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FENRA Shares New Cinematic Single “EMERALDS”
FENRA continues to expand his immersive electronic universe with “EMERALDS”, an atmospheric new single that blends granular textures, fractured percussion, and cinematic emotion into a hypnotic listening experience.
Released via Base Layer Records, the track further showcases the Portland-based producer’s ability to create music that feels less like a traditional dance release and more like a fully formed environment. Built around evolving vocal fragments, soft UK garage-inspired rhythms, and layered synth textures, “EMERALDS” unfolds slowly, pulling listeners into a spacious and emotionally charged soundscape.
Rather than chasing festival-ready drops or commercial EDM formulas, FENRA leans into subtlety and mood. The drums remain intentionally distant while shimmering textures and swirling atmospheres gradually build tension across the track’s compact runtime. By the closing moments, the production blooms into a powerful cinematic finale that feels both intimate and expansive.
Drawing influence from artists such as Four Tet, Bonobo, and Burial, FENRA occupies a space between left-field electronica and emotional downtempo music, balancing technical precision with organic warmth. That balance has already earned him support from publications including CLASH Magazine, Electronic Groove, and Magnetic Magazine following the release of his Delusional EP in 2025.
At the core of “EMERALDS” is an attention to texture and emotional atmosphere. FENRA explained that the song began with sampled chords and vocal fragments that were continuously reshaped until they became “a living texture underneath the track.” That experimental process is audible throughout the single, giving it a fluid and constantly evolving quality.
The result is a release that feels meditative yet restless, delicate yet emotionally weighty. “EMERALDS” doesn’t demand attention through volume or excess, it quietly absorbs it, rewarding listeners who are willing to disappear into its details.
Some songs are made for a particular moment. Others somehow refuse to stay in one era. Lionel Richie’s “All Night Long” is firmly in the latter category and now dance producer KEPA is giving the timeless party anthem a fresh lease of life with a vibrant new reimagining built for packed dancefloors and long summer nights.
Out now, “All Night Long (All Night)” takes the unmistakable spirit of Richie’s classic and drops it into a modern, UK-influenced dance setting. The result is exactly the kind of record that makes you want to stop checking the time, put your phone away and stay on the dancefloor for just one more song.
KEPA builds the track around a driving house groove, warm synth bass, piano and saxophone, while that instantly recognisable vocal hook remains at the heart of the record. Rather than trying to reinvent the feeling that made the original so iconic, he leans into it — turning its sense of celebration and togetherness into something made for a new generation of club-goers.
“I wanted to keep the original sense of joy while giving it a completely different club energy. For me, it captures that warm, carefree feeling of summer — freedom, connection, dancing, and staying in the moment for as long as you can. I wanted the record to feel like a little escape from everything happening around us.”
And that idea of escape is central to KEPA’s musical world.
Away from the studio, KEPA runs a real estate development business, but when it comes to music, he trades buildings and business meetings for basslines, piano chords and late-night energy. Drawing from UK dance culture, his sound moves between house, UK garage and melodic electronic music, always with an emphasis on big hooks and records that are designed to make people move.
It’s a combination that makes “All Night Long (All Night)” feel right at home somewhere between the radio and the club. KEPA’s influences include dance heavyweights such as Sigala, Joel Corry, Duke Dumont, MK and David Guetta, and that crossover sensibility comes through clearly here.
But there’s more to the record than simply making an old favourite danceable again. KEPA has tapped into something much simpler: the feeling of a night that you don’t want to end.
There’s a reason “all night long” remains such a universal phrase. It’s that moment when the plans go out the window, the music gets louder and suddenly nobody is thinking about what time it is. KEPA captures that feeling in a track that feels tailor-made for summer, whether that means a festival crowd, a rooftop party, a packed club or the soundtrack to a spontaneous night that somehow turns into morning.
The night is young. Turn it up.
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