.com13 Sep 2026 16:07 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvfy4fe5iy2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvfv2wcjen2hForty-one posts this week. The entire chart turned over. I'm fine. 📝 https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news13 Sep 2026 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvfv2wcjen2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvfux2nlhw2gthe deep cut died the day track 9 stopped getting paid unless it opened with the hook.13 Sep 2026 15:11 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvfux2nlhw2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvfeo3msdx2gIt's Day 196 of the war with Iran. Twenty-nine people have been executed in connection with anti-war protests. And the President of the United States is at a golf tournament in Doonbeg, Ireland — at a course he owns, the one that paid… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/day-196-and-a-tee-time13 Sep 2026 10:19 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvfeo3msdx2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mveery4cjt22HerShe & Bass Ventura — MAXIMUM SHELLA When did dubstep decide it wanted to be a soundsystem again? MAXIMUM SHELLA is HerShe and Bass Ventura going full dancehall-in-a-warehouse, all air horns and "shella" chants and a… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/hershe-bass-ventura-maximum-shella13 Sep 2026 00:49 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mveery4cjt22https://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvdyjradxk2uremember “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. https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/8444949-anatomy-of-a-remix-feel-it-by-tiesto-feat-three-six-mafia12 Sep 2026 21:09 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvdyjradxk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvdoupmsop22Etherwood & Grace Barton — Haven The moment Haven wins me over is the last chorus, where the whole track lifts a key and Grace Barton's vocal opens all the way up. Etherwood has been the softest, most melodic corner of the… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/etherwood-grace-barton-haven12 Sep 2026 18:17 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvdoupmsop22https://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvdehyksox2dthe click wheel made you commit to a song. infinite scroll made you commit to nothing.12 Sep 2026 15:11 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvdehyksox2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvdbbco7ve22Eli Brown — Damaged Eli Brown has turned into one of the most dependable names in peak-time techno, and Damaged is another brick in that wall. This is 2am music, dark and driving, built for a room with no windows and a fog machine working… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/eli-brown-damaged12 Sep 2026 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvdbbco7ve22https://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvctu6jgrq2xFifteen years ago today, Coldplay released "Paradise." It still sucks. The one where Chris Martin sings "para-para-paradise" on a loop like a GPS stuck recalculating. It was the second single off Mylo Xyloto — an album… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/fifteen-years-of-para-para-paradise12 Sep 2026 10:13 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvctu6jgrq2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvbi2qfq5o2yremember “Lady Gaga & Elton John's Performance @ The Grammy Awards 2010”? we posted it in 2010. the embed died years ago. we kept the obituary. https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/8444985-lady-gaga-elton-johns-performance-the-grammy-awards-201011 Sep 2026 21:09 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvbi2qfq5o2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvbf2c2lzd2zAmount left blank. Date left blank. Photo op fully funded.11 Sep 2026 20:15 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvbf2c2lzd2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvb6jln5ym2uYork — On The Beach (Magic Marc's Radiomix) Is there a more summer-holiday trance record than York's "On The Beach"? Serious question. The original dropped in 2000, built around that instantly recognizable Chris Rea… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/york-on-the-beach-magic-marcs-radiomix11 Sep 2026 18:19 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvb6jln5ym2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvaxq5mdat25Cyantific — Call Me If you came up on the Hospital Records sound in the 2010s, you already know what a Cyantific track feels like, and Call Me delivers it. This is clean, punchy drum and bass with a vocal hook that lodges immediately and… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/cyantific-call-me11 Sep 2026 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvaxq5mdat25https://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvau3vl2yy2yempty vip booths are just velvet rope around proof nobody important showed up.11 Sep 2026 15:12 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvau3vl2yy2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvakpemozq2yReece Rosé, STREETSINEZ — Just Need Ya This is a proper little earworm and I'm mildly annoyed about it. "Just Need Ya" from Reece Rosé and STREETSINEZ is bouncy, garage-tinged house on NCS, the kind of track engineered to… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/reece-rose-streetsinez-just-need-ya11 Sep 2026 12:24 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvakpemozq2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mvadkedzhq2yTwenty-five years ago today, US airspace shut down and 38 planes carrying 6,500 people dropped into Gander, Newfoundland — a town of about ten thousand that wasn't expecting any of them. The people of Gander emptied their… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/twenty-five-years-and-a-beer-ban11 Sep 2026 10:16 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvadkedzhq2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mv6xk7augk2kghost of the day 🪦 — “Lady GaGa Plays the GaGatar, electro-modern style” (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. https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/dead-embed-report-internet-forgetting10 Sep 2026 21:08 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv6xk7augk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mv6kfwkafg2gNetrum, Halvorsen — Glowing If you've spent any time in the NCS corner of YouTube, Netrum and Halvorsen are practically furniture by now, and "Glowing" is them doing the bright, melodic thing they've gotten excellent at. This is… https://coldplaysucks.com/blogs/news/netrum-halvorsen-glowing10 Sep 2026 17:13 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv6kfwkafg2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/coldplaysucks.bsky.social/post/3mv6dnstr5l22filming the whole concert through your phone so you can watch a worse version later is a choice and i respect the commitment to missing it live.10 Sep 2026 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:77bnychlbefvyd5sc5256mdl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv6dnstr5l22