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• Oversized Shirts For DJs: 5 Brands For That Relaxed Fit In The Booth (…Or In The Studio)

  21-07-2026 18:30 via magneticmag.com
  
  Oversized shirts for DJs have become a reliable part of curator and selector culture because the shape works from soundcheck through the trip home. A roomier shirt can handle soundcheck, dinner, a crowded booth, and the late trip home without requiring an outfit change. The extra space around the shoulders also helps when reaching across mixers or moving gear backstage.I actually covered this idea in my breakdown of choosing outfit pieces for festival and club culture, where oversized tees came
  
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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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• Neural DSP Introduces CorOS 4.1 and Cortex Control 4.1 Updates

  26-08-2026 17:17 via magneticmag.com
  Neural DSP today announced the release of CorOS 4.1.0 and Cortex Control 4.1.0, the biggest CorOS update in the company’s history. The release expands Plugin Compatibility to five additional plugins, bringing every currently available X-updated plugin to Quad Cortex and Quad Cortex mini, while introducing Device Presets, eight new Virtual Devices, and workflow enhancements that make building, managing, and performing with rigs faster and more flexible than ever.With Plugin Compatibility no
  
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• GHENGAR Announces ‘Rebirth’ North American Tour Alongside Debut Album Reveal

  26-08-2026 06:08 via magneticmag.com
  
  GHENGAR is expanding his heaviest era yet with the newly announced “Rebirth” Tour, a North American run stretching from October 2026 through March 2027.The tour begins October 23 at Otherworld in Philadelphia before moving through San Francisco, Costa Mesa, Denver, Houston, Minneapolis, Portland, Boise, Spokane, Jacksonville, Reno, Calgary, Edmonton, Charlotte, and more. Support across select dates will come from All The Reason, Calcium, HVDES, Prosecute, yvm3, and Usaybflow, reinfor
  
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• Pierre To A Degree Defends The Weird Human Detour

  26-08-2026 02:14 via magneticmag.com
  
  Pierre to a degree’s second album, Omen, dropped bakc on July 3 as a project built around trust, intuition, and the strange creative turns that appear when the artist does not control every step too tightly. Inspired by Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, the album follows the idea of listening to signs, pursuing a personal legend, and staying open to the path as it changes shape.That idea shows up in the music itself. Omen moves between ambient music, organic and melodic house, cinematic
  
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• Frederik Neu Explains Why Relationships Shape The Music

  26-08-2026 01:45 via magneticmag.com
  
  Frederik Neu’s (@frederikneu.music) “Wanna Feel” lands on WAVES Volume 2, the latest compilation from Glasgow label Lava Lava, released back on August 14. The project moves across deep grooves, peak-time club cuts, tripped-out house, sci-fi electronics, and dub-leaning material, placing Neu’s contribution inside a wider label snapshot rather than a standalone single cycle.“Wanna Feel” sits in the brighter, more immediate pocket of the compilation. Built around
  
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• BARELY ALIVE Takes Killed It! Records on the Road With ‘RECONNECT’ Tour

  25-08-2026 23:33 via magneticmag.com
  
  BARELY ALIVE are turning their recent label expansion into a live platform with the newly announced “RECONNECT” Tour, a 15-plus-date North American run stretching from October through December.The routing begins October 10 in Vancouver before moving through cities including Calgary, Las Vegas, Detroit, Toronto, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Jacksonville, Orlando, Albuquerque, Salt Lake City, Boston, and Minneapolis. Additional dates are still expected to be announced.Killed It! Moves Fr
  
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• Osterhouse Sounds Note Sampler Turns MIDI Ideas Into a Playable Keyboard Sketchpad

  25-08-2026 22:37 via magneticmag.com
  
  Osterhouse Sounds Note Sampler is built around a small but very producer-friendly idea: instead of dragging MIDI clips around a DAW timeline, you can record short musical ideas directly onto the keys of your piano and play them back by hand.That makes the plugin feel less like a standard MIDI utility and more like a sketchpad for people who think best at the keyboard. Hold the record key, play something, let go, and the last key you played becomes the armed key for that clip. From there, the cli
  
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• Sample Focus Founder Daniel Trostli On Building A Better Sample Library

  25-08-2026 21:55 via magneticmag.com
  
  Sample Focus occupies a different lane in the sample-library market because it starts from a producer problem that never really went away: finding the sound in your head before the idea disappears. The platform was built around that moment of friction, when a session slows down because a folder full of “Kicks,” “Synth Melodies,” and half-remembered files forces the producer to become a librarian instead of a musician.That origin still explains the company’s identity
  
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• How It Was Made: Richard Seeley – Do You Want Acid? (Glue Music + House)

  25-08-2026 21:46 via magneticmag.com
  
  Richard Seeley has been releasing underground electronic music for over two decades, with records landing on Rekids’ Rek’d, V.V.V.W.I. and his own Glue Music Recordings along the way. His latest EP, Seeza Project No 4, brings that history back into focus, especially on opener “Do You Want Acid?”, where the influence of late-’90s rave and house comes into the production without Seeley attempting to recreate a record from that period. The four-track EP also includes &
  
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• Donner VIVA Makes Guitar Feel Less Like Homework

  25-08-2026 21:36 via magneticmag.com
  
  Most people who quit guitar do not quit because they hate music.They quit because the first month can feel like a wall. Sore fingertips. Buzzing notes. chord shapes that feel impossible. Strumming patterns that fall apart the second singing enters the picture. That is the gap Donner is trying to address with VIVA, a stringless guitar built to let someone pick up an instrument and play a full song almost immediately.The idea is not subtle. VIVA removes the steel strings and replaces them with a s
  
