https://timetohouse.comThe underground house music referenceenhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/monegros-desert-festival-2026-underground-or-hugehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/monegros-desert-festival-2026-underground-or-hugeFri, 24 Jul 2026 22:48:13 GMTMonegros Desert Festival sold out its 33rd edition at 60,000 tickets, the biggest crowd in its 32-year history, and did it without swapping a single underground name for a mainstream headliner.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/warehouse-project-20-years-manchester-exhibitionhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/warehouse-project-20-years-manchester-exhibitionFri, 24 Jul 2026 17:58:28 GMTThe 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tomorrowland-2026-weekend-one-drug-arrests-fineshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tomorrowland-2026-weekend-one-drug-arrests-finesFri, 24 Jul 2026 17:41:22 GMTOver 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/bangalter-tron-legacy-a24-podcasthttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/bangalter-tron-legacy-a24-podcastFri, 24 Jul 2026 17:39:55 GMTOn 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.’https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/stone-techno-listening-floorhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/stone-techno-listening-floorFri, 24 Jul 2026 17:39:39 GMTAt 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spotify-75-million-ai-spam-tracks-removedhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spotify-75-million-ai-spam-tracks-removedFri, 24 Jul 2026 13:47:41 GMTSpotify 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/brain-cannot-process-a-festival-neurosciencehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/brain-cannot-process-a-festival-neuroscienceFri, 24 Jul 2026 13:47:36 GMTNeuroscience 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/awakenings-ade-2026-sugarfactory-lineuphttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/awakenings-ade-2026-sugarfactory-lineupFri, 24 Jul 2026 12:47:18 GMTAwakenings 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/xaoc-devices-skopje-budapeszt-quantizer-spectralhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/xaoc-devices-skopje-budapeszt-quantizer-spectralFri, 24 Jul 2026 12:47:12 GMTPolish 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ibiza-villa-party-dj-blacklist-dimensionshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ibiza-villa-party-dj-blacklist-dimensionsFri, 24 Jul 2026 12:47:10 GMTA 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/behringer-mini-pops-7-cs-mini-leakhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/behringer-mini-pops-7-cs-mini-leakFri, 24 Jul 2026 12:47:03 GMTReferences 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/audiokit-king-of-fm-microtonality-updatehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/audiokit-king-of-fm-microtonality-updateFri, 24 Jul 2026 12:46:59 GMTAudioKit'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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/musik-hack-hyfi-masteringhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/musik-hack-hyfi-masteringFri, 24 Jul 2026 12:46:52 GMTMusik 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/change-the-beat-1500-deals-pledgehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/change-the-beat-1500-deals-pledgeFri, 24 Jul 2026 12:46:49 GMTSydney 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/emjie-lp-giobbi-spirit-higherhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/emjie-lp-giobbi-spirit-higherFri, 24 Jul 2026 12:46:44 GMTEMJIE'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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/hot-creations-bora-bora-ibiza-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/hot-creations-bora-bora-ibiza-2026Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:46:35 GMTJamie 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/layton-giordani-kasia-the-realm-drumcodehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/layton-giordani-kasia-the-realm-drumcodeFri, 24 Jul 2026 12:46:28 GMTLayton 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/gema-suno-munich-verdict-july-31-rulinghttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/gema-suno-munich-verdict-july-31-rulingThu, 23 Jul 2026 16:14:38 GMTMunich'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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tweakbench-returns-tendril-synthhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tweakbench-returns-tendril-synthThu, 23 Jul 2026 16:14:31 GMTEarly 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/rekordbox-wireless-dvs-phase-turntablismhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/rekordbox-wireless-dvs-phase-turntablismThu, 23 Jul 2026 16:14:28 GMTAlphaTheta'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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/junction-2-fabric-10th-anniversaryhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/junction-2-fabric-10th-anniversaryThu, 23 Jul 2026 16:14:22 GMTJunction 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/digital-delight-infinite-sequence-chicago-berlinhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/digital-delight-infinite-sequence-chicago-berlinThu, 23 Jul 2026 16:14:12 GMTBerlin'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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/vault-leeds-warehouse-yorkshire-dancefloor-crisishttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/vault-leeds-warehouse-yorkshire-dancefloor-crisisThu, 23 Jul 2026 16:14:02 GMTArrival 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/splice-acquires-spitfire-audiohttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/splice-acquires-spitfire-audioThu, 23 Jul 2026 16:13:56 GMTSplice 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/behringer-aks-mini-ems-synthi-clonehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/behringer-aks-mini-ems-synthi-cloneThu, 23 Jul 2026 16:13:46 GMTBehringer 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/inmusic-native-instruments-layoffs-support-teamhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/inmusic-native-instruments-layoffs-support-teamThu, 23 Jul 2026 16:13:43 GMTRoughly 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/soundcloud-acquires-nina-protocolhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/soundcloud-acquires-nina-protocolThu, 23 Jul 2026 16:13:40 GMTSoundCloud 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dj-most-searched-dream-job-in-the-ushttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dj-most-searched-dream-job-in-the-usWed, 22 Jul 2026 14:20:34 GMTA 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/native-instruments-super-saw-ag-cookhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/native-instruments-super-saw-ag-cookWed, 22 Jul 2026 14:05:02 GMTNative Instruments has released Super*Saw, a $99/GBP89/EUR99 synth built entirely from producer A.G. Cook's own supersaw preset sessions, available now.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/resistance-ibiza-season-5-amnesia-eric-prydzhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/resistance-ibiza-season-5-amnesia-eric-prydzWed, 22 Jul 2026 14:04:56 GMTRESISTANCE 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fabric-junction-2-boston-manor-parkhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fabric-junction-2-boston-manor-parkWed, 22 Jul 2026 14:04:50 GMTfabric 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tidal-ai-music-royalty-ban-livehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tidal-ai-music-royalty-ban-liveWed, 22 Jul 2026 14:04:46 GMTTIDAL'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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/jean-michel-jarre-syntesla-lab-onehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/jean-michel-jarre-syntesla-lab-oneWed, 22 Jul 2026 14:04:41 GMTJean-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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ai-streaming-fraud-sentencing-royalty-poolhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ai-streaming-fraud-sentencing-royalty-poolWed, 22 Jul 2026 14:04:33 GMTMichael 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/blitz-munich-closing-farewell-weekendhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/blitz-munich-closing-farewell-weekendWed, 22 Jul 2026 14:04:29 GMTBLITZ, 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/minimal-audio-eprom-current-expansion-playerhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/minimal-audio-eprom-current-expansion-playerWed, 22 Jul 2026 14:04:25 GMTMinimal 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/gema-suno-munich-verdict-july-31https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/gema-suno-munich-verdict-july-31Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:04:20 GMTGermany'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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/unvrs-ibiza-power-outage-john-summit-cancelledhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/unvrs-ibiza-power-outage-john-summit-cancelledWed, 22 Jul 2026 14:04:15 GMTA 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/us-visa-crackdown-touring-djshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/us-visa-crackdown-touring-djsTue, 21 Jul 2026 16:26:10 GMTTightened US visa processing has already forced acts like Kongero, Enter Shikari and FKA twigs to cancel American tour dates, and Brazilian DJ Alok is warning that international touring artists broadly are next.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/apple-music-price-hike-djs-dont-see-ithttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/apple-music-price-hike-djs-dont-see-itTue, 21 Jul 2026 16:26:05 GMTApple Music has raised subscription prices across the US, UK and Europe for the first time since October 2022, blaming rising licensing costs, per DJ Mag.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dance-electronic-cd-sales-beat-vinyl-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dance-electronic-cd-sales-beat-vinyl-2026Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:22:06 GMTDance and electronic music posted the fastest physical-sales growth of any US genre in the first half of 2026, and per DJ Mag's data, CDs grew 16% while vinyl managed just 2.3%.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/denver-4am-nightlife-billhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/denver-4am-nightlife-billTue, 21 Jul 2026 15:14:02 GMTDenver's City Council voted 10-1 to advance a bill that lets nightlife venues stay open until 4 a.m., though alcohol service still cuts off at 2 a.m. under state law, per the Denver Gazette.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/rekordbox-7216-phase-wireless-beatsourcehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/rekordbox-7216-phase-wireless-beatsourceTue, 21 Jul 2026 15:13:50 GMTRekordbox 7.2.16, out July 9, lets Phase timecode vinyl connect wirelessly over HID mode, finally freeing DVS scratch DJs from the USB tether that used to run to the booth.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/nothing-club-nothing-fund-grassroots-promotershttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/nothing-club-nothing-fund-grassroots-promotersTue, 21 Jul 2026 15:13:44 GMTConsumer tech brand Nothing is giving four grassroots nightlife organizers $10,000 each through its new Club Nothing fund, backed by Charli XCX, The Weeknd and Swedish House Mafia, with applications open through August 9, 2026.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/charlotte-de-witte-closes-tomorrowland-mainstage-technohttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/charlotte-de-witte-closes-tomorrowland-mainstage-technoTue, 21 Jul 2026 15:13:38 GMTCharlotte de Witte was unveiled as the surprise closer of Tomorrowland 2026's Weekend 1 Mainstage, fifteen years after she opened that same stage under the male alias Raving George.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/synido-tempokey-k32-play-battery-midi-controllerhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/synido-tempokey-k32-play-battery-midi-controllerTue, 21 Jul 2026 15:13:32 GMTSynido's new TempoKEY K32 Play is a 32-key, battery-powered MIDI controller with a built-in General MIDI sound module, Bluetooth, 8 knobs, 8 pads and an OLED screen, selling for $149.99 through Amazon.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tomorrowland-fireworks-banned-wildfire-riskhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tomorrowland-fireworks-banned-wildfire-riskTue, 21 Jul 2026 15:13:28 GMTBelgium's Code Orange wildfire alert forced the mayors of Boom and Rumst, backed by Antwerp province's governor, to ban all fireworks and pyrotechnics at Tomorrowland's opening weekend, and organisers say they found out from the media.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fkfx-audio-opus-55-chorophonic-synthhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fkfx-audio-opus-55-chorophonic-synthTue, 21 Jul 2026 15:13:24 GMTFKFX Audio has released Opus 55, a synthesizer plugin built on a new "chorophonic synthesis" method that plays an ensemble of independent monophonic voices instead of one polyphonic engine, and for now it's only available to $25-tier Patreon supporters ahead of a September public release at $89.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ob-6-unofficial-editor-mac-voidcontrolhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ob-6-unofficial-editor-mac-voidcontrolMon, 20 Jul 2026 11:39:34 GMTVoidcontrol MIDI has released a macOS version of its OB-6 Unofficial Editor, ending roughly a month of Windows-only availability for the deep-editing, DAW-integrated plugin built for Sequential's OB-6 analog synth.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/superstruct-dissolves-apenkooi-dgtl-awakeningshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/superstruct-dissolves-apenkooi-dgtl-awakeningsMon, 20 Jul 2026 11:39:31 GMTKKR-backed Superstruct Entertainment has dissolved Apenkooi Events, the Amsterdam promoter behind DGTL, absorbing DGTL into rival brand Awakenings while shutting down STRAF_WERK, Pleinvrees and Amsterdam Open Air outright.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sinevibes-effects-every-korg-logue-synthhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sinevibes-effects-every-korg-logue-synthMon, 20 Jul 2026 11:39:26 GMTSinevibes has made its full 20-plus-effect collection compatible across Korg's entire 'logue lineup, prologue, minilogue xd, NTS-1, NTS-1 mkII, NTS-3 and microKORG2, ending years of fragmented plugin support between the models.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/behringer-jt2-eurorack-jupiter-8https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/behringer-jt2-eurorack-jupiter-8Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:39:20 GMTBehringer's JT-2, a paraphonic Eurorack module built around a single Jupiter-8-style analog voice, is now shipping for $259 (£154 / €177), with Poly Chain letting multiple units link into a 16-voice synth.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/partialstring-free-fdtd-string-synthhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/partialstring-free-fdtd-string-synthMon, 20 Jul 2026 11:39:05 GMTDifferent Instruments has released PartialString, a free VST3/AU plugin that models plucked strings using finite-difference time-domain synthesis, the computationally demanding method usually reserved for pricey studio-grade instruments.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/loopop-synth-stand-3d-print-toolhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/loopop-synth-stand-3d-print-toolMon, 20 Jul 2026 11:38:54 GMTSynth reviewer Loopop released a free, browser-based app on July 18, 2026 that lets producers design and export custom 3D-printable stands and pedalboards fitted to their exact hardware.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/milkshake-festival-worldpride-amsterdam-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/milkshake-festival-worldpride-amsterdam-2026Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:38:50 GMTMilkshake Festival returns to Amsterdam's Westerpark on July 25 and 26, 2026 with nine stages, over 1,000 performers and a voguing catwalk, timed to open WorldPride week for the city's house, disco and techno crowd.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/convertwithmoss-19-sampler-format-converterhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/convertwithmoss-19-sampler-format-converterMon, 20 Jul 2026 11:38:32 GMTConvertWithMoss, the free open-source multi-sample converter, shipped version 19 on July 18, 2026, adding support for 11 more hardware sampler formats, including Polyend Tracker, Renoise XRNI, Elektron Tonverk and three separate Roland patch types.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/allen-heath-sq-plus-avantis-2-club-soundhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/allen-heath-sq-plus-avantis-2-club-soundMon, 20 Jul 2026 11:38:19 GMTAllen & Heath has folded its flagship dLive effects engine, RackUltra FX, into the SQ5+, SQ6+ and SQ7+ consoles and pushed it to existing Avantis desks via a 2.0 firmware update, meaning the mixers that run sound at clubs and mid-size venues worldwide no longer need an outboard rack for vocal tuning, harmonizing or saturation.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/elrow-pacha-new-york-sells-outhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/elrow-pacha-new-york-sells-outMon, 20 Jul 2026 11:38:17 GMTelrow's theatrical 'Dance With the Serpent' takeover sold out two nights at Pacha New York on July 17 and 18, 2026, the first global party brand to run its own production inside the venue since it emerged from Avant Gardner's bankruptcy and reopened under Pacha ownership in June.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/bogota-monumentum-rave-city-policyhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/bogota-monumentum-rave-city-policyMon, 20 Jul 2026 11:38:10 GMTBogotá's Mayor's Office and the Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño have formally converted Monumentum: Distrito Rave from an independent festival into an official, government-backed electronic music event, with its fifth edition landing free in Plaza de Bolívar on July 25.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dirk-ulrich-buys-back-plugin-alliance-brainworxhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dirk-ulrich-buys-back-plugin-alliance-brainworxMon, 20 Jul 2026 11:38:06 GMTDirk Ulrich, the founder of Plugin Alliance and Brainworx, has reacquired both companies from inMusic effective July 15, 2026, folding them into his new RCKFRC Audio Group alongside Manley Labs and Apogee, per Sound on Sound.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/refx-rippler-commercial-tiagolrhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/refx-rippler-commercial-tiagolrMon, 20 Jul 2026 11:38:02 GMTreFX is releasing a commercial version of Tiagolr's free physical-modeling synth Rippler, months after the developer pulled the open-source repo to sign it to the plugin maker.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/beatport-greenroom-artists-labelshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/beatport-greenroom-artists-labelsMon, 20 Jul 2026 11:37:59 GMTBeatport's new free Greenroom hub gives any artist or label with music on the store real-time access to downloads, DJ-follower growth and streaming numbers that used to be scattered or invisible.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ravers-steps-marathon-runners-glastonbury-studyhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ravers-steps-marathon-runners-glastonbury-studySat, 18 Jul 2026 21:28:12 GMTWearable data puts a single all-night rave at 40,000 to 50,000 steps, within reach of a marathon's roughly 50,000 to 55,000, and a peer-reviewed Glastonbury study found festival-goers average 15,661 steps a day, hitting the UK's entire weekly exercise guideline in one day alone.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/whole-festival-2026-ferropolis-queer-safetyhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/whole-festival-2026-ferropolis-queer-safetySat, 18 Jul 2026 21:25:58 GMTWHOLE Festival's eighth edition runs July 17 to 20 at Ferropolis near Berlin, drawing 10,000 people to 187 artists across six stages built around an explicit safety architecture: a FLINTA zone, an expanded Cruising Village and a Solidarity Program funding entry for refugees and QTIBPOC attendees.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/john-tejada-laurel-halo-shade-happy-treeshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/john-tejada-laurel-halo-shade-happy-treesSat, 18 Jul 2026 21:25:56 GMTJohn Tejada and Laurel Halo have released the two-track EP "Shade / Happy Trees" on Tejada's own Palette Recordings, the label's 30th anniversary year, and Bandcamp Daily just named it an Essential Release.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/blondish-pacha-first-female-residenthttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/blondish-pacha-first-female-residentSat, 18 Jul 2026 21:25:53 GMTBLOND:ISH closed her Abracadabra residency's second season at Pacha Ibiza on July 29, 2026, as the first woman ever to headline the club's resident lineup in more than 50 years of history.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/khan-nightlife-override-cumulative-impact-zoneshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/khan-nightlife-override-cumulative-impact-zonesSat, 18 Jul 2026 14:12:52 GMTWest End operators warn that Westminster's 'cumulative impact zone' policy, which blocks most new hospitality licences past 11:30pm, is squeezing venues faster than Sadiq Khan's new mayoral override powers can protect them.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ibiza-airport-duty-free-nightclub-aena-consellhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ibiza-airport-duty-free-nightclub-aena-consellSat, 18 Jul 2026 14:12:44 GMTThe Consell d'Eivissa has formally demanded that Aena, Spain's state airport operator, cancel the weekly DJ sessions turning Ibiza Airport's duty-free zone into a nightclub, calling the sets a direct contradiction of the island's push to rebrand beyond party tourism.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/insomniac-club-space-factory-town-settlementhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/insomniac-club-space-factory-town-settlementSat, 18 Jul 2026 14:12:36 GMTInsomniac Events has settled its lawsuit with Club Space and Factory Town co-founders David Sinopoli, Davide Danese and Jose Gabriel Coloma Cano, splitting Miami's biggest dance-music venue portfolio along the way.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fabric-sennheiser-view-from-the-shard-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fabric-sennheiser-view-from-the-shard-2026Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:12:32 GMTfabric London and Sennheiser have expanded their partnership into a five-date 2026 series atop The Shard, opening August 21 with Sven Väth before the night moves down to fabric's Farringdon club.