Best new dance tracks of the week according Billboard
Of the Trees, Moonglade Park
One of the strongest dance releases of the year thus far comes from Colorado-based producer Of The Trees, who releases his latest album Moonglade Park today. The ten-track LP is stylish and deeply thoughtful, uniting textured IDM with swaggering hip-hop with hints of the low-end hard stuff that’s made Of the Trees a key leader in the live bass scene. A concept album designed around the idea of the fictional national park designed to host an the album’s creative world, Moonglade Park includes collaborations with Earthgang, Player Dave, Elohim and other characters who make this fictional place somewhere we’d sincerely like to visit IRL.
“This project is a culmination of everything from my creative journey that has led me to this point,” says the producer born Tyler Coombs. “It feels like the first truly ‘complete’ release I’ve been able to put together, in the sense that I’ve always intended to build up my release projects to this scale, but Of The Treenever had the resources to do so.
“I didn’t do it alone, either,” he continues. “I assembled the absolute A-Team, for all of the different facets of the world we built surrounding the music, which is truly a testament to how fortunate I am to have been in this scene for as long as I am. Meeting all of the amazing people I am lucky enough to work with now on a daily basis feels like perhaps the biggest reward for staying consistently on top of my goals as an artist after all of these years. It truly takes a village to bring projects like this to life.”
DJ Minx, Energy
Ever consistent Detroit hero DJ Minx keeps the good goods coming today with her new Energy EP, which features the thoroughly cool title track and the vibey and sort of Twin Peaks-esque hype song “Get Up,” along with edits of both of those songs. Energy comes ahead of DJ Minx’s set at Sound Room at Public Records in New York tomorrow, and is out on Rekids LTD.
Devault, “Zero”
Quickly rising California-born producer Devault makes good on that reputation with his latest, “Zero.” Finding the sweet spot betwixt UKG and electro-pop, the track is an apt set-closer if we’ve ever heard one, with the melody giving saccharine sweetness, the production firmly grounding the track in clubland and everything together encapsulating the bliss of those final perfect moments on the dancefloor after a long night getting after it. “Zero” is out on Insomniac Records.
Ahadadream With Skrillex & Raf Saperra, ‘Bass Dhol’
U.K. leader Ahadadream links with previous collaborator Skrillex (his partner on “Taka”) and British Pakistani rapper Raf Saperra for “Bass Dhol,” which Ahadadream says first came to life in early 2023, “when Sonny invited me to work on music together in Miami. That’s when I played him some Raf Saperra too, he loved the vibe and we thought he’d be perfect for this track. Early versions of the track have been getting played since back then, so I’m super happy to finally see this officially going out into the world in its final form.” The track is out on Dialled In/Island Records.
Max Styler feat. Ad-Apt, ‘One More’
Max Styler is one of tech house’s buzziest new names of the moment, with the American artist making good on the reputation with another saucy club anthem, “One More.” Vocals from Manchester MC Ad-Apt expand the attitude of the already swaggering song, with the vocalist declaring that he’s “not ready to leave the rave, I came to move and dance and misbehave.” The track is out on Styler’s own Nu Moda label.
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