2025 Q1 new EDM!!


January 1 - March 31 NEW EDM: Knock2, NOTD, Juelz

Singles

🗑 TRASH 🗑

January

🗑 1/24 = Geoxor - neptune

February


March

MID

January


February


March

GREAT

Featuring: new [added!] = [!] tag indicating if I've added the track to my rotation. Only available in the GREAT category.
 
January

1/2 = LUCØ - Friends [!]
1/3 = G3 GELO - Tweaker [!]
1/8 = Rusko - Rubix Cube [!]
1/16 = Rameses B - Asteroid II [!]
1/17 = Two Friends, HRVY, Deerock, Vaance - All For me (feat. HRVY) - Deerock x Vaance Remix [!]

February


March

3/21 = DVRKCLOUD - wake up [!]

🔥 FIRE 🔥 

January


February


March



Albums/EPs

1/5 = Bad Bunny - DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
- Bad Bunny enters 2025 with his 7th studio album, revisiting his Puerto-Rican roots and straying away from all those commercial reggaeton medleys. There's many authentic instrumentation and salsa sections mixed in with what he's classically known for, and there are many really unique transitions and synth constructions that overall make this album such a unique and refreshing listening experience. I'm a big fan of this exploration from Bad Bunny and many of these hits really do smash. If you're a salsa fan this is probably such a prideful feeling hearing it make it to these stages.
 - Standouts for me include that trance entrance and vocals on "PERFuMITO NUEVO" and its so good that I genuinely get mad when Bad Bunny takes the mic. Also the beat switch on "EoO", that rly catchy nostalgic groove on "WELTiTA", and I love the chemistry between that synthwork and vocals on "KLOuFRENS"
Rating = 8.5/10
Favorite Tracks = "PERFuMITO NUEVO", "WELTiTA", "EoO", "KLOuFRENS"

1/10 = Alan Walker - Walkerworld 2.0
 - Alan Walker has opened up the year with his Walkerworld 2.0 which I'm not embeeded in the walker fandom or wahtever so idk exactly too much about the lore but anyway lets take a look at these tracks
 - For the most part, these tracks are what you expect from modern Alan Walker: moderate-paced filler verses with mid repetitive choruses and it just has that Alan Walker tint to it with the synth design and melodic progression like you just know if you know. However, there are some songs that kinda did catch my attention. For one was single "Thick Of It All" teaming up with Joe Jonas and Julia Michaels, released on Monstercat instinct for a track I've thoroughly enjoyed. A lot of people in the EDM community hate this song and say it's so plain and empty but I actually love hte progression and the main hook and the Julia Michaels on the 2nd verse to a surprising degree. That track was like one of my top 20 or top 30 tracks of 2024 💀
 - "Children Of The Sun" also has a unique and cultural-infused breakdown that feels like a disney movie intro lmao but its a very pleasant listen. "Old Habits" also has a really unique production design and progression to make another pleasant listen admist the rest of the commercial junk in this album. You can definitely hear all the ghost producers and whatever pipeliens these tracks go through just absolutely saturating the quality of these tracks, but there are some fine pieces in this album for my expectations.
Rating = 6/10
Favorite Tracks = "Thick Of It All", "Old Habits", "Children Of The Sun", "Avalon"


