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…

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…