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Ede Carried San Francisco Alt Pop into a High-Octane Rush of a Dreamscape with ‘In Between’

Posted on 7 July 2026

Idaho-born, San Francisco-based singer-songwriter Ede has few pop boundaries left to break if her latest single, In Between, is anything to go by. By splicing the evocative drama of a power ballad with blasts of 90s garage in the frenetic beats and augmenting the energy of contemporary dance pop, she has dug the ultimate aural rabbit hole, leaving adrenaline on tap for fans looking for high-octane escapism.

The lush elements are viscerally juxtaposed by the hard-hitting tempos in the progressive single, allowing rushes of momentum to flood the mix before winding back to expose the fantastical dream pop core of yearning implanted into the nucleus of the release. In Between carries the feel of an artist who understands how to let intimacy survive inside large-scale production, keeping the emotional centre alive even as the arrangement races towards a rhythmic detonation.

Originally from Boise, Ede began writing through a lifelong relationship with music, using songwriting as a way to explore creativity and personal growth. Her self-produced alt-pop sensibility gives In Between its distinctive shape, while her forthcoming Heaven Sent collaboration with Jacob Espling is set to exhibit more of her uninhibited melodic ambition. At the very least, In Between may have just coined the neo-classical EDM chamber-pop genre.

In Between is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Lon3! Broke the Sonic Matrix with his Retro-Futurist Adrenaline-Fuelled Dreamscape of Genre Distortion, SUBCULTUR3D

Posted on 7 July 2026

Lon3! defies both genre and the contemporary zeitgeist in his seminal LP, SUBCULTUR3D, a retro-futurist synthesis of new wave synth pop, distortion-warped electronica, existential philosophy and 8-bit-inspired melodies, constructed into a digital dreamscape of leftfield sound.

Across the 8-track monolith, angst-trap vocals drift over kinetic beats that build spacey vignettes of a disillusioned mind moving through pure experimentalism. Experimentalists often mistake obscurity for depth, but Lon3! reaches authenticity and infectiously fresh ingenuity without sounding like he is straining for either. It feels as though he is scarcely within the same orbit as us when laying down the gravity-defying foundations of his genre-fluid sound, pulling pop, RnB, DnB and funk into tableaus of escapist colour and jaded soul.

The Southern California recording artist, singer-songwriter and producer carries the ethos of a generation that grew up between internet nostalgia, corporate surveillance and DIY self-invention. After collaborating with ericdoa on 2NITE, signing with Boom Records in 2025, returning to independence and founding CULTPOP Media, Lon3! has already proved he is operating with more than surface-level rebellion.

Even securing a settlement against a Big Three major label without legal representation speaks to the same refusal to be flattened by the machine. SUBCULTUR3D is a vivid act of reclamation after creative stagnation, sparked by Y2K memory and sharpened into pure adrenaline-fuelled ingenuity.

SUBCULTUR3D is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Frank Abraham Sweetened the Golden Hour Glow with his Emotional Electronic Music summer anthem, On a Day Like Today

Posted on 4 July 2026

To see why coining the genre Emotional Electronic Music, EEM, was necessary to encapsulate his dreamily emotive sonic signature, slip into the affecting transcendence of Frank Abraham’s latest single, On a Day Like Today. The California-based producer, DJ and curator has created a release where progressive momentum and ethereally romantic vocals move in complete synergy.

The guest vocalist reaches nirvana with her harmonies as the beats carry the track forwards, yet no single element dominates the euphoria. There is immense emotional freedom to be found within On a Day Like Today, giving you permission to dream and drift through disinhibition, far away from any notions of monotony. The production glows with the melodic uplift of artists such as RÜFÜS DU SOL and Above & Beyond, while still remaining rooted in Abraham’s own EEM ethos.

There are swathes of sync appeal in this sun-bleached masterstroke, which treats the sunset like a bittersweet event, a reminder that perfect moments go on forever only in memory, so make them while you can.

