Above image credit: Tim van den Broek Mr. Polska is launching a new live act built for techno and hard dance stages, but the more interesting part is what he is refusing to become. This is not being positioned as a rapper stepping into a rave for a few guest vocals, and it is not…

This post was written by a guest contributor by Candese Charles Kaskade, Grammy-nominated DJ and producer, is entering his wub-wub era, and we’re here for it! The notable house artist recently joined forces with none other than bass and dubstep DJ and producer Wooli to release th…

Reevo’s “Spectre” is not trying to be pretty. The new single, out now on LVLD MUSIC, is built around dark electronic pressure, heavy low-end movement, and the kind of rolling percussion that makes the track feel aimed at smaller, sweatier rooms before anything else. It is aggress…

Hyungmin (@ehyungmin) opens WAVES Vol. 2 with “Pistil,” a hypnotic cut on Glasgow label Lava Lava that sets the compilation in motion with delicate synth loops, stripped-back percussion, resonating bass notes, and crunched atmospherics. Released back on August 14, the compilation…

Jaguar B’s (@dj_jaguar.b) “Feel So…” lands on WAVES Vol. 2, the second installment of Glasgow label Lava Lava’s compilation series. Released August 14, the project moves across deep grooves, peak-time club tools, house, acid-leaning pressure, and dubby low-end material, giving ea…

Monkey Safari and Super Flu know exactly what kind of feeling they are chasing on “Confused.” The new single, out now on Good Vibes from Paradise, is deep, melodic, and built around a vocal that carries the track’s title without turning it into melodrama. That is why the collabor…

Formula 1 weekend in Baku will add a new open-air event series in 2026. APEX After Dark Open Air runs from September 24 to 26 at a purpose-built, 2,500-capacity site in front of FOMO Baku near Flag Square, with separate nights led by ANOTR, Jamie Jones, and Mahmut Orhan. The head…

Roland’s FP-40 Digital Piano is built around a question that a lot of home players know too well: what keeps someone coming back to the piano after the first wave of excitement wears off? That is where the FP-40 and Piano Sphere pairing gets interesting. The FP-40 is a portable d…

BIIA (@biia__________) opens a new chapter with “Die For Youth,” the first release on her own imprint, DYSTONIA. The Portuguese DJ and producer has built her name on driving, hypnotic techno with tight control and high physical impact, but this single brings a more emotive edge i…

Fosi Audio is using IFA 2026 to make a broader point about where the brand is headed. The company built much of its reputation on accessible HiFi amplifiers and DACs, but its Berlin lineup spans several listening habits at once: IEMs, desktop headphone setups, compact CD playback…

SYEYL’s (@syeylmusic) “desire” sits in a corner of electronic music where repetition works best when it never repeats in quite the same way. Released August 20 ahead of the Music Is The Answer EP on September 25, the track draws from the electronica and post-dubstep that shaped S…

The end of summer has a strange way of making everyone feel like they missed something. Work fills the calendar, weekends get spent catching up, and then suddenly the light starts changing. For producers, DJs, writers, and anyone who spends too much time staring at screens, that…

Colorado Modular Synth Society brought EMIXX West 2026 to Denver for a weekend of modular synths, electronic music hardware, DIY culture, and the sort of wonderfully obsessive gear conversations that make the synth community what it is. Denver has never exactly suffered from a sh…

One of the most stunning and unique new festival kids on the block LIDO Festival – returns with Kelis, Maribou State, Folamour and more Lead photo – @Perry_gibson By the end of August, festival fatigue is a real and documented condition. The summer circuit has done its work — the…

IPI’s (@ipimusika) The Windy City just dropped on August 28 on SATYADGTL, bringing the Cologne artist into the label’s deep, groove-led orbit with a release rooted in Chicago acid house energy. IPI is a fixture in Cologne’s underground scene, head of Lust und Freude Musik, and a…

This is an article by guest contributor Candese Charles Wax Motif, producer and DJ, steps to the decks at Zouk Nightclub with calculated motions. Holding the official resident DJ spot for the 2026 season across the Las Vegas nightclub and AYU Dayclub at Resorts World Las Vegas, t…

Jonathan Kaspar’s The Reason Why EP works because it does not treat club music and personal writing as opposing instincts. Released August 28 via Crosstown Rebels, the four-track project moves from tense tech-house control into smoky vocal soul, then into two tracks built around…

Perfume of Static make music that works best when you stop waiting for the obvious turn. The Brussels duo, formed by Ben and Ema, operates at the point where melodic ambient, downtempo, and experimental electronics start to blur into one another. Their single “Parity” sits direct…

HEXED’s ALCHEMY does not feel like an EP built from five tracks that happened to be ready at the same time. The project has a real through-line, and that makes the title work. ALCHEMY is centered on transformation, but not in the polished, motivational way the word is sometimes u…

