Chloé Caillet spent the summer doing exactly what a rising tech-house headliner is supposed to do: main stages, a residency in Ibiza, a magazine cover. Her new single lands on the opposite side of that story. 'After Dark' is out now via Ninja Tune, and it's about the moment the performance stops and the night takes over.

What does 'After Dark' actually sound like?

Caillet points to two specific references: 80s New York club music and French touch, the two sounds she says shaped her as a producer more than anything else. "'After Dark' is just a pure ode to my French roots," she said in press material tied to the release. "It really brings out this sort of French house side of my production and this relentless groove that just never stops growing and growing." She went further on the mood the track is chasing: "It's so simple but after dark is when the veils come down and everyone just gets going and I feel like this track gets you to kind of lose your mind and give it your all on the dancefloor."

Why is this the fourth single off 'Dance Again'?

Ninja Tune has been rolling 'Dance Again' out one record at a time since the summer: 'Myd' collaborations 'Bad Bara' and 'Lemme Dance' (Myd is a French producer tied to Ed Banger Records), then 'Change' with Luke Alessi, and now 'After Dark.' The full EP arrives September 25. Caillet has described the project as a deliberate return to a version of herself that predates the booking fees and the festival slots. "Every song on this project is a note to a time in my life when I was just a raver on the dancefloor, not in the DJ booth," she said when the EP was first detailed. "This EP is about reconnecting to the love and essence of why I started making music."

What else is going on for Caillet right now?

She's not slowing down to promote it quietly. This summer included her XTRA residency at Nocturna, a new club and audiophile space built into the basement of an Ibiza hotel, plus a DJ Mag Summer 2026 cover story where she talked about her rock roots and ambitions beyond DJing. This week she plays Creamfields in Cheshire, then Audio Obscura in Rotterdam and Lost Village Festival in the north of England, the kind of run that makes the "just a raver" line worth pressing on: it's a nice story, but she's booking main stages, not queuing for the door.

"After dark is when the veils come down and everyone just gets going."