On a Day Like Today is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Jordan Fox’s EBENEZER is the most in-vogue alt-electronica odyssey you’ll ever hear

Posted on 27 June 2026

Following a prelude which sits between the score to a Tarantino flick and the aural aesthetics of histrionic theatre, EBENEZER by JORDAN FOX keeps the juxtapositions equally avant-garde within its adrenalised alt-electronica mix. Hints of Eastern rhythm drift through frenetic synth pop against dreamy diaphanous motifs, allowing the release to breathe and ebb under the hypnotically lush vocals.

After the intro, the divide between your consciousness and the ingenious, syncopated euphonic rushes of ecstasy in EBENEZER is practically a façade of a veil. The bass-heavy low end and percussion lock into your nervous system, while lighter, transcendent tones surrounding his choir-esque harmonic stretches give your soul freedom to explore new territory, one marked in awe for what JORDAN FOX brings to the airwaves through infinite imagination and genre-mashing syntheses of sound.

The Los Angeles-based media composer, producer and songwriter folds years of fashion-world composition into a debut single that wrestles with the fear of devoting your life to something while watching love, milestones and meaning slip past unnoticed. With electronic and orchestral textures expanding around his voice, plus a Shauna Presto-directed video featuring choreography for eight dancers, EBENEZER feels built as a full sensory event. The vocal performance alone is enough to put him on the proverbial map. Hopefully, this in-vogue odyssey isn’t too cerebral to go viral.

EBENEZER is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

K8 – System Error: DnB-Driven Alt-Electronica for the Matrix-Breaking Masses

Posted on 26 June 2026

K8’s waves of DnB-driven alt-electronica experimentation are becoming harder to ignore; she created a sonic riptide with System Error, featuring James Getting. The South London artist, shaped by Spanish and Italian roots, pulled drum and bass, jungle, alternative hip-hop, rock guitars and atmospheric synth pressure into a dystopian release with a cinematic voltage that wires straight into the nervous system.

As an alt-electronica artist who always refuses to temper the intellect, wit and metaphoric power of her lyrics, System Error marks K8 at a poignant zenith. She pulls everyone who feels the shockwaves of System Error out of the static of sleepwalk and forces them to see past the illusion, past the navel-gazing and into the rubble left by propaganda, division and manufactured oppression.

James Getting, lead guitarist of The Divide, brings his guitar into full force, proving that caustic guitar riffs have just as much of a place in alt-electronica as they do rock and metal. Inspired by the adrenaline of Chase & Status’ Control, System Error carries breakbeats, heavy electric pressure and a filmic atmosphere somewhere between Stranger Things and Alice in Wonderland.

K8’s vocals take on a South London-tinged, ethereally animatronic affect, yet her words refuse to sit on the surface level of your synapses. You can’t help but reach the outro feeling freer than when you dove into the kinetic protest track.

System Error is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

A Galaxy of Soul Moves Through Superdj Mavr’s Psychedelic Electro Pop Hit, Memory Box

Posted on 24 June 2026

Superdj Mavr captured the euphoria of nostalgia in his latest sonic capsule of electro pop, Memory Box. Forget the old tropes of rose-tinted glasses, in this sleek mind-altering session, snapshots of the past slip through a psychedelic synth-pop kaleidoscope before drifting upwards through the cosmically lush production, which demonstrates exactly why and how Superdj Mavr earned and deserved his pedigree status.

There’s a galaxy of soul swathed into the stylistic oscillations of Memory Box, which hits all the right cinematic spots while affirming that Superdj Mavr’s true home is behind a DJ booth, watching bodies move and find transcendence to tempo. The Kyiv-based DJ, producer and vinyl devotee has spent more than 25 years shaping electronic rooms through rare records, high-energy house, techno, breaks and big beat, while helping build Ukraine’s vinyl culture through his long-standing connection to Diskultura.

