Tag: house music

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: DJ Rukhlove Shares Mind-Bending “Echoes of the Cosmic Tuaregs”

DJ Rukhlove is a mysterious and emerging Spanish electronic music artist and producer, who has been busily and prolifically releasing material over the course of the past year or so.

Earlier this year, the Spanish producer released the LutchamaK and Kraftwerk-like “Zara To Astra.”  His latest single “Echoes of the Cosmic Tuaregs,” is a slickly produced, mind-bending mesh of progressive house featuring glistening and arpeggiated synths and driving groove with live instrumentation, including guitar, violin and duduk. The result is something that’s accessible and club friendly yet evokes something timeless, like a desert caravan traveling under the stars — to a rave.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

Kelly Cappuccio is an Italian electronic music producer, whose classical training as a child helped shaped her melodic sensibility and musical ear. Her discovery of electronic music unreleased a creative epiphany: Cappuccio quickly realized she could craft a sound that flows seamlessly between techno and tech house that bridges nostalgia and innovation. 

Her latest single “Chiquilla” is an Ibiza and Miami-styled tech house banger that features Colombian Spanish vocals on a bed of hypnotic driving grooves and warm, analog production and the Italian producer’s unerring knack for euphoria-inducing hooks.

The Italian producer explains that the track is made for the 2:00am peak when the dance floor is packed, the energy is high and you need track with both groove and soul that really stands out.

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Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Helsloot’s Driving Remix of ARTBAT and Sailor & I’s “Best Of Me”

Originally released back in 2005, Booka Shade vs. M.A.N.D.Y.‘s critically applauded “Body Language” quickly became an instant classic and a defining track of mid-00s club culture. Built around a tactile bass line and an elegant sense of restraint, “Body Language” captured what Berlin-based label Get Physical Music had set out to represent: music that was both physically irresistible and and emotionally nuanced. 

“Body Language” gave its name to Get Physical’s flagship compilation series, which has since become one of the label’s defining contributions to electronic music. Over more than two decades and 26 volumes, the series has been curated by Dixon, DJ Hell, WhoMadeWho, Monkey Safari, Francesco Tristano, Yulia Niko and founders Booka Shade, DJ T., and M.A.N.D.Y. Each edition of the compilation series has functioned as both documentation and argument, a reflection of underground currents and a projection of where club culture’s potential future. 

Dutch producer Helsloot is known across the global electronic music scene for his melodic, vocal-led sound. His collaboration with Tinlicker “Because You Move Me” has amassed over 600 million streams. He has released material through a number of electronic labels including Anjunadeep, Domino, This Never Happened and Ritter Butzke. His full-length debut, last year’s Never Tried further cemented his reputation for a balancing emotional weight with dance floor precision.

Helsloot with be curating Get Physical’s Body Language, Vol. 27. Slated for a November 14, 2025 release, the 27th edition will see the rising Dutch producer bringing a contemporary perspective to the series. Last month, I wrote about the rising Dutch producer’s bold reworking on the oft-remixed “Body Language,” a take that irresistibly beckons the listener to get to that dance floor and move your ass.

The Dutch producer’s Body Language, Vol. 27 will feature, his remix of Ukrainian production duo ARTBAT‘s “Best Of Me.” Originally released back in 2020 through Get Physical’s sister label METAPHYSICAL, the melodic techno track quickly became a club anthem. In 2021, Sailor & I contributed his own, original album mix on Diving For Lost Treasure, showcasing the song’s depth as a vocal-driven track.

Helsloot’s remix places the Sailor & I vocal in a hypnotic and driving production that to my ears reminds me a bit of Tour de France-era Kraftwerk, JOVM mainstay LutchmaK and Octo Octa: layers of glistening and melodic synths are paired with a relentless motorik-like groove and crackling breakbeats. The Helsloot take is simultaneously club and late-night drive friendly without removing the emotional weight of the Sailor & I vocal.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: XO BLAKELY Shares a Playful and Fun Club Banger

XO BLAKELY is an American electronic music producer, who specializes in bilingual pop that sees her blending Latin rhythms, upbeat beats and her unique and bold sense of flair. The result is music that channels the euphoria and freedom of the dance floor — glitter, strobe lights, thumping beats and late-night emotion.

Her latest single “Normalmente” is a slickly produced, Spanish language club banger that’s one-part Miami club, one-part Ibiza, anchored around hypnotic and propulsive beats, glistening synths and sultry vocals. At its core, “Normalmente” celebrates letting go and giving into the night; of getting on to that dance floor and dancing your troubles and concerns away.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Kelly Cappuccio Shares a Sleek Club Banger

Kelly Cappuccio is an Italian electronic music producer, whose classical training as a child helped shaped her melodic sensibility and musical ear. Her discovery of electronic music unreleased a creative epiphany: Cappuccio quickly realized she could craft a sound that flows seamlessly between techno and tech house that bridges nostalgia and innovation.

