If it’s been said once, it’s been said a million times: 2022 brought dance music full circle a decade later, opening the doors towards a present-day golden age. There had yet to be a full January-to-December run since pre-pandemic times where dance music had the runway to freely thrive—in both the release and live event fields—and the scene took complete advantage of that in 2022. Glimpses of that creative rush that resulted from artists involuntarily spending time at home had been shown throughout 2020 and 2021, but this year, those floodgates broke wide…