Chris Lake is having the kind of year most producers would kill for, and he still isn’t sure the genre he helped shape is heading in the right direction. In a new cover story with NYLON, the house music veteran gets unusually blunt about where he thinks dance music is going wrong, even as he rides the highest-profile stretch of his career.
According to the interview, Lake spent 2025 collecting career milestones most artists chase for decades. He landed his first Grammy nomination, released his long-in-the-works debut album Chemistry, and — in one of the year’s stranger dance music crossovers…
