Teenage Engineering’s EUR 189 EP-136 K.O. Sidekick is a battery-powered, expandable two-channel mixer, FX box and interface that turns a pair of EP-133s into a pocket DJ rig, and the reviews are landing high.
South African artists banked R504 million ($30.69m) on Spotify in 2025, but 74% of it came from listeners outside the country, which makes amapiano a foreign-demand export the people who built it largely don't control.
Om Records reached 30 years and more than 800 releases by refusing the big-room EDM turn that Kaskade and Claude VonStroke rode out of its own roster, and founder Chris Smith is candid about what that choice cost.
Music On's 20,000-capacity Amsterdam edition was scrapped at 9:25am on the day of the festival because the city could not safety-clear a tent the promoter swapped in back in March, and a Dutch court has now backed the mayor's call.
Arturia's Memory V is a 149 dollar software take on Moog's 1982 Memorymoog that doubles the polyphony to twelve voices, adds MPE and ships with over 300 presets.
Berlin recorded fewer visitors and fewer overnight stays in 2025 than in 2024, and the city's own tourism boss is openly linking the dip to a shrinking club scene and a retreating Ryanair.
Manfredi Romano started Life and Death in 2010 because Dixon, Damian Lazarus and others all passed on the record that became its number-one debut, and he now signs artists on character and hard work, not Instagram numbers.
Erica Synths and Richie Hawtin have shipped Bullfrog Drums, a 600-euro seven-voice sampling drum machine that pairs a deep XoX sequencer with a deliberately approachable layout aimed at people learning to program rhythm.
FÉLIN's ReDisco scheme, which has recycled 1.2 million unsold records since 2023, is opening to the public for the first time, and IMPALA has named it the European indie sector's sustainability cause to mark EU Green Week.
At Rio's Hot Beats conference, Beatport pitched Brazil as one of the world's top-10 electronic markets, pushed its Brazilian Funk genre to the local trade, and rolled out a 60 percent discount in reais to win the buyers it has been losing.
At InfoComm in June, L-Acoustics gives its CS1 cardioid sub and its machine-learning Source Intelligence platform their first hands-on showing, pitching tighter low end for noise-sensitive sites and selling the vocal tool as a recurring software licence.
5 Magazine marks two decades with 'With Love,' its first ever vinyl pressing, commissioning fresh tracks from Chicago house elders Mike Dunn, Jamie 3:26 and Roy Davis Jr., the same season the city formally honored Dunn.
Beatport quietly ran a sale process in 2025, did not get the deal it wanted, and has now moved its CEO upstairs, promoted a new chief, and leaned into car-park raves instead.
Amnesia Ibiza has confirmed its full 2026 Pyramid season, opening 14 June with Ricardo Villalobos b2b Raresh on the Terraza and running every Sunday through 4 October.
Tech house has led Beatport sales three years running, but Afro house is now the platform's fastest-growing genre and closing on the top five, and that split is what will set A&R budgets and festival billing in 2026.
Buchla's Ziggy is a 999-dollar desktop synth that takes the brand's famous complex oscillator and low-pass gate, makes them digitally controlled with over 100 saveable presets, and ditches the patch cables, the most accessible Buchla ever built.
Ableton has put a JavaScript and TypeScript SDK into public beta for Live 12 Suite, so producers can write their own context-menu tools instead of waiting for features to ship.
Elektron's Outbox 8 is a USB breakout box that splits any Overbridge instrument into eight DC-coupled balanced outs you assign per track, for a likely 249 to 299 euros this summer.
Sonicware's Deconstruct Minimal is a portable groovebox aimed squarely at hypnotic minimal and house, pairing a ten-track drum machine with an acid-leaning bass synth and shipping mid-June from 299 dollars.
Roger Sanchez released 'Spectrum' on 5 June 2026, his first studio album in two decades, and is taking it to Pacha Ibiza for 10 straight Saturdays.
Avant Gardner's $155m bankruptcy ended with the 32,000 sq ft Mirage demolished by March 2026 and Pacha New York, owned by Dubai's FIVE Holdings, holding the lease on the empty lot.
Ibiza club ticketing hit 160 million euros in 2025 across fewer nights per venue, entry roughly doubled over a decade, a Hï VIP pass now runs 1,000 euros, and the island stripped out more than 14,000 tourist beds, the numbers of a scene repositioning as luxury and shedding its affordable crowd.
Chris Stussy turned a singles-and-EPs subculture into a 19-track debut album on his own Up The Stuss, and the format choice, not the music, is the signal that deep-tech is professionalising.
UNVRS was voted the No.1 club on the planet in its debut year by spending a reported 40 to 70 million euros to turn the old Privilege site into an arena-scale room, resetting what a superclub now costs to build.
