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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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• 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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• Rayne Talks “Techno Games” And Denver’s Underground

  14-09-2026 23:51 via magneticmag.com
  
  Rayne’s “Techno Games” comes from an artist who spent years learning the floor before turning fully toward production. Born in New Jersey, shaped by New York nightlife, and now based in Denver, Rayne brings a long club history into his current run of dark, peak-time techno releases. The record’s aim is clear: make something DJs can use when the room is already hot and needs the next push.That working-DJ mindset runs through his story.
  Before the recent Beatport charting r
  
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• Zamna Tulum 2027 Dates and Multipass Details

  14-09-2026 23:49 via magneticmag.com
  
  The ten-day anniversary season returns to Tulum from December 31, 2026 to January 10, 2027, with a three-event Multipass available now.Zamna Tulum has announced its tenth-anniversary season without naming a single artist, which initially feels like a strange way to introduce one of its largest events to date.Look a little closer, though, and that decision says plenty about what Zamna has become since its first gathering in the Mexican Caribbean in 2017. The brand is asking people to commit to Tu
  
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• How It Was Made: Nikita von Tiraspol & U-T – Maison Amper (Nikita’s Version) (Kontrapunkt + Deep House / Dub Techno)

  14-09-2026 23:15 via magneticmag.com
  
  U-T and Nikita von Tiraspol’s (@nikitavontiraspol) Nights In Tokyo EP started with a late-night studio meeting at Maison Amper in Tokyo, then split that original idea into three different interpretations. U-T takes the more rhythmic, energetic route, Ko Umehara moves toward minimal territory, and Nikita’s version pulls the record into dub techno, complete with a trumpet part he recorded himself.Released August 25 on Kontrapunkt, “Maison Amper (Nikita’s Version)” is
  
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• Kamil Nowak And Jakub Pietras Explain the Sound And Score Behind Bellwright

  14-09-2026 23:05 via magneticmag.com
  
  Medieval game audio can go wrong fast. Add a lute, throw birds into the trees, put a few wooden impacts under the UI, and the world may sound old enough on paper while still feeling like a set dressed for the player. Bellwright needed something more patient than that, because its world is not only there to be looked at. It has to be lived in for hours at a time.That is the part Kamil Nowak had to solve as Donkey Crew’s one-person audio department.
  He was not only making sounds and dropping
  
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• Chosen Masters Is Seeking a New Owner

  14-09-2026 22:50 via magneticmag.com
  
  Founder Elon Sharar is inviting acquisition discussions around an established browser-based music platform, its audience, and its technology.Chosen Masters founder Elon Sharar is seeking a buyer for the music-technology company he has spent close to ten years developing, with a proposed acquisition that could cover the software, intellectual property, source code, brand, domain, user accounts, search presence, and associated social channels.The company began as an online mastering service, then
  
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• How It Was Made: MARNIK – Synthetic Heart feat. Crooked Bangs (ARENA Records + Tech-Trance)

  14-09-2026 22:43 via magneticmag.com
  
  MARNIK (@marnikofficial) have spent the last decade operating at the festival end of electronic music, but the duo’s current phase is moving further into hard dance, techno and neo-rave without abandoning the scale that built their audience in the first place.
  That evolution now has a home in ARENA Records, their new label and live concept, which gives Alex and Lele a more defined space to develop the harder side of the project while connecting the studio work directly to what happens onst
  
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• Thechi Finds His Sound Between Memory And Movement

  14-09-2026 22:12 via magneticmag.com
  
  Thechi’s Echo State EP starts from a place a lot of producers know but do not always admit: coming back to music after a pause and realizing the old instinct to keep adding more is not always the answer. The London-based artist, born Arjun Yohannan, grew up in Kerala, India, where his first relationship with electronic music was not built through club records alone. It came through video games, Indian film music, hill-station gatherings, grassroots parties, classical training, and a slow c
  
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• George Voukanos Returns To Olympia Without Repeating It

  14-09-2026 22:05 via magneticmag.com
  
  There is an easy version of a project like TERRA OLYMPIA, and George Voukanos seems aware of it from the start. A Greek composer returns to Ancient Olympia, writes music tied to memory and heritage, invokes mythology, light, landscape, and the Olympic idea, then lets the ancient world carry the emotional burden for him.
  And while that alone has a real story behind it, it would also miss the most interesting part of what he is doing.Voukanos is not treating TERRA OLYMPIA as a historical reconstru
  
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• KONEKT Blends Bass-House Bounce and Romance on “WORTH”

  14-09-2026 21:11 via magneticmag.com
  
  KONEKT’s “WORTH” sits in a lane that more producers are starting to explore: club music with a little romance under the surface. The track blends bass house, slap house, and R&B influence, giving it enough bounce for a dancefloor setting while keeping the mood lighter, warmer, and more emotionally open than a purely drop-focused record.That combination is the main selling point.
  A lot of bass-heavy dance music leans on impact first, then tries to add personality afterward.
  
