Simply the best new dance tracks of the week.
John Summit
Ian Buosi
This week in dance music: DJ Snake made a cameo during J Balvin’s performance at the VMAs to perform the duo’s collab “Noventa,” a new venue in Los Angeles called Reframe Studios Outdoors announced that it will open in November with a set from Solomun and Kygo’s Palm Tree Crew received a $215 million valuation after a Series B funding round from investors, including WME.
Meanwhile, Seth Troxer and Bill Patrick launched a new podcast called Flirting With Friendship in which the pair and a weekly special guest will wax poetic from the comfort of Troxler’s parents living room in Ibiza. “Friendships are funny, our life is based on connections. In many ways those connections determine who we are,” Troxler said upon the show’s announcement. “At some point meeting new friends or opening up to existing friends becomes more rare the older you get. Flirting with Friendship is about breaking down that barrier.”
Also, we also spoke with Hot Chip frontman Alexis Taylor about the band’s new compilation album Joy In Repetition, and the backstory of six of the songs on it.
In addition: Major Lazer announced that it’s doing a free Major Lazer Soundsystem performance today in Las Vegas as part of 12-hour Twitch stream, LCD Soundystem announced a New York City residency happening in November and December and Yves Tumor told the world that “if anyone’s curious how the show went, I just got booed offstage for playing the best set of the night by a bunch of the corniest people I’ve ever seen in my f–king life” after opening for Swedish House Mafia in New York City on Sept. 11.
And finally, these are the best new dance tracks of the week.
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John Summit feat. Inéz, “Crystallized”
John Summit and Inéz, Summit’s collaborator on March’s “Light Years,” deliver their latest teamup, “Crystallized.” Summit’s first release since August’s “Is Everybody Having Fun” with Gorgon City and rhys from the sticks, the song finds Summit taking a turn into bloghouse, a newer genre for the star who’ll put on the debut edition of his Experts Only festival next week in New York City and play The O2 in London tomorrow, Sept. 13.
“I wanted to bring back the energy of the blog house era with a fresh twist,” Summit wrote on Instagram. “Went full electro on this one w the amazingly talented Inez.”
“Crystallized” is out on Experts Only/Darkroom Records. Listen to it here.
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Rezz, As the Pendulum Swings
The past and present meet on Rezz’s fifth studio album, As the Pendulum Swings. The 13-track project finds the producer in the most evolved iteration of the dark/pummeling wheelhouse she’s carved out over the last 10-plus years, with several tracks on the project being early demos that the artist born Isabelle Rezazadeh pulled from the vault and finalized for the new LP.
Rezz calls the album “a more mature version of my project. It reflects where I am in life as a 30 year old. I feel I have the clearest vision and desires and musically, this album plays a major role in that, as well as the aesthetics to my visual content and performances. This album means a lot to me because there’s quite a few old songs that were revamped for this. It feels nostalgic but also new. It really showcases the type of music I’m currently influenced by which feels great to say. I feel like I’ve evolved in the quality of the songs, and the direction is very specific. It capitalizes on industrial/slow techno elements.”
As The Pendulum Swings is out on Rezz’s own HypnoVizion label. Listen to it here.
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Nimino feat. Manta “Better”
Nimino, Billboard‘s Dance Rookie of the month from January, continues making good on that one to watch status with his latest, “Better.” Featuring British musician Manta and an absolutely undeniable contribution from the U.K.’s Young Notes children’s choir, the song is a punchy, piano stab and brass-laden house jam teased at a recent Nimino set at Electric Forest, Lollapalooza and Outside Lands.
“Better” is out on Ninja Tune. Listen to it here.
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Sam Gellaitry feat. Toro y Moi, “Curious”
After releasing a pair of winning mixtapes, Viewfinder Vol. 1 and 2 in 2019 and 2022, respectively, Scottish fav Sam Gellaitry announces his debut album is coming in November. The project, Anywhere Here Is Perfect, includes August’s “Start Up a Rumor” and the latest “Curious” featuring Toro y Moi. Simultaneously breeze and resonant, the song is a indie electronic joyride with a music video that finds the guys nailing the song during a karaoke bar performance.
“Curious” is out on Major Recordings. Listen to it here.
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Ray Volpe, Forever, Volpetron
Dubstep titan Ray Volpe brings the thunder with his debut album, Forever, Volpetron, which follows his 2022 smash “Laserbeam” and a 15-year career that’s never diverged from the genre. The album’s 16 absolutely punishing tracks range from hard to harder and were made over the last 18 months, with Volpe say that he spent “endless nights on it to make sure it’s perfect.”
“I wanted to make a project that epitomizes my journey,” Volpe continues. “From brostep, melodic dubstep and bass, heavy dubstep, bass house to everything in between, you’ll be able to catch a glimpse of everything I love and everything I’ve been through. The past few years have been beyond imaginable and now I get to say I have an album out.” The album follows a sold out headlining tour from Volpe earlier this year and comes ahead of festival sets at Lost Lands and Escape Halloween along with a run of standalone shows through the end of 2025.
Forever, Volpetron is out on Volpeverse. Listen to it here.
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