• “No More” Brings Ivye Into Rosica and Maas’s Collaboration

    Enrico Rosica told me that “No More” began as a song with a different tone, then changed after a conversation with Ivye and the arrival of her vocal. That detail stayed with me because it says something specific about the collaboration: the singer helped shape where the record went.
    Today, September 25, Rosica and Timo Maas release “No More” featuring Ivye on Magnetic Magazine Recordings, with a Vocal Mix and an Enrico Rosica Dub Mix available now. It is the label’s
  • Nick Warren On Why DJs Should Stop Doing Everything Alone

    Nick Warren On Why DJs Should Stop Doing Everything Alone
    Nick Warren (@djnickwarren) has been around long enough to know that careers are rarely built by music alone.
    Records matter, taste matters, and a DJ still has to be able to stand in front of a room and make the hours feel like they belong together. But behind that public version of a career are the people who keep it moving when the record is finished, the flight is booked, the party needs building, the label needs attention, and life outside the booth refuses to stay separate from the work.War
  • Alice Youngling Explains How House History Shapes Her Sound

    Alice Youngling (@aliceyoungling) returns to Non Merci Music with “May I Please,” out September 25.
    The Swiss-born, Barcelona-based DJ and producer has been building a name through groove-heavy tech house, a residency at Tunnel, appearances alongside Eats Everything, Dennis Ferrer, and Route 94, and festival plays at Marvellous Island and Shambala. Her sound leans bold and rhythmic, but the deeper thread is a clear respect for where house music comes from.“May I Please” c
  • The Indiigo Child On No Phones, Word Of Mouth, And Memories

    The Indiigo Child On No Phones, Word Of Mouth, And Memories
    The Indiigo Child’s (@theindiigochild) Memories EP arrives on Waveform Entertainment as a two-track release about the tension between honoring the past and staying present enough to feel the life directly in front of you.
    Daniel Knott, the San Francisco-based artist behind the project, builds from r&b, soul, and warm house grooves, using cinematic synths, deep rhythm, and soulful textures to frame memory as something active rather than purely nostalgic.That idea comes from the last two
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  • SAM SHI Makes The Slow Part Sacred

    SAM SHI Makes The Slow Part Sacred
    SAM SHI’s (@samshi.music) “Comfort Zone” lands at a strange point in the technology conversation because the song is not really about production software at all. It is about the places people hide. Relationships, jobs, achievement loops, external validation, the neat-looking life that can keep a person from sitting still long enough to hear what they actually want.
    That makes her answers about AI and artist workflows feel less theoretical than usual, because she keeps bringing
  • Jemma Bolt and LoopDeeLoop Hit Urbana

    Jemma Bolt and LoopDeeLoop Hit Urbana
    Jemma Bolt and LoopDeeLoop’s “Love Drug” lands on Urbana Recordings with a club-first attitude that doesn’t need much over-explaining. The track is out September 25 on David Penn’s label, and it arrives with a useful early stamp of approval: Carl Cox has already been playing it regularly in his house sets from a test pressing.The vocal gives the record its personality, but the drums do the heavy lifting. There is a looseness to the swing that keeps it from feeling t
  • SUAHN Builds a Distorted Album From Fear

    SUAHN’s new album does not treat distortion like decoration and if you’re expecting just a touch or warmth or a dash of grit, you’re going to be caught severly flat footed. So buckle up, cause this album has some teeth on it.Because distortion feels baked into the record’s emotional language, sitting somewhere between industrial pressure, bass music, acid, jungle, and techno without needing to explain itself every few minutes. Michael York has spent years refining that vo
  • Medicine Keeps “Just Walk Away” Vocal-First

    Medicine’s “Just Walk Away” works because it knows what needs to stay in the center. The track lands September 25 on Make Your Era, and while it has the rolling drum pressure and low-end movement expected from contemporary Drum & Bass, the vocal is the thing that gives it shape. Everything else moves around it.That is a smart choice for this kind of record.
    Liquid and soulful Drum & Bass can get too polite when the drums are softened too much, while heavier club-focused
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  • How It Was Made: Low Steppa & Roel – Dreamliner [Low Trax]

    Italian producer Roel has built his sound around disco, funk and soul, bringing those influences into house releases on Soulfuric Recordings, Groove Culture Music and Low Trax. His latest release on the latter sees him collaborate with label founder Low Steppa on “Dreamliner”, a track that began as Roel’s demo before the pair developed it together.In this edition of How It Was Made Roel takes us through the production, from the small rhythmic edits that give the sample its move

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