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The Techno Mystic, Tiger Fist Ocular, Struck Again and Hit Hard with Her Latest Single, ‘Illumination’

Posted on 23 April 2026

The aesthetics of fairycore fused into the adrenaline of an Ibiza club classic-esque anthem with the latest mind and rhythmic pulse bender by Tiger Fist Ocular. Illumination is what you’d expect if an impish pixie went on a hell-bent mission to manifest a hard-hitting floor filler, in the best possible way. Tiger Fist Ocular is one of the rare architects of EDM who you can hear for the first time and instantly know you could never mistake her sound as an assimilation of someone else’s.

There’s an infectiousness to the way she takes her sound beyond the ethereal trend by augmenting the more transcendent tones with a whimsical aura; around the scintillating motifs, the basslines slam your speakers into submission, exhibiting how Tiger Fist Ocular has what it takes to break into the mainstream with the same visceral force as Deadmau5.

In her biggest production to date, layered techno synths collide with ethereal orchestral strings in a way that gives Illumination both ferocity and enchantment, while the sassy, confident energy keeps the track lit from within.

Tiger Fist Ocular describes herself as a sonic seductress and musical mystic, using sound to inspire authenticity, confidence, joy, and personal expression. With Illumination and its nature-set visual companion arriving alongside the release, she is pushing experimental EDM up to a more enchanted, high-impact plateau.

Illumination is now available to stream on all major platforms. Watch the official music video on YouTube.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Get Your Sticky-Sweet Filter House Fix Through the EDM Euphoria in ØSUBJECT’s Latest Floor-Filler, ‘I NEED YOU’

Posted on 26 March 2026

The powerhouse of an enigma, ØSUBJECT, has launched the anthem that has the potential to necessitate his anonymity; the lead single, I NEED YOU, from the upcoming Filter House LP SYNTHBREAKER, carries the commercial potential to go stratospheric in the EDM scene and beyond. The South West producer, who has spent six years developing his sound through Ableton and music production study, now steps into this new phase with a clear sonic identity and a debut album set for release in May.

By taking the spark of lust and allowing it to burn against the friction of his filter house progressions, which consistently push you towards euphoria or carry you through the rush of it, ØSUBJECT delivered an anthem that carries an A-class potency. The way he fully leans into the sticky-sweet highs, choosing to bypass pretence through his low-pass filters in his fusion of disco, techno and house, ensures there is no sense of artifice within the production, just the satisfaction of being subjugated by an unadulterated, kinetic floor filler.

With SYNTHBREAKER on the horizon and I NEED YOU leading the charge, ØSUBJECT sets the tone for a project built for dancefloors, late-night neon and that collective rush only EDM can provide.

I NEED YOU is now available on all major streaming platforms, including SoundCloud.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Amber Kori seduced Chicago Deep House with her latest mix, Buzz Me In

Posted on 3 March 2026

Amber Kori’s Buzz Me In is as close to ASMR seduction as deep house gets. By choosing romanticism over the superficial sheen of lust-fuelled progressions, she created a soulfully euphonic cut that grows more hypnotic each time the hook returns.

The Chicago deep-house evocateur threads her reprising lyricism through the mix with a breathy confidence, turning “buzz me in” into the ultimate trigger phrase for the steamy atmosphere she builds around it. The effect is practically the sonic equivalent of a handprint on a steamed-up car window; condensed heat meeting the smooth friction of soul-deep passion.

The instrumental minimalism works in her favour. Rather than filling space for the sake of motion, she allows the air between the beats to heighten the intimacy. Her harmonies drip their honeyed timbre through every pore of the extended mix, giving the track a slow-burning sensuality that can only flow through sincerity. It’s romantic deep house distilled to its most potent form, shaped by someone who knows how to make atmosphere feel tactile.

Born in Harvey, Illinois, in a home where house music was woven into everyday life, Kori sharpened her songwriting chops early and carried them into a career defined by sensual imagination and emotional proximity. Now operating through her own label, Feel Hat Music, she moves comfortably between RnB and house; always letting the emotion of her singles guide the melodies.

Buzz Me In is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Soundcloud. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

KYXORA bent retro-futurist electronica into symphonic euphoria on ‘Sci-Fi Wonders

Posted on 19 January 2026

Alt electronica artist and producer KYXORA expanded the cosmos with her tilt-a-whirl of a track, Sci-Fi Wonders, a release that polyphonically mashes up everything from 80s synth pop to motifs lifted from club house classics through the retro-futurism of its sonic design. The way the progressions approach euphoria creates a diorama of nostalgic experimentalism, drawing upon the foundations laid by early synth pioneers while feeding the soul with sticky-sweet twilight-scintillated synth hooks, sci-fi imagery and flashes of modern EDM weight.