Reinier Zonneveld, Nicky Romero, and CERES linking up on Filth on Acid is exactly the kind of collaboration that looks chaotic on paper, then starts making more sense once you hear what each artist is there to do. “Party” is out now, and it does not waste much time pretending to…

Jamie Unknown (@jamieunknown_) makes his debut on TSHA’s Jackfruit imprint with “Roll With The Rhythm / All The Love,” a double A-side just dropped on August 28. The release sits in the UK producer’s sweet spot: house, garage, bassline pressure, big vocal energy, and enough playf…

Berko Fields has added a 400-drone aerial show to its first major statement as Hertfordshire’s newest festival contender. The three-day event takes place September 11 to 13 at Berkhamsted Cricket Club, with Friday and Saturday now set to end with a 12-minute drone display rising…

Vibe Chemistry’s Serotonin works because it does not treat heartbreak as one mood. The new album, out now via Make Your Era, is built loosely around the aftermath of a breakup, but it does not sit in one emotional register for the whole runtime. The album moves like a summer road…

Myselor’s (@myselor__) “Break / Urban Pulse” closes the sampler run for Cosmic Expression by doing something smart: after three releases built around larger philosophical ideas, he brings the record back down to the street. That move gives the final sampler a clear role in the al…

Italian Producer and DJ Aurory is steadily shaping his place within the Electronic Music landscape, blending elements of Melodic House, Tech House, and Techno with immersive visual and auditory design. With evolution, identity, and originality at the centre of his creative approa…

Reason Studios is making one of its most recognizable ideas free. Reason Free brings the company’s modular Rack into any compatible DAW as a VST3, AU, or AAX plugin, giving producers access to 15 instruments, effects, and creative utilities without a trial period, expiration date…

Arturia Pure SUB is built around a simple idea that a lot of producers already understand: bass needs its own workspace. That does not mean every track needs a separate low-end designer, but modern production has made bass more important than a supporting layer. In drum and bass,…

Dreamtonics built its reputation by making synthetic vocals feel less stiff. That is why Instrument X is such an interesting move. The company is taking the same obsession with controllable performance detail and applying it to acoustic instruments: strings, woodwinds, and brass.…

Polyend has introduced Keys, a mechanical QWERTY keyboard designed for musicians who spend as much time typing as they do making music. On the surface, it looks like a low-profile computer keyboard with a few extra controls across the top. The more interesting idea is built into…

Heaven INC.(@heaven_incorporation) are a Budapest-based DJ and producer duo moving between organic house, progressive house, and melodic electronic music shaped by atmosphere, storytelling, and groove. Zsolt and Bogi have been building a steady release path across labels includin…

Running sunglasses can get overdesigned fast. A lot of pairs look fast on a product page, but the real test is much less dramatic. Do they stay on your face when you start sweating? Do they fog when the morning air gets humid? Do they give you enough road detail when light keeps…

Owen McCoy’s (@emccoy1234) “Abstract Arcadia” arrives on Patchouli Deep as a deep progressive house cut built around movement, low-end control, and the kind of gradual tension that makes sense in a real set. Released back on August 7, the track had already reached No. 41 in Beatp…

Neural DSP today announced the release of CorOS 4.1.0 and Cortex Control 4.1.0, the biggest CorOS update in the company’s history. The release expands Plugin Compatibility to five additional plugins, bringing every currently available X-updated plugin to Quad Cortex and Quad Cort…

GHENGAR is expanding his heaviest era yet with the newly announced “Rebirth” Tour, a North American run stretching from October 2026 through March 2027. The tour begins October 23 at Otherworld in Philadelphia before moving through San Francisco, Costa Mesa, Denver, Houston, Minn…

Pierre to a degree’s second album, Omen, dropped bakc on July 3 as a project built around trust, intuition, and the strange creative turns that appear when the artist does not control every step too tightly. Inspired by Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, the album follows the idea of…

Frederik Neu’s (@frederikneu.music) “Wanna Feel” lands on WAVES Volume 2, the latest compilation from Glasgow label Lava Lava, released back on August 14. The project moves across deep grooves, peak-time club cuts, tripped-out house, sci-fi electronics, and dub-leaning material,…

BARELY ALIVE are turning their recent label expansion into a live platform with the newly announced “RECONNECT” Tour, a 15-plus-date North American run stretching from October through December. The routing begins October 10 in Vancouver before moving through cities including Calg…

Osterhouse Sounds Note Sampler is built around a small but very producer-friendly idea: instead of dragging MIDI clips around a DAW timeline, you can record short musical ideas directly onto the keys of your piano and play them back by hand. That makes the plugin feel less like a…

Sample Focus occupies a different lane in the sample-library market because it starts from a producer problem that never really went away: finding the sound in your head before the idea disappears. The platform was built around that moment of friction, when a session slows down b…

Richard Seeley has been releasing underground electronic music for over two decades, with records landing on Rekids’ Rek’d, V.V.V.W.I. and his own Glue Music Recordings along the way. His latest EP, Seeza Project No 4, brings that history back into focus, especially on opener “Do…