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• Two Deep Keep It Direct on “Just Like That”

  25-08-2026 21:24 via magneticmag.com
  
  Two Deep are not overcomplicating the pitch on “Just Like That.”This is tech house built around a vocal that gets in fast, drums that keep the whole thing moving, and a bassline doing most of the heavy lifting underneath. The track is aimed at clubs and festival systems, but it does not feel like it only works in that setting. There is enough polish and bounce here to make it feel easy to throw on outside a set, which is usually where the better tech house records separate themselves
  
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• Sondela Talks A&R, Recoupment, And Building Afro-Electronic Artists

  21-08-2026 23:47 via magneticmag.com
  
  Sondela Recordings is expanding its world with Sondela Volt, a new imprint built for the deeper, darker, and more club-focused edges of African electronic music.
  The first release, “Ascendance,” landed back on July 24 and pairs returning Sondela artist Phila De Giant with newcomer Ayden J on a peak-time Afro Tech record built around hypnotic percussion, rolling grooves, and dancefloor pressure.The launch gives Sondela a more direct underground outlet beside the broader cultural and m
  
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• How It Was Made: David Penn & House Of Molly – Talk To Me (Cr2 Records + House)

  21-08-2026 21:48 via magneticmag.com
  
  David Penn (@djdavidpenn) has spent over three decades making house music, yet one detail in his production process has remained consistent: he wants to move quickly when an idea appears. That explains why his production setup for “Talk To Me” centers on software that lets him get ideas into the DAW without spending unnecessary time setting up complicated chains.Released alongside UK producer-vocalist duo House Of Molly, “Talk To Me” lands today on Cr2 Records on August 2
  
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• RAD Distribution Takes BABICZ FCH Global

  21-08-2026 21:28 via magneticmag.com
  
  RAD Distribution has announced an exclusive global partnership with BABICZ Full Contact Hardware, and while distribution deals can sound like back-office news at first, this one has a cleaner player-facing angle.BABICZ FCH is a hardware company. That means the story is not about another pedal, amp sim, or flashy piece of studio gear. It is about the parts of the instrument that decide how the string speaks, how the note holds, how the tuning behaves, and how the guitar or bass feels under the ha
  
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• Profetik Talks “Tetra,” Seraph Records, And Bass Design

  21-08-2026 20:40 via magneticmag.com
  
  Profetik’s (@profetiksound) “Tetra” arrives on Seraph Records as a melodic techno release built around scale, weight, and a very specific piece of source imagery. The title points back to the four-faced living creatures in Ezekiel’s vision, and Brian Van Anderson turns that idea into sound design by building the bass from four layered voices: a lion growl, an eagle screech, an ox grunt, and a human voice. Four faces, one motion.That kind of detail explains the larger Prof
  
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• Toddy Tang Turns “April Apocalypse” Into a Personal Collapse

  21-08-2026 18:46 via magneticmag.com
  
  The thing I like about Toddy Tang’s “April Apocalypse” is that it does not treat heartbreak like a simple before-and-after moment.The track is built around a stranger kind of loss: the collapse of a future that had already started to feel real. That is a sharper idea than another song about missing someone. It is about losing the person, sure, but also losing the imagined life attached to them. The plans. The private little timeline. The version of happiness you were already st
  
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• John Miller Keeps “When I Sleep” in a Late-Night Lane

  21-08-2026 18:21 via magneticmag.com
  
  John Miller’s “When I Sleep (Radio Edit)” is a good reminder that a dance track does not always need to sprint toward the biggest possible moment.The Paris-based French-American artist first came across my radar when we covered his previous release and he works across house, tech house, techno, and more melodic electronic spaces, and this single sits in the overlap where the club energy is still there, but the emotional center comes from the vocals and atmosphere. It feels shap
  
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• How It Was Made: Christian Hornbostel – Eridanus (Magnetic Magazine Recordings + Progressive House)

  20-08-2026 23:27 via magneticmag.com
  
  Christian Hornbostel (@christianhornbostel) has never sounded especially interested in chasing the loudest part of the room.That is part of what makes “Eridanus” feel right for Magnetic Magazine Recordings. The track works with patience, letting its synth programming, harmonic detail, and gradual modulation carry the arrangement rather than relying on oversized transitions every 16 bars.Christian’s long relationship with progressive electronic music. His history stretches back
  
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• Nihil Young Explains Why AI Cannot Generate A Life

  20-08-2026 23:15 via magneticmag.com
  
  Nihil Young’s (@nihilyoung) Compass is built around the kind of personal material AI cannot fake with any real conviction.
  Released August 14 on Zerothree, the debut album pulls from the day he met his wife, the birth of his daughter, the death of his father, and the private emotional terrain that turns a body of work into more than a folder of finished tracks. The album features collaborations with Rowland Giles, Leo Wood, Lasada, Jordan Arts, FRDRK, Adriana Stone, TYGR TYGR, and others,
  
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• Emmys Giving Suite Turns Swag Into Support

  20-08-2026 22:18 via magneticmag.com
  
  Award-show gifting can be easy to misunderstand from the outside.At its worst, it can look like another pile of luxury products handed to people who already have access to everything. But the official Emmys Giving Suite has a more specific role here: turn the backstage ritual into support for the Television Academy Foundation, whose programs help open doors for emerging television talent.Distinctive Assets is back to produce the official Giving Suite for the 78th Emmy Awards, bringing presenters
  
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