There’s a sense of architectural care in how the track unfolds. Layers glide into place with purpose as Sci-Fi Wonders thrives on its sense of movement, pulling you through shimmering passages that feel suspended between club euphoria and late-night headphone reflection. The retro motifs never tip into pastiche; instead, they feel filtered through a forward-leaning lens that keeps the track scintillatingly alive.

It comes as little surprise that KYXORA’s background sits firmly in classical music. That foundation plays out across the ingenuity of her progressions and the way tension and release are handled with quiet confidence. She may not be standing in front of an orchestra with Sci-Fi Wonders, yet the evocative language of classical composition guides the track’s emotional pacing, leading EDM fans into a space where symphonic storytelling and electronic release coexist comfortably.

Working independently from her home studio, KYXORA writes, arranges, produces and engineers every detail herself, drawing on piano and percussion to shape a sound that expands her talent into something tangiably kinetic. Sci-Fi Wonders captures that intersection beautifully, a release that invites listeners to drift, dance and imagine in equal measure.

Sci-Fi Wonders is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify. 
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Review by Amelia Vandergast

PLAY HOUSE pumped high-voltage euphoria into Afro-infused Euro House with ‘Marijuana’

Posted on 14 January 2026

PLAY HOUSE raised the bar on his stylistic signature with his latest single, Marijuana. The Parisian DJ and producer, already known for racking up millions of streams and reshaping the atmosphere in the French EDM scene, took a sharper left turn into vibe-led production with this hypnotic, groove-heavy release.

Rather than falling back on stock build-and-drop formulas, Marijuana swells with an instinctive sense of timing. He leans into organic textures and melodic curveballs, balancing Afrobeat warmth with the sultry sleekness of Euro house. It’s a high-voltage track that never begs for attention, just lets the atmosphere swell and shift around deep-cut beats and light-touch instrumental swells. The result is something more playful than pretentious, more fluid than forced. And with the visualiser tracing a raving cannabis leaf through a kaleidoscope of transformations, the whole package makes sense with shapeshifting sound and visuals feeding each other in real time.

There’s a chameleon streak to everything Play House drops, but Marijuana marks a more carefree detour. It captures the type of late-night energy you’d stumble into in a tucked-away Paris club where genre tags stop mattering. Whether you’re pulled in by the subtle Afro-laced rhythm or the slick composure of the production, there’s a sense that Play House is still peeling back new layers; not to reinvent the genre, but to reshape the mood.

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

Review by Amelia Vandergast

The ‘TEARS IN TORREMOLINOS’ Electro Dance LP delivered CAMACHO’s highest voltage yet

Posted on 1 January 2026

CAMACHO brought 2025 to a close in a blaze of emotive electricity with TEARS IN TORREMOLINOS, a collaborative LP that could run uninterrupted in any DJ’s set and leave a dancefloor pulsing with warmth, introspection, and abandon. It’s not novel to see his name dominating the Electro Dance scene, but this release—featuring heavyweights like SKINNY DAYS, KISSIMJAU, SINA, and LOADING—landed as a pantheonic essential for the genre.

Throughout the album, he lets emotive energy shift and transform track by track, pulling listeners through murky lows and glitter-spangled highs. The combination of gritty textures and weightlessly diaphanous production opens a transcendent pathway that feels instinctive to follow. Each collaborator adds a different shade to the experience, but it’s CAMACHO’s instinct for sculpting emotional resonance in a club context that binds everything into a singular rush of euphoria.

TEARS IN TORREMOLINOS functions as much for internal reflection as it does for heady hedonistic release. It’s luxe in its restraint and maximal in its emotionality. There’s movement in every breath of the LP, and by the time the final track hits, the full shape of the experience has settled somewhere between euphoric heartbreak and nostalgic catharsis. This is as opulent and as essential as Electro Dance gets in the 2020s.

TEARS IN TORREMOLINOS is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

JSTEF stirred vibrato tempered soul into the emotively magnetic pull of ‘Luxury’

Posted on 16 November 2025

Luxury, the latest single from JSTEF, makes it immediately clear why reducing him to a dance artist would be selling the full scale of his craft short. The NYC-based producer has spent close to a decade shaping club rooms with his instinct for emotional weight through electronica, and that lived experience hums through Luxury with a steady, soul-rich current.

The track hits every conceivable emotive mark with the deep reverberant soul running through the vibrato-tempered contemporary RnB harmonies that quiver over the transcendence of the soul-sating instrumentals. The way the synth pop aesthetics rise alongside the gentle touch of house gives the piece a glow that wraps around you with quiet insistence.

