Liverpool’s Grammy-nominated duo and Spanish producer Arodes connect for their new collab on Insomniac’s Interstellar imprint, a refined and emotionally resonant progressive house single.
CamelPhat syncs up with Spanish producer Arodes on “Cycles,” a new collaborative single out now via Insomniac’s Interstellar Recordings. As their first release together, the track unfolds as a fully instrumental progressive house piece that lets atmosphere and movement dictate the narrative.
“Cycles” thrives on tension and flow rather than overt dramatics. Brooding piano chords set the emotional foundation, gradually layered with crisp percussive patterns, delicate rattling melodies, and vibrant atmospheric swells. Chant-like stabs and cascading synth progressions rise and fall in steady motion, keeping the track suspended in a hypnotic loop—constantly building, never forcing resolution. It’s a composition designed for long-form immersion, where subtle shifts carry as much weight as the peaks themselves.
Speaking to the slight deviation they took on their new single, CamelPhat shares: “Every track we put out is something we’re proud of, and this one is no exception. It was fun collaborating with ARODES on ‘Cycles’; the mix of styles allowed us to tap into a softer yet more gentle part of our sound which is always a pleasure. We’re thrilled with the result and hope our fans can enjoy it all over the world.”
Sharing his anticipation around the collab, Arodes says, “I really enjoyed the creative interaction on this record. Working with CamelPhat allowed us to push into a more refined and emotional direction while still keeping the energy high and ready for the dancefloor. I’m proud of how ‘Cycles’ turned out and can’t wait for people to hear it in different spaces around the world.”
“Cycles,” the collaboration with Arodes, highlights a more melodic, atmospheric facet of CAMELPHAT’s sound while maintaining the emotional depth and scale that has defined their Grammy-nominated catalogue. The multi-platinum Liverpool duo continue to balance underground credibility with global reach, amassing more than 2.6 billion streams and collaborating with a broad range of artists such as Anyma, Artbat, London Grammar, Foals, and a (still) unreleased collaboration with Oasis front man, Noel Ghallager.
In 2026, their ability to translate from the underground to main stage headlines remains unmatched with a packed release schedule, starting with “Cycles” and neverending world tour with headline shows across all continents—from the worlds #1 club UNVRS Ibiza to the UK’s iconic Creamfields, closing Carnival in Brazil to Ultra Music Festival Buenos Aires, as well as some of the most revered institutions in dance music such as Fabric London and Bret in Amsterdam.
Arodes brings a major complementary sensibility shaped by melodic restraint and understated groove packed with emotion. After debuting on Interstellar Recordings in 2024 with “Alma,” he earned support from BBC Radio 1 tastemakers like Pete Tong and Arielle Free, alongside multiple others. His vast international presence includes appearances at Tomorrowland, Pacha, HI Ibiza, London Roundhouse, Ushuaia and many more, with an upcoming long awaited prime time set at Coachella continuing that momentum.
Rooted in a long-standing friendship forged through shared time in Ibiza, “Cycles” reflects the ease of collaboration between the two projects. Rather than blending styles for impact, the track allows their signatures to merge naturally—resulting in a refined, emotionally resonant piece built for both intimate club floors and expansive festival moments.
With “Cycles,” CamelPhat and Arodes deliver a measured, elegant release that aligns seamlessly with Interstellar Recordings’ forward-looking vision. It’s a collaboration defined by patience and control, capturing the power of progression without excess—and letting the music speak entirely for itself.
CamelPhat are on top of the world. They’ve managed to build on having one of the biggest global crossover dance hits of the modern age without losing a shred of credibility. In fact, despite having streams running into the billions, if anything they’re more connected to and committed to serious dancefloors than ever with soldout shows all over the world including Drumsheds, The Warehouse Project, the legendary Time Warp in Germany, and Avant Gardner, as well as regular performances at legendary shows/venues like Space Miami, Awakenings NL, Afterlife and Alemagou in Mykonos, which will see them have a 5 date residency.
They are returning to Ibiza’s iconic Pacha club for the 3rd season of their residency for what will be the biggest season with 21 dates and a star studded lineup of DJs. 2025 will also see the launch of their new AV show ‘Experience’, an audiovisual odyssey featuring melodic sounds to the beat of house, with confirmed dates at The Brooklyn Mirage, Blackstone Warehouse, Zamna/IFEMA and more to be announced. Since the launch of their own label, When Stars Align has become home to a diverse roster of artists and sounds including rising stars Samm & Ajna and Samantha Loveridge, showing that the “Camels” are staying true to their ethos of forward thinking, championing new talent and the sounds of tomorrow whilst collaborating with exceptional artists in dance music, receiving love from dance music fans and DJs across the world.