Every track she creates represents an emotional journey frequently drawing from blues foundations paired with irresistibly funky grooves and sleek, contemporary production techniques.

The Italian producer’s latest single “In My Heart,” is a sleek and melodic, deep house banger anchored around glistening synths, a relentless and hypnotic groove and skittering beats that feels simultaneously cinematic and intimate.

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New Video: Tinlicker Shares Defiant and Euphoric “I Want My Freedom”

Acclaimed Utrecht-based electronic music outfit Tinlicker — founding member Micha Heyboer, Jordi van Achthoven and their newest member Hero Baldwin — can trace their origins back to 2012, when the project was founded as a solo project of its founder Heyboer. As a solo project, Heyboer released Tinlicker’s debut EP, 2012’s My First Time Here and the 2012’s Remember The Future demo compilation through his own label, Zero Three Zero.

Jordi van Achthoven was introduced to Heyboer through a mutual contact in 2014. The pair bonded over their mutual inspirations of Paul Kalkbrenner, Trentemøller and Moderat, and at that point, Tinlicker expanded to a duo, releasing three EPs through Feed Me‘s Sotto Voce, 2014’s Like No Other, 2015’s Into The Open and The Space In Between, which featured “Oudegracht,” a track that amassed significant attention online.

2017 saw the duo releasing material through Anjunadep, Armada Music and deadmau5′s mau5trap before singing a record deal with Anjunadeep, who released their breakthrough full-length debut, 2019’s This Is Not Our Universe, which featured contributions from alt-J, Run Rivers, Thomas Oliver and Belle Doron. The album reached #1 on the dance charts in the US, Australia, India, Canada and Finland and #2 in the UK, The Netherlands and Poland.

The duo’s sophomore album In Another Life was released in February 2022. But by November 2023, the duo announced that the third album, last year’s Cold Enough for Snow would be released through [PIAS] Électronique. The album featured collaborations with Brian Molko, Editors‘ Tom Smith and Circa Waves. The Dutch duo supported the album with sets at Pinkpop Festival, CRSSD Festival, Crystal Palace Bowl, Coachella and Sziget Festival.

Back in 2020, as the Dutch duo were achieving commercial and critical success, they had started a successful collaboration with London-based signer/songwriter and producer Hero Baldwin that has continued through a series of singles including their most recent single “I Started A Fire,” which was released earlier this year. Heyboer and van Achthoven recently invited Baldwin to be a full-time member of the band. “Jordi and Micha seem to pull something out of me that resonates with my emotional landscape every time we make a song,” the London-based singer/songwriter and producer says. “I think it’s so important to feel creatively and emotionally secure, and Jordi and Micha always afford me that privilege.”

The act’s Melkweg Amsterdam show was their official debut as a trio. She also joined the duo for their biggest live show to date, Tinlicker In The Park at Crystal Palace Bowl.

Tinlicker’s highly-anticipated fourth album — and first as a trio — is slated for an early 2026 release. But in the meantime, the trio’s latest single “I Want My Freedom” showcases what has made the Dutch outfit a titan in electronic music: Beginning with a slow-burning piano intro that seemingly nods at Radiohead‘s “Everything In Its Right Place,” the track quickly morphs into a festival and club banger featuring skittering beats, glistening and melodic synth arpeggios, a string section sample-led bridge, and a euphoric bridge and hook, which serves as a slickly produced and lush bed for Baldwin’s defiant and resolute vocals.

Throughout the song’s runtime, Baldwin’s lyrics are especially pertinent right now, as many countries across the world seem to be sliding backwards into a brutally abusive, authoritarian hellscape that many of us don’t want — and will resist until death.

“These lyrics circled in my mind for a long time” Baldwin says. “I started writing from that feeling of disconnection as a woman in my mid-twenties with a sharp awareness of the world moving backwards. But over time, the song grew into something bigger. ‘I Want My Freedom’ isn’t just about me, it’s about all of us. The heartbreaking truth is that the abuse of freedoms reaches far beyond gender. I wanted to create a song of inclusion, with a nod to what I personally feel I’ve lost. Freedom is never handed to us, it’s something we fight for, and I no longer have that softness in me to apologize for that.”

The accompanying video for “I Want My Freedom” consists of footage shot from their Crystal Palace Bowl set.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Dutch Producer Helsloot Tackles a Beloved house Music Classic

Originally released back in 2005, Booka Shade vs. M.A.N.D.Y.‘s critically applauded “Body Language” quickly became an instant classic and a defining track of mid-00s club culture. Built around a tactile bass line and an elegant sense of restraint, “Body Language” captured what Berlin-based label Get Physical Music had set out to represent: music that was both physically irresistible and and emotionally nuanced.

“Body Language” gave its name to Get Physical’s flagship compilation series, which has since become one of the label’s defining contributions to electronic music. Over more than two decades and 26 volumes, the series has been curated by Dixon, DJ Hell, WhoMadeWho, Monkey Safari, Francesco Tristano, Yulia Niko and founders Booka Shade, DJ T., and M.A.N.D.Y. Each edition of the compilation series has functioned as both documentation and argument, a reflection of underground currents and a projection of where club culture’s potential future.

Dutch producer Helsloot is known across the global electronic music scene for his melodic, vocal-led sound. His collaboration with Tinlicker “Because You Move Me” has amassed over 600 million streams. He has released material through a number of electronic labels including Anjunadeep, Domino, This Never Happened and Ritter Butzke. His full-length debut, last year’s Never Tried further cemented his reputation for a balancing emotional weight with dance floor precision.

Helsloot with be curating Get Physical’s Body Language, Vol. 27. Slated for release later this year, the 27th edition will see the rising Dutch producer bringing a contemporary perspective to the series. The compilation’s latest single sees the Dutch producer tackling the oft-remixed “Body Language.” Retaining subtle elements of the original’s taut groove, Helsloot turns that groove into a glistening and melodic synth-driven melody and pairs it with a hypnotic, motorik-like groove, which gives the Dutch producer’s take on the song a trance-inducing yet introspective feel that irresistibility beckons the listener to move.

“I know this track has been remixed a lot so I said to myself ‘challenge accepted’. My vision was to make a full chord melody out of the iconic bassline that slowly evolves into the original,” Helsloot says of his remix.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: LutchamaK Shares Dreamy “No Right Or Wrong”

French electronic music producer and JOVM mainstay LutchamaK further cemented his reputation for being restlessly prolific with the recent release of the five-song Libra EP. 

Libra EP features opening and title track “Libra,” and the EP’s latest single “No Right Or Wrong,” sees the JOVM mainstay effortlessly balancing in-your-face swagger and skittering boom bap with dreamily ethereal yet soulful synths. And much like its predecessor, “No Right Or Wrong” manages to be simultaneously lounge and club friendly.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: JOVM Mainstay LutchamaK Shares Ethereal and Soulful “Libra”

French electronic music producer and JOVM mainstay LutchamaK further cemented his reputation for being restlessly prolific with the recent release of the five-song Libra EP.

“Libra,” the EP’s opening and title track is a deep house banger, anchored around a hypnotic and rave-friendly motorik groove, broodingly atmospheric synths, skittering boom bap., electronic glitch and robotic vocal samples. Channeling Larry Levan, Kraftwerk and Between Two Selves-era Octo Octa, “Libra” manages to be simultaneously ethereal, soulful and dance floor friendly.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Analine Shares a Lounge and Club Friendly Bop

Analine is a French composer and producer, who describes their sound as a fusion between pop, rock, jazz and electronic music. Once a former academic, who specialized in medieval history, the French composer and producer […]

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: TONNUP Shares Woozy and Euphoric “Dream of You”

Craig Ferguson is an electronic music producer and artist, best known as TONNUP. Over the past year, Ferguson has released a growing collection of club bangers. His latest single “Dream of You” is a club banger featuring a punchy bass line, tweeter and woofer rattling beats and glistening synths serving as a lush bed for a soulful and yearning vocal sample.

Arguably, one of the more summery, almost Ibiza-like tunes of Ferguson’s growing catalog, “Dream of You” is a fun song with a euphoric hook that manages to capture the woozy joy of thinking about a crush — and realizing that it’s mutual.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Tony Shamanski Shares a Slickly Produced and Soulful Banger

Tony Shamanski shares a slickly produced and soulful banger.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

DJ Rukhlove is a mysterious and emerging Spanish electronic music artist and producer, who has been busily and prolifically releasing material over the course of the past year or so. HIs latest single “Zara To Astra,” is a slickly produced, deep house banger that seemingly channels JOVM mainstay LutchamaK and Kraftwerk — in particular, Radioactivity-era and Tour de France-era Kraftwerk.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Tori Bell Shares a Summery, Club Friendly Banger

Splitting time between Santa Monica and San Francisco, Tori Bell is an emerging singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer, whose deep passion for lyricism, storytelling and melodies has been the driving force behind her restlessly exploitive creativity; “I use technology to take on different voices across many genres to tell my life story,” the California-based artist explains. “Most songs are autobiographical or detail commentary on heavier topics like social issues, love, rejection, longing, limerence, mental health release and more.”

Bell’s latest single “bad good” is a slickly produced, summery Ibiza-meets big festival stage bop featuring glistening and glitchy synth oscillation, tweeter and woofer rattling thump and enormous drops which serve as a lush bed for Bell’s sultry pop starlet delivery.