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/glasgow-night-time-economy-commission-mike-grieve-sub-clubhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/glasgow-night-time-economy-commission-mike-grieve-sub-clubSat, 18 Jul 2026 14:12:28 GMTGlasgow City Council launched a Night Time Economy Commission on 13 July 2026, chaired by Sub Club manager Mike Grieve, to draft a strategy as UK nightclub numbers keep collapsing.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/modula-26-zurich-synth-expo-revivalhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/modula-26-zurich-synth-expo-revivalSat, 18 Jul 2026 14:12:27 GMTMODULA 26, a two-day synthesizer and electronic-music expo at Dynamo Zurich on July 17-18, 2026, is the city's first dedicated synth event since the Zurich Modular Festival folded around 2018-2019.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/terminal-v-croatia-five-stages-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/terminal-v-croatia-five-stages-2026Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:01:19 GMTTerminal V Croatia has expanded to five stages at The Garden Resort in Tisno for its July 16-20, 2026 edition, folding in Barbarella's Discotheque for sunrise afterhours sets, with organizers confirming fewer than 10% of tickets remain.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/morphoice-eightyten-free-roland-jx-8p-emulationhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/morphoice-eightyten-free-roland-jx-8p-emulationSat, 18 Jul 2026 14:01:14 GMTMorphoice has released EightyTen, a free public-beta plugin emulating the Roland JX-8P, Super JX-10 and MKS-70, for macOS, Windows and Linux.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/novation-launchkey-88-mk4-keyboard-no-soundhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/novation-launchkey-88-mk4-keyboard-no-soundSat, 18 Jul 2026 14:01:09 GMTNovation has topped off its Launchkey MK4 line with an 88-key, semi-weighted, full-size MIDI controller that has no built-in sound engine, completing a ten-model range across six sizes at $449.99.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/audio-damage-tessera-resonator-pluginhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/audio-damage-tessera-resonator-pluginSat, 18 Jul 2026 14:01:07 GMTAudio Damage's new Tessera plugin excites twelve tuned resonator voices from a single audio input, turning a drum hit into a full chord or a sustained tone into an evolving pad.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/native-instruments-layoffs-plugin-alliance-buybackhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/native-instruments-layoffs-plugin-alliance-buybackFri, 17 Jul 2026 14:24:04 GMTinMusic laid off roughly 100 Native Instruments staff this week, including its entire support team, and days later Plugin Alliance and Brainworx founder Dirk Ulrich reacquired both companies outright through his new holding company RCKFRC.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ricardo-villalobos-ra-cover-storyhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ricardo-villalobos-ra-cover-storyFri, 17 Jul 2026 14:24:01 GMTResident Advisor's second summer 2026 cover feature, "Ricardo Villalobos: Slipping Through Time" by Oli Warwick, lands one of the rare long-form interviews with minimal techno's most unpredictable figure.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/joseph-capriati-metamorfosi-amnesia-ibiza-50thhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/joseph-capriati-metamorfosi-amnesia-ibiza-50thFri, 17 Jul 2026 14:23:57 GMTJoseph Capriati's Metamorfosi concept has returned to Amnesia Ibiza for a 14-date Tuesday residency running through September 29, timed to the club's 50th-anniversary season and pulling in more than 80 confirmed artists across both rooms.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/la-noche-panorama-bar-pride-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/la-noche-panorama-bar-pride-2026Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:23:53 GMTFor the third year running, queer party La Noche takes over Berghain's Panorama Bar on July 24, 2026, headlined by Byron Yeates' first Berlin live set, as CSD Berlin expands into a two-day event for the first time.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sennheiser-fabric-london-partnershiphttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sennheiser-fabric-london-partnershipFri, 17 Jul 2026 14:23:49 GMTSennheiser and fabric London have expanded their sponsorship deal into co-produced live events, content and fan activations, opening with a Sven Väth sunset set at The View from The Shard on August 21, 2026.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/change-the-beat-300-label-signings-pledgehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/change-the-beat-300-label-signings-pledgeFri, 17 Jul 2026 14:23:36 GMTChange The Beat, the nonprofit founded by Sydney Blu, has pledged 300 label signings for women and gender-expansive electronic artists by 2028, scaling to 1,500 by 2036, backed by a new A&R platform called Demo Room.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ag-cook-native-instruments-supersawhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ag-cook-native-instruments-supersawFri, 17 Jul 2026 14:23:19 GMTNative Instruments has released Super*Saw, a 99 euro plugin built over two years with PC Music founder A.G. Cook that reworks the classic supersaw with dual 16-oscillator banks and an X/Y morph between four patch states.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/defected-croatia-one-last-dance-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/defected-croatia-one-last-dance-2026Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:23:15 GMTDefected Records' Croatian festival plays its 10th and final edition, "One Last Dance," at The Garden Resort in Tisno from July 29 to August 2, 2026, headlined by Moodymann, Black Coffee, TSHA, Jayda G, Floating Points, Perc and Mall Grab.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spotify-apple-music-ai-labels-voluntaryhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spotify-apple-music-ai-labels-voluntaryThu, 16 Jul 2026 17:39:51 GMTThe RIAA and IFPI, backed by the Grammys and SAG-AFTRA, rolled out a voluntary AI-labeling scheme across Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon Music and Qobuz on July 15, 2026, using a black badge for fully AI-generated tracks and a white one for AI-assisted human tracks.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/korg-nts-4-mixer-eurorack-line-levelhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/korg-nts-4-mixer-eurorack-line-levelThu, 16 Jul 2026 17:39:47 GMTKorg's new NTS-4 is a $249 six-channel mixer kit with switchable attenuators and built-in effects that lets Eurorack modular gear plug straight into line-level DJ and production rigs.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/behringer-aks-mini-ems-synthi-99-dollarshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/behringer-aks-mini-ems-synthi-99-dollarsThu, 16 Jul 2026 17:23:10 GMTBehringer has opened pre-orders for the AKS Mini, a $99/£99/€119 pocket synth reproducing the analog VCO and VCF circuitry of the EMS Synthi AKS that Pink Floyd and Brian Eno used in the 1970s.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/air-canada-747-disco-loungehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/air-canada-747-disco-loungeThu, 16 Jul 2026 17:23:06 GMTIn 1971, Air Canada fitted the upper deck of its new Boeing 747s with a mirrored dance floor for transatlantic flights between Toronto and Europe, then quietly tore it out within about a year once the numbers on an unticketed lounge stopped adding up.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/suno-hack-exposes-scraped-training-datahttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/suno-hack-exposes-scraped-training-dataThu, 16 Jul 2026 15:40:17 GMTA hacker who breached Suno's source code in November 2025 has shown 404 Media the company's internal scraping logs, and eight months later Suno still had not told customers their own data was exposed in the same intrusion.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/amnesia-ibiza-50th-anniversary-vinyl-compilationhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/amnesia-ibiza-50th-anniversary-vinyl-compilationThu, 16 Jul 2026 15:03:07 GMTAmnesia Ibiza is marking its 50th anniversary with a 50-track compilation spanning five decades of the club's history, out September 4, 2026 as 10 vinyl records or 5 CDs.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/vinyl-pressing-shortage-independent-labelshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/vinyl-pressing-shortage-independent-labelsThu, 16 Jul 2026 15:02:48 GMTA worldwide shortage of pressing capacity and raw PVC is stretching vinyl orders out to 6 to 12 months, and independent house and techno labels are absorbing the delay while major-label repress runs get priority.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/junction2-two-weekends-fabric-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/junction2-two-weekends-fabric-2026Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:02:45 GMTFor its 10th anniversary in 2026, London techno festival Junction 2 abandons its single-weekend format for the first time, spreading across three dates at Boston Manor Park, including a one-off collaboration night with fabric.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dj-techtools-chroma-drive-no-cap-usbhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dj-techtools-chroma-drive-no-cap-usbThu, 16 Jul 2026 15:02:40 GMTDJ TechTools' redesigned 2026 Chroma Drive replaces the losable USB cap with rotating metal covers built into the drive itself, across five colors and four storage sizes up to 1TB.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/alphatheta-cobeat-dj-autonomy-debatehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/alphatheta-cobeat-dj-autonomy-debateThu, 16 Jul 2026 15:01:39 GMTAlphaTheta's new CoBeat service lets clubbers scan a QR code and vote on which track a DJ plays next, reviving a decades-old fight over who should really control the set.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/john-digweed-live-at-twilohttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/john-digweed-live-at-twiloThu, 16 Jul 2026 15:01:33 GMTJohn Digweed's first Twilo set in 25 years, recorded live at a one-off March 2026 reunion in New York, becomes a five-hour, four-CD release on his own Bedrock Records on July 24.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/berghain-lowest-ranking-berlin-clubshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/berghain-lowest-ranking-berlin-clubsThu, 16 Jul 2026 15:01:28 GMTBerghain dropped five places to 21st in DJ Mag's 2026 Top 100 Clubs, its lowest ranking since the list launched in 2009, and the only Berlin club left in it.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/amelie-lens-pregnant-touring-tomorrowlandhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/amelie-lens-pregnant-touring-tomorrowlandThu, 16 Jul 2026 15:01:23 GMTAmelie Lens confirmed on June 30 that she and her partner Farrago are expecting their second daughter this winter, and she has not dropped a single date from her summer festival run.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/lio-ibiza-hotel-corso-license-fighthttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/lio-ibiza-hotel-corso-license-fightWed, 15 Jul 2026 11:10:32 GMTLío is relocating from Marina Ibiza to the Ibiza Hotel Corso using the hotel's guest-only "complementary activities" license, since Ibiza's planning code bans any new nightclub permit outright, and s'Illa Plana residents say that is exactly the fraud it looks like.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/terminal-v-croatia-barbarellas-afterparties-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/terminal-v-croatia-barbarellas-afterparties-2026Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:10:15 GMTTerminal V Croatia has confirmed its 2026 stage splits and three Barbarella's after-hours nights, and the small print, Alarico b2b Ben Klock on July 17, matters more than the 100-plus names on the main bill.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/aniko-group-therapy-isgubhuhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/aniko-group-therapy-isgubhuWed, 15 Jul 2026 11:10:08 GMTApple Music handed its July Isgubhu spotlight to Aniko, the Lagos DJ whose bi-monthly Group Therapy raves were built to replace the city's pay-to-perform club culture with something cheaper and more communal.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/jacques-bon-pit-spector-maree-bass-ephttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/jacques-bon-pit-spector-maree-bass-epWed, 15 Jul 2026 11:10:02 GMTParisian producers Jacques Bon and Pit Spector release the four-track Maree Bass EP on July 3, 2026 via Frankfurt's Live At Robert Johnson, fusing jazz-inflected phrasing with minimal and deep-tech house.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fl-studio-2026-flex-gopher-ai-no-traininghttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fl-studio-2026-flex-gopher-ai-no-trainingWed, 15 Jul 2026 11:09:51 GMTFL Studio's free 2026 update rebuilds FLEX for the first time since 2019, adds encrypted cloud project backup, and expands its Gopher AI assistant to edit projects directly while explicitly refusing to train on user data.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/credo-v-daniels-apple-music-ai-backlashhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/credo-v-daniels-apple-music-ai-backlashWed, 15 Jul 2026 11:09:32 GMTSouth African Afro house artist Credo V Daniels saw his debut album disappear from Apple Music within hours of a viral eNCA performance where viewers said his live vocals did not match his polished studio records.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/skrillex-solomun-rumpta-diynamichttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/skrillex-solomun-rumpta-diynamicWed, 15 Jul 2026 11:09:26 GMTSolomun and Skrillex have released "Rumpta," their first-ever collaboration, on Solomun's own house label Diynamic Music, timed just ahead of their July 5 back-to-back at Pacha Ibiza's +1 residency.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/chosen-few-picnic-36-years-original-djshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/chosen-few-picnic-36-years-original-djsWed, 15 Jul 2026 11:09:16 GMTChicago's Chosen Few Picnic and House Music Festival marked its 36th year on July 11, 2026, in Jackson Park, with founding DJs Wayne Williams, Jesse Saunders, Tony Hatchett and Alan King still headlining the event they started as a backyard reunion in 1990.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/kappa-futurfestival-reply-ai-music-contest-ciauruhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/kappa-futurfestival-reply-ai-music-contest-ciauruTue, 14 Jul 2026 14:25:02 GMTItalian producer Ciauru won the second edition of Kappa FuturFestival's Reply AI Music Contest with a live audiovisual set combining his own production with AI-generated visuals, judged by a panel that included Agoria and Max Cooper.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ibiza-piat-nightclub-license-freezehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ibiza-piat-nightclub-license-freezeTue, 14 Jul 2026 14:24:57 GMTIbiza's Consell d'Eivissa says its PIAT tourism plan will formally ban any new nightclub license on the island, while Pacha, Amnesia, Hi Ibiza, UNVRS, Ushuaia and DC10 keep the licenses they already hold.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/boiler-room-kkr-protesters-trampled-nychttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/boiler-room-kkr-protesters-trampled-nycTue, 14 Jul 2026 14:24:08 GMTProtesters staging a die-in against Boiler Room's private equity owner KKR were pushed and jumped on for 18 minutes before security stepped in at the brand's Under The K Bridge show in Brooklyn on July 10.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/cocoon-amnesia-ibiza-return-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/cocoon-amnesia-ibiza-return-2026Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:24:05 GMTCocoon returns to Amnesia this Sunday, July 19, exactly 27 years after its first night at the club, with Sven Väth leading Richie Hawtin, Nina Kraviz, Len Faki, Dana Ruh and Mateo Dufour across two rooms as part of Amnesia's 50th-anniversary season.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/defected-champion-house-of-champions-grassroots-not-headlinershttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/defected-champion-house-of-champions-grassroots-not-headlinersTue, 14 Jul 2026 14:24:03 GMTDefected and streetwear brand Champion have launched "House of Champions," a clothing and merch campaign that puts five grassroots house-scene community builders front and center instead of any headline DJ.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/kkr-superstruct-uk-md-boycott-debthttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/kkr-superstruct-uk-md-boycott-debtTue, 14 Jul 2026 14:23:57 GMTSuperstruct Entertainment, the KKR owned festival group behind Sonar and Field Day, has named former AEG Presents executive Jacqui Harris as its UK managing director, the sixth top leadership hire since October 2025, while KKR seeks extra debt for the group and an artist boycott keeps biting.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/whole-festival-brazil-editionhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/whole-festival-brazil-editionTue, 14 Jul 2026 14:23:55 GMTWHOLE, the Berlin-founded festival that draws over 15,000 people to Europe's largest queer techno gathering, has confirmed its first international edition, in Brazil, per Groove Magazin.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ibiza-illegal-party-santa-gertrudishttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ibiza-illegal-party-santa-gertrudisTue, 14 Jul 2026 14:23:52 GMTPolice broke up an illegal party for more than 200 people at an owner-occupied rural property in Santa Gertrudis, Ibiza, on July 1, filing about 15 drug-possession reports, towing six vehicles and catching four drivers testing positive for narcotics.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/munich-loses-second-techno-club-dnahttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/munich-loses-second-techno-club-dnaTue, 14 Jul 2026 14:23:50 GMTDNA, the Werksviertel techno room that opened in December 2023, confirmed on July 13, 2026 that it closes at the end of September, making it the second major Munich techno club to fold this year after Blitz.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/club-77-sydney-july-30-reopeninghttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/club-77-sydney-july-30-reopeningMon, 13 Jul 2026 15:48:15 GMTClub 77, the Darlinghurst club that went dark in April for an accessibility rebuild, has confirmed its real reopening date: July 30, 2026, with Rydeen and sovblkpssy on the decks.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/brittany-teknival-heat-ban-standoffhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/brittany-teknival-heat-ban-standoffMon, 13 Jul 2026 15:48:11 GMTA teknival in the Lanouée forest, Brittany, drew close to 2,000 people over a banned weekend during a 39°C heat emergency, and by Sunday night gendarmes had issued more than 400 fines.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/rosa-mensch-meier-berlinhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/rosa-mensch-meier-berlinMon, 13 Jul 2026 15:48:09 GMTVictor Rudek, the CEO behind Berlin's HIVE Festival and DSTRKT club, is opening ROSA, a 1,200-capacity sex-positive and kink club, inside the Storkower Strasse 121 address that housed the legendary Mensch Meier until its 2023 closure.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ibiza-party-boats-unlicensed-clubshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ibiza-party-boats-unlicensed-clubsMon, 13 Jul 2026 15:48:06 GMTIbiza's licensed nightlife association AEON says unregulated party boats selling DJ sets, open bar and sunset views for 50 to 180 euros are undercutting clubs that pay for capacity limits, noise control and safety inspections, and only 11 of the vessels operating appear in the island's official tourism registry.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ibiza-waiter-fired-tiktok-five-euro-coffeehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ibiza-waiter-fired-tiktok-five-euro-coffeeMon, 13 Jul 2026 15:48:04 GMTSpain's Balearic high court upheld the sacking of a Fiesta Hotels & Resorts waiter who posted a TikTok revealing his employer sold a coffee for five euros that cost the company about 20 cents, while staff earned around 1,400 euros a month, ruling that reputational harm alone is grounds for dismissal, no proof of financial loss required.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/the-new-longevity-hack-might-be-ravinghttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/the-new-longevity-hack-might-be-ravingMon, 13 Jul 2026 15:48:01 GMTCold plunges. Supplements. Sleep scores. Glucose monitors. The longevity industry has turned living well into a full-time job. But one of the most complete health interventions may already exist on the dancefloor. Raving combines sustained movement, fast music, emotional release, social bonding and joy. These are not superficial extras. Each is independently linked with physical or psychological health. Remove alcohol from the equation, or replace it with a carefully approached psilocybin experience for some adults, and the health argument becomes even more provocative. No study has proved that raving extends human life. But the science behind its ingredients suggests that the dancefloor deserves a serious place in the longevity conversation.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/draaimolen-2026-lineup-sold-outhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/draaimolen-2026-lineup-sold-outSun, 12 Jul 2026 13:31:39 GMTDraaimolen's 2026 edition, sold out and set for 4-5 September at Tilburg's MOB Complex, reveals over 100 acts including a new Shygirl live show, less than a year after a 26,000-signature petition kept the festival's forest site alive.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/lion-lamb-andre-king-djs-boycotthttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/lion-lamb-andre-king-djs-boycottSun, 12 Jul 2026 13:31:35 GMTThe Hoxton venue The Lion & Lamb severed all business ties with cofounder Andre King and cancelled its schedule on 5 July 2026 after abuse allegations surfaced, and at least six acts have now pledged never to play there again.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/bake-stolen-bag-euston-station-music-losthttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/bake-stolen-bag-euston-station-music-lostSun, 12 Jul 2026 13:31:32 GMTGlasgow DJ Bake had his backpack stolen at London's Euston Station on 5 July, losing the harddrives holding most of his current music, the latest in a string of thefts that have targeted touring DJs' bags in London in recent years.