Getting here has been an interesting balancing act. In the eight years since their single “Cola” went supernova, Dave Whelan and Mike Di Scala have worked tirelessly to make sure audiences and peers understand that they’re the real deal. “There’s always been assumptions about us,” as Dave puts it, “and we’ve always been determined to prove them wrong!” Mind you, it’s easier to do this than it might be for some, because the pair have a deep history. Dave and Mike are dance music lifers. They are completely infused, to the very core of their being, in club culture as something that exists outside the cycles of hype – and in particular they are rooted in the uniquely vivacious culture of their home city, Liverpool.
The pair had parallel upbringings on Merseyside, both bedroom DJs from the age of 12, Mike in his early teens even producing banging trance on rudimentary home computer “tracker” software: “all numbers pouring down the screen like The Matrix!” as he puts it. Dave absorbed all the peak 90s club sounds via his sister’s tape packs and became an avid follower of the evolving styles of the time. They both threw themselves into clubbing but wouldn’t meet ‘til around the turn of the millennium, when Dave went into a record shop where Mike was working as security guard.
They got chatting and bonded over shared attitudes and love of funky house – which at the time seemed a way more fun alternative to the trance that still dominated the super clubs. That very day a friendship and working relationship began, producing under various aliases in a makeshift studio above the record shop, DJing together every weekend, that’s lasted to this day. Right through the 00s their residency at the Society club saw them sending 1200 people wild every weekend and getting the best guests – often before Liverpool’s bigger clubs – and their productions started doing well.
But though they didn’t realise it at first, what made Liverpool brilliant was also holding them back. Its self-sufficiency and abundance of clubs meant that it didn’t need the outside world and the outside world often ignored it. This meant that while Dave and Mike were local heroes, the world didn’t grasp their talents – until, that is, they were forced into action by losing their residency. There was no great plan, but unconsciously they knew they needed to let their productions shine in their own right. In 2008 they photographed themselves in wrestling masks, called themselves CamelPhat, set up a Soundcloud with the location set to Milan, put out a couple of tracks… And instantly top tastemakers got on board: Pete Tong, Annie Mac, Soul Clap, the Adana Twins.
Suddenly people worldwide were judging them not on their preconception of glammed-up Liverpudlian crowds, but on what came out of the speakers. And the snowball hasn’t stopped rolling since. They deliberately went subtle in their sound, emphasising groove, sensuality, the roots of house music, to differentiate from the flash and noise of EDM which was booming all around them. They kept the masks – even managing to keep up the pretence of being Italian around people they knew when they played in Liverpool – but strangely enough, this didn’t seem that weird.
After all, this was a time when the likes of Italojohnson and Claptone were normalising anonymity in Euro house music. Meanwhile, with mask off, Dave was foundational in setting up and running Liverpool’s high tech club space, Mansion, which is still going strong today. In their natural sense of humour and mischief, a kind of anti-philosophy was building. “Doing the opposite of the obvious is when things happen” says Dave. “Yeah but you can’t try too hard either,” continues Mike. “It’s like The Secret… but the wrong way around!”
All of this fed into the wit and funk of their music, and things kept getting bigger. Every so often there’d be an “OK this is big” milestone as in 2014 when Pete Tong and Annie Mac dropped “The Act” to a vast Glastonbury crowd, live on BBC Radio 1. But then in 2017 came the one-two of first “Hangin’ Out With Charlie” – signed to Green Velvet’s legendary Relief Records, it gave them their first Beatport number one – then another track from the same sessions… “Cola”.
And that’s when it went, in Dave’s words, “from zero to a million miles an hour.” “Cola” became simply one of the biggest house records of the modern era, doubly impressive when you factor in that most other huge tunes were reworks of classic tracks or familiar samples, while its eerie, slightly electroclash-y narrative and bumping groove were all-new and all-original. To add to that, they’d shown their faces for the first time as CamelPhat on the cover – the attention was a LOT.
So, they did the only thing they knew how to: just continued doing everything back to front and upside down. While most acts dealing with huge success might have immediately wanted management, they continued to go completely their own way. So instinctual was their approach that Dave created an email folder: THE BLACK HOLE. If even the subject of any email made them nervous, into The Black Hole it went, never to be looked at again. They were often pretty much unreachable, and booked their gigs and found their collaborations on whims, and via the good old fashioned clubland values of word-of-mouth and friends-of-friends.
In the case of Tale Of Us, they only managed to get the message to CamelPhat that they wanted to collaborate by one of their girlfriends happening to end up at the same party as Dave in London. The five years of total freedom was a lot of fun, and during all this they somehow managed to mainly get exactly the gigs they wanted (occasionally playing the big festival stages where they were expected to play the hits, but generally keeping to the dance tents and clubs where they could play brand new music as they always had) AND smash out a bunch more classic singles including collabs with friends and heroes like Green Velvet, Jake Bugg, Riva Starr, AND get a major label album deal to collect together the best of their output.