1/17 = Knock2 - nolimit
 - Knock2 just months after teaming up with ISOxo for their 4EVR LP that reached great commercial success has dropped in January 2025, culminating 3 viral singles into a 17-track album. One of the most dominant figures of the EDM scene has emerged yet again and it would be disrespectful to call this a breakout album, it's Knock2's new modern bass-house domination.
 - This album is quite insane, featuring many bass-house heavy tracks but there's also skrillex brostep tributes, vomit-step, techno, glitch-hop, and melodic-bass thrown in the mix. Let's start with my top 3 tracks of the album which are almost conveniently the 3 singles (although I do rank "My Melody" above "come aliv3"). These 3 singles are just levels and tiers above the rest. I've dissected the sensational progressions of "feel U luv Me" and "hold my hand" in my top 10 tracks [2024], but "come aliv3" has one of the most hard-hitting build-ups and drops ever. Just the grand organs and tension into all those mini fakeouts and the drum construction make for such a sensational bass-house drop like that linear melody is so good this is a drop that will never get old and hits every time it's honestly sensational. And then they pass the baton back and forth to the legato sections to pace this track even further and overall this track literally puts all the spotlight on the tension of that first drop like it's such an amazing construction how everything is just centered around that 1st drop and then that 2nd drum-step like drop with those synth lasers are so great I love that 2nd drop it adds so much grittiness that contrasts with the linearness of that 1st drop. This track "come aliv3" is so unique innovative like it really lives up to this "nolimit music"
 - Then regarding the non-singles, we have that insane 3-track run of tracks 3-5 with "shake!the!city!" and "fw me (dirty) and "dance or dead" like all of these tracks have female vocalists that add so much to these unique drops. This 3 track run is just so unique with all the genres and b-sections its just so much work going on in these 3 tracks. Then right after that 3-track run comes these 2 skrillex-inspired tracks of "party! (dance alone)" and "select@" and I love that midsection in "party! (dance alone)" it's so catchy. You notice Knock2 takes a lot of these midsection breakdowns, he does it also in "dance or dead" and "fw me (dirty)" and "fast n slow". Then there's just so much else worth mentioning but I have to shoutout that insane techno construciton in "shyne 4 me (feat. PIAO)" that I respect it's a solid track. And also that drop and those synth runs in "lights down low" man that track is also so solid bro it's so hard ranking all these songs that I hvae to do in my 'Favorite Tracks' later because theres so many hits. 
 - But my top track out of the non-singles is actually "my melody" which jumped up suddenly like in March or something like it just suddenly clicked and I started loving this song and replaying it constantly. Just those vocal chops are so beautiful it's such a smooth and beautiful track bro and I love how the vocal chops just elevate in that 2nd chorus I'll never get over it. And that really segways me into talking about just how exploratory Knock2 took this album. I expected something relatively similar to the ISOxo collab LP 4ever of just straight festival hits and loud constructive bass house. But Knock2 takes his signature sound and his tendencies and puts them into these brand new soundscapes and it's just so refreshing like hearing these progressions and legato B-sections and those masterful countermelody constructions on d&b and glitchhop and brostep and just less heavy tracks. All over this album are just scatters of these Knock2 themes but in different takes and genres and this is truly what makes an album so sonically cohesive in nolimit
 - Now overall, the general EDM community hasn't revisited nolimit as much as me but theres just so many solid tracks in here that I never thought I would hear from Knock2. I'm a huge fan of this direction Knock2 took among so many of these tracks. I do think there could be improvement in the songwriting and storytelling or just some ideas feel incomplete in some tracks like "fast n slow" or "day1s". Knock2 has built his career and discography around these tracks that go all in on these 'GO CRAZY' or 'CRANK THE BASS" just basically go crazy notions with these flashy drops and vocal hooks. But Knock2 has shown especially with "hold my hand" that he's capable of making moving, softer progressions that utilize synthesizers less egregiously and instead more melodically in synth stacks or in synth runs or counter melodies. I really hope we see more of this side of Knock2 in his evolution as an artist and producer moving forward.
Rating = 9/10
Favorite Tracks = "feel U luv Me", "hold my hand", "my. melody", "come aliv3", "dance or dead", "shake!the!city!", "select@", "lights down low", "fw me (dirty)", "crank the bass, play the muzik", "party! (dance alone)", "shyne 4 me (feat. PIAO)", "day1s", "ready 2"

1/17 = Neddie - neddie:online
 - A really active almost feeling like a breakthrough album for Neddie here, who is a rather underground artist with not many listeners. There's some really neat electrohouse constructions similar to Geoxor, and overall a great album with a lot of vocals in the tracks. I do think that some of the progressions still haven't reached the next level of cohesiveness like the storytelling aspect and thematic aspect of the tracks just kinda seem all over the place, there's only good notions here and there. I do think that "the motions" is my favorite from this LP, the instrumentation and vocal theme along with that synth run + tension-building bridge is very solid, definitely enjoyed that track. Also that 2nd drop breakdown on "i wish, haha" is pretty nasty I love the glitch hop and timings. Aside from those though there are so many just lackluster tracks like I mentioned with a rather repetitive progression, like "talk too much" and "2 short 4 the lies"
Rating = 6/10
Favorite Tracks = "the motions", "i wish, haha", "where have you been?"
1/29 = phritz, tai hirose - a visit to wintry Shiribetsu EP
 - A calm little instrumental EP from phritz and tai hirose here. Nothing much else to say then it I love the strings arrangement and I added some of these tracks to my instrumental playlist
Rating = 7/10
Favorite Tracks = "snowbed"

1/29 = Jamie xx - In Waves (Deluxe)
 - This deluxe version of 2024 breakout album In Waves gathers 5 new bouncy groovy house tracks to the collection, and this is some great music that other ppl would thoroughly enjoy or would hit hard doing some work for me. Nonetheless I respect this music just not very applicable to my listening habits and tendencies. They're all just too repetitive, I remember I really enjoyed "Baddie on the Floor" because of the bright progression but anyway the vocal chops on "LET'S DO IT AGAIN" are pretty nice
Rating = 7/10
Favorite Tracks = "LET'S DO IT AGAIN"

1/31 = Hoang - Heartstrings
 - All these songs sound the same theyre literally all copy and paste, he wasted so many great vocalists and songwriters and couldnt even put some thought into these drops and outros like wow this entire album all sounds the same. There's no character there's no separate identities track to track theres no progression whatsoever there's no exploration, everything is so plain and safe. This is like Sabai tracks but on crack.
 - I do like the niko rain collab on "Hurts Me Too" because the vocal chop drop is ok and i like niko rain's voice otherwise this song is very lackluster too. 
Rating = 4/10
Favorite Tracks = "Hurts Me Too"

1/31 = WHIPPED CREAM - Careline EP
 - And here we have WHIPPED CREAM who I know of as a pretty popular monstercat techno DJ and she comes out with Careline EP
 - There was some promise with that opening soundscape and atmosphere of the intro track "Intro Call" as it's so smooth and the vocal processing is so great. It even got me in a good mood like bring it on im ready for this EP and then the rest is just some techno. It's really hard to capture me with some techno especially when this techno design sounds like youre taking drugs or in a club getting dizzy and spinning around and dying type imagery lmao. There's some respectable progressions like "Techno Is My Only Love" i like the synth constructions there's those like 80s type synths with the arpegios.
Rating = 5/10
Favorite Track = "Intro Call", "Techno Is My Only Love"

2/6 = Just A Gent - [ARCHIV3D]
 - Just A Gent has arrived with a really unique sound design, incorporating a lot of trance and electro house elements to create a really characteristic style and cohesion in this album. There's also a really distinct focus in the production, even when there are vocals as the mixing is just unique and honestly im tired rn i cant really focus so i cant give a detailed review imma just be real but anyway it reminds me of old school Grant but less polished and more spontaneous. 
 - Standouts include "The Last Time" and "Vibrations". I also wanna mention "Frequency" because it has such a random progression thats very interesting.
Rating = 6/10
Favorite Tracks = "Vibrations", "The Last Time"

2/14 = Trivecta - Find My Way (Deluxe)
 - Following a really big record of Find My Way in 2024, Trivecta officially wraps up this era in his discography, scrapping together a collection of remixes, an acoustic, and 2 bonus tracks. Of all of them is worth mentioning the 2 bonus tracks, "Someone You Forget" which is arguably the best track of the entire album with a sensational progression that embodies this whole recent Trivecta soundscape. "From You To Me" is also a production masterpiece, really solid track, but altogether this deluxe verison only serves as some bonus tracks for the fans and don't add too much, not that deluxe versions are supposed to hvae any higher expectations
Rating = 6/10
Favorite Tracks = "Someone You Forget", From You To Me"

