Ora the Molecule has shared a new remix of “Prince Of The Rhythm” by Italo-pop provocateur Valentino Vivace. The standout track is taken from her recently-released album Dance Therapy which is out now via Mute.She has also recently announced news of a November US tour supporting Cut Copy. All dates are listed below.
Listen to “Prince Of The Rhythm (Valentino Vivace remix)” HERE.
Purchase or stream Dance Therapy HERE.
Speaking on the remix, Ora the Molecule says: “Valentino Vivace is truly The Prince of the Rhythm himself, as I’ve seen him hoolahoop like no one else! Love what he did to this track – he did just what a prince of the Rhythm would do – he added that bass and beat for the ultimate dance moves. Bravooo bravooo!”Valentino Vivace comments: “I was instantly drawn to the infectious hook of Prince of the Rhythm — it had this undeniable spark that I just had to build on. For the remix, I wanted to create a high-energy vibe with a solid groove, warm housy chords, and a punchy bassline. I added a subtle acid twist to give it a bit of edge, while carefully weaving in Ora’s beautiful vocals to bring out the emotional depth and harmonic richness of the track. Coming from an italodisco background, I love exploring different textures within electronic music — and this remix felt like the perfect moment to blend it all into something made for the dancefloor.”
US TOUR DATES:11/10/2025 – Seattle, WA – Showbox*
11/11/2025 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom*
11/13/2025 – San Francisco, CA – The Regency Ballroom*
11/14/2025 – Los Angeles, CA – Bellwether*
11/18/2025 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer*
11/19/2025 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club*
11/20/2025 – Buffalo, NY – Electric City*
11/21/2025 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel*
11/22/2025 – Pittsburgh, PA – Roxian Theatre*
11/23/2025 – Chicago, IL – Ramova Theater*
11/25/2025 – Miami, FL – ZeyZey (Zaku Stage)*
*supporting Cut Copy
Tickets are on sale now. See more info HERE.
Nora Schjelderup, the creative mind behind the
Ora The Molecule moniker, comments:
“It was written from a dark place, and a light place, it gives some sort of solution for when you tend to nihilistic thinking. The song is about letting go of fear and the self-awareness that dictates and controls our experience on this planet. I hope you find the song as you need it.”
Dance Therapy is Schjelderup as a lone mastermind, conceiving a new world all her own. On this album, she wrote, recorded, and produced everything, save a handful of co-production contributions from Mathias Risdal.
The driving force behind Dance Therapy stems from Schjelderup’s experience as a DJ, a career that has steadily ascended since the pandemic. She imagined herself being behind the decks, while simultaneously seeing herself in the audience, and asking: “What would I play for that Nora in the crowd to make her day just a little bit better?” Fueled by classic late ‘70s club sounds and Italo-disco, this became the retro-futuristic fever dream of Dance Therapy.
As in the past, she decamped to her studio, located in a cabin in the woods outside of Oslo. There, she processed a series of severe losses, the therapy of the album’s title becoming literal.
Dance Therapy became deeply conceptual, with Schjelderup working off a prompt: If we encountered intelligent life in outer space, how would she present herself? “Would I be this mundane shit — I’m constantly heartbroken, I don’t know what I want to do when I grow up,” she says. “Or will I try to rise and be the highest version of myself possible? To be as glamorous and fabulous as I could?”
Schjelderup’s intergalactic vision drew upon a broad array of references. While exploring a “study” of electronic pioneer Mort Garson’s Mother Earth’s Plantasia, she began favoring digital reproductions of various modular synths and theremin. Italo disco star Raffaella Carrà inspired Ora The Molecule becoming a more full-blown character separated from but symbiotic with Schjelderup herself, while the music of Annie Lennox helped shape Dance Therapy’s narrative heft.
The resulting body of work is rife with ebullient, infectious dance music, but also remarkably complex meditations on grief, mortality and heartbreak – all transmuted through the lens of Ora’s cosmic inner journey to discover her own sense of self, human or otherwise.
And, at the end, Schjelderup has finally created a new transcendence: both Nora and Ora but neither, a deeper sense of herself and the disco superhero she has willed into being, a new identity from everything that came before.
Dance Therapy is out now on limited edition hand-numbered white vinyl, black vinyl, cassette and digitally. Purchase it HERE.
Dance Therapy track listing:
1. Becoming A Human
2. Intergalactic Dance
3. Løveskatt
4. Prince Of The Rhythm
5. Is This Love?
6. Nobody Cares
7. If I Believed
8. Cyber Fever
9. Evig Ung
10. New Years
11. Let Me Dance
12. Becoming Ora
Purchase or stream Dance Therapy HERE.
Watch the video for “Løveskatt” HERE.
Watch the video for “Intergalactic Dance” HERE.
Watch the video for “Nobody Cares” HERE.
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