Friday Dance Music Guide: The Best New Tracks From Fred again.., Lil Yachty & Overmono, Gessafelstein & More

This week in dance music: Daft Punk wax figures debut at New York's Madame Tussauds, Movement reveal their full 2024 line-up, Creamfields do the same, Fred again..sold a boatload of tickets fast forward to Australia, we spoke to Charli XCX about her upcoming album, BRATand spoke to Kylie Minogue about being an all-time legend.

And of course, here are the best new dance tracks of the week.

Fred again…, Lil Yachty & Overmono, “stayinit”

For so much giddy brightness that exists again in Fred.. the work, melancholy and a certain sadness are also defining elements of his sound. His latest “stayinit” falls into the realm of those latter moods, with Lil Yachty belting out the pleading and/or encouraging lyrics “you've got a life, stay in it,” over a siren synth tuned to a minor key and more and more pounding percussion that builds together into a kind of hypnotically eerie place. The track is a collaboration with UK duo Overmono and debuted during a three-show pop-up show at New York's Knockdown Center on February 9. “stayinit” lands amid Fred's continued global dominance, with the producer selling 100,000 tickets across six arena shows in Australia in just hours earlier this week. The tour organizer reported that over a million people were queuing to try and get seats.

Gessafelstein, “Hard Dreams”

“I'm your slave and you're my queen,” declares French singer Jan Wagner via vocal vocals on Gessaffelstein's latest. “I imagine myself in a Hollywood dream.” Any dream in the mood created by this track would be an intense (but not necessarily unpleasant) one, with “Hard Dreams” entering a dark Depeche Mode zone that feels like a natural extension of the historically dark, heavy, French producer, very cool catalog. The track is the lead single from Gesaffelstein's upcoming album Gamma — his third studio LP and first since 2019 Hyperion — is out March 29, with a Coachella show to follow in April.

Diplo & Sharam feat. Pony, “Anthem”

Diplo delivers one of his best in a minute with the hella ravey “Anthem.” Certainly in the pocket of the underground vibe championed by his record label Higher Ground since its 2019 launch, the track is a collaboration with Iranian producer Sharam (of Deep Dish fame) and Canadian rapper Pony, whose cool flow and psychedelic tunes for The simple joy of being, as he says, “hiiiiiigh,” is the secret sauce here. The accompanying video, featuring a room full of ravers with the best Y2K redux compositions, was shot in Montreal.

LP Giobbi & hermixalot, “How Deep Is Your Love”

LP Giobbi kicks off Women's History Month with FEMME HOUSE Volume 2, a collection of music from artists united under the FEMME HOUSE label. An active and enduring champion for the representation of women, non-binary gender groups and underrepresented groups in the dance scene, the How Deep Is Your Love LP delivers one of the harshest yet nuanced, emotionally uplifting, psychedelia and downright entertaining piano. her signature house bangers, featuring vocals from FEMME HOUSE co-founder (and power-lunged singer) hermixalot. “2% of producers are women,” LP says in a statement, “and this collection highlights some of my favorite female and gender-broadened producers/artists who are changing the game right now.” The compilation is released via Insomniac Records.

SG Lewis & Chloe Caillet, “Costa”

SG Lewis launches his new label Forever Days — positioned in a statement as a home for “club-centric productions made strictly for the dance floor and a place to champion music from artists he loves” — with a song that's … exactly one of them. Made with New York producer Chloé Caillet, “Costa” is three and a half minutes of rush-hour domestic bliss, characterized by the same brightness and coolness that defines much of Lewis' catalog.