Clubs have been putting stickers over camera lenses and locking phones in pouches all year. The idea is simple: stop filming the drop and actually feel it. Gabss timed that mood perfectly. His new single “No Phone Party,” out via IN / ROTATION, is tech house with old-school house swing and an indie dance edge — the kind of record that wants the floor, not the story.
Gabss is a Brazilian DJ and producer with more than a decade in the game. In 2025 he ranked as the 10th best-selling artist worldwide on Beatport in Indie Dance and landed in the Top 101 Producers on 1001Tracklists. In 2026 he went further. “Lost,” his collaboration with Vintage Culture, hit number one worldwide on Beatport. He then returned to the top of Indie Dance with “Work,” released on his own imprint, No Disco. That is not a lucky week. That is a run.
The label list around him tells the same story. When Stars Align, Nervous, EXE, Maccabi House, Black Book, STMPD. Support has come from Solomun, Michael Bibi, The Martinez Brothers, Jamie Jones, Marco Carola, CamelPhat, Maceo Plex, Adam Ten, Loco Dice, Vintage Culture, Mochakk and more. Those names do not play filler. They play records that hold a room after the first eight bars.
On the road he has already stepped onto floors that matter: Space Miami, Knockdown Center in Brooklyn, Experts Only in Vail, plus dates across the US, South America and Europe. Next up: Experts Only Festival, EDC Orlando and Ushuaïa Ibiza. Brazil remains home base — Só Track Boa, D-EDGE, Surreal Park — but the map is getting wider.
“No Phone Party” sits in the lane that has been eating Beatport this year. Tech house is still leading sales. Old-school house DNA is back in the programming: warmer drums, funkier bass movement, less clutter, more swing. Indie dance gives it that extra bite so the track can live in a peak-time set without sounding like every other rolling loop. The title does the rest. Phone-free nights have moved from a few rooms in Berlin and Manchester to Pacha, ANTS at Ushuaïa, Hï Ibiza and Warehouse Project zones. People are tired of watching a night through a screen. A track named after that feeling does not need a lecture. It just needs to move.
I am not going to invent lyrics or a breakdown I have not been given. What the submission does make clear is the brief: groove first, club first, identity intact. Gabss has described his own sound as hypnotic, danceable and emotional. That mix — hip-hop-rooted rhythm from his early garage-beat days, then years of house craft — is why his records travel from Brazilian festivals to Brooklyn warehouses without changing costume.
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What do you think of Gabss’ sound? Phone-free floor or cameras up — which side are you on? Let me know in the comments.
