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Bushwick Princess – Dead/Basic: A Darkwave Synth-Pop Sanctuary for Those on the Edge of Acceptability

Posted on 27 April 2026

Darkwave synth pop got its swagger back in the enigmatic single and debut music video, Dead/Basic by the alt-indie trio, Bushwick Princess, who may not hide their influences, in this case, it’s a mash-up of Thriller-era Michael Jackson and Depeche Mode, but originality still slithers from the single, which gyrates through the shadows of 80s pop and the strobe lights of electronic post-punk.

As an earworm guaranteed to give you hard enough kinetic kicks you’ll be left with bruises, Bushwick Princess, with their deadpan debonair panache, left nothing to be desired. There’s no trace of irony in the mantra “I’d rather be dead than basic”, which could be read as pretentious, but those in the know will resonate with the refrain that highlights the insufferable nature of a world which rejects culture and individuality for hegemony.

It’s the kind of single you could imagine Joe Keery releasing, if he were daring enough to be contrarian in a bid to comfort the other disturbed outliers looking for anthems to dance to on the edge of acceptability; the cinematic music video is effortlessly in that vein. Just don’t ask where they got that coffin.

Based in Brooklyn and led by Matt Francini, Bushwick Princess is setting Dead/Basic up as the opening statement from an EP due later this year, channelling a love for indie dance and post-punk through a sound that also tips its hat to LCD Soundsystem and Hot Chip. If you’re tired of banal and superficial alt-electronica, you’ll want to save a space on your radar for the forthcoming hits from Bushwick Princess, who have more than earned their royal status with their debauched approach to adding a touch of class to the airwaves.

Dead/Basic is now available to stream on all major platforms. For the full experience, stream the official music video on YouTube.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Mr Moonstache by Berlin’s Chow Chow Disco brought a livewire rampage of hedonistic satire to electro house

Posted on 27 December 2025

Chow Chow Disco delivered a subversively surreal deep cut of electro house with their latest odyssey of satire, synaesthesia and style, Mr Moonstache. It’s a cosmos of electrifying eccentricity that sparks to the beat of the Berlin-based duo’s drum machine, a cheeky anthem that amplifies devil-may-care energy to the nth degree. What begins as a retro-futurist groove soon spirals into a sideways disco fable that swerves away from the conventions of electronica.

If you walked into a club and this was slamming through the sound system, you’d feel like you’d stepped into the underbelly of Studio 54 on acid. It’s swanky, seductive, and self-aware without leaning too far into smug parody. Instead, Chow Chow Disco launches listeners into a fantasy where the moon belonged to no one until cameras and corporate ownership came to rewrite history. Mr Moonstache tells the tale of the real first man on the moon—not a speech-giving hero, but a moustachioed dancer who chose rhythm over rhetoric, solitude over spectacle. It’s part absurdist folklore, part clubland rebellion.

With Skyline Sun’s slick production and Mío Ma’s sultry, narrative-charged vocal performance, Chow Chow Disco are pressing hard on the fabric of pop culture and asking listeners to dance through the contradictions.

Mr Moonstache is now available on all major streaming platforms, including SoundCloud. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Tánckoktél Tánciskola revived Latin rhythm through the Cha-Cha-Cha version of their cheekiest single to date

Posted on 30 November 2025

If the tango, merengue, samba and mambo still come to mind when someone mentions dance music instead of Calvin Harris and Martin Garrix and David Guetta, Tánckoktél Tánciskola is an artist that you’ll want on your radar. One of the prolific artist’s recent releases, Don’t Touch My Bum (Cha-Cha-Cha Version) reminds us what dance music used to be before it was devoured by four-to-the-floor beats.

As one of the most promising artists bringing Latin grooves out of antiquity, they bring all the heat and flavour into polished rhythms that would still hold their own on a modern dancefloor. It’s cheeky (excuse the pun) while subversively flipping the script on hedonically lustful dance tracks, offering a reminder that boundaries exist even when the tempo invites abandon.

If anyone else attempted this multi-layered feat, it would fall flat at best, pure patronising cringe at worst, but Don’t Touch My Bum (Cha-Cha-Cha Version) hits on every conceivable level. It’s rhythmically tight, wildly self-aware, and impossible not to move to. Through its tongue-in-cheek lyricism and expressive instrumentation, Tánckoktél Tánciskola turns flirtation into empowerment, cheekiness into confidence, and nostalgia into something freshly infectious.

