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…

Massi Rocket and Alfrenk link up on “Tribal Vibes,” a tech house record built from rolling percussion, vocal detail, and a bassline that keeps the track moving without overloading the arrangement. Massi Rocket brings years of experience from Milan’s club circuit, where he runs Ro…

Future3’s Despite the Rumbling starts from a fairly honest place: the world is loud, unstable, and hard to tune out, but people can still meet in a room and make something together. That idea sits under the whole record. It is not an escape album exactly, though it is not buried…

When I first tried on the SPY+ Bowery sunglasses, the lyric from the Geto Boys, “Damn it feels good to be a gangster,” kept running through my mind. The new SPY+ Bowery sunglasses sit somewhere between high fashion and street style with a lot of attitude that comes along for the…

beyerdynamic has introduced the DT 275 PRO, a compact monitoring headphone designed for people who have to make audio decisions in loud spaces. That includes FOH engineers, DJs, field recordists, content creators, on-location video teams, and anyone editing or checking audio away…

Performance eyewear often gets flattened into a style conversation, especially when the brand has as much heritage as Vuarnet. The frames look sharp, the French mountain history is easy to romanticize, and the whole thing can get treated like another luxury outdoor accessory. Rac…

Chus & Ceballos (@chusceballos) return with “Somos Uno,” the first original release from their new chapter together after reuniting at the start of 2026. The track follows their Reunion Tour, which has already taken the Spanish duo across more than 50 cities, including Montreal,…

Artists usually start looking for management when the workload around the music begins to pile up, but JC’s (pictured above) view is that management becomes most effective once the project has already started moving. As founder and CEO of Orphiq, he works at the intersection of a…

Mack Loenz’s (@mackloenz) debut album From The Heart marks another milestone in the evolution of an artist many listeners already know as electro veteran Exzakt. Released on Maceo Plex’s Lone Romantic imprint, the ten-track album expands his long-established sound with melodic vo…

Dave Alcock (@dave.arcade) has spent more than two decades working in the live side of the music business, with a path that started before most people would even know where to look for a first opportunity. He began as a teenager cold-calling a PR agency in Hanover Square at 16, l…

The easiest version of the Artist Growth announcement is that AI can now make itineraries faster. That is true, and it is also the least interesting part. The better story is that Artist Growth is trying to solve the problem the music industry should already be worried about: wha…

Breaking Beattz (@bbeattz) makes his Dirtybird debut with Booty Bang, a two-track EP that continues the label’s Flight Week Brazil release series. Out now via Dirtybird, the project follows earlier Flight Week Brazil releases from BadComppany and Sudden Heat & Pitros, carrying fo…

Kayla Ramos’ “Serendipity” is the kind of pop song that could have gone soft in the wrong hands. The premise is familiar: someone enters your life at the exact right time, and the timing feels too strange to brush off as chance. That idea has been written a thousand ways, and it…

Producer education is crowded with tutorials that promise faster results, cleaner templates, and repeatable steps. Flying Lotus is taking a different angle with his new School of Song workshop: process first, finished track second. That is the tension that makes this one interest…

Synth history usually gets told through the instruments first. The Minimoog. The theremins. The modular systems. The pedals. The finished objects are easier to photograph, easier to mythologize, and easier to place inside the story of electronic music. This donation tells a diffe…

The best free boom bap sample packs give producers access to dusty drum hits, chopped melodic phrases, vinyl noise, bass parts, and sampler-ready loops without adding another expense to the session. Boom bap production relies heavily on source selection and timing, so the right k…

Electronic dab rigs have made concentrates easier to use by removing the torch and giving users direct control over temperature, session length, and vapor output. I have reviewed compact e-rigs, modular vaporizers, desktop concentrate systems, and water-filtered smoking devices f…

Photos Courtesy Of Buso Audio The smartest studio desk updates are usually the least glamorous ones. Nobody buys a workstation because the cable routing sounds sexy. Nobody wants to spend thousands of dollars thinking about tray flex, joint tolerance, rack angle, or whether a wei…

Jay Divad’s first solo mixtape, with whom this article is made in partnership, is built around reflection, heartache, and the kind of personal history he says he usually avoids talking about directly. The project took close to three years to finish, and that timeline shows up in…

AI music software has spent the past few years dealing with an identity problem. Most of the public conversation has focused on text prompts generating complete songs, usually followed by arguments about copyright, authorship, training data, and whether the person entering the pr…

If you are trying to learn how to promote music on Instagram, the answer usually has very little to do with posting your cover artwork every few days and reminding people that your new single is out. Most artists already do that, and most listeners scroll past because they have s…

Blanke (@blankemusic) returns with PART III – AWAKENING, the third installment in the EP cycle leading toward his debut album. The two-track release, out July 10, 2026, follows PART II – SKYFIRE and moves the album’s larger story from collapse toward renewal. Across “Sunrise” fea…

Aaron Suiss returns to Magnetic Magazine Recordings alongside Enzo Vood for “Self-Actualization,” released today on July 24, 2026. The new single is the label’s 65th signing and follows Aaron’s March release, “Relayered.” The collaboration sits firmly within progressive house at…

MoBlack has linked with Bedouin and Feki Station for a new rework of Salif Keita’s “Mandjou,” out July 24 via Decca Records France. The release follows MoBlack’s official remix of Keita’s “Yamore,” which became one of the more visible examples of how classic African vocal recordi…

Jakob Mäder’s (@jakobmaeder) About The Vibe EP lands as a return to the deep house language that first pulled him in around 2010, when records from artists like Moomin, Lawrence, and Iron Curtis helped shape his ear. The Stuttgart-based DJ, producer, and live performer moves acro…

Quite Lucky enters a new chapter with the launch of Quite Lucky Records, a Romanian drum & bass label built around cross-border collaboration, community, and the soulful side of the genre. The announcement lands alongside ECHOES – Chapter II: Cobor, the collective’s second writin…

Above Image Cred: Phoenix Johnson The Martinez Brothers have released “Impressions,” a new single that takes their dancefloor instincts and points them toward the feeling of a first encounter. Out now via EMPIRE, the track is built around the rush of meeting someone, the strange…

Most producers do not need another preset pack, another reference track, or another tutorial when a session starts feeling crowded. They need a cleaner decision state. If you’re looking for a plain and simple way to think about it, silence and creativity connect because silence g…

DMC is bringing its 41st edition back to London, and the first step is a free afternoon party in Camden. The official DMC41 launch party happens Sunday, August 16, 2026, at the Amphitheatre in Stables Market, Camden Market, from 3 PM to 7 PM. There is no ticket, no registration,…

Collision Devices is closing the book on Nocturnal. The ambient pedal first appeared in 2022 as a tiny 25-unit run, then slowly found its way onto around a thousand pedalboards around the globe. Now the company is calling time on it, with 50 final units built and a price drop fro…

Profetik drops his newest single, ‘Feels Like Home’ featuring RO via his own newly established record label, Seraph Records. A balanced blend of Melodic Techno and Melodic House, combining clear, emotional vocals with atmospheric melodies and a steady electronic groove, the track…

For GHENGAR, chaos and catharsis have increasingly become two sides of the same experience. His new single “DEMONS” brings that philosophy into focus through a volatile combination of dubstep, tearout, heavy metal, and live scream-sung vocals. Built with the moshpit in mind, this…

Dani Koala founded Dskonnect Booking Agency in 2003, starting with a local focus before building a wider network of promoters and artists across Spain. In the early years of the electronic music scene’s growth, Dskonnect became known for working with transparency at a time when c…

(photo credit above: Infamous PR/ Electric Forest) This is an article by contributing writer Candese Charles Few festivals have managed to evolve without losing the identity that made them iconic. Electric Forest is the best stroke of genius to help ignite the flames of sorcery t…