New Music Friday is intense. Hundreds of songs drop from artists around the world, and you’re supposed to somehow find the best ones. It’s fun work, but it’s time-consuming — so we at Billboard Dance want to give you a hand. Each week, we sift through the streams and dig in the digital crates to present the absolute must-hears from the wide breadth of jams.

Dance music is all about the community, and in that spirit, this week is delivering a litany of heavyweight collabs. There’s Louisahhh getting a heavy-ass edit from Imogen, Oliver Heldens big upping his excellent new Heldeep signee Aspen King and the unusually long list of group efforts below. Grab a friend, and let’s dig in.

Armand van Helden & Chris Lake Feat. Arthur Baker & Victor Simonelli, “The Answer” 

Chris Lake and New York house legend Armand van Helden tag team for the buoyant, infectious anthem “The Answer,” which samples 1991’s “Why Can’t We See,” a plea for justice and love by pioneering producers Arthur Baker and Victor Simonelli. The 2020 power duo’s take on the classic comes from a four track EP of the same name, with the collab starting quite humbly over coffee last November.

“The vibes were flying after we sat down on the first morning, chugging coffee, visualizing what could be made,” Lake says in a press release.” “The title track came together so quickly,” van Helden adds, “we just followed the energy in the room.” Take their lead and follow the energy in this track to whatever area of your house you host your dance parties for one.

Wolfgang Gartner & Kill the Noise, “Battlestations”

Wolfgang Gartner and Kill the Noise join forces for “Battlestations,” which is as aggressive, unpredictable and slick as one would expect from these two longstanding masters of low end. (There’s also a very welcome electro vibe and some influence from Daft Punk’s “Harder, Better, Faster, stronger.” The single’s cover art depicts the hounds of hell facing off against a gaggle of red-eyed skeletons outside the steps of a buIlding very reminiscent of the U.S. Capitol Building, giving a heavy hint of the battle the two producers had in mind when assembling all of the power builds.

Lee Foss, Detlef & Anabel Englund, Thunder & Lightning EP

It’s been six years since Lee Foss and Anabel Englund released music through the lauded Hot Creations imprint, with the work they did alongside Jamie Jones (as Hot Natured) via the label in the early 2010s delivering some of the era’s slinkiest house anthems.

Their homecoming is the Thunder & Lightning EP, a collaboration with Greek producer Detlef. The sound is both fresh and exactly what you’d expect from the trio of deep house cool kids, with the sexy, bumping productions serving as a carrier for Englund’s always smoldering vocals. which on the title track exist alongside samples of traditional tribal singing. (A recent trend in dance music, with similar samples also recently coming from TroyBoi and Bicep.) The project follows Foss and Englund’s May single “Warm Disco.”

Cedric Gervais & Franklin feat. Nile Rodgers, “Everybody Dance”

When Nile Rodgers is involved in new music, all you must do is find a space where you can turn the music up loud. The new jam in question is in fact also an old jam, with French veteran Cedric Gervais and rising star Franklin collabing on a high energy (and in fact kind of NRG-sounding) remix of  Chic’s 1977 club classic “Everybody Dance.” The update adds a tropical vibe and some serious disco swirl around the killer bassline of the original, with everything coming together for a track with the joy and spirit of a jazzercise marathon.

Black Coffee Feat. Pharrell & Jozzy, “10 Missed Calls”

Pharrell has been dipping his toes in the deep end of dance pool this year, with he and Neptunes partners Chad Hugo working with deadmau5 on the May single “Pomegranate.” Whereas that track veered into fruity-cocktails-with-little-umbrellas-vibes, Pharrell’s just-released single with honey-voiced singer Jozzy and South African star producer Black Coffee is more suited to a late fall snuggle. It’s not necessarily a game changing piece of music, but if you want a piece of R&B-influenced effervescent house music upon which to float away on into the weekend, this is your jam.

Escpe, Cloud Walk EP

To be fair, the bulk of the Cloud Walk EP by TK producer ESCPE is solo work, although the project’s star track (and lead single) “Suncrown” is a collab with respected Finnish producer Axel Thesleff. The entire EP is populated by experimental, often ambient bass that delivers some of those good old back in the day Low End Theory vibes. Escpe has also has a cosign from Clozee, so you know it’s quality.

Radiohead has given their thoughts on engineer Domenic Cugliari, who was responsible designing the Toronto Downsview Park stage that collapsed in June 2012, killing drum tech Scott Johnson.

The band noted that on Instagram on Friday (Nov. 20) that earlier this week, the Discipline Committee of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO) conducted a hearing to investigate the engineer.

“Mr Cugliari has acknowledged in this hearing, his catalogue of errors and the negligence on his part that led to the stage collapse and Scott’s death,” the post reads. “These admissions are 8 years too late. If the evidence now accepted by Mr Cugliari had been agreed at the original court case brought against him, @livenation and the contractor Optex Staging, it would have been complete in one day, with a very different outcome and some justice would have been delivered. As it is, Mr Cugliari has now retired and, is seemingly beyond any legal recrimination.

“This is a sad day. Our thoughts and love are, as ever, with Scott’s parents, Ken and Sue Johnson, his family and friends, and our crew,” the statement concludes.

See the post here.

Live Nation, scaffolding company Optex Staging and Services and Domenic Cugliari were charged in 2013 under the Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act, and in 2017, an Ontario judge stayed the charges.

Spotify’s Canvas video-looping feature that allows artists to create essentially moving album art on the platform is getting its own marketplace connecting musicians with visual designers. Spotify for Artists announced the news Thursday (Nov. 19), as well as that the format is being made available to more artists following its expanded beta launch last October.

The new marketplace is hosted by Spotify’s SoundBetter platform, which connects musicians with audio professionals like producers and mixing engineers, and will give artists access to visual designers who have a proven track record of creating high-performing Canvas videos. The designer marketplace will work similarly to SoundBetter, matching artists with designers who meet their budget. Once a deal is made, artists share the details of their track and overall creative vision; the designer then comes back with a custom Canvas tailored to their song. (Musicians can post jobs and hire providers for free through SoundBetter, though providers are charged a small commission.)

Participating designers include Helen Ratner (FKA Twigs, Steve Aoki, Kanye West), Ian Eager (Lil Tecca, Pop Smoke, Lil Wayne), WEWRKWKNDS (Zedd, Katy Perry, Billie Eilish) and others who have shown success with the format.

Artists have been finding increasingly creative uses for Canvas as of late. Last week, Shawn Mendes teased the tracklist to his upcoming album by dropping song title hints using the format, while Billie Eilish refreshed her Canvas once a day for seven days to offer snippets of her recent Where Do We Go? livestream.

With today’s announcement, Spotify is also sharing new data around Canvas’ effectiveness. According to the service, listeners are 145% more likely to share a track that has a Canvas, 5% more likely to keep streaming it, 20% more likely to add it to their personal playlists and 9% more likely to visit an artist’s profile page.

You can learn more about the Canvas marketplace here.