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• Mystigrix Builds House Music Around Shared Effort

  03-09-2026 18:53 via magneticmag.com
  
  Photography Credit Throughout: Timo WagnerMystigrix (@its_mystigrix) is thinking about house music less as a personal lane and more as a shared ecosystem. The Berlin-based DJ, producer, and Flirt Records founder is not only putting out music under his own name. He is using the label, events, and his monthly RBL radio show as ways to bring other artists into view, build relationships, and create a more generous version of underground culture.That focus is easy to flatten into vague community lang
  
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• PAUL OAKENFOLD: MISSION UNDERGROUND, THE RETURN OF TRANCE AND WHAT COMES NEXT

  07-09-2026 21:35 via magneticmag.com
  
  Paul Oakenfold has spent decades moving electronic music forward, but the Mission Underground album finds him doing something more interesting than simply revisiting his history. Released on Perfecto Records, the album connects the emotional architecture of classic trance with the harder, darker energy shaping contemporary techno and underground dancefloors right now. The result is both retrospective and forward-facing: familiar records are reinterpreted, new collaborations enter the conversatio
  
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• RADL Pack 01 Review: Durability Comes First

  07-09-2026 21:33 via magneticmag.com
  
  Ultralight backpacking has become a dominant part of outdoor equipment design, and I understand why hikers count ounces across long distances. That calculation changes when a buckle snaps, a strap pulls loose, or thin fabric catches on a branch away from a maintained trail.
  The RADL Pack 01 takes a different position, and I appreciate that it does so without apology.This 65-liter backpack weighs 5 pounds 3 ounces before any equipment goes inside, so no one will mistake it for an ultralight optio
  
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• UMAY Fitness Makes Studio Movement Easier

  07-09-2026 18:47 via magneticmag.com
  
  Most producers already know what it feels like to sit too long. The loop keeps playing, the screen gets louder than the song, and a decision that should take two minutes turns into half an hour of clicking. That is usually the point where buying another plug-in is less helpful than standing up, moving for ten minutes, and letting the body pull the brain out of the same small circle.That is the creative angle where UMAY Fitness starts to feel relevant.
  The brand’s at-home fitness lineup inc
  
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• Roma Modulare 2026 Lines Up a Major Synth Weekend

  07-09-2026 17:50 via magneticmag.com
  
  Roma Modulare 2026 is shaping up to be one of the more interesting European synth and pro-audio gatherings on the September calendar. The two-day fair takes place September 18 and 19 at L’Opificio Italiacamp in central Rome, bringing manufacturers, artists, producers, engineers, educators, and gear obsessives into a 1,200m² venue tied to the city’s industrial past.That setting gives the event an immediate point of difference.
  L’Opificio Italiacamp sits in the Ostiense-Marc
  
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• Max Porcelli Returns to Magnetic With “Jaguar”

  05-09-2026 19:39 via magneticmag.com
  
  Max Porcelli (@max__porcelli) is back on Magnetic Magazine Recordings with “Jaguar,” released September 4 as MMR078, and this return continues a relationship we have been documenting since 2024.
  The package contains Max’s original and extended mixes alongside my own remix and extended version, though the focus belongs squarely on the Italian producer whose history with Magnetic now covers profiles, interviews, production discussions, playlists, and a guest mix so snag them all
  
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• Pivots Announce UK Tour With “Any Means”

  05-09-2026 19:19 via magneticmag.com
  
  Pivots’ “Any Means” comes with a tour idea that feels bigger than a normal single rollout. The UK-French electronic duo have announced a six-date UK run this September, bringing their live AV set and immersive pre-show concert Everyday Places to grassroots venues across the country. The dates begin September 16 at PLAYBACK Festival at Tramshed Cardiff, then continue to The Hug and Pint in Glasgow, Sneaky Pete’s in Edinburgh, Beyond Vinyl in Newcastle upon Tyne, THIRTEEN i
  
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• Carl Kammeyer Turns Breakup Fallout Into Motion