The artist’s decorated and devoted history moves through Memory Box with seasoned cultivation. The production feels sleek yet reverent to the dancefloor, sharpened by club knowledge earned through decades of reading dancers at floor level. To top it all off, the outro blooms into something spiritual through nuancedly interlaced hymnal chants, and if there’s any electro pop producer worthy of being knelt to at an altar, it is Superdj Mavr

Memory Box is now available to stream on all major platforms, including SoundCloud.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Kiss Me & Miss Me by Beissoul & Einius Is Couture Club Pop with a Soul Lit from Within

Posted on 18 June 2026

The pioneers of Electrofashion, Beissoul & Einius, are back with another anthem of pure couture club classic transcendence. Kiss Me & Miss Me bridges cinematic sound design and luxe sonic style, with each progression meticulously tailored to take the listener higher until the final drop leaves them on a plateau of soul-heavy euphoria.

The effects laid over the vocals do little to temper the soul radiating from them. Instead, they give the polished production an almost infinite sense of expansiveness, allowing the arrangement to become a multi-sensory, all-encompassing aura. This is seductive spirituality for anyone who finds their altars between boutiques and the dancefloor, where desire, elegance and electronic force become part of the same ritual.

From Vilnius, vocalist Beissoul, Artūras Žabas, and producer Einius Jarutis have spent over a decade building a world where electronic pop, fashion, visual art and cinematic performance move as one. Their award-winning reputation across Lithuania, the Baltics and Europe, with festival appearances at Sziget, Eurosonic Noorderslag, Europavox and Tallinn Music Week, gives Kiss Me & Miss Me an arena-sized sense of intention.

After commanding massive Žalgiris Arena productions with custom fashion, dancers, visuals and theatrical scale, Beissoul & Einius bring that same spectacle into the bloodstream of the single.

Kiss Me & Miss Me is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

DMG Pulled Late-80s Rave Spirit Back into the Bloodstream with ‘Live the Dream’

Posted on 11 June 2026

Euphoria is in the house after DMG dropped their latest instant club classic, Live the Dream, a trancey invitation to refuse limitations and push your desire to the limits. The glitchy breakbeats syncopate their way into your bloodstream, along with an intravenous shot of adrenaline, pulling the body straight back to the sweat, circuitry and collective abandon of acid house’s most mythic corners.

Blackburn-born and Scotland-based, DMG built Live the Dream from a fascination with the late-80s Blackburn rave scene, where post-industrial surroundings became an unlikely ignition point for one of the UK’s most radical underground movements. That historical voltage runs through the single without turning it into a museum piece. Instead, found footage, period electronic fragments and rave-memory residue are folded into a track that sparks in the way only spiritually switched-on sound can.

There is a real charge in the way DMG questions nostalgia itself: who gets to feel connected to a scene, who gets to retell its folklore, and how absence can still become a form of belonging. Live the Dream understands rave culture as mythology, social rupture, sanctuary and supernatural release all at once. By the time the beat has locked into full-body command, the track has become proof that collective euphoria still has teeth.

Live the Dream is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Rayrick’s ‘Orbit’ Sends Tenderness Through Cosmically Spaced Electronica and Neon New Wave Desire

Posted on 5 June 2026

On June 5th, Rayrick launched his most intimately interstellar release yet with Orbit. With his unique talent in bringing tenderness into expansive sound design, the Taiwan-born, NYC-based electronica artist has been making all the right waves since his debut; he approaches retro-futurist soundscapes with reverence for past and present, keeping the soul of 80s synth pop alive while exhibiting how attuned he is to the fervour that falls over contemporary dancefloors.

Passion finds its propulsion through the strobing synths, snares, cosmically spacious motifs and vocals, delivered by a guest vocalist whose emotive depth rivals the Grand Canyon, pulling you into a black hole of sticky-sweet progressive pop romanticism glossed with the neon strobe lights of new wave synth pop. Orbit carries melodic dubstep, bass, and progressive house through a clean-lined, emotionally heightened production style that’s built for headphones and rooms where bodies move under ultraviolet light.

As a producer, DJ, and audio engineer, Rayrick brought his technical chops to the single without sterilising its sentiment. His attention to structure, pacing, and atmosphere gives Orbit its sense of lift, letting the track feel expansive, intimate, and ready for late-night surrender.

