Some tracks do not ask you to think. They ask you to drop the map and stay inside the feeling. That is the brief for Lose Myself, the new collab from Teho and Thaylo, with S on vocals. The pitch is simple: letting go, getting lost in the intensity of a moment, and letting that moment take over.
If you follow French melodic techno, Teho’s name already carries weight. He is known for live sets that feel both intimate and huge, especially the ones that found a massive audience through Cercle — including the Colorado Provençal session in Rustrel and Glacier 3000, recorded high in the Alps. His sound sits where techno power meets acoustic delicacy. Peers have backed that approach for years: NTO, Stephan Bodzin, Joachim Pastor, Einmusik. He runs Labo T. as his own laboratory, and he has also worked in the live project PACT with Joachim Pastor and Joris Delacroix.
Thaylo is the other half of this pairing. The two already connected on Belong for Labo T. earlier in 2026, a piano-forward, emotionally precise cut that showed how Teho’s long-form rise can sit next to Thaylo’s tighter hooks. Lose Myself feels like the next conversation in that same language.
The production idea is a constant climb. Tension and energy keep stacking instead of resetting every eight bars. That is classic modern melodic techno and melodic house writing: pads and low-end that stay patient, percussion that tightens as the arrangement opens, and a vocal that does not shout over the mix. S’s delivery is described as soft yet powerful, which is exactly the texture this lane needs. Vulnerability on top, drive underneath. You do not need a lyric sheet to get the point. The title does the work. Lose Myself is about surrender, not analysis.
That theme is everywhere in this corner of dance music right now. Festival sets and late-night rooms still want big-room impact, but a lot of the records that linger are the ones that feel personal — the Afterlife-adjacent glow, the Cercle-style landscape live, the Ben Böhmer / Monolink school of melody that treats the dancefloor like a story instead of a workout. Teho has lived in that space for a long time. Signing to Lane 8’s This Never Happened in 2025 and taking the project into the US circuit only underlined how well that emotional, journey-first writing travels.
What makes this collab land is the contrast. Teho brings the cocoon: the sense that the room can get darker and warmer at the same time. Thaylo brings the hook discipline and the rise that never quite plateaus. S sits in the middle as the human part — the reason the tension feels like a feeling instead of just a filter sweep. If you already liked Belong, this is the same partnership with more vocal gravity.
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Press play when you actually have a few minutes. Lose Myself is built to take over, not to sit in the background. What did you hear first — the climb, the vocal, or the low end? Drop it in the comments.