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/germany-spirits-tax-2027-clubshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/germany-spirits-tax-2027-clubsSun, 12 Jul 2026 13:31:27 GMTGermany's cabinet approved a 20% spirits tax hike for January 2027, raising the levy on pure alcohol from €13.03 to €15.64 per liter, and club operators say it lands squarely on the one revenue line still keeping venues afloat.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/nousklaer-festival-rotterdam-heatwave-cancelledhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/nousklaer-festival-rotterdam-heatwave-cancelledSun, 12 Jul 2026 13:31:25 GMTRotterdam withdrew Nous'klaer Festival's permit a day before doors after the Netherlands issued its first-ever code red heat warning, forcing the label to rebuild its lineup indoors within 24 hours.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/mixxx-nonprofit-ev-free-dj-softwarehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/mixxx-nonprofit-ev-free-dj-softwareSat, 11 Jul 2026 14:58:47 GMTMixxx, the only actively maintained fully open-source DJ software, has formally incorporated as Mixxx e.V., a registered German nonprofit that now owns the project's code, collects donations directly, and shields its volunteer developers from personal legal liability.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/session-victim-the-disconnect-rhythm-section-internationalhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/session-victim-the-disconnect-rhythm-section-internationalSat, 11 Jul 2026 14:58:42 GMTSession Victim's five-track EP "The Disconnect", built from roughly six months of in-person studio jams with Kenneth Scott, Rossano Snel and Quarion, landed July 3, 2026 on Bradley Zero's Rhythm Section International.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ibiza-secret-raves-golden-rulehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ibiza-secret-raves-golden-ruleSat, 11 Jul 2026 14:58:26 GMTIbiza's illegal party circuit now survives by staying entirely off social media, because the raves that got busted, including Diplo's record €300,000 fine, are the ones that broadcast themselves online.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/insomniac-club-space-factory-town-settlement-circolocohttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/insomniac-club-space-factory-town-settlement-circolocoSat, 11 Jul 2026 13:07:27 GMTInsomniac has paid $3 million to buy Club Space Miami co-owners David Sinopoli, Davide Danese and Jose Coloma Cano out of their stake in the rooftop venue Factory Town, settling a year-long legal fight that included accusations the promoter booked CircoLoco at a 44% markup without their sign-off.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ai-music-label-doesnt-pay-producershttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ai-music-label-doesnt-pay-producersSat, 11 Jul 2026 12:39:26 GMTA coalition led by RIAA and IFPI, with the Grammys, SAG-AFTRA and other bodies, unveiled a two-tier AI music label on July 10, 2026, an uppercase black-box "AI" for fully synthetic tracks and a lowercase white-box "ai" for AI-assisted human work, modeled on the old Parental Advisory sticker.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/france-ripost-free-party-prison-votehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/france-ripost-free-party-prison-voteSat, 11 Jul 2026 12:39:09 GMTFrance's National Assembly has finished first-reading debate on the Ripost security bill and restored the crime of organizing an undeclared free party, punishable by up to six months in prison and a 30,000-euro fine, ahead of a solemn floor vote expected Wednesday, July 15.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/pacha-new-york-black-coffee-debt-headlinerhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/pacha-new-york-black-coffee-debt-headlinerSat, 11 Jul 2026 12:38:58 GMTThree months after Dubai's FIVE Holdings relaunched the bankrupt Brooklyn Mirage as Pacha New York, the DJ its old operator never fully paid is the one filling the room, while unsecured creditors split a guaranteed minimum of $6.8 million.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fabric-london-room-two-three-sound-system-rebuildhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fabric-london-room-two-three-sound-system-rebuildSat, 11 Jul 2026 12:38:17 GMTFabric London replaced the sound systems in Room 2 (unchanged since 2016) and Room 3 (since 2018) with bespoke rigs co-designed in-house with Norwegian specialists NNNN Audio, installed in five days ahead of a reopening event.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/afro-nation-2026-piano-people-amapiano-stagehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/afro-nation-2026-piano-people-amapiano-stageSat, 11 Jul 2026 12:38:08 GMTAfro Nation Portugal ran a self-contained, three-day amapiano stage this year, headlined by DJ Maphorisa, Uncle Waffles, Focalistic and Kelvin Momo, instead of folding the genre into its dominant afrobeats bill.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/freerotation-2026-invite-only-festivalhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/freerotation-2026-invite-only-festivalSat, 11 Jul 2026 12:38:02 GMTFreerotation, running this weekend at Baskerville Hall in Wales, sells zero public tickets: new members are invited only by existing ones, and the not-for-profit festival has stayed deliberately small since it grew out of mid-2000s free parties.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/awakenings-2026-six-areas-technohttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/awakenings-2026-six-areas-technoSat, 11 Jul 2026 12:37:57 GMTAwakenings 2026 sold out a record 119,000 tickets by splitting Hilvarenbeek into six sound-specific areas, from industrial hard techno to house-adjacent grooves, because one stage can no longer hold techno's audience together.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/desert-hearts-microfest-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/desert-hearts-microfest-2026Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:50:19 GMTDesert Hearts scrapped its full-scale 2026 festival over rising costs and burnout, and is replacing it with a five-day, capacity-limited Microfest at Deloro Valley in Northern California this October.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/chosen-few-picnic-36-years-jackson-parkhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/chosen-few-picnic-36-years-jackson-parkFri, 10 Jul 2026 13:50:11 GMTThe Chosen Few Picnic & Music Festival returns to Chicago's Jackson Park on July 11 for its 36th consecutive year, still run by the same DJs who started it as a backyard gathering in 1990, with no private-equity owner, no EDM headliner and no dynamic pricing scheme.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fusion-festival-2028-breakhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fusion-festival-2028-breakFri, 10 Jul 2026 13:50:08 GMTFusion Festival, the sponsor-free, VIP-free institution at Kulturkosmos Lärz, closed its 2026 edition after a wildfire evacuation and record heat, confirming this was its last outing before a planned pause that keeps it off the calendar until 2028.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/berghain-advance-tickets-door-policyhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/berghain-advance-tickets-door-policyFri, 10 Jul 2026 13:50:05 GMTBerghain has quietly opened an online ticket shop for select nights in the Säule and Panorama Bar, capping sales at four tickets per buyer while still reserving the right to turn ticket holders away at the door.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/love-family-park-lost-tapes-villalobos-kravizhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/love-family-park-lost-tapes-villalobos-kravizFri, 10 Jul 2026 13:49:57 GMTFor its 30th anniversary, Frankfurt's Love Family Park has opened its archive with a new "Lost Tapes" series, publishing Ricardo Villalobos's previously unreleased 2016 vinyl set and Nina Kraviz's 2013 set on SoundCloud and YouTube, with more archival sets promised in the coming weeks.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/zainab-canal-view-ep-urdu-dance-musichttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/zainab-canal-view-ep-urdu-dance-musicFri, 10 Jul 2026 13:49:51 GMTNew York-based, Lahore-born producer ZAINAB will release her debut EP, Canal View, on Ninja Tune's Technicolour on August 14, threading Urdu-language vocals through UK dance production and naming a track after a Bangladesh-Pakistan collaboration.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ministry-of-sound-boxed-in-dj-competitionhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ministry-of-sound-boxed-in-dj-competitionFri, 10 Jul 2026 13:49:44 GMTMinistry of Sound will livestream a 12-hour competition from The Box on September 13, where six emerging DJs mentored by names like Sam Divine and Mak10 compete for a club residency and 25,000 pounds in career support.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/pulso-venezuela-earthquake-relief-compilationhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/pulso-venezuela-earthquake-relief-compilationFri, 10 Jul 2026 13:49:39 GMTPULSO I, a 36-track benefit compilation featuring DJ Babatr and around 100 electronic artists, is sending 100% of its Bandcamp proceeds to emergency medical relief in La Guaira, near Caracas, after two major earthquakes struck northern Venezuela on June 24.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dj-mag-top-100-djs-2026-house-technohttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dj-mag-top-100-djs-2026-house-technoFri, 10 Jul 2026 13:49:33 GMTDJ Mag opened voting for its 2026 Top 100 DJs poll, its 33rd edition, with no nomination filter, while the ranking's own history of mainstream EDM winners has pushed DJ Mag to run a separate Beatport 100 chart just to surface house and techno names.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/untold-festival-free-cancer-screening-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/untold-festival-free-cancer-screening-2026Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:49:26 GMTUNTOLD Festival will host a mobile medical unit offering free HPV testing and breast ultrasounds to wristband holders during its August 6-9 edition in Cluj-Napoca, billed as a first for a festival of this scale in Europe.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/alphatheta-xdj-an-removes-the-jog-wheelshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/alphatheta-xdj-an-removes-the-jog-wheelsFri, 10 Jul 2026 13:49:04 GMTAlphaTheta's new XDJ-AN is an all-in-one DJ system built around a phone, not a jog wheel or a searchable pad grid, betting entry-level buyers will trade physical control for a device that fits in a jacket pocket.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/seth-troxler-dj-tennis-ibiza-restauranthttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/seth-troxler-dj-tennis-ibiza-restaurantThu, 09 Jul 2026 09:09:13 GMTSeth Troxler and DJ Tennis are opening a restaurant bar in Ibiza this summer called Seth and Mannis's, turning years of side-hustle cooking into a permanent room on the island.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/josh-baker-youandme-amnesia-terrace-residencyhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/josh-baker-youandme-amnesia-terrace-residencyThu, 09 Jul 2026 09:08:46 GMTJosh Baker opened his first Ibiza residency, You&Me, at Amnesia on Thursday July 2, 2026, a weekly Terrace night running through October 1.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/kappa-futurfestival-2026-sells-out-turin-techno-capitalhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/kappa-futurfestival-2026-sells-out-turin-techno-capitalThu, 09 Jul 2026 09:07:34 GMTKappa FuturFestival's 13th edition sold out its July 3 to 5, 2026 run at Parco Dora in Turin, moving roughly 90,000 tickets on curation trust rather than one marquee name.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ai-act-bootleggers-newtown-good-intenthttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ai-act-bootleggers-newtown-good-intentThu, 09 Jul 2026 09:07:26 GMTAn act billed as "Afro Charles" at Bootleggers Newtown's July 1 emerging-artist night turned out to be AI-generated, booked with no disclosure to the venue, the promoter or the crowd.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/john-summit-pete-tong-missing-remix-disputehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/john-summit-pete-tong-missing-remix-disputeThu, 09 Jul 2026 00:22:13 GMTJohn Summit says Pete Tong asked for his session files while promising a joint release of their Everything But The Girl "Missing" remix, then greenlit a different version with Franky Rizardo instead, who has now pulled his mix from the planned July 17 release.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/origin-los-angeles-arts-district-clubhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/origin-los-angeles-arts-district-clubThu, 09 Jul 2026 00:21:43 GMTORIGIN, a new indoor-outdoor club from SBCLTR and Minimal Effort founders Roni Mehrabian and Cyril Bitar, opens in DTLA's Arts District this fall with a custom KV2 Audio system and design by Brooklyn Mirage architect Marc Dizon.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/jean-michel-jarre-amnesia-ibiza-debuthttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/jean-michel-jarre-amnesia-ibiza-debutThu, 09 Jul 2026 00:21:20 GMTFifty years into a touring career built on monument-scale spectacles, Jean-Michel Jarre played his first-ever Ibiza show on July 5 on Amnesia's Terrace, the same year the club and his breakthrough album Oxygene each turn fifty.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dancefloor-feels-safe-womb-repetitive-basshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dancefloor-feels-safe-womb-repetitive-bassTue, 07 Jul 2026 15:02:31 GMTThe calm that comes over you, packed into a dark room at the ticking of a repetitive kick, is your nervous system recognizing the oldest signal it knows: the low, enveloping pulse of the womb.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/marlon-hoffstadt-capitol-move-your-bodyhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/marlon-hoffstadt-capitol-move-your-bodyTue, 07 Jul 2026 13:20:02 GMTMarlon Hoffstadt, the Berlin rave figure who performs as DJ Daddy Trance, has signed to Capitol Records for his debut album 'Das Ist Daddy', out 7 August, and built its lead single 'Party People' on Marshall Jefferson's 1986 Chicago house cornerstone 'Move Your Body'.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/nothing-club-nothing-grassroots-fundhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/nothing-club-nothing-grassroots-fundTue, 07 Jul 2026 13:19:57 GMTNothing, the London tech brand behind the transparent phones, has launched Club Nothing, a global party series with a 40,000-dollar fund that gives four grassroots organisers 10,000 dollars each to stage their own events.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/saffron-emerging-black-women-development-programmehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/saffron-emerging-black-women-development-programmeTue, 07 Jul 2026 13:19:51 GMTSaffron has reopened applications for EMERGING, a year long programme that backs three Black women, trans and non-binary music makers with a retreat, industry training and a cash bursary.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/front-gate-tickets-claude-sql-injectionhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/front-gate-tickets-claude-sql-injectionTue, 07 Jul 2026 00:35:45 GMTSecurity researcher Ian Carroll used Anthropic's Claude to break into Front Gate Tickets, the Live Nation and Ticketmaster subsidiary that runs entry for EDC, Bonnaroo and Outside Lands, gaining full administrative control before he reported it, the company patched it within a day, and the write-up went public on July 1.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/emw-dx7000-brazil-fm-sound-playerhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/emw-dx7000-brazil-fm-sound-playerTue, 07 Jul 2026 00:35:38 GMTBrazil's EMW has released the DX7000, a 16-voice desktop FM sound player that ships with 1,110 patches and imports classic Yamaha DX7 sounds, for 365 dollars.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/rides-in-the-storm-rhythm-rides-mfbhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/rides-in-the-storm-rhythm-rides-mfbTue, 07 Jul 2026 00:35:36 GMTRides In The Storm, run by a former MFB engineer, has teased the Rhythm Rides, an eight-track fully analog drum machine that revives the cult German brand's cheap, dirty sound.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/harrison-mixbus-12-denoiser-deesser-every-channelhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/harrison-mixbus-12-denoiser-deesser-every-channelTue, 07 Jul 2026 00:35:33 GMTHarrison Audio's Mixbus 12, out 1 July, adds a DeNoiser and a DeEsser to every channel strip, cleanup tools from its motion-picture consoles, with the standard edition at 49.99 dollars.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fourth-world-2026-new-york-all-local-festivalhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fourth-world-2026-new-york-all-local-festivalTue, 07 Jul 2026 00:35:30 GMTFOURTH WORLD returned for its 12th edition at New York's Knockdown Center on 3 July, booking more than 30 acts entirely from the city's own scene across five stages.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/solomun-diynamic-outdoor-ibiza-cancelledhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/solomun-diynamic-outdoor-ibiza-cancelledTue, 07 Jul 2026 00:35:26 GMTPacha and Solomun's Diynamic label have scrapped their 11 July open air at Cantera Can Coix near Sant Antoni, refunding every ticket, after residents pushed back against the event.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/soundcloud-twitch-soundcloud-sessions-djshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/soundcloud-twitch-soundcloud-sessions-djsTue, 07 Jul 2026 00:35:19 GMTSoundCloud and Twitch have launched SoundCloud Sessions, a recurring livestream series that plugs DJ sets on Twitch into SoundCloud's discovery and editorial machine. It runs on Twitch's DJ Program, the licensing deal that lets DJs legally stream commercial music.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/what-won-first-half-2026-afro-house-brazilian-funk-ukghttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/what-won-first-half-2026-afro-house-brazilian-funk-ukgTue, 07 Jul 2026 00:35:16 GMTBeatport's mid-year 2026 review confirms tech house on top, but the movement is elsewhere: afro house going mainstream, Brazilian funk and Latin electronic breaking through, and UK garage crossing to American floors.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/four-tet-wingdings-albumhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/four-tet-wingdings-albumTue, 07 Jul 2026 00:33:55 GMTKieran Hebden dropped a surprise eight-track Four Tet album on July 3 under his Wingdings alias, with the record and every track title written in the Wingdings symbol font so no one can type or search them.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spotify-underground-exodus-ek-helsinghttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spotify-underground-exodus-ek-helsingTue, 07 Jul 2026 00:33:48 GMTA wave of artists is stripping catalogue from Spotify in mid-2026 after founder Daniel Ek, through his firm Prima Materia, took the chairmanship of and put money into Helsing, a German defence company building AI-guided military drones.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/steinberg-spectralayers-13-unmixing-reconstructionhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/steinberg-spectralayers-13-unmixing-reconstructionTue, 07 Jul 2026 00:31:53 GMTSteinberg's SpectraLayers 13, out now, adds tools that isolate individual voices, pull short sounds out of ambient beds, and resynthesize the frequencies an unmix leaves behind.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/modula-26-zurich-synth-expo-debuthttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/modula-26-zurich-synth-expo-debutTue, 07 Jul 2026 00:31:50 GMTMODULA 26, a new synthesizer and electronic-music expo, debuts at Dynamo Zürich on 17 and 18 July 2026, with Moog, Arturia, Waldorf and Teenage Engineering among the names behind its first edition.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/amnesty-bins-sniffer-dogs-dutch-drug-checking-harm-reductionhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/amnesty-bins-sniffer-dogs-dutch-drug-checking-harm-reductionMon, 06 Jul 2026 12:07:45 GMTAmnesty bins, sniffer dogs and zero-tolerance posters do not reduce drug harm on a dancefloor; the evidence from the Netherlands' state-funded testing system and Britain's The Loop points the other way, toward information and prevention.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/afro-nation-afrotronic-afro-house-stagehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/afro-nation-afrotronic-afro-house-stageMon, 06 Jul 2026 12:06:55 GMTAfro Nation Portugal, the world's biggest Afrobeats festival, built a dedicated electronic stage called Afrotronic for its 2026 edition, splitting Afro House, Afro Tech and gqom out from the Afrobeats main stage for the first time.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/defected-croatia-final-edition-tisnohttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/defected-croatia-final-edition-tisnoMon, 06 Jul 2026 12:03:23 GMTDefected Croatia will hold its tenth and final edition at The Garden Resort in Tisno from July 29 to August 3, 2026, ending a decade that turned the Adriatic site into a summer home for house music.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ticketmaster-live-nation-ticket-fees-class-actionhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ticketmaster-live-nation-ticket-fees-class-actionMon, 06 Jul 2026 12:03:10 GMTA US federal court has certified a nationwide class action accusing Live Nation and Ticketmaster of using monopoly power to inflate primary ticket fees at the country's 500 biggest venues since 2010, and fans have until July 6 to decide whether to stay in it.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sunwaves-ibiza-alexa-interviewhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sunwaves-ibiza-alexa-interviewMon, 06 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMTAlexa, who runs Sunwaves' marketing, strategy and, since last year, its bookings, on taking the Romanian rominimal festival to Ibiza, choosing authenticity over hype, and keeping the dance floor the main character.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/weak-yen-korea-japan-one-scenehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/weak-yen-korea-japan-one-sceneSun, 05 Jul 2026 12:31:14 GMTA weak yen and rising costs are quietly pushing Korea's and Japan's underground scenes to swap artists and share booking costs, building something that looks like one regional circuit, per Mixmag Asia.