Some records do not wait for release day to prove they work. Jemma Bolt and LoopDeeLoop’s “Love Drug” is one of those. Before it landed on David Penn’s Urbana Recordings on 25 September 2026, Carl Cox had already been running a test pressing through house sets around the world. That is not a polite press mention. That is a selector putting a new disco house cut in front of rooms that do not forgive filler.
The track is built for exactly that job. It is upbeat, club-first disco house that leans on classic house and disco without turning into a costume. A sultry vocal topline sits over swinging drums, soulful riffs and bright synth work. The groove stays in front. Warm, pulsating energy wraps around the vocal, and the old-school references get a clean contemporary finish instead of dusty pastiche. If you care about disco house in 2026, this is the version that still has to hold a peak-time floor: drums doing the work, hooks doing the personality, arrangement staying functional.
The partnership behind it is new, but the dancefloor overlap is not. Bolt opened The Bunker at UNVRS Ibiza with one of LoopDeeLoop’s remixes. That set led them into the studio. They have already finished three tracks together, and “Love Drug” is the first public look at a collaboration built around the same house rooms they both play. Two key pieces of the Discoliscious collective, writing for the kind of night they already know how to run.
Bolt’s calendar explains why that context matters. She holds a weekly residency at UNVRS as part of David Guetta’s Galactic Circus, playing with Discoliscious through 2025 and into summer 2026. More than a decade behind the decks has taken her to Hï Ibiza, Fabric’s Room 1 and Café Mambo, plus Glastonbury, Creamfields and the Isle of Wight Festival. Her production catalogue includes work with Jordan Peak, K-Klass and Electric Emma, with support from BBC Radio 1, Capital Dance and KISS.
LoopDeeLoop has spent the last two years covering a lot of ground of her own: Arcadia at Glastonbury, Fatboy Slim’s All Back to Minehead, a headline at Studio 338, and UNVRS in 2026 as part of the same Discoliscious residency. Her productions have picked up support from Carl Cox, Jaguar, Arielle Free and BBC Introducing. Current studio work includes collaborations with Roland Clark and Audio Bullys.
Disco house keeps circling back because DJs still need records that swing and still cut through a modern system. Urbana is a natural home for that. Penn’s label has long favoured groove-led house that can live in a set rather than only on a playlist. “Love Drug” fits that lane: classic references, current finish, already battle-tested.
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What do you think of this one? Does the Carl Cox stamp change how you hear a new disco house record, or is the groove enough on its own? Drop it in the comments.
