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Friday Dance Music Guide: The Week’s Best New Tracks From Jamie xx & Honey Dijon, DJ Snake & Peso Pluma & More
Simply the best new dance tracks of the week from Jamie xx & Honey Dijon, DJ Snake & Peso Pluma, LF System, Alok and Debby Friday.
After both christening Coachella’s new Quasar Stage last weekend, Jamie xx and Honey Dijon keep the rave momentum going with their first collaborative track, “Baddy on the Floor.” A punchy amalgamation of funky bass, hand percussion, a stuttering beat and a horn section that actually made us say “whoooo!” out loud to ourselves the first time we heard it, the track has origins in the pandemic, with xx and Dijon working on it over video calls while everyone was off the road. DJ Snake had two of the biggest flexes of Coachella weekend one, starting his set by bringing out the legend Robin S. to sing her dance music blueprint “Show Me Love,” then, later in the Sahara tent show, bringing out Peso Pluma to perform their new collaborative track “Teka.” Snake has always been adept at combining his production with styles of music from the around the world, with this take on Regional Mexican — outfitted with Pluma’s unmistakable vocals — expanding the French producer’s terrain. “I need the girls all to the dancefloor,” Toronto-based artist Debby Friday insists with increasing intensity on her latest, “To The Dancefloor.” Out via the venerable Sub Pop Records, the track gives a feeling of size, with the echo-y vocals and bashed drums at the forefront of the mix sounding like they’re resonating into a cavernous club where the ladies are in fact starting to congregate.
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