2/27 = Luci - The Lore of the Fae EP
 - I was introduced to Luci just this year when she collabed with JVNA for lead-single "Right Person Wrong Time" which is a really solid track. I'm not sure how to describe the style of this album, there's a mix of that standard melodic bass & vocal chops but there's many rock & electric guitar elements along with grittier tear-out drops. A lot of the tracks/drops like "I Won't Miss You Forever" remind me of Sabai with the vocal progression and the more bland vocal chop drops. 
 - Overall the deeper cuts of the album are relatively bland with nothing standing out. But in the future Luci will be on my radar as I see the potential through those 2 singles in the rock-backed verse and drop in "Comfortable" creating some really nice movements and "Right Person Wrong Time" is a really versatile track with a great drop and back and forth vocals from JVNA. Those 2 tracks have been in my rotation for a while.
Rating = 6.5/10
Favorite Tracks = "Right Person Wrong Time", "Comfortable"

2/28 = Rusko - 1 MAN ARMY EP
 - This is a really neat d&b EP from Rusko with some great art direction too and I feel like the whole album aesthetic was marketed very well. This 5-track EP contains some fast-paced, bright, active, blocky-progression d&b with some nice samplings and vocal chops and leads and drumwork. There are those dark gritty bass lines (especially in "Wassup") reminiscent of Delta Heavy but there's certainly this very bright undertone with the instrumentation and just how linear the progression is from section to section and the pace plays into it too. I really like this EP holistically and cohesively, some really great tracks, especially the lead single "Rubix Cube" which I'm very satisfied with and definitely gives speedcubing the respect it deserves haha that track will always be my go-to for posting cubing on my story or something
Rating = 7.5/10
Favorite Tracks = "Rubix Cube", "Wassup", "GANJAMAN"
   
3/4 = Minecraft, Hyper Potions - Minecraft: Triple Bundle
 - Really excited to see Hyper Potions collab with yet another video game and it's minecraft for this triple bundle promotion or whatever it is, idrc i am just invested in the music. We have 3 tracks here.
 - So these 3 tracks have some nice in-game thematic tunes, where "Memories of Dalarna" has a nice lead with a nice drum pattern and some neat vocal chop sections, but nothing particularly to blow me away. There are some small dissonant moments spiced in there too which is interesting. "Legends from the Otherside" is also a serviceable tune with lots of 8-bit sounds and production, and so is "Arch-Illager's Pigstep" being serviceable with a more drum&bass, drumstep approach. Just still very commercial in-game music with nothing too flashy that stands out.
Favorite Tracks = "Memories of Dalarna"
Rating = 5/10

3/7 = niko rain - Fatebound EP
 - We have a neat little EP from niko rain who I've been spam streaming a lot this year just catching up on all his releases cuz I love his style so much. This EP doesn't offer much besides a new track "Bye Bye" and some 'bonus-track' type additions with an interlude and a fatebound version of "leaving"
 - Nonetheless, I'll never complain for some new niko rain and EJEAN collabs and "Bye Bye" is no short of a low effort tune as it's really catchy. The interlude is nice and soothing and leads into "Leaving" which is one of my favorite tracks of his discography I just love the instrumentation and all those whooshes that transport you to this fairytale and the vocals are processed so smoothly so that everything just comes together bro like man this track "Leaving" is so great. Then the 'fatebound ver.' makes it feel like more a tiktok edit and it still hits, it's a nice addition that I might listen to once in a while. This 'fatebound' era with EJEAN is so golden bro I hope they never stop collabing. 
Rating = 7.5/10
Favorite Tracks = "Leaving", "Fatebound", "Bye Bye"

