With his history of taking tracks and bending them into his complete image, hearing the news that Ricardo Villalobos has remixed a DJ Python deep dembow track is certainly attention grabbing. Then hearing that it’s 40 minutes long is almost laugh inducing. But looking past the fact that you could listen to the tune while sitting on the whole of London’s north-to-south Victoria line and have time to spare, the track is really very good. Kicking in some way through a four-beat bar, with no semblance of introduction, it subtly twists, morphs, breaks down and grooves – semi-regularly reminding you that it’s the still the same song through Colombian singer Ela Minus’s persistent vocals. It’s almost an expression of the experience of seeing the master DJ – sonically unique, moments drawn out in an unafraid manner, and completely unpredictable.

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Now on its 13th release, Vivid has been quietly and regularly releasing some of UK’s bass music continuum’s best dancefloor riddims over the past three years. The latest up is Bristolian Daffy, who brings a forward thinking three-tracker of garage-aligned tracks to wax, with the A-side track ‘Wicked and Wild’ the pick of the bunch. The beat is fire, taking old school two-step, and infusing it with an injection of industrial growl. With one of the best MCs in the underground Riko Dan claiming “wicked and wild / I’ve got the wickedest style”, it’s hard to disagree.

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On his first release on Berlin outfit Radiant, NTS resident Kasra V taps up label head honcho Byron Yeates and Planet Euphorique’s Roza Terenzi on remix duties for his subtle, breaks-forward A-side ‘Voice Note To Self’. The duo’s take is a straight up dancefloor-focused jam – clocking in at a quick 142 BPM, but never feeling rushed as it oscillates through driving four-to-the-floor and off-beat rhythms. Decorated with subtle bleeps and squelches, it allows the rhythm to propel the track forwards – perfectly built for those sweaty basement dos.

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Despite the bouncing bassline that gives the nostalgia of a nineties rave, this track exemplfies loneliness. As an artist emerged from lockdown, yunè pinku still illustrates this isolation in her work with ironically club-focused music. According to her, this particular track was inspired by Lana Del Rey’s ‘Video Games’ paired with a vision of a tech-focused future world which she deems “Wall-E-esque”. Produced by Jakwob, pinku’s vocals are gently added, applying an extra melody to the song that doesn’t overpower the pounding beat.

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After Kaytranada dropped his edit of Sam Gellaitry’s ‘Assumptions’ at a roller disco, the anticipation for its official release spiralled. Returning to the viral clip of the moment was all we had until finally the full track was released this month. The original came out in 2021 and since then has been remixed by BURNS and Jenji. Kaytranada’s take on ‘Assumptions’ sees him stretch the song with an amapiano drumbeat, replacing the high-energy synths that previously added an ‘80s vibe to the track. Instead, this version gives the essence of Kaytranada’s classic ‘Be Your Girl’ edit while keeping the vocals untouched.

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Kyiv-born producer YUVI takes on the opening cut of Polygon’s first compilation, ‘VOLUNTEERS vol.1 - BLACKOUT’, a fundraiser V/A put together by Ukrainian artists to shed light on the country’s flourishing dance music scene. YUVI plunges this record into high-octane sonics with the record’s opener ‘narodna’, a footwork number leaning into orchestral sounds with warped violin strings and celestial, choir-like vocals.

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CloudCore’s next release comes from Paris’ Amor Satyr who delivers the luscious new bass cut ‘Trust Me’, marking the producer’s first rodeo onto the label. Through strident breaks and harder garage rhythms, ‘Trust Me’ has some familiar elements of a CloudCore track, but remains distinct from anything released on the imprint to date. “Cloudcore had a lot of influence on me when I discovered them last year. Really one of the best and most inspiring labels out there,” he explained on Instagram.

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Lining up the first release for his next EP, ‘Rt Hon’ on Hyperdub, Edinburgh’s Proc Fiskal delivers the record’s central track ‘Pic Of U’. While the next EP expects to see the producer strip back his experimental sound to the fundamentals, ‘Pic Of U’ is Proc Fiskal in his pop moment — a glittering cut that uses his girlfriend’s vocals in a layered, pitched-up blend over bubbling synths, calling in a change of pace for the Proc Fiskal project.

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Atmosphere with a capital A, TYGAPAW’s ‘GLAMOUR riddim’ is a visceral look at the savage beauty of the club. Kicking off with a hazy string sample reminiscent of the heyday of NYC hip hop, the track takes on multiple forms over the course of its 5 minutes 48 seconds run time — with the Brooklyn artist employing shuffling percussion, cavernous synths and piercing hi-hats for some of that East Coast house flavour. George Riley’s soft vocals only add to the sensual flavour of the record, dancing above the meandering, technical chaos of TYGAPAW’s multitude of samples — declaring “I like it”.

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Adding a hearty helping of bass edge to the ‘Rough Night’ album track, object blue takes the subtle, romantic ‘Ultimatum’ on a journey into the dark recesses of the club. Equal parts glossy and rough, the rework scatters Samara’s vocals across a network of bolshy kicks and rattling synths — producing an eerie lens over the sugary admission of heartbreak.

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It’s difficult for anyone who came of age in the mid-noughties to deny that teeny bit of excitement that Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding were back in the studio together. So, we’re pleased to confirm that - like 2013 Sound Of the Summer ‘I Need Your Love’ - the pair’s new material looks primed to storm our dancefloors again nearly a decade later, that is if emotionally-tinged Eurotrance single ‘Miracle’ is anything to go by. Goulding demonstrates once again why her light soprano tenor is best utilised by clubland, dancing above the cacophony of rave nostalgia in Harris’ production. Brimming with deep organ and piano stabs, bristling hats and raucous bass, ‘Miracle’ sees the Scottish superstar producer touch on just about every dance trope there is — as if he’d asked ChatGPT to make a “big summer heater”. An undeniable banger.

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