FM synthesis has never lacked power. It has lacked patience from the people trying to learn it. The sound can be glassy, metallic, percussive, strange, emotional, and almost impossible to fake with subtractive synths, but the workflow has scared off plenty of musicians who do not…

Deadlynoiz’s “Disco Weapon” is out now via LVLD Music, and the title gets the point across fast. This is bass house built with the room in mind. The low end hits hard, the groove keeps pushing, and the whole thing has that slightly ridiculous club confidence that makes the title…

Ghastly’s comeback reached its biggest live milestone yet at Bass Canyon, where the revived project made its first festival appearance in five years and its first since returning in 2026. The highly anticipated performance arrived just days after Ghastly released “Flip Dat,” a st…

Australia’s JOKESONYOU and Dutch artist DJ IP pair up for their brand-new single ‘OTTF’ this August, to be released on Teletech. ‘OTTF’ is a tribute to the emotion and energy of classic hardstyle. Inspired by the iconic sound of the mid 2000s, it combines euphoric melodies, drivi…

Marsh (@marshmusician) is starting Marshan Records with the kind of statement most artists spend years working toward: a fourth studio album, two major headline shows, and a label name drawn from the fan community that has helped carry the project this far. Home, out November 3,…

Laptop audio has always had a basic tradeoff. The machines keep getting thinner and more powerful, but the speakers still have to work within a small physical space, which is a real limitation when games, films, and creator workflows increasingly depend on spatial detail. Audiosc…

Images All Courtesy Of Apos A lot of producers spend so much time checking mixes that they forget how to listen. There is a difference between analyzing a track and letting a system reveal it. The first is work. The second is where taste develops. That is why the SJY ARGOS Electr…

Death on the Balcony (@deathonthebalcony) return with Cycles Of Desire, a four-track EP out August 14 on SATYADGTL that splits the duo’s sound across two names and two related club instincts. Mark Caramelli and Paul Hargreaves use the Death on the Balcony side for deeper, groove-…

A lot of audio interfaces are sold on clean conversion, more I/O, and low-latency performance. Those things matter, but they do not always answer the more interesting question for producers: what happens before the sound ever reaches the DAW? That is where Harrison Audio’s new Fl…

Dance music has no fixed dress code, even if black T-shirts and denim remain common in studios, airports, press photos, and DJ booths. The clothing has to work across a job that constantly changes location. An artist can spend eight hours at a computer, carry equipment into a ven…

John Monkman’s (@johnmonkman) “Connected” arrives on Beesemyer Music after his Kompakt release “Trace,” and the title says a lot about where his head seems to be at the moment. The track sits in a deeper, more hypnotic lane, built around groove, repetition, and the kind of dancef…

Bound to Divide’s (@boundtodivide) “Cycles” is out now via Magnetic Magazine Recordings, marking the label’s 55th signing and adding a familiar progressive name to the catalog. There is also a dedicated Cycles Beatport chart, giving DJs a broader look at the records surrounding t…

A lot of producers treat the studio like the only place where music happens. That is understandable, but it is also where the work can start to fold in on itself. The same loop plays too many times. The same plugin chain gets tweaked for an hour. The same eight-bar idea starts to…

Marina Trench (@marinatrenchmusic) appears on Pont Neuf 10 Years – In House We Trust with “Synaptic Ctrl,” a hypnotic contribution to the Paris label’s anniversary compilation out September 4. The project brings together Black Loops, Demuja, Dylan Dylan, Goldie B, KX9000, Mad Rey…

DJing can look intimidating from the outside. The gear has its own language. rekordbox has its own workflow. Beatmatching, phrasing, cue points, EQ, effects, track selection, and energy control all feel simple once they click, but the first few steps can make the entire process f…

SoDown is taking his next Mission Ballroom headline far beyond the traditional DJ set. The Colorado-based producer, DJ, and multi-instrumentalist will return to the Denver venue on February 13, 2027, for “The SoDown Picture Show,” a fully conceptualized performance built around t…

KONEKT’s “Zooted” is built around a simple idea: make the room move. The producer and DJ has more than 15 years behind the decks and over a decade of music production behind him, and that experience shows in the way the track is being presented. This is not a concept-heavy record…

Music production is not usually treated as a physical activity, but anyone who spends long hours in a chair knows the body eventually gets a vote. The creative work may happen in Ableton, Logic, FL Studio, Pro Tools, or a notebook, but the hours are still spent sitting, leaning f…

MikeR delivers his next Progressive House single, ‘Like A Spark.’ A Producer and DJ who has carved his sound prioritising authenticity and staying true to his influences, MikeR continues to move with a firm understanding of his creative direction. Making strides that reinforce hi…

Mr. Benfy DJ & Max DJ’s “Higher” is doing what a radio-ready house record is supposed to do: move cleanly between club energy, playlist appeal, and a hook that listeners can catch quickly. The Italian DJ and production duo released the track through Gate D Records, and the single…

