Black Hole Recordings New Releases – Week 34

Some records look back, others push forward, but the best ones manage to do both. This week brings nostalgic club memories, fresh takes on familiar sounds, long-awaited new chapters, and plenty of music that finds emotion in unexpected places.

Four years after ‘Heavenly’, HALIENE returns with ‘Eclipsed’, a 15-track album that explores what happens when light and darkness exist side by side. Trance remains at its core, but the album moves through melodic bass, cinematic electronica, pop, drum & bass, and dubstep, giving each song its own atmosphere. From “Eclipsed By You” and “Right Love” to “Don't Give Up On Me” and “Voltage”, HALIENE moves through love, loss, identity, recovery, and resilience, bringing different sides of her artistry together in an album that refuses to play it safe.

I wanted to push against the trend and make music that AI could never ‘dream of’, music with enough humanity, complexity, and unexpected choices that it could never have been generated by a formula.

- HALIENE

Robbie Rivera’s “Glory” comes from a simple idea: after hours of heavy beats, sometimes a DJ set needs a moment to breathe. Built around warm piano stabs, expressive melodies, and a horn line inspired by Guru Josh’s “Infinity”, the record brings together Rivera’s love for uplifting melodic house and the classic sounds that have shaped him since the late ’90s.

But there’s more behind “Glory” than its feel-good atmosphere. Rivera wanted to create something that leaves people with more than the immediate rush of the dancefloor - a sense of happiness, love, hope, and connection. It is about making space for something more meaningful.

Bexxie takes JES’s reflective “We Could Be Stardust” and gives it a completely different setting, reshaping the widescreen original into a sleek house remix with a clear ’90s rave influence. The dreamy, philosophical idea behind the song stays intact, but the new arrangement brings a stronger groove and more club-ready momentum, turning that feeling of being part of something bigger into something you can move to.

I’ve always been a fan of JES and love her voice! When I got the stems, I wanted to preserve the emotional core of the original hook and add a ’90s rave layer to it, so it could hold its own on a dancefloor without losing what made it special.

- Bexxie

After the original’s warm, Balearic take on looking up at the night sky and feeling connected to something bigger, AÏA takes “Children of the Cosmos” somewhere deeper. The remix keeps Okafuwa’s vocals and the heart of the song intact, but reshapes the atmosphere with a more melodic techno-driven pulse, giving it a darker, more immersive character without losing its sense of wonder.

It feels less like watching the stars from a beach and more like getting lost in the night - steady, hypnotic, and gradually pulling you further into its world.

There’s something almost weightless about Emma Hewitt’s vocal on “Sparks In The Night,” and Ciaran McAuley builds his remix around that quality. He keeps the vocal and core melody recognizable, then adds a more driving trance framework, pushing the breakdown further and giving the final release considerably more lift.

The result feels big without becoming heavy - the kind of remix where the vocal pulls you in, and the melody does the rest.

I absolutely love working with Emma’s vocals! When asked to remix this amazing track I knew it was gonna be something special. I’ve given it some serious energy while keeping my much loved emotional feelings.

- Ciaran McAuley

“Home Is Where You Are” started life far away from the big uplifting trance production it would eventually become. C-Systems and Clara Yates first heard the song as an acoustic demo with live piano, but the melody and chord progression immediately stood out as something worth building on.

After several early attempts at the main theme didn’t quite hit the mark, an evening studio session finally unlocked the idea. They kept the original chords, found the pattern that clicked, and layered a huge stack of synths around it, turning the intimate piano foundation into a bright, energetic production with an oversized lead at its center.

Some tracks are written about places that still exist; “Jersey Street” comes from one that lives on in memory. Inspired by Manchester’s Sankeys and the Gareth Emery & Garuda nights that helped shape talkofthetown’s musical path, the record turns those club memories into melodic progressive trance, with a catchy vocal sample, huge breakdown, and euphoric drop.

Sankeys was hands down one of the best places to go for a clubbing experience. Low ceilings, sweaty, condensation dripping from the roof, and a sound system that packed a punch. I wanted to create a track that sounded like something that might have been played there.

- talkofthetown

“I’m Still Here” finds a sweet spot between dance-pop and melodic deep house, with KatyOne’s powerful vocals immediately setting the tone. Warm harmonies, dreamy melodies, and atmospheric electronic textures give it a slightly melancholic edge, while the production keeps moving toward something more uplifting.

Built around the idea of staying present and holding on, the song feels personal without becoming overly heavy. There’s a romantic quality to it, but also a quiet sense of resilience, making “I’m Still Here” the kind of record that can hit differently depending on what you bring to it.