This week in dance music: The 2024 Paralympics Closing Ceremony in Paris was a French electronic music extravaganza, we looked at why La Roux’s 2009 electro-pop classic “Bulletproof” is back on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart, Meow Wolf Houston announced its opening date and radio-influenced theme, Richie Hawtin lamented how “the famous, most followed DJ’s of our scene failed us” when commenting on the closure of DJ profit sharing platform Aslice and the Association For Electronic Music announced a new campaign to help DJs get more visibility and profit when their music is posted to social media by other artists.

Meanwhile, Michael Bibi gave a figuratively and literally big check to the hospital where he received cancer treatment via money raised by his comeback show, The World DanceSport Federation explained why Australian breakdancer Raygun is ranked No. 1 in the world, the annual dance music conference IMS announced that it’s expanding to Dubai in November, Nocturnal Wonderland 2024 was cancelled due to wildfires in Southern California and Charli XCX and Troye Sivan released a remix of “Talk Talk.”

That’s a lot — and there’s more! These are the best new dance tracks of the week.

Rüfüs du Sol, “Break My Love”

Since rising out of their native Australia in the mid-2010s, Rüfüs du Sol has been a chief architect and arbiter of that late-nights-and-sunrises strain of dark, deep house-oriented electro house that’s come to soundtrack the Tulum-to-Ibiza-to-Burning Man circuit. (In fact, their track “On My Knees” won the best dance/electronic Grammy for it in 2022.) The group’s latest, “Break My Love,” is Rüfüs at their very best, with the song delivering that signature steamy, hypnotic, big rise and lush release vibe and coming with a video in which the guys flex their playful side by playing a trio of ’70s era secret agents plotting a heist. (Wait for the twist at the end.)

Following two recent singles, “Break My Love” also comes with news that the group will release their fifth studio album, Inhale/Exhale, on October 11, through their own Rose Avenue Records and Reprise. Ahead of that, they’ll headline San Francisco’s Portola Festival on September 28. — KATIE BAIN

Four Tet & Ellie Goulding, “In My Dreams”

Ellie Goulding has been swimming in the deep end of the electronic world lately, with her 2023 Calvin Harris trance collab “Miracle” and its recent followup, “Free.” Ever-agile, she now jumps over to the IDM side of the genre with “In My Dreams,” a collab with Four Tet. (Which itself follows their own 2020 single “Baby.”) The producer uses Goulding’s voice to thread the production together, weaving it like silk through his own propulsive and dichotomous distorted beats and glowing chimes.

The project, he writes, came about in late 2023, when “Ellie text[ed] me with a couple of voice notes for a song idea. Words and melodies she was singing into her phone and she asked me if I could use them to make something. She’s told me in the past she likes to send me vocals that I can just use as sound and turn into whatever I want (which is how the track ‘Bab’y happened a few years ago). I found other sounds to go with it and made ‘In My Dreams.’ She added some new vocal parts but we ended up keeping the voice note recordings as the main vocal. I guess the first take is often the most magical.” “In My Dreams” is out through Four Tet’s Text Records.

Anna Lunoe, “Pearl”

An international DJ, radio host, podcaster, and producer with a discography dating back 12 years, Anna Lunoe’s résumé is so long that it’s hard to believe she’s never released an album. Somehow it’s true, but not for much longer: The Sydney-based artist has just announced her debut LP, Pearl, out October 25 on NLV Records, the label from her longtime friend Nina Las Vegas. Lunoe has also shared its title track, made with frequent partner Jack Glass of Bag Raiders. “Pearl” is dreamy and buoyant, rippling with luminescent synth arpeggios and a captivating vocal melody. Beneath that bubbly exterior, stomping drums and rave chords add a layer of toughness and urgency.

“To me,” Lunoe says, “the sentiment in this song is about fighting for your spirit and creative force in a world that isn’t really designed for us to hold on to it. Sonically, this was an exercise in emotion and clarifying a feeling as opposed to straight up club tune-making – it’s more sincere than I’ve allowed myself to be publicly before, but those few who get to hear my scruffy demos know this Anna well.” — KRYSTAL RODRIGUEZ

Hayden James, We Could Be Love

On his third album, We Could Be Love, Hayden James shows his continued prowess in blending emotive pop songwriting with club sounds. The deeply groovy “Patience,” which explores the cautious nature of relationships, delivers catharsis in its rolling apex; “Imagine” brims with hope atop swirling melodic techno and “All In” is a love rush wrapped in warm piano house. The producer even goes straight club on “The Pleasure,” a strutting tech-house track ready to be cued up on an Ibiza dance floor, but the featured vocalists (Shells, Karen Harding, AR/CO and many more) help give We Could Be Love its soul. James heads out on a North American tour later this month. — K.R.

Floating Points, Cascade

Since his 2019 album Crush, Floating Points has followed inspiration across various genres and mediums, from collaboration with the late sax legend Pharoah Sanders on an album to scoring a ballet and forthcoming anime series. His new album, Cascade, marks a triumphant return to the dance floor. A collection of unconventional club bangers, it pulses with twitchy textures, glistening melodies, synth freak-outs and gravelly drums. Standout track “Afflecks Palace” is a descent into chaos, weaving through radar-like synths, ghostly croons, acid accents and vibrant string plucks. As everything converges into a dense, tangled mass, a stutter-step leads to a dizzying space rave. — K.R.

Kaleena Zanders & Tchami, “Daddy Keeps Calling”

Ring, ring. Who’s on the line? It’s new-gen dance diva Kaleena Zanders (with Tchami joining on three-way) sharing a new single, “Daddy Keeps Calling.” The piano-house track surges with soulful energy, its gospel-choir harmonies, hand claps and enveloping organ chords a fitting soundtrack to Zanders’ celebration of club communion: “Ooh Lord, burning up, don’t save me ‘til I’ve had enough/ Red light pull me in, losing control on the floor again.” “Daddy Keeps Calling” is the pair’s second collaboration following this year’s “Giving Me Life,” and it will feature on Zanders’ newly announced Glorified EP, out October 18 via Helix Records.

“When I wrote the lyrics to ‘Daddy Keeps Calling’ with prolific singer songwriter/producer/DJ Bright Lights, we knew it was a unique perspective on songs made for the dancefloor,” Zanders writes. “In our heads we imagined the dance floor being the dominant force in our lives that drives us to create dance music and the force that so many people gather around. With that said, in this case playing off of sensual role play Daddy is the dancefloor and the nucleus that binds us all.” — K.R.

FKA twigs, “Eusexua” 

Have you experienced eusexua? That’s the question FKA twigs asked ahead of her new single “Eusexua.” twigs, who coined the term, describes eusexua as “momentary transcendence” and “the pinnacle of human experience” – and transcendent “Eusexua” is. It’s a rave lifted into the highest realms, with a sprawling soundscape of whirring trance synths and resonant piano keys that build to an ecstatic crescendo. Twigs’ vocals are as hauntingly angelic as ever, evoking a siren’s call in her pursuit of connection beyond this earthly plane. Co-produced with Koreless and Eartheater, “Eusexua” is the title track of her forthcoming album. “I moved to Prague a couple summers ago, fell in love with techno,” she told fans via Discord. “The album isn’t techno but the spirit is there fr.” — K.R.

WhoMadeWho, Kiss & Forget

Today Danish trio WhoMadeWho release their eight (!) studio album, the promisingly titled Kiss & Forget. The projects opens with “Saturday Pt. 1” and “Saturday Pt. 2,” but it’s not the fist pumps and bangers mood those titles may conjure. Instead, single piano notes are paired with strings and a faraway synth altogether conjuring a feeling of distance and longing, mystery and depth. The two-plus minute “Pt. 1” then opens up to “Pt. 2,” on which a beat finally drops, with the guys  — Tomas Høffding, Tomas Barfod, and Jeppe Kjellberg  — layering in chimes and drum crashes and more strings then eventually kickdrum for a sound that, the older you get, the more you actually want your Saturdays to feel like. The rest of the 13-track album features collaborations with Ry X, Dutch titan Kölsch, Adriatique and Blue Hawaii. WhoMadeWho plays a pair of U.S. dates, in Boston and Los Angeles, later this month. — K.B.

Dan Ghenacia, “Rouge ou Noir”

Does anybody remember laughter? Shake off all the ails you, if only for three minutes and 16 seconds, with this absolute party of a disco track by Parisian producer Dan Ghenacia. A spacey, synthy, sexy and simply funky swirl, “Rouge ou Noir” was recorded at Los Angeles’ Stratasonic, a private and state-of-the-art studios run by in-house producers and home to a mouthwatering assemblage of vintage gear and new tech, now open to service both emerging and veteran artists. “Rouge ou Noir” is also the name of the EP this track hails from, with the bubbly “Chilly” working as a slinky B-side. — K.B.

Garth Brooks has revealed the final three weekends of his Garth Brooks/Plus ONE residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The final shows will run from Feb. 21 through March 9, 2025.

“I can’t believe it has come and gone, already,” Brooks said in a statement. “The Caesars gig has been my favorite so far. No setlist, no rules, just the music and the listener come first. I LOVE that! These last shows are going to be hard for me, emotionally, because I can’t stand the thought of this residency being over.”

The final nine show dates are slated for February 2025 (Feb. 21, 22, 23 and 28) and March 2025 (March 1, 2, 7, 8 and 9).

Brooks’ Plus ONE residency puts the Country Music Hall of Famer, known for selling out numerous stadiums multiple times over the years, into an intimate, personal performance setting, with the combination of songs, instruments, onstage banter and occasional special guests varying, essentially making each performance a one-night-only show. Each show features a mix of Brooks’s hits including high-flying anthems as “Rodeo” and “Tearin’ it Up (And Burnin’ It Down),” tear-jerker ballads such as “The River” and unexpected covers of many of Brooks’ favorite songs from artists including James Taylor and Bob Seger.

“What I love about the residencies is you can see every individual and see what’s going on with them,” Brooks previously told Billboard. “Lock into them because they’ll get you through a song. If you’re sitting there going, ‘Why am I straying so much in my head right now?’ Boom! You’ll find that person that this is their favorite song. And then it becomes your favorite song to sing right there in the moment. That’s what I really love.”

Tickets for the final nine shows go on sale to the general public beginning Thursday, Sept. 19, at 10 a.m. PT on Ticketmaster’s website. Citi is the official card of the residency, with Citi cardmembers having access to presale tickets starting Sept. 16 at 10 a.m. PT through Sept. 18 at 10 p.m. PT through the Citi Entertainment program. Past ticket purchasers will have access to a presale starting Sept. 17 at 10 a.m. PT, while Caesars Rewards members and Live Nation customers will have access to a pre-sale starting Sept. 18 at 10 a.m. PT. All presales will end Sept. 18 at 10 p.m. PT.

Brooks’s upcoming 2024 Plus ONE shows at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace will run from Sept. 26-Oct. 13, and Dec. 5-22, 2024.

As they plot their massive reunion next year, Oasis will be looking for support bands to join the bill on their run of 17 U.K. and Ireland stadium tour dates, but Fontaines D.C. will probably not be one of them.

Speaking to Studio Brussel the Irish band, who recently released their superb fourth album Romance on XL Records, had their say on the reunion. “I couldn’t really give a sh-t, to be honest,” guitarist Carlos O’Connell said.

Bassist Conor Deegan III added: “I’m not excited about it, either, to be honest. I feel like we get caught in the last era – like the ’10s – and into such a nostalgic thing that we’re forgetting to make new things.”

“I feel like what we were wanting to do with this record [Romance] anyway was to look into the future and make new things,” Deegan continued. “So for Oasis to reform at this moment for us is really annoying.” Watch the clip below.

What do u think pic.twitter.com/npVa97rDB4

— libby SAW RENEE MF RAPP :,) (@fontainesdove) September 12, 2024

An active user on X, Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher responded to the band in an interaction with a fan. “F–k them little spunkbubbles I’ve seen better dressed ROADIES,” he wrote in one tweet. “They look like a sh-t EMF,” said another, comparing the band to the ‘90s alternative rock band.

Fuck them little spunkbubbles I’ve seen better dressed ROADIES

— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) September 12, 2024

Fans had hoped that Fontaines D.C. might be enlisted as a support act for the shows, and debunked line-up posters even suggested they could be in the frame. Frontman Grian Chatten hoped to cool tensions in a comment on NME’s Instagram, saying “I love Oasis. This is not my opinion.”

Recent reports suggest that Oasis are looking for “established” acts to join the Gallagher brothers on the 2025 dates, their first in over 15 years. Noel and Liam announced their reunion in August, following their acrimonious 2009 split.

The band have been teasing international dates in the U.S. and recently shot down the rumours of a return to Knebworth House in 2026. The sale for the initial run of shows, which saw over 10 million fans from 158 countries attempting to cop tickets, came under fire for the use of Ticketmaster’s controversial “in-demand” pricing.

Fontaines D.C., meanwhile, are set to play their biggest ever show at London’s Finsbury Park next summer on July 4, the same date Oasis kick off their reunion tour at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium.

Playboi Carti season appears to be on the horizon. After releasing his first song on streaming services since 2020 with “All Red” on Friday (Sept. 13), Carti has further opened up about I Am Music while revealing Ye’s (formerly Kanye West) involvement.

The Atlanta rapper took to his Instagram Story to shout out Ye, and said they have been in the lab working on his album together.

“@Ye KANT WAIT 2 SHOW THE WORLD WHAT WE BEEN WORKIN ON WIT DIS ALBUM WE DA REAL 5L NO DOUBT,” he wrote in his caption over a photo of the “All Red” cover art.

Carti’s next IG Story showcased his DMs — one of which featured a message from Ye appearing to lend his cosign to his latest single. “Love this,” West replied.

It remains to be seen if that means West has collaborations on the album, production or is in more of an executive producer role. Carti also alluded to Mike Dean’s involvement behind the boards. “@therealmikedean WENT CRAZY AS USUAL GENIUS S–T,” he wrote in one Story.

Ye and PBC have a rich collaborative history over the years. Carti made multiple appearances on Vultures and Vultures 2, including earning his first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit with “Carnival.” West guested on Carti’s Whole Lotta Red cut “Go2DaMoon” in 2020.

With the arrival of “All Red” and an official I Am Music announcement, it’s finally looking like Carti’s first album in four years could be arriving soon.

He posted vinyl covers for the project to his Instagram and directed fans to visit his website, where Carti’s webstore is selling digital albums along with merchandise bundles, but there’s no release date and it’s only promised to arrive before October 2025.

As for Ye, he’s been busy this year releasing a pair of Vultures projects with Ty Dolla $ign, which are his first since he was condemned for his repeated hate speech. He’s now off to China for a solo concert slated for Haikou on Sept. 15.

See Playboi Carti’s IG Story about Ye below.

YE HAS BEEN ACTIVELY WORKING ON “MUSIC” WITH CARTI

👀🐐👀🐐 pic.twitter.com/8E8XWAi9fM

— Ye Streams (@kanyestreams1) September 13, 2024