Friday Dance Music Guide: The Week’s Best New Tracks From Purity Ring, Chris Lake & More

This week in dance music: deadmau5 and Rezz graced the cover of Billboard Canada, talking about their longstanding collaboratove project, Rezzmau5. In the story deadmau5 also spoke about selling his catalog to Create Music Group earlier this year, saying that “it was time to just let it go.”

Elsewhere, Italian techno producer Deborah de Luca dropped out of the HARD Summer 2025 lineup following a public dispute about the font size of her billing, with the artist saying, “I’m very sorry, guys! But they put my name smaller than others, it was not dignified for my career.” The producer was replaced on the lineup by electronic foursome Ladies of Leisure.

This week Damian Lazarus also announced that he’ll debut his Day Zero party on the beach in northern Brazil in January of 2026, with the event also returning to its longtime home in Tulum that same month. We spoke with two members of Gesaffelstein’s team about how they and the French producer created his current live show and why he’s become a go-to collaborator for pop stars like Lady Gaga and Charli xcx.

“He has a very strong sense of melody and pop,” says his longtime manager Alexandra Pilz-Hayot. “You hear it on the Charli song and the Gaga song, especially on the track ‘Killah.’ It’s the meeting of two artists who really understand each other musically. It’s been the easiest collaboration.”

Meanwhile, Reservoir Media announced that they’ve entered into a strategic partnership with Fool’s Gold Records, adding the A-Trak co-founded independent label to its recorded music portfolio. Madonna announced that a collection of rare and unreleased remixes of her 1998 electronic masterpiece Ray of Light is coming July 25, with the artist saying that at the time the album was released “I was going through a huge metamorphosis. I had just given birth to my daughter Lola, I had found my spiritual path and I was ready to shed a new skin and take a road less traveled by.”

Plus: Disclosure announced a fall run of live shows, Tiësto and Sexyy Redd released a new collab from the forthcoming F1 The Movie soundtrack and Lady Gaga celebrated disco star Carl Bean’s 1977 anthem “I Was Born This Way” in a new documentary.

And to round it all out, these are the best new dance tracks of the week.