3/12 = Cloudcage - Under An Orange Sky EP
 - A very atmospheric instrumental filled EP as expected from Cloudcage here, and there's some really nice chords and pacing throughout this EP. My main takeaway is "Mess" as the lyricism and vocals add a pretty memorable flavor to this EP. The rest of the EP is just so soothing.
Rating = 7/10
Favorite Tracks = "Mess"

3/14 = NOTD - Digital Notes EP
 - After a long stretch of singles and collaborations NOTD has begun and ended their Digital Notes era featuring 3 singles and 3 non-singles for this 6-track EP. This is some really good work. It's some minimalist production drawn from really catchy vocals. There's a lot of emptiness in this album and a lot of focus on the vocals and a lot of tingly/bouncy synths. 
 - NOTD makes some really great electropop but taking this direction for this kind of micro-inspired productions is so satisfying and I love every single one of these tracks it's some really beautiful work. Really enjoyed this EP from NOTD it's just so catchy like idk how NOTD does it. These vocal progressions are so catchy man I'm tempted to give this a 9/10 just because of the minimilism but there's not any really "sensational tracks" to put it on the same tier as those 9/10 albums like nolimit or SMILE! :D
Rating = 8.5/10
Favorite Tracks = "Crash", "Another Life", "Lover Online", "I Just Missed A Call", "WIFI"

3/23 = Snail's House - Alien Pop V EP
 - Snail's House is here with another EP which is great to see except idk how but Snail's House always has just straight mid EPs. I had the same experience with last year's PIXELIZE II EP where it's some nice melody constructions but the progression and storytelling of the track is missing. It has great ear candy and effects and fills but its missing a core progression and these tracks just aren't memorable. You listen to the track and its just over. I will say some of Snail's House recent singles and remixes have been up to his standards, just these EPs arent it.
Rating = 4/10
Favorite Tracks = "Kimino Satellite"

3/27 = Doctor P, Flux Pavilion - Doctor P & Flux Pavilion
 - Doctor P & Flux Pavlion team up to create Doctor P & Flux Pavlilion and the outcome is exactly the kind of standard gritty dubstep you'll expect. Not much melodic depth and it is quite abrasive and there's not much variation across the album. This is exactly what I expected like I said. I really wish some of these tracks had a slower midsection or just more of a progression rather than leaning so heavy on the drops. For transparency, I started skipping through this album after 2 songs because it just wasn't very fun.
Rating = 3/10
Favorite Tracks = "I Love It"

3/28 = Juelz - ANDRENOCHROME EP
 - We have a high energy trap cut from Juelz and everytime I hear music like this I think of isoxo. There's also some really captivating melodies in here and a lot of high-pitched runs that remind me of Syzy's debut album last year. So overall there are some really unique soundscapes with some really nice progressions and just countermelodies going back and forth everywhere. I'm thinkin "HACKING THE GATE" and "MOVEMENT!" with some stellar drop executions. "DOPAMINE++" also has great vocals i love how its incorporated in the verse and leads the drop. This is some of the best trap I've heard as usually it's too abrasive and directionless for me. I love some of these melodic runs and takes. 
Rating = 6/10
Favorite Tracks = "HACKING THE GATE", "DOPAMINE++", "MOVEMENT!"


Conclusion

January: 
  • Honestly a really great way to start off the year, we got some really memorable tracks already, we have a short sweet vocal-led tune in jeonghyeon's "Only Yours" where jeonghyeon lays back on his usual punchy future bounce style to create a really nice track here I really love how melodic the lead is and the synth pads are, jeonghyeon proves how versatile he is genre to genre we've seen him cook up some great variation throughout these years hes really starting solidify himself as one of my top artists.

  • Then we got LiAngelo Ball aka G3 GELO's "Tweaker" that went VIRAL everywhere and this guy literally perfromed at an NFL game because of that and it's quite self-explanatory the chorus is catchy and even innovative, i really love the mixdown on the vocals there's many layers that create this unique early 2000s rap style, many times these vocal stacks hit hardest on a vocalist with a high range but these casual sung lines on "Tweaker" do the job too, also the verse is not bad it's not filler at all and they even emphasize those stacks on the verses which is counterintuitive but it works. There's that bass layer that is really monotone you can really hear it I really like this style of mixdown, the fadeout could be more drawn out but you know I love a good fadeout too its simple yet it works. 

