Cloonee 'Get Up And Dance': Franky Rizardo Tech House Collab

Cloonee's debut album era is picking up pace. Two months out from the October 6 release of Are You Still You? (AYSY?), the UK-born, LA-based producer has dropped his second pre-album single — and it's the one his fanbase has been asking for since the first snippet appeared in June. 'Get Up And Dance', a collaboration with Dutch producer Franky Rizardo, arrives via Good Music For Bad People and Hellbent Records. It's a track that spent the summer building pressure before Cloonee's dancefloors, and it delivers exactly what those audiences were promised.

The Long Road from ID to Release

For most of 2026, 'Get Up And Dance' existed only as a live ID — the kind of unsigned floor weapon that forces promoters to book an artist just to hear it. It surfaced repeatedly in Cloonee's sets through the summer, most notably at Destino Ibiza during a back-to-back with Prospa, with Rizardo himself in attendance. That context matters: the track wasn't road-tested in isolation, it was introduced in one of the best possible rooms by two of the year's most in-demand acts, with its co-producer watching from the floor. The response was predictable. Social clips spread fast, the ID requests multiplied, and Hellbent sat on it just long enough to maximize the anticipation without losing the room.

What 'Get Up And Dance' Actually Sounds Like

The track works in the way good tech house always has — not through complexity, but through precision. The groove is the anchor: a tight, rolling kick-hat pattern that locks in immediately and doesn't let go. Cloonee's fingerprints are on the low-end construction, which carries weight without muddying the mix. Rizardo brings a melodic sensibility to the upper frequencies — a subtle counter-melody and a breakdown that nods to the kind of warm, slightly psychedelic house his FLOW label has been pushing throughout 2026. The result is a track that's distinctly from both artists without sounding like a compromise. It's one sound, assembled from two very specific vocabularies.

Franky Rizardo and the FLOW Connection

Rizardo has had a strong year by any measure. His record 'Shinjuku' appeared consistently on DJ charts through the spring and summer, and FLOW — his long-running event and label concept — launched its first Ibiza residency at Pacha this season, marking a genuine step up from its festival-circuit origins. The pairing with Cloonee makes contextual sense: both producers work in a zone where club function and musical identity aren't treated as opposing forces. There's a certain kind of tech house track that could be made by anyone with a good sample pack and a BPM counter; this isn't that. The collaboration between Cloonee and Rizardo demonstrates what happens when two producers with distinct sounds actually find common ground rather than averaging them out.

Building Toward AYSY?

The debut album picture is now coming into focus. The first single 'Good Girl' — a collaboration with Prospa and Tristan Henry — raced to No. 1 on Beatport within days of release and has passed 3.5 million streams. The second single operates from a different emotional register: less festival-ready anthem, more late-night floor tool. If AYSY? genuinely attempts to gather every version of Cloonee — the one who made peak-time weapons, the one who ventured into more introspective spaces — then the sequence of these two singles suggests the album will move between those poles. The 16-track project still has most of its tracklist unrevealed, which means there's space for significant surprises between now and October 6.

The Numbers Behind the Noise

Cloonee's current position in the scene is worth contextualizing. He sits third on Beatport's best-selling artists list for 2026, behind only Prospa in terms of year-long momentum. His monthly Spotify listener count sits at 14 million — a number that crosses the boundary between underground dance music credibility and genuine mainstream reach. The debut album, when it arrives, won't be a niche event. It lands in a moment when Cloonee arguably has more ears on him than at any previous point in his career, and the singles campaign has been disciplined enough to keep that attention focused rather than diffuse. 'Get Up And Dance' is another step in that direction: a track designed for dancefloors, timed to keep the album narrative moving.