  05-09-2026 19:13 via magneticmag.com
  
  Carl Kammeyer’s “Since You Been Gone” is a breakup song, but its best moments come from what happens after the obvious pain has already hit. The track sits in that strange middle space where the relationship is over, the silence has settled in, and the hard part becomes figuring out what to do with all the feeling still left in the room.Released August 28, 2026, the single finds the Bethel Island, California artist working from a home-studio process that gives the song a person
  
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• Three Cities, One Garden: Milan93, 9ICK & Mauricesax on Their New Collaborative EP

  05-09-2026 19:04 via magneticmag.com
  
  There’s something beautifully organic about A Garden Between Us, the new collaborative EP from Brooklyn producer Milan93, Copenhagen pianist and producer 9ICK, and Cologne-based multi-instrumentalist Mauricesax.Released via LYAM by Oathcreations, the record finds three artists working across jazz, house and electronic music, bringing together their different backgrounds and musical languages into something that feels both deeply considered and completely alive.
  Across four original tracks,
  
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• STEZ Brings London Club Energy to “Work The Box”

  05-09-2026 18:52 via magneticmag.com
  
  STEZ’s “Work The Box” comes in with a clear purpose: get the room moving quickly and keep it there. The London-based DJ and producer returns with a high-energy house cut built around organ synths, heavy drums, and a driving club groove, giving the track the kind of directness that usually works best when the night is already warm and the floor is ready for something with bite.This is STEZ’s fourth release of 2026, following a run of DJ sets across London that includes XOY
  
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• Malcolm Zeller Reads The Room Before He Pushes It

  05-09-2026 18:47 via magneticmag.com
  
  Malcolm Zeller (@djresco) makes his Sound D’Elite debut with Lose Control, a two-track EP landing September 4 on Ilario Alicante’s imprint. The New York-based DJ and producer comes into the release with a growing club profile, having played rooms including Club Space, Hï Ibiza, and UNVRS while releasing across labels such as NUSONIDO, Deeperfect, WHYNOTUS, and South Of Saturn.The EP fits the lane he describes in the interview below. “Lose Control” leans into disco-in
  
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• Deadlynoiz Cuts Straight In on “What You Gonna Do”

  03-09-2026 19:47 via magneticmag.com
  
  Deadlynoiz’s “What You Gonna Do” gets to the point quickly, which is probably the right move for a track built around two drops, a short runtime, and a bass house engine that does not need much ceremony around it. Out now via LVLD MUSIC, the track clocks in at just over two minutes and uses that limited space to hit hard, reset, then hit again. It is direct, functional, and aimed at the part of the room that wants impact without a long scenic route.That is a better read on the
  
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• Nathan Stewart on Return To Reverie, Balearic Dreams & the Art of the Slow Groove

  03-09-2026 19:34 via magneticmag.com
  
  There’s a certain kind of dance music that feels less concerned with chasing the moment and more interested in creating one. Austin-based DJ, producer, and lifelong vinyl obsessive Nathan Stewart has spent years cultivating exactly that space, blending deep house, slo-mo disco, funk, acid, and Balearic influences into a sound that feels both deeply rooted and effortlessly timeless.Whiskey Pickle · WP052 NATHAN STEWART – "Return To Reverie" EPNow returning to Whiskey Pickle Rec
  
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• HUGEL Opens Budapest’s Aura Bay Open Air

  03-09-2026 19:22 via magneticmag.com
  
  Budapest is getting a new open-air dance venue on Friday, September 18, and Aura Bay Open Air is not easing into the calendar quietly. The launch event brings HUGEL to Óbudai Island for his first standalone headline show in Hungary, placing one of the biggest names in Afro Latin house inside a brand-new outdoor concept built around music, large-scale light installations, and a Danube-side setting with a very clear point of view.The venue sits at Óbuda Bay on Óbudai Island, t
  
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• UNTER STRØM Turn Industrial Pressure and Melodic Release Into Between Forms

  03-09-2026 19:16 via magneticmag.com
  
  UNTER STRØM’s Between Forms feels like a project title that actually describes the music. Across the EP, Alex Gonzales and John Kunkel keep pulling the listener between different states: club pressure and headphone detail, mechanical rhythm and melodic lift, industrial edge and something more open at the center.That is the part that makes the project worth paying attention to. Gonzales brings the darker, tour-tested force of Matte Blvck, while Kunkel’s work across The New Divi
  