The total independence was without question what they needed to evade being put into any pigeonholes. But it was exhausting too, and much as their “wrong way round” anti-philosophy might often bear fruit, it didn’t help with long term planning. So, they decided it was time to get serious. Jump to 2025, and CAMELPHATare showing no signs of slowing down. Their schedule is stacked with high-profile performances, including stops at the cutting-edge Sphere in Las Vegas, the tropical haven of Payapa Playa in Tulum, iconic venues like Space Miami and Factory Town, and a three-night takeover of Amsterdam’s premier clubs—Shelter, Loft, and Bret.
On top of that, their new audiovisual world tour Experience is set to push boundaries, all while continuing their standout residencies at Amelagou and Pacha. But their momentum doesn’t stop there. The Liverpool duo are gearing up for a massive year of music, packed with exciting collaborations—starting with their upcoming single “Waste My Time” alongside longtime friend Kölsch, a fresh remix of fan favorite “Backtrack Blow Up,” and most importantly, the release of their highly anticipated third studio album. This new record promises yet another evolution in their sound, once again blurring the lines between CAMELPHAT and the rest of the dance music world. With a relentless touring schedule, bold musical ventures, and an ever-growing global fanbase, 202i s shaping up to be their most exciting year yet.
Adrian Rodriguez, known to the world as Arodes, is a Spanish DJ and producer whose emotive and atmospheric sound continues to captivate global audiences. Arodes has carved a niche as one of the most exciting talents to emerge from the underground electronic music scene. Tracks like “Reborn”, “Lucy”, “Don’t Know”, and “Stronger Than Before” have earned him a reputation for creating music that’s both immersive and dancefloor-ready, resonating deeply with listeners from all corners of the electronic world.
In 2024, Arodes’ creative output reached new heights with standout releases such as “Use Somebody”, a collaboration with Redd, and his solo project “Kidz”, a track that showcases his dynamic ability to blend melodic elements with a driving groove. Another major 2024 release was delivered by Arodes in collaboration with Fahlberg “She Asked Me to Dance”, a track filled with intricate melodies and an infectious rhythm, further solidifying his status as a rising star in the industry. He was featured on Pete Tong’s Radio Show , one of the most prestigious platforms in electronic music, where he shared his musical journey, insights into his creative process, and a selection of his latest tracks. Pete Tong invited him to start 2025 with a Future Stars Mix which was a big honor for Arodes.
Arodes’ music has garnered widespread support from top-tier DJs and producers, including Adriatique, Black Coffee, Rüfüs du Sol, Camelphat, Vintage Culture, Andrea Oliva and many more. His tracks have been featured at major festivals like Tomorrowland, Coachella, Burning Man, and Zamna, as well as legendary venues such as Ushuaïa Ibiza, Hi Ibiza, Pacha, Space Miami, and Brooklyn Mirage. His energetic yet emotive performances have made him a standout act at most of the world’s prestigious electronic events. Arodes has also expanded his influence through his own label, Unreleased Records, which launched in 2024.
The label quickly became a platform for Arodes’ own releases and those of emerging underground talents. The Unreleased brand has grown in prominence, hosting sold-out events and building a dedicated community of fans and artists alike. In 2024, Arodes solidified his connection to the Mediterranean scene with residencies at Void Club in Mykonos and Playa Soleil in Ibiza. These residencies became key pillars in Arodes’ global journey, allowing him to cultivate an audience in two of the most renowned party destinations in the world.
Looking ahead, Arodes’ trajectory is poised for even greater success. His residencies at Playa Soleil and Void Club will continue throughout the year, providing fans in Ibiza and Mykonos with regular opportunities to experience his mesmerizing live sets in two of the most iconic clubbing destinations. Arodes’ Unreleased Records will be at the forefront of his upcoming plans, with numerous new releases expected from both himself and emerging artists within the label’s roster.
He has also teased remixes for Rüfüs du Sol and Tiësto, two collaborations that are sure to further elevate his global presence and introduce his signature sound to new audiences. These high-profile remix projects will solidify Arodes as a key figure in both the underground and mainstream electronic music scenes. Arodes’ growing reputation, both as a DJ and as a producer, is set to take him even further in 2026. His work with Unreleased Records, combined with major collaborations, residencies, and remixes, will see his influence extend even further across the globe.
CamelPhat and Arodes’ new single “Cycles” is available on all platforms via Interstellar Recordings.
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