Don’t Touch My Bum (Cha-Cha-Cha Version) is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Tynosario painted inhibition-free psychedelia across disco-funk grooves in ‘Daily Life’

Posted on 5 October 2025

Instead of chasing a place among the pack, Tynosario rejects the mediocrity of aural conformity entirely, not just through the dinosaur mask he wears under his headphones in the video for Daily Life. He is the embodiment of marching to the pulse of his own drum machine, vibing through the polyphonic bliss he conjures with grooves laced in indietronic colour and a magnetic disco-funk signature. The track arrives as an abstract sermon, written between the synth lines, urging listeners to discard inhibitions, shed the shackles of perception, and reimagine their reality in shades entirely their own.

Daily Life unravels like a kaleidoscopic transmission. The rhythms invite you into a space where eccentricity is the law, and the psychedelically wrapped outro serves as a parting ritual, ensuring the experience lingers long after the final note. It is less a song than a hallucinatory ride into the recesses of your own imagination, where the distortion of perspective becomes the very point of clarity.

Since the conception of the Tynosario project, the enigmatic experimentalist has been merging genres with a reckless freedom that refuses to be defined. From choreomania grooves and programmed beats that thunder like storms to mellow passages that float like dream fragments, his sonic world is a vortex where nothing predictable survives. Daily Life is only the latest portal into that surreal continuum, but it solidifies his position as an artist who knows how to transform eccentric spectacle into sound that electrifies both body and psyche.

Daily Life is now available on all major streaming platforms; watch the official music video on YouTube. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

The Spheres packed their alt indie synth-pop debut, The City of Lights, with evocative kryptonite

Posted on 16 November 2022

If it’s been a while since a debut single has left you utterly obsessed, delve into The Spheres’ alternatively inclined amalgam of 80s synth pop, indie-rock, and dance, The City of Lights. From the suburbs of Toronto, the duo lit up the airwaves with their infectiously hook-rife account of the frontman’s complicated relationship with his city of birth, Karachi, Pakistan. “In the city of lights, you die just for dreaming”, is cuttingly efficacious in alluding to the toll it took on the singer-songwriter and producer Reza Habib.

With the vibrato in the vocals spilling evocative kryptonite across the catchy synth-pop melodies, The City of Lights will blind you with its luminous soul before the solid riffs and punchier vocals conclude the track on a raucous high that will leave you itching for more. Thankfully, that itch will be scratched as more singles from the debut album will drop before its full release in Spring 2023.

Stick The City of Lights to your synapses by heading over to Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Bad Wolf peeks behind closed doors in his latest nu-disco single, ‘Curfew at the Disco’

Posted on 3 May 2021

While plenty of us sulked about the inaccessibility of dancefloors and lack of like-minded community, Philippines-based artist and producer Bad Wolf imagined what went on behind closed doors while creating his latest melodically tropic single, Curfew at the Disco.

After the release of his debut single, If I Can Make You Dance, in January 2021, he was scouted by MojoHeadz Records and inspired to release at least ten new singles in 2021. Based on Curfew at the Disco, we can expect plenty more soul-oozing DAW-created grooves from the artist who is quickly becoming renowned for painting with metropolitan strokes and with kaleidoscopically urban colour.

Curfew at the Disco unravels as a mix of euphoria-evoking nu-disco and roots deep techno that allows Bad Wolf to invite you into his imagination where you can explore the intimacy of the house parties which happened while dancefloors and venues gathered dust. The air of hedonist rebellion runs right through Curfew at the Disco, right next to the influence from indie dance and 80s Japanese City pop.

Curfew at the Disco officially released on May 3rd; you can check it out for yourselves via SoundCloud. Connect with Bad Wolf via Instagram.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Staying Up All Night: The Sleeping Man Awakes captures the moment perfectly on ‘A.T.M.O.T.’

Posted on 29 March 2021

With a sweeping sound that knocks all the cobwebs out of your sleepy brain, The Sleeping Man Awakes takes us a for a star-gazing high on his mesmerizing new single called ‘A.T.M.O.T.’

Blackpool-born, Stockport in Manchester-based The Sleeping Man Awakes, is a focused EDM producer/writer, who pushes the boundaries of what is consciously possible with a wondrous fusion of magnificent ear-bending soundscapes, to satisfy your eager ears for healing through music.

He lifts the lid off and back on again at the same time, with a warping energy of a man who has experienced the energetic highs and bone-snapping lows of the music world, his sound is uplifting and dark at the same time. You imagine listening to this at a now-closed nightclub, the electric crowd alive like hungry vampires, their music thirst like none other as they let their bodies take them wherever the music goes.

‘A.T.M.O.T.’ from Manchester-based The Sleeping Man Awakes, is a spectacular amalgamation of luscious sounds morphed into an impressive array of dance beats, that will certainly catch your attention rather quickly.

Dazzle your ears on Spotify and find out more about his fascinating musician on IG.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

Play pretend: Upstate New York’s Nocturnal Houses vividly dream of changed minds on the sparkling ‘Going Home with Him’

Posted on 27 March 2021

Meshed together by lovely nostalgic sounds of synth, funk, and disco with a little sprinkle of tasty pop, Nocturnal Houses are quite self-reflective on their latest single called ‘Going Home with Him‘.

Nocturnal Houses are a compelling Upstate New York-based indie-EDM duo, who mesh that quality taste into your soul, that satisfies every sinew of your body, as they have that crisply designed music that uplifts any mood.

This is the story of wishing your friend wouldn’t choose that particular person on a night out, as you don’t like their energy for some reason and wish they would choose to party with you instead. Your mind is mixed, while you pretend that nothing is wrong but inside your heart is burning like acid as you know that it won’t last, as your friend wastes their time while you wonder at the moments that could of been.

Her voice is sultry and freshly toned, each word is with such meaning, as the catchy beat lands into your mind to have your head grooving and your body moving. You remember when this moment happened to you and you just wanted to spend time with your special human, who instead disappears when you turn your back.

‘Going Home with Him‘ is that striking self-reflective story from this fascinating Upstate New York duo, who superbly portray this all-too-common story, into a sweet song that will make you a bit sad, while making you shake your head at the times you let lust take over and should of changed your mind.

Stream this top new song here on Spotify and see their social vibe on IG.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

Go to the music: Winston Wayne and DLP Dolapo help us face our fears on ‘Unknown To Man’ (ft. Rose Beef and Maartje)

Posted on 20 February 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdwWHdmkimc

Winston Wayne & DLP Dolapo are back with the riveting new single called ‘Unknown To Man‘ (ft. Rose Beef and Maartje) that will have you tapping your feet and thinking deeply about current events, via the sumptuous beat.

Winston Wayne & DLP Dolapo are an exciting two piece indie-dance act who have brought in Rose Beef and Maartje, to make a formidable 4-piece team of musicians, who make that trance-like sound, that beats at your heart and makes you gaze outside, distracting yourself from the world as it is being portrayed on television.

This is the story about getting closer to the music when the world is falling all around you, getting your senses trained so you can ignore all the unnecessary noise, violence and false media that suffocates the airwaves. They sing about going to the music and never ever letting go, as this is the healing energy that you need to drink from, the pure sound of sonic soundscapes that purifies everything inside you mind, body and soul.

‘Unknown To Man‘ (ft. Rose Beef and Maartje) from Winston Wayne & DLP Dolapo is a guiding song that helps us forget about the riots, masks and wild events happening before our eyes. Things are unknown now but through quality music, together we can overcome anything and rise up much stronger, so this never happens again.

Watch this mysterious music video on YouTube and see more about their journey on IG.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

Pandemonium for our bodies to savor: Alexander Paris does it his way on the color-filled party tune ‘Neon’

Posted on 11 February 2021
https://soundcloud.com/alexander_paris/neon-3

Alexander Paris shines his light bright with a torch-lit thunderbolt to wake up those sleepy senses that have been awaiting quality dance music on his new single ‘Neon‘.

Indie-dance creative producer wizard Alexander Paris is a man who makes music that is fun to the listener and uplifts your mood to unimaginable heights of pure bliss. He has that inner enjoyment of life entrenched inside his bones and you can feel his unmistakable energy while engrossing yourself in his sensational creation.

Our ears will grunge and your soul will rave- Alexander Paris

This is the vivid party story of wanting to feel so free on that slippery night club floor with so many flashing lights and sweaty bodies, as you dance like your life depended on it. This is the wild night where you make best friends for that one evening, hugging and shouting excited noises at each other, while you jump around until your feet can’t take it anymore. This is the best feeling imaginable and one where you feel exhausted the next day but is a time you know you enjoyed, even if it might be a bit hazy the next day.

The beat only gets better and better as the song builds like a free climber up a monstrous mountain, you think you have found the cliff and then you see more. His voice is so full of belief and he feels that this where he belongs-inside the music and with fellow like-minded souls that just want to dance and forget their worries for one night.

‘Neon‘ from Alexander Paris is an illuminating dance entry that is exactly the type of song that we need to skip back into step and find our groove again. Living for that dance floor pandemonium is one way to stay alive, deep inside your soul.

Fire up your mood on Soundcloud and see more stories on IG.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen