Pangaea ‘Bad Lines’ (Hessle Audio)
Hessle Audio co-founder Pangaea is back after storming the summer with the heavy-hitting, ‘Installation’, returning with ‘Bad Lines’, the third and final track released ahead of his next LP. This time cranking up the pace to a swift 160 BPM, ‘Bad Lines’ pulls inspiration from some of Pangaea’s earliest dance music memories from the pure ecstasy of happy hardcore to the hypnotising textures of trance.
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UNIIQU3, Samurai Breaks & The Glitch Mob ‘Body Moves’ (All The People)
Jersey Club meets UK bass on this huge new collaborative release from LA’s The Glitch Mob, Leeds’ Samurai Breaks, and Newark’s UNIIQU3. ‘Body Moves’ crashes through elements of jungle and hard bass with a chopped-up vocal from the Jersey Club queen herself, fusing both the East and West Coast with some bass flavours from the UK. “We were discussing the possibilities of having a vocalist on the track and we threw out UNIIQU3 as a reference,” The Glitch Mob said on the collab release. “By chance she was rolling through Los Angeles and hit us up to cook up on the modular”.
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Jasper Tygner & Art School Girlfriend ‘Ready’ (Universal)
Taken from his latest EP on LG105 released earlier in September, ‘Off Season’, live tech virtuoso Jasper Tygner links up with Welsh singer-songwriter Art School Girlfriend on a stunning vocal number, ‘Ready’, pairing blissful keys and ambient synths. ‘Ready’ oozes euphoria, a feel-good cut sitting at the intersection between club and downtempo. Watch Jasper Tygner & Art School Girlfriend perform ‘Ready’ live below.
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Vegyn ‘Makeshift Tourniquet’ (PLZ Make It Ruins)
Vegyn’s on one at the moment, showing his range as one of the UK’s best producers. In May, he released the intriguing Headache album, pairing melancholy beats with Francis Hornsby Clark’s surreal storytelling performed by AI. Now back to his main alias, he’s hit a sharp 180 handbrake with a euphoric house banger which sounds like taking an astral journey through the stars.
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Peverelist ‘Pulse V’ (Livity Sound)
This lead track from Peverelist’s upcoming ‘Pulse Modulation’ EP on Livity Sound is an addictive listen. Influence from Detroit techno is audible in the shiny sci-fi synth melody that courses through it, transporting your headspace to outer realms as it leaps and jerks up and down the registers. But as always, the goal is dancefloor impact not higher themes. “There are no fixed concepts or approaches - just an instinct for energising, inventive tracks,” explain the release notes. ‘Pulse V’ delivers on that promise.
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Fever Ray ‘Carbon Dioxide’ (Avalon Emerson Remix) (Rabid Records)
Announcing this remix with a football transfer-esque handshake photo (IG collab, of course) was an appropriate level of playful pomp for the joy the track elicits from dancefloors. Powered by a wriggling synth melody, it builds masterfully into the unwordly atmosphere that Karin Dreijer’s vocals so poweruflly construct. Around the midway point, juddering bass layers momentarily suck the track into a cavern, before giving way to set the lighter sounds free like helium gas escaping from a burst balloon.
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The Chemical Brothers ‘Goodbye’ (EMI / Virgin Records)
A standout moment from The Chemical Brother’s new album ‘For That Beautiful Feeling’. This track is pure ecstasy-soaked bliss, hitting all the typical notes and sounding fucking incredible while doing so. The opening few bars suck you in with a moody, subterranean club sound, before the track brightens into an arena-sized athen. You can practically feel the serotonin flooding thorugh the synth line, and the vocals sound powerful in the mix. In short, the UK’s finest have done it again.
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INVT ‘ACID GUARACHA’ (Self-released)
INVT’s single from the forthcoming ‘CALENTÓN’ EP is an absolute heater. ‘ACID GUARACHA’ is a Ronseal title, blending guaracha’s traditional two-tone bass and tight percussion with enthralling acid synthplay. The cut marks the Miami duo’s tenth track of the year, with another four set to release on October 27 alongside ‘ACID GUARACHA’. Forgive me for being impatient.
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Overmono ‘Blow Out’ (XL Recordings)
Welsh production duo have gained a stranglehold on the electronic music scene this year with standout performances at Coachella, Glastonbury and Parklife, and the release of their debut album. They show no signs of loosening grip with their first single since ‘Good Lies’ came out in May. ‘Blow Out’, sampling Reddo and Brodinski’s ‘Can’t Stop’ throughout, continues Overmono’s love-affair with trap.
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Midland ‘Drift in the Algorithm’ (Graded)
Midland’s eagerly anticipated solo production return, ‘Drift in the Algorithm’, has been on the tongues of eager track-ID-ers since Ben UFO and Lukas Wigflex both played it last month. It was worth the wait. Leading with drums and a sample of breathing for extra rhythmic effect, a slamming kick drum that follows piques expectations for the track to let loose into banger territory. Instead, Midland’s melodies and pitch-modulated pedal note lifts you into a trance-like state. It’s a mesmerisingly beautiful track where every element plays its part.
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Florentino, Shygirl ‘Pressure’ (XL Recordings)
Shygirl joins Florentino on his latest release with some adrenaline-fueled beats and fiery lyrics. The production includes a colourful collage of effects and beats that interchange alongside Shygirl’s straight-talking lyrics. This high-octane release has got us pumped for the full EP ‘Kilometro Quinze’ out in October.
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Mietze Conte ‘Out Of Luck 2’ (Mietze Conte)
Opening the elusive Mietze Conte’s latest EP, this track sets the vibrant tone. A bouncy euphoric track that’s packed with charisma, Conte merges pop and Eurodance music to make something exciting and fun.
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Coco & Clair Clair ‘The Hills’ (feat. DEELA) (George Daniel remix) (Nice Girl World)
What was once a calming guitar melody which could’ve soothed you to sleep has quickly been transformed into a monstrous swelter. George Daniel has flipped Coco & Clair Clair’s cutesy original to a booming dancefloor hit.
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Parris & Untold ‘Lip Locked’ (ORO)
There’s always something bittersweet about being at the tail end of the summer. It’s getting colder, darker, and weekends spent rollicking around in a field are slowly becoming a thing of the past. However, it also means that we can reconnect with our other main squeeze… getting your senses blown to pieces by a big club soundsystem. Parris & Untold’s new collab single ‘Lip Locked’ feels like the perfect catalyst to do so; a deliciously frenetic kick drum grinding alongside trippy synth stabs and a fractured vocal sample. Music to make you lob your factor 50 straight out of the window and get yourself to your nearest nightlife establishment.
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Evian Christ ‘On Embers’ (Warp)
Having first been announced in 2016, Evian Christ’s debut album on Warp Records has been something that Trance Party devotees and electronic aficionados alike have been on tenterhooks in anticipation for. And if first single ‘On Embers’ is anything to go by, the new record will be brimming with that trademark, eerie-yet-euphoric trance that Christ has become known for. Pairing a blistering, compressed-to-near-black-hole level bass and an emotionally-tinged synth melody, ‘On Embers’ will have the hairs standing up on your arms on your seventh listen with the same intensity as the first. Get us to the strobes, asap!
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