Image Cred: youcancallmeo_ Rebirth Records is marking 20 years with Rebirth 20 Part Two, out August 7, and the second chapter of the anniversary project digs deeper into the label’s roots, community, and creative DNA. The release brings together long-running Rebirth artists, hidd…

photos by Cosmo Rush (cosmorush_) Rebirth Records is marking 20 years with Rebirth 20 Part Two, out now as of August 7, and this second chapter looks deeper into the label’s roots, community, and creative DNA. The release brings together long-standing Rebirth artists, hidden cata…

Rebirth Records is marking 20 years with Rebirth 20 Part Two, out August 7, and this second chapter looks past the most obvious anniversary names to focus on the label’s deeper relationships, hidden catalog pieces, and long-running creative community. The release features contrib…

Federico Baracco‘s (@federico.baracco) Tribute” appears on Rebirth 20 Part Two, out now as of August 7, as part of the label’s 20-year anniversary project. The compilation looks deeper into the Rebirth Records catalog and community, bringing together long-standing label artists,…

A lot of electronic music treats escape like the whole point. fig’s “The Unknown” works a little differently. The Nashville producer wrote the track during a stretch of life when he was trying to find a place to live, and the uncertainty around that period naturally found its way…

The TR-808 is one of those rare instruments that stopped belonging to the company that made it almost as soon as artists got their hands on it. Roland released the TR-808 Rhythm Composer in 1980, and the machine’s strange version of realism became its superpower. The kick did not…

Miami’s biggest Halloween celebration is officially taking shape. Factory Town and Insomniac have unveiled the complete lineup for Hocus Pocus 2026: , returning to Hialeah’s sprawling nightlife complex from Friday, October 30, through Sunday, November 1. Now entering its sixth ed…

July was a hot one, and I don’t just mean the temperature! It’s time again to listen to 15 of the best Disco & Funk tracks of the month, so whether you are a fan of Disco, Funk, Nu-Disco, Disco House, Yacht Disco, or anything in between, there should be something new for you to […

All images are courtesy of Foreign Rider Clothing The best clothing for nightlife rarely starts at the club. It starts earlier. In the studio. In the airport. In the hotel lobby. At soundcheck. In the back of a rideshare. Outside the venue at 1:30 a.m. when the night has already…

Festival-ready bass music often gets described as if it came from nowhere. Big low end, distorted synths, a vocal element, a track title, a release date, and suddenly the record is treated like it was made only for the speaker system. DeHusslar, who this article was made in partn…

Christian Hornbostel 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 is not trying to force its way into attention with a cheap trick or a giant reset eve…

Lorna James’s The Right To Be Forgotten lands with an unusual amount of backstory for a dance album. James is a classically trained pianist and composer, a former human rights barrister, a BBC Introducing-supported artist, a FreshSoundz Radio resident, and now an electronic produ…

Vancoo’s “I Can Feel It” lands on Where The Heart Is with the kind of patient emotional pull that fits the label well. The Moscow-based producer and DJ has been working across Organic House and Downtempo for years, with releases on The Purr, Kosa, Journey Of The Soul, HOROSHO., T…

Mastering The Mix has released MIXVAULT, a new EQ plugin built around a simple idea that solves a very real mixing problem: most EQ decisions are harder to trust when level changes start fooling your ear. MIXVAULT is described by Mastering The Mix as a “fast, smart, honest EQ,” a…

Monkey Safari’s “Future” feels like the track in an album rollout where the lights change. After the emotional pull of “Otherside” and the more direct floor pressure of “Okonokwa,” the German duo’s third single from You Don’t Know What To Do turns toward old-school French house,…

Tech house continues to evolve at a remarkable pace, with established names sharing space alongside a new generation of producers reshaping the genre from the ground up. This month’s selection reflects that balance, bringing together heavyweight club records, fresh collaborations…

Yazan Sarayrah’s IRTH-TRONIC is more than an album built around microtonal melodic techno. Beneath its intricate production lies a collection of stories that have travelled across generations through poetry, oral tradition and folk song. Drawing on Bedouin and wider Arab cultural…

MALUM shares a powerful new project from some of Norway’s best new creative producers The remix EP as a format has a complicated reputation. At its worst it’s a contractual obligation, a collection of half-interested reinterpretations dropped into the world with minimal fanfare a…

For years, brostep thrived on internet communities, festival stages, and a constant influx of young producers pushing the genre into unexpected territory. Now, BARELY ALIVE are attempting to give that creative ecosystem a permanent home with Killed It! Vol. 1, the debut multi-art…

Desert Hearts (@deserthearts) are returning to the smaller, more close-knit version of the world they built with Microfest, a new intimate gathering taking place October 1–5 at Deloro Valley in Northern California. The lineup brings together DJ Minx, Stacey Pullen, Danny Daze, Do…

