ANOTR's 'Out of My Head' Weaves Disco Strings Into 131 BPM Club Architecture

ANOTR — the Amsterdam duo of Antoine Riebeek and No-ah Koerts — have been quietly building one of house music's most intriguing artistic trajectories. Their latest single, "Out of My Head," released October 16, 2026 on the No Art label, arrives at 131 BPM with a conceptual ambition that sets it apart from their festival circuit output.

The track was recorded in an unfinished studio space in the Dutch countryside — bare walls, exposed concrete, and reportedly minimal acoustic treatment. That rawness is audible. Where most house productions polish their midrange into palatability, "Out of My Head" lets friction breathe. A disco-funk guitar riff spirals around a driving analog bass synth, while a nine-piece live string ensemble provides the kind of orchestral weight that most producers would synthesize from samples. ANOTR recorded the strings live to tape, a decision that gives the arrangement its particular tension: it moves as an organism rather than a grid.

At 131 BPM, the track occupies a tempo slot where house shades into the urgency of tech house without fully committing to either. The groove is patient — the strings don't enter until the production has established its rhythmic foundation — but the payoff is significant. By the midpoint, "Out of My Head" has stacked enough harmonic information to feel like a different record than the one it started as.

The release follows ANOTR's Circoloco Records debut "Silver Lines," a vocal collaboration with Emily Warren that dropped in July 2026. Where "Silver Lines" operated in the melodic register Circoloco has refined over decades of Ibiza residencies, "Out of My Head" reads as a deliberate pivot: less vocal topline, more textural architecture. The No Art label — known for releasing tracks built for rooms over radio — is an appropriate home.

ANOTR have been a fixture on Awakenings, Circoloco, and Sonar's extended lineups since the early 2020s, but their recorded output has historically been more restrained than their live sets suggest. "Out of My Head" closes that gap. The nine-piece string section, recorded in a location that sounds like it was chosen for its lack of comfort rather than its acoustics, gives the production a lived-in urgency that studio polish would have erased.

For a track released in late autumn — a period when clubs slow down and radio playlists reach for something more cinematic — "Out of My Head" does neither. It's a room record, built for the same peak-hour slot as the productions ANOTR have spent years playing. The disco DNA is audible without being nostalgic; the orchestral flourishes serve the dancefloor rather than the liner notes.

No Art has positioned the release with limited ceremony. No extensive rollout, no press junket. Just the track. Whether that restraint reflects the label's philosophy or ANOTR's own preference for letting the music arrive quietly before it moves loudly is unclear. Either way, "Out of My Head" earns that confidence. The Dutch countryside studio, the nine live string players, the analog bass synth running beneath a guitar riff that should be too obvious but isn't — it all lands. Some records know exactly what they are, and this is one of them.