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/techno-korean-dmz-sunn-festival-hegemannhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/techno-korean-dmz-sunn-festival-hegemannSun, 05 Jul 2026 12:31:07 GMTTresor founder Dimitri Hegemann is backing SUNN Festival, a plan to turn Goseong on the Korean DMZ into a cultural destination, launching on German Unity Day, October 3, 2026.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/san-antonio-ibiza-750-swimwear-finehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/san-antonio-ibiza-750-swimwear-fineSun, 05 Jul 2026 12:30:48 GMTSant Antoni de Portmany can fine you up to 750 euros for walking its streets in swimwear or shirtless, while every club on the island already runs its own dress code. Here is the fine, who it really targets, and exactly what to wear at Hï, Pacha, UNVRS, DC10, Ushuaïa, Amnesia and beyond.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dj-tennis-misbehave-life-and-deathhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dj-tennis-misbehave-life-and-deathSun, 05 Jul 2026 12:30:36 GMTDJ Tennis, the Life And Death co-founder, is back on his own label with 'Misbehave', a torrid, shuffling indie-dance cut featuring vocalist Campbell King, out in the imprint's 15th-anniversary year.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/afro-house-fragmenting-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/afro-house-fragmenting-2026Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:30:23 GMTAfro house did not peak in 2026: Splice downloads jumped 778 percent, Beatport moved it from 23rd to 4th most-searched genre, Tomorrowland built its first dedicated Afro house stage, and the sound is fracturing into 3Step, afro-tech and afro-Latin hybrids.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ibiza-illegal-villa-raves-fineshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ibiza-illegal-villa-raves-finesSun, 05 Jul 2026 12:30:11 GMTIbiza is escalating its crackdown on illegal villa raves: police broke up a 1,000-guest party near Sant Antoni, and the island's Consell wants fines of up to 300,000 euros and multi-year licence bans for the organisers.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/vinyl-passed-one-billion-2025-underground-pressing-squeezehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/vinyl-passed-one-billion-2025-underground-pressing-squeezeSun, 05 Jul 2026 12:29:27 GMTUS vinyl grew for a 19th straight year in 2025, selling 46.8 million records and out-earning the CD by more than three to one, its strongest run since 1983.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sony-udio-30000-recordings-deniedhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sony-udio-30000-recordings-deniedSat, 04 Jul 2026 11:18:47 GMTOn 3 July 2026 a New York federal judge refused to let Sony Music expand its copyright suit against AI platform Udio, keeping the case at the 333 recordings already in it.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dub-revolution-katz-remix-ancestorhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dub-revolution-katz-remix-ancestorSat, 04 Jul 2026 11:18:41 GMTDavid Katz's new book Dub Revolution argues that dub, born in early-1970s Kingston, invented the remix and the version, the idea a recording is raw material to rebuild rather than a fixed object.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/prospa-harvey-hearing-hiatushttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/prospa-harvey-hearing-hiatusSat, 04 Jul 2026 11:18:14 GMTHarvey Blumler of Prospa is stepping back from performing because of an ongoing ear condition, and the honesty of it says a lot about a risk DJs rarely admit out loud.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/berlin-kindness-new-coolness-technohttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/berlin-kindness-new-coolness-technoSat, 04 Jul 2026 11:17:48 GMTA house-driven turn toward warmth, colour and kindness is reshaping Berlin nightlife just as Klubsterben guts the city, and the scene is split on whether that is evolution or surrender.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/pose-orenburg-club-prison-sentenceshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/pose-orenburg-club-prison-sentencesSat, 04 Jul 2026 11:17:37 GMTA Russian court jailed the owner and two staff of an Orenburg nightclub in the first prison sentences handed down under the 2023 ruling that branded the international LGBT movement an extremist organisation.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/beatport-greenroom-free-artist-label-analyticshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/beatport-greenroom-free-artist-label-analyticsSat, 04 Jul 2026 11:17:16 GMTBeatport has launched Greenroom, a free hub that finally shows artists and labels their real Beatport numbers: DJ downloads, streams, followers, chart moves and features, all in one dashboard.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/lukas-wigflex-steps-down-peep-festivalhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/lukas-wigflex-steps-down-peep-festivalSat, 04 Jul 2026 03:29:15 GMTLukas Wigflex has stepped down from Peep Festival and pulled out of all his bookings after his former wife published detailed abuse allegations.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/de-witte-resistance-xxl-rock-werchterhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/de-witte-resistance-xxl-rock-werchterSat, 04 Jul 2026 03:28:44 GMTCharlotte de Witte debuts an XXL, history-making version of her live show The Resistance inside Rock Werchter's 20,000-capacity Barn on Friday, closing the festival with visuals no earlier tour stop has seen.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/beatsurfing-vrac-free-drum-kit-pluginhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/beatsurfing-vrac-free-drum-kit-pluginSat, 04 Jul 2026 03:28:38 GMTVRAC is a free plugin from BEATSURFING that takes any sound you throw at it and reshapes it into a playable kit of kicks, snares, claps and hats.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/budakid-dreams-stretched-beyond-flores-debut-albumhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/budakid-dreams-stretched-beyond-flores-debut-albumSat, 04 Jul 2026 03:28:35 GMTOn 3 July 2026, Berlin producer Budakid put out his debut album, Dreams Stretched Beyond, on his own label Flores.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/everyone-wants-to-be-a-dj-what-it-payshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/everyone-wants-to-be-a-dj-what-it-paysSat, 04 Jul 2026 03:28:27 GMTDJ is now the number-one dream career in New Zealand and has climbed to tenth worldwide, up from 24th in 2024, according to a Remitly study of 'how to become a' searches across 145 countries.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/djmag-top-100-festivals-2026-tomorrowland-awakeningshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/djmag-top-100-festivals-2026-tomorrowland-awakeningsFri, 03 Jul 2026 12:40:25 GMTThe Top 100 Festivals 2026 poll filled its upper ranks with global electronic music mega-brands. But Tomorrowland's stronger house programming at Crystal Garden shows the festival is also making room for sounds beyond its main-stage EDM identity.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ellen-allien-new-life-bpitchhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ellen-allien-new-life-bpitchFri, 03 Jul 2026 12:40:05 GMTThe Berlin producer and BPitch founder returns on 9 July with a ten-track record that folds minimal techno, dark wave and rave euphoria into a set of songs about autonomy, ecology and refusing to look away.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/late-utopians-nyc-rave-play-edinburgh-fringehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/late-utopians-nyc-rave-play-edinburgh-fringeFri, 03 Jul 2026 12:39:58 GMTThe Late Utopians follows a journalist through New York's dance underground and premieres at the Edinburgh Fringe on 5 August, the latest sign of rave culture crossing into serious theatre.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/warner-vinyl-recycling-record-stores-pilothttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/warner-vinyl-recycling-record-stores-pilotFri, 03 Jul 2026 12:39:49 GMTA Warner Music pilot turns 11 US record shops into drop-off points for warped, unplayable records, testing whether the format that just passed a billion dollars can finally be recycled at scale.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/uvi-synth-anthology-5-300-synthshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/uvi-synth-anthology-5-300-synthsFri, 03 Jul 2026 12:39:45 GMTUVI's new library samples 300 classic synthesizers into one instrument, adds 100 machines over version 4, and a new dual-layer engine, for 89 through 20 July.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/qobuz-streaming-payout-transparency-18-dollarshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/qobuz-streaming-payout-transparency-18-dollarsThu, 02 Jul 2026 20:25:49 GMTThe high-resolution service grew revenue 45.7 percent in 2025 and did what Spotify and the majors refuse to do: publish an independently checked per-stream rate. For house and techno artists who treat streaming as loose change, the number is less a payday than a challenge to a whole opaque system.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/underground-resistance-saul-williams-dekmantel-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/underground-resistance-saul-williams-dekmantel-2026Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:25:42 GMTDekmantel 2026 pairs Underground Resistance, Detroit's most uncompromising techno collective, with poet Saul Williams for a special live set on Friday 31 July at the Amsterdamse Bos, a booking that reads like the whole Techno Resistance argument condensed into one stage.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/peder-mannerfelt-iguana-aura-clasico-recordshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/peder-mannerfelt-iguana-aura-clasico-recordsThu, 02 Jul 2026 20:25:37 GMTThe Stockholm experimentalist drops a four-track EP on the tastemaker club label on 17 July, with an Ehua remix and a lead cut called 'Bubble'.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/stl-take-me-to-your-leader-triple-album-somethinghttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/stl-take-me-to-your-leader-triple-album-somethingThu, 02 Jul 2026 20:25:31 GMTSTL, the Harz recluse behind two decades of deep and dub house, returns with Take Me To Your Leader: 16 tracks across three clear 12-inch records, self-released as SOMETHING Vinyl Series 33 in July 2026.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/native-instruments-izotope-boris-fx-breakuphttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/native-instruments-izotope-boris-fx-breakupThu, 02 Jul 2026 20:25:26 GMTAfter a debt-driven insolvency, Native Instruments has been sold to inMusic and iZotope carved out to Boris FX, splitting apart the plugins house and techno producers rely on.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/prs-black-box-royalties-rowntree-court-rulinghttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/prs-black-box-royalties-rowntree-court-rulingThu, 02 Jul 2026 20:25:23 GMTThe Court of Appeal has thrown out Dave Rowntree's class action against PRS for Music over hundreds of millions in unmatched royalties, ruling he never offered a workable alternative.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/vinyl-sales-1-billion-2025-who-actually-plays-recordshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/vinyl-sales-1-billion-2025-who-actually-plays-recordsThu, 02 Jul 2026 14:55:46 GMTUS vinyl revenue crossed $1 billion in 2025 for the first time since 1983, up 9.3% over a 19th straight year of growth, but the sales are led by pop color variants bought as collectibles, not the 12-inch records house and techno DJs actually play.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/joseph-capriati-metamorfosi-amnesia-50thhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/joseph-capriati-metamorfosi-amnesia-50thThu, 02 Jul 2026 14:50:11 GMTJoseph Capriati made his name as a resident in Amnesia's Main Room in 2012, playing for Marco Carola's Music On. This year, he brings his own party, Metamorfosi, back to the same club for a 14-week Tuesday residency in the year Amnesia turns 50. More than another Ibiza residency, it is a full-circle moment for an artist returning to the room that helped shape his career, now with a night built around his own musical vision. Metamorfosi carries the scale and energy of modern Ibiza while keeping the focus where it belongs: on the music, the DJ and the ravers dancing together until sunrise.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/menura-mdfx-delay-reverb-standalone-dj-effectshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/menura-mdfx-delay-reverb-standalone-dj-effectsThu, 02 Jul 2026 14:22:57 GMTMenura Audio's new MDFX Delay and Reverb are hands-on hardware effects that sit on a mixer's send and return, record the wet signal, and just launched on Kickstarter at 340 euros a unit.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/alphatheta-cdj-1500x-cloud-crowd-requestshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/alphatheta-cdj-1500x-cloud-crowd-requestsThu, 02 Jul 2026 12:31:52 GMTAlphaTheta has cut the CDJ-3000X down to a compact, 1,599-dollar player with cloud libraries, Beatport and TIDAL streaming, and a new feature that lets the crowd request tracks from their phones.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/solomun-skrillex-rumpta-underground-debatehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/solomun-skrillex-rumpta-underground-debateThu, 02 Jul 2026 12:31:46 GMTSolomun and Skrillex released Rumpta on Diynamic on 1 July, a 128 BPM house cut two years in the making, and it reopened the oldest argument in dance music: who gets to belong in the underground.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/rhodes-mk8-80ae-80th-anniversary-limited-editionhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/rhodes-mk8-80ae-80th-anniversary-limited-editionThu, 02 Jul 2026 11:40:09 GMTRhodes opened pre-orders on 30 June for the MK8/80AE, an 80th-anniversary electric piano limited to 80 handmade units, from around 12,995 pounds. It is a love letter to the instrument that shaped soulful and deep house, aimed squarely at collectors.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/beatport-greenroom-artist-label-profiles-datahttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/beatport-greenroom-artist-label-profiles-dataThu, 02 Jul 2026 11:40:04 GMTBeatport launched Greenroom, a free hub where artists and labels claim and run their own profile and, for the first time, see downloads, DJ followers and DJ streams in one dashboard.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/amsterdam-dance-event-2026-30th-anniversary-first-wavehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/amsterdam-dance-event-2026-30th-anniversary-first-waveThu, 02 Jul 2026 11:40:00 GMTADE unveiled the first wave for its 30th edition, running 21 to 25 October 2026: more than 250 artists, Jean-Michel Jarre as guest of honour, and the Gashouder back, on the way to 3,000-plus acts across 200-plus venues.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/chicago-ward-electronic-festival-banhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/chicago-ward-electronic-festival-banThu, 02 Jul 2026 11:39:53 GMTAfter the first Lakeshore Arts and Music Festival filled Lincoln Park with eight hours of bass, Alderman Timmy Knudsen says he will fight to keep large electronic festivals out of his ward, the newest front in the old war between open-air dance music and the neighbors next door.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/logic-pro-12-3-alchemy-granular-sync-beat-breakerhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/logic-pro-12-3-alchemy-granular-sync-beat-breakerThu, 02 Jul 2026 11:39:47 GMTApple's free Logic Pro 12.3 adds a granular Sync mode to Alchemy and Sample Alchemy, gives Beat Breaker per-slice filtering, panning and randomization, and reworks Chord ID.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/deezer-remix-lab-artist-consent-no-aihttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/deezer-remix-lab-artist-consent-no-aiThu, 02 Jul 2026 11:39:44 GMTDeezer launched Remix Lab on 24 June 2026 in France, letting fans reshape songs with built-in tools rather than AI, and only when the artist and rights holder have said yes.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/flow-festival-flow-strike-boycott-deal-kkrhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/flow-festival-flow-strike-boycott-deal-kkrThu, 02 Jul 2026 11:39:33 GMTFlow Festival and the campaign Flow Strike announced a joint agreement on 18 June 2026 that ends the boycott, but the campaigners say their core demand, that KKR divest, was not met.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/warehouse-project-vault-20th-seasonhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/warehouse-project-vault-20th-seasonThu, 02 Jul 2026 11:38:40 GMTThe Warehouse Project is marking 20 years with its biggest season yet at Depot Mayfield, a brand new room called Vault and a run of fresh shows, an expansion that lands while clubs across Europe keep closing.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/traxsource-ai-detectors-soulful-house-beatporthttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/traxsource-ai-detectors-soulful-house-beatportWed, 01 Jul 2026 20:42:06 GMTOn 1 July Traxsource switched on an AI-detection program with SH Labs and SoundPatrol, tagging every track Human-Made or AI-Assisted; in the first sweep eleven of the general Top 100 already wore the AI-Assisted label, even as Glasgow Underground's Kevin McKay revealed a fully AI track once hit No.1 on Beatport with nobody noticing.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/yamamori-dublin-club-nights-end-hoxton-noisehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/yamamori-dublin-club-nights-end-hoxton-noiseWed, 01 Jul 2026 16:50:07 GMTYamamori Izakaya will stop all DJ and club events on 19 July 2026, ending around 15 years of late-night house, techno and disco, after settling a High Court noise case brought by Trinity Hospitality, leaseholder of the neighbouring Hoxton hotel.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/d16-punchbox-2-wavetable-kick-enginehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/d16-punchbox-2-wavetable-kick-engineWed, 01 Jul 2026 16:50:02 GMTPunchBox 2 adds a fifth engine mode, Wavetable, to d16 Group's kick synth, sitting next to Sample, 909, 808 and 606 inside a four-layer hybrid design, from an intro price of 79 euros.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/m-vave-fm-1-dx7-style-fm-synth-60-dollarshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/m-vave-fm-1-dx7-style-fm-synth-60-dollarsWed, 01 Jul 2026 16:49:56 GMTM-VAVE's first desktop synth is a six-operator, DX7-style FM polysynth with 32 classic algorithms, a battery and a speaker, for roughly 60 US dollars.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/jordan-gcz-mei-honeycomb-jazz-techno-saxophone-dividehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/jordan-gcz-mei-honeycomb-jazz-techno-saxophone-divideWed, 01 Jul 2026 16:49:43 GMTIn a new interview around his Mei Honeycomb album with saxophonist Jeff Hollie, Juju & Jordash's Jordan GCZ names the snobbery that keeps techno and jazz at arm's length, and makes a case for putting a real horn back on the dancefloor.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dj-fees-headliner-trap-clubs-closing-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dj-fees-headliner-trap-clubs-closing-2026Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:49:04 GMTTouring DJ fees that have roughly jumped from 50,000 to 80,000 dollars a night are pushing independent clubs to the wall in 2026, and a growing camp of promoters argues the headliner model itself, not rent or tickets, is what is killing them.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/all-the-machines-false-memory-tape-rot-pluginhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/all-the-machines-false-memory-tape-rot-pluginWed, 01 Jul 2026 16:48:47 GMTFalse Memory, the new effect from All The Machines, drags any sound through cassette wobble, VHS errors and data-mosh glitches, with an Evolve mode that keeps eating the signal for up to 64 minutes. It lands at an intro 19 euros.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/burning-man-the-man-will-burn-hbo-tech-moneyhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/burning-man-the-man-will-burn-hbo-tech-moneyWed, 01 Jul 2026 16:48:32 GMTHBO's four-part series The Man Will Burn, premiering 9 July, uses years of archive footage to ask whether influencer culture and Big Tech money have hollowed out the gathering that gave dance music its most mythologised sunrise sets.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/the-disappearance-of-gemini-spencer-kincyhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/the-disappearance-of-gemini-spencer-kincyWed, 01 Jul 2026 14:48:27 GMTSpencer Kincy, who recorded as Gemini, cut more than 200 tracks of jazz-literate deep house in 1990s Chicago and became one of the sound's great teachers, name-checked by Daft Punk and cited from Ben UFO to Autechre. Then he vanished at the height of his career. A guide to a genius, his mystery and why his catalogue still inspires.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/jendie-jen-sx1000-emulation-apphttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/jendie-jen-sx1000-emulation-appWed, 01 Jul 2026 01:02:11 GMTJenDie, from Italian developer Diego Capoccitti, is a faithful software model of the Jen SX-1000, the budget late-70s Italian mono synth used by LFO, Altern 8 and The Prodigy, now running on iPhone, iPad and Mac for 4.99 dollars.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dc-10-club-space-venezuela-earthquake-reliefhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dc-10-club-space-venezuela-earthquake-reliefTue, 30 Jun 2026 18:53:02 GMTAfter twin earthquakes devastated Venezuela on 24 June, Solid Grooves is donating proceeds from its 2 July DC-10 party, with its Venezuelan residents giving up their fees, while Miami's Club Space is matching donations across the weekend. Here is who is doing what, and how to help.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/audio-damage-shinronin-free-delay-filter-pluginhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/audio-damage-shinronin-free-delay-filter-pluginTue, 30 Jun 2026 18:52:18 GMTShinRonin, the dual-delay, dual-morphing-filter effect Audio Damage pulled from sale in 2009, is back as a modern free plugin with no iLok, no activation and no expiry. It runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, with an iPad build on the way.