House music keeps circling back to the same simple idea: if the groove is right and the vocal is huge, the floor will move. That is exactly the brief Trimtone hit with We Gonna Dance, their debut on David Penn’s Urbana Recordings featuring Alexis Hall. Out 28 August 2026, it is a straight-up disco house record built for busy rooms, not for sitting still.
UK duo Marc Dennis and Tony Walker have been shaping this sound for more than three decades. Better known as the force behind Love to be…, they started the night at Sheffield’s Music Factory in 1994, watched it get named Mixmag’s Club Night of the Year, and then took it to Ibiza, Miami, Sydney, Chicago, Amsterdam and festivals worldwide. The guest list over those years is a house history lesson: Masters At Work, Roger Sanchez, Frankie Knuckles, Carl Cox, Kerri Chandler, Armand Van Helden. In the studio they have released on Armada, Toolroom, Nervous, King Street, Simma Black, Quantize and Sony, and they have sat among Traxsource’s Top 300 Artists in the World. We Gonna Dance is that history landing in the present.
The production is club-first. Bright piano, rolling percussion and a driving groove sit under Alexis Hall’s vocal, with retro disco flavour and gospel touches adding warmth without turning the track into a nostalgia piece. Trimtone keep the arrangement tight so the vocal has space and the energy never drops off for peak-time sets. Submitted as Tech House, Jackin House and Disco House, it lives in that overlap a lot of 2026 floors actually want: jackin bounce, disco lift, and enough current punch that it does not feel like a museum piece.
That mix makes sense right now. House, tech house and disco-leaning cuts have been eating up Beatport and club playlists, and dance/electronic streams keep growing while DJs still reach for records that feel human. Vocal-driven disco house with gospel colour sits in that sweet spot. It is familiar enough to lock a room and current enough to sit next to modern jackin and tech house tools. Urbana Recordings is a fitting home for it: David Penn’s label has long championed house that still has soul.
Alexis Hall is the other half of why this works. The press notes call the vocal huge, and the gospel shading is not window dressing. It gives the hook lift and the kind of warmth jackin and disco house need if they are going to last past the first drop. Trimtone’s job is to frame that voice with piano, percussion and a groove that does not get in the way. They do.
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We Gonna Dance is not trying to reinvent house. It is trying to make people dance, which is still the point. Trimtone have spent thirty years proving they know how to do that. This one just puts that knowledge on Urbana with a vocal built to cut through a packed room.
What do you think of this one? Does the disco-plus-jackin mix still hit for you, or are you living in stripped tech house right now? Drop it in the comments.
