I think one of the more interesting things about working in A&R is realizing how little the technical quality of a record tells you about the person who made it. I’ve received plenty of demos that were well mixed, competently arranged, and sounded perfectly suited to the genre th…

South African producer Da Africa Deep (@daafricadeep), born Teleki Wilfred Mphahlele, has spent the past several years building a career around Afro House that draws heavily from jazz, gospel, and the musical traditions he grew up with in South Africa. His catalog includes collab…

UK producer Wheats has returned to his own BOX RED label with EVERYTHING’S GOOD, a four-track EP released October 30 that continues his interest in bass-heavy house music, tightly programmed percussion, and unconventional electronic sounds. The project features vocal contribution…

Argentine DJ and producer Jay de Lys has made his debut on Cloonee’s Hellbent Records with In Europe, a two-track EP released October 23 that arrives at an appropriate moment in his increasingly international career. Having spent much of the summer playing across Ibiza before hea…

Liverpool DJ and producer Bontan has returned to Hot Creations with “Talking Slow,” a new tech house single released October 23 that continues his longstanding relationship with Jamie Jones and the Paradise events. The record follows his 2017 debut on the label with The First Tim…

All Images Courtesy Of Their Respective Brands The 2026 Latin Grammy Awards are returning to Las Vegas on November 12, bringing artists including Rosalía, Anitta, Daddy Yankee, Juanes, Carín León, and Mon Laferte to the MGM Grand Garden Arena. While the performances and awards wi…

Emerging from Johannesburg’s underground electronic scene, BNinjas is building a distinctive sound rooted in deep house, dusty grooves and raw, MPC-driven rhythms. Blending soulful textures, subtle acid touches and a deep appreciation for the swing of hip-hop, his productions str…

Chilean producer Diego Miranda (CH) is back with “Love Odyssey,” his latest progressive house single, released October 30 through Magnetic Magazine Recordings. The record arrives as MMR083 and continues a productive year that has seen Miranda release music across progressive hous…

Some spiritual language can flatten a record before anyone gets to the song. It gets too abstract, too soft around the edges, and suddenly the music starts sounding like it exists to explain an idea instead of making you feel one. Starry Venus’ “Do You Feel It” uses a lot of lang…

I think one of the more difficult parts of producing music is knowing when to ask somebody for help and when you need to figure something out yourself. There are plenty of technical problems that another producer, mixing engineer, or mastering engineer might solve in a fraction o…

Images Courtesy of Apos TOPPING has released the Mini 500, a $229 desktop power amplifier that provides considerable output for its size while accommodating several different listening configurations. The fully balanced Class D amplifier delivers 220W per channel into 4-ohm speak…

Images Courtesy Of Meze Audio Meze Audio has introduced the POET Jazz Edition, a collection of eleven individually hand-painted headphones that takes the Romanian manufacturer’s existing $2,000 planar magnetic model and gives each pair a completely different appearance. The colle…

I’ve used Loopcloud for years, and one reason I keep recommending it is how easily it lets me audition samples in the context of what I’m writing. Being able to lock sounds to the key and tempo of an Ableton project, keep several collections open, and experiment with audio before…

One of the harder things about writing a short song is deciding how much information the listener actually needs. You might have a specific experience you want to describe, a relationship you want to examine, or an idea that could probably fill an entire album if you allowed your…

I think one of the hardest parts of developing an artist project is figuring out what makes your music recognizable. When a particular sound starts getting attention, you might be tempted to keep returning to the same production choices because you know people already respond to…

4am Kru are heading to Bristol for the tenth edition of Halloween Carnival of the Dead, taking over The Prospect Building on October 31 for an eight-hour event celebrating jungle, drum and bass, UK garage, and bass music. The London duo, consisting of Howie and Stu, have spent th…

Pegasvs returns to Burnin Music Recordings with “Can’t Get Enough,” a new collaboration with New Zealand-born, London-based musician Willy Delphia that draws from classic 1990s house and the deeper, jazz-influenced productions associated with the label. The two-track release also…

The DMC World DJ Championships return to London on November 14, and this year’s event includes something longtime turntablism fans haven’t seen in over two decades. Scratch Perverts are reuniting for a special performance at KOKO, where the group will also be inducted into the DM…

A drum loop can establish the energy of a track long before the musical parts fall into place. The kick feels right, the percussion has movement, and the synth patch is ready. Then the piano roll opens, and the session slows down. Choosing the first notes can take longer than cho…

The Disco Express has reached its 125th catalog release, and the London-based label is marking the occasion with Best Of 2026, a six-track compilation collecting music from some of its most closely associated producers. Released October 23 on digital formats and limited-edition p…

