Simply the best new dance tracks of the week.
Jamie xx
Laura Jane Coulson
This week in dance music: A woman died after attending the first weekend of Tomorrowland 2025, and Metallica loaned out parts to the festival’s organizers as they rebuilt the event’s mainstage after the original burned down. The festival’s co-founder Michiel Beers and Insomniac Events’ co-founder Pasquale Rotella gave us some insight into the UNITY show the two companies are co-producing next month at Sphere Las Vegas, Martin Solveig announced his retirement from touring and Timmy Trumpet hurt himself and had to cancel some upcoming shows.
Los Angeles-based streetwear brand Pleasures dropped a new collection featuring classic Daft Punk imagery, and Bicep worked on the soundtrack for a new immersive audiovisual project about how climate change is affecting artists and community in the Arctic region.
We also talked to Diplo about writing BLACKPINK’s newest song “Jump,” which was originally written for his own group Major Lazer. (And speaking of K-pop, David Guetta remixed “Golden” from the Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack.) We also spoke with producer Bambii, our dance Rookie of the Month for July, about her rise and her excellent new Infinity Club II EP.
And b–ch, its Madonna: Ahead of the release of her Ray of Light remix album Veronica Electronica we shared photos of the queen in her Ray of Light era, broke down seven ways she changed dance music and ranked every track on the new project.
And to wrap it up and round it out, these are the best new dance tracks of the week.
Jamie xx, “Dream Night”
Noted wizard Jamie xx releases his second single of the year with “Dream Night,” an aptly named breeze of a track that walks the producer’s signature line between cerebral and bodymoving. Made this year while touring behind 2024’s In Waves, the song is one he says “came about quite naturally, out of all the amazing nights of music and dancing that I get to experience on and off stage. I’m so grateful for it all and I wanted to share that and hopefully create some more dreamy moments with this song.” His upcoming dates include two days playing the the K bridge in Brooklyn over the first weekend in August, along with Osheaga, Outside Lands and ARC Music Festival in Chicago.
“Dream Night” is out on Young. Listen to it here.
HoneyLuv & Aluna, “Waymo”
An ode to driverless vehicles and more specifically the naughty fun that might take place with them, “Waymo” find HoneyLuv and Aluna teaming up on a throbbing house production that’s sleek, slinky and (as it seems perfectly aware of) a really good soundtrack for a backseat makeout.
“Waymo” is out on Insomniac Records. Listen to it now.
Alesso & Martin Garrix feat. Shaun Farrugia, “Inside Our Hearts”
Having rocket-launched into the dance world at roughly the same time, Alesso and Martin Garrix have long run in the same circles, appeared on the same lineups and made complimentary sounds. It’s surprising then, that it’s taken this long for the pair, who are good friends IRL, to release an official collaboration. Out today with “Inside Our Hearts” and also getting released on Garrix’s September EP Origo, the track finds the guys both fully embracing the chest-thumping and misty-eyed EDM they’ve built their empires upon. Any why wouldn’t they?
“Inside Our Hearts” is out via Garrix’s STMPD Records. Listen to it here.
Paul Kalkbrenner, “Ninety-Two”
German master Paul Kalkbrenner announces his first album in seven years today and throws a little a musical parade in celebration with the project’s first single, “Ninety-Two.” A groovy, tightly produced five minute club anthem, the track features a classic ’90s vocal sample that evokes the song’s titular year and serves as a foundation for Kalkbrenner to make something that extends this rave era’s sonic lineage. The 12-track album it comes from, The Essence, is coming October 12.
“Ninety-Two” is out on Sony Music. Listen to it here.
Juicy Romance, “Bikini”
We’ve had our eye on Australian producer Juicy Romance for a minute, and now we’re really watching as she sings about partying in here bikini on her latest. An unflinchingly hedonistic peak time electro thumper, “Bikini” is simply just fun and comes ahead of a set by Juice Romance (who’s the sister of fellow party-starter Partiboi69) at Floyd Miami this weekend.
“Bikini” is out on HARD Records. Listen to it here.
DJ Tennis & Eliza Rose, “Playa Paradiso”
This summery collab from DJ Tennis and Eliza Rose is as cool as you’d expect from these two party jetsetters, sounding like an impromptu dance party on the beach at sunset. It makes sense, then, that’s it’s named for such a fantasy beach.
“Playa Paradiso” is out on Life and Death. Listen to it here.