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/who-created-house-music-chicago-djs-historyhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/who-created-house-music-chicago-djs-historyTue, 30 Jun 2026 18:52:12 GMTHouse was not invented by one person. It was built in early-1980s Chicago by a small circle of mostly Black and gay DJs, from Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy behind the decks to Jesse Saunders, Larry Heard and Marshall Jefferson on the records.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/acid-arab-resonance-arab-world-dancefloorhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/acid-arab-resonance-arab-world-dancefloorTue, 30 Jun 2026 14:18:36 GMTThe Paris collective's fourth album, out 19 June on All Night Long, runs 16 tracks of acid, house and techno built around singers from Algeria, Morocco, Syria, Lebanon and beyond.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/olympios-greek-techno-death-26https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/olympios-greek-techno-death-26Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:18:31 GMTEfstathios Olympios Tsiflidis, the Greek techno producer who recorded for Renegade Methodz and had begun playing rooms like Tresor, has died at 26. He and his mother were found dead at their home in western Greece, and a 65-year-old man has been charged with both killings and denies the allegations.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/longevity-rave-joyscore-experiment-dancefloor-sciencehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/longevity-rave-joyscore-experiment-dancefloor-scienceTue, 30 Jun 2026 14:18:25 GMTA London project that runs parties as controlled experiments has launched the JoyScore Experiment, wiring up dancers to test whether rhythm, synchrony and collective joy show up in the body as real markers of healthy ageing.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tracktion-waveform-14-pay-per-use-ai-assistanthttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tracktion-waveform-14-pay-per-use-ai-assistantTue, 30 Jun 2026 14:18:10 GMTWaveform 14, out 27 June, builds an LLM-driven assistant straight into the DAW that writes MIDI and answers manual questions, with no subscription: you connect your own model and pay only for what you generate.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/who-owns-ironworks-testbed-cts-eventimhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/who-owns-ironworks-testbed-cts-eventimTue, 30 Jun 2026 14:18:04 GMTA Change Underground investigation traces London's Ironworks and Leeds' Testbed through a chain of holding companies up to CTS Eventim, the German listed group that also owns See Tickets, putting promoter, room and ticket under one roof.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/house-techno-canon-ai-21-million-song-training-datahttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/house-techno-canon-ai-21-million-song-training-dataTue, 30 Jun 2026 14:17:55 GMTCharlotte de Witte, Eric Prydz, Daft Punk and the cult producer DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ all turned up in the music datasets The Atlantic exposed, and a lot of it traces back to the Free Music Archive the underground built to share freely.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tidal-stops-paying-royalties-ai-generated-music-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tidal-stops-paying-royalties-ai-generated-music-2026Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:13:35 GMTFrom 15 July, Tidal will pay no royalties on music it judges to be wholly AI-generated, tag those tracks with an AI badge and bar them from direct-to-fan sales, the sharpest line any major streaming service has drawn on the synthetic flood diluting the royalty pool the underground draws from.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/erica-synths-razornator-karplus-strong-resonatorhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/erica-synths-razornator-karplus-strong-resonatorTue, 30 Jun 2026 14:13:20 GMTThe Razornator is a desktop stereo effects box whose entire engine is ten Karplus-Strong resonators, turning any sound into plucked, bowed and resonant textures. It ships in early July for 490 euros.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/morphoice-eightyeight-jupiter-8-emulation-free-betahttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/morphoice-eightyeight-jupiter-8-emulation-free-betaTue, 30 Jun 2026 14:13:16 GMTMorphoice's EightyEight recreates the Roland Jupiter-8 from measurements of a real machine, voice card by voice card, and it is out now as a pay-what-you-want public beta.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/frank-carter-iii-drum-and-bass-vocalist-dieshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/frank-carter-iii-drum-and-bass-vocalist-diesTue, 30 Jun 2026 14:13:12 GMTThe Virginia-born, New York-based vocalist who gave Ivy Lab, Metalheadz and a generation of producers their most human moments has died, his collaborators announced; no cause has been given.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spotify-stream-filtering-lawsuit-expandedhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spotify-stream-filtering-lawsuit-expandedTue, 30 Jun 2026 14:13:07 GMTA Connecticut musician who is also a lawyer expanded his case against Spotify on June 29, alleging that a March 2026 rule change mechanically capped his counted streams while major catalogs were left untouched.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/phones-off-the-dancefloor-clubs-go-phone-freehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/phones-off-the-dancefloor-clubs-go-phone-freeMon, 29 Jun 2026 17:38:14 GMTHalf of clubbers now say phones are wrecking the dancefloor, yet most still film. Fabric, Pikes and the relaunched Sankeys are betting that taking the screen away brings the room back.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/behringer-bm-14m-moogerfooger-delay-clonehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/behringer-bm-14m-moogerfooger-delay-cloneMon, 29 Jun 2026 17:37:54 GMTBehringer's BM-14M clones Moog's discontinued Moogerfooger MF-104M analog delay for 119 euros. It catches most of the magic and misses the chaos at the edges.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/europe-heatwave-festivals-cancelled-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/europe-heatwave-festivals-cancelled-2026Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:55:26 GMTSolidays in Paris, Defqon.1 in the Netherlands and a string of outdoor events were called off as Europe topped 45°C and the Dutch issued their first ever code red for heat, a preview of the climate math every summer festival now has to do.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sao-paulo-dr-banana-clubhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sao-paulo-dr-banana-clubSun, 28 Jun 2026 21:55:17 GMTDr. Banana, opened in June by two veteran promoters in the Vergueiro district, is the latest sign that São Paulo's underground is reclaiming the all-night club culture the city helped build.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/house-groove-tresillo-african-rootshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/house-groove-tresillo-african-rootsSun, 28 Jun 2026 21:47:16 GMTBefore Chicago house, disco or the drum machine, the 3+3+2 rhythm was already moving through West African music, Cuban son, New Orleans jazz and Caribbean dance music. Learning its journey does not diminish house's invention. It reveals the deeper rhythmic history that helped make the dancefloor possible.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/cyma-forma-rnd-one-button-synthhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/cyma-forma-rnd-one-button-synthSun, 28 Jun 2026 21:46:43 GMTBuilt with French producer Bambounou, the RND throws out the screen, the knobs and the save button: press once, get a brand-new patch, and capture it or lose it. It starts shipping in late June.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/unusable-engineering-partials-discrepancies-additive-synthhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/unusable-engineering-partials-discrepancies-additive-synthSun, 28 Jun 2026 21:38:44 GMTUnusable Engineering released Partials & Discrepancies on 27 June 2026, an 8-voice additive software synth for macOS and Windows (VST3 and Audio Unit) priced at 79 EUR, built around a rotating circle of partial shapes that turns additive synthesis into something you can actually play.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ibiza-piat-bans-new-nightclub-licenceshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ibiza-piat-bans-new-nightclub-licencesSun, 28 Jun 2026 21:38:38 GMTIbiza's tourism plan will ban new nightclub licences across the island, the Consell d'Eivissa said on 27 June, while insisting the existing legal nightlife stays protected.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/psychedelics-raves-ceremonies-childhood-trauma-studyhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/psychedelics-raves-ceremonies-childhood-trauma-studySun, 28 Jun 2026 17:58:23 GMTResearchers tracked 85 adults with childhood trauma who took psychedelics at raves or ceremonies, and two months later the dancefloor crowd reported reductions in PTSD just as large as the ceremony group.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/suno-spark-grants-non-disparagement-clausehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/suno-spark-grants-non-disparagement-clauseSun, 28 Jun 2026 16:57:19 GMTSuno's new Spark incubator hands unsigned artists grants worth thousands of dollars, but the contract carries a non-disparagement clause that never expires, courting the very independents now suing the AI company.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/detroit-techno-tourism-what-it-oweshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/detroit-techno-tourism-what-it-owesSun, 28 Jun 2026 16:39:32 GMTAs Detroit cashes in on its techno legacy with an official Techno Week and a festival economy worth 20 million dollars, a small free festival and the music's Black originators are pressing a harder question: what do the visitors who built careers on this city give back?https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/soundcloud-twitch-dj-livestream-labelshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/soundcloud-twitch-dj-livestream-labelsSun, 28 Jun 2026 13:59:46 GMTSoundCloud Sessions turns DJ streaming into a recurring all-day event on Twitch. It only works because of the 2024 licensing deals that legalised playing other people's records online, and those deals hand the labels roughly half the money.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tweakbench-bastion-kick-bass-synthhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tweakbench-bastion-kick-bass-synthSun, 28 Jun 2026 13:59:22 GMTTweakbench, the freeware developer who vanished for nearly 20 years, has rebuilt his whole catalogue and keeps giving it away. His newest, a kick-and-bass synth called Bastion, sells for 10 dollars.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/anukari-3d-physics-synthesizerhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/anukari-3d-physics-synthesizerSun, 28 Jun 2026 13:59:18 GMTAnukari is a new $149 software synth that makes sound by simulating real 3D physics: you wire up masses and springs, hit a note, and the structure rings out on screen as you hear it.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/bob-sinclar-ibiza-became-a-showhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/bob-sinclar-ibiza-became-a-showSun, 28 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe French house veteran behind 'Love Generation' says the island has become a phone-lit show built around bottle service, and that the clubbers who made Ibiza have been priced out and forgotten.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/seth-troxler-he-aint-here-protesthttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/seth-troxler-he-aint-here-protestSat, 27 Jun 2026 19:54:19 GMTSeth Troxler's Berlin label Slacker 85 drops the 35-track compilation 'He Ain't Here' on 1 July, and he is framing it as protest, fight music for a world he says is about to change.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/greatest-house-music-singers-top-5https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/greatest-house-music-singers-top-5Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:05:31 GMTFrom Robert Owens's deep-house ache to Barbara Tucker's gospel power, these are the five voices that turned a Chicago drum-machine sound into songs and gave house its soul.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/best-house-music-documentaries-top-5https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/best-house-music-documentaries-top-5Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:05:28 GMTFrom the definitive Pump Up the Volume to the New York roots of Maestro and the global sweep of Afro house, these five documentaries trace house from a Chicago warehouse to the world.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/longest-dj-sets-of-all-time-top-5https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/longest-dj-sets-of-all-time-top-5Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:05:20 GMTThe longest officially recognised DJ marathon is Faber Moreira's 244-hour run in Italy, but a Nigerian challenger may already have beaten it. Here are the five longest, and why DJs argue about what 'longest' even means.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/synth-80-mks-80-super-jupiter-emulationhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/synth-80-mks-80-super-jupiter-emulationSat, 27 Jun 2026 17:35:09 GMTJun Murakami's Synth-80 claims to be the first full software emulation of the MKS-80 Rev.4, the rack Jupiter-8 whose hardware long ago priced most producers out. There is even a free browser demo.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/pacha-new-york-brooklyn-miragehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/pacha-new-york-brooklyn-mirageSat, 27 Jun 2026 17:34:52 GMTThe Ibiza institution opened Pacha New York in June, taking over the East Williamsburg complex that was the Brooklyn Mirage, dark for nearly two years after its spectacular collapse.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/found-berlin-watergate-open-airhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/found-berlin-watergate-open-airSat, 27 Jun 2026 17:25:50 GMTFOUND, an 8,500-capacity complex in a former Schultheiss brewery, threw its first party this weekend, a Watergate open air, eighteen months after Watergate lost its riverside home.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/annie-mac-ai-music-costhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/annie-mac-ai-music-costSat, 27 Jun 2026 16:52:48 GMTThe former Radio 1 tastemaker says AI and frictionless tools have made producing a track trivial, and warns the real cost is the craft, the struggle, and the value of music itself.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/uk-rave-thatcher-documentaryhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/uk-rave-thatcher-documentarySat, 27 Jun 2026 15:05:17 GMTRave Culture: A New Era, a feature documentary now touring cinemas, argues that Britain's breakbeat rave boom of the late 1980s and 1990s grew straight out of Thatcher-era unemployment and a generation locked out of work.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/jeff-mills-techno-education-not-entertainmenthttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/jeff-mills-techno-education-not-entertainmentSat, 27 Jun 2026 14:51:56 GMTTechno's own architect refuses to let the music live in its past. At 63 the Detroit pioneer still mixes on three decks with no sync button, treats techno as education over entertainment, and the same month he marked 30 years of his most famous live set he shipped a brand-new sci-fi concept album. He honours the past without missing it, and points everything forward.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/club-rawhide-chelsea-queer-nightlifehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/club-rawhide-chelsea-queer-nightlifeSat, 27 Jun 2026 14:50:47 GMTA 160-capacity room on West 26th Street borrows the name of a legendary Chelsea gay bar and a custom sound system to bet that intimate, history-minded nightlife still belongs in Manhattan.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spotify-reserved-ticketing-streaming-datahttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spotify-reserved-ticketing-streaming-dataSat, 27 Jun 2026 14:50:35 GMTReserved by Spotify, live in the US since 18 June through a multi-year Live Nation deal, hands early ticket access to an artist's top streamers, ranked by the listening data Spotify already holds on you.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dreeemwave-bassliner-not-ai-generatorhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dreeemwave-bassliner-not-ai-generatorSat, 27 Jun 2026 14:48:29 GMTDreeemwave's Bassliner writes MIDI basslines from a research-based algorithm, not a model trained on other people's songs, and it is leaning hard on that distinction as the AI-music backlash peaks.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/beatmatch-pro-ear-training-apphttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/beatmatch-pro-ear-training-appSat, 27 Jun 2026 14:48:11 GMTA new free app drops two tracks in your headphones and scores how close you get their tempos by ear, with a fresh global challenge every day.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/how-to-support-venezuela-earthquakes-house-communityhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/how-to-support-venezuela-earthquakes-house-communitySat, 27 Jun 2026 14:47:40 GMTAfter two earthquakes killed more than 900 people near Caracas, here is how the house and techno world can help: give cash to vetted relief funds that work on the ground, and keep Venezuela's electronic scene, from raptor house to its exiled producers, booked and visible.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/djs-dont-need-a-brand-they-need-a-mythhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/djs-dont-need-a-brand-they-need-a-mythSat, 27 Jun 2026 07:42:07 GMTThe acts that endure in electronic music, from Daft Punk to Drexciya, never sold a personal brand; they built a world you could disappear into, and in an age of AI sameness that mythology is the only moat a DJ has left.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/raving-for-mental-healthhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/raving-for-mental-healthSat, 27 Jun 2026 07:40:34 GMTA growing body of peer-reviewed work shows that dancing together lifts mood, eases loneliness and floods the brain with endorphins, and house, built on a communal four-to-the-floor pulse, may be the genre best engineered to do it.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/mochakk-barry-cant-swim-world-cup-househttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/mochakk-barry-cant-swim-world-cup-houseSat, 27 Jun 2026 00:20:58 GMTWhen Brazil met Scotland in Miami, the soundtrack came from the underground: per DJ Mag, Mochakk and Barry Can't Swim walked the official match ball onto the pitch, then went back to back until morning at Club Space.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fred-again-dior-summer-2027-paris-soundtrackhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fred-again-dior-summer-2027-paris-soundtrackFri, 26 Jun 2026 23:51:19 GMTFred again.. composed the official soundtrack for Jonathan Anderson's Dior Men's Summer 2027 show at Paris Fashion Week on 24 June, premiering unreleased music with KETTAMA, THE KTNA, Young Thug, Jamie T and Christine and the Queens, then remixing it live to close the runway.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/hagens-berman-udio-ai-music-lawsuithttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/hagens-berman-udio-ai-music-lawsuitFri, 26 Jun 2026 23:50:50 GMTHagens Berman, the law firm behind the largest legal recovery in US history, has escalated its case against Udio, accusing the AI startup of copying millions of independent artists' recordings to train its models.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/defqon-1-cancelled-code-red-heat-festivalshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/defqon-1-cancelled-code-red-heat-festivalsFri, 26 Jun 2026 23:50:41 GMTDefqon.1 was called off mid-weekend after the Dutch weather service issued the Netherlands' first-ever Code Red heat warning, with temperatures near 40C. It is the clearest sign yet that extreme heat is now a festival-season problem.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/akai-mpc-one-g2-key-37-g2-synth-grooveboxhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/akai-mpc-one-g2-key-37-g2-synth-grooveboxFri, 26 Jun 2026 23:50:30 GMTThe Akai MPC One G2 and MPC Key 37 G2 land with four times the power and a new MPC 3.9 OS that finally builds a real synthesizer engine into the box, starting at $799.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/love-injection-10-years-bbe-compilationhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/love-injection-10-years-bbe-compilationFri, 26 Jun 2026 23:49:25 GMTThe New York fanzine, radio show and label co-founded by Barbie Bertisch and Paul Raffaele marks a decade with its first-ever compilation, 'A Declaration of Universal Love,' out now on BBE Music.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fully-ai-track-number-one-beatport-traxsource-labelshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fully-ai-track-number-one-beatport-traxsource-labelsFri, 26 Jun 2026 23:48:52 GMTKevin McKay says a track built entirely in Suno topped a Beatport genre chart with no one the wiser. Days later, Traxsource set a date to start labeling every release human-made or AI-assisted.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/annie-mac-ai-music-never-easier-at-what-costhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/annie-mac-ai-music-never-easier-at-what-costFri, 26 Jun 2026 23:48:36 GMTAnnie Mac, the broadcaster who spent two decades championing new dance music, used a clip this month to put the producer world's quiet fear into one line: AI has made making music frictionless, and that ease is doing something to its value.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/deezer-85-ai-streams-fraud-distributor-upload-feehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/deezer-85-ai-streams-fraud-distributor-upload-feeFri, 26 Jun 2026 21:20:07 GMTDeezer is demonetising the vast majority of streams on AI-generated tracks as bot fraud. The catch: the distributors that wave those tracks onto streaming services collect their upload fees whether the music is real, fake, or never heard by a human at all.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/mickey-mann-orbital-sound-engineer-dieshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/mickey-mann-orbital-sound-engineer-diesFri, 26 Jun 2026 14:51:28 GMTMickey Mann, the Aberdeen engineer who toured as the unofficial third member of The Shamen and ran Orbital's live sound for twenty years, has died at 65, and the rave generation is paying its respects.