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This week in dance music: A \u201cno experience needed\u201d DJ competition that originated in Australia is debuting in the U.S.<\/a> this fall, with auditions happening in New York and Los Angeles later this month. Focused on democratizing DJing and opening up the space to producers without access to equipment and training, the competition is offering a chance not only to pick up skills, but to earn a slot on an upcoming festival lineup. The Your Shot advisory team includes artist and Femme House co-founder LP Giobbi, president of Live Nation\u2019s Vibee Harvey Cohen and representatives from\u00a0dance<\/a>\/electronic management company The Circuit Group.<\/p>\n More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Meanwhile, IMS Dubai announced <\/a>the phase one programming for its conference in November, with Nicole Moudaber, Hugel, Bedouin, Pete Tong and executives from the across the dance industry heading to the U.A.E. for the event.<\/p>\n And also: TikToker Kelley Heyer, who created the viral dance to\u00a0Charli xcx<\/a>\u2019s \u201cApple,\u201d reached a settlement<\/a> with gaming giant Roblox to resolve claims that the platform featured her choreography without her permission, Lady Gaga cancelled a show in Miami<\/a> at the last minute due to strained vocal issues, writing in a statement that \u201cI want to be hardcore and just push through this for you but I don\u2019t want to risk long term or permanent damage on my vocal cords,\u201d and Aloe Blacc teamed up with<\/a> Sickick for the new track \u201cLonely Together.\u201d<\/p>\n To put an exclamation point on it all, these are the best new dance tracks of the week.<\/p>\n The saga of this song continues today, with, finally, its release. Harris has been cooking on \u201cOcean\u201d for years, with the track initially featuring vocals from Miley Cyrus. Harris teased a snippet<\/a> of this early version last year, but more recently explained<\/a> that for reasons that are \u201cabsolutely not\u201d Cyrus\u2019 fault, that iteration of the track will never get released.<\/p>\n But the final product hardly feels like a compromise. The song\u2019s co-writer Jessie Reyez (who also co-penned the Harris hits \u201cOne Kiss\u201d and \u201cPromises\u201d) steps into sing, with her delicate voice dancing over a an urgently pretty production, into which the ever experimental Harris weaves in guitar and light flourishes of psytrance.<\/p>\n \u201cOcean\u201d is out on Sony Music. Listen to it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n SG Lewis releases his third album Anemoia today and \u2014 as suggested by the ace singles that have preceded it \u2014 the project contains all of the cerebral, stylish, sexy and often deeply contemplative elements we\u2019ve long loved about the British producer\u2019s output. Collaborators including Shygirl, London Grammar, TEED, Frances and Oliver Sim add heft to the 10-track collection, with the various moods conjuring nostalgia, the thrilling presence found on the dancefloor \u2014 and, in the album\u2019s best moments, both things at once.<\/p>\n Anemoia is out on Forever Days\/Astralwerks. Listen to it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Five years after the release of his last album, French Touch cool guy S\u00e9bastian Tellier returns with \u201cRefresh,\u201d a single that also marks the producer\u2019s first release on Because Music.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a track about renewal, rebirth, failures, and the ceaseless cycle of starting over,\u201d Tellier says of the track, a shining amalgamation of electronic, synth and pop. \u201cIt\u2019s about changing internal processes at certain moments in life in order to keep moving forward, to reinvent oneself, to continue existing \u2014 like an animal shedding its skin, or like reprogramming computer software to survive inner chaos. And always rolling the dice again, over and over.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cRefresh\u201d is out on Because Music. Listen to it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Debuted at<\/a> Tomorrowland 2024, \u201cUpside Down\u201d finally gets release today in appropriate fashion via the festival\u2019s in house label. A collab between Alesso, Australian trio Sentinal and Dutch duo Sick Individuals, the song marries big room tendencies with the darker, clubbier output that Alesso especially has been exploring over the last few years via his BodyHi project.<\/p>\n \u201cUpside Down\u201d is out on Tomorrowland Music\/BodyHi. Listen to it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Layton Giordani, the New York-based producer and key member of John Summit\u2019s Experts Only label, today launches his own imprint, Madminds. \u201cWhen It Kicks\u201d is the label\u2019s debut single, with Giordani coming hot out the gates with the darkly winding Green Velvet collab. In fact Giordani originally planned to release the tech house track on Green Velvet\u2019s label, but the house legend instead suggested that Giordani use it to jumpstart his own imprint.<\/p>\n A label rep advises that Madminds will be guided by \u201ccuriosity, creativity, and a headstrong approach to blurring genre lines.\u201d Meanwhile, Giordani and Green Velvet will perform together at Summit\u2019s Experts Only Festival later this month and at The Shrine in Los Angeles in November.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen It Kicks\u201d is out on Madminds. Listen to it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cChorophobia\u201d translates to \u201ca fear of dancing,\u201d which effectively summarized how Dutch duo Weval felt about being defined as a dance act since emerging in the scene circa 2013. But while working on the music for their fourth studio album, they decided to \u201clean into the irony and get out of their comfort zones\u201d by getting out of a listening music mindset and intentionally making dance music. This is all to say that the new project by the pair is straightforwardly body moving fare that still, predictably, maintains the intelligence and nuance that\u2019s long defined the group\u2019s output.<\/p>\n Chorophobia is out on Ninja Tune\u2019s Technicolour imprint. Listen to it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Billboard’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nCalvin Harris & Jessie Reyez, \u201cOcean\u201d<\/h2>\n
SG Lewis, Anemoia<\/h2>\n
S\u00e9bastian Tellier, \u201cRefresh\u201d<\/h2>\n
Alesso, Sentinal & Sick Individuals, \u201cUpside Down\u201d<\/h2>\n
Layton Giordani & Green Velvet, \u201cWhen It Kicks\u201d<\/h2>\n
Weval, Chorophobia<\/h2>\n