BARELY ALIVE’s (@barelyalive) new Killed It! label (@killeditrecs) gets its first full-community statement with Killed It! Vol. 1, an 18-track compilation out August 7. The project brings together brostep veterans, established names, rising artists, and underground producers, wit…

R3HAB has already lived the version of the DJ dream most producers spend years chasing. The festival stages. The global collaborations. The streaming numbers. The remixes for major artists. The DJ Mag Top 100 presence. The certificates. The kind of career where the early ambition…

Above Image Cred: Elliot Mandel A lot of ambient albums are built for atmosphere first. Tim Corpus’ Place of Rest is more specific than that. The independent composer and sound artist is releasing a 90-minute concept album designed to help listeners move from waking anxiety into…

Amsterdam Dance Event is built on overload. There are showcases, panels, backroom deals, club nights, brand activations, artist meetups, after-hours runs, and more reasons to stay out too late than any one person can handle. Inside that sprawl, the events with a real reason behin…

Jats (@jats_ofc) makes his Stereo Productions debut with “Power,” a new single arriving August 6 on Chus & Ceballos’ long-running imprint. The release places the French producer inside a label orbit that has helped shape percussive, groove-led house for decades, and it gives him…

Music tech accessibility often gets discussed too late. A product is built, shipped, praised for its features, then someone eventually asks whether blind or visually impaired musicians can actually learn the thing without someone else sitting beside them. That timing is the probl…

The promise of spatial audio is easy to understand until the delivery list gets involved. A music mix may need stereo. A broadcast job may need surround. A film or post job may need ADM or Dolby Atmos. A live recording may need several versions for different playback systems. The…

Some tracks take their time making the point. “Goin’ Down” does not… in fact, it does the complete opposite. Dizzlephunk’s new single comes in with the kind of low-end pressure that immediately tells you it was built for a large system, a packed room, and a crowd that wants somet…

Electronic music conferences can get vague fast. Put enough panels, mixers, software demos, brand activations, and industry language in the same hotel and the whole thing can blur into one long networking day. Beatport Connect LA is returning for its second year with a cleaner re…

This article was written by guest contributor Candese Charles Beloved Australian electronic music producer and DJ, What So Not, has entered a new artistic chapter. Dropping his new project “I SAW A TRAP DJ, AND IT CHANGED MY BIO CHEMISTRY” this spring, the electronic music phenom…

A DJ trade show is a different test than a launch video. The product can look polished online, the spec sheet can read well, and the demo can hit all the right lines. Then it lands in front of working DJs, mobile crews, club regulars, wedding selectors, bar residents, educators,…

A safe remix keeps the vocal, adds a bigger drum section, pushes the drop a little harder, and calls the job done. Sunset Shades took the harder route with his official remix of Jasper Tygner’s “Hold You.” The original already had its own emotional lift, built around Tygner’s syn…

Studio monitors used to be sold around one question: how do they sound? That question still matters, obviously, but the room around the speaker has become just as important. Producers are mixing in spare bedrooms, small studios, treated garages, writing rooms, post rooms, Atmos s…

Festival and club footwear has a way of exposing bad decisions fast. A shoe can look good in the mirror and still fall apart once the night turns into a mile-long walk to the gate, a hot floor, a rideshare wait, and a late food stop afterward. Summer makes the problem worse becau…

Electronic music has always had a close relationship with invisible forces. Voltage. Signal. Feedback. Interference. Magnetic pull. The hum that leaks out of machines before anyone decides whether it is a problem or a texture. Eternal Research has built an entire instrument aroun…

Nightlife fashion moves fast on the surface. One weekend it is oversized pants, washed tees, racing jackets, battered sneakers, and tiny sunglasses. The next weekend it is something else pulled from an archive, a thrift rack, a merch table, or some micro-trend that got copied too…

Festival weekends and DJ travel always look cleaner in recap posts than they feel in real life. The bag is usually the thing dealing with the worst of it: dust, rain, airport floors, rideshare trunks, green rooms, cable spills, hotel room chaos, security lines, and the constant s…

Most MIDI controllers still ask the same basic thing from the producer: bring the idea first, then use the hardware to enter it. Fender Motion is built around a different pressure point. It is still a controller, with pads, encoders, touch strips, transport control, DAW navigatio…

Paco Wegmann (@pacowegmannofficial) and Jungle Jack link with Brazilian vocalist Rincon Sapiencia on “Mais Forte,” which landed on July 24, 2026, via Loco Dice’s SB Recordings. The track has been floating around as one of those unreleased records that DJs notice before the releas…

Most producer opportunities sound good until the fine print shows up. This one is direct enough to pay attention to. El Tony Mate is bringing back its Producer Academy in Ibiza for a second edition, with Beatport supporting the project and eight emerging electronic music producer…

SEGA’s July 2026 Checkpoint has a lot packed into it, but the most time-sensitive piece is easy to spot: Crazy Taxi: World Tour is opening up a Multiplayer Closed Network Test. The test runs from September 11 at 5:00 PM PT to September 13 at 5:00 PM PT, with sign-ups closing Augu…

JUNØID’s “Xenon” is not being introduced like a normal debut single. Most new projects want recognition right away. Name, face, backstory, credits, proof. JUNØID moves in the opposite direction. The artist is described as an award-winning singer-songwriter and producer with more…

Christian Hornbostel 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 is not trying to force its way into attention with a cheap trick or a giant reset eve…

Cale Anderson’s (@caleanderson_) Yemaya (We All Come from the Goddess) is a strange, hypnotic, and devotional folktronica album from the Victoria, Australia-based singer-songwriter and producer. Built largely on the Maschine MK3, with guitar, vocals recorded on a Rode NT-1, and a…

Chilsta steps further into the depths of creative exploration with ‘Back:’ the latest single to enter his discography and offer listeners a new glimpse into his sonic world. Grounded in rhythmic expression, the track speaks to the influences and explorations that have shaped Chil…

Teaming up, Kashovski and Moojo drop their first collaboration, ‘Show Me,’ on Moojo’s own Calamar Records. From long-standing friends to creative partners, the two Producers come together to distil their individual sounds into this grooving, vibrant House release, offering a sing…

Building a career in music comes with a long list of questions. How do you promote a new release, improve a small home studio, develop your identity as a DJ, and prepare for paid performances in the United States? Finding detailed answers normally means buying separate books, cou…

The enigmatic and talented artist talks us through his background and musical approach London and Zürich-based artist Lucas F. Jordan is a flutist, composer, and producer whose work bridges diverse worlds, but he’s far more than that in many, many ways. Raised across Brazil, the…

The easy version of this story is that Dangerous Music has turned the BAX EQ into a plugin. That undersells the actual tension. Plenty of hardware brands have moved classic studio boxes into software. Sometimes it works. Sometimes the plugin becomes a convenient approximation wit…

PRAANA (@praanamusic) return with Insight Out, their second studio album, out now on Colorize. The 16-track project follows 2023’s Supernal Dawn and pushes Chad Cisneros and Dave Reed further into the reflective, melodic side of progressive house, where glowing synth work, hypnot…

KDDO has spent more than a decade doing the kind of work that changes pop music from behind the glass. That is the strange thing about producers at this level. Their fingerprints can be everywhere, while their names still sit one layer behind the artist, the vocal, the hook, and…

Most summer gear sales blur together fast. Same discount language, same countdown energy, same vague push to grab something before the season ends. Collision Devices’ latest sale has a little more bite because the scarcity is specific. The company is running 15% to 25% off its sh…

Best granular plugins for electronic music are worth covering on their own because granular processing solves a specific kind of production problem. Sometimes I do not need another reverb, another delay, or another synth preset. I need one sound to break apart, smear, freeze, rep…

Flowers on Monday (@flowers_on_monday) return alongside Rowee and Amega on “Lost in Space,” out now via Where The Shadow Ends. The release includes an extended mix from Rowee, Amega, and Flowers on Monday, plus a Madraas remix, with both versions sitting in the organic house lane…

Physical modeling has always had a slightly strange promise inside music production. On paper, it sounds like the most natural thing in the room. Instead of triggering samples, the synth models the behavior of strings, tubes, membranes, plates, bells, drumheads, and other resonan…

When you are trying to hunt down the best plugins for reference tracks, mix checking is a bit trickier than a generic mastering plugin roundup. So with this idea in mind for this article, the goal here is not to make a track loud for its own sake, since the real goal is to make […

The easy way to sell a track like “Carrera GT” is to talk about the guitars first. The fuzz, the dirt, the rock and roll posture, the whole late-night highway thing. That is all there, and it is clearly part of the draw. The better read is that G L’e P and New York Acid [...] Rea…

Cloonee and Prospa have reunited for “Good Girl,” a new single featuring Tristan Henry and the first track from Cloonee’s forthcoming debut album. Out now via Good Music For Bad People / Hellbent Records, the release arrives with a lot of pressure behind it, because their last co…

SOSA has released “Italian Job” via Metamorfosi Records, marking his first appearance on Joseph Capriati’s label and arriving in the middle of a very active stretch for the Liverpool artist. The timing gives the record a clear place to land: “The Connection” is still moving towar…

The OneOdio Studio Max 2 looks to find an audience among wireless DJ consumers at a price point that is feasible but with quality that raises an eyebrow. Wireless DJ headphones have spent years living in the same category as artificial reality; everyone kind of likes the idea, bu…