Artist Spotlight: ANOTR & 54 Ultra — "Talk To You" Is the Disco House Track of 2026

ANOTR are Jesse van der Heijden and Oguzhan Guney, a duo who emerged from Amsterdam's underground club scene around 2015 and have spent the decade since quietly building one of the most consistent back catalogues in contemporary house music. Their name is deliberately ungooglable — a badge of the same low-key confidence that runs through their music.

They founded their own label, NO ART, in 2017, using it as a creative sandbox free from genre constraints. The imprint has become one of the most respected boutique house labels in Europe, releasing music that ranges from stripped-back minimal to the kind of groove-forward, warmly melodic house that fills rooms from Amsterdam's De School era to Ibiza's pool parties. Key releases include "Relax My Eyes" (2022) — a slow-burning favourite that cemented their reputation for tracks with genuine emotional weight — and their full-length debut The Reset (2022), followed by the 2024 single "24 (Turn It Up)" featuring Kurtis Wells. Each record has refined a sound that is instantly recognisable: clean, purposeful, and deeply danceable without ever feeling cynical about it.

They are a fixture at Beatport's DJ charts and festival line-ups globally.

Running at 132 BPM in G minor, "Talk To You" is ANOTR at their most accessible without being any less themselves. The extended mix opens with a climbing guitar figure from 54 Ultra — a single, clean melodic line that immediately signals this is going somewhere warm and optimistic rather than the peak-time pressure of much contemporary house.

By the time the main groove kicks in, you're dealing with a tightly locked bass line sitting precisely in the pocket beneath crisp house drums — the kick punches cleanly on the one, hi-hats shuffle with just enough swing to give the groove a human feel. There's a vintage Disco influence embedded in the arrangement: a subtle string pad brightens the mid-range, while the chord stabs carry an almost 70s warmth that never tips into pastiche.

The centrepiece is 54 Ultra's vocal performance. Rodriguez delivers his hook — melodic, slightly yearning, immediately memorable — with a lightness that fits perfectly over ANOTR's instrumental canvas. It doesn't demand attention so much as earn it, which is why the track works as both a DJ tool and a repeat-play record for home listening.

The breakdown strips everything back to Rhodes-style keys and vocal before the drop rebuild pays off with exactly the release the arrangement has been building toward. At 3:11 in the standard mix (and considerably longer in the extended), it's disciplined, not a second wasted. Listen to the track on Beatport

"Talk To You" is doing something rare: it's crossing from the DJ world into genuine mainstream traction without losing its club credibility in the process. Topping the WARM Global Dance Radio chart with nearly 800 plays across 200+ monitored stations globally in April 2026 is not what typically happens to a track built for the 3 AM peak. It spent 15 weeks on the UK Official Charts, peaking at #16. It landed #5 on Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic Songs.

The TikTok effect is real here — more than 40,000 videos have used the track as a soundtrack, which is the kind of organic viral momentum that labels pay good money trying to manufacture and almost never achieve. But it makes sense. The track's hook is immediately usable, its emotional register (hopeful, slightly nostalgic, physically compulsive) maps perfectly onto how people soundtrack their lives on short-form video.

There's also a broader industry context: 2026's dance music landscape has been trending toward warmer, more vocal-forward house — a reaction to several years of harder, more mechanical sounds dominating the charts. "Talk To You" lands exactly on that wave. It's disco-literate enough for the crowd who grew up on French house, club-functional enough for professional DJs, and emotionally direct enough to connect with casual listeners. That is not an easy combination to pull off.

"Talk To You" is as close to a perfect single as house music has produced in 2026 — a record that earns its commercial success rather than chasing it. ANOTR and 54 Ultra have found a genuinely resonant frequency here, one that will sound just as good at a festival warm-up as it will through someone's kitchen speakers on a Sunday morning. It belongs in the set of any DJ who values feel over formula. 9/10.

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"Talk To You" is a disco house track — rooted in 132 BPM house music with clear Disco influences in its guitar work, string arrangements and warm vocal hook.

The track is available to buy and download on Beatport — both standard and extended mix — and to stream on Spotify and Apple Music.

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