British/Spanish production duo Pig&Dan have release the third instalment in their downtempo album series on Bedrock Records, Destination Unknown III. Released on 3 July, the album follows on from the original Destination Unknown, released in 2014, and Destination Unknown II, whic…

Belfast-based producer, DJ and label founder Martha Dark has unveiled her latest release, Emotion (Detroit Mix), a dark, atmospheric techno track on her own imprint, Your Utopia My Dystopia (YUMD). It’s her first release on the label she launched earlier this year, and is built a…

Laurent Garnier‘s COD3 QR label has announced details of the [QR]D.177.PIC.26 EP, which features a diverse selection of collaborations from both established names and emerging talent. The EP, which is set for release on 3 July, features collaborative productions from Carlos Nilmm…

Awakenings has announced its festival programme for Amsterdam Dance Event 2026, returning to the Dutch capital’s SugarFactory venue with eight events taking place across five days. With the Gashouder currently closed for renovation, Awakenings made its debut at the former sugar r…

Manchester duo Solardo, aka Mark Richards and James Eliot, were catapulted into the dance mainstream a decade ago with their breakthrough record on Hot Creations, Tribesmen. Since then, the pair have released on labels such as Toolroom Records, Repopulate Mars, Relief Records, Ul…

More than a decade on from his iconic remix of I Follow Rivers, Belgian producer and DJ The Magician is once again working with Lykke Li, serving up a remix of the track Lucky Again. Check it out here. Originally featured on Lykke Li’s latest album The Afterparty, The Magician ad…

Music download platform Traxsource has introduced ‘Human-Made’ and ‘AI-Assisted’ labels across its platform, to enable users to identify music made using artificial intelligence. Traxsource has partnered with AI detection companies SH Labs and SoundPatrol in rolling out the new l…

You know what time it is – get set for another two hours of quality house music with the Long Live House Radio Show! Previous mixes can be found here. This week’s two-hour mix features David Penn, Jaegerossa, Inner City & Kevin Saunderson, Session Victim, Baxter Dury, Clive From…

Paris-based collective Acid Arab have released their fourth studio album, Resonance, on the All Night Long imprint. The 16-track album features contributions from a wide range of musicians including Ghita Lahmamassi, Sofiane Saidi, Yasmine Hamdan, Wael Alkak, Ghizlane Melih, Cheb…

Mount Kimbie are set take charge for the next edition of the fabric presents mix series, set to land on 31 July on fabric Records. The duo, Dom Maker and Kai Campos, have spent much of the last decade pushing into indie and shoegaze sounds, with their forthcoming mix for fabric p…

pdqb is an extraterrestrial entity that appears to have infected Sascha Dornhöfer and is using him to create music for the Synaptic Cliffs label. Dornhöfer knows nothing about it. He wakes up with no memory of the night, only to find completed tracks in Ableton Live and records (…

Paris-based DJ and producer Francois X has released a new EP, Bound States, through his XX LAB imprint. The four-track EP, which was released on 19 June, follows on from a series of recent releases on XX LAB, including Digital Fever, CEO, Straight Edge Society and The Skin Betwee…

It’s that time again, get set for two hours of quality house music with the Long Live House Radio Show! Previous mixes can be found here. This week’s mix features Ashford & Simpson, Salphunk, Dames Brown, Amp Fiddler & Moodymann, Loveface, Session Victim & Rossano Snel, Clive Fro…

Legendary electronic act Fluke have announced their return with a new album project, The Second Bite, which revisits some of the biggest tracks from their catalogue. The album, released on 19 June through Surface Records in association with !K7 Music, featured updated versions of…

As someone who occasionally takes a stab at writing about music, I’m always keen to read those who have already ploughed that furrow: Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus, Robert Christgau… and, more recently, Jon Savage, John Robb, Nick Kent, Stuart Bailie and, of course, Simon Reynolds.…

Bloop Groop, the Dublin community dedicated to electronic musicians, producers, visual artists and music enthusiasts, has announced details of its next gathering, at The Digital Hub in Dublin 8 on Saturday 20 June. The event, which runs from 5.30pm to 9pm, will see around ten sho…

Number 90 in Hackney Wick, London, has announced a series of upgrades, including a new soundsystem and centralised DJ booth, as well as an expanded food offering. The bar said that it is ‘expanding its offering to become a premier destination for canalside food, drinks and live s…

Joey G ii returns to Orphan Records with his second album, London Skye, a concept record built around an imagined soundtrack to an unfinished video game set in a near-future version of London shaped by corporate power and social decline. The nine-track album, which is set for rel…

With a return visit to Hang Dai in Dublin scheduled for Saturday 20 June, schooldays pals turned music industry movers and shakers Nick Halkes and Andy Smith, aka Reach Up Disco Wonderland, reveal some of their favourite international DJ travel memories. Yellow, Tokyo, 1996 “Ther…

Symphonic Ibiza, the brainchild of DJ and producer Andy Joyce and musical director Steve Etherington, brings its orchestral reinterpretation of Ibiza dance classics to Electric Brixton in London on 20 June. Symphonic Ibiza combines live musicians, vocalists and DJ performances in…

There’s nowhere quite like the ‘Garden of Ireland’ on a warm summer’s day, and at Beyond The Pale at Glendalough Estate, Co. Wicklow, festival goers had the chance to experience three solid days of sunshine – meaning this year’s event was always going to be a bit special. The fif…

Happy Mondays have announced plans to release what has been described as a ‘pill edition’ of their 1990 album Pills ’n’ Thrills and Bellyaches, which is set to land on London Records this August. The release, which is limited to 200 units across four colour variants, reimagines t…

KidIsLive, the project of Long Island producer Derek Kamm, has unveiled a new four-track EP, Mad Motel 002, on his Mad Motel label, continuing his exploration of house, minimal and experimental influences. Boasting more than 20 years of experience as a DJ and producer, KidIsLive…

Soma Records turns 35 years old this year, and the label is marking the occasion with a new remix series that revisits key releases from its extensive catalogue. The anniversary project, entitled ‘SOMA35’, will be released across a series of vinyl and digital EPs, with the first…

Sasha has announced details of a forthcoming EP, Hollow Sun, which is the milestone 200th release on his Last Night On Earth label. The electronic music titan established Last Night On Earth in 2011, and for the last 15 years, the label has been at the forefront of the melodic un…

German electronic duo Digitalism have unveiled their latest album, Optimism, as well as revealed details of a European tour this coming October and November. Optimism, which was released at the end of May via Magnetism, Zebralution and Word & Sound, marks the latest chapter for D…

Electronic artist and multi-instrumentalist Killian Walsh has unveiled the single Let’s Play Bongos, the latest release from his forthcoming new album, Ise. Following on from the release of previous single Let’s Float, Let’s Play Bongos emerged during a period when moments of opt…