Kevin Saunderson and son Dantiez link up on first e-Dancer album in 25 years

Kevin Saunderson and his son, Dantiez, have announced the release of a brand new, eponymous album under their e-Dancer alias.

The record is set to land on May 21 marking e-Dancer’s “first original” album since 1998’s ‘Heavenly’, which Kevin worked on solo as an output for more “underground” styles of techno.

In 2024, Kevin revealed that e-Dancer was entering a new era, with his son Dantiez joining the project. Together, they formed a duo and released their first collaborative track, ‘Melodica’, in October.

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‘e-Dancer’, their first full-length project as a duo, is primed to land on One House this spring featuring 10 tracks, each promising to push the sound of Detroit techno to new areas.

"When I decided to make music, my path was to make people dance. It always will be. Dance is happiness; it's joyful,” Kevin explains. “It's a connection between different cultures, races and people worldwide."

“I know it’s in Dantiez's DNA too. When people hear the album, I hope they hear the connection between a father and son on the same path of creating music," he says.

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The release of the new record also marks a decade of collaboration between Kevin Saunderson and Dantiez, who first teamed up in a back-to-back set at Chicago House Legacy Session in 2014.

The second single from the record, ‘Emotions’, landed earlier today alongside the album’s announcement, traversing hypnotic techno and warming synths.

Listen to e-Dancer’s latest single ‘Emotions’ here, and check out the tracklist and artwork for their new self-titled album below.

Tracklist:
01. Melodica
02. Emotions
03. Dancer
04. Frequency
05. Symbolical
06. Reece Punch
07. Drumtalk
08. Bring The Funk
09. Feel The Rhythm
10. Escape

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