Josh Baker's "My Place" Puts the House Back in House Music

There are tracks that work on a festival main stage, tracks built for sweaty basements at 4am, and very occasionally — if you're lucky — a record that genuinely does both. Josh Baker's long-awaited "My Place," finally out July 3 via his Baker's Dozen imprint and featuring vocals from Poppy Baskcomb, is that rare thing: a proper house record with room temperature to burn and a chorus that earns its moment without asking for it.

Why "My Place" Matters for Groove-Forward House Music Right Now

At a moment when a significant chunk of what gets called house music is really just compressed kick drums and a filtered loop, "My Place" lands as something of a quiet corrective. The track is built around a rolling bassline — supple rather than relentless — with shimmering piano stabs that owe more to the Chicago and New York loft tradition than to any algorithm-optimised playlist. The percussion has snap and space. The arrangement breathes. Baskcomb's vocal isn't stacked high or smothered in reverb; it sits in the mix like a conversation rather than a headline, which is exactly what a vocal-led house track should do at this stage of the game.

The track has been described as "an Ibiza-inspired house record" suited equally to sunset sessions and late-night dancefloors, and that dual citizenship is real — it doesn't collapse under its own ambition when the context shifts. That's not a given. A lot of records that work in the golden-hour slot fall apart in a room at 2am; "My Place" holds its shape.

Road-Tested on the Biggest Stages Before Anyone Could Buy It

Baker spent the better part of this year turning "My Place" into one of the most-requested IDs in his sets without ever naming it. The track appeared at Coachella, Miami Music Week, Parklife, and most recently at Amnesia's Ibiza opening party, where Baker debuted alongside Joseph Capriati. By the time it officially dropped, dancefloors from Indio to the White Isle already knew every word of the hook, making the release feel less like a launch and more like a formal introduction to someone who had already been in the room for months.

That kind of road-testing is increasingly rare in underground house. The ID-to-release pipeline used to be a natural part of how DJs connected new material to audiences, but the churn of content has compressed that cycle to the point where tracks sometimes appear on streaming platforms before they've been played live more than twice. The patience Baker showed with "My Place" — letting the record breathe and develop across very different crowds and contexts — is worth noting, both as an approach and as a signal about how he sees the relationship between DJing and releasing.

The You&Me Residency at Amnesia: A Debut That Opened Two Rooms

The release landed in deliberate synchrony with the July 2 premiere of Baker's first-ever residency at Amnesia — You&Me, running every Thursday through October 1. Demand for the opening night came in so fast that, by mid-June, Baker was posting on Instagram that sales had already blown past the Terrace's capacity. Amnesia's response was to open the Main Room as well, an unexpected turn for a residency's first night that speaks to how squarely Baker has positioned himself in the current Ibiza conversation.

Prospa — a reliable collaborator and returning b2b partner — joined Baker for the launch, and the full guest lineup across the season is set to fill out from there. Amnesia's 50th year means the institution has particular stakes in who it houses this summer, and slotting You&Me into the Thursday programme is a meaningful endorsement. The club's Thursday slot has historically been where new ideas get tested before they become the standard; Baker arriving there in 2026 with a sold-out opening isn't accidental.

Baker's Dozen and the Logic of Label-as-Identity

Releasing "My Place" on Baker's Dozen — Baker's own imprint — rather than shopping it to an established home is consistent with how he's managed his catalogue. The label isn't prolific, which means every release has to carry actual weight. A track as immediately accessible as "My Place" would have found a home anywhere; keeping it on Baker's Dozen signals that the imprint is as much about authorship as it is about distribution. It's the kind of label strategy that makes sense when an artist's name is the draw rather than the catalogue number.

It's available now on Beatport and all major streaming platforms. Whether you catch it at Amnesia or at home, it's one of the more straightforward pleasures house music has offered this summer.