Hot House Tips / August 2026 – By The Insider

Super selections and wonderful words by our favourite four-to-the-floor expert, The Insider. PETE HERBERT / FAR FLUNG / MUSIC FOR SWIMMING POOLS Pete Herbert distils 3 decades of globetrotting disco, Balearic and house wizardry into Far Flung, an album that feels like postcards from everywhere he’s ever played, lived or daydreamed. It’s Herbert in full widescreen mode: sunkissed, unhurried, and effortlessly classy. The set drifts through Legzira Sunrise and South Seas with that trademark Music for Swimming Pools glow, all warm tides and faraway horizons. Then it deepens into dubbed Mediterranean shimmer on Dear Hector and At Zuka before kicking up the tempo with the joyous Back to Bahia and the Don Carlos-leaning Havana Landing. It’s a beautifully sequenced travelogue from a producer whose shaped dancefloors from London to Bali and touched over 400 releases along the way. Far Flung captures that whole journey in 9 cuts: breezy, deep, uplifting, and unmistakably Herbert. WEEKEND AFFAIR…