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First Spin: The Week’s Best New Dance Tracks From Baauer, Kaytranada & Anderson .Paak, Bklava & More

Each week we canvas the wide, wild world of dance music to bring you the hottest new tracks.

This week in dance music: We caught ODESZA’s comeback show in their hometown of Seattle, Beatport announced a new CFO, Beyoncé dropped three very excellent “Break My Soul” remixes and hit No. 1 on Dance Mix/Show Airplay with that same track, we spoke to Kevin Aviance on the drag icon’s appearance on Renaissance, Empress Of and Jim-E Stack released a very good video for their very excellent single “Turn The Table,” Domino Records launched a new electronic imprint, the legend Claude VonStroke answered 20 questions and Calvin Harris released his long-awaited album, Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2.

Since appearing on Billboard’s Top 10 Dance Artists to Watch list earlier this year, multi-hyphenate Bklava has been making the rounds on some of dance music’s most iconic and buzziest labels, from FFRR and Defected sub-level D4 D4NCE to Elkka’s femme culture. Her latest release, on Danny Howard’s Nothing Else Matters label, is Anywhere With You, a double-single packed with catchy vocals and the sounds of U.K. club culture. On the title track, Bklava delivers sugary, love-lorn vocals with anthemic force over a house rhythm pumped with high-speed percussion and pure adrenaline. The B-side, “Hide,” sounds and feels like the polar opposite. It’s slower, darker, broodier U.K. garage with groaning bass, sharp block hits and a rumble looming ominously in the background while Bklava cries out: “Baby, it’s too late… You don’t know what you got till it’s gone.” These two songs, with their totally different moods, prove that this rising artist is only getting better with each release. — K.R.

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