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• Jemma Bolt and LoopDeeLoop Hit Urbana

  25-09-2026 17:23 via magneticmag.com
  
  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
  
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• Best Hardware Synths for First-Time Buyers: 6 Synths I’d Actually Start With

  26-09-2026 00:21 via magneticmag.com
  Here’s What We’re CoveringHow I chose these synthsKorg Minilogue XDArturia MiniFreakNovation Bass Station IIArturia MicroFreakMoog GrandmotherBehringer DeepMind 12XCommon mistakes when buying your first hardware synthHow to choose your first hardware synthesizerHonorable mentionsWrapping Things UpAlright, so this article is pushing 4k words, so I won’t launch into prose that sets the stage or describes a situation you’re in… let’s just break right into the in
  
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• “No More” Brings Ivye Into Rosica and Maas’s Collaboration

  25-09-2026 18:35 via magneticmag.com
  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
  
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• Nick Warren On Why DJs Should Stop Doing Everything Alone

  25-09-2026 18:04 via magneticmag.com
  
  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
  
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• Alice Youngling Explains How House History Shapes Her Sound

  25-09-2026 17:51 via magneticmag.com
  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
  
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• The Indiigo Child On No Phones, Word Of Mouth, And Memories

  25-09-2026 17:48 via magneticmag.com
  
  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

  25-09-2026 17:43 via magneticmag.com
  
  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
  
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• SUAHN Builds a Distorted Album From Fear

  25-09-2026 17:18 via magneticmag.com
  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
  
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• Medicine Keeps “Just Walk Away” Vocal-First

  25-09-2026 17:14 via magneticmag.com
  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]

  25-09-2026 13:28 via magneticmag.com
  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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• VPORT Brings Live Music to Apple Vision Pro

  22-09-2026 23:32 via magneticmag.com
  
  VPORT’s Apple Vision Pro launch starts from a frustration every music fan knows: some of the best sets happen in rooms you simply cannot reach. The show is in another city. The travel costs too much. It falls on the wrong night. The venue is sold out. Or, more commonly, the event happens once, ends, and then basically disappears for anyone who was not there.The Seattle-based immersive entertainment platform officially launched its Apple Vision Pro experience on September 20, 2026, bringing
  
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• Joseph Capriati and GENNARO Bring “Control” to Metamorfosi

  22-09-2026 23:23 via magneticmag.com
  
  Joseph Capriati returns to Metamorfosi Records with “Control,” a new collaboration with fellow Italian artist GENNARO that pushes the label into a slicker, house-led space without losing the physical drive people expect from Capriati’s records.That is the interesting part here. Capriati does not need to prove he can command a room. His name already carries years of large-scale club and festival context.GENNARO’s presence helps explain that feel.
  Hailing from Ischia, he ha
  
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• Prunk Turns Footprints Into a House Memoir

  22-09-2026 23:21 via magneticmag.com
  
  Prunk’s Footprints feels like the kind of album a label founder can only make after years of building rooms around other people’s records. PIV has become a respected house platform in its own right, but this LP brings the focus back to Prunk as an artist, DJ, collaborator, and curator whose own sound helped shape the label’s identity in the first place.Out September 11, 2026 via PIV Records, Footprints follows Prunk’s 2023 debut LP Le Funk and lands after a major summer f
  
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• Enrico Rosica On Why Versions Need Connection

  22-09-2026 23:07 via magneticmag.com
  
  There is a specific kind of record that only tells you the truth once it leaves the studio.
  You can spend hours inside the session, tighten every transition, convince yourself the arrangement is moving the way it should, and still miss the answer because the screen cannot give you the same information as a room full of bodies. Enrico Rosica (@enricorosica) seems comfortable with that uncertainty, which makes sense for a producer whose answers keep returning to playback, performance, revision, an
  
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• AIRE Brings a Music-First Open-Air Nightlife Concept to Miami’s Edgewater

  22-09-2026 20:50 via magneticmag.com
  
  Miami’s nightlife landscape is getting a new open-air destination with the arrival of AIRE, a music-forward nightclub and lounge opening September 23 in Edgewater.Taking over the longtime home of Boho Miami at 111 NE 20th Street, AIRE represents a reset for an address that spent six years as a familiar part of the neighborhood’s late-night circuit. Rather than completely rebuilding what came before it, the new concept preserves the intimate outdoor environment while shifting the iden
  