Most people who quit guitar do not quit because they hate music. They quit because the first month can feel like a wall. Sore fingertips. Buzzing notes. chord shapes that feel impossible. Strumming patterns that fall apart the second singing enters the picture. That is the gap Do…

Two Deep are not overcomplicating the pitch on “Just Like That.” This is tech house built around a vocal that gets in fast, drums that keep the whole thing moving, and a bassline doing most of the heavy lifting underneath. The track is aimed at clubs and festival systems, but it…

Joranalogue Audio Design has made Flow 3 available, and the best way to understand it is this: it is a compact Eurorack filter that does more than sit there waiting for modulation. Flow 3 is a 6 HP auto-dynamic filter built around a new take on the classic state-variable filter d…

We Group has just delivered the kind of run that sounds almost boring until you actually count the moving parts. Twenty-five live events in 16 days. More than 250,000 people. Multiple sites. Festivals, concerts, brand activations, placemaking trails, health and safety support, bu…

ASUS Republic of Gamers has launched the ROG Gjallar Gaming Soundbar in the U.S., and the pitch is pretty simple: gaming audio does not always need to live on your head. That is the more interesting angle here. Headsets still make the most sense for competitive play, late-night s…

MALUM takes us back to the glory days of liquid jungle.. If the Sunset EP was the most immediately accessible entry point into MALUM’s remix trilogy, The Mission EP is the one that earns its place through genuine unpredictability. Where Prins Thomas brought cosmic patience to “mr…

Sondela Recordings is expanding its world with Sondela Volt, a new imprint built for the deeper, darker, and more club-focused edges of African electronic music. The first release, “Ascendance,” landed back on July 24 and pairs returning Sondela artist Phila De Giant with newcome…

David Penn (@djdavidpenn) has spent over three decades making house music, yet one detail in his production process has remained consistent: he wants to move quickly when an idea appears. That explains why his production setup for “Talk To Me” centers on software that lets him ge…

RAD Distribution has announced an exclusive global partnership with BABICZ Full Contact Hardware, and while distribution deals can sound like back-office news at first, this one has a cleaner player-facing angle. BABICZ FCH is a hardware company. That means the story is not about…

Profetik’s (@profetiksound) “Tetra” arrives on Seraph Records as a melodic techno release built around scale, weight, and a very specific piece of source imagery. The title points back to the four-faced living creatures in Ezekiel’s vision, and Brian Van Anderson turns that idea…

The thing I like about Toddy Tang’s “April Apocalypse” is that it does not treat heartbreak like a simple before-and-after moment. The track is built around a stranger kind of loss: the collapse of a future that had already started to feel real. That is a sharper idea than anothe…

John Miller’s “When I Sleep (Radio Edit)” is a good reminder that a dance track does not always need to sprint toward the biggest possible moment. The Paris-based French-American artist first came across my radar when we covered his previous release and he works across house, tec…

Christian Hornbostel (@christianhornbostel) has never sounded especially interested in chasing the loudest part of the room. That is part of what makes “Eridanus” feel right for Magnetic Magazine Recordings. The track works with patience, letting its synth programming, harmonic d…

Nihil Young’s (@nihilyoung) Compass is built around the kind of personal material AI cannot fake with any real conviction. Released August 14 on Zerothree, the debut album pulls from the day he met his wife, the birth of his daughter, the death of his father, and the private emot…

Award-show gifting can be easy to misunderstand from the outside. At its worst, it can look like another pile of luxury products handed to people who already have access to everything. But the official Emmys Giving Suite has a more specific role here: turn the backstage ritual in…

After two decades of releases across house music, Maltese producer Jewel Kid (@jewelkid) makes his Rekids debut with Explicit Behaviour, a three-track EP arriving August 14. The record follows releases for Abode and Toolroom alongside his work running Alleanza, and finds him lean…

A.N.I (@a.n.i.official) is moving through the European techno circuit with a sound that pulls hard techno, hard trance, and rhythmic genre-blending into the same high-pressure frame. The Berlin-born and based DJ and producer has become increasingly visible through her “Transition…

Sennheiser is taking the newest MOMENTUM line smaller with the MOMENTUM True Wireless 5. The new true-wireless earbuds are built as the compact counterpart to the MOMENTUM 5 Wireless headphones, bringing the series’ sound, noise cancellation, connectivity, spatial audio, and pers…

WVLK’s “Do You Hear Me” arrives on Make Your Era as a liquid Drum & Bass single built around a soaring female vocal, cinematic melodic writing, and rolling low-end movement. Out now as of July 24, the track puts feeling at the center without giving up the forward motion that make…

SoDown is taking the next phase of his project across North America with the newly announced “Scenes of Consciousness” Tour, a run of more than 20 dates spanning the United States and Canada. Kicking off August 21 in Nashville, the tour will combine headline dates, festival appea…