In The Remix 2026: Indie Dance

12 May 2026 14:17

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Indie Dance

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Overview

In The Remix 2026: Indie Dance — An Anthology That Maps the Present

Compilations like In The Remix 2026: Indie Dance don't happen by accident. They are sonic surveys of a genre in full bloom, and this twenty-track collection — spanning labels like Live At Robert Johnson, Permanent Vacation, Watergate Records, Hooj Choons, and Awesome Soundwave — offers one of the most coherent portraits of contemporary indie dance released this cycle.

The opening statement is bold: Red Axes reshape Tim Paris and Foremost Poets' That Boy into seven minutes of postpunk-inflected Tel Aviv groove, all tension and forward momentum at 125 BPM in F Major. Then Curses takes the unlikely pairing of Carl Cox and Perry Farrell and turns Joya into something ceremonial and shadowy — a remix that transcends its source material and demands repeat listens.

Between the Dancefloor and the Interior

The curatorial intelligence here lies in the range of emotional registers covered. Massimiliano Pagliara brings understated European elegance to Sasse's Backwards at 124 BPM in C Minor, while The Blessed Madonna takes Obongjayar's Not In Surrender into near-devotional territory at 68 BPM — proof that indie dance is far more than a dancefloor genre. Yu Su's rework of Dear Treasure drifts at 82 BPM with a balearic grace that feels timeless rather than retro.

The inclusion of Hooj Choons material is a curatorial highlight: Jason Peters' remix of Katcha's Touched By God reconnects with the label's progressive trance legacy at 128 BPM without sounding like a nostalgia exercise. Philipp Lauer's cheekily titled Trance I Caries rework of Verdo's Ballad navigates 120 BPM with conceptual wit very much in keeping with the Hell Yeah Recordings aesthetic.

Standout Tracks

That Boy (Red Axes Remix) – Tim Paris, Foremost Poets

// Track list

20 songs to enjoy

#	Track	BPM	Dur.	Key	Genre	Label
1	That Boy (feat. Foremost Poets) (Red Axes Remix) Tim Paris, Foremost Poets	125	7:04	F Major	Indie Dance	Live At Robert Johnson
2	Joya (Curses Remix) Carl Cox, Perry Farrell	125	7:36	Ab Major	Indie Dance	Awesome Soundwave
3	Lossen (Madd Rod Remix) Kolegos	121	5:07	A Minor	Indie Dance	Nein Records
4	Strange Train (Silver Dagger Edit) Silver Dagger, Rebecca U	121	2:52	D Minor	Indie Dance	Nein Records
5	Run (Local Suicide & Mike Sacchetti Remix - Extended Version) Local Suicide, Deckert, Mike Sacchetti, Andy's Echo	125	5:06	A Major	Indie Dance	3000 Grad Records
6	Always With Me (Eden Burns Remix) TEED, Eden Burns	95	7:53	C Major	Dance / Pop	Nice Age Music
7	Dear Treasure ft. Luna (Yu Su Remix) Luna, Hayes Bradley	82	6:22	D Major	Indie Dance	Stratasonic
8	Backwards (Massimiliano Pagliara Remix) Sasse, Maurice Aymard	124	7:00	C Minor	Indie Dance	Apersonal Music
9	Not In Surrender (The Blessed Madonna Remix) The Blessed Madonna, Obongjayar	68	5:57	E Major	Indie Dance	September Recordings
10	Touched By God (Jason Peters Remix) Katcha	128	5:00	D Major	Indie Dance	Hooj Choons
11	In Plain Sight (Whitesquare Remix) Roman Kyn	122	6:49	A Minor	Indie Dance	Watergate Records
12	Wavetable FM (Third Son Mix) Baldo, Third Son	129	5:13	E Major	Indie Dance	Permanent Vacation
13	Million Pieces (Kino Todo Remix) Marina Maximilian, Adam Ten, Mita Gami	128	5:32	C Major	Indie Dance	Maccabi House
14	Dance On (Young Marco Remix) Cassius, Young Marco	128	6:11	E Major	Deep House	Because Music
15	Pulsing (Jenia Tarsol & Omri Smadar Extended Remix) Tomas Barfod, Nina K	121	6:17	E Minor	Indie Dance	Flying Hearts
16	Ballad (Philipp Lauer Trance I Caries Remix) Verdo	120	7:00	F Major	Indie Dance	Hell Yeah Recordings
17	Glitch 2000 / Rave Down (Simple Symmetry Conjoined Twins Remix) Populous	132	6:20	F Major	Indie Dance	Playground Records
18	Recover (Musumeci Remix) Aiwaska	120	5:39	C Major	Indie Dance	Buttress
19	Quente (Ben Gomori's Smoke Show Remix) Ben Gomori, Mon Qalamari	122	5:43	C Minor	Indie Dance	LAGA Records
20	Get Closer (Dj Oil Remix) Remain, Dawad	120	8:09	F Minor	Indie Dance	Meant Records