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Eachother unleashed pure rave possession with the kinetic tech-house rush of ‘COMA’ ft Eloquor

Posted on 4 August 2025

There’s a special kind of mania running through Eachother’s latest tech-house anthem, COMA, featuring Eloquor. Some house tracks arrest, others possess; this one will take up residence in your psyche, and you might need an exorcism to get it out.

The way the grimey bars slice through the adrenalised, restless mix only stokes the energy as the track builds, breaks, and hurls you far past the brink of sonic euphoria. This is hedonism in audio form – not content with keeping you moving, COMA sinks in with intent and refuses to release you back to your senses until the final beat fades.

Eachother might have entered the tech-house arena later than most, but that’s become an accelerant for his sound rather than a handicap. After turning heads with the lush, piano-driven textures of his ‘I Want Your Loving’ EP, the Melbourne producer is now cementing his reputation with a catalogue of refined, dancefloor-ready tracks that have already drawn support from the likes of Fedde Le Grand, Sam Divine and DJ Chuckie.

Eloquor, meanwhile, injects modern-day vigilante energy into the track, pushing the momentum with verses that bristle with lived experience and never let up. Together, they’ve made a track that will infect the veins of Melbourne’s club circuit and beyond.

COMA is now available on all major streaming platforms, including YouTube. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Rick Holden Poured Grief Into Progressive House in the Celestial Lament See Your Soul Again

Posted on 19 June 2025

Rick Holden set the bar for emotive EDM production sky-high with See Your Soul Again, a progressive house elegy that drapes sentiment over a four-to-the-floor pulse until it splits open with catharsis. Built in memory of his father, the track doesn’t shy away from the jagged edges of loss; instead, it channels them into a euphorically heart-bruising experience that proves Holden’s ability to stir far more than dancefloor ecstasy.

While the beat propels the body, it’s the purity-bleeding female vocals that direct the emotional voltage. With crystalline clarity, they reach beyond the clouds and into the quiet corners where grief keeps its secrets. Lyrically, Holden doesn’t crowd the space; instead, he lets the weight of the words and the swell of cinematic textures strike with precision. It’s ambient house stretched to its most human limit, with melodies that feel pulled from the same place as the memory of someone you’re not ready to stop loving.

Originally from Droylsden, Manchester, Holden first began composing on a Commodore 64 before evolving into a producer who scored the official theme for Manchester’s 2025 Eurovision party, Manchagen. With See Your Soul Again, he swaps out the superficial for the soul-bearing and reminds listeners that dance music can move more than limbs; it can bring ghosts into the light, if only for a few sacred minutes.

See Your Soul Again is now available on all major streaming platforms, including YouTube. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

XIANNE-XI Laced the Airwaves with a Fever-Drenched Electronica Fix With ‘In the Mix’

Posted on 8 May 2025

XIANNE-XI proved that electronica doesn’t need to pander to passivity with In the Mix—a darkly hypnotic, sci-fi-adjacent alt-electronica fever dream that cranks up the temperature with a bassline that prowls through the shimmering textures until the spiritually transcendent non-lexical vocal lines enter the mix and pull you away from the mechanised void. With drips of funk for good measure and eerie stabbing synth lines adding a touch of avant-garde, which electronica is rarely caressed by, few producers on the airwaves can deliver what XIANNE-XI is capable of.

The grooves they alchemise are kryptonite to the rhythmic pulses. If John Carpenter was more interested in crafting mixes for late-night DJ sets instead of horror scores and took a few cues from Django Django, his work would resound in the same decadently delicious vein as XIANNE-XI’s In the Mix.

Rooted in Maryland and rising from a place of war-born trauma, faith, and poetic purpose, XIANNE-XI doesn’t just produce tracks—she builds altars. Her work fuses conscious healing with rhythmic release, positioning her sound somewhere between the sacred and the cinematic. As a mixed indigenous producer, songwriter, poet, and mother, she pushes sonic boundaries with a beat-maker’s intuition and a visionary’s clarity. Every bar, vocal layer, and synth stab in In the Mix channels her unwavering commitment to creating space for those caught in the crossfire of mental health and generational anguish.

In the Mix is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Soundcloud.


Review by Amelia Vandergast

Rick Holden Bound Devotion in a Sonic Halo in the Vocal Trance Anthem ‘You Are the One’

Posted on 4 May 2025

When it comes to sonic embodiments of the resolute nature of unconditional love, they don’t come much more rapturous than Rick Holden’s latest single, You Are the One. The oscillations of pure impassion, the transcendent tones visualising the cathartic sanctity of soul-deep affection, the vocals soaring beyond the confines of material reality and the lyrics with no sense of pretence all contribute to an affecting floor-filling anthem while becoming so much more than the sum of its parts. Sweat deserves to drip over this fervent earworm throughout the summer.