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/labels-ai-music-deals-artists-opted-in-by-defaulthttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/labels-ai-music-deals-artists-opted-in-by-defaultFri, 26 Jun 2026 12:42:57 GMTThe majors have signed AI licensing deals and even AI acts, while 31 artist and songwriter bodies say performers are being opted into AI by default, without pay, as 75,000 AI tracks a day flood streaming.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/nikki-nair-dh2-the-sick-dimensionhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/nikki-nair-dh2-the-sick-dimensionFri, 26 Jun 2026 12:41:35 GMTThe Atlanta producer signs to dh2, the dance label run by The 1975's George Daniel, with a four-track EP out August 7 that trades his warped club sound for old-school house.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/uk-grassroots-venue-levy-june-deadlinehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/uk-grassroots-venue-levy-june-deadlineFri, 26 Jun 2026 12:41:23 GMTA voluntary £1 charge on arena and stadium tickets is meant to refill the grassroots circuit. If adoption misses 50% by June 30, the UK government says it will legislate, and Live Nation is the named holdout.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/d16-punchbox-2-kick-synthhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/d16-punchbox-2-kick-synthFri, 26 Jun 2026 12:41:13 GMTD16 Group rebuilt its kick-drum synth from the ground up: five engines including a new wavetable mode, real-time pitch detection and a modular Patchbay, at an intro price of 79 euros.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/manumission-ibiza-le-weekend-no-phoneshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/manumission-ibiza-le-weekend-no-phonesFri, 26 Jun 2026 12:41:08 GMTIbiza's wildest 90s party returns for a three-day weekend from 25 to 27 September, with cameras banned, no DJ names on the flyer, and a first ticket release that sold out in under two minutes.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/reactional-music-eu-grant-gameshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/reactional-music-eu-grant-gamesThu, 25 Jun 2026 19:40:08 GMTReactional Music has won a 2.5 million euro EU grant to put licensed music inside video games, a frontier that indie labels like Ninja Tune are already betting could pay better than streaming.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/3-step-south-africa-afro-househttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/3-step-south-africa-afro-houseThu, 25 Jun 2026 19:40:03 GMT3-Step is the Afro House offshoot crossing from South Africa's underground into the mainstream, built on a three-kick pattern instead of four-on-the-floor and credited largely to producer Thakzin.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/faithless-insomnia-30-yearshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/faithless-insomnia-30-yearsThu, 25 Jun 2026 19:03:25 GMTFaithless are reissuing 'Insomnia' for its 30th anniversary on orange vinyl, a picture disc and a digital EP, three decades after the breakdown that turned a sleepless lyric into one of dance music's most quoted moments.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/gforce-prophet-5-official-pluginhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/gforce-prophet-5-official-pluginThu, 25 Jun 2026 19:03:15 GMTGForce has released the first officially licensed software version of Sequential's 1978 Prophet-5, modelling all three hardware revisions and adding modern touches like full MPE and a dual-layer stack.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sza-diplo-suno-ai-traininghttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sza-diplo-suno-ai-trainingThu, 25 Jun 2026 19:03:06 GMTSZA accused the AI platform Suno of training on 238 of her songs without consent and claimed Diplo holds equity in it; Diplo says he has no stake, and the row has reopened the fight over who fed the machines.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/france-prefects-ban-sound-system-vehicles-solstice-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/france-prefects-ban-sound-system-vehicles-solstice-2026Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:56:10 GMTAcross June 19 to 22, 2026, a string of French prefects did not just ban free parties, they banned the vehicles carrying the rigs, making it illegal to drive a sound system toward an unauthorised rave.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/lekompo-limpopo-music-dialogue-risehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/lekompo-limpopo-music-dialogue-riseThu, 25 Jun 2026 12:56:06 GMTThe first Limpopo Music Dialogue put lekompo, the fast electronic sound out of Limpopo's townships and villages, in a room with the royalty societies, the government and the people who built it.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/galcher-lustwerk-vestibule-remixes-villalobos-skee-maskhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/galcher-lustwerk-vestibule-remixes-villalobos-skee-maskThu, 25 Jun 2026 12:55:55 GMTStrataSonic puts Ricardo Villalobos, Skee Mask, Saoirse and Yaleesa Hall on remix duty for Galcher Lustwerk's Vestibule EP, a deep-house record handed to a minimal lifer and a techno hermit at once.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/akai-mpc-one-g2-key-37-g2-pro-pack-paywallhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/akai-mpc-one-g2-key-37-g2-pro-pack-paywallThu, 25 Jun 2026 12:55:46 GMTThe MPC One G2 and MPC Key 37 G2 finally fix the standalone hardware's biggest bottleneck, then lock stem separation, time-stretch and Clip Matrix behind a paid Pro Pack.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/bay-area-dance-music-tech-money-class-rifthttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/bay-area-dance-music-tech-money-class-riftThu, 25 Jun 2026 12:55:40 GMTA Bandcamp Daily scene report maps a thriving Oakland and San Francisco underground, then names the thing nobody on the dancefloor can ignore: the wealth that built the city is pricing working people out of it.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/stubhub-uk-cma-hidden-fees-refundhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/stubhub-uk-cma-hidden-fees-refundWed, 24 Jun 2026 18:59:04 GMTBritain's competition watchdog caught StubHub UK adding fees at the last click and ordered automatic refunds for tens of thousands of fans. It is the first real test of the country's new pricing-transparency law.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/coven-soho-five-floor-queer-club-openshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/coven-soho-five-floor-queer-club-opensWed, 24 Jun 2026 18:59:01 GMTCoven took over the former G-A-Y Bar and reopened it as a five-storey queer venue, a café by day and a club by night, in a year when British nightlife keeps shutting down.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/hugo-bianco-ibiza-drug-network-sentence-upheldhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/hugo-bianco-ibiza-drug-network-sentence-upheldWed, 24 Jun 2026 17:26:38 GMTHugo Bianco played clubs in Ibiza and Miami. Spanish and US investigators say he also ran the network moving drugs between them, and the Balearic High Court has now confirmed his prison term.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/teenage-engineering-ep-133-ko2-usb-audio-updatehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/teenage-engineering-ep-133-ko2-usb-audio-updateWed, 24 Jun 2026 17:26:26 GMTTeenage Engineering's 2.5 firmware turns the cult sampler into a proper studio citizen: stereo USB in and out, sample reverse, and the arpeggiator owners have been begging for.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ai-watchdog-find-music-training-setshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ai-watchdog-find-music-training-setsWed, 24 Jun 2026 17:26:23 GMTThe Atlantic just made four enormous music datasets searchable, so any producer can check whether their work was scraped to feed generative AI. A lot of it was.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/cercle-cancels-mexico-festival-financial-difficultieshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/cercle-cancels-mexico-festival-financial-difficultiesWed, 24 Jun 2026 15:05:26 GMTThe studio that spent a decade filming DJs in deserts, on glaciers and at the Eiffel Tower says rising post-COVID costs and taxes have pushed it into severe financial difficulty, and it has called off its sold-out Cercle Festival Mexico.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/everywhere-at-once-grassroots-venues-glastonbury-weekendhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/everywhere-at-once-grassroots-venues-glastonbury-weekendWed, 24 Jun 2026 12:25:34 GMTWith Glastonbury sitting out a fallow year, the Music Venue Trust is filling the same weekend with gigs in more than 400 small rooms across the UK, and putting 2,000 artists on stage to argue that this is where dance music actually starts.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fred-again-india-debut-tour-newspaper-adhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fred-again-india-debut-tour-newspaper-adWed, 24 Jun 2026 12:25:25 GMTFred again.. will play Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru this December, his only live dates anywhere in the world in 2026, teased not on Instagram but with full-page front-page ads in Hindi, Marathi and Kannada.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/nts-atonemo-radio-player-anti-algorithmhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/nts-atonemo-radio-player-anti-algorithmWed, 24 Jun 2026 12:25:16 GMTNTS Radio and Swedish audio firm Atonemo have built a 169-dollar hi-fi player that does one thing on purpose: pipe human-curated radio to good speakers, with no feed, no recommendations and nothing to scroll.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/jeff-mills-the-trip-to-vega-axis-albumhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/jeff-mills-the-trip-to-vega-axis-albumWed, 24 Jun 2026 12:25:10 GMTOn The Trip To Vega, out now on his own Axis label, Detroit's techno futurist imagines the year 2097, the planet abandoned, and an 11-track interstellar voyage to a star 25 light years away.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/france-free-party-prison-bill-stallshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/france-free-party-prison-bill-stallsWed, 24 Jun 2026 12:25:02 GMTOn 22 June, a National Assembly committee narrowly threw out the article that would make organising an unauthorised rave punishable by two years in prison. Two separate bills are still alive, and the fight moves to the floor before the summer recess.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/music-room-belfast-first-listening-barhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/music-room-belfast-first-listening-barTue, 23 Jun 2026 22:12:06 GMTMusic Room, opening 1 July on Church Street, is Belfast's first dedicated listening bar, a custom hi-fi room built for sitting down and actually hearing records, and the latest sign that the global listening-bar movement is still growing.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/bootshaus-360-l-acoustics-main-floorhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/bootshaus-360-l-acoustics-main-floorTue, 23 Jun 2026 22:11:58 GMTFor its 22nd birthday, Cologne club Bootshaus turned its main floor into a permanent L-Acoustics system that splits a DJ's ordinary stereo mix into a moving, three-dimensional field, billed as a world first for the format.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/hard-techno-reckoning-paris-courthttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/hard-techno-reckoning-paris-courtTue, 23 Jun 2026 22:11:52 GMTA criminal complaint filed in Paris against Shlømo, alleging rape and threats, is the first to push hard techno's months-long misconduct reckoning into the legal system, as the advocacy group METOODJS says nearly 100 people have come forward.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/speed-garage-2026-revivalhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/speed-garage-2026-revivalTue, 23 Jun 2026 17:56:11 GMTSpeed garage downloads on Splice jumped 625% this year, second only to afro house, and the bassline-heavy UK sound is back on festival main stages.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/traxsource-human-made-ai-assisted-labelshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/traxsource-human-made-ai-assisted-labelsTue, 23 Jun 2026 17:56:04 GMTThe house and soulful download store is removing fully AI-generated music and labelling everything else, the hardest line a major platform has drawn on AI.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/amelie-lens-grandmother-social-housing-origin-storyhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/amelie-lens-grandmother-social-housing-origin-storyTue, 23 Jun 2026 16:35:58 GMTAmelie Lens, one of techno's biggest live draws in 2026, has bought an apartment for the grandmother who raised her in social housing after her mother died, a full-circle moment from the top of the bill.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/trackstack-declined-demo-no-longer-the-endhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/trackstack-declined-demo-no-longer-the-endTue, 23 Jun 2026 16:35:47 GMTTrackstack, the submission platform co-founded by Jamie Jones, is rebuilding demo culture so a rejected track gets an answer and a next step instead of disappearing into a label inbox.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/daft-punk-one-more-time-france-world-cup-goal-songhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/daft-punk-one-more-time-france-world-cup-goal-songTue, 23 Jun 2026 16:15:04 GMTFrance's football federation has made Daft Punk's 2000 house anthem 'One More Time' the team's official goal song for the 2026 World Cup, and it already blasted through MetLife Stadium three times in the opener.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/laidback-luke-chasing-algorithm-rich-bored-back-to-firehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/laidback-luke-chasing-algorithm-rich-bored-back-to-fireTue, 23 Jun 2026 16:13:35 GMTAt 49, Laidback Luke says a decade of chasing streams left him rich and creatively numb. He is burying his 'EDM Luke' and going back to the pre-EDM fidget sound with his CODE/RED EP.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/knobula-drum-farm-eurorack-modulehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/knobula-drum-farm-eurorack-moduleTue, 23 Jun 2026 14:40:56 GMTThe Drum Farm, the most-previewed module of Superbooth 2026, ships this month: 16 drum-synthesis models, a built-in sampler and 16 effects in one screen-free 24HP panel for 449 pounds.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/shulgin-mdma-50-years-dea-fdahttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/shulgin-mdma-50-years-dea-fdaTue, 23 Jun 2026 12:54:54 GMTIn September 1976, organic chemist Alexander Shulgin resynthesized MDMA in a California shed and documented what it actually did to a human mind. Fifty years on, the DEA banned it, the FDA rejected it, and the molecule still refuses to go away.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/the-atlantic-ai-watchdog-suno-training-data-checkhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/the-atlantic-ai-watchdog-suno-training-data-checkTue, 23 Jun 2026 12:52:23 GMTThe Atlantic's AI Watchdog now lets any artist search four datasets, more than 20 million tracks, that AI developers pass around to train music models, and independent producers are the bulk of what is inside.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/afro-house-sound-of-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/afro-house-sound-of-2026Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:41:56 GMTSplice and MIDiA Research named Afro house the Sound of the Year after a 778% jump in downloads, and the data shows a South African export now driving the whole house genre.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/purple-disco-machine-hearing-loss-cancels-showshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/purple-disco-machine-hearing-loss-cancels-showsTue, 23 Jun 2026 12:37:01 GMTThe German producer has called off every show until mid-July after sudden hearing loss and severe tinnitus, on doctors' orders to rest his ears.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/miltone-4exp-oberheim-four-voicehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/miltone-4exp-oberheim-four-voiceTue, 23 Jun 2026 12:36:48 GMTMiltone has opened pre-orders for the 4EXP, an authentic hardware recreation of Oberheim's mid-70s polysynth built from the original circuits, starting at 9,990 euros.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/cassiopeia-raw-eviction-berlinhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/cassiopeia-raw-eviction-berlinTue, 23 Jun 2026 12:36:42 GMTThe Friedrichshain club has been told to vacate the RAW-Gelände by the end of June after the site's owner walked away from talks, and Cassiopeia says it will not give up.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/oliver-tree-baby-geniuses-grant-foundation-family-launchhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/oliver-tree-baby-geniuses-grant-foundation-family-launchMon, 22 Jun 2026 18:18:50 GMTDays after the eccentric musician died in a Rio helicopter crash at 32, his family confirmed it will honour his will and launch Dr. Oliver Tree's Extremely Epic Grant For Baby Geniuses, a foundation that funnels his catalogue and estate to emerging artists, with relatives left almost nothing by his own design.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spotify-pro-rata-model-your-subscription-funds-the-chartshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spotify-pro-rata-model-your-subscription-funds-the-chartsMon, 22 Jun 2026 18:18:28 GMTSpotify does not pay you per stream. It pools every subscription into one pot and splits it by share of total plays, so the indie acts you stream all month see almost nothing while the money pools at the top of the charts.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/not-every-dj-set-is-a-rave-why-the-distinction-mattershttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/not-every-dj-set-is-a-rave-why-the-distinction-mattersMon, 22 Jun 2026 18:15:10 GMTA rave is a live exchange of energy between a DJ and a dancefloor, not a concert with CDJs and spectators staring at a show, and confusing the two is quietly hollowing out dance music culture.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spotify-spam-filter-human-artists-ai-bands-unflaggedhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spotify-spam-filter-human-artists-ai-bands-unflaggedMon, 22 Jun 2026 18:13:28 GMTSpotify built a fraud-fighting machine that judges behaviour and audio, not intent, so its spam filter and opt-in AI disclosure can flag and downrank honest musicians while fully AI acts like The Velvet Sundown pile up millions of streams with no label behind them.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/asna-bring-back-rave-in-town-self-releasedhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/asna-bring-back-rave-in-town-self-releasedMon, 22 Jun 2026 17:39:29 GMTIvorian producer Asna put out Bring Back Rave In Town herself, fusing raw West African percussion with techno, after dealing with labels she says never understood or properly valued African artists.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spotify-direct-video-uploads-artists-youtubehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spotify-direct-video-uploads-artists-youtubeMon, 22 Jun 2026 17:39:22 GMTSpotify has opened direct full-length video uploads to artists in beta, a new royalty-bearing surface for official videos, live sessions and covers, and a direct shot at YouTube's hold on music video.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/japan-public-performance-royalty-performers-labelshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/japan-public-performance-royalty-performers-labelsMon, 22 Jun 2026 17:39:12 GMTA new Japanese law gives performers and record companies a royalty when commercial recordings play in cafes, shops, bars and hotels, even when Japanese records spin overseas, in the world's second-biggest music market.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/major-labels-supreme-court-copyright-terminationhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/major-labels-supreme-court-copyright-terminationMon, 22 Jun 2026 17:39:06 GMTUniversal, Warner, Sony and BMG want the US Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that lets artists reclaim their copyrights worldwide, not just in America, the strongest reversion tool independent musicians have.