This week in dance music: A new Sophie album, overseen by the late producer's brother, arrives in September. Kygo, the human music producer, met a sick dog named Kygo at Kygo's former Palm Tree Music festival in the Hamptons. Las Vegas' Life Is Beautiful has announced a new name, a new format and a September lineup featuring LCD Soundystem, Peggy Gou and Justice. We took a look at how the new Grammy rules affect the dance/electronic categories and why DJs play so many dance covers. Deadmau5 expressed his displeasure over Spotify CEO Daniel Ek's recent comments, Diplo was hit with a new 'revenge porn' lawsuit, and ADE 2024 added executives from Empire, Spotify, SoundCloud and more to the lineup for his event in October.
And last but never least, these are the best new dance tracks of the week.
Channel Three, Head Rush
“The new music I'm making now is just on another level,” he told Channel Tres Advertising sign last year to produce what would become his debut album. And indeed, he was right — with his release Head Rush work that showcases all the ingenuity and ease we've come to know, love and respect from the Los Angeles-based artist since disbanding around 2018. Deftly weaving influences from gospel (“Joyful Noise”) to funk (“Candy Paint” ) to industrial (“Berghain”), the 17-track album feels like the Channel Tres of the world and features a cool kid lineup of collaborators like Toro y Moi, Ty Dolla $ign, Estelle, Ravyn Lenae, Thundercat, Teezo Touchdown and Barney Bones.
Via RCA Records, it comes ahead of summer/fall performances at events such as HARD Summer, Outside Lands, All Points East and III Points. “A lot of emotion went into it,” Tres He wrote about the LP release. “Since it was my first album and then I was fighting feelings of impostor syndrome. We here, I'm with you, we'll soon be dancing on tour with lots of love.”
LP Giobbi, “Bittersweet”
Giobbi's latest LP release “Bittersweet” is just what it sounds like, with the brightness of the vocals (sung by Portuguese. Man's John Gourley) meeting an undercurrent of melancholy in the simultaneously lush, yet understated production. The combination of the piece gives the feeling of dancing through tears — especially after the key change in the shocking last third of the piece. “Bittersweet” is the first taste of Giobbi's just-announced sophomore album Dotr, Coming this October via Ninja Tune, it was written through (and about) the waves of grief the producer experienced following the loss of her mother-in-law, her longtime piano teacher, and a close family friend. Named after the way the producer used notes to her parents, Dotr will feature collaborations with Brittany Howard, Danielle Ponder, Panama and other artists.
“This album is about being a daughter, having a daughter and loving a daughter, and a way to honor some of the most important women in my life,” the producer says in a statement. “There are also many themes connected to home (the ones we create or the ones we're born into) which, for me, is reflected through my identity as a daughter.”
Isoxo, Knock2 & RL Grime, “Smack Talk”
It makes perfect sense for bass Jedi RL Grime to team up with genre phenoms Knock2 and IsoXo, with their highly anticipated collaboration 'Smack Talk' also perfectly executed and predictably great. Together, the three SoCal-based artists create an army of sound, with hip-hop influences, church choirs, air horns, and direct headbanding drops that all shape into the heavy, cinematic style that creates such excitement around IsoXo and Knock2, and which has defined much of Grimes' catalog.
Tycho, “Phantom”
Low-key legend Tycho returns with the lead single from his upcoming single Infinite Health, oufit's sixth studio album. “Phantom” delivers '80s synth pop filtered through an AM radio lens, hitting the clean, cerebral vibe that defines so much of Tycho's work, but with a slightly darker edge.
“I wanted 'Phantom' to feel like a mix of lights in a nightclub with some unknown entity. a moving and changing intelligence that served as a conduit for a deeper understanding of what lies beneath the surface of existence,” says Tycho leader Scott Hansen. “It's also about coming to terms with mortality, with the ghost being the ever-present ghost. I spent more hours on this song than any other on the record.” Coming August 30 via Mom+Pop, Infinite Health will see Tycho's first North American tour in five years.
Folamour, “Pressure Makes Diamonds”
On the project's tenth anniversary, French producer Folamour offers a treatise on the challenges of a career in music, with the song's title also serving as a thesis statement. “Pressure Makes Diamonds” is cut from the same sonic cloth as previous tracks such as “Poundland Anthem”, with the track made of layers and layers of bright synth, stabs of piano, a wave of percussion and the artist's own vocals , purring with a thick French accent.
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