Pont Neuf Records (@pontneufrecords) marks ten years with In House We Trust, a 12-track anniversary compilation arriving September 4, 2026, after a summer rollout of weekly singles across July and August. Founded in Paris in 2016, the label has become one of the defining names in…

Empire of the Sun, with openers Midnight Generation and a DJ set from Polo & Pan, took Red Rocks by storm on a perfect August evening with a mind-bending performance for the ages! Anytime you get the opportunity to go to a show at Red Rocks, you definitely should, and in a specta…

Borna Libertines’(@borna_libertines) 120h to Tokyo plays like a record built from movement: airport arrival, train platforms, convenience-store loops, jazz bars, izakaya nights, small techno rooms, and the strange emotional compression that happens when a city only fully reveals…

Lana Crow’s “Japrisot” sounds like a summer drive with the rearview mirror doing too much talking. The independent singer-songwriter’s new single is out now, and it takes a bright 80s synth-pop setting, fills it with coastal motion, then threads something more uneasy underneath.…

Culoe De Song’s first release on Crosstown Rebels does not feel like a random label move. It feels like two paths finally crossing in public. The South African house artist has spent more than fifteen years building a sound that pulls African electronic music into deeper, more hy…

Not every listening room starts with floorstanders and a giant budget. Most people begin smaller. A desk. A sideboard. A spare bedroom. A small apartment. A vinyl corner that gradually evolves into a full two-channel system. That is where a speaker like the Starke Sound Beta5 mak…

MILYAM’s “Dream” works best when it does not try to explain itself too quickly. The Los Angeles-based artist builds the single around a hushed rhythmic cadence, dark R&B atmosphere, and a left-field Art Rap approach that feels closer to late-night thought than direct confession.…

STAY GOLDEN (@stay.golden.music) makes his All Day I Dream debut with Silent Covenant, a seven-track album out August 14 that translates memory, trust, and invisible connection into a nearly 40-minute run of indie-dance textures, melodic techno detail, organic rhythm, and deep ho…

Leo Sawikin’s “Burning Love” is out now, and it gives the Manhattan-born singer-songwriter a clear first step into the next phase of his catalog. The single comes ahead of his forthcoming self-titled full-length album, expected in 2027, and lands after a period in which Sawikin h…

AFROJACK does not need to prove he can make a record feel massive. That part of his career has been proven for years. The more interesting thing about “Monopoly Man” is that it finds him working inside a tighter club frame, making his debut on Loco Dice’s Desolat with a track bui…

AVRENNI drops a brand-new album, ‘Apotheya,’ on his own label Apotheya Records. A full, eight-track project, the collection takes listeners on a journey through high-impact beats, deep, dark soundscapes, and sound design that feels considered and controlled. First debuting with h…

Nihil Young’s Compass is out now, and the title fits the way the record is being presented. This is not framed as a debut album chasing a big dramatic reset. It is closer to a record built from markers: the day he met his wife, the birth of his first child, and the kind of [...]…

Images Courtesy Of Apos Music producers talk a lot about controllers. Pads. Faders. knobs. weighted keys. clip launchers. MIDI keyboards. But the computer keyboard usually does more quiet work than almost anything else on the desk. It handles DAW shortcuts, naming tracks, editing…

Eliezer’s recent run of releases makes more sense once you place it beside Chicken Town. “Hips,” “Marrakech After Midnight,” and “Fiera,” the latter released under his New York Acid Assembly alias with G L’e P, all point back to the same club-first attitude: raw rhythm, pressure,…

Tony Finger’s Afro House Comeback Starts With Cape Town Tony Finger’s story runs through Italy, Paris, Cape Town, Ibiza, Geneva, and a long stretch of musical history that seems to be coming back into focus at the right time. Born and raised in Italy and now based in Geneva, the…

Myselor (@myselor__) has spent the past sixteen years developing a strain of electronic music that treats sound design, rhythm, and concept as parts of the same idea. The Greek producer, now based in Basel, has moved from Drum & Bass into increasingly experimental territory acros…

Dreamtonics is keeping the details light for now, but its latest teaser is doing enough to get vocal production people to pay attention. The company, best known for Synthesizer V Studio and the voice-morphing plugin Vocoflex, has shared a new coming-soon video for an upcoming rel…

Doc Martin (@docmartinla) and Homero Espinosa (@homeroespinosa) reconnect on West Coast Transmissions, a two-track EP that dropped back on July 24 on REK’D, the dancefloor-focused Rekids sublabel launched by Radio Slave. The release brings the pair into a rawer West Coast House l…

Cars used to have a built-in soundtrack before the stereo ever turned on. The engine, the road, the vibration, the gear changes, and the physical feel of movement all shaped the experience. EVs changed that equation. They are quieter, smoother, and more software-driven, which lea…

The talented Londoner Shafkkat is forging his own path London producer Shafkkat has been threading a needle, consistently across his releases — music that works as hard emotionally as it does rhythmically — and In The Wind, his first full project, is the most complete articulatio…