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/gcs-model-8-tape-daw-24-trackhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/gcs-model-8-tape-daw-24-trackMon, 22 Jun 2026 17:38:57 GMTGulf 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/acid-drip-open-source-303-grooveboxhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/acid-drip-open-source-303-grooveboxMon, 22 Jun 2026 12:27:21 GMTAcid 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/befaco-random8-eurorack-free-vcvhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/befaco-random8-eurorack-free-vcvMon, 22 Jun 2026 12:27:17 GMTRANDOM8 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tillatec-amsterdam-closing-de-school-buildinghttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tillatec-amsterdam-closing-de-school-buildingMon, 22 Jun 2026 12:27:13 GMTThe 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/cathy-guetta-daft-punk-ibiza-originhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/cathy-guetta-daft-punk-ibiza-originMon, 22 Jun 2026 12:27:07 GMTIn 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/daft-punk-alive-1997-gear-costhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/daft-punk-alive-1997-gear-costMon, 22 Jun 2026 11:02:52 GMTDaft 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/polyend-tracker-lib-open-sourcehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/polyend-tracker-lib-open-sourceMon, 22 Jun 2026 10:32:25 GMTPolyend 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fred-again-trans-future-sounds-abbey-roadhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fred-again-trans-future-sounds-abbey-roadMon, 22 Jun 2026 10:32:20 GMTOn 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/funktion-one-holophonix-spatial-audiohttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/funktion-one-holophonix-spatial-audioSun, 21 Jun 2026 21:33:41 GMTFunktion-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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/mint-xl-leeds-pryzm-underground-clubhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/mint-xl-leeds-pryzm-underground-clubSun, 21 Jun 2026 21:33:34 GMTMint 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/prince-kaybee-signs-playy-records-afro-househttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/prince-kaybee-signs-playy-records-afro-houseSun, 21 Jun 2026 21:33:25 GMTThe 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/house-mainstream-2026-black-queer-rootshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/house-mainstream-2026-black-queer-rootsSun, 21 Jun 2026 18:07:32 GMTHouse 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fluke-the-second-bite-daniel-averyhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fluke-the-second-bite-daniel-averySun, 21 Jun 2026 17:23:35 GMTThe 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/play-ai-like-an-instrument-latent-terrainhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/play-ai-like-an-instrument-latent-terrainSun, 21 Jun 2026 13:09:44 GMTA 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/jamie-principle-your-love-national-recording-registryhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/jamie-principle-your-love-national-recording-registrySun, 21 Jun 2026 13:09:31 GMTThe 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/zoom-livetrak-l6-portable-mixer-recorderhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/zoom-livetrak-l6-portable-mixer-recorderSun, 21 Jun 2026 13:06:53 GMTAnnounced 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/rave-preservation-project-directory-undergroundhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/rave-preservation-project-directory-undergroundSun, 21 Jun 2026 13:06:40 GMTFor 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ins-land-shanghai-20-venue-empirehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ins-land-shanghai-20-venue-empireSun, 21 Jun 2026 13:06:30 GMTChina'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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/meet-the-godfather-of-ecstasyhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/meet-the-godfather-of-ecstasySun, 21 Jun 2026 01:40:27 GMTSasha 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/peaktime-dj-rankings-data-house-technohttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/peaktime-dj-rankings-data-house-technoSat, 20 Jun 2026 23:07:14 GMTPeaktime 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/why-ibiza-remains-house-musics-sacred-groundhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/why-ibiza-remains-house-musics-sacred-groundSat, 20 Jun 2026 20:48:15 GMTThree 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/carl-cox-unvrs-ibiza-2026-seasonhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/carl-cox-unvrs-ibiza-2026-seasonSat, 20 Jun 2026 20:39:07 GMTCarl 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/amelie-lens-miscarriage-sexual-violence-techno-silencehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/amelie-lens-miscarriage-sexual-violence-techno-silenceSat, 20 Jun 2026 17:53:47 GMTIn 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/korg-kaoss-pad-v-review-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/korg-kaoss-pad-v-review-2026Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:52:11 GMTThe 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tec-troit-detroit-free-festival-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tec-troit-detroit-free-festival-2026Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:50:53 GMTNow in its 16th year, Tec-Troit sets up at the abandoned Herman Kiefer Hospital for a free, all-ages weekend of Detroit techno, with Mike Banks, Juan Atkins, Blake Baxter and 30+ more on the bill.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ra-doors-open-leland-sync-licensing-70-percent-live-incomehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ra-doors-open-leland-sync-licensing-70-percent-live-incomeSat, 20 Jun 2026 17:47:14 GMTA Musicians' Union dataset tabled at Resident Advisor's UNLOCKED event puts the structural fragility of the electronic music economy in hard numbers, and a new 4-month mentorship programme backed by Arts Council England offers five producers a way out.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/warehouse-project-20-years-manchester-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/warehouse-project-20-years-manchester-2026Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:47:06 GMTManchester's cornerstone club night marks two decades with a documentary shot on Kodak Ektachrome, a 20-year archive of unreleased DJ sets via Apple Music, a photography exhibition in Spinningfields, and a Season 20 that kicks off on 18 September.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/black-coffee-first-african-dj-sell-out-o2-arenahttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/black-coffee-first-african-dj-sell-out-o2-arenaSat, 20 Jun 2026 17:46:30 GMTOn 22 May 2026, Nkosinathi Maphumulo, the Durban-born DJ who once lost the use of his right arm, sold out the O2 Arena for the first time by an African artist, with Alicia Keys appearing live to perform their decade-old collaboration.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/daft-punk-one-more-time-france-world-cup-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/daft-punk-one-more-time-france-world-cup-2026Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:42:51 GMTFIFA's new 2026 rule lets each nation pick its own goal song. France chose the most universally recognized electronic music track ever made.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/schwuz-berlin-closure-lgbtq-clubsterbenhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/schwuz-berlin-closure-lgbtq-clubsterbenSat, 20 Jun 2026 14:45:28 GMTAfter 48 years anchoring Berlin's LGBTQ+ underground, SchwuZ filed for insolvency in August 2025 and closed its Rollbergstraße doors in November. The economics were simple and brutal: tripled energy costs, collapsing post-COVID footfall, and a rent curve the community model couldn't outrun.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/watergate-berlin-sage-open-air-summer-2026-serieshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/watergate-berlin-sage-open-air-summer-2026-seriesSat, 20 Jun 2026 02:31:16 GMTWatergate, which closed its doors permanently on New Year's Eve 2024 after 22 years, continues in 2026 as a six-date open-air series at SAGE Berlin, with Sven Väth, Chris Liebing, Kölsch, Chez Damier, Cassy and more.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sober-clubbing-alcohol-decline-venue-economics-corsica-studios-closurehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sober-clubbing-alcohol-decline-venue-economics-corsica-studios-closureSat, 20 Jun 2026 02:31:00 GMTCorsica Studios closed in March 2026 after bar takings halved. Across the UK, 36% of nightclubs have shut since 2020. The economics of underground music venues were always brutal; the sober generation is finishing the job.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dancefloor-transcendence-spiritual-experiencehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dancefloor-transcendence-spiritual-experienceSat, 20 Jun 2026 00:51:29 GMTFrom Émile Durkheim and Victor Turner to Oxford social-bonding researcher Robin Dunbar, scientists and thinkers have long described the dancefloor as a kind of spiritual technology: repetitive bass, darkness, physical exhaustion and a synchronized crowd can produce awe, ego-loss and the intense collective feeling humans have always called sacred.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/musicians-union-1982-drum-machine-ban-chicago-househttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/musicians-union-1982-drum-machine-ban-chicago-houseSat, 20 Jun 2026 00:51:03 GMTForty years before the AI music debate, Britain's Musicians' Union voted to outlaw the exact machines that were already building house music in Chicago.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/corus-algorithm-free-music-discovery-platform-launchedhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/corus-algorithm-free-music-discovery-platform-launchedSat, 20 Jun 2026 00:40:47 GMTBuilt by the co-founder of social music app Cymbal, Corus strips out recommendations and hands curation back to people, at five posts a day free or $2.99 a month unlimited.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/houghton-2026-underground-resistance-uk-festival-debuthttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/houghton-2026-underground-resistance-uk-festival-debutSat, 20 Jun 2026 00:40:23 GMTThe Norfolk festival announces its most expansive lineup to date, headlined by Underground Resistance's first-ever UK festival appearance alongside Ricardo Villalobos, Helena Hauff, Ben UFO and close to 200 artists.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sonar-2026-first-edition-without-foundershttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sonar-2026-first-edition-without-foundersSat, 20 Jun 2026 00:38:33 GMTAfter 32 years, Ricard Robles, Enric Palau, and Sergio Caballero are gone, and for the first time, Sónar belongs entirely to KKR-backed Superstruct Entertainment.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/pacha-new-york-opening-brooklyn-miragehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/pacha-new-york-opening-brooklyn-mirageSat, 20 Jun 2026 00:38:18 GMTAfter Avant Gardner's bankruptcy and a chain of corporate transactions that crossed three continents, Pacha opens this weekend at 140 Stewart Avenue with Michael Bibi and Black Coffee. The underground will be watching.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/bitwig-studio-61-sampler-betahttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/bitwig-studio-61-sampler-betaSat, 20 Jun 2026 00:38:04 GMTBitwig's public beta for Studio 6.1, out now for Upgrade Plan holders, rebuilds the Sampler from the ground up with five slicing methods, a new granular Fragments mode with up to 256 grains per voice, and an FFT-based Spectral mode for pristine time-stretching.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/akai-mpc-39-os-free-synth-upgrade-mpc-one-g2-key-37-g2https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/akai-mpc-39-os-free-synth-upgrade-mpc-one-g2-key-37-g2Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:19:54 GMTMPC 3.9 OS ships 10 oscillator engines to all existing standalone MPCs and Force units at no cost, while new MPC One G2 and MPC Key 37 G2 hardware arrives with four times the processing power.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/bmg-concord-merger-fourth-major-regulatorshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/bmg-concord-merger-fourth-major-regulatorsFri, 19 Jun 2026 14:19:41 GMTThe proposed merger between BMG and Concord Music Group has now received regulatory clearance in both the United States and Germany, bringing the creation of the music industry's fourth major label group within reach.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/germany-nightclubs-cultural-venues-federal-lawhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/germany-nightclubs-cultural-venues-federal-lawFri, 19 Jun 2026 14:17:21 GMTGermany's federal cabinet approved a law change on May 31, 2026 that would strip nightclubs out of the adult entertainment category and recognize them as places of cultural and artistic value, but with Bundestag and Bundesrat votes still ahead, the underground is asking whether a legal title alone can stop the Clubsterben.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dancing-together-lucky-people-center-internationalhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dancing-together-lucky-people-center-internationalFri, 19 Jun 2026 13:17:14 GMTLucky People Center International framed collective dancing as a survival tool, and modern science backs the hunch: moving in time with other bodies has bonded human groups since before history.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/trend-simulation-the-fake-fan-machine-and-the-undergroundhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/trend-simulation-the-fake-fan-machine-and-the-undergroundThu, 18 Jun 2026 17:58:54 GMTA US marketing firm, Chaotic Good Projects, openly described building armies of fake accounts to simulate the hype around an artist, then quietly scrubbed its client list. Here is how the machine works, and why house and techno's authenticity economy is the real target.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/afm-sues-umg-wmg-ai-training-settlementhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/afm-sues-umg-wmg-ai-training-settlementThu, 18 Jun 2026 17:46:29 GMTThe American Federation of Musicians filed a federal lawsuit on June 5, 2026, against Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group, arguing that session musicians are legally owed a share of the confidential AI-settlement proceeds their recordings helped generate.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/eminem-publisher-eight-mile-style-meta-copyright-109mhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/eminem-publisher-eight-mile-style-meta-copyright-109mThu, 18 Jun 2026 17:10:00 GMTA federal judge ruled on June 16 that Eight Mile Style can pursue direct copyright infringement claims against Meta over 243 unlicensed compositions stored in Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp's music libraries, setting a precedent that threatens how every social platform licenses music.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/trend-simulation-fake-fan-hype-underground-targethttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/trend-simulation-fake-fan-hype-underground-targetThu, 18 Jun 2026 17:07:23 GMTChaotic Good, a US marketing agency, was caught on a Billboard podcast explaining how it manufactures viral fandom with fake accounts and seeded comments. The method does not care about genre, and a scene built on the honest co-sign is the easiest place to fake one.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/oliver-tree-royalties-fund-emerging-artistshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/oliver-tree-royalties-fund-emerging-artistsThu, 18 Jun 2026 17:06:45 GMTAfter the singer died at 32 in a Rio helicopter crash, the will he laid out months earlier comes into focus: his catalog's royalties are set to fund grants for emerging artists, while Diplo leads the tributes to the most himself person he ever met.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/music-beats-mental-fatigue-instrumental-tempohttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/music-beats-mental-fatigue-instrumental-tempoThu, 18 Jun 2026 16:12:31 GMTA PLOS ONE systematic review of nine studies found that instrumental music, with no lyrics and a tempo matched to the task, measurably reverses mental fatigue: faster reactions, sharper working memory, less perceived exhaustion and longer physical endurance.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/moodymann-teatro-pereyra-ibiza-first-timehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/moodymann-teatro-pereyra-ibiza-first-timeThu, 18 Jun 2026 15:59:41 GMTMoodymann played Ibiza's historic Teatro Pereyra for the first time on Saturday 13 June 2026, launching Keep On Dancing's music-first El Baile Pop residency in a heritage theatre that runs against the island's VIP-table economy.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/the-cause-new-frequency-radio-festivalhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/the-cause-new-frequency-radio-festivalThu, 18 Jun 2026 15:59:03 GMTOn 25 July, The Cause hands its Docklands site to six independent radio stations, from Berlin to Seoul to Bali, and broadcasts every set worldwide through a new platform called New Frequency.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/san-francisco-local-djs-squeezed-touring-acts-metricshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/san-francisco-local-djs-squeezed-touring-acts-metricsThu, 18 Jun 2026 15:51:51 GMTA new report on San Francisco's club scene shows local DJs being pushed off the bill by touring headliners and social-media follower counts, a booking shift playing out in dance cities worldwide.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fabric-london-new-york-jeff-mills-helena-hauff-under-k-bridgehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/fabric-london-new-york-jeff-mills-helena-hauff-under-k-bridgeThu, 18 Jun 2026 12:41:02 GMTLondon's fabric club makes its New York debut on September 5, 2026, staging a purpose-built AV show at Under the K Bridge in Greenpoint with Jeff Mills, Helena Hauff and visual direction from dreamrec.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/afro-house-splice-778-istanbul-hubhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/afro-house-splice-778-istanbul-hubThu, 18 Jun 2026 12:40:49 GMTAfro house went from the 10th most downloaded genre on Splice to the 2nd in two years, and the city driving its production scene is not Lagos or Cape Town.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spot-lite-ufo-bar-detroit-closinghttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spot-lite-ufo-bar-detroit-closingThu, 18 Jun 2026 12:40:37 GMTTwo of Detroit's most vital underground venues, Spot Lite and UFO Bar, will shut their doors for good by June 30, dealt by the same owners who built them into cornerstones of the city that invented techno.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/uk-ntia-nightclubs-cultural-institutions-open-letterhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/uk-ntia-nightclubs-cultural-institutions-open-letterThu, 18 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe Night Time Industries Association has sent an open letter to the Prime Minister demanding formal cultural recognition for nightclubs, as business rates relief ends and venues from Corsica Studios to The White Hotel go dark.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/unum-festival-2026-maher-daniel-festival-freedom-debatehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/unum-festival-2026-maher-daniel-festival-freedom-debateThu, 18 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTA filmed incident at Albania's Unum Festival 2026, during a set by Palestinian DJ Maher Daniel, went viral on TikTok and opened the scene's most overdue debate: where does festival freedom end? Why would the reaction have been exponentially louder if the genders had been reversed? And how does this reframe over-sexualisation as a cultural and mental health challenge, not a legal or drug question?https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/festival-bar-revenue-sober-youth-elrow-arnauhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/festival-bar-revenue-sober-youth-elrow-arnauThu, 18 Jun 2026 00:52:36 GMTelrow founder Juan Arnau expects alcohol at events to drop 30 to 40 percent within five years and bar revenue to fall as much as 70 percent within a decade, as a generation that drinks less rewrites what a festival has to sell.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/transmissions-nyc-afem-resident-advisor-summithttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/transmissions-nyc-afem-resident-advisor-summitWed, 17 Jun 2026 19:17:28 GMTOn 18 June, AFEM and Resident Advisor convene Transmissions NYC, a free half-day summit at Elsewhere in Brooklyn built around the three pressures squeezing the whole scene: surviving label consolidation, AI's hit to rights and revenue, and where New York club culture goes next.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/white-hotel-salford-closing-january-2027-black-lightshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/white-hotel-salford-closing-january-2027-black-lightsWed, 17 Jun 2026 19:12:39 GMTSalford's most uncompromising club confirmed it will shut in January 2027, beaten by flooding and a council redevelopment plan, and it is going out with a stacked closing run and a brand-new Blackpool festival.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/musicians-union-sues-warner-universal-ai-suno-udiohttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/musicians-union-sues-warner-universal-ai-suno-udioWed, 17 Jun 2026 19:08:02 GMTThe American Federation of Musicians says the two majors licensed members’ instrumental recordings to AI generators Suno and Udio, the same machines the labels once sued, without asking the players or paying them.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ableton-extensions-sdk-public-live-scriptinghttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ableton-extensions-sdk-public-live-scriptingWed, 17 Jun 2026 19:05:59 GMTThe Extension SDK opened around 12 June 2026, so anyone with Live Suite can now script Live directly: strip silence, name clips, slice and stretch, all from a right-click menu, no Max needed.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ntia-uk-nightclubs-cultural-institutions-open-letterhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ntia-uk-nightclubs-cultural-institutions-open-letterWed, 17 Jun 2026 19:00:36 GMTThe Night Time Industries Association has asked the UK government to classify nightclubs as cultural institutions, the protection Germany wrote into law this year, after a run of closures from Manchester to Bristol.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/francisco-partners-exits-muse-group-audacityhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/francisco-partners-exits-muse-group-audacityWed, 17 Jun 2026 18:20:43 GMTFrancisco Partners has exited Muse Group, the owner of Audacity and MuseScore, and instead of a new investor stepping in, the founder bought his way back to control with bank debt.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/cherry-audio-ensoniq-esq-1-software-revivalhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/cherry-audio-ensoniq-esq-1-software-revivalWed, 17 Jun 2026 18:07:29 GMTCherry Audio released an official software version of Ensoniq's 1986 ESQ-1 on June 16, 2026, rebuilt from the original waveforms and priced at $69 to mark the synth's 40th anniversary.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/labelworx-elevate-25-million-fund-independent-electronic-labelshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/labelworx-elevate-25-million-fund-independent-electronic-labelsWed, 17 Jun 2026 18:07:11 GMTLabelWorx has committed $25 million to a new funding platform called Elevate, with $10 million set aside in the first round for royalty advances to independent electronic labels.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sony-suno-ai-music-july-rulinghttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sony-suno-ai-music-july-rulingWed, 17 Jun 2026 18:06:47 GMTUniversal and Sony's copyright case against AI music generator Suno is heading to a July 2026 summary judgment hearing after discovery showed Suno trained on millions of copyrighted recordings, and the ruling could set the template for the entire AI music business.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/kpop-house-music-takeoverhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/kpop-house-music-takeoverWed, 17 Jun 2026 18:06:44 GMTFrom Aespa to Le Sserafim, K-pop's biggest girl groups are building hits on house music's four on the floor beat, turning a dancefloor sound into chart topping pop across Asia and beyond.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/stone-techno-listening-floor-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/stone-techno-listening-floor-2026Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:06:40 GMTGermany's Stone Techno Festival, July 10 to 12 at Essen's UNESCO listed Zeche Zollverein, adds a fifth stage called the Listening Floor: a seated, amphitheater style space for ambient and experimental sets, a deliberate counterpoint to the faster, louder main floors.