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• STAY GOLDEN Turns Invisible Bonds Into Silent Covenant

  14-08-2026 19:26 via magneticmag.com
  
  STAY GOLDEN (@stay.golden.music) makes his All Day I Dream debut with Silent Covenant, a seven-track album out August 14 that translates memory, trust, and invisible connection into a nearly 40-minute run of indie-dance textures, melodic techno detail, organic rhythm, and deep house movement.
  The release begins with the title track before moving into “Fragments of a Dream,” “RITUAL PAUSE,” “Stay With Me,” and a second half built around collaborations with Alex
  
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• Borna Libertines On The Six-Month Stay Behind 120h to Tokyo

  14-08-2026 22:20 via magneticmag.com
  
  Borna Libertines’(@borna_libertines) 120h to Tokyo plays like a record built from movement: airport arrival, train platforms, convenience-store loops, jazz bars, izakaya nights, small techno rooms, and the strange emotional compression that happens when a city only fully reveals itself once you know you have to leave. Released back on July 1, 2026, the eight-track album moves across hard techno, peaktime pressure, acid bass, live sax, and jazz-coded melodic detail while keeping its focus o
  
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• Lana Crow Turns “Japrisot” Into a Summer Synth-Pop Escape

  14-08-2026 20:36 via magneticmag.com
  
  Lana Crow’s “Japrisot” sounds like a summer drive with the rearview mirror doing too much talking.The independent singer-songwriter’s new single is out now, and it takes a bright 80s synth-pop setting, fills it with coastal motion, then threads something more uneasy underneath. Produced by Grammy-winning Tristan Boston, the track uses retro synth tones, driving drum machines, and a clean pop shape, but the writing comes from a stranger and sharper place.The title points t
  
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• Culoe De Song Brings “Moonhound” to Crosstown Rebels

  14-08-2026 19:59 via magneticmag.com
  
  Culoe De Song’s first release on Crosstown Rebels does not feel like a random label move.It feels like two paths finally crossing in public.The South African house artist has spent more than fifteen years building a sound that pulls African electronic music into deeper, more hypnotic club settings. Crosstown Rebels, led by Damian Lazarus, has long operated in a similar zone of ritual, rhythm, late-night atmosphere, and left-of-center house music. So when Culoe lands on the label with Moonh
  
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• Starke Sound Beta5 Makes Stereo Less Intimidating

  14-08-2026 19:51 via magneticmag.com
  
  Not every listening room starts with floorstanders and a giant budget.Most people begin smaller. A desk. A sideboard. A spare bedroom. A small apartment. A vinyl corner that gradually evolves into a full two-channel system. That is where a speaker like the Starke Sound Beta5 makes the most sense.The Beta5 is a compact two-way bookshelf speaker built around a 5.25-inch format and priced at $499 per pair through Vigilant Audio. That puts it in a lane that matters for music fans who want to start b
  
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• MILYAM Turns “Dream” Into Late-Night Art Rap

  14-08-2026 19:32 via magneticmag.com
  
  MILYAM’s “Dream” works best when it does not try to explain itself too quickly.The Los Angeles-based artist builds the single around a hushed rhythmic cadence, dark R&B atmosphere, and a left-field Art Rap approach that feels closer to late-night thought than direct confession. The track is out now after its July 24 release, and it follows the momentum of “Intimacy,” a prior single that became a Semi-Finalist in the R&B/Soul category for Unsigned Only 2026.T
  
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• Leo Sawikin’s “Burning Love” Starts His Next Album Era

  14-08-2026 19:25 via magneticmag.com
  
  Photo Cred Throughout: Tommy KrouseLeo Sawikin’s “Burning Love” is out now, and it gives the Manhattan-born singer-songwriter a clear first step into the next phase of his catalog.The single comes ahead of his forthcoming self-titled full-length album, expected in 2027, and lands after a period in which Sawikin has been steadily widening his profile through intimate club dates, solo support slots, and a run of releases that balance indie edge with classic pop instinct.That bala
  
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• AFROJACK Goes Club-First on “Monopoly Man”

  14-08-2026 18:56 via magneticmag.com
  
  AFROJACK does not need to prove he can make a record feel massive.That part of his career has been proven for years. The more interesting thing about “Monopoly Man” is that it finds him working inside a tighter club frame, making his debut on Loco Dice’s Desolat with a track built around groove, pressure, and a recognizable lead synth that does not feel dropped in for nostalgia.“Monopoly Man” is out now via Desolat, and the label context matters here. Desolat has al
  
