The Warehouse Project turns 20 in 2026 with a free outdoor photography exhibition in Manchester's Spinningfields, running alongside a WHP26 season of new shows at Depot Mayfield.
Over Tomorrowland's first 2026 weekend (17-19 July, Boom, Belgium), police made 38 arrests, including 13 alleged drug dealers, and fined 192 festival-goers a combined 48,150 euros for drug possession.
On A24’s podcast, Thomas Bangalter says Daft Punk had to swap synthesizers for an 85-piece orchestra to score Tron: Legacy, calling the process ‘depressing’ and ‘so limiting.’
At its July 2026 edition inside the UNESCO-listed Zeche Zollverein in Essen, Germany, Stone Techno Festival introduced a fifth stage, the Listening Floor: a circular amphitheatre built for seated ambient and experimental listening rather than dancing, complete with its own wine bar.
Spotify confirmed on September 25, 2025 that it removed more than 75 million spam and AI-generated tracks from its catalogue over the prior 12 months, while rolling out a spam filter and a stricter ban on unauthorized AI voice clones.
Neuroscience shows a festival's flood of bass, light and bodies overwhelms the brain's capacity for conscious analysis, forcing the prefrontal cortex offline and producing the flow and awe states ravers keep chasing back.
Awakenings has booked eight events across five days at Amsterdam's Sugarfactory for ADE 2026, mixing harder-than-techno, tech house and a Jeff Mills headline set into what the promoter calls its most diverse programme to date.
Polish Eurorack maker Xaoc Devices has released Skopje, a 6HP dual quantizer with full SCALA microtonal support, alongside Budapeszt, a stereo dual spectral processor built around comb filtering.
A month after the Consell d'Eivissa demanded clubs blacklist DJs who play illegal villa parties, the concierge company Luxury Dimensions Ibiza ran two five-star villa raves simultaneously, drawing roughly 1,000 guests combined.
References to two unannounced Behringer clones, a Korg Mini Pops 7 style rhythm box and a Yamaha CS-80 inspired CS Mini synth, have surfaced inside the company's own Synthtribe software before any official announcement.
AudioKit's free King of FM app for iOS and macOS, an FM synth built on samples from the Yamaha DX7 lineage, has added microtonal tuning in its version 1.9 update, letting anyone step outside the standard 12-note scale at no cost.
Musik Hack has opened HyFi to the public: a browser-based, subscription-free mastering platform that runs on the same DSP as its Master Plan plugin, with tracks mastered from $0.99 on a pay-by-the-minute credit system.
Sydney Blu's nonprofit Change The Beat, rebranded from 23by23, has locked partner labels Drumcode, Armada and Anjunadeep into a pledge of 300 record deals for women and gender-expansive artists by 2028, rising to 1,500 within a decade.
EMJIE's collaboration with LP Giobbi, "Spirit Higher" on Yes Yes Yes, has crossed 500,000 streams within a month of a fresh surge in attention, and she was recognized at the Femmy's x Billboard ceremony during Miami Music Week.
Jamie Jones and Lee Foss's Hot Creations label is bringing its tech house parties back to a newly renovated Bora Bora at Playa Soleil in Playa d'en Bossa, with Friday dates on August 7, September 4 and September 25.
Layton Giordani and KASIA release "The Realm" on Drumcode, Giordani's first release on Adam Beyer's label since February 2025, built around the 1992 vocal acapella from C'hantal's own track of the same name.
Munich's Regional Court will rule on July 31 whether Suno illegally trained its AI on copyrighted music, in a case GEMA brought that lawyers expect to be the world's first major verdict on AI-music copyright.
Early VST-era developer Tweakbench has reissued its entire 22-plugin catalog after a two-decade absence and added a new generative instrument called Tendril, according to Synth Anatomy.
AlphaTheta's rekordbox 7.2.16 update, rolled out July 9, 2026, lets Phase wireless turntables control tracks in HID mode, no timecode cable and no audio interface required.
Junction 2 marks its 10th anniversary at Boston Manor Park on July 25-26 (plus August 2) by handing its opening day to fabric London, the club's first full curation of a UK festival.
Berlin's Digital Delight Records drops the 21-track compilation Infinite Sequence on July 30, 2026, fusing Chicago house's drive with the label's own minimal and deep-tech sound.
Arrival Events is opening Vault, billed as Leeds' biggest-ever warehouse venue, in a Yorkshire nightlife scene that has lost 45% of its dancefloors since 2020.
Splice has acquired UK orchestral and cinematic sample-library specialist Spitfire Audio for a reported $50 million, a deal Music Business Worldwide says has just closed as Splice pushes deeper into AI-assisted music creation.
Behringer has opened pre-orders for the AKS Mini, a sub-100-pound analog synth built directly off the EMS Synthi AKS circuitry that Pink Floyd and Brian Eno used to define a sound.
Roughly 100 Native Instruments employees, including its whole customer support staff, have reportedly been laid off about ten weeks after inMusic completed its acquisition of the company, according to insider accounts first reported by Synth Anatomy.
SoundCloud announced on Wednesday it is acquiring Nina Protocol, the independent artist-focused platform that shut down after failing to find a sustainable revenue model, letting Nina's artists migrate their catalogs, followers and creative work over through an opt-in transfer.
A new Remitly study crowns DJ the most-searched dream job in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, but insiders describe an oversaturated, gig-to-gig profession where pay trails the national wage, competition is brutal and burnout is common.
Native Instruments has released Super*Saw, a $99/GBP89/EUR99 synth built entirely from producer A.G. Cook's own supersaw preset sessions, available now.
RESISTANCE Ibiza's Season 5 residency opens at Amnesia tonight, July 22, running every Wednesday through September 16, with Adam Beyer as season resident and Eric Prydz returning to the club as a co-headliner for the first time in over ten years.
fabric and Junction 2 are staging a joint outdoor daytime techno event on July 25 at Boston Manor Park in London, with Nina Kraviz, Jeff Mills and Marcel Dettmann b2b DJ Hell across three rooms.
TIDAL's ban on royalties for wholly AI-generated tracks went fully live on July 15, 2026, making it the first major streaming service to cut off payment entirely rather than just label the content.
Jean-Michel Jarre commissioned French boutique builder Pierre Jean Tardiveau to hand-build a one-of-a-kind, four-voice hybrid synthesizer called the JARRE Lab One, with a possible consumer version still years away.
Michael Smith, who pleaded guilty to running hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs through bot accounts to steal more than $8 million in streaming royalties, faces sentencing on July 29, the same month Spotify pulled roughly 500,000 fraudulent streams tied to Kalshi prediction-market betting.
BLITZ, the Munich techno club built inside a former Deutsches Museum congress hall, closes for good after nearly a decade with a four-day farewell weekend from July 31 to August 3 headlined by Âme, Carl Craig, Marcel Dettmann and Seth Troxler.
Minimal Audio's new Current Expansion Player plugin lets producers buy just EPROM's 60-patch Memory Rites sound set for $29, without owning the full Current synth.
Germany's GEMA collecting society is set to receive Europe's first major court verdict on whether AI music generators like Suno must license the copyrighted songs they train on, with Munich's Landgericht reading its ruling on July 31.
A venue-wide power outage forced UNVRS Ibiza to cut short John Summit's July 20 Experts Only residency night, and neither the club nor The Night League has explained what happened.