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• LALAL.AI Fixes a Guitar Stem Problem

  03-09-2026 18:46 via magneticmag.com
  
  LALAL.AI’s new Guitars stem is interesting because the company is not pretending that every AI music update needs to sound like a sci-fi manifesto. This is a specific fix for a specific problem: guitar parts are messy, layered, processed, doubled, and easy for separation models to misread when they are forced to decide whether something is acoustic or electric before pulling it out of a track.Until now, LALAL.AI offered Acoustic Guitar and Electric Guitar as separate stems.
  That worked in
  
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• Bodaishin Marks 100 Releases With “Circle of Life”

  03-09-2026 05:01 via magneticmag.com
  
  Bodaishin’s “Circle of Life” arrives with a milestone attached to it, but the track does not feel like a victory lap.
  It marks his 100th official release across originals and remixes, while also opening the door to his upcoming debut album, Circles. That combination gives the single a rare kind of placement in an artist’s catalog: it looks back at the work it took to get here, then immediately points toward the next body of music.The track is out now via Circle of Life, t
  
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• Driver405 On Why Remixes Need Their Own Story

  03-09-2026 04:55 via magneticmag.com
  
  Driver405’s (@driver405) remix of Valley Lights’ “Alexandra” lands on Outland Recordings as a high-energy rework built from heartbreak, synthpop shine, Italo momentum, and an EBM-leaning bite. The original comes from Valley Lights’ Devil May Care, and Driver405 heard something in the vocal that could move into his own darker, club-focused lane almost immediately.That instinct shaped the whole remix. Instead of treating “Alexandra” as a simple tempo lift,
  
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• L-Acoustics Invests in Djaayz to Make Hospitality Sound More Intentional

  03-09-2026 01:16 via magneticmag.com
  
  L-Acoustics has taken a strategic stake in Djaayz, the DJ-booking platform co-founded by Cathy Guetta and Raphaël Aflalo, in a move that says a lot about how seriously hospitality venues are starting to treat music.On paper, the partnership is fairly direct. Djaayz helps venues discover, book, and manage DJs. L-Acoustics brings the premium sound infrastructure and creative audio technology, including L-Acoustics DJ, that can help those sets land properly in the room. Together, the companies
  
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• Armin van Buuren and Laidback Luke Join Moises

  03-09-2026 00:53 via magneticmag.com
  
  Moises has announced Armin van Buuren and Laidback Luke as the first members of its new Artist Partnerships program, and the timing feels intentional.AI in music is still stuck between two very different conversations. One side is all anxiety: replacement, ownership, consent, training data, and whether creative labor gets flattened into prompt output. The other side is much more familiar to producers and DJs because music technology has always advanced as artists found faster ways to hear ideas,
  
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• EMIXX West 2026: Denver’s Synth Community Gets the Gathering It Deserves

  30-08-2026 21:07 via magneticmag.com
  
  Colorado Modular Synth Society brought EMIXX West 2026 to Denver for a weekend of modular synths, electronic music hardware, DIY culture, and the sort of wonderfully obsessive gear conversations that make the synth community what it is.Denver has never exactly suffered from a shortage of electronic musicians. Between the producers, DJs, modular obsessives, experimental artists, and hardcore modular users, there’s a thriving community here.What Denver hasn’t always had is an event tha
  
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• Ending the summer with a festival gem: LIDO festival finally gets a run at Victoria Park

  29-08-2026 18:51 via magneticmag.com
  
  One of the most stunning and unique new festival kids on the block LIDO Festival –returns with Kelis, Maribou State, Folamour and moreLead photo – @Perry_gibsonBy the end of August, festival fatigue is a real and documented condition. The summer circuit has done its work — the muddy fields, warm lager, the headliners you’ve seen twice before in a slightly different field — and for a significant portion of the music-going public, the idea of doing it one more time be
  
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• IPI On Why Less Still Hits Harder

  28-08-2026 20:26 via magneticmag.com
  
  IPI’s (@ipimusika) The Windy City just dropped on August 28 on SATYADGTL, bringing the Cologne artist into the label’s deep, groove-led orbit with a release rooted in Chicago acid house energy. IPI is a fixture in Cologne’s underground scene, head of Lust und Freude Musik, and a resident DJ at Gewölbe, and this EP brings that club education into a track that started from a single acid line and a vocal sample before the rest of the record began to take shape.Satya ·
  