With his latest single, the Manchester-based trance producer Rick Holden channelled nostalgia into a visceral manifestation of early 2000s Clubland euphoria. Built from the bones of old-school trance and polished in modern sheen, the independently released track harnesses the exact kind of emotion most producers would struggle to translate through a DAW. Using Vital synths to sculpt the spectral timbres and sealing the soundscape in Audacity, Holden engineered a clean yet explosive hit, laced with ethereal synthwork and pulsing beats that beg for movement.

The roots of his sound stretch back to the ‘90s, cutting his teeth on Commodore 64 and Amiga software before sharpening his melodic instincts with a Roland XP50 and Cubase. Now, he filters decades of underground dancefloor magic through a refined sonic lens that refuses to dilute the emotion at its core.

You Are the One is now available to stream on all major platforms, including YouTube.

Review by Amelia Vandergast.

Viresha Found Rhythm in Transcendence with Her Organic Tech House Debut, Flow of Life

Posted on 16 April 2025
Viresha

Hit play and permit the augmentations of transcendent spirituality to slam and spiral through your speakers as the synthesis of organic house and techno in Viresha’s debut, Flow of Life awakens the senses. Like a tribal calling to the dancefloor, the instrumental radio edit of Flow of Life delivers exactly what it says on the tin—encapsulating what it means to be human in the tension and catharsis of the progressions, which seamlessly shift as a tribute to the trials we face and the sanctuaries we can lead ourselves to if we ebb to the flow of life.

Viresha—the moniker chosen by Swedish producer, DJ, and breast cancer survivor Anna—channelled her invincible strength into every beat of her self-written and self-produced debut. Drawing from years behind the decks and deep immersion in vinyl and radio culture, she’s carved out a sound steeped in tribal, Latino, afro, melodic tech, and downtempo roots. Her style doesn’t borrow; it builds. There’s structure in the sonic chaos, purpose in the propulsion, and emotion that doesn’t just flirt with the surface but cuts clean through it.

From her past to her pulse-raising future—including her forthcoming attendance at Tomorrowland Academy—Viresha is proof that it’s never too late to create something worth dancing to—debuts rarely come as strong as this fierce rhythmic reckoning.

Flow of Life is now available to stream on all major platforms via this link.

Review by Amelia Vandergast.

L33A.P Drops a Sugar-Rush of Club Nostalgia with D10R2004

Posted on 17 March 2025

L33A.P knows exactly how to tap into nostalgia without letting it weigh down the present. D10R2004 is a shot of Y2K club euphoria, drenched in bouncy house beats, 80s synth stabs, and 8-bit melodies that feel like a lost ringtone from a Motorola Razr in the best possible way. It’s twee, it’s polyphonic, and it’s a feel-good anthem that refuses to apologise for revelling in the hyper-feminine aesthetics that pop culture loves to dismiss.

The London-based, NY-born producer, DJ, and multi-instrumentalist wears her influences on her sleeve, fusing the pulse of UK dance music with the playfulness of early 00s Eurodance. The autotuned vocals glide through the mix with an artful duress, bending and warping like an overworked CD skipping in a neon-lit club basement. There’s no self-conscious posturing here—just an artist celebrating what she loves with unapologetic confidence.

That refusal to conform isn’t limited to D10R2004. L33A.P has been busy remixing Everything is Romantic by Charli XCX with jungle-fuelled chaos and putting her own stamp on the Twin Peaks theme with a pumpin’ organ house spin. She isn’t chasing trends; she’s building soundscapes where retro-futurism collides with personal expression, and D10R2004 is the perfect entry point. It’s music for the dancefloor, the dressing room, the night bus home—wherever you need a dose of unfiltered fun.

Stream D10R2004 on SoundCloud now.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Ethan Waters Paints a Love Story for the Ages with Euphoric Precision in ‘For You’

Posted on 9 March 2025

Ethan Waters may be fresh on the scene, but he’s already proving he’s got the instincts to leave an impression that lasts longer than the sugar rush of his latest single, For You. Locking into the contemporary progressive dance-pop trend, Waters follows in the footsteps of Avicii—at his own tempo, with his own authenticated spin on sun-bleached euphoria.

