You’ve got an hour before the sun’s gone and these three records are exactly the right length. Summer’s best music is the last thing playing before the night takes over.
1. Sasha - Hollow Sun 25
Seven minutes and the acid line only fully arrives at the halfway mark. The rest is buildup — not the big-room kind, the kind where you realize you’ve been holding your breath and the track hasn’t even started pushing yet. This is the 200th release on Sasha’s Last Night On Earth label. Two hundred records, and he saved the acid for the anniversary.
2. Gabriel & Dresden x Blake.08 - Velour
The melody does something in the second half that makes you want to replay it immediately. I’ve done it six times this week and it hasn’t stopped working. Gabriel & Dresden and a young Australian producer named Blake.08 on Anjunadeep, and the track sounds like all three of them at their most unguarded.
3. Soul II Soul - A Dream’s A Dream (Ron Trent Remix)
Ron Trent’s deep house rework of a 1990 Soul II Soul classic. Vinyl-only on Funki Dred Records before it hit streaming, which tells you what kind of record this is — the kind made for a specific room and a specific hour. It sounds like 1990 and 2025 at the same time, and neither one is trying to win.
The sun’s going down and the records are still playing. That’s the whole summer right there.