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• DJ Anguelov Wants the Club Off-Screen

  14-09-2026 21:09 via magneticmag.com
  
  DJ Anguelov’s “No Phone In” starts from an idea that feels obvious until you get into a club and see half the room filming the drop instead of feeling it. The track was made with a lot of energy after the Palma retreat with Suru, where Anguelov spent time around a creative circle that included Dan Duncan, Wehbba, Timo Maas, and Chris Spero. That setting gives the release a little more context, because this does not feel like a track built only around a hook or title. It feels l
  
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• The 15 Best Ambient Tracks of August 2026

  11-09-2026 14:00 via magneticmag.com
  
  Ambient continues to be most interesting when nobody worries too much about whether it is actually ambient. This month’s selection stretches from Carmen Villain’s skeletal dub experiments and Gi Gi’s blurred sample work to guitar improvisation, modular electronics, field recordings and some surprisingly beat-driven diversions.
  There are established names here, including Julia Holter, John Beltran and Windy & Carl, alongside artists working in some of the more interesting co
  
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• How It Was Made: VELVE – Be My Pony (VELVE Music, Berlin Underground Techno)

  11-09-2026 13:05 via magneticmag.com
  
  Berlin-based producer, singer and live artist VELVE’s Be My Pony EP has an unusual starting point. The three tracks began life as part of her work composing music for the documentary KitKatClub – Kinks of Berlin, before being developed beyond the film into a standalone release.That origin can still be felt across the EP, which pairs stripped-back, physical techno with acid, analogue textures and more fragile details that sit just beneath the surface. For this edition of How It Was Ma
  
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• LAYBE Finds A Harder Techno Language

  11-09-2026 00:13 via magneticmag.com
  
  Hard techno is crowded enough right now that “harder” barely means anything on its own.
  The real question is whether an artist can make pressure feel authored rather than anonymous. That is the line LAYBE (@laybemusic) seems to be chasing in 2026, moving away from a wider exploratory phase and toward something darker, more physical, and more clearly his.LAYBE · Laybe X Esoterica Radio GuestMixThe key detail is that the music changed before the public image did. LAYBE talks abo
  
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• Andrew Balfour Thinks Ten Minutes Is Enough

  10-09-2026 22:00 via magneticmag.com
  
  Most people do not stop making things because they stopped caring.
  They stop because the act of returning starts to feel too loaded. The guitar becomes a test of whether you are still a musician. The blank page becomes a referendum on whether you were ever any good. The project waits for some cleaner future version of your life, one with more time, more motivation, and fewer reasons to avoid beginning.Andrew Balfour’s The Ten Minute Rule is built for that exact standoff.
  The former touring
  
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• Yahn Dawn 2026 Gives Pretty Lights Nearly Ten Hours

  10-09-2026 21:52 via magneticmag.com
  
  The complete set times place a three-hour-plus Pretty Lights performance at the center of every night in Buena Vista.The first thing that jumps out in Yahn Dawn’s 2026 set times is how little the event tries to cram onto its Main Stage.LP Giobbi opens Friday with her Dead House set. Emancipator brings a live performance on Saturday, and Gramatik takes the opening slot on Sunday. Each artist then hands the stage to Pretty Lights for three hours and 15 minutes, giving the band nine hours and
  
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• FIFI FORTE Trusts The Groove Before The Plan

  10-09-2026 20:47 via magneticmag.com
  
  FIFI FORTE’s (@fififortedj) Gain My Trust EP lands on Diggin’ Records with the kind of house music that does not need to over-explain itself. The London-based DJ and producer keeps the release tight: three cuts, rolling drums, deep basslines, crisp percussion, and enough ’90s house memory to give the tracks character without turning them into retro costume.That economy is the point.
  “Gain My Trust” brings the biggest vocal-led energy of the package, “444&rdquo
  
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• How Lantern House Is Challenging the One-Night Promoter Model

  10-09-2026 20:17 via magneticmag.com
  
  A promoter can book an artist, sell the date, run the room, post the photographs, and close the accounts. Once the lights come up, though, the developing artist may leave with little that can support the next booking. Photographs and phone clips document the date, yet most of its attention disappears within days. Lantern House founder and curator Weiyi Xia has spent the past few years considering how a relationship established by programming an artist might continue after the date.
  His principal
  
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• MARS Builds A Club World For Misfits

  10-09-2026 19:58 via magneticmag.com
  
  MARS (@iammarsofficial) enters the scene with “Techno Dungeon,” a high-energy collaboration with DJ HPNOTIC built around relentless grooves, driving percussion, and a four-on-the-floor pulse. The track is designed as an invitation: leave the outside world at the door, step into the Dungeon, and let the room become a place where stress, expectation, and self-consciousness fall away for a few minutes.6AM · Hpnotic & I AM MARS "Techno Dungeon" (Extended Version)That premise c
  
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• Enzo Vood Talks “Self-Actualization” And DJ Pacing

  10-09-2026 06:15 via magneticmag.com
  
  Enzo Vood (@enzo_vood) recently appeared alongside Aaron Suiss on “Self-Actualization,” released this summer on Magnetic Magazine Recordings. The track gave the label another patient, melodic club record built for gradual movement rather than cheap impact, which makes Enzo’s interview a natural extension of the release, and he talks about the shape of a set, pacing, preparation, and the way a crowd can bring a planned set to life.That difference is important. Enzo prepares with
  
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• Label Spotlight: How Fejká Is Building Coexist Through Albums and Open A&R

  10-09-2026 01:39 via magneticmag.com
  
  There are plenty of labels that begin with a genre tag and build outward from there, though Coexist came from a clearer personal need. Brian Zajak, known through his Fejká project, had spent years making electronic music that moved between ambient restraint and club-focused momentum, and after a decade releasing through Christian Löffler’s Ki Records, he wanted a home where those sides of his work could sit together without being forced into separate lanes.
  Coexist grew from th
  
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