David Mayer (@david_mayer), Nico Stojan and Tooker’s “I Am” came out of the trio’s April 2026 SONARA basecamp on Isola di San Pietro, where they spent roughly two weeks making music without setting a fixed direction for what those studio days needed to produce. The track was offi…

Official Press Photography Throughout Courtesy Of: JanitaAutio Darude’s (@darude) Feel The Beat – Remixes brings one of the defining records in his catalog back into the present with new versions from Ilan Bluestone, Giuseppe Ottaviani, Emily Nash, Nilsix, EM11, and Junkkataxi. R…

Tom Brownlow and JenJammin Sax are leaning straight into the promise of the title with “Happiness,” their upcoming sax-house release out August 14 via Brook Gee Records. The track brings together Tom’s keys, strings, drums, arrangement, and production with Jen’s saxophone playing…

Late-summer festivals can trick you. The day starts hot. The sun sits on your shoulders for hours. Then the temperature drops, the grass gets damp, the walk back to the car feels longer than expected, and whatever looked good at 2 p.m. starts feeling like a bad decision by 10. Th…

The hardest part of artist content is not always the idea. It is getting the shot while still being present enough to make the music, run the session, play the show, meet the fans, pack the gear, or get to the next thing on time. Most artists do not have a camera team following t…

The harder part of drum programming is rarely finding a punchy sound. It is making the part feel like it belongs in the song. That is the space UJAM is working in with Virtual Drummer NEON, a new addition to its Virtual Drummer Series built for contemporary pop, disco, dance, nu…

Most artists are doing more of the recording process themselves now. That does not mean every artist wants to become a full-time mix engineer. It means the first round of decisions often happens before the song ever leaves the bedroom, rehearsal space, tour bus, dorm room, or apa…

Electronic music has always moved fast because producers keep finding new machines to bend. That history is part of why the AI conversation in dance music gets complicated so quickly. Drum machines, samplers, synths, DAWs, plug-ins, and generative processes have all changed what…

After becoming one of the biggest club anthems of 2025, ‘Lipstick’ by Alaia & Gallo returns with a huge new remix from Tony Romera. The original has become a firm favourite on dancefloors worldwide, earning support from Carl Cox, Nic Fanciulli, Bob Sinclar, James Hype, Roger Sanc…

Most emerging electronic artists are forced into the hardest part of the market too early. A track can be finished, exciting, and ready for the right DJ or label, then still get buried the second it enters the same feed as established artists, larger campaigns, existing fan bases…

Some songs are built around the chase. “Trouble” is built around the moment after it ends. CHETTI’s new track closes Much Love, Chetti, Vol. 1 with a feeling of exposure. The story has stopped moving fast enough to blur the edges, and what was being carried finally has to be seen…

Most music merch still starts with the same familiar objects. Shirts. Hoodies. Hats. Posters. Stickers. Maybe vinyl if the budget allows. Those formats still work, but the artists who build real fan communities are always looking for objects that feel closer to the music itself.…

Loopmasters has spent over 25 years helping producers start tracks. Now it wants to help finish the story, which they talked about in detail in a recent blog post. The company has announced Loopmaster Records, a new label built to champion music coming directly from its community…

Red Axes (@redaxesofficial) have always sounded like a project built from records that were found, lived with, bent out of shape, and then sent back into the room with a new pulse. Dori Sadovnik and Niv Arzi started together in the post-punk and new wave world before reshaping th…

Pete Tong signing a record from Jordanian producers FairPlay (@__fairplay) and Roo (JO) (@roo.music) to Places & Spaces already gives “Al Jaw” an interesting position, especially after Tong opened his IMS Ibiza set at Dalt Vila with it and later played it again at Blue Marlin. Su…

Each summer, the island of Ibiza transforms from a restful island in the summer into the epicenter of the electronic music community. For more or less five months every year, the island is less a holiday destination than it is a high-performance, flawlessly constructed performanc…

The idea behind Beam Splitter V2 is simple in the best way: make one guitar feel like it was tracked several times. Old Blood Noise Endeavors built the pedal around the sound of a guitar recorded in multiple passes, where each take has a slightly different drive character, timing…

End-of-summer party gear usually gets framed around sound. That makes sense to a point. A loudspeaker can carry a tailgate, rooftop hang, backyard party, college move-in weekend, or pre-game. But the thing people remember once the playlist is already handled is often the room its…

Matt Fax (@mattfaxmusic) returns to Colorize with Innerframes, a four-track EP out August 5 that pulls together the darker, more futuristic side of his progressive sound without losing the melody and emotional detail that have followed him through the last decade of releases. Ope…

ModeAudio has built its name on royalty-free sounds that feel a little more considered than the average download folder. The company’s catalog now covers more than 400 collections, ranging from ambient textures, loops, one-shots, MIDI files, field recordings, and synth presets to…