Elephante (feat. Brooke Forman) - Temporary Love

It's time for some dance music now on Stereo Gold, a genre which I absolutely love but don't actually write about enough on the blog.

While it's often easier to write in depth about the creativity of synth-pop, indie, whatever artists, quite simply a lot of the time the simplicity of an extremely well crafted dance track is all that is needed to please me.

That's what we find here in the form of Elephante's 'Temporary Love' which features Brooke Forman. The track which premiered on notorious dance YouTube channel Proximity yesterday is every bit as euphoric as you would hope from the dance scene in 2015 and absolutely would not sound out of place in the charts but thanks to the impressive vocals of Brooke Forman, it's still able to stand out amongst the reams of competition that come from the EDM genre these days.

Elephante is no newcomer to the dance scene, having brought along some huge remixes particularly over the past year, for tracks such as Clean Bandit's 'Rather Be', Lorde's 'Team' and The Magician's 'Sunlight'. All of which bringing him further into popularity with dance fans globally. With his own solo track here, he continues to succeed in bringing a very club-ready track and mixing it together with an interesting vocal. Brooke's whispery vocals over a song that is building to be anything but quiet and timid make for a great contrast in really emphasising the beat drop that is to come.

In many ways, Elephante isn't doing anything hugely unique with this but for me, with deep house taking so much of the dance focus these days, somebody sticking to an outright euphoric progressive dance track complete with the type of whirls and effects that Elephante has demonstrated throughout his past remixes, there is still something unique in how this sounds.

And I'll definitely be intrigued to hear more from Elephante - like with Kygo, when the hype surrounding your remixes are so big, it puts a lot of pressure on the solo tracks to be big anthems aswell, and with 'Temporary Love', Elephante has certainly achieved it.

Have a listen for yourself right here: