Listen: Robyn – ‘Dopamine (Marlon Hoffstadt Remix)’

Berlin rave renegade Marlon Hoffstadt today steps up with a high voltage reimagining of ‘Dopamine,’ Robyn’s first single in over seven years and one of 2025’s most celebrated pop returns. Fresh off the wave of acclaim surrounding the generational Swedish pop icon’s original, Hoffstadt injects the track with his signature “DJ Daddy Trance” energy, flipping Robyn’s pop euphoria into a riotous, rave-ready anthem. Known for tearing up club conventions and packing out 20,000 capacity events around the world, the Berlin-based producer transforms ‘Dopamine’ into a life-affirming dancefloor release, meeting Robyn’s emotional precision with his own unhinged, genre-blurring force.

Hoffstadt’s version follows Jamie xx’s recently celebrated remix – an ultra-rare offering and his first in three years – which saw the London-based artist, DJ and producer reshape the original into pure dance-floor bliss.

Released on 12th November, ‘Dopamine’ saw Robyn teaming up with longtime collaborator Klas Åhlund for one of the decade’s most hotly-anticipated comebacks. Released via new label home Young, it’s a song that captures the rush of chemical euphoria that floods your body when you fall in love – that dizzying high when emotion and biology blur. It’s the sound of desire and doubt colliding: the feeling is real, yet you’re aware it’s a hormonal illusion. Sonically, the track mirrors that tension and intensity – intoxicating, pulsating, and euphoric, like coming up from the very high it evokes.

The response to ‘Dopamine’ has been rapturous, with The Face describing it as “an addictive rush of arena ready pop,” while The Guardian added “it’s complicated and messy: it’s also an unequivocal pop banger. Which of course, makes it very of the moment, but also makes it very Robyn,” and Pitchfork exclaimed “the arch of hesitancy, surrender, and resolve in her voice is incredibly moving, and a reminder that the fine, human way she phrases pop is worth years of waiting.”

The single dropped among a run of recent public appearances – including an intimate live show at Los Angeles’ Fonda Theater on 19th November and a forthcoming sold out show at Brooklyn Paramount on New Year’s Eve – that have created huge anticipation and speculation around new Robyn music. Whether performing with David Byrne to celebrate Saturday Night Live’s fiftieth anniversary, making show-stopping live appearances with the likes of Charli xcx and Gracie Abrams, collaborating with Yung Lean and Charli for a version of Brat’s ‘360,’ or soundtracking Acne Studio’s 2025 Paris show, Robyn continues to shape and influence popular culture in truly unique ways.

Stream / download ‘Dopamine (Marlon Hoffstadt Remix)’ here.
Stream / download ‘Dopamine’ here.