Diva Revival: Fourteen Disco Anthems Rebuilt for the House Floor
Diva Revival arrives Friday 16 October 2026. Fourteen tracks, fourteen debts, one idea: take the female-fronted disco, boogie and soul records that shaped forty years of dance music, and rebuild their spirit on a modern house floor.
It is the third album in the classic-house-rework line, after Classic Revisions and Vintage Rhythm. Same method, different lane - this one belongs entirely to the divas.
The method
Every track here sits on the cadence of a record you already know. Not the words, not the melody, not a single bar of the original audio - the shape. The way the hook lands. The place the belt arrives. The call-and-response that made a crowd answer back in 1979 and still makes them answer back now.
The lyrics are re-worded and original throughout. These are not covers, not remakes, not samples and not interpolations. They are homages, written to be instantly familiar and legally and creatively our own.
Musically the register is consistent: bold female belt, call-and-response, house piano stabs, latin percussion, rolling house bass, and tempos that mostly sit between 112 and 118 BPM - fast enough to move a floor, slow enough to let the percussion breathe.
The fourteen
- Spin the Rhythm Round - after Vicki Sue Robinson, Turn the Beat Around (1976)
- Passion Drop Low - after Evelyn "Champagne" King, Love Come Down (1982)
- Hearts Break Loose - after Candi Staton, Young Hearts Run Free (1976)
- Own The Floor - after Diana Ross, The Boss (1979)
- Hold Me Closer Now - after Thelma Houston, You Used to Hold Me So Tight (1984)
- Crave Your Fire - after Teena Marie, I Need Your Lovin' (1980)
- Lift My Spirit High - after Melba Moore, Mind Up Tonight (1982)
- Ring The Alarm - after Anita Ward, Ring My Bell (1979)
- Last Night's Fire - after Stephanie Mills, Last Night (1982)
- Claim The Next Groove - after Deniece Williams, I've Got the Next Dance (1979)
- Magnetic Pull - after Pointer Sisters, Automatic (1983)
- Piece By Piece - after Stephanie Mills, Bit By Bit (1984)
- Searching For That Vibe - after Jody Watley, Looking for a New Love (1987)
- Test Me, We'll Make It Shine - after Donna Summer, Try Me, I Know We Can Make It (1976)
Why these women
Because the history got written badly.
House music is built on records these singers made. The belt, the ad-lib, the call-and-response, the moment where a vocal stops singing the song and starts working the room - all of it comes from here. Then the twelve-inch became the club record, the club record became house, and somewhere in that handover a lot of the names fell off.
Some of them you know. Diana Ross and Donna Summer are not exactly obscure. But ask a room to name the voice on Young Hearts Run Free, or who sang I've Got the Next Dance, and the silence tells you something. We wrote about that at length in the forgotten divas who built house music, and this album is the practical answer to it.
Each track spotlight over the coming weeks goes properly into who the original artist was and why their record mattered - real history, not sleeve notes.
Where it sits in the run
Classic Revisions took the classics. Vintage Rhythm took the soulful, gospel-leaning, piano-led side of the era. If you want the shape of that project, how Classic Revisions and Vintage Rhythm reimagined house music lays it out.
Diva Revival takes the voices. It is the loudest of the three and, we think, the most fun - fourteen records that were built to be belted, rebuilt to be danced to.
The lineage from a 1976 disco vocal to a 2026 house vocal is not a coincidence but a direct inheritance, traced in vocal house and the soul of the dancefloor and, further back, in the evolution of house music.
Out 16 October
Fourteen tracks. The full album also plays as one continuous film, front to back.
Turn it up. They always meant it to be loud.
Watch: the full album film on YouTube - all fourteen tracks mixed end to end.