Orbit is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

BOOTHED Interview: From Disco Roots to Festival-Facing House and Viral Club Momentum

Posted on 27 May 2026

Across club floors, festival clips, social feeds and international playlists, BOOTHED has been building the kind of momentum that makes industry ears snap towards the speaker. With more than 24 million cumulative streams across DSPs, over 80 million combined short-form video views, releases through Protocol Recordings, Spinnin’ Records, Box of Cats and Another Rhythm, plus support from Martin Garrix, Nicky Romero, Fedde Le Grand and Don Diablo, the project is moving with serious force. In this interview, BOOTHED reflects on the viral lift around his official Get Down On It sample, the club reach of Body Wanna Rave, Rave Tonight and Sexy Sturdy, the pull of 70s and 80s disco and funk, and the next phase of his modern house and EDM sound.

The last two years have moved at serious speed for you, with your sound, audience, and industry support all expanding fast. When did you first feel things starting to shift?

I think the biggest shift happened when I started seeing the music travel beyond my immediate circle and local environments. At first, you are just making music because you love it, but over time I began noticing more international support, more engagement online, DJs playing the tracks, labels becoming interested, and people connecting with the project in different countries. That was probably the moment where I realised things were starting to evolve into something much bigger and more professional.

Your official sample of Kool & The Gang’s Get Down On It became a massive moment, especially with the original band giving it approval. What did that co-sign mean to you personally?

Honestly, it meant a lot to me. Kool & The Gang are legends, and their music has influenced generations of artists, including myself. Having their approval gave me confidence in the direction I was taking creatively. It also showed me that combining classic influences with modern electronic production can create something that connects across different audiences and generations.

That release went viral, hit international charts, and brought new industry people into your orbit. How did it change the way you saw your own potential as an artist?

It definitely changed my perspective. Before that, I always believed in the project, but seeing the release reach international charts and generate that level of attention made me realise the music could genuinely compete on a much bigger scale. It also opened new conversations with labels, DJs and industry people, which helped me understand that the project was moving into a new phase professionally.

Body Wanna Rave and Rave Tonight have both gained serious momentum in the United States and found their way into festivals, clubs, and raves around the world. What has it felt like seeing those tracks travel so far?

It’s honestly surreal sometimes. Those tracks were created with pure club and rave energy in mind, so seeing people connect with them in completely different countries and environments has been really rewarding. Social media also played a huge role because it allowed the tracks to spread naturally through videos, clubs and festival content. Seeing people use the music in their own moments and experiences is probably one of the best feelings as an artist.

Sexy Sturdy landing on major Spotify editorial playlists, including Tech House Operator, feels like another big marker. How did you react when you saw that support coming through?

I was genuinely very happy because editorial playlist support is something that can really help push a record into new audiences. Tech House Operator is a respected playlist within the electronic music space, so being included there felt like another important step forward for the project. It also confirmed to me that the direction I’m currently exploring creatively is resonating within the scene.

Your sound pulls from 70s and 80s disco and funk, then drives that energy into modern house and EDM. What first drew you towards that mix of old-school groove and current club pressure?

I grew up listening to a lot of disco, funk and classic dance music through artists like Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind & Fire and Kool & The Gang. At the same time, I was also heavily inspired by modern electronic artists and festival culture. Over time, blending those two worlds started to feel very natural to me. I love groove and musicality, but I also love strong club energy, so combining those elements became a way of expressing both sides of my influences.

With multiple new tracks coming through international labels, how are you choosing what to release next, and what kind of energy are you trying to build across this year?

At the moment, I’m trying to focus on records that feel authentic to where I am creatively rather than simply chasing trends. I want the releases to feel connected whilst still exploring different energies, from more crossover disco-influenced tracks to darker and more club-focused records. This year is really about building consistency, strengthening the identity of the project, and continuing to grow both artistically and professionally.

Between the new collaborations, summer gigs, global traction, and fresh releases, what feels most exciting about where Boothed is heading right now?

I think the most exciting part is that the project still feels like it’s growing naturally. There are a lot of new opportunities opening up, more collaborations, more music, more live activity, but at the same time I still feel creatively motivated and inspired to push things further. It feels like I’m entering a very important phase where the foundations built over the years are starting to connect together in a much bigger way.

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Interview by Amelia Vandergast