Simply the best new dance tracks of the week.
10/17/2025
Bob Moses
Hunter Moreno
This week in dance music: Fred again.. performed the second of his 10 shows in 10 weeks run, Kylie Jenner released an electro-pop track under the name King Kylie and Alok brought a record-setting 1,000 drones to his Tomorrowland Brasil performance. Meanwhile, Max Styler launched his Nu Moda label, Ninajirachi was among the nominees for the 2025 Australian Music Prize, Beatport launched a new ticketing service and Daft Punk announced that the remixes of their 2005 album Human After All will be released on vinyl for the first time. The collection includes edits by Justice, SebastiAn and more.
We spoke with Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe about their broadcasting their new ambient album Liminal into space with the pair sharing such wisdom as Eno’s observation that “I think we find our way into the future by letting ourselves have feelings about things. If it’s art, you can have all sorts of feelings, and you’re not harmed by them, because you can switch them off. Through art, you’re allowed to let yourself experience new feelings and see how they feel to you and to therefore be able to talk about them with other people. So art is a way of creating feelings, but it’s also a way of making feelings public and discussable among people.”
We also chatted with Insomniac CEO Pasquale Rotella and Avalon owner Jon Lyons about their work to preserve the historic Hollywood club and touched base with ADE’s managing director about the can’t miss event’s during the dance gathering in the Dutch capital next week.
And now, to the music. These are the best new dance tracks of the week.
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Bob Moses, Blink
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}The gentlemen of Bob Moses return in fine form with Blink, their fourth studio album. All of the smoothness and sophistication we’ve long loved about the duo’s output is present across the 10-track LP, with Tom Howie’s rich vocals giving emotional depth to the lush productions. Howie and Jimmy Vallance use the music as a mechanism to explore themes around getting older (“we used to be kids, and now we have kids,” Howie said in a new interview with Billboard Canada) and trying to be present as life flies by. Standouts include the previously released single “Time of Your Life” and “We Made It,” a celebration of love that lasts.
Blink is out on AWAL. Listen to it here.
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Kaskade, “DNCR/Imprint”
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}Dance architect Kaskade today releases the first two singles from his upcoming LP, Undux. The first is the piano house groover “DNCR,” a track with an resonant melody that altogether pulses with warmth while showing off the producer’s slinky side. Meanwhile “Imprint” is a more contemplative collaboration with vocalist Courtney Storm that pulses with longing and melancholy as the lyrics reflect on trying to read someone we love, and the imprints they leave behind when they go.
Of making the new album, Kaskade said on social media that initially “the process was frustrating. I was making music, but it didn’t feel honest, so I shelved what I had and tried again later. Same results. All of this was happening while I was facing what felt like a mountain of personal challenges. I was sad and lonely, and the music reflected that. This made me uncomfortable, so I stopped. This summer, determined to finally make an album. I sat down again, but this time I decided to embrace was I was feeling instead of forcing something. I just let it happen. As I worked through it, I could feel things getting better. I felt hopeful. Undux became a study of that hope, and the beauty that comes with having faith in something bigger than ourselves in whatever we’re going through.” The album is out Dec. 4.
“DNCR/Imprint” are out on Monstercat & Arkade. Listen to them here.
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Skream & Krystal Klear, “The Boy/Moon”
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}Skream returns to Circoloco Records with “The Boy/Moon“ EP, collab’ing with Ireland’s Krystal Klear (best known for his 2018 hit, “Neutron Dance.”) The latter producer says that the record is “about euphoria with a touch of melancholy – that feeling when all the parts connect with those you love on a dance floor, those who are there and those who aren’t.” That message is perhaps most prominent in “The Boy”, which is seemingly a tribute to Jackmaster, who passed away in 2024 — Skream has lovingly referred to his late friend as “The Boy” in social media posts, sharing stories about the producer both in and outside the nightclub.
The track itself is a banger. It comes in hot with a four-to-the-floor kick, upon which a thick analogue bass bounces and makes way for a bright synth playing a melody that’s — well, melancholic. Anyone familiar with Skream and Krystal Klear’s oeuvre will have little trouble seeing how their styles complement each other here.
“The Boy/Moon” is out on CircoLoco Records. Listen to it here.
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Floorplan, “Shining Star”
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}Dance music’s favorite father/daughter duo Floorplan is back with the same pure heat they’ve made their family name on. On this one, Robert and Lyric Hood transform Earth, Wind & Fire’s 1975 essential “Shining Star” into a all-out and full-on peak time house thumper, complete with whistles, long wind-ups and a chorus made from a wall of synths that will raise even the weariest among us to their feet. The track is the lead cut from Floorplan’s fabric presents mix, coming Nov. 28.
Shining Star is out on fabric presents. Listen to it here.
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Max Styler, “You & Me”
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}Earlier this week, Californian producer Max Styler launched his label Nu Moda, which he touts as “a place to push boundaries.” The label’s debut is here already, with Styler’s own “You & Me”, a tense, serious house track centered around a vocal sample — “Listen…It’s just you and me” — and a distorted, arpeggiating synth lead. Speaking about the song, Styler says: “From the studio to the first time playing it live, it held an energy that felt fresh and intriguing…It fuses a lot of the sonic elements I’ve become known for while touching on some new textures, which is something I try to do with every new track.”
“You & Me” arrives right on time for Styler’s upcoming tour, which sees him play a string of 19 shows across the continent, including at Art Basel Miami and Groove Cruise, before finishing the tour at Coachella 2026. The Beatport chart-topping producer seems to be setting himself up for an exceptionally strong 2026.
Listen to “You & Me” here.
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Manic Focus, Other Side of Paradise
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}Denver bass/funk stalwart Manic Focus returns with an album’s worth of music to remind us why he’s a forever fav. Other Side of Paradise is the artist’s tenth studio album, with the 15-track set full of heady production that fuse hip-hop beats, sharp sampling, turntable scratching, lots of womp and enough celestiality to make the whole thing feel lifted.
“Over the past two years I’ve tried to come up with a more solid definition of the sound of Manic Focus,” the producer says in a statement, “but I often find myself exploring more and more the enormous musical landscape before us and can’t stop experimenting with various synth elements and genres. I’ve always leaned more on the production side than the DJ side, but this album has a lot of good mix in/out points for DJs wanting to showcase the MF style.”
Listen to Other Side of Paradise here.
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Layton Giordani, Genesi & Be No Rain, “Call You Back”
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}New York’s Layton Giordani links with Italian producer Genesi and dance vocalist Be No Rain for the thumping and low key ferocious “Call You Back.” The track winds along ominously, with Be No Rain’s singsong vocals balancing the vibe out with his swaggery, laidback delivery. The track was started in a session with Be No Rain and Genesi, with Giordnani eventually joining in on the production and ultimately releasing the song on his own Madminds label.
“He brought this raw edge that pushed the track into darker, tougher territory,” Genesi of Giordani. “It carries that underground, driving energy that I love, but still holds a melodic depth that connects on the dancefloor.
“Call You Back” is out on Madminds. Listen to it here.
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