Now, we finally get to experience the full span of her journey into the broken with the Dance Night EP. It’s out now on Christian Martin’s Trippy Ass Technologies.

The title track, “Dance Night” is a spacious foray into classic electro. The drums are dirty with a bit of extra weight on the 808. VNSSA (real name Vanessa Barnes) toys with a multi-faceted array of psychedelic melodic motifs with a gritty 303 at its core. A hallmark of VNSSA’s tunes and a source of their allure is her own voice giving the song a hook. It’s worked so well on hits like “Word” and “Rave Grave,” and she continues to prove her songwriting ability by crafting a fun spoken word that only adds to the quirkiness of “Dance Night.”

She continues the electro onslaught with “Out Of My Head” featuring Bianca Gardner. This one has a heavy dose of acid and a spicy countermelody. What’s most fun about it is the balance of crispy clean drums and increasingly dirty and wonky synths. It’s the best kind of weird.

Label head Christian Martin joins brother Justin on the final tune to remix “Out Of My Head,” Evening out the EP with a bit of 4/4 action. The boys grab the melodic elements, make them even dirtier, and then repurpose them as a rollicking bass line, offering a perfect example of paying tribute to the original while making it the remixer’s own.

Dance Night is available via BandCamp, Spotify, and Beatport.

Ocean Roulette (real name Louis Garcia) immediately establishes a bed of snappy broken drum beats that fill out every end of the sound spectrum. The slightly distorted warmth of a funky breakbeat completely wraps around one’s speaker before the track mutates into a symphony of car horns, eerie synth stabs, and gritty bass. An enigmatic voice interjects in a half-robot/half-human baritone, adding to the darkness. Garcia, who has made a name for himself with his unique takes on tech house, deep tech, and bass house, fully flexes his diversity on his “Unsweet Street” remix.

Over the last five or so years, Ocean Roulette has established a diverse yet cohesive sound. His background is in rock, yet he found the oversaturation of the genre confining. Dance music, meanwhile, offered a broad canvas on which to place his sonic paintbrush. Inspired by the psychedelic side of rock, Garcia has stamped his work with a similar aural fingerprint. It’s this unique approach to writing that has seen him release with tastemaker labels like Psycho Disco, Medium Rare, In/Rotation, and Desert Hearts.

He’s taken his ability to create peak dance floor experiences one further with his work as part of the Jackson Collective, a self-described, “collective of artists inspired by music that gathers together to create a communal platform of love, creativity and human connection.” The group has come to prominence in L.A. as a curator of events that include a stable of innovative emerging dance music artists and bands. Unfortunately, the spring installment of their boutique festival, Jackson Tree, had to be postponed due to COVID-19.

Ocean Roulette’s remix of “Unsweet Street”  is available now at across platforms. As always, though, it’s best to support your favorite tunes via purchase.