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• Inside Wax Motif’s Approach to Reading the Room at Zouk Nightclub

  28-08-2026 19:50 via magneticmag.com
  
  This is an article by guest contributor Candese CharlesWax Motif, producer and DJ, steps to the decks at Zouk Nightclub with calculated motions. Holding the official resident DJ spot for the 2026 season across the Las Vegas nightclub and AYU Dayclub at Resorts World Las Vegas, the bass and tech house artist was met on Friday, Aug. 21st, by eager attendees waiting to throw down. But a Friday night at Zouk nightclub with Wax Motif on the decks is sure to come with crisp drums, deep grooves, and ca
  
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• Jonathan Kaspar Puts His Own Voice Into Club Music

  28-08-2026 19:00 via magneticmag.com
  
  Jonathan Kaspar’s The Reason Why EP works because it does not treat club music and personal writing as opposing instincts. Released August 28 via Crosstown Rebels, the four-track project moves from tense tech-house control into smoky vocal soul, then into two tracks built around Kaspar’s own voice.That arc gives the EP its point. Kaspar is not simply returning to Crosstown Rebels with another batch of DJ weapons. He is using the release to show how much emotional detail can sit insid
  
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• Perfume of Static Let “Parity” Sit in the In-Between

  28-08-2026 18:58 via magneticmag.com
  
  Perfume of Static make music that works best when you stop waiting for the obvious turn.The Brussels duo, formed by Ben and Ema, operates at the point where melodic ambient, downtempo, and experimental electronics start to blur into one another. Their single “Parity” sits directly in that pocket. It has movement, but it never feels rushed. It has weight, but it does not turn into a club record. It has melody, but it keeps its emotions held close.That restraint is what makes it work.&
  
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• ALCHEMY Shows HEXED’s Bass Music Transformation

  28-08-2026 18:34 via magneticmag.com
  
  HEXED’s ALCHEMY does not feel like an EP built from five tracks that happened to be ready at the same time.The project has a real through-line, and that makes the title work. ALCHEMY is centered on transformation, but not in the polished, motivational way the word is sometimes used. It is more about what happens when you are inside the experiment and do not fully understand what it is turning you into yet.That is a better fit for electronic music than a lot of concept language because prod
  
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• Reinier Zonneveld, Nicky Romero and CERES Launch “Party”

  28-08-2026 18:15 via magneticmag.com
  
  Reinier Zonneveld, Nicky Romero, and CERES linking up on Filth on Acid is exactly the kind of collaboration that looks chaotic on paper, then starts making more sense once you hear what each artist is there to do.“Party” is out now, and it does not waste much time pretending to be subtle. The track pulls from trance, hard dance, and bass music, with pounding drums, steamy synth pressure, and a vocal built to pull the whole thing toward late-night festival territory.That is the hook h
  
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• Jamie Unknown Explains Why Taste Beats Branding

  28-08-2026 18:11 via magneticmag.com
  
  Jamie Unknown (@jamieunknown_) makes his debut on TSHA’s Jackfruit imprint with “Roll With The Rhythm / All The Love,” a double A-side just dropped on August 28. The release sits in the UK producer’s sweet spot: house, garage, bassline pressure, big vocal energy, and enough playful movement to keep the tracks from feeling locked to one narrow lane.“Roll With The Rhythm” opens the release with a bouncy low end, a rap-vocal attitude, bright chord stabs, and a ga
  
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• Berko Fields Adds 400 Drones to Its Headline Sets

  28-08-2026 18:03 via magneticmag.com
  
  Berko Fields has added a 400-drone aerial show to its first major statement as Hertfordshire’s newest festival contender. The three-day event takes place September 11 to 13 at Berkhamsted Cricket Club, with Friday and Saturday now set to end with a 12-minute drone display rising behind the main stage.That reveal changes the scale of the event. Berko Fields had originally teased the addition as a surprise experience, but the final version is more specific: 400 drones choreographed to the mu
  
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