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• Sondela Talks A&R, Recoupment, And Building Afro-Electronic Artists

  21-08-2026 23:47 via magneticmag.com
  
  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 newcomer Ayden J on a peak-time Afro Tech record built around hypnotic percussion, rolling grooves, and dancefloor pressure.The launch gives Sondela a more direct underground outlet beside the broader cultural and m
  
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• How It Was Made: David Penn & House Of Molly – Talk To Me (Cr2 Records + House)

  21-08-2026 21:48 via magneticmag.com
  
  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 get ideas into the DAW without spending unnecessary time setting up complicated chains.Released alongside UK producer-vocalist duo House Of Molly, “Talk To Me” lands today on Cr2 Records on August 2
  
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• RAD Distribution Takes BABICZ FCH Global

  21-08-2026 21:28 via magneticmag.com
  
  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 another pedal, amp sim, or flashy piece of studio gear. It is about the parts of the instrument that decide how the string speaks, how the note holds, how the tuning behaves, and how the guitar or bass feels under the ha
  
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• Profetik Talks “Tetra,” Seraph Records, And Bass Design

  21-08-2026 20:40 via magneticmag.com
  
  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 into sound design by building the bass from four layered voices: a lion growl, an eagle screech, an ox grunt, and a human voice. Four faces, one motion.That kind of detail explains the larger Prof
  
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• Toddy Tang Turns “April Apocalypse” Into a Personal Collapse

  21-08-2026 18:46 via magneticmag.com
  
  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 another song about missing someone. It is about losing the person, sure, but also losing the imagined life attached to them. The plans. The private little timeline. The version of happiness you were already st
  
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• John Miller Keeps “When I Sleep” in a Late-Night Lane

  21-08-2026 18:21 via magneticmag.com
  
  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, tech house, techno, and more melodic electronic spaces, and this single sits in the overlap where the club energy is still there, but the emotional center comes from the vocals and atmosphere. It feels shap
  
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