New music highlights from Dancing Astronaut’s Artists to Watch in 2025
SHOUSE – Dawn (Henri Bergmann remix)
Henri Bergmann delivers a shocking new remix of SHOUSE’s “Dawn,” out now through Hell Seashore/Onelove. Reimagining the Australian-New Zealand duo’s newest single by means of her melodic lens, Bergmann transforms the observe right into a progressive and euphoric journey. The remix has already develop into a standout second in her current performances at Brunch Barcelona and Zamna Tenerife, the place it drew highly effective crowd reactions. – Alex Lambeau
Layton Giordani, GENESI & Be No Rain – Name You Again
GENESI groups up with Layton Giordani and vocalist Be No Rain for “Name You Again,” a cool crossover launch on Giordani’s new MADMINDS file label. Lately named a Dancing Astronaut Artist to Watch in 2025, GENESI continues his breakout run following standout releases on Diynamic, Truesoul, and Aeterna. With “Name You Again,” Giordani and GENESI ship a membership file that may absolutely see widespread DJ assist throughout all sub genres of home and techno. – Alex Lambeau
MARTA – No Small Discuss
Toronto-based MARTA delivers her second unique launch of 2025 with “No Small Discuss.” The self-released single follows August’s “World Of The Rave.” She’s in the course of a fall tour that included a date at Magnetic World Pageant in Halifax and upcoming dates at D/partment in her hometown of Toronto plus Montreal, Winnipeg and Ottawa. – Ross Goldenberg
Otherwish – It’s Okay To Marvel [EP]
When Otherwish took over the stage within the coronary heart of Instances Sq. again in early September, his hour-long pop-up set was full of one unreleased unique after one other. Quick ahead a month and a half, and the previous Dancing Astronaut Artist to Watch has returned to his longtime dwelling of This By no means Occurred with a five-sided EP, It’s Okay To Marvel. Following “All About This,” Otherwish’s fifth prolonged launch on Lane 8’s imprint additional refines his distinct melodic home sound that has frequently set him aside over the previous two years. – Ross Goldenberg
Max Styler – You & Me
Max Styler ushers in a brand new chapter with “You & Me,” one in all Dancing Astronaut‘s most-anticipated IDs of the 12 months and the debut launch on his freshly minted label, Nu Moda. Most notably included in Styler’s Seismic 2024 set, the one from Dancing Astronaut‘s reigning Breakout Artist of the 12 months captures the essence of what Nu Moda represents—artistry with out limits and a dedication to these redefining the sound of dance music. “You & Me” carries an infectious power that embodies Styler’s evolving imaginative and prescient as each a producer and curator. With this launch, he invitations listeners into the world of Nu Moda—an area for creativity, connection, and forward-thinking sound. – Danielle Carty
ChaseWest – Scream!
After months of circulating as a highly-anticipated ID, ChaseWest’s “Scream!” has lastly been given its official launch, simply in time for Halloween. Championed in units by artists like Michael Bibi and Adam Ten, the observe fuses eerie power with the Dancing Astronaut Artist to Watch alumni’s tech home grooves. With screams and howls woven into its rhythm, “Scream!” is a dance ground prepared thriller that retains the power excessive from begin to end. – Liana Stern
Bob Moses – BLINK [Album]
Written throughout a flurry of Dropbox hyperlinks and Discord notifications traded throughout coasts (Tom Howie in New York, Jimmy Valence in Los Angeles), Bob Moses’ BLINK asks an existential query: “How do you reconcile the need to have a significant life with the belief that it’s gone straight away, that you could’t maintain onto issues for too lengthy?”
After remotely tooling concepts from keyboard riffs and drum loops, the electronic-rock duo reconvened in a number of cities, together with Toronto and Vancouver, to reply it. The ensuing LP – their fourth – straddles the ever-thin line between for now and eternally. Throughout 10 stirring tracks that discover the outfit on the high of its sport, Bob Moses awakens to a actuality equal components bitter and candy: The one solution to repair ephemera is to simply accept that it’s all ephemeral.
“Life strikes so shortly that it’s generally arduous to maintain up. Are we doing all we ought to be? Are we attaining our objectives, hitting the subsequent degree, and creating probably the most significant life we could be? It’s loads to reckon with,” Howie says of BLINK’s title observe. “Possibly it’s finest to acknowledge that being current within the second, cherishing our experiences, and having the braveness to proceed on the journey is commonly the perfect we are able to do. As a result of, you possibly can blink after which it’s gone.” The album performs loads like that, too. – Rachel Narozniak
Ian Snow – Sub Zero
Snow falls softly. Ian Snow hits arduous.
“Sub Zero,” the Denver-based producer’s reply to June’s “Ice Waves,” deepens the frigid imagery and sounds of his burgeoning catalog with sufficient bass to show a whiteout right into a blackout. Sonically, it fuses the newer parts of his freewheeling, low-end-heavy sound with the stylistic groundwork he laid beneath his earlier mission, SNOWMASS. “Midtempo will at all times maintain a particular place in my coronary heart. It’s bouncy, dirty, and danceable — pushed by the sounds of the longer term,” he says. “I really like taking each nook and cranny of a observe and glitching it out whereas nonetheless preserving its body-moving impression. To me, ‘Sub Zero’ is the epitome of that steadiness.” The observe (and temperatures) drops through Chunk This! – Rachel Narozniak
Afrojack & Eva Simon – Take Over Management (Remixes from Maddix, HILLS)
Afrojack’s celebration of 15 years of “Take Over Management” commences with a pair of remixes from Maddix and HILLS that make just like the track’s title to do exactly that. With dynamite in its DNA, the previous’s spin detonated at Tomorrowland Brasil final weekend, conferring a uncooked new vitality to one in all Afrojack’s most seminal releases. Maddix’s arduous, hammering take each incites chaos in raveland and strikes a pointy distinction to the late-night home sensibilities of HILLS’ interpretation. Slick and managed, with weighty bass heft and membership groove, the duo reframes “Take Over Management” for a unique however no much less propulsive dance/digital setting, naturally infusing it with their easy cool. Contemplate management taken. – Rachel Narozniak
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