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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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• Skycabin Makes Desire Feel Like Displacement

  30-09-2026 01:01 via magneticmag.com
  
  Skycabin’s COVET starts from desire, although the word gets darker once Farbod Khoshtinat and Sepand Bahrami start pulling it apart. Desire can mean wanting another person, wanting escape, wanting to return home, wanting to become someone else, or wanting the past to stop changing shape every time memory touches it.
  For a duo of Iranian musicians who built new lives in California, that last part gives the EP a sharper emotional charge than any genre note about trip-hop, dark pop, or &rsquo
  
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• Shake With The Sound Keeps “Lifted” Simple

  29-09-2026 23:55 via magneticmag.com
  
  Shake With The Sound’s “Lifted” knows exactly what kind of record it wants to be. It is not trying to be complicated, moody, or dressed up as something heavier than it is. The track is built to raise the room a few inches, and that directness is the best thing about it.The beat has a springy movement to it, the melodic writing stays bright, and the whole track carries itself with the kind of easy confidence that only works when the producer is not trying to force too many ideas
  
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• Pedro Gariani’s Musical DNA: 10 Records Behind the Sound

  29-09-2026 21:46 via magneticmag.com
  
  For Pedro Gariani, music has always been about more than the dancefloor. The Brazilian DJ, producer and curator has built his sound around the meeting point between house, club culture and the rich musical traditions of his home country, from samba and disco to funk carioca, Latin rhythms and the sounds embedded in Brazil’s cultural memory.That connection comes into sharp focus on his latest release, “Saci”, out now on ¡Queer y Latina!. Inspired by one of Brazil’s m
  
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• Johny-Five and Tom Fool Turn “Menace” Into a D&B Trapdoor

  29-09-2026 21:33 via magneticmag.com
  
  Johny-Five (pictured above) and Tom Fool’s (pictured below) “Menace” works because it starts lighter than its title suggests. The first stretch has that roller energy that can sit comfortably in a DJ set without immediately giving away where it is headed. There is bounce in the drums, enough playfulness up top to keep the track from feeling too severe, and a vocal presence from Tom Fool that gives the tune a more human point of attack.That matters because a lot of drum and bass
  
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• Lana Crow On Gratitude, Growth, And The Songwriting Process Behind

  29-09-2026 21:32 via magneticmag.com
  
  Lana Crow’s “Rise and Shine” is built around a deceptively simple request: give me a smile. That can sound almost too light on paper, the kind of phrase that risks drifting into greeting-card optimism if the song doesn’t earn it.But Crow is not talking about positivity as a decorative mood…
  She is talking about thought as a daily force, the kind that shapes posture, tone, reaction, self-respect, and the version of the world a person keeps confirming back to themsel
  
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• TCL Cuts Its Art TV Prices

  29-09-2026 21:23 via magneticmag.com
  
  TCL’s Prime Big Deal Days offer on the A300L 4K QLED Designer Series Art TV is built around a pretty clear idea: the best TV in a room is often the one that does not look like a black rectangle when it is off.From October 6 to October 7, TCL is discounting the A300L line by up to 40 percent, with prices starting at $699.99. The 55-inch A300L is marked down to $699.99 from $999.99, the 65-inch model drops to $849.99 from $1,499.99, and the 75-inch version comes down to $1,199.99 from $1,999
  
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• SXM Festival 2027 Lineup, Dates And Tickets

  29-09-2026 21:00 via magneticmag.com
  
  Bob Sinclar, MEDUZA, Sasha, Claptone, Franky Rizardo and Dennis Cruz lead the first lineup announcement for March 17–21, 2027.Most destination festivals ask a fixed venue to carry the entire weekend. SXM Festival takes another approach, spreading its programming across beaches, villas, clubs and hilltops on the French and Dutch sides of one Caribbean island.That format returns from March 17–21, 2027, when SXM Festival celebrates its tenth edition on Saint-Martin and Sint Maarten. Bob
  
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• Steve Pardo Builds A Pastoral Score From Less On Farthest Frontier

  29-09-2026 18:02 via magneticmag.com
  
  A survival town-builder can easily push music toward utility: give the player something pleasant, stay out of the way, loop cleanly, and avoid becoming irritating after the hundredth hour. Steve Pardo’s score for Farthest Frontier sounds like it came from a more specific question than that.
  How do you write music for a game about building a settlement at the edge of the known world without turning that world into fantasy wallpaper, and without over-defining a culture, nation, or time perio
  
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• Loopmasters Buys Jamahook for Smarter Search

  29-09-2026 17:43 via magneticmag.com
  
  Loopmasters acquiring Jamahook makes sense because the hardest part of using samples in 2026 is rarely finding enough of them. It is finding the right one before the idea dies.Loopcloud already sits on a huge amount of material, with Loopmasters citing more than four million royalty-free samples inside the platform and more than five million across the company’s wider catalog.
  That scale is the selling point, but it is also the problem. A producer can have access to almost anything and sti
  
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• Spitfire and BT Build Phoenix for Motion

  29-09-2026 17:29 via magneticmag.com
  
  Spitfire Audio’s Phoenix feels like the kind of instrument that starts from a simple question and then refuses to answer it simply. What happens when you take BT’s private archive of vintage synthesizer, sampler, cassette, and vinyl material, place it next to orchestral recordings from Spitfire’s libraries, then build a synthesis system designed to pull the material apart instead of merely replaying it?That is the basic premise behind Phoenix, the latest Spitfire Audio collabor
  
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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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