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• Antonator Connects Electronic Music’s Past and Present

  16-10-2026 23:02 via Magnetic Magazine
  
  Producers who have been making electronic music long enough to see trends come around a second or third time have a lot to say.
  They have seen entire genres rise, disappear from the conversation, and return under a new name, often with many of the same ideas that made them exciting in the first place.Antonator has been involved in electronic music long enough to have witnessed plenty of that firsthand. Originally from Athens and now based in Stockholm, the producer has been making records since
  
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• Hoomance On Lessons From Eight-Hour DJ Sets

  16-10-2026 22:38 via Magnetic Magazine
  
  A DJ can spend weeks curating a set, only to discover within minutes that the room wants something completely different. The decision to follow that reaction without giving up personal taste is something Hoomance has been working on since his early clubbing years in Toronto.
  At The Guvernment and Circa, he watched DJs working rooms of dramatically different sizes, which helped shape how he thinks about pacing, intimacy, and his responsibility to the people in front of him.Now based between Toron
  
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• Alessario Lets Beauty Fall Apart In Drawn too Close

  16-10-2026 22:32 via Magnetic Magazine
  
  Alessario’s “Drawn Too Close” centers on a feeling that is easy to recognize and hard to admit: sometimes a person is most beautiful before we actually know them.The single, releasing October 16, follows a narrator who has filled in the blanks around someone from a distance. A silhouette, a movement, a bit of light, maybe one gesture, and suddenly the mind has written a full story. The person becomes a portrait before they have had a chance to be a person.That is where “D
  
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• SoDown Explores Cinema and Nostalgia on ‘Scenes of Consciousness’ Album

  16-10-2026 12:17 via Magnetic Magazine
  
  SoDown has released his new album, Scenes of Consciousness, a deeply personal project that brings his love of cinema, vintage recordings, and musical storytelling together. The album approaches life as a series of scenes unfolding on screen, using familiar samples, spoken dialogue, and sounds from different eras to explore memory, change, and the human experience. Across the record, SoDown blends his signature bass-heavy production with funk, soul, jazz, piano, and live saxophone, creating an al
  
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• AC (dot robot) on Life in London, Chinese Identity and Breaking Away from the Rave

  16-10-2026 11:29 via Magnetic Magazine
  
  Moving to London at 18, finding your feet in a new country and navigating the occasional disaster of being a young adult is plenty to be getting on with. AC (dot robot) has also been building a reputation behind the decks, playing high-energy sets that draw on techno, trance and hardcore. Her new EP, London 2026, reveals a rather different side.Across four tracks inspired by the changing seasons, the Chinese-born, London-based artist works through homesickness, identity, heartbreak and the less
  
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• Twisted-Electrons FLEXfm Brings FM Synthesis Into a New Groovebox

  16-10-2026 01:51 via Magnetic Magazine
  
  I’ve always been interested in grooveboxes that let you start with something relatively simple and gradually work your way toward an actual piece of music without having to immediately jump back into Ableton.The idea sounds easy enough.
  Put a synth, sampler, sequencer, and some effects in one box, then let the producer get on with making music. But anyone who has spent time with dedicated hardware knows that the experience can be very different depending on how the manufacturer decides tho
  
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