Why remix a 2001 slow jam instead of writing something new?
HoneyLuv isn't reaching for a random sample here. '112's 'Dance With Me', from their 2001 album 'Part III', is a song she grew up on, and the remix she just released treats it that way. "I grew up on this music," she said in press notes. "These are the songs that shaped my childhood and my love for music, so getting to put my own twist on a record like this came from a very real place." That's a different starting point than picking a classic because it tests well: the emotional connection is doing the work before the production even starts.
What does she actually do to the original?
She keeps the vocal hook, chopping and cutting it, and builds a modern house groove underneath: a bouncing low end, rattling percussion, the kind of peak-time construction that turns a bedroom slow jam into something built for a packed floor at 2am. It's a straightforward move on paper, take a beloved vocal and rework the rhythm section around it, but the difference between a lazy flip and a good one is in exactly that rhythm work, and this one is built to land in a set rather than just reference one.
Twenty-five years after 'Part III', 'Dance With Me' is getting its second life on a dancefloor instead of a car stereo.
Why is this dropping now, specifically?
Because HoneyLuv is in the middle of one of the busiest stretches of her career. The remix follows two 2026 collaborations, 'Don't Stop' with Grammy winner Muni Long and 'I Need U' with TSHA, and lands as she heads into a summer run that includes Pacha New York, Destino Ibiza, Defected Festival Croatia and Boiler Room Los Angeles. A track this personal, timed to a run of dates this big, functions as both a release and a calling card: it says exactly what kind of house artist is about to play those rooms.