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• AVRENNI’s New Album “Apotheya” Is Available To Pre-order Now

  14-08-2026 18:12 via magneticmag.com
  
  AVRENNI drops a brand-new album, ‘Apotheya,’ on his own label Apotheya Records. A full, eight-track project, the collection takes listeners on a journey through high-impact beats, deep, dark soundscapes, and sound design that feels considered and controlled. First debuting with his single, ‘Coldhelix,’ AVRENNI continues his evolution with this next release: following up with an album that epitomises his creative focus and signature sound.  Approac
  
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• Nihil Young Releases Debut Album Compass

  14-08-2026 17:50 via magneticmag.com
  
  Nihil Young’s Compass is out now, and the title fits the way the record is being presented.This is not framed as a debut album chasing a big dramatic reset. It is closer to a record built from markers: the day he met his wife, the birth of his first child, and the kind of personal memories that slowly become reference points for everything that follows.That gives Compass a different kind of pressure than a standard melodic release. Nihil Young has already spent years building a catalog acr
  
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• Best Compact Digital Mixers: What I’d Buy in 2026

  11-08-2026 19:46 via magneticmag.com
  
  A digital mixer sounds like an excessive purchase right up until your live set has a laptop, a couple of stereo synthesizers, a drum machine, vocals, and separate monitoring all asking for a place to go. I have enough hardware connected around my own studio to know how quickly the channel count disappears, and taking that same equipment onstage adds a completely different set of problems. You need to know where every cable goes, you need access to the levels that could cause problems, and you ne
  
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• Red Axes Explain Why Tracks Still Need Time To Tell A Story

  11-08-2026 19:31 via magneticmag.com
  
  Red Axes (@redaxesofficial) have always sounded like a project built from records that were found, lived with, bent out of shape, and then sent back into the room with a new pulse. Dori Sadovnik and Niv Arzi started together in the post-punk and new wave world before reshaping their focus around house, disco, techno, edits, and psychedelic club music, and that background still explains a lot of why their tracks rarely feel locked to one clean category.Their Red Axes remix of Psycho Radio Vs LC A
  
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• How It Was Made: FairPlay & Roo (JO) – Al Jaw (Places & Spaces + Afro House)

  11-08-2026 19:09 via magneticmag.com
  
  Pete Tong signing a record from Jordanian producers FairPlay (@__fairplay) and Roo (JO) (@roo.music) to Places & Spaces already gives “Al Jaw” an interesting position, especially after Tong opened his IMS Ibiza set at Dalt Vila with it and later played it again at Blue Marlin. Support has also come from Black Coffee, Themba, and Robin M, giving the record considerable exposure around its August 7 release.The production itself is much less complicated than that early support might
  
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•  Ibiza Season Survival Guide for Touring Artists

  11-08-2026 19:04 via magneticmag.com
  
  Each summer, the island of Ibiza transforms from a restful island in the summer into the epicenter of the electronic music community.  For more or less five months every year, the island is less a holiday destination than it is a high-performance, flawlessly constructed performance ecosystem in which the world’s best top-billing and underground DJs, hospitality companies, promoters, and private aviation operators dance a carefully synchronized and choreographed routine. In the backgro
  
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• OBNE Beam Splitter V2 Turns One Guitar Into Three Takes

  11-08-2026 18:50 via magneticmag.com
  
  The idea behind Beam Splitter V2 is simple in the best way: make one guitar feel like it was tracked several times.Old Blood Noise Endeavors built the pedal around the sound of a guitar recorded in multiple passes, where each take has a slightly different drive character, timing feel, and placement. Instead of asking the player to recreate that in a DAW after the fact, Beam Splitter V2 puts the concept on the floor.A single input becomes three drive paths. Each path has its own Gain, Volume, and
  
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• SOUNDBOKS Lightboks Deal Brings Party Lighting Down to $200

  11-08-2026 18:44 via magneticmag.com
  
  End-of-summer party gear usually gets framed around sound.That makes sense to a point. A loudspeaker can carry a tailgate, rooftop hang, backyard party, college move-in weekend, or pre-game. But the thing people remember once the playlist is already handled is often the room itself: how it looked, how fast the energy changed, and whether the setup felt like someone actually thought about the atmosphere.That is where SOUNDBOKS Lightboks enters the conversation.The music-reactive party light is cu
  
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• Matt Fax On Jaytech, Ruben de Ronde, BT, And Creative Growth

  10-08-2026 19:29 via magneticmag.com
  
  Matt Fax (@mattfaxmusic) returns to Colorize with Innerframes, a four-track EP out August 5 that pulls together the darker, more futuristic side of his progressive sound without losing the melody and emotional detail that have followed him through the last decade of releases. Opening with “Till You Let Go,” then moving into “Tomorrow,” “High On Life” with 88Birds, and “Oddity,” the EP feels like a project rather than a loose run of singles, which i
  
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• Niall McCallum, ModeAudio’s Co-Founder, On Why Sample Packs Still Need A Human Ear

  10-08-2026 18:50 via magneticmag.com
  
  ModeAudio has built its name on royalty-free sounds that feel a little more considered than the average download folder. The company’s catalog now covers more than 400 collections, ranging from ambient textures, loops, one-shots, MIDI files, field recordings, and synth presets to more focused tools for Serum 2, Reason, Ableton Live, and other production environments. It also gives producers a few easy entry points into that world, including a free taster sound-pack page and a larger 885MB
  
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• Afriqua Talks Running His Own Career Without Waiting For Validation

  10-08-2026 18:36 via magneticmag.com
  
  Image Cred: youcancallmeo_Rebirth Records is marking 20 years with Rebirth 20 Part Two, out August 7, and the second chapter of the anniversary project digs deeper into the label’s roots, community, and creative DNA.
  The release brings together long-running Rebirth artists, hidden catalogue moments, and new reinterpretations from names including Red Axes, Darren Emerson, Soul of Hex, Elado, Valentino Kanzyani, and Afriqua, whose remix of Square Mode’s “The Wheel” appears
  
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• Shield Talks Rebirth Records, Long-Term Vision, And Rebirth 20

  10-08-2026 18:35 via magneticmag.com
  
  photos by Cosmo Rush (cosmorush_)Rebirth Records is marking 20 years with Rebirth 20 Part Two, out now as of August 7, and this second chapter looks deeper into the label’s roots, community, and creative DNA. The release brings together long-standing Rebirth artists, hidden catalog moments, and contemporary reinterpretations from names including Corrado Bucci, Chromatic Filters, Blue Mondays, Federico Baracco, Afriqua, Red Axes, Soul of Hex, Darren Emerson, Valentino Kanzyani, Ramonpang, a
  
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• Claudio Huston On Staying Grounded Inside DJ Culture

  10-08-2026 18:34 via magneticmag.com
  
  Rebirth Records is marking 20 years with Rebirth 20 Part Two, out August 7, and this second chapter looks past the most obvious anniversary names to focus on the label’s deeper relationships, hidden catalog pieces, and long-running creative community. The release features contributions from Corrado Bucci, Chromatic Filters, Blue Mondays, Matteo Gamba, Federico Baracco, Afriqua, Red Axes, Soul of Hex, Darren Emerson, Valentino Kanzyani, and Claudio Huston under his Memo Framed alias, whose
  
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• Federico Baracco Talks Confidence, Routine, And Rebirth 20

  10-08-2026 18:33 via magneticmag.com
  
  Federico Baracco‘s (@federico.baracco) Tribute” appears on Rebirth 20 Part Two, out now as of August 7, as part of the label’s 20-year anniversary project. The compilation looks deeper into the Rebirth Records catalog and community, bringing together long-standing label artists, hidden catalog pieces, and contemporary reinterpretations from names including Corrado Bucci, Chromatic Filters, Blue Mondays, Matteo Gamba, Memo Framed, Afriqua, Red Axes, Soul of Hex, Darren Emerson,
  
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• fig Releases “The Unknown,” a Melodic House Track About Finding Calm Without Answers

  10-08-2026 18:04 via magneticmag.com
  
  A lot of electronic music treats escape like the whole point.fig’s “The Unknown” works a little differently. The Nashville producer wrote the track during a stretch of life when he was trying to find a place to live, and the uncertainty around that period naturally found its way into the record. The result is not a song that pretends everything is fine. It is a track about learning how to keep moving when the next step is not clear yet.That gives “The Unknown” its e
  