There is a funny little trap in writing a song about AI right now: the subject is already moving faster than most songs can keep up. You can write the cleverest line in the world about machines replacing people, and by the time the record is out, the machines have already learned…

Marcos Baiano (@marcosbaiano_22) launches 2HOT2HANDLE with Back To The Future, a four-track EP landing October 16 with a remix from Terence :Terry:. The release marks the first statement from a new label, but it also marks Baiano’s return after nearly eight years away from the un…

The easy headline is obvious: Eva Elfie, one of the most recognizable names to come out of internet adult culture, is releasing electronic music. That is the surface-level story. It is also probably the least interesting way to talk about “Fairyland.” The more compelling angle is…

I’ve always appreciated house music that gives the listener enough time to settle into it, especially when the producer knows how to introduce small musical ideas without interrupting the rhythm every eight bars. It’s a quality that can be surprisingly hard to achieve, given how…

Producers who have been making electronic music long enough to see trends come around a second or third time have a lot to say. They have seen entire genres rise, disappear from the conversation, and return under a new name, often with many of the same ideas that made them exciti…

A DJ can spend weeks curating a set, only to discover within minutes that the room wants something completely different. The decision to follow that reaction without giving up personal taste is something Hoomance has been working on since his early clubbing years in Toronto. At T…

Alessario’s “Drawn Too Close” centers on a feeling that is easy to recognize and hard to admit: sometimes a person is most beautiful before we actually know them. The single, releasing October 16, follows a narrator who has filled in the blanks around someone from a distance. A s…

SoDown has released his new album, Scenes of Consciousness, a deeply personal project that brings his love of cinema, vintage recordings, and musical storytelling together. The album approaches life as a series of scenes unfolding on screen, using familiar samples, spoken dialogu…

Moving to London at 18, finding your feet in a new country and navigating the occasional disaster of being a young adult is plenty to be getting on with. AC (dot robot) has also been building a reputation behind the decks, playing high-energy sets that draw on techno, trance and…

I’ve always been interested in grooveboxes that let you start with something relatively simple and gradually work your way toward an actual piece of music without having to immediately jump back into Ableton. The idea sounds easy enough. Put a synth, sampler, sequencer, and some…

MiraclE’s new EP sounds like an artist using a release to mark a line in the sand. That does not mean it abandons everything he was doing before. His earlier work centered on melodic dubstep and melodic bass, so the emotional writing and low-end pressure are still part of the DNA…

Images Courtesy Of 2B Shaped Some plugins are less about fixing a mix and more about getting a sound out of the way. 2B Played Music’s new 2B Shaped 2 looks like it belongs in that camp. The headline is simple: 17 effects in one plugin, built around sound design, shaping, and mov…

There’s something immediately likable about Sharpshooter Soundworks turning around and refusing to aim at the same target twice. Andrew Shabazz’s “Breakin’ All The Rules (Massive)” pulls from jungle, breakcore, old-school instrumental textures, and that dusty kind of break energy…

Image Cred: Loic Meulenberg A specific kind of song only fully hits when you are looking out a window. Not because the production is bigger in the car. Not because the speakers are better. Usually, they are not. It hits because you are moving, and for a few minutes, your life has…

Some of the best ideas in electronic music come together when you’re away from the studio, and for Polish producer Linds (@linds_muzik) , the defining melody of his latest single, “Destiny,” came during a five-hour train ride from Warsaw to Berlin. While traveling to a show, he o…

YouTube Shorts have become the primary attraction of YouTube overall, attracting far more likes and views than regular videos. Many creators are diversifying their output by including Shorts, while others are choosing to go all in on this snappy approach to content. As with all m…

Dutch producer Feiertag (@feiertag_music) has always had an interest in the space between live instrumentation and electronic production, and his latest single, “Something I Shouldn’t Be,” brings those two sides of his sound together in a particularly interesting way. Released Se…

All Images Courtesy Of Wharfedale A bad subwoofer is easy to notice. It makes itself the main character, blooms around every kick drum, turns film scores into a low-frequency mess, and tricks people into thinking more bass automatically means better sound. A good subwoofer does a…

NAMM can look like a gear show from the outside, especially if all you see are launch videos, crowded booth photos, and the annual flood of “best new synths/controllers/interfaces” posts that hit the internet every January. But for DJs and electronic producers, the real reason to…

HAAi’s DIGITiSE makes a lot more sense once you stop treating it like a traditional follow-up album and start hearing it like a DJ making a record for the room she actually plays in. That is the part I like here. HUMANiSE already gave HAAi a big conceptual canvas, full of questio…

I’m happy to spend time getting a vocal right, but manually moving the same consonant across six backing tracks is the kind of editing I’d rather have software handle. The decision gets harder when several plugins promise to save that time. I want to know what each one can correc…

