Tech house has been sitting pretty on club charts all year, but the records that actually stick are the ones that still sound like somebody lived a life before they opened Ableton. Loco Dice just did that with Eyes On Me, out now on Universal Music. It is not a polite genre exercise. It is a veteran dragging his hip-hop past onto a peak-time floor and letting the drums argue with UK urban energy until the room has to pick a side.
Dice has been folding contemporary UK urban records into his sets for years. Eyes On Me is the studio version of that habit. The press notes lean on chunky beats, lean low end, and a sampling approach that feels old-school without turning into a museum piece. Percussion does the heavy lifting. Everything is placed for a big system in a full room, not for a tidy streaming waveform. That is classic Dice: functional first, flash second.
The timing is not random. In July he shared the booth with Skepta at Hï Ibiza’s Club Room during the Más Tiempo residency. The single arrives with Skepta’s blessing, which matters because this is not a tourist remix of grime. It is a tech-house cut that brushes against UK urban and grime while staying built for adventurous dancefloors. Club music in 2026 keeps leaking into UK garage, bassline, and street-facing rhythm. Dice is not chasing that wave. He already had a foot in it.
That background is the part people skip when they only know the Ibiza posters. Born and raised in Düsseldorf in a multicultural household with Tunisian roots, he came up DJing and rapping in early-1990s Germany and opened for names like Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube. The sample-first instinct on Eyes On Me is a return, not a rebrand. He moved into electronic music around the turn of the millennium, broke through with Phat Dope Shit in 2002, and has stayed in the conversation ever since: 7 Dunham Place on his own Desolat label in 2008, Underground Sound Suicide on Ultra with Giggs, Just Blaze and Neneh Cherry, Love Letters in 2018, then Purple Jam on Universal Music in 2025. Eyes On Me follows Hold Up (You Feel That) and sits in the busiest stretch of new music he has had since that album.
The résumé around the record is the usual Dice sprawl. Collaborations run from Carl Cox to Gué and Haftbefehl, plus Heavy Heart with Skrillex and Fireboy DML. Remixes for Moby, Disclosure, Black Coffee, Basement Jaxx. Residencies that actually mean something: Circoloco at DC-10, the Amnesia Terrace, Space Miami. Festivals like Time Warp, Sunwaves and Coachella. He started Desolat in 2007 and later added En Coleur and SB Recordings. Off the decks there is fashion with Daily Paper and New Era, his Seran Bendecidos line, even a PlayStation 2 cameo and MTV VJ work. Restless is the word.
He is also road-testing this one the old way. The release week ran through Dallas, Scottsdale and Los Angeles, then Pacha Ibiza with Mau P, Milan with Carl Cox, and Ministry of Sound in London. Records like this get finished in those rooms.
If you already live in tech house, Eyes On Me is the version that still has dirt under the nails. If you came in from UK club music, it is a reminder that the distance between those worlds was never that far. Either way, put it in a set and watch what the kick does when the room is packed.
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