Lane 8 feat. Bipolar Sunshine – I Got What You Need (Every Night)
Anjunadeep representatives, Lane 8, earn a nod from Zane Lowe as a Future Exclusive for their latest tropically infused groover. "I Got What You Need (Every Night)," makes perfect use of Bipolar Sunshine's raspy top line and, in typical Lane 8 fashion, conjures up beachside vibes with ease. From its bubbling instrumental, ethereal synthwork, and wood block percussion, "I Got What You Need" is exactly what you need for this summer's sunsets... and sunrises.
Nero – Satisfy (Original Mix)
NERO is back to revive the smoldering corpse of dance music left in the wake of a year's worth of festival-focused drops and formulaic banality. The embodiment of all that is right in the dance music zeitgeist, NERO's debut album Welcome Reality came at a time when electronic music in the States was just beginning to re-emerge and the "EDM boom" was only a twinkle in every blogger's eye. Since its release there have been few attempts to emulate it. Perhaps the album's lofty sound design and industrial mystique proved too difficult to capture for the YouTube production tutorial generation. Now, three years later and into a very different landscape, the group returns to show fans how electronic music is properly done. Debuted on Zane Lowe's BBC1 Radio Show, the first original release off their forthcoming sophomore effort re-introduces fans to Alana Watson's gorgeous vocals and true unadulterated electronica. Reviving their old stylistic cues, "Satisfy" captures the true essence of the NERO aesthetic, propelling itself forward as a heaping mass of greyscale synthesis and stunningly wisp-like vocals demolish everything unlucky enough to be in their path.
Grum releases ‘In Love EP’ with remixes from Brett Gould and Barrientos
As featured on Zane Lowe earlier this month, Grum returns with the third single off his forthcoming album Human Torch. A Radio 1 favorite since the release of "Everytime," the Scottish producer captured the attention of dance music's biggest tastemakers through his talent for matching gripping melodies with warehouse-friendly house music. The same applies on "In Love," a swirling cocktail of head rush inducing bass lines and crispy percussion driven by Grum's scintillating keywork. Hardly formulaic, he walks the line between smokey rooms and posh nightclubs, developing a style that has both mass appeal and depth of character. Rounding out the EP, Grum hands the reigns over to Brett Gould and Barrientos, two more artists who stand at the foreground of the intelligent dance music revolution. Gould's take spins a hallucinogenic-laced deep house track with a hollowed out sub bass and inventive percussion while Barrientos places the mix in an echo chamber of shaking bass lines, trippy filter cuts and funky drum fills. Closing out the year with a bang, "In Love" is the perfect tease of whats to come on his sophomore album due out in early 2014.