This week’s electronic music bops stretch wonderfully wide, moving from global pop to cinematic synth builds. These bangers are built for headphones and after dark spaces, and we’re into them all ❤️🔥
LUMEN – Control Freak
LUMEN delivers a sleek, globally minded pop cut that fuses house pulse with K-pop precision and cinematic sheen
Control Freak, glides on a polished house beat with crisp percussion and glossy synth lines, balancing a great metallic tension and release across its tight three-minute run time. The chorus lands with clean pop clarity while the production keeps things dancefloor-ready.
LUMEN is an Atlanta-based independent artist shaping a fluid, cross-genre sound that moves between pop, R&B and electronic spaces. This single leans into a more international palette, signalling a confident step towards a broader, club-facing identity. A big, big track.
GINAxC – Liar on Fire
GINAxC delivers a dark electropop banger built for the biggest stages
Liar on Fire, surges forward on punchy electronic drums and brooding synth textures, framing a vocal that shifts between restraint and defiance. The hook is sharp and immediate, designed for impact.
GINAxC, a Swedish-Balkan artist currently active in the Eurovision circuit, builds on growing European momentum with this release. The track centres on power and resistance, pushing her darker electropop edge further into the spotlight. This should be huge.
Dr. Evangelos Viazis – Justice For All
Dr. Evangelos Viazis blends careful orchestral craft with emotionally charged electronic production
Justice For All, opens with sweeping, symphonic textures before electronic drums and atmospheric layers give it modern drive. The arrangement builds in a lovely, steady way, delivering an anthemic, driven emotional lift.
Dr. Evangelos Viazis is a Greece-based artist crafting cinematic electronic music rooted in universal themes. This release leans into ideas of truth and equality, presenting their sound as both dramatic and purpose-led. Hoping for more from this artist this year.
Tony Frissore – Island Lantern Festival
Tony Frissore crafts a wonderful, reflective pairing late-night electronic grooves with a sunlit reggae sway
Island Lantern Festival, settles into a laid-back rhythm built on lo-fi textures and a gentle reggae-inspired pulse. Soft melodic details and spacious, solid production give it a transportive, late-night feel.
Tony Frissore, a producer with roots in the US and experience across international scenes, blends global influences into a cohesive electronic sound. Timed around Lunar New Year, this track focuses on mood and atmosphere over spectacle. It’s a real head-nodder this one.
Hidden Shores – Rows of Houses
Hidden Shores clever reimaginining of the Radiohead classic builds a wonderful digital tension
Rows of Houses, unfolds through layered synths and measured beats, reshaping Radiohead’s Street Spirit into a machine-like synth pop banger. The tone is introspective, with space carved out for detail and slow-building intensity, before exploding into something really quite special.
Hidden Shores, a Belgium-based project with a fascination for the meeting point between human emotion and coded sound, approaches this release as both tribute and experiment. It reflects a respect for influential songwriting while exploring electronic reinterpretation. A real moment this one.