“Say My Name” brings together three artists coming at house music from different directions. ERAN has spent the past few years moving beyond the Afro-centric material associated with some of his earlier releases and deeper into melodic, tech and classic house territory, while Bud…

The article is guest contribution by Candese Charles As the moon glowed high above the cranes and ships that make up Pier 80, Portola Music Festival raged on for two nights of glory the weekend of September 26 this year. Now in its fifth year, the genre-diverse music festival con…

Between the Hologram Microcosm, Chroma Console, and SOMA WARP, I already have plenty of ways to add delay, reverb, and granular processing to my music. Another expensive hardware effect needs a specific reason to earn space in my studio, and the Cosmos gives me one with its appro…

Summer Fades Away and Vaudlow’s Get Together works because the collaboration does not feel like a novelty. The story is easy to pitch on paper: a Chinese post-rock band and a Nashville instrumental duo meet at Asia’s largest post-rock festival, stay connected across thousands of…

Joseph Capriati and his Metamorfosi have wrapped its 2026 Amnesia Ibiza season, closing a 14-week Tuesday residency with a sold-out B3B from Capriati, Jamie Jones, and Chris Stussy on September 29. That is a clean final image for a residency that was never pitched as a narrow one…

Edu Schwartz returns to Magnetic Magazine Recordings with “This Feeling,” out today, October 2, 2026. The Brazilian DJ and producer’s latest single carries catalog number MMR073 and marks the label’s 73rd signing. Available on Beatport as an Original Mix. It follows previous rele…

DFRA and Nick Weaver Beautiful Place works best when it lets the city press in from all sides. The album is built around one person’s search for peace inside Buenos Aires, and that idea gives the project a clear emotional center without making it feel overly polished or too neatl…

LARSa returns to Magnetic Magazine Recordings with his remix of D&S’s “Time & Space.” Released on October 2, 2026, the track is the label’s 82nd signing and carries catalog number MMR082. The release is available exclusively on Beatport, where it is listed under Progressive House…

Locked Club’s PZDC is the kind of electronic album that does not ask to be understood before it starts moving. It kicks forward first, then lets the rest of the record reveal itself in broken machinery, blown-out vocal fragments, acid lines, punk pressure, and club rhythms that f…

Enrico Rosica told me that “No More” began as a song with a different tone, then changed after a conversation with Ivye and the arrival of her vocal. That detail stayed with me because it says something specific about the collaboration: the singer helped shape where the record we…

Nick Warren (@djnickwarren) has been around long enough to know that careers are rarely built by music alone. Records matter, taste matters, and a DJ still has to be able to stand in front of a room and make the hours feel like they belong together. But behind that public version…

Alice Youngling (@aliceyoungling) returns to Non Merci Music with “May I Please,” out September 25. The Swiss-born, Barcelona-based DJ and producer has been building a name through groove-heavy tech house, a residency at Tunnel, appearances alongside Eats Everything, Dennis Ferre…

The Indiigo Child’s (@theindiigochild) Memories EP arrives on Waveform Entertainment as a two-track release about the tension between honoring the past and staying present enough to feel the life directly in front of you. Daniel Knott, the San Francisco-based artist behind the pr…

SAM SHI’s (@samshi.music) “Comfort Zone” lands at a strange point in the technology conversation because the song is not really about production software at all. It is about the places people hide. Relationships, jobs, achievement loops, external validation, the neat-looking life…

Jemma Bolt and LoopDeeLoop’s “Love Drug” lands on Urbana Recordings with a club-first attitude that doesn’t need much over-explaining. The track is out September 25 on David Penn’s label, and it arrives with a useful early stamp of approval: Carl Cox has already been playing it r…

SUAHN’s new album does not treat distortion like decoration and if you’re expecting just a touch or warmth or a dash of grit, you’re going to be caught severly flat footed. So buckle up, cause this album has some teeth on it. Because distortion feels baked into the record’s emoti…

Medicine’s “Just Walk Away” works because it knows what needs to stay in the center. The track lands September 25 on Make Your Era, and while it has the rolling drum pressure and low-end movement expected from contemporary Drum & Bass, the vocal is the thing that gives it shape.…

Italian producer Roel has built his sound around disco, funk and soul, bringing those influences into house releases on Soulfuric Recordings, Groove Culture Music and Low Trax. His latest release on the latter sees him collaborate with label founder Low Steppa on “Dreamliner”, a…

As Summer fades and we prepare for the colder seasons, remember that Disco & Funk music is a state of mind, and fifteen of August’s great tracks can transport you to a sunny place, day or night! Check out this month’s SoundCloud playlist Read Past Disco and Funk Charts Here Thand…