February puts its foot down with California-based Alec Cortez delivering a pair of house cuts sprinting freely with a roughneck edge. Cortez aims for 2026 supremacy off the back of A-list support and an electrifying energy, encouraging everyone to enjoy the ride as his belting body of work from the Bay Area to the world, continues to surge upward. Good any time of day, Booty Call will be ringing around your ears with its hissing hi-hats, swampy bass steps and rap lyrics turning the party into a free for all. With all the Clarisse ingredients upped to the max, Cortez pushes further with weird synth/muted horn hums and gulps, drawing you in with their melody while coolly observing the furnace stoked by Cortez stylus. Habitacion is where its at on the B-side, Cortez kinking superspeed international vocals around bullish, bring-it-on beats, causing electrical storms but never shorting out the club. Breakouts of spaceship-delivered synths provide additional hot showers for clubbers already swaying in a sea of happy sweat. Cortez + Clarisse + clubs + kapow!