This week’s dance music featured Deadmau5 and Rezz discussing their long-running collaborative effort, Rezzmau5, on the Billboard Canada cover. Speaking about selling his collection to Create Music Group earlier this year, deadmau5 stated in the piece that “it was time to just let it go.”
Following a public controversy about the font size of her billing, Italian techno producer Deborah de Luca withdrew from the HARD Summer 2025 roster. The artist expressed her regret to the audience, saying, “I’m extremely sorry, people! However, they made my name less prominent than others, which was disrespectful to my profession. Ladies of Leisure, an electronic quartet, took the producer’s position on the lineup.
Damian Lazarus also revealed this week that in January 2026, he will launch his Day Zero party on a beach in northern Brazil. That same month, the event will return to its long-standing location in Tulum. We talked with two members of Gesaffelstein’s team about how they and the French producer developed his current live act and why pop artists like Lady Gaga and Charli xcx have grown to rely on him as a collaborator.
According to Alexandra Pilz-Hayot, his longtime manager, “he has a very strong sense of melody and pop.” “You hear it in both the Gaga and Charli songs, particularly in the song ‘Killah.'” It’s the meeting of two musicians who have a deep musical understanding of one another. It has been the most straightforward partnership.
Reservoir Media, meanwhile, said that it has partnered strategically with Fool’s Gold Records, incorporating the independent label that A-Trak co-founded into its catalog of recorded music. Madonna, who stated that “I was going through a huge metamorphosis at the time the album was released,” revealed that a compilation of rare and unreleased remixes of her 1998 electronic masterwork Ray of Light will be available on July 25. I had discovered my spiritual path, had recently given birth to my daughter Lola, and was prepared to shed my skin and choose a less-traveled route.
Additionally, Lady Gaga praised disco star Carl Bean’s 1977 classic “I Was Born This Way” in a new documentary, Disclosure announced an autumn run of live gigs, and Tiësto and Sexyy Redd shared a new collaboration from the upcoming F1 The Movie soundtrack.
These are the week’s top new dance songs to complete the picture.
Ring of Purity, “many lives”
With “many lives” and the single’s B-side “part ii,” electronic pop duo Purity Ring releases their first new song since 2023. “Many lives” actually refers to the passing of time, as Megan James of Purity Ring sings, “You know I’ve lived many lives, many lives, many times,” in a crystal-clear voice that floats over a production that combines cinematic synths of drum & bass-style drums.
The two declare in a joint statement that “in many ways, many lives + pt ii is the epicenter of things we’ve been working on recently.” It is comparable to the sun that we have been around for the past several years. It has everything we can imagine in it, yet it also feels completely dark and unattainable. At this stage of our careers, we are simply ecstatic about creating music, and while creating this, we felt a sense of expansion and opportunity.
Creative director Mike Sunday created the accompanying film for the self-released project, which showcases the pair’s influences, which include Final Fantasy X and Automata.