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• LEWITT LCT 440 PURE Stereo Pair Review: Two Microphones, One Seriously Smart Investment

  10-08-2026 01:26 via magneticmag.com
  
  Table of ContentsOverviewLEWITT: Quietly Becoming One of Audio’s Best Success StoriesBuild Quality & DesignWhy Buy a Matched Stereo Pair Instead of Two Individual Microphones?SpecificationsWho Is This Stereo Pair For?Setting Them Up Inside Your DAWXY RecordingORTFSpaced Pair (A/B)Mid/Side?What Audio Interface Do You Need?Final ThoughtsOverviewThe Lewitt LCT 440 Pure stereo pair might just be the solution you have been looking for or didn’t know you needed! Stereo recording has qu
  
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• Roland Keeps the 808 Moving Forward

  08-08-2026 22:46 via magneticmag.com
  
  The TR-808 is one of those rare instruments that stopped belonging to the company that made it almost as soon as artists got their hands on it.Roland released the TR-808 Rhythm Composer in 1980, and the machine’s strange version of realism became its superpower. The kick did not sound like a real kick. The cowbell did not sound like a real cowbell. The whole thing sat in an uncanny space between imitation and invention, which is exactly why it kept spreading.Roland’s 808 Day 2026 cel
  
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• Factory Town Reveals Full Lineup for Hocus Pocus 2026:

  08-08-2026 00:41 via magneticmag.com
  
  Miami’s biggest Halloween celebration is officially taking shape. Factory Town and Insomniac have unveiled the complete lineup for Hocus Pocus 2026: <Dystopia Halloween>, returning to Hialeah’s sprawling nightlife complex from Friday, October 30, through Sunday, November 1.Now entering its sixth edition, the three-day festival will bring more than 100 artists across five stages to Factory Town, continuing its evolution into one of the most anticipated electronic music events on
  
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• The 15 Best Disco & Funk Tracks Of July 2026

  08-08-2026 00:27 via magneticmag.com
  
  July was a hot one, and I don’t just mean the temperature! It’s time again to listen to 15 of the best Disco & Funk tracks of the month, so whether you are a fan of Disco, Funk, Nu-Disco, Disco House, Yacht Disco, or anything in between, there should be something new for you to enjoy!Check out this month’s SoundCloud playlistRead Past Disco and Funk Charts HereD’Swing – Dream It ft. Lorna Harris [Razor-N-Tape]Danny Kane, using his 90s UK Garage moniker D’S
  
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• The Sway by Audima Labs Could Be the Most Innovative MIDI Controller of 2026

  07-08-2026 21:29 via magneticmag.com
  
  Table of ContentsBuild Quality and HardwareGesture Control and User FriendlinessSoftware and the Theory EngineCompatibility and SetupIn the Field: Illenium’s Sphere ResidencyPricing and AvailabilityFinal Thoughts – Who The Sway is For and Who The Sway is Not ForEvery few years a piece of gear comes along that makes you rethink what a MIDI controller is supposed to do. The Sway, from Australian-based startup Audima Labs, is one of those devices. Instead of keys, pads, or touchstrips,
  
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• Foreign Rider Clothing Spotlight: Durable Menswear for Nightlife, Travel, and Creative Culture

  07-08-2026 20:45 via magneticmag.com
  
  All images are courtesy of Foreign Rider ClothingThe best clothing for nightlife rarely starts at the club.It starts earlier. In the studio. In the airport. In the hotel lobby. At soundcheck. In the back of a rideshare. Outside the venue at 1:30 a.m. when the night has already gone longer than planned and the outfit still has to feel intentional.That is where Foreign Rider gets interesting.The brand is not presenting itself as clubwear, which is part of the appeal. Its foundation is closer to du
  
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• DeHusslar Turns Māngere Into Bass Pressure

  07-08-2026 19:44 via magneticmag.com
  
  Festival-ready bass music often gets described as if it came from nowhere.Big low end, distorted synths, a vocal element, a track title, a release date, and suddenly the record is treated like it was made only for the speaker system. DeHusslar, who this article was made in partnership with, has a new banger called “II VII V DUB,” and it has a more specific starting point than almost anything I’ve heard in a while.The new single, released July 31, comes from Māngere, South
  
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