This week in dance music: Dua Lipa covered Daft Punk’s essential “Get Lucky” while on tour in France, Calvin Harris posted an eight-minute video in response to plagiarism accusations from Chicane and we spoke with BPM festival co-founder Phil Pulitano about his new event, a boutique show happening this January in the Puerto Rican rainforest.
“I think that the scene has become this crazy bubble where the fees are too high for artists, which then ultimately fall back on the promoter, then the then the ticket buyer,” Pulitano said in the story. “I feel like it’s losing its essence this way. There’s really no soul behind it. What we’re trying to create is something with soul and love and unity, that’s trying to find purpose within the chaos.”
Beyond that, EDC Las Vegas happened last weekend at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, with a horde of artists playing the event and the Las Vegas Police Department announcing that they’re investigating two deaths that happened around the event.
Meanwhile, Mau P, Calvin Harris and Zach Martino made moves on the dance charts, German trance star Marlon Hoffstadt signed with Capitol Records, and following an extended delay in the reopening of New York club Brooklyn Mirage, Josh Wyatt will no longer serve as CEO of the club’s parent company Avant Gardner. Josh Wink shared a vintage 1998 set from New York’s famed club Twilo, Trax Records announced an upcoming 40 year anniversary compilation and we spoke with the legend Loco Dice about his new album, Purple Jam.
And these, as always, are the best new dance tracks of the week.
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Christine and the Queens & Cerrone, “Catching feelings”
French electronic legend Cerrone and the country’s modern bright star Christine and the Queens link for what feels like a contender for 2026’s best dance pop recording Grammy. A slinky disco ass shaker laced with Cerrone’s signature synth work and smooth as silk vocals from Christine, “Catching feelings” comes from a forthcoming four-track collaborative EP from the pair.
The duo initially linked in a very French manner while playing on a stage near the Arc de Triomphe amid a parade following the the 2024 French Summer Olympics, where Cerrone’s catalog was incorporated throughout the opening and closing events. After the festivities, he invited Christine and the Queens to play his classic “Supernature,” with their artistic chemistry and shared penchant for disco ultimately leading to this characteristically sleek but also very funky new track that comes with a slick video directed by Christine himself. The song is out via Malligator Préférence distributed by Because Music.
Listen to “Catching feelings” here.
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Marlon Hoffstadt, “Supersonic”
On the heels of playing for a 70,000-plus person crowd at EDC Las Vegas last weekend and days later announcing that he’s signed with Capitol Records, Marlon Hoffstadt releases his first music through the label. Bouncy, thick and gripping, “Supersonic” demonstrates why the trance-focused German artist is gaining traction in the U.S., with the track coming with a B-side, the equally catchy, whistle-laced peaktime heater “Hands Up In the Sky.”
Listen to “Supersonic” here.
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Mau P, “Like I Like It”
Dutch phenom Mau P releases his second and third tracks of the year with his Too Big for B Side project. The two-track release is led by “Like I Like It,” on which the artist juxtaposes a brightly sung vocal hook with steamily muttered come-hither vocals. These are placed over a squelchy bassline and a sort of strange and groovy synth, altogether making this one sound like the good kind of trouble one can find on an afterhours dancefloor. Track two is the more urgent and no less necessary “People Talk People Sing,” with the whole project out on Solomun’s Diynamic Music.
Listen to “Like I Like It” here.
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Bambii feat. Lyzza & SadBoi, “Blue Sky”
Jamaican-Canadian producer Bambii whips up more hype for her forthcoming Infinity Club II EP with the project’s latest single, “Blue Sky.” A collab with Brazilian artist Lyzza and Toronto’s Sadboi, “Blue Sky” is an oversized and wonderfully ominous anthem that finds Lyzza and Sadboi trading verses over Bambii’s simultaneously crispy and crunchy production. The EP is out June 20th via Because Music, with Bambii’s upcoming tour dates including Electric Forest, Glastonbury and Bass Coast.
Listen to “Blue Sky” here.
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Barry Can’t Swim, “About to Begin”
Further establishing himself one of the most crucial producers the moment, Barry Can’t Swim releases another pair of singles from his forthcoming album, via “About To Begin” and “Cars Pass By Like Childhood Sweethearts.” The former is one of the artist’s clubbier tracks to date, and finds him forging a long siren-like build that releases into a powerful and tightly produced release that we foresee soundtracking a lot of peaktime moments this summer. The latter track, meanwhile, is the softer and more nostalgic come-down. The tracks are out on Ninja Tune, and Barry’s new album on the label, Loner, is coming July 11.
Listen to “About to Begin” here.
