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• BARELY ALIVE Takes Killed It! Records on the Road With ‘RECONNECT’ Tour

  25-08-2026 23:33 via magneticmag.com
  
  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 Calgary, Las Vegas, Detroit, Toronto, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Jacksonville, Orlando, Albuquerque, Salt Lake City, Boston, and Minneapolis. Additional dates are still expected to be announced.Killed It! Moves Fr
  
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• Osterhouse Sounds Note Sampler Turns MIDI Ideas Into a Playable Keyboard Sketchpad

  25-08-2026 22:37 via magneticmag.com
  
  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 standard MIDI utility and more like a sketchpad for people who think best at the keyboard. Hold the record key, play something, let go, and the last key you played becomes the armed key for that clip. From there, the cli
  
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• Sample Focus Founder Daniel Trostli On Building A Better Sample Library

  25-08-2026 21:55 via magneticmag.com
  
  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 because a folder full of “Kicks,” “Synth Melodies,” and half-remembered files forces the producer to become a librarian instead of a musician.That origin still explains the company’s identity
  
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• How It Was Made: Richard Seeley – Do You Want Acid? (Glue Music + House)

  25-08-2026 21:46 via magneticmag.com
  
  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 You Want Acid?”, where the influence of late-’90s rave and house comes into the production without Seeley attempting to recreate a record from that period. The four-track EP also includes &
  
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• Donner VIVA Makes Guitar Feel Less Like Homework

  25-08-2026 21:36 via magneticmag.com
  
  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 Donner is trying to address with VIVA, a stringless guitar built to let someone pick up an instrument and play a full song almost immediately.The idea is not subtle. VIVA removes the steel strings and replaces them with a s
  
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• Two Deep Keep It Direct on “Just Like That”

  25-08-2026 21:24 via magneticmag.com
  
  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 does not feel like it only works in that setting. There is enough polish and bounce here to make it feel easy to throw on outside a set, which is usually where the better tech house records separate themselves
  
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