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Friday Dance Music Guide: The Week’s Best New Tracks From SG Lewis, Axwell & More
Simply the best new dance songs of the week from SG Lewis, Axwell, Illenium and Hayla, and more.
Rise Festival, an indie event returning to a desert location near Las Vegas in October, also came out swinging with a lineup that includes headliners Calvin Harris, Rüfüs du Sol and John Mayer. Peruvian producer Sofia Kourtesis announces a forthcoming EP, Volver, in tandem with the project’s lead single, “Unidos.” The track is a collaboration with Daphni, the dancier alter-ego of Caribou, and together the pair make a textured, sophisticated and exuberant slice of peaktime IDM, with hand drums, strings and a vocal sample that insists “you’ve gotta believe” altogether building to something truly joyful. Tiësto created what’s widely considered one of the best dance tracks of all time with his 2000 remix of Delerium and Sarah Maclachlan’s 1999 song “Silence,” and it’s clear John Summit knows he’s thus working with a holy text of the genre via his own new edit.
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