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• RitFit Pink Series Makes Fitness Part of the Setup

  22-09-2026 18:59 via magneticmag.com
  
  All images courtesy of RitFitMost home gyms are designed to disappear. Black steel, gray rubber, neutral flooring, and equipment that looks like it was built to hide in the corner of a garage. RitFit’s Pink Series takes the opposite approach. It makes the workout setup visible, loud, and harder to ignore.That matters more than people think, especially for creatives. A lot of producers, writers, and artists spend long stretches sitting down, staring at screens, tweaking small details, and b
  
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• Huffy Vienna Makes the Budget E-Bike Pitch Simple

  22-09-2026 18:53 via magneticmag.com
  
  The Huffy Vienna Step-Through E-Bike is built around a very simple idea: an approachable electric bike that does not ask casual riders to overthink the category before getting on the road.That matters because the e-bike market can get technical fast.
  Torque sensors, wattage debates, brake specs, class rules, removable batteries, mid-drive systems, cargo setups, and app-connected features all have their place. But plenty of riders are not trying to optimize every metric. They want something comfo
  
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• The Disco Express Brings Club Train Back To ADE

  21-09-2026 19:34 via magneticmag.com
  
  Most Amsterdam Dance Event parties can wait if you are running late. The Disco Express Club Train physically leaves the station, which makes the schedule and location part of the event rather than background information.The London-born label and party brand returns to ADE on Saturday, October 24, 2026, for a four-hour club night aboard a moving train. Departing Amsterdam Centraal at 11:59 p.m., the train will carry 400 guests across the Netherlands before returning to the same station at 4 a.m.
  
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• Anmarz Launches Peachez in Crates with an All-Star Debut

  21-09-2026 19:04 via magneticmag.com
  
  Jeddah-based DJ, curator and longtime underground house advocate Anmarz has been putting in the work for decades, from his early days in Oregon’s Pacific Northwest through residencies in the 2000s and a career spent connecting the dots between hip-hop, Chicago house, jazz and the deeper corners of the dancefloor.Crate#001 by Peachez In CratesNow, he’s taking that same spirit of community and curation into a new chapter with Peachez in Crates, an emerging label born from the Peachez e
  
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• Dimitri Andreas Returns With the Double-Vinyl Pelican

  21-09-2026 18:14 via magneticmag.com
  
  Dimitri Andreas returns in September with Pelican, an eight-track double-vinyl release on Move Recordings that feels built to reintroduce him without flattening his history into a nostalgia play.
  The Belgian artist has long moved between hypnotic techno, deep house, and more textured club material, with earlier releases on Music Man and Systematic Recordings, plus appearances at Tomorrowland, Dour Festival, and I Love Techno.That background gives Pelican a clear function. It is a dancefloor-orie
  
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• SUNGYOO Named to Spotify’s Fresh Finds Forward Artist Class of 2026

  19-09-2026 02:27 via magneticmag.com
  
  Seoul-based producer and DJ SUNGYOO has been selected for Spotify’s Fresh Finds Forward Artist Class of 2026, adding another significant milestone to a year that has continued to elevate his profile across electronic music.Fresh Finds Forward is Spotify’s newly launched program designed to give emerging independent artists additional resources, community, and support beyond traditional playlist placement. The platform plans to bring approximately 10,000 artists into the initiative ea
  
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• Madame Gandhi Lets Ektā Begin With Peace Alongside CAFE DE ANATOLIA

  19-09-2026 00:02 via magneticmag.com
  
  Unity is easy to flatten into a slogan, especially in music, where a word like oneness can drift toward soft-focus spirituality before it ever has to touch the harder work of living with other people. Ektā gives Madame Gandhi (@madamegandhi)a better frame because the record does not sound like agreement.
  It sounds like someone trying to return to the body first, then asking what community can look like once the nervous system has stopped bracing against the world.That distinction is all ove
  
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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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• Lunacy NOVA Opens Plug-In Making Up

  17-09-2026 19:25 via magneticmag.com
  
  Lunacy, the audio company behind the 3D, visually dynamic plugins CUBE and BEAM, today launched NOVA, which is interesting because it does not treat plug-ins like finished objects that only move one way: developer makes it, producer downloads it, DAW hosts it, and the idea ends there. The platform launches as a browser-based place to discover, customize, build, and share audio plug-ins and virtual instruments, and that changes the usual relationship between producer and developer in a pretty dir
  
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