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After a flurry of winter releases, Benoit & Sergio return to DFA with the “Principles” EP–Beach Boys techno for summer nights. Following in the footsteps of their “Boy Trouble” and “Where The Freaks Have No Name” EPs, Benoit & Sergio’s “Principles” continues to explore underground pop sensibilities in the context of the big-room dance floor.

“Principles,” originally featured on Soul Clap’s Social Experiment 002 mix, has already emerged as a standout on an album full of worthy contenders. The opening minute of the track recalls the beckoning stomp of a Meadowlands rock concert, as the vocals swell toward a rubber band bass line and kick at the climax. The song only pulls back on the chorus – a wide-open stack of Sergio’s vocals – that slowly, hazily fade into the commotion that (re)ensues.

Flipside “Everybody” is a summer wave pounding summer surf. Marimbas, arpeggiated pianos and organs wash over the massive undertow of the bass line. As the vocal harmonies of the track’s simple refrain–”Everybody needs somebody to pretend”–climb, we are at once in the realm of 60s California euphoria, of Ibiza’s excess, or of a rooftop dalliance.