  • Then we got a BANGER of a duck + dubstep = Teminite, Chime -> "Duckstep"!!! I mean any Teminite + Chime collab is a banger but this one is just so creative all the duck samples, those choir fills, those melodic leads, quacks everywhere, huge 2nd drop buildup into duck microdrop?? And it all pieces together so well it's honestly really incredible, there's this like reggae influence in the first drop which works super well too. The midsection acts as such a captivating transition too, super memorable track here and it really exceeded my expectations, I love ducks too and this progression serves them JUSTICE!

  • NOTD and vocalist Oaks come with "Another Life" which is your classic NOTD electropop, lands in the "FIRE" category this time because I love the lead and drop and that's really all you need from NOTD as they execute their transitions and progressions really well and they just create great melodic electropop. That B-section with those synth entrances work really well too and add a lot to the character of this track. Could be a bit longer with a bridge though. 

  • Man Club and vocalist Luxtides' "In My Eyes" is a really surprising blend of elements there's some techno, some bass house, some electro house, and THAT 2ND VERSE and how the vocals are set up and processed are CHEFS KISS!!! That 2nd verse is so flawless I just love the production man it's like this midtempo so minimal yet so effective and the transitions are so clean, normally Man Club produces some generic melodic house dance house electropop tunes but this is a really drastic change in direction. It was that 2nd verse that really won me over it's not anything flashy yet that's why it's so great.

  • Then we got Rameses B's "Asteroid II" which is a galactical-filled narration-EDM that's mixed so cleanly. There's so many addicting synth choices and fills and the progression is great I love the synth switches it's like handing the baton from different synths and it's just honestly a really versatile liquid drum&bass track with so many space and water samples and you add in that raw piano and it just completes this track. You can honestly feel some of Rameses B's previous phonk work building into this, really great track and progression here. 
February:
  • Let's talk about Virtual Riot teaming up with SHAQ for Damage that just shows of how versatile Virtual Riot is in terms of just how he can put himself in the mode for any genre and execute some really world-class sound design and progressions. Instant staple for the rotation with that unique frog-like drop and a really solid 2nd verse that doesn't feel like filler.
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  • Next, we have RetroVision's "Feel Ur Luv" which is a blatantly obvious Knock2-inspired bass house with the sampling, hooks, and buildup constructions. The hollow lead synths even sound the same, and this being a Knock2 track makes a great track, but what makes it a standout is that B-section in the 1st drop with the stretched out instrumentation I just love the progression there it's absolutely perfect to the track. And we have a really solid hook and thats the recipe to an instant banger
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  • Now I'm writing this in July which 5 months have gone by AND THIS SONG HAS BEEN ON LOOP it's so addicting. The attention to detail with the 0:50 shift in atmosphere just toning things dow adds so much depth and cohesiveness to this track just that little transition section just shows so much musical maturity. The peak is redwater's feature it's absoltely killer and I'm so addicted to the jeremy lin reference this might be a top 10 track of 2025, the synth hook and jumpy instrumentation. Everytime I listen to this song I imagine an edit I can do with inked.beats and I just know that it's gonna happen one day and it's gonna be such a banger video once that day comes where I have time to record but anyway it's so rare to find tracks that just get better with time and this is one of them. I don't see this track leaving my rotation anytime soon at all.
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  • Complexive constructs yet another really creative glitch-hop drop with some nice vocal and melodies in the verse. The main takeways and spotlights for this song is the chorus with the vocal chops and this track wouldn't be in this category without that finale where it just leads into this epic guitar solo with some harmonics and its so short its only like 2 bars or something it feels way too short but its just so fire, this is complexives jam right here.
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  • Syzy says "MY ERA ISNT OVER JSUT YET" and releases this BANGER of a track "Industry Corporate Freak" where all the synth layerings in this bass hosue melodic dubstep track just feel so unapologetic the way it just all splatters in your face with such little gaps. The sustains and buildup is incredible and the drops are just so unique it feels so euphoric with the vocal chops, one of Syzy's best work here.

