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Vuarnet Turns Racing Eyewear Toward WinterFirstOriginalYesterday, 19:36
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Performance eyewear often gets flattened into a style conversation, especially when the brand has as much heritage as Vuarnet. The frames look sharp, the French mountain history is easy to romanticize, and the whole thing can get treated like another luxury outdoor accessory. Rac…

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Mack Loenz’s (@mackloenz) debut album From The Heart marks another milestone in the evolution of an artist many listeners already know as electro veteran Exzakt. Released on Maceo Plex’s Lone Romantic imprint, the ten-track album expands his long-established sound with melodic vo…

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The easiest version of the Artist Growth announcement is that AI can now make itineraries faster. That is true, and it is also the least interesting part. The better story is that Artist Growth is trying to solve the problem the music industry should already be worried about: wha…

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Breaking Beattz (@bbeattz) makes his Dirtybird debut with Booty Bang, a two-track EP that continues the label’s Flight Week Brazil release series. Out now via Dirtybird, the project follows earlier Flight Week Brazil releases from BadComppany and Sudden Heat & Pitros, carrying fo…

Kayla Ramos Lets Hope Feel ComplicatedFirstOriginal27 Jul, 17:48
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Kayla Ramos’ “Serendipity” is the kind of pop song that could have gone soft in the wrong hands. The premise is familiar: someone enters your life at the exact right time, and the timing feels too strange to brush off as chance. That idea has been written a thousand ways, and it…

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Producer education is crowded with tutorials that promise faster results, cleaner templates, and repeatable steps. Flying Lotus is taking a different angle with his new School of Song workshop: process first, finished track second. That is the tension that makes this one interest…

Bob Moog’s Office Files ResurfaceFirstOriginal27 Jul, 16:13
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Synth history usually gets told through the instruments first. The Minimoog. The theremins. The modular systems. The pedals. The finished objects are easier to photograph, easier to mythologize, and easier to place inside the story of electronic music. This donation tells a diffe…

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Electronic dab rigs have made concentrates easier to use by removing the torch and giving users direct control over temperature, session length, and vapor output. I have reviewed compact e-rigs, modular vaporizers, desktop concentrate systems, and water-filtered smoking devices f…

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Photos Courtesy Of Buso Audio The smartest studio desk updates are usually the least glamorous ones. Nobody buys a workstation because the cable routing sounds sexy. Nobody wants to spend thousands of dollars thinking about tray flex, joint tolerance, rack angle, or whether a wei…

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AI music software has spent the past few years dealing with an identity problem. Most of the public conversation has focused on text prompts generating complete songs, usually followed by arguments about copyright, authorship, training data, and whether the person entering the pr…

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Jakob Mäder’s (@jakobmaeder) About The Vibe EP lands as a return to the deep house language that first pulled him in around 2010, when records from artists like Moomin, Lawrence, and Iron Curtis helped shape his ear. The Stuttgart-based DJ, producer, and live performer moves acro…

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Quite Lucky enters a new chapter with the launch of Quite Lucky Records, a Romanian drum & bass label built around cross-border collaboration, community, and the soulful side of the genre. The announcement lands alongside ECHOES – Chapter II: Cobor, the collective’s second writin…