Simply the best new dance tracks of the week.
Peggy Gou Courtesy of Atlantic Records
This week in dance music: We visited Zedd at his house in L.A. to chat with him about his passion for latte-making, a hobby that isn’t casual. Upon arrival we found a veritable chemistry lab worth of coffee-making equipment, which the producer used to prepare a perfect cup. Later in the interview he also talked about his massive Coachella 2025 performance, the ten-year anniversary or his album True Colors, his take on AI and why a potential collaboration with the ladies of BLACKPINK is “very much” on his radar.
“I still would love to collaborate with BLACKPINK,” he told us. “I don’t have anything specific right now, but I do have a song that I made that I think would be incredible with BLACKPINK.”
Meanwhile, we spoke with deadmau5 about his pet cats, which he calls “the most non-judgmental conduits of grief or stress.” John Summit shared his complete 54-song setlist from the debut Experts Only residency at Hï Ibiza last weekend, a show he says he was “pretty nervous” about, and we did a deep dive with Vivian Belzaguy Hunter, Ultra Music Festival’ director of sustainability, about Mission: Home, a program that diverted more than 50 tons of waste from landfills this year alone.
Also, Nashville’s two-day electronic festival Deep Tropics announced the programming for its annual sustainability conference happening ahead of the fest and PinkPantheress opened up about her OCD on the podcast Therapuss, saying that “if I don’t consider myself a certain standard at what I’m doing, I don’t see the point doing it… That’s something birthed from my OCD, by not being satisfied by anything less than perfect.”
And finally, these are the best new dance tracks of the week.
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Peggy Gou, “D.A.N.C.E.”
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines, because the much hyped F1 movie is out today in tandem with the latest release from it’s megawatt soundtrack. “D.A.N.C.E.” is Peggy Gou’s first solo single of the year, and it finds her in the same vibey sonic pocket as her 2024 debut album I Hear You, with the track pulsing along on a bouncy bassline and slinky vocals from the South Korean producer herself. The track joins the soundtrack’s other electronic fare, the Tiësto and Sexyy Red collab “OMG” and Dom Dolla’s high horsepower “No Room For a Saint.”
“D.A.N.C.E.” is out on Gou’s Gudu Recording. Listen to it here.
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Stryv, Malachii & Adam Port, “Positions”
The power trio behind one of 2024’s biggest dance tracks, “Move,” return with its encore “Positions.” The new song shares a lot of connective tissue with the previous one, with the trio – rising producer Stryv, SoCal vocalist Malachii and Keinemusik’s Adam Port – together making an Afro-house slow burner in which the titular “Positions” refer to the many ways one’s hips move while dancing.
While an unreleased version of “Positions” already went viral, it gets its full and official release today via Interscope. Listen to it here.
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Zulan, “Campeón”
Argentinean-American producer Zulan made her Coachella debut this year on the Do Lab stage, and further flexes her one to watch status with her latest single, “Campeón.” Deftly fusing traditional Latin music and spare, stylish tech house, the track bumps and builds to a deep, satisfying and celebratory peak. The 22-year old artist calls the track “my favorite song I’ve made” and shares that it was heavily influenced by football (the sport we American refer to as soccer) and that it was her goal to capture the thrill and passion of the sport through music.
Listen to “Campeón” here.
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Neil Frances, “No Way Back” (Club NF Version)
Adonis’ 1986 single “No Way Back” is a classic of the house genre, a bouncy, slinky, come-hither late night club essential. As part of their dancefloor-oriented Club NF project, Los Angeles duo Neil Frances take the track and rework it, beefing up the classic bassline and adding a different tone to Adonis’ purring vocals. The single follows their three-track CLUB NF Vol. 2 EP out earlier this month, and its predecessor CLUB NF VOL. 1, which included dance takes on Neil Frances’ “dancing,” “Dumb Love,” and their cover of Stardust’s “Music Sounds Better With You.” In a statement on this newest track, the pair say that “the bass line is ubiquitous, Adonis is a pioneer, the 303 is unmistakable and we’re merely trying to do this seminal classic justice.”
“No Way Back” (Club NF Version) is out on NEIL FRANCES/Nettwerk Music Group. Listen to it here.
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Peekaboo & Scrufizzer, “One More Time”
Dubstep favorite Peekaboo links with U.K. grime veteran Scrufizzer for the predictably ferocious “One More Time.” Built around a buzzsaw bass, the track is an absolutely hectic body-pummeler that the Michigan-born producer calls “easily one of my favorite tracks I’ve made in a long time and it was such a pleasure working with Scru. Man has SO much talent and we have made many more tunes together.” The release comes ahead of Peekaboo sets at summer festivals including Beyond Wonderland at the Gorge, Lost Lands, North Coast, Das Energi and Breakaway Carolina.
“One More Time” is Peekaboo’s debut on Major Recordings. Listen to it here.