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• Rayne Talks “Techno Games” And Denver’s Underground

  14-09-2026 23:51 via magneticmag.com
  
  Rayne’s “Techno Games” comes from an artist who spent years learning the floor before turning fully toward production. Born in New Jersey, shaped by New York nightlife, and now based in Denver, Rayne brings a long club history into his current run of dark, peak-time techno releases. The record’s aim is clear: make something DJs can use when the room is already hot and needs the next push.That working-DJ mindset runs through his story.
  Before the recent Beatport charting r
  
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• Zamna Tulum 2027 Dates and Multipass Details

  14-09-2026 23:49 via magneticmag.com
  
  The ten-day anniversary season returns to Tulum from December 31, 2026 to January 10, 2027, with a three-event Multipass available now.Zamna Tulum has announced its tenth-anniversary season without naming a single artist, which initially feels like a strange way to introduce one of its largest events to date.Look a little closer, though, and that decision says plenty about what Zamna has become since its first gathering in the Mexican Caribbean in 2017. The brand is asking people to commit to Tu
  
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• How It Was Made: Nikita von Tiraspol & U-T – Maison Amper (Nikita’s Version) (Kontrapunkt + Deep House / Dub Techno)

  14-09-2026 23:15 via magneticmag.com
  
  U-T and Nikita von Tiraspol’s (@nikitavontiraspol) Nights In Tokyo EP started with a late-night studio meeting at Maison Amper in Tokyo, then split that original idea into three different interpretations. U-T takes the more rhythmic, energetic route, Ko Umehara moves toward minimal territory, and Nikita’s version pulls the record into dub techno, complete with a trumpet part he recorded himself.Released August 25 on Kontrapunkt, “Maison Amper (Nikita’s Version)” is
  
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• Kamil Nowak And Jakub Pietras Explain the Sound And Score Behind Bellwright

  14-09-2026 23:05 via magneticmag.com
  
  Medieval game audio can go wrong fast. Add a lute, throw birds into the trees, put a few wooden impacts under the UI, and the world may sound old enough on paper while still feeling like a set dressed for the player. Bellwright needed something more patient than that, because its world is not only there to be looked at. It has to be lived in for hours at a time.That is the part Kamil Nowak had to solve as Donkey Crew’s one-person audio department.
  He was not only making sounds and dropping
  
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• Chosen Masters Is Seeking a New Owner

  14-09-2026 22:50 via magneticmag.com
  
  Founder Elon Sharar is inviting acquisition discussions around an established browser-based music platform, its audience, and its technology.Chosen Masters founder Elon Sharar is seeking a buyer for the music-technology company he has spent close to ten years developing, with a proposed acquisition that could cover the software, intellectual property, source code, brand, domain, user accounts, search presence, and associated social channels.The company began as an online mastering service, then
  
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• How It Was Made: MARNIK – Synthetic Heart feat. Crooked Bangs (ARENA Records + Tech-Trance)

  14-09-2026 22:43 via magneticmag.com
  
  MARNIK (@marnikofficial) have spent the last decade operating at the festival end of electronic music, but the duo’s current phase is moving further into hard dance, techno and neo-rave without abandoning the scale that built their audience in the first place.
  That evolution now has a home in ARENA Records, their new label and live concept, which gives Alex and Lele a more defined space to develop the harder side of the project while connecting the studio work directly to what happens onst
  
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• Thechi Finds His Sound Between Memory And Movement

  14-09-2026 22:12 via magneticmag.com
  
  Thechi’s Echo State EP starts from a place a lot of producers know but do not always admit: coming back to music after a pause and realizing the old instinct to keep adding more is not always the answer. The London-based artist, born Arjun Yohannan, grew up in Kerala, India, where his first relationship with electronic music was not built through club records alone. It came through video games, Indian film music, hill-station gatherings, grassroots parties, classical training, and a slow c
  
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• George Voukanos Returns To Olympia Without Repeating It

  14-09-2026 22:05 via magneticmag.com
  
  There is an easy version of a project like TERRA OLYMPIA, and George Voukanos seems aware of it from the start. A Greek composer returns to Ancient Olympia, writes music tied to memory and heritage, invokes mythology, light, landscape, and the Olympic idea, then lets the ancient world carry the emotional burden for him.
  And while that alone has a real story behind it, it would also miss the most interesting part of what he is doing.Voukanos is not treating TERRA OLYMPIA as a historical reconstru
  
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• KONEKT Blends Bass-House Bounce and Romance on “WORTH”

  14-09-2026 21:11 via magneticmag.com
  
  KONEKT’s “WORTH” sits in a lane that more producers are starting to explore: club music with a little romance under the surface. The track blends bass house, slap house, and R&B influence, giving it enough bounce for a dancefloor setting while keeping the mood lighter, warmer, and more emotionally open than a purely drop-focused record.That combination is the main selling point.
  A lot of bass-heavy dance music leans on impact first, then tries to add personality afterward.
  
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• DJ Anguelov Wants the Club Off-Screen

  14-09-2026 21:09 via magneticmag.com
  
  DJ Anguelov’s “No Phone In” starts from an idea that feels obvious until you get into a club and see half the room filming the drop instead of feeling it. The track was made with a lot of energy after the Palma retreat with Suru, where Anguelov spent time around a creative circle that included Dan Duncan, Wehbba, Timo Maas, and Chris Spero. That setting gives the release a little more context, because this does not feel like a track built only around a hook or title. It feels l
  
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