Luxury may sit under the three-minute mark, yet the progression leaves you wanting nothing. Within that short and sweet span, JSTEF guides you through an elemental passage of luxe desire that settles into the senses like it’s coming home. The production is a culmination of all the atmospheres he has cultivated across New York’s venues, from Soho to Montauk to Mykonos, all rechannelled into a track shaped for listeners who crave feeling woven into kinetic rhythm.

After its release on November fourteenth, Luxury adds another mark to the legacy JSTEF continues to build as one of the most affecting beat makers and soul conduits on the airwaves in 2025. His work through labels such as Black Hole Recordings and Rundbn Records set the foundation, yet Luxury feels like a crystallisation of everything he has been sharpening.

Luxury is now available on all major streaming platforms via this link.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Tommy Nietz infused faith into an EDM floor-filler with ‘Spirit of God’

Posted on 15 November 2025
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Tommy Nietz brought gospel to the dancefloor with Spirit of God, the new EDM release that lets spiritual intensity and club power rise together without either one losing force. From the moment the first swell rushes through the mix, the German artist and producer sets up a current that feeds mind, body, and whatever part of you wakes up when the bass starts climbing.

His instinct for four to the floor momentum gives the track a steady heartbeat, the kind that pushes dancers forward while the tension of each build tightens around the promise of the drop waiting on the other side. He knows how house euphoria gathers in waves, and he steers those waves with the same conviction that shapes his faith-driven work.

Spirit of God shows how piety can sit comfortably inside modern electronica structures. The devotional focus never dulls the kinetic energy, and the euphoria never limits the reach of the message. Instead, both parts run in tandem, pulling more heat from each other. The vocal lifts feel wired into the circuitry of the mix rather than floating above it, giving the track a coherence that hits on every conceivable level.

Drawing from a background shaped by Christian Music and contemporary Dance movements, Tommy Nietz wrote Spirit of God for spaces where uplift is craved. It fits worship nights, club sets, late evening radio slots, and any environment where bodies and spirits need something bright enough to hold onto. By the final drop, the track shows its purpose clearly by nudging the listener toward something larger than themselves.

Spirit of God is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Jules Davidson traced lyrical intimacy through luminous beats in Sparks Can Fly – Extended Mix

Posted on 2 November 2025

JULES DAVIDSON extended her run of soul-sanctifying EDM with the release of her latest single, Sparks Can Fly – Extended Mix. The London-based singer-songwriter turned producer poured transcendence into the sonics to deliver a hypnotically hedonistic slice of melodic catharsis. It proves how deep the call runs for those drawn to the twilight zones of consciousness where strobing synths replace streetlamps and rhythm becomes your tether to the present.

This isn’t EDM for the sake of a dopamine spike. It is a metaphysical sanctuary carved out through oscillating instrumental textures and softly euphoric vocal lines which drift above the luminously layered production. Davidson, who previously made her name as a poignant acoustic storyteller, has taken a leap from heartfelt indie into electronica without missing a beat. The production was polished at Area 18 Studios, where the basslines were pulsed with dancefloor vitality, and alchemy was injected into the atmosphere, for anyone who craves spiritual weight behind their synths.

While Sparks Can Fly rings with traces of 80s synth-pop nostalgia in the vein of The Human League, there’s an unmistakable contemporary nuance that echoes the emotive gravity of acts like London Grammar and Royksopp. Jules Davidson’s shift in direction doesn’t dilute her lyrical introspection — it uplifts it. Lines like “If the future was a dream, made of places never seen, would we turn away?” capture how the thematic core of the track sees the intimate tension of desire and risk wrestle.

Sparks Can Fly – Extended Mix is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast.

Nafsi’s anthem, Higher, pushes EDM euphoria to its limit of transcendence

Posted on 28 October 2025

Nafsi reached the peak of EDM transcendence with Higher, his latest floor-filling single that drags you straight into the kind of rapture only a body in motion can understand. With elements of progressive house pop written into the mix, there are as many hooks as there are drops, yet this isn’t an even-keel ride through euphoria. Nafsi knows exactly how to toy with your rhythmic expectations, throwing frenetic constellations of stabbing and strobing synths into the fray until you’re caught between chaos and bliss, unable to decide which state you’d rather stay in.

Higher captures that pulse-quickening moment on the dancefloor when tension turns kinetic, when the crowd moves as one, and you forget your body has limits. There’s a sensory thrill running through the production that’s impossible to fake. You can hear every ounce of control, every heartbeat behind the build-ups, and the restraint that keeps the track from tipping into indulgence.

The Canadian-born, South Asian electronic artist and producer has built a signature sound around fusing bouncy basslines with moody textures and emotional depth. Drawing inspiration from John Summit, D.O.D., and Fred again.., Nafsi shaped Higher with both underground finger on the pulse grit and the global appeal of an Ibiza anthem in the making. At this point, the only way is up.

Higher is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast