Category: house music

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Bad Robot Shares French Touch-like “Close To You”

Micheal Ricker is a Delaware-based electronic music producer and artist best known as Bad Robot. Earlier this year, he released “Supermassive,” which was built around skittering, tweeter and woofer rattling thump, scorching bass synths and a woozy and wobbling synth melody. And fittingly, it’s the sort of club and festival banger that sounds as though it should knock a building over.

According to Ricker, his latest single “Close To You” is “a bit of a departure into a brighter, more ‘pop’ sounding progressive house style.” Built around an almost mantra-like glistening synth phrase, shimmering synth arpeggios and skittering beats, the motorik-like “Close To You” is both summery and remarkably catchy, while seemingly nodding at Discovery-era Daft Punk-like French touch.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: GR1FN Returns with Flirty Club Banger “Nervous”

GR1FN is an emerging and mysterious American-born electronic music producer, who has had a rather busy 2024. Earlier this year, he released “Underneath the Sun,” a Larry Levan-meets-French touch-like banger featuring dense layers of twinkling keys, skittering tweeter and woofer rattling beats and oscillating synths pared with euphoria-inducing hooks and a chopped up, soulful, mantra-like vocal sample. It’s the sort of summery anthem that you’d fully expect to hear rocking clubs from New York to Miami and from Ibiza to London and everywhere else in between.

.The emerging producer’s latest single “Nervous” is a flirty and summery house music track featuring glistening synth arpeggios, skittering, tweeter and woofer railing beats, a sultry and yearning vocal sample paired with some remarkably catchy hooks. It shouldn’t be surprising that this one has been receiving love in local clubs, because it’s an infectiously fun banger.

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Live Concert Photography: Elsewhere Music Festival: Day 1: 6/21/24 feat. Killer Mike, A Place to Bury Strangers, Snow Tha Product, TOKiMONSTA, D. Smoke and Zuzu’s Petals

Live concert photography from Elsewhere Festival’s first day feat, Killer Mike, Snow Tha Product, A Place to Bury Strangers, TOKiMonsta, D. Smoke and Zuzu’s Petals.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Christian Löffler Teams Up with Mogli on Flirty and Summery “Y”

Christian Löffler is an acclaimed German musician, producer and DJ, whose work is widely celebrated across electronic music circles for a distinct sound that seamlessly blends elements of ambient music, techno and house.

2021’s Parallels featured reinterpretations of classical arrangements by Beethoven, Chopin and several other composers paired with his crowd-pleasing electronic music production approach. The following year saw the German producer pushing the boundaries of his sound further through live shows that captivated audiences across the globe.

Released earlier this year, Löffler’s third album A Life sees the German-born musician, producer and DJ continuing to push his sound and approach in new directions while exploring new emotional depths. Album single “Y,” a collaboration with Mogli is a lush and flirty, crowd-pleasing banger anchored around Mogli’s yearning delivery paired with woozy and glistening synth arpeggios, thumping, tweeter and woofer ratting low end, skittering beats and a rousingly anthemic, euphoric set of hooks and choruses.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Solid Spark Shares Summery “Higher”

Solid Spark is a rising electronic music producer and DJ, who has caught the attention of the global electronic scene with a sound that seamlessly blends contemporary pop sound with golden age EDM nostalgia. For the rising electronic music producer and DJ, the result is material that’s dance floor friendly but packs a deep emotional and energetic resonance. 

Earlier this year, I wrote about “Dream,” a slick, club friendly banger featuring glistening synths, a sultry and yearning vocal sample, skittering beats and euphoria-inducing hook and drops. The production revealed a producer with an uncannily sophisticated sense of soulful craftsmanship.

Building upon a growing profile, the rising producer’s latest single “Higher” is a club friendly bop featuring glistening synths, a chopped and screwed vocal sample-driven, incredibly catchy hook, a yearning female vocal sample for the verses, skittering tweeter and woofer rattling thump. While continuing to cement his reputation for crafted and soulful electronic music, “Higher” may arguably be the most summery and catchiest song of the producer’s growing catalog to date.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Delaware’s Bad Robot Shares Enormous Banger “Supermassive”

Micheal Ricker is a Delaware-based electronic music producer and artist best known as Bad Robot. His latest single is “Supermassive” is fittingly built around skittering, tweeter and woofer rattling thump, scorching bass synths, and a woozy and wobbling synth melody. It’s a festival and club banger that sounds as though it should knock a building over.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Bubba Brothers Share 90s House-Inspired “I’m Your DJ”

Over the past handful of years of this site’s 14 year history, I’ve spilled quite a bit of virtual ink covering Portuguese DJ and production outfit and JOVM mainstays Bubba Brothers — Eliseu Correia and Justino Santos […]

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Kenon Chen Shares Glistening and Propulsive “Sunday”

Kenon Chen is a prolific, electronic pop singer/songwriter and producer, who over the course of last year released four albums — Electric Winter, The Tide: Wave I, Electric Spring, Electric Summer and Electric Fall. 

Chen also released the Electric Seasons Remixed album earlier this year. The album features “Safe In Your Arms (Lunar New Year Edit),” a slickly produced hook-driven bop featuring skittering beats, strummed guitar and glistening synth arpeggios serving as a lush and cinematic bed for Chen’s plaintive falsetto. Rooted in deeply heartfelt and earnest lyrics, the song seems to channel Get Ready-era New Order and St. Lucia.

Continuing a wildly prolific run, Chen released the Sunday EP earlier this month. The EP features, EP title track “Sunday (Radio Edit),” is a sleek banger featuring glistening synth arpeggios, skittering tweeter and woofer rattling thump, a relentless motorik groove paired with rousingly anthemic hooks and bursts of twinkling reverb-drenched keys. The production serves as a lush bed for Chen’s achingly tender falsetto singing some deeply earnest lyrics.

“‘Sunday’ is an anthem to summer Sunday drives and spontaneous adventures, from its infectious melodies to its heartfelt lyrics,” Chen explains.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Mister Lady Shares a Mesmerizing and Swaggering Banger

Jacqueline King is a Chicago-born, Berlin-educated, London-trained, Los Angeles-based electronic music producer and DJ, best known in electronic music circles as Mister Lady. With Mister Lady, King draws from a huge catalog of musical influences, […]

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Damien Curry Teams Up with Honey Larochelle on a Euphoric Club Banger

Damien Curry is a Los Angeles-based musician, composer and producer, who has crafted over 1,000 tracks that can be hard on over a dozen household name TV shows in just about every style you can name — from orchestrated scores, techno, emotive drama and rock.

Recently Curry has dove into an entirely new creative space with electronic dance music. His latest single, “Can’t Get Enough” is a slickly produced, club banger featuring dense layers of glistening synths arpeggios, skittering beats, bursts of soaring strings and big, rousingly euphoric hooks and choruses serving as a lush bed for Honey Larochelle‘s soulful, pop belter delivery.

Sonically seeming indebted to 90s house, “Can’t Get Enough” is a summertime anthem along the lines of Black Box‘s “Everybody Everybody” C+C Music Factory’s “Pride (A Deeper Love)” and the like — but with a modern sensibility.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: JOVM Mainstay LutchamaK Shares Melodic “B Queen V2”

French electronic music producer and JOVM mainstay LutchamaK has had a busy 2024: 

The JOVM mainstay began the year with a two-track release through Techno Parade titled Job Done, which featured “Job Done,” a glitchy and swaggering bit of techno meets footwork featuring machine gun-like skittering beats, glistening synth arpeggios paired with tweeter and woofer rattling thump. It’s an accessible and euphoric club banger meant to be played loudly and meant to encourage you to dance and sweat.

He followed that up with Flip the Funk, a four-track EP, which was digitally released through British electronic label Biotech Recordings and featured EP track “Pride,” a lush and soulful bit of deep house-meets-techno that reminded me of house music nights on WBLS back in the day. 

There was “Acid Drift” a slick, seamless synthesis of tribal house, deep house and drum ‘n’ bass that slaps hard while being dance floor friendly, which was released through Rue des Trois Rois Records. 

Continuing a remarkably prolific period, the French producer and JOVM mainstay recently released the eight-track mini album Great Broken Masses of Land through his own TERMusik. “The whole thing is more dance floor than sofa listening,” LutchamaK explains. 

Throughout the week i’ve written about about two of the album’s singles:

  • Album opener and title track “Great Broken Masses of Land,” a trance-inducing, lat night, club banger anchored around skittering tweeter and woofer rattling thump and dense layers of oscillating yet melodic synths, a chopped up mantra-like vocal sample paired with his unerring knack for incredibly catchy hooks.

  • “City Energy,” a crowd pleasing, club banger featuring glitchy oscillations, bursts of glistening synths and some industrial, tweeter and woofer rattling thump. While continuing to see the JOVM mainstay play with and mesh several different styles and subgenres, “City Energy” not only accurately evokes its title, but shows an artist, who actively pushes his sound and approach in new directions while still remaining wildly accessible.

Clocking in at a smidge over six minutes, “B Queen V2,” Great Broken Masses of Land‘s latest single continues a run of late night club bangers. And much like its predecessor, features glitchy oscillations, bursts of glistening and melodic synths, skittering beats and remarkably catchy hooks paired with a dreamy vocal sample that bursts out from the mix. “B Queen V2” manages to be a subtle refinement of his firmly established sound that retains the melodic yet crowd-pleasing quality he’s best known for.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: GR1FN Shares Euphoric and Summery Banger “Underneath the Sun”

GR1FN is an emerging and mysterious American-born electronic music producer, who has had a rather busy 2024. So far, he has released five singles, which includes his latest single “Underneath the Sun,” a Larry Levan-meets-French touch-like banger featuring dense layers of twinkling keys, skittering tweeter and woofer rattling beats and oscillating synths pared with euphoria-inducing hooks and a chopped up, soulful, mantra-like vocal sample.

It’s a summery anthem, you’d fully expect to hear rocking clubs from New York to Miami and from Ibiza to London and everywhere else in between.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: JOVM Mainstay LutchamaK Shares a Glitchy Banger

Wildly prolific French electronic music producer and JOVM mainstay LutchamaK has had a busy 2024: 

The JOVM mainstay began the year with a two-track release through Techno Parade titled Job Done, which featured “Job Done,” a glitchy and swaggering bit of techno meets footwork featuring machine gun-like skittering beats, glistening synth arpeggios paired with tweeter and woofer rattling thump. It’s an accessible and euphoric club banger meant to be played loudly and meant to encourage you to dance and sweat.

He followed that up with Flip the Funk, a four-track EP, which was digitally released through British electronic label Biotech Recordings and featured EP track “Pride,” a lush and soulful bit of deep house-meets-techno that reminded me of house music nights on WBLS back in the day. 

There was “Acid Drift” a slick, seamless synthesis of tribal house, deep house and drum ‘n’ bass that slaps hard while being dance floor friendly, which was released through Rue des Trois Rois Records. 

Continuing a remarkably prolific period, the French producer and JOVM mainstay recently released the eight-track mini album Great Broken Masses of Land through his own TERMusik. “The whole thing is more dance floor than sofa listening,” LutchamaK explains. 

Earlier this eek. I wrote about album opener and title track “Great Broken Masses of Land,” a trance-inducing, lat night, club banger anchored around skittering tweeter and woofer rattling thump and dense layers of oscillating yet melodic synths, a chopped up mantra-like vocal sample paired with his unerring knack for incredibly catchy hooks.

Great Broken Masses of Land‘s latest single “City Energy” is a crowd pleasing, club banger featuring glitchy oscillations, bursts of glistening synths and some industrial, tweeter and woofer rattling thump. While continuing to see the JOVM mainstay play with and mesh several different styles and subgenres, “City Energy” not only accurately evokes its title, but shows an artist, who actively pushes his sound and approach in new directions while still remaining wildly accessible.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: JOVM Mainstay LutchamaK Shares Hard-Hitting Banger “Great Broken Masses of Land”

Wildly prolific French electronic music producer and JOVM mainstay LutchamaK has had a busy 2024:

The JOVM mainstay began the year with a two-track release through Techno Parade titled Job Done, which featured “Job Done,” a glitchy and swaggering bit of techno meets footwork featuring machine gun-like skittering beats, glistening synth arpeggios paired with tweeter and woofer rattling thump. It’s an accessible and euphoric club banger meant to be played loudly and meant to encourage you to dance and sweat.

He followed that up with Flip the Funk, a four-track EP, which was digitally released through British electronic label Biotech Recordings and featured EP track “Pride,” a lush and soulful bit of deep house-meets-techno that reminded me of house music nights on WBLS back in the day. 

There was “Acid Drift” a slick, seamless synthesis of tribal house, deep house and drum ‘n’ bass that slaps hard while being dance floor friendly, which was released through Rue des Trois Rois Records.

Continuing a remarkably prolific period, the French producer and JOVM mainstay recently released the eight-track mini album Great Broken Masses of Land through his own TERMusik. “The whole thing is more dance floor than sofa listening,” LutchamaK explains.

The album’s opening track, album title track “Great Broken Masses of Land” is trance-inducing, late night, club banger anchored around skittering tweeter and woofer rattling thump and dense layers of oscillating yet melodic synths, a chopped up mantra-like vocal sample paired with his unerring knack for incredibly catchy hooks.