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/solstice-festival-2026-arctic-circlehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/solstice-festival-2026-arctic-circleWed, 17 Jun 2026 18:06:21 GMTSolstice Festival runs June 18 to 20 at Rukatunturi in northern Finland, where roughly 75 mostly underground artists play under near 24 hour daylight at the edge of the Arctic Circle.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/festival-mdma-pink-cocaine-drug-checking-warninghttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/festival-mdma-pink-cocaine-drug-checking-warningWed, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTAhead of the 2026 festival season Ireland's PHA and HSE issued a joint all-island warning that more than 40% of MDMA samples tested over the past year held over twice an average dose, and that pink powders sold as cocaine rarely contain any, so harm reduction and free drug-checking matter more than ever.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ibiza-clubs-blacklist-djs-illegal-villa-partieshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ibiza-clubs-blacklist-djs-illegal-villa-partiesWed, 17 Jun 2026 11:14:18 GMTThe Consell d'Eivissa is demanding that Ocio de Ibiza and every club write a clause into DJ contracts: play a clandestine villa rave and you are dropped on the spot and never booked again.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/electronic-music-dancing-stress-recovery-studyhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/electronic-music-dancing-stress-recovery-studyTue, 16 Jun 2026 18:50:36 GMTA study at Drumsheds measured a 18.5% average rise in heart-rate variability during the calm phases of a guided electronic music session, with anxiety dropping and feelings of connection going up.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/heshethey-asia-pride-2026-tourhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/heshethey-asia-pride-2026-tourTue, 16 Jun 2026 18:36:55 GMTHE.SHE.THEY, the London-born inclusive party series, is bringing Bimini and a full queer house lineup to Nepal, Thailand, Singapore and Hong Kong this June.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/leticia-van-riel-artist-manager-dies-ibizahttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/leticia-van-riel-artist-manager-dies-ibizaTue, 16 Jun 2026 18:36:27 GMTLeticia van Riel, founder of LvR Management and a quietly central figure in electronic music for over fifteen years, has died following a car accident in Ibiza.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/time-to-house-is-livehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/time-to-house-is-liveTue, 16 Jun 2026 15:43:33 GMTWe're proud to launch Time To House Magazine, your new home for the culture, the music, and the movement. Made by people who live for it.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/claude-vonstroke-free-open-air-wrong-numberhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/claude-vonstroke-free-open-air-wrong-numberTue, 16 Jun 2026 14:31:03 GMTThree years after selling Dirtybird to EMPIRE, Claude VonStroke is touring small rooms and free open-air parties behind his album Wrong Number, by choice, not necessity.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/machinedrum-bl00ms-iamsiam-leaves-ninja-tunehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/machinedrum-bl00ms-iamsiam-leaves-ninja-tuneTue, 16 Jun 2026 14:13:25 GMTTravis Stewart has left Ninja Tune after 13 years and relaunched his independent label IAMSIAM with BL00MS, a Bandcamp-exclusive instrumental mini-LP.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/gforce-sequential-official-prophet-5-pluginhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/gforce-sequential-official-prophet-5-pluginTue, 16 Jun 2026 14:12:33 GMTGForce Software and Sequential have released the first official Prophet-5 plugin, recreating the Rev1, Rev2 and Rev3 hardware with 460+ presets, dual layers and MPE.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/elektron-analog-four-os-1-55-euclidean-sequencerhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/elektron-analog-four-os-1-55-euclidean-sequencerTue, 16 Jun 2026 14:06:37 GMTElektron's free OS 1.55 brings a Euclidean sequencer, a Control All mode and loopable pattern pages to the Analog Four and Analog Keys, the first substantial update since Bonnier Capital bought the Gothenburg synth maker in April.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spiral-tribe-free-party-archive-london-exhibitionhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spiral-tribe-free-party-archive-london-exhibitionTue, 16 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe travelling sound system that helped trigger Britain’s anti-rave law will show its archive at REinsTate in Silvertown from 16 to 19 September 2026, closing with an SP23 rave.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/vladimir-kuzmin-polivoks-dead-soviet-synth-legacyhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/vladimir-kuzmin-polivoks-dead-soviet-synth-legacyMon, 15 Jun 2026 22:51:39 GMTVladimir Kuzmin, who designed the Soviet Polivoks synthesizer in 1980 and gave the underground one of its most aggressive filters, died on 12 June 2026.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/m-vave-fm-1-budget-dx7-fm-synthhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/m-vave-fm-1-budget-dx7-fm-synthMon, 15 Jun 2026 22:48:27 GMTM-VAVE previewed the FM-1, a budget desktop FM polysynth with six operators, 32 DX7 algorithms and Yamaha DX7 SYSEX import, putting the sound that built late-80s house into a portable, battery box.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/akai-mpc-sample-399-portable-mpc-back-in-stock-euhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/akai-mpc-sample-399-portable-mpc-back-in-stock-euMon, 15 Jun 2026 22:48:09 GMTAkai's MPC Sample, a battery-powered pocket sampler that runs the classic MPC60 and MPC3000 workflow for $399, is finally in stock again at Thomann and Amazon.de after months of being near impossible to find.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/bonobo-distance-in-static-ninja-tunehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/bonobo-distance-in-static-ninja-tuneMon, 15 Jun 2026 22:47:46 GMTBonobo announced his eighth album Distance In Static, out 11 September 2026 on Ninja Tune, led by the club-facing single Me and You, with Simon Green suggesting it could close out his traditional album-and-tour cycle.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/euda-wastewater-2026-mdma-ketamine-cocainehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/euda-wastewater-2026-mdma-ketamine-cocaineMon, 15 Jun 2026 21:49:37 GMTThe EUDA's 2026 wastewater study found MDMA down 16 percent across European cities while ketamine jumped 41 percent and cocaine 22 percent, a quiet shift in what the floor is actually taking.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spotify-stream-filtering-lawsuit-royaltieshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spotify-stream-filtering-lawsuit-royaltiesMon, 15 Jun 2026 21:19:30 GMTMusician and lawyer Mark M. Kratter filed suit in Connecticut on 3 June 2026, arguing that Spotify's stream filtering and its 1,000-stream payout threshold are unfair and deceptive practices that strip royalties from independent artists.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/france-free-party-ripost-protestshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/france-free-party-ripost-protestsMon, 15 Jun 2026 21:17:21 GMTOn Saturday 13 June the Tekno Anti Rep collective rolled sound systems through about 30 French cities against the Ripost bill, which would jail rave organisers for up to two years and fine them 30,000 euros.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tomorrowland-avicii-tribute-experience-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tomorrowland-avicii-tribute-experience-2026Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:15:09 GMTTomorrowland will run a 144 square metre immersive Avicii installation across both 2026 weekends, with a large LED film, personal artefacts on loan from Stockholm, three remastered Tomorrowland sets on Apple Music, and a clothing line funding the Tim Bergling Foundation.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/behringer-d-mini-99-euro-minimoog-paraphonic-mini-synthhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/behringer-d-mini-99-euro-minimoog-paraphonic-mini-synthMon, 15 Jun 2026 21:08:57 GMTBehringer opened pre-orders on 8 June 2026 for the D Mini, a 99 euro three-voice paraphonic synth built on the Minimoog Model D circuit, with a 16-step sequencer and 27 touch keys. Stock is expected around mid-August.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/oliver-tree-dead-miss-you-helicopter-riohttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/oliver-tree-dead-miss-you-helicopter-rioMon, 15 Jun 2026 21:04:39 GMTOliver Tree, the American singer and producer born Oliver Tree Nickell, died on 14 June 2026 at 32, killed when two helicopters collided in mid-air southwest of Rio de Janeiro; his biggest dance moment remained 'Miss You' with Robin Schulz. Weeks before his death, he had told an interviewer he wanted his fortune to go to other artists through a foundation he had already set up.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/carl-cox-obe-kings-birthday-honours-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/carl-cox-obe-kings-birthday-honours-2026Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:56:37 GMTCarl Cox, 63, has been made an OBE for services to music in the 2026 King's Birthday Honours, with Judge Jules awarded an MBE in the same list.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/nina-kraviz-vidigal-favela-rooftop-riohttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/nina-kraviz-vidigal-favela-rooftop-rioMon, 15 Jun 2026 12:08:07 GMTThe Russian techno headliner played a rooftop party at Visão Vidigal, high up in Rio's Vidigal favela, on 24 May 2026, the latest sign of how deep her Brazil obsession now runs.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/psychedelics-raves-heal-childhood-trauma-studyhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/psychedelics-raves-heal-childhood-trauma-studyMon, 15 Jun 2026 01:04:36 GMTA peer-reviewed study tracked 85 adults with childhood-trauma histories before and after a psychedelic experience, and found large drops in PTSD and shame two months later, with the dancefloor matching the ritual circle.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/unvrs-ibiza-capacity-complaint-gen-gobhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/unvrs-ibiza-capacity-complaint-gen-gobSun, 14 Jun 2026 20:35:43 GMTThe environmental group GEN-GOB has filed a formal complaint asking Ibiza's authorities to inspect UNVRS, claiming the self-styled hyperclub ran far over the 4,000-person limit historically licensed at the site.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/why-underground-clubs-closing-2026-economicshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/why-underground-clubs-closing-2026-economicsSun, 14 Jun 2026 20:34:59 GMTAcross Europe, beloved underground clubs are closing because the maths stopped working: turnout is down and irregular, costs keep rising, and Prague's Ankali is the human face of a structural squeeze the UK and Berlin numbers spell out in full.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/unfiltered-audio-battalion-vcv-rackhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/unfiltered-audio-battalion-vcv-rackSun, 14 Jun 2026 20:34:27 GMTBattalion, one of the most powerful experimental software drum machines around, has landed in VCV Rack as five modules at $10 each or $30 for the bundle, which also means its drum engines now run on the 4ms Meta Module in hardware Eurorack.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/catalyst-audio-mig-soviet-tube-eurorackhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/catalyst-audio-mig-soviet-tube-eurorackSun, 14 Jun 2026 20:27:30 GMTCatalyst Audio and Electroserf have launched MIG, a full range of vacuum-tube Eurorack modules built around obsolete Cold War-era Soviet subminiature tubes that once flew in MiG fighter avionics, with only about 1,500 tubes in stock.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/hot-since-82-obsessions-album-shadedhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/hot-since-82-obsessions-album-shadedSun, 14 Jun 2026 20:27:12 GMTDaley Padley breaks a six-year album silence with 'Obsessions', a nine-track record out 4 September 2026 on Knee Deep In Sound, fronted by 'Shaded', which reworks Shades of Rhythm's 1991 rave classic 'The Sound of Eden'.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/edc-colombia-medellin-insomniac-debuthttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/edc-colombia-medellin-insomniac-debutSun, 14 Jun 2026 17:45:00 GMTInsomniac and Colombian promoter Páramo Presenta will stage the first EDC Colombia at Medellín's Atanasio Girardot sports complex on October 10 and 11, 2026, pairing stadium-scale headliners with Factory 93, Time Warp and a real house and tech house cast.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/germany-nightclubs-cultural-venues-reformhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/germany-nightclubs-cultural-venues-reformSun, 14 Jun 2026 17:44:32 GMTGermany's federal cabinet has approved a planning-law change that would reclassify nightclubs as cultural institutions instead of grouping them with casinos and brothels, giving venues stronger protection against developers, rent hikes and noise complaints. It still needs the Bundestag and Bundesrat.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/beatport-track-id-music-recognition-djshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/beatport-track-id-music-recognition-djsSun, 14 Jun 2026 17:43:54 GMTBeatport's Track ID is a music-recognition tool inside its mobile app built specifically to name electronic tracks in noisy clubs and through pitch-shifted, time-stretched DJ blends, and the company says it could eventually feed accurate setlist data to recover unpaid performance royalties.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sonar-2026-barcelona-offsonar-guidehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sonar-2026-barcelona-offsonar-guideSun, 14 Jun 2026 01:20:09 GMTSonar 2026 runs 18 to 20 June at Fira Gran Via, with OFFSonar to 21 June. Dates, prices, headliners, and the Keinemusik, Adriatique and elrow showcases worth planning around.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/anjunadeep-explorations-2026-albaniahttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/anjunadeep-explorations-2026-albaniaSun, 14 Jun 2026 01:19:38 GMTAnjunadeep's Explorations runs 11 to 16 June in Dhermi on the Albanian Riviera, a sold-out, six-night festival-meets-beach-holiday built almost entirely on the label's deep and melodic house roster, with first appearances from George FitzGerald and Orbit.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/edgehog-eh-01-screenless-sampler-synthhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/edgehog-eh-01-screenless-sampler-synthSat, 13 Jun 2026 20:20:05 GMTAustralian maker Edgehog has opened a Kickstarter for the EH-01, a compact eight-voice sampler-synth with no screen, hands-on controls and 3D-printable parts, priced from $179.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/audiokit-pro-a5-prophet-5-ios-synthhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/audiokit-pro-a5-prophet-5-ios-synthSat, 13 Jun 2026 20:20:00 GMTAudioKit Pro has released PRO-A5, a Prophet-5-inspired analog synth for iPhone, iPad and AUv3 hosts, with ten voices, twin filters and a $4.99 launch price.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sonny-fodera-can-we-do-it-all-again-albumhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sonny-fodera-can-we-do-it-all-again-albumSat, 13 Jun 2026 20:19:38 GMTSonny Fodera has released 'Can We Do It All Again?', his sixth studio album: 18 tracks on his own Solotoko label, built over five years and stacked with the vocal-house collaborations that made him a chart fixture.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tratratrax-mzansi-bass-shannen-sphttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tratratrax-mzansi-bass-shannen-spSat, 13 Jun 2026 20:19:35 GMTTraTraTrax, the Bogotá label, has launched a new compilation series called Sampler with 'Mzansi Bass', eight tracks curated by London's Shannen SP that move between gqom, amapiano, 3-step and Pitori rap from across South Africa.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/echostage-l-acoustics-l2-concert-righttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/echostage-l-acoustics-l2-concert-rigSat, 13 Jun 2026 20:19:31 GMTWashington DC's Echostage, the highest-ranked club in North America, has installed an L-Acoustics L2 system, the kind of line array built for arenas, in one of the first permanent US installs of the box.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/salute-infinite-passion-mixtape-check-checkhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/salute-infinite-passion-mixtape-check-checkSat, 13 Jun 2026 20:19:26 GMTManchester producer salute has announced 'infinite passion', a mixtape named after his hidden-booth, no-phones club series, and shared the first single 'check check', a stripped-back club tool he has been playing out for a year.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/desiree-emmanuel-jal-macho-ninja-tunehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/desiree-emmanuel-jal-macho-ninja-tuneSat, 13 Jun 2026 20:18:54 GMTSouth African producer DESIREE and South Sudanese-Canadian artist Emmanuel Jal have released 'Macho' on Ninja Tune, an Afro-house track built on African call-and-response traditions, with Jal singing in four languages.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tickets-ie-deag-collapsehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tickets-ie-deag-collapseSat, 13 Jun 2026 20:18:47 GMTTickets.ie, Ireland's largest independent ticketing company and majority-owned by Germany's DEAG, ceased trading in early June and left three festivals roughly 600,000 euros out of pocket, reviving calls to protect ticket money the way travel-agent deposits are protected.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/deezer-ai-music-detectorhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/deezer-ai-music-detectorSat, 13 Jun 2026 16:28:51 GMTDeezer has launched a free web tool that scans playlists on 20 streaming services for fully AI-generated tracks, while disclosing that synthetic music now makes up 44% of the songs uploaded to its own platform every day.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/solomun-free-pacha-new-york-fans-rain-june-19https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/solomun-free-pacha-new-york-fans-rain-june-19Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTSolomun opens Pacha New York on June 19, 2026 with no fee and a free dancefloor reserved for the fans who stood through hours of cold rain at his recent Bronx show, with access decided by one fair raffle.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/darcos-bill-sacem-cisac-ai-training-music-rightshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/darcos-bill-sacem-cisac-ai-training-music-rightsSat, 13 Jun 2026 01:01:23 GMTSACEM and more than 220 rights organisations are pushing France to pass the Darcos Bill, which would force AI companies to prove they did not train on your music, after Mistral and Meta lobbying stalled it in the National Assembly.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sacem-2025-record-collections-international-digital-house-producershttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sacem-2025-record-collections-international-digital-house-producersSat, 13 Jun 2026 00:57:26 GMTSACEM collected a record 1.704 billion euros in 2025, up 7.5%, with all the growth coming from international and digital rights, the exact streams that pay club-music producers.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/umg-sony-add-61026-recordings-suno-lawsuit-9-billionhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/umg-sony-add-61026-recordings-suno-lawsuit-9-billionSat, 13 Jun 2026 00:57:08 GMTUniversal Music Group and Sony Music asked a Boston court on May 21, 2026 to expand their copyright suit against Suno from 560 works to 61,026 sound recordings, after discovery showed the AI app trained on millions of their masters.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/phase-fiasco-annulus-free-rings-pluginhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/phase-fiasco-annulus-free-rings-pluginSat, 13 Jun 2026 00:56:36 GMTDeveloper Jonas Eriksson has turned the open-source physical-modeling engine behind Mutable Instruments' Rings into Annulus, a free polyphonic resonator and effects plugin for Mac and Windows.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/nano-performance-iso-f1-isolator-filterhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/nano-performance-iso-f1-isolator-filterSat, 13 Jun 2026 00:56:20 GMTThe Barcelona modular maker's first non-Eurorack product is a CNC-milled three-band isolator and analogue filter built to sit on a DJ setup for hands-on frequency surgery, priced at 649 euros and up for pre-order.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/teenage-engineering-apc-2-dubplate-cutterhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/teenage-engineering-apc-2-dubplate-cutterFri, 12 Jun 2026 12:43:00 GMTTeenage Engineering's new APC-2, made with Vienna's Supersense, is a professional record-cutting lathe that carves one-off playback discs in real time. There is no official price, it is made to order, and it is aimed squarely at the studio.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/carl-cox-cave-romane-croatiahttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/carl-cox-cave-romane-croatiaFri, 12 Jun 2026 12:42:46 GMTCarl Cox headlines Cave Romane, a 2,000-year-old former Roman limestone quarry near Pula, on 7 August 2026, with lasers mapped onto the rock and tickets from 49 euros.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/roger-sanchez-spectrum-albumhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/roger-sanchez-spectrum-albumFri, 12 Jun 2026 12:42:41 GMTRoger Sanchez has released 'Spectrum', his first studio album in two decades: 13 tracks, six years in the making, out digitally on 5 June 2026 with a red triple-vinyl pressing to follow on 26 June.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/elfigo-youngest-dj-tomorrowland-winter-historyhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/elfigo-youngest-dj-tomorrowland-winter-historyFri, 12 Jun 2026 12:42:35 GMTBelgian teenager ELFIGO became the youngest artist ever to play Tomorrowland Winter, taking the Frozen Lotus stage in Alpe d'Huez at 14, six years after he started DