This week’s selections have a touch of pop to them, from alternative bass music to a mainstream pop star exploring eurodance. These are the tracks you need to know about. Listen below. Follow our Roundup Selections playlist on Spotify to stay updated on what we have on repeat. Fever
Alt-Pop / Dance-Pop / Deep House / experimental / House / Pop / Remix
When it comes to describing the nature of the house music that Fort Romeau is in the business of making, the word to use is, without a doubt, ‘romantic.’ Only this can describe his affinity for heartstring pulling, emotion stirring sonnets of club music painted in operatic chiaroscuro, swinging between
In 2016, Clara Cappagali and Armand Bultheel happened upon the biggest hit of their careers so far. For a moment, it felt impossible to avoid the New Wave pulse of Prettiest Virgin on indie blogs and playlists, the song becoming a sleeper hit for left field tastemakers and the fortunate
Germany’s iconic house outfit Milk & Sugar return with a new track for 2023, Feels Like, a collaboration with UK DJs Killed Kassette and Skapes with vocals from the Queen of Detroit Blues, singer Thornetta Davis. Bright, upbeat, and bouncy, Feels Like provides some much needed light to banish those
Let’s introduce Terrasoul, a House / Electronic producer and DJ from Cape Town, South Africa. Having performed at some of the Motherland’s most recognised music festivals like Rocking The Daisies, Oppikoppi, and CTEMF, Kaelem Fakier is entrenched in the local dance music scene, having previously showcased his ability during a
Last year saw Simon Green, AKA Bonobo, release what had been touted as his ‘masterpiece.’ Fragments, while perhaps not as groundbreaking as anticipated, did see Green venturing outside the Bonobo boundaries more than before, and thankfully so. Safety, after all, has proven time and again to be Green’s Achilles heel.
Thomas Bangalter, one half of French house duo Daft Punk, is releasing a solo album. Mythologies, which arrives April 17 on Erato/Warner Classics, is Bangalter’s first independent orchestral work. The album arrives after the artist was commissioned in 2021 to create the score for a ballet of the same name.
Seeing the names Björk, Shygirl, and Sega Bodega on a single track credit is the gift we didn’t know we needed. The queen of avant-garde baroque pop embracing the new vanguard of artists carrying her pioneering efforts into the future is a breath of fresh air, and with the Bodega
For those introduced to Nene H during the cycle of her debut album, Ali, you may associate her most closely with a style of techno that takes hard hitting austerity, and stirs it up with atmospheric ambience rooted in cultural pathos and emotional gravitas. The blue-tinged world of Ali, a
Acid House / eurodance / hard techno / Industrial / Techno / trance
Techno icon and producer Richie Hawtin has launched a scholarship in electronic music at The University of Huddersfield. The programme, officially titled The Richie Hawtin PhD Scholarship in Electronic Music, Cultures and Production, will see the successful application receive tutoring from Hawtin himself, and the scholarship awarded in Hawtin’s name.
