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‘Amapiano became a lot of people’s lockdown escapist soundtrack, and from a standing start in 2019, it crossed over a thousand different ways,’ says Muggs. In Drake’s case, he’s plugging more obviously into the other dominant trend in dance music right now – the global success of amapiano, the South African variant of deep House that grew exponentially during the pandemic.

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‘That, plus “club” music from Baltimore, Jersey, Philly, etc, and ballroom from NYC – which are rooted in House – having a moment in the sun and EDM guys jumping on that bandwagon.’ Particularly in America, where House has for the past decade been interchangeable for many people with a white, bro-heavy, EDM sound, this reconnection with the genre’s true roots in gay, marginalised and African-American culture is long overdue. ‘The background context is generation EDM growing up and getting deeper into dance culture, gravitating to the smaller dance tents at Coachella, Electric Daisy Carnival and all those that have always featured HOUSE house,’ says Joe Muggs, music journalist and author of Bass, Mids, Tops, an exhaustive history of sound system culture. The same chugging 115 BPM rhythms, fat piano chords and Korg M1 bass synth that underpin Robin S’s 1990 classic ‘Show Me Love’ loom extremely large over ‘Break My Soul’. On a very obvious level, these tracks are part of an ongoing revival of a classic early 1990s House music sound that has shaped everything in recent years from Disclosure’s ‘Latch’ to Riton x Nightcrawlers’ deathless ‘Friday’.

There are a few different things going on here. Both artists have returned this month with straight-ahead, dance floor-filling bangers – in Beyoncé’s case particularly, a marked shift from her previous releases such as the politicised, electronic ‘Black Parade’. While not wanting to tempt fate, there’s a definite feeling of the post-COVID-19 (or at least post-lockdown) era being firmly upon us, normality resuming for the first summer since 2019, and people seizing the moment to get together, blow off some steam, and generally memory-hole that curious interregnum of Zoom calls, sweat pants and solo socialising.Īnd wherever you’re reconvening this summer, it’s likely that an ever-present soundtrack is going to be the two new releases by Beyoncé (‘Break My Soul’) and Drake (‘Falling Back’). As you may have noticed lately, our Houses – like pretty much every communal social space – are looking noticeably busier.