More summery than the smell of sun cream, soleros and that little bit of skin between your toes hurting due to wearing flip flops combined — we’re betting it will be difficult to go through the rest of the the sunshine months without rinsing Nick León and Erika de Casier’s new collaboration, ‘Bikini’. While the opening bars may be familiar to anyone who caught de Casier’s set at Primavera Sound in June, the single’s debut is the first time we’ve been able to fully immerse ourselves within its “denbowy-trance” depths. León and co-producer Sammy’s smooth key stabs transition into a raucous rolling drum beat, as the Danish singer-songwriter’s vocals dance provocatively above in an address to a beachy romance. Is this the beginning of ‘Bikini’ summer? We fucking hope so!

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As news of its first foray into jungle in its 20-year history came last week, Hyperdub described ‘In Full Effect’ - the upcoming album from new-age junglists Tim Reaper and Kloke - as a project that will “mix up” defining sonic markers of early ‘90s jungle for “the next generation of ravers.” The track utilises rapid-fire Amen breaks that seem to fluctuate between nostalgic and cutting-edge, with the pair approaching the futuristic with fractured bells that trickle delicately above the percussion, slithering synths and a spine-tingling bassline in the centre that feels simultaneously textured and stripped-back.

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In a rework of the growling techno cut ‘10/10’ released as part of her lauded 2023 EP ‘SUCCUBUS’, COBRAH joins forces with Polish techno guru VTSS and Berlin energy provider MCR-T on a pounding flip, taking the track on a fiery, fast-paced club trip with sultry vocals added on top.

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In a switch-up from his usual UK techno stylings, London producer Dyslecta rides the 170 BPM wave on his latest track ‘Mephisto’, upping the tempo and adding a dark and ragged bassline to create a serious low frequency club weapon that begs to be listened to through a weighty soundsystem.

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Pulling inspiration from the aquatic world, Slumberjunkie’s latest single ‘Teach Me How To Fly’ bridges bubbling synths and glossy vocals from Pearling with his familiar lo-fi jungle breaks. "’Teach Me How To Fly’ was originally called ‘Pearl Ponds’ and was written about a trip spent swimming in the ponds,” he says on the track. “I wanted to try and make this gentle sub-aquatic world kind of separate to everything else”.

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Musclecars came in hot with their debut album ‘Sugar Honey Iced Tea!’, and following a series of shows around the US and a couple in the UK, they’ve dropped the ‘Double Honey Pack’, featuring remixes of a number of the tracks from the project. The standout is undoubtedly the Louie Vega remix of ‘Tonight’, with Louie’s signature flavour adding a number of delicious keys licks and a deeper kick that re-energise the track in perfect fashion.

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Oreglo have been taking London’s jazz scene by storm with their signature fusion sound, incorporating dance music chops, drill-inspired percussion and reggae influences into their tuba-based jazz tracks. Alumni of Kinetika Bloco and Tomorrow’s Warriors, they’re following in the footsteps of the likes of current Mixmag cover stars Ezra Collective. They represent the increasingly eclectic state of London jazz, with the young quartet signing up Brighter Days’ Izco and Reek0 for a broken beat/future jazz-inspired remix of ‘Levels’, which goes off. Audio sunshine.

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A new Omar release? It’s a fresh, understated feature, powered by broken beat band After ‘Ours. The New Zealand-based group is made up of pianist and composer Michal Martyniuk and drummer, guitarist and producer Nick Williams, as well as a number of frequent collaborators. This track from their upcoming album ‘Long Road’ follows a comforting groove; it’s jazzy yet melodic and stripped back, marking the newest instalment of a feature-heavy 2024 for soul singer Omar.

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Swooping in with a spontaneous drop, Mia Koden has shared a corker. This light-on-its-feet, dubstep-meets-house track was inspired by Koden’s trip to Gottwood Festival last month and hearing plenty of “house-y vocalled stuff”. Wanting to make something similar, Koden searched for the perfect sample, which in this case was the ‘00s classic ‘Calabria 2007’ by Enur featuring Natasja Saad. Her take is an infectious tribute to the life and voice of Natasja Saad, the Danish and Sudanese artist who sadly passed away in 2007. Dropping as a pay-what-you-want track, all proceeds from the release are going directly to the Sudanese and South Sudanese charities Darfur Women Action Group and Confident Children Out Of Conflict.

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Jorja Smith has returned to the club. This DAMEDAME*-produced house track proves that Jorja’s voice was born for the dancefloor. It follows a less is more approach, with Jorja’s tranquil voice surrounded by a snappy beat and simple keyboard riff. Expressing the moods of euphoria and calmness while the lyrics echo the importance of being a friend to yourself, this track will get the tears jerking in the club with its unbeatable aura. More of this please Jorja!

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We fell in love with Sampha’s 2023 album ‘Lahai’, especially the tracks of ‘Spirit 2.0’ and ‘Only’, and now, he has returned with a reimagination of ‘Satellite Business’ with fellow Mercury Prize winner Little Simz. The track was originally only just over a minute long and felt like the perfect interlude or piece of reflection within the album. Now, in its latest take, ‘2.0’ runs for a full five minutes. Starting off the same as the original track, Sampha gently changes his vocal mannerisms to become stronger and louder as we sense him drift away from last year’s work. The original ending to ‘Satellite Business’ was on the lyric “maybe just,” but now this new version finishes this sentence with a vibrant explosion of drums on the word “you”. Welcoming in a funky bassline, a chorus of backing vocals and even some strings, the song breaks through its chrysalis and spreads its wings. Then, out of nowhere, Simz is on the scene preaching: “They're like, Simz is the one, look where she at I could be that one day if I wanna’”.

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The welcome return of DJ Flight’s play:musik label after a 14 year hiatus was one of the biggest stories in drum ‘n’ bass this month, and the comeback EP from Newcastle’s Nectax lived up to the billing of “bass-heavy, future-facing tracks that respect the roots." Our pick from the record is ‘Twin Turbo’, which teases in with an eerie opening, before letting loose into a monstrous footwork-jungle hybrid that’s chopped and stuttering without losing any sense of momentum.

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Dutch gqom producer State OFFF has melted our minds with this cut on Korean label Carousel, the in-house imprint of beloved club Cakeshop. It’s the standout from the ‘Simulacra’ EP, packing serious low-end pressure that draws from other South African house offshoots such as amapiano and 3-step as well as Brazilian funk, pairing raw vocals, intriguing rhythms and an atmospheric bassline that soars at the midway point.

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That feeling when an unreleased banger which has been tearing up clubs finally gets its official drop... ecstasy.; Especially when that track is KI/KI remixing an athem Mixmag ranked among the 100 Greatest Dance Singles Of All in the ‘90s. KI/KI is a noted ‘90s rave fanatic, updating the sound with her own cutting-edge techno, trance and acid stylings, and she’s stepped up to the challenge of tinkering with a classic admirably here, dialling up the tempo and drive to an even higher state of euphoria.

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Doctor Jeep on TraTraTrax? You know it’s gonna go off. Last year’s ‘Push The Body’ EP and his contribution to the ‘no pare, sigue sigue 2’ compilation, ‘QTE’, laid down a marker for perfectly propulsive dancefloor mutations, and his latest drop on the label, ‘Mecha’, keeps the momentum going. Firing out fraught synths, punchy percussion and explicitly hype-inducing vocals, it’s totally unsbutle in its intentions and duly delivers as a total ride.

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