March: 
  • I JUST WANNA CATCHA VIBE YEA CATCHA VIBE this is Flight's best song EASILY by miles and you can say that the lyricism and production is all very commercial and plain but the that vocal hook along with that piano interplay had my jaw dropped the first time I listened to this track. This is an instant summer hit and it's just so catchy and there's no other way to describe it then how the title does perfectly.

  • We have this huge Ophelia records mega collab of Andrew Bayer, Blastoyz, Feed Me, Jason Ross, Kill The Noise, Last Heroes, Seven Lions, STAR SEED, Trivecta, Sarah Herz in "Pantheon II" it's like an All-star lineup of Ophelia artists and you can literally hear these segmented drops for each artist, especially those psytrance blastoyz drops along with jason ross and kill the noise more elaborate takes. Cool collab that's added to my rotation, but not of 'Fire' status.
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  • Lastly, I need to shout on this single from Habstrakt which is just full of Knock2 influence like this rly made me realize Knock2's reach and impact is starting to kick in and he really did change the game. Just the samplings and bass house design and drop buildups are just so Knock2-coded but I love the implementation and it just creates this really scrapey drop almost feels like you're revving a car engine.  I love that decay on those long notes and that synth design is so killer it reminds me of those garage band synchro nyces.

Rankings

And with that we have our first rankings of the year! 
  1. Knock2, Sophia Gripari - my melody [Jan]
  2. NEPTUN3, redwater - NONSENS3 [Feb]
  3. Trivecta, Armen Paul - Someone You Forget [Jan]
  4. Virtual Riot, DIESEL, Shaquille O'Neal - Damage [Feb]
  5. Flight - CATCHA VIBE [March]
  6. Bad Bunny, RaiNao - PERFuMITO NUEVO [Jan]
  7. Syzy - Industry Corporate Freak [Feb]
  8. NOTD, Hilda - I Just Missed A Call [March]
  9. Slushii, HYO - Money [Jan]
  10. jeonghyeon - Only Yours [Jan]
So with 3 months past here are my top 10 and I gotta say the standards aren't too high, I would say only the top 3 are truly sensational tracks, while the rest 7 can be groups in a tier below it being some really solid incredible work. I'm posting this in July so it is a bit of spoilers alert but 2025 EDM isn't going too incredible so far, especially compared to 2024, and you can see why through the list. But yeah this is the first 3 months so can't be too harsh this is still 10 really solid tracks let's see how it shapes up throughout the year.

Top 5 albums as of end of March (Q1):
  1. 1/17 = Knock2 - nolimit
  2. 3/14 = NOTD - Digital Notes EP
  3. 1/5 = Bad Bunny - DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
  4. 3/7 = niko rain - Fatebound EP
  5. 2/28 = Rusko - 1 MAN ARMY EP
Standards aren't too high, I only anticipate the Knock2 album staying in this top5 by the end of the year. There's 3 EPs on this list in which that Rusko one is solid work but having that make the top 5 just shows that yea this first quarter didnt have the best substance. It could've been worse tho, as if I had to find a 6th slot I would lowkey kms.



And there we go, the first quarter IS NOW COMPLETE AND PUBLISHED! A mega compilation of music reviews from a Knock2 dominant quarter. I feel so guilty that I pushed this all the way to August where so much new music has come out and writing some of these reviews felt like reviewing ancient music. This is my first quarter post as last year they were done by the month, and I like this format but man these posts are HUGE, I poured so much time into this one and I'm so behind on quarter 2 which should theoretically already be out but lets just celebrate the fact that I pushed this one out first ig lol


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