The tension-easing love song hits all the right sticky-sweet notes, painting a picture of the kind of romance we’d all die to live for. It’s almost cruel how convincing he makes it sound, but with production as polished as this, it’s easy to forgive him. The transcendence in For You isn’t just in the rose-tinted lyricism; it’s in the soaring synths, the cascading melodies, and the way the track sweeps you up in its hazy hues of diehard affection. If For You had any more sheen, it’d risk slipping straight off the airwaves, but as it stands, it’s locked, loaded, and ready to soundtrack every infatuation-fuelled daydream.

With a chart-topping release already under his belt and a history of selling out solo headline shows before most artists even get their foot in the door, Waters clearly isn’t here to fade into the noise.

For You is available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

A Mirrorball Manifesto: INES Commands the Dancefloor with ‘Dance’

Posted on 15 February 2025

With more shimmer than a disco ball hanging over a hedonic dancefloor, INES illuminated the airwaves with her sophomore single, Dance, which throws you right back to when Gaga stormed the scene in the 00s, while throwing further back with elements of funk and disco, giving the earworm of an anthem plenty of kinetic textures to share the euphoria.

With an irresistible rhythm behind her dynamic vocal lines that don’t just hit the notes, they envelop them with fervour, INES didn’t just scratch the pop surface, she nestled into its core and held dominion over the disco pop anthem.

INES, a Tunisian-born singer, has never confined herself to one musical space. After first taking to the stage as a child, she gained wider recognition in 2013 with her duet for the documentary Tounsi w Khalli Iqoulou Hbel, produced by Coca-Cola. She spent years refining her craft across festival stages and exclusive embassy performances in Tunisia before setting her sights on a global stage. In 2018, she moved to Los Angeles to carve out her space in the pop scene, embracing a multilingual approach that reflects her belief in genre fusion as the future of music.

Dance is now available to stream on all major platforms, including YouTube.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

‘sssnake’: r/ginola’s Venomous Dive into the Electronic Spectrum

Posted on 17 January 2025

With sssnake, the up-and-coming artist and producer, r/ginola, strikes again, delivering a sonic venom that bites hard and fast. Forgoing the usual slow-burn build-ups, the track hooks instantly, plunging listeners into a speaker-slamming anthem that meshes bass-heavy EDM with hyper-pop chaos. The glitchy techno interjections and euphoric house swells create a kaleidoscope of sound that refuses to play by the rules, colouring far beyond the conventional lines of electronica.

Building on the foundation of his first official release, Edgar Allen Poe, a genre-defying electrotrap banger, r/ginola continues to scribe his unique sonic signature across uncharted auditory territory. While his chaotic approach to production lands firmly in the remit of modern trends, his distinctive style carves out a space that’s entirely his own.

sssnake not only showcases r/ginola’s adventurous approach to sound design but also hints at his potential to become a trailblazer in the EDM scene. With a tighter structure and a little more polish to his sound, he could be poised to dominate the electronic frontier.

sssnake was officially released on January 17th; stream the single on SoundCloud and Spotify now.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

NI-RAVE earned a PhD in rhythmic anatomy with his techno anthem ‘Play Right’

Posted on 16 January 2025

With ‘Play Right’, NI-RAVE proves himself as a sonic architect capable of building euphoric tension and releasing it in ways that defy expectation. Hailing from Mumbai, NI-RAVE (Nirav Advani) has crafted a reputation for his versatility and profound understanding of techno’s rhythmic anatomy, synthesising electronic textures with an innate sense of pacing.

After cutting his teeth as an electronica artist at just 14, NI-RAVE has evolved from small, intimate events to prestigious international stages, with global releases on labels like YHV Records and Trippy Code Records.

‘Play Right’, a standout from his 3-track EP, Karma, featuring collaborations with techno heavyweight Datlow, pulses with kinetic energy. NI-RAVE’s meticulous progressions lead the listener into a sense-seducing frenzy of anticipation for the drops which he teases with tantalising precision, ensuring the build is just as exhilarating. His ability to subvert rhythmic expectations pushes the boundaries of the genre without losing its intrinsic dancefloor appeal.

The track’s hypnotic and subtly transformative textures echo NI-RAVE’s philosophy that techno offers a healing escape.  Having shared stages with artists like Stereo Express and Almost Human, NI-RAVE is shaping the rave scene’s future with his innovative touch.

Play Right was officially released on January 3rd and is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify, as part of NI-RAVE’s 3-track EP, Karma.

Review by Amelia Vandergast