Gulf Coast Synthesis has built a standalone tape DAW that models a 24-track reel-to-reel down to the wow, flutter and oxide age, a whole studio designed around tape's limitations instead of hiding them.
Acid Drip is a fully open-source DIY groovebox that pairs a 303-style acid bassline synth with a drum machine on one Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller, and every file is free on GitHub.
RANDOM8 is an 8HP, 8-channel random voltage generator that arrived as a 275-euro Eurorack module and as an identical, free VCV Rack version the same week.
The Amsterdam techno club that took over the celebrated De School space announced on 19 June that it will shut, with a final event set for November 2026 and no reason given.
In 1997, two unknown French promoters spent their last money on boombox beach promo to land Daft Punk's first Ibiza gig. It worked, around 10,000 people came, and it rewired who the island would book.
Daft Punk's legendary live sound came from flopped, second-hand Roland machines bought cheap in the 90s. Reverb's data shows the same boxes now sell for tens of thousands, and rebuilding the rig today runs deep into five figures.
Polyend has released tracker-lib, a free TypeScript library that reads, writes and builds files for the Tracker, Tracker Mini and Tracker+: the company's first step toward opening its groovebox ecosystem and letting the community build its own editors and tools.
On 19 June, Fred again.. and a roomful of mentors ran a free songwriting and production day at Abbey Road for 15 trans+ producers, 15 songwriters and 15 industry pros: the first edition of a new series called Trans+ Future Sounds.
Funktion-One has thrown its weight behind object-based spatial audio, adopting the Holophonix platform and proving it in a Dutch venue, while insisting raw sound quality comes before any immersive trickery.
Mint XL, a 2,500-capacity club, opens on 25 September inside the shuttered PRYZM on Woodhouse Lane, with Craig Richards, Enzo Siragusa, Fumiya Tanaka and Sonja Moonear christening a corporate chain venue reborn for the underground.
The South African hitmaker behind 'Uwrongo' has signed to UK label PLAYY. Records and drops his first single under the deal, the Afro house cut 'Heno Babayo', on 26 June, his first new label home since leaving Universal Music South Africa.
House music is bigger, whiter and straighter than it has ever been. As the genre it built turns into a multi-billion-dollar business, the Black and queer communities that invented it are asking who the floor still belongs to.
The 1990s British electronic act return with The Second Bite, twelve catalogue tracks rebuilt from the ground up by founders Jon Fugler, Mike Tournier and Julian Nugent, led out by a Daniel Avery remix of Atom Bomb.
A free, open-source Max tool from researcher Jasper Zheng turns the latent space of neural audio models like RAVE into a surface you steer by hand, in real time, entirely on your own machine.
The Library of Congress added Jamie Principle's 'Your Love' to its National Recording Registry, filing a Chicago house anthem next to Martin Luther King and the moon landing. Here is why it belongs there.
Announced on 19 June, the LiveTrak L6 is a portable, battery-powered mixer and multitrack recorder that captures a whole hardware jam in 32-bit float with no laptop. Price: 299 dollars.
For thirteen years it was a read-only shrine. This week it became a tool: a Directory to the Underground that links 40,000 rave flyers to living profiles of artists, promoters and clubs.
China's highest-ranked club used its third birthday to open three new Shanghai venues and confirm a model the West is fighting: the club as a brand-funded, refresh-every-45-days entertainment ecosystem.
Sasha Shulgin, known as “the godfather of ecstasy”, revived MDMA, created 2C-B and mapped hundreds of psychedelic compounds from a homemade laboratory in California. The rave industry built a global economy around states of consciousness he helped unlock, while most dancefloors never learned his name.
Peaktime launched June 18 with a transparent, signal-weighted ranking of 300-plus house and techno DJs. It is the most credible attempt yet to replace the void left when Resident Advisor shut its poll nine years ago.
Three thousand years of arrivals, the mystery of Es Vedrà off the southwest coast, and a club scene raising its prices: why the island's pull runs deeper than any lineup.
Carl Cox opens his second season at Ibiza's hyperclub this Sunday with an all-night set and first-time B2Bs, but luxury pricing and a David Guetta date are driving as much debate as the music.
In the space of six months, the Belgian techno artist disclosed two miscarriages on tour and called out the scene's collective failure to protect women from sexual violence, naming the dynamics no one else was naming.
The Kaoss Pad V arrives with dual-touch XY control, a new Voice FX engine, and a Hi-Z instrument input, but USB-B and RCA connectors in 2026 remind you Korg still has some old habits.
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