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• Portola 2026 Lineup Centers Rare Festival Appearances

  18-09-2026 23:11 via magneticmag.com
  
  Robyn, DOG BLOOD, Swedish House Mafia, Zara Larsson, Tiësto, Four Tet, Tove Lo and Soulwax lead the fifth Portola Music Festival at San Francisco’s Pier 80.Portola Music Festival returns to Pier 80 on Saturday, September 26 and Sunday, September 27, 2026, and its fifth lineup appears built around bookings that will be difficult to see elsewhere this year. Goldenvoice has combined major dance and pop names with several reunions, limited festival appearances and special-format performan
  
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• MAXIMILIAN Keeps House Music on Wax

  18-09-2026 21:21 via magneticmag.com
  
  MAXIMILIAN’s Mikrokosmos EP. 8 is the kind of release that immediately tells you what it cares about.
  Two tracks, vinyl only, 180g pressing, 45 RPM, no sample packs, no digital shortcuts, and an entire production method built around hardware. In a time when most house records are released into the same endless digital pile, that kind of limitation gives the EP its identity before the needle even drops.EVIDEON Studio Records · MAXIMILIAN – Mikrokosmos EP. 8Out September 18, 202
  
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• How It Was Made: Pedro Matias & Leonardo Britto – Skyfall EP (Where the Shadow Ends + Organic/Progressive House)

  18-09-2026 20:07 via magneticmag.com
  
  Pedro Matias (@pedro.matiasss) has built his catalog across deep, progressive, organic, and melodic house, and his work with Leonardo Britto on the Skyfall EP puts the focus on two records deliberately created from the same musical foundation.
  “Skyrise” and “Skyfall” share many of their underlying production ideas, but the pair use that common starting point to explore opposite directions, with one centered on ascent and the other on descent.That relationship becomes much
  
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• How Greggio Keeps The Groove Feeling Human On Diynamic

  18-09-2026 19:55 via magneticmag.com
  
  Greggio’s (@_greggio) discussion in the interview we’re about to dive into get at one of the stranger traps in modern production, because almost every tool we use now makes it easier to fix the life out of a record.
  The grid gets tighter, the transient gets cleaner, the mix gets wider, the arrangement gets neater, and at some point the thing that made the first loop worth chasing has been ironed into something technically better and emotionally smaller.That makes “Bvgari”
  
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• Myselor Makes Cosmic Expression Feel Complete

  18-09-2026 17:24 via magneticmag.com
  
  Myselor’s Cosmic Expression arrives with a scale that feels rare in modern electronic music. Twenty tracks, four prior samplers, nine previously unheard cuts, and an album concept built around transformation, identity, perception, freedom, and self-awareness. That is a lot to hold together, especially in Drum & Bass-adjacent music, where releases often get treated as DJ ammunition first and long-form listening second.The full LP lands September 18, 2026 via Evolution Chamber, completin
  
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• ISMOS Turns Minimalism Into Perception on Abstract Vol. 1

  18-09-2026 17:16 via magneticmag.com
  
  ISMOS’ Abstract Vol. 1 is built around a concept that could easily feel too heavy for a club compilation: your inner world creates your reality. The interesting part is that the label does not try to over-explain that idea and instead it lets ten artists interpret it through minimal and tech house, then lets the listener do the final translation.That is the right move for music this restrained. Minimalism works best when it leaves room for the listener to complete the emotional picture. A
  
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• Ciclo Brings Medellín Groove Back To Hottrax

  18-09-2026 17:13 via magneticmag.com
  
  A lot of dance music talks about instinct, but Ciclo’s (@ciclo_music) No Ma Mood EP makes that idea feel more practical than romantic. The Colombian producer is returning to Hottrax for a third release on Jamie Jones’ label, and the title reads like a small refusal: no more making tracks just to stay in motion, no more following formulas because they work, no more sanding down the parts of a record that make it feel like his.That is a better angle than simply saying the EP is club-fo
  
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