This week’s chill house glides between the club and the comedown. Soulful, dancefloor-ready grooves on one hand, deep desert introspection on the other, rhythms built to move you and melodies built to stay with you. Ease in and let them roll.
Stanley Redex & Amanda Lepore – Follow Me
Soulful, danceable house meets a genuine club-world legend on “Follow Me”, an irresistible collaboration between Stanley Redex and Amanda Lepore.
Here’s a club banger with real pedigree behind it. “Follow Me” pairs rising Dutch DJ and producer Stanley Redex with none other than legendary New York club icon Amanda Lepore, released via Darling Records, Sony Music’s queer label. Redex brings exactly the sound that’s made his name, rhythmic, soulful and irresistibly danceable, and Lepore’s presence gives it that unmistakable downtown glamour. This is house that’s produced like a dream, and it’s feel good AF. Built for a packed floor, polished but never sterile, there’s bags and character to this. Infectious, stylish and made to move.
Stanley Redex is a young Dutch house DJ and producer who won the DJ category at the 2023 Kunstbende Young Creators Festival, the same competition that launched Martin Garrix. Since then he’s played leading stages including Solar Festival, Parkcity Live and 90’s Forever, appeared live on SLAM! FM, and taken his sound to Ibiza’s Es Paradis and Ibiza Global Radio. Now studying at the Herman Brood Academy, another launchpad for Dutch talent, he’s focused on productions that genuinely connect with a crowd. A real rising star, and one to watch.
CNDR – Coda (Hope Mix)
Rolling basslines and uplifting melodic builds make “Coda (Hope Mix)” a superb slice of desert-bred progressive house from CNDR, quiet optimism for the dancefloor.
Some tracks carry the wide-open landscape they were made in, and this is one. “Coda (Hope Mix)” is a driving yet deeply emotive progressive house cut, built around nuanced synth work, rolling basslines and uplifting melodic builds that capture the tension between dark and light. It works two ways at once, peak-hour energy for the club and hypnotic, atmospheric depth for late-night listening, and that duality is its charm. There’s a genuine hopefulness threaded through the rhythms, quiet optimism you can actually dance to. Cinematic, immersive and quietly stirring. A beauty.
CNDR is a California high-desert electronic producer carving out a distinctive lane in progressive, melodic and introspective house. Defined by deep, rolling basslines, intricate melodic textures and genuinely hopeful messages, the work bridges peak-hour club energy and immersive, late-night atmosphere. Drawing inspiration from the vast, open landscapes of the Mojave, CNDR blends rich analogue-style synthesis with expressive, soul-driven arrangements that feel as cinematic as they are dancefloor-ready. For fans of Khen, Guy J and Tonic Walter, this is a real find. More of this please.