Boston piano-rooted synthwave, a London producer chasing a new dance craze, and a Prague electronic artist building cinematic emotional pop since 2017: synth pop this week spans three cities and three very different ideas of what a dance track can do.
MOMARZ – Party Moves
MOMARZ’s “Party Moves” is a brilliant synthwave dance track: piano-rooted, hypnotic, and a joyful slice of Boston-based electronic pop
“Party Moves” is built on the piano-rooted melodic instinct that runs through MOMARZ’s catalogue, here sharpened into something explicitly designed for movement. And move we will, cos it’s a real zinger this one. It’s filled with hypnotic percussion sequences layered under synthwave textures, with bags of analogue warmth. MOMARZ builds everything himself using a Yamaha electronic piano P-125, a KORG microKEY, and an M-VAVE MIDI piano, all routed through GarageBand, and the quality of that process is audible: the track breathes rather than pounds.
MOMARZ is a Boston-based producer and multi-instrumentalist whose focus on piano-led melody within electronic frameworks gives his work an unusual warmth for the genre. He builds his productions entirely from live keyboard performance and sequenced percussion rather than samples or preset loops, which is what keeps the synthwave influences from feeling nostalgic. “Party Moves” is essential synthwave this year.
I’m Not a Blonde – Scegli Me (ft. Rachele Bastreghi)
I’m Not a Blonde’s “Scegli Me” is a stunning bilingual electropop single: minimal, melancholic, and one of the most emotionally precise duets this year
“Scegli Me” is the third single from I’m Not a Blonde’s album 11 (The Art of Being a Couple), and it has this wonderful tension at it’s heart: groovy as fuck arpeggios and tight rhythms, set against an ambitious melody wide enough to carry the whole thing. For this listener, it’s produced like a dream, a real treat for the ears and involves synth work that genuinely brilliant.
The track unfolds as a bilingual inner dialogue, Chiara singing in English and guest Rachele Bastreghi of Baustelle in Italian, moving between past and present as the central question sharpens into focus. The use of two languages works great; drawing a picture of how communication in a long relationship operates across registers that don’t always meet cleanly.
I’m Not a Blonde are a Milan-based Italian-American duo, Chiara Castello and Camilla Benedini, whose sound combines 80s synths, 90s Brit-wave guitars and sharp pop melodies into something they describe as wrapped in a veil of melancholy. Live, they build their sonic architecture from layered loops of vocals, guitars, synths and electronic beats, a setup that has taken them to the stages of Franz Ferdinand’s 2018 Bologna show at the Unipol Arena, The Killers at Rock in Roma, and support slots for Wolf Alice and Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park. Pretty cool musical CV, huh? But the best bit is the music, cos this is a banger. Check out their whole album below.
Floor Element – Do The Funky Robot Remix
Floor Element’s “Do The Funky Robot” is an excellent piece of high-energy electro: dense, suffocating, and one of the most committed attempts at starting a dance craze you’ll encounter this side of a warehouse rave.
“Do The Funky Robot” is the lead single from Floor Element’s upcoming LP 8 Elements, and it arrives with its own choreographic instruction manual built into the track: Wave, Work, Lock, Pop and Reset. The production fuses 90s Britpop vocal stylings with classic Acid Pro production, creating a deliberately dense sonic environment that sits somewhere between industrial electronic and high-energy workout music. It is the kind of track that has a very clear sense of its own purpose and commits to it without compromise.
Floor Element is a London-based electronic producer whose work spans breakbeat, electro, experimental electronic and commercial dance, drawing on the golden era of dance music while pushing its conventions outward. His productions are built on infectious rhythms and deliberate experimentation, and his catalogue rewards listeners who come from across the genre spectrum rather than a single corner of it. “Do The Funky Robot” is the lead single from his forthcoming album 8 Elements.
MIR3 – I Let You Go
MIR3’s “I Let You Go” is a gorgeous piece of cinematic electronic pop: atmospheric, melancholic, and one of the most emotionally immersive dance-pop productions to come out of Prague this year.
“I Let You Go” features atmospheric vocals from MRS over a production that moves between melancholic melody and immersive modern synths. MIR3 works in a space where emotional vulnerability and commercial electronic production occupy the same track without cancelling each other out, and “I Let You Go” is a strong example of that balance. The subject is the specific emotional weight of releasing someone, and the cinematic scale of the arrangement earns the feeling without overstating it. It was released on 1 May 2026.
MIR3 is a Prague-based independent electronic producer and artist who has been active since 2017, beginning with the debut single “Love Is a Drug.” His work blends emotional dance-pop with cinematic electronic textures, and the consistency of that approach across nearly a decade of releases has given his catalogue a coherence that single-focused artists often lack. “I Let You Go” is his current single.