This week in dance music: PinkPantheress shared the tracklist for her upcoming mixtape, we caught up with DJ Koze about his new album Music Can Hear Us, John Summit, Skrillex and more made moves on the dance charts, we spoke with Sherelle about her debut album With a Vengeance, Poolside shared their set from CRSSD spring 2025, Create Music Group acquired venerable indie electronic imprint !K7, IMS announced that it will honor dance world power agent Maria May with its Legends Awards at the event later this month in Ibiza and we chatted with Spanish psytrance star Indira Paganotto ahead of her Coachella debut this weekend.
And in addition to all that, of course, these are the best new dance tracks of the week.
Charlotte de Witte, “The Realm”
Techno fans have been waiting a long time for this moment, with genre titan Charlotte de Witte this week releasing the first single from her forthcoming album — the first LP from her 15-plus year career. “The Realm” is just that, a windy, sleekly tough track that functions as a sort of space to move through, and in. “The lyrics capture the essence of what I believe music can do,” the Belgian producer says. “Techno, and by extension clubbing, has always been about more than just dancing for me. It’s about connection, transcendence and exploration. It’s a way of accessing something unseen, something powerful. There’s a tension and release in the structure that mirrors the feeling of letting go, of stepping into something bigger than yourself.”
De Witte’s eponymous 11-track LP is coming November 7 through her own Kntxt label. Ahead of that, she’s touring heavily across Europe, the U.S. and Asia this spring and summer.
Bob Moses, “Time of Your Life“
Bob Moses return with their first new music in three (!) years via “Time of Your Life,” a song the duo wrote in a few hours at their L.A. studio. In a joint statement they say “the song is about the devil on your shoulder. The one whispering to you to indulge in the moment and worry about everything else later. That impulsiveness can feel intoxicating. We felt that feeling in the moment, embraced it, and wrote the song from that perspective: throwing caution to the wind and having the time of your life.” While the theme seems to be fresh for them, the song itself is the classic plodding, sleek and sexy synthwave the pair have long been known for. Bob Moses will play the Do Lab stage tonight (April 11) at Coachella.
Röyksopp, True Electric
The latest album from Norway’s finest Röyksopp collects 19 studio versions of music from the duo’s 2023 True Electric tour in 2023, with an emphasis on the club-oriented elements of a catalog that goes back almost 25 years. True Electric also features a previously unreleased track, the oversized and deliciously cacophonous “The R.” Out on their own Dog Triumph label, the project also includes the previously released and very essential update to their 2014 Robyn collab “Do It Again,” among other favorites.
Walker & Royce, “Death By Love”
Walker & Royce have been longtime torch bearers for underground West Coast tech house, with their latest being one of their coolest contributions to date. Out on Insomniac Records, “Death By Love” is a textural multi-movement heater with a heft and style that makes it feel longer than its two minutes and 50 seconds. The L.A. duo will surely play it out a lot out on a spring and summer tour that includes dates at EDC Las Vegas, Movement, Dirtybird Campout x Northern Nights, HARD Summer and Outside Lands.
Haai, “Shapeshift”
The latest from Haai slowly pulses to life, with a long burn intro built with the Australian producer’s own vocals and a repeated note that sounds like the sonar on a submarine. But oh, how it takes off. Lyrics from Kam-bu take the song into its second movement, with the London rapper stating “still don’t got love for cages, feel like we haven’t spoke in age” as the beat builds and the production takes a darker, clubbier turn and then takes off into sub-bass hyperspace around the 3:06 mark. Haii herself says the track is about the “duality of being both the person you are onstage and the person you are at home, in the normal world,” a theme that will play out when she plays Coachella twice this weekend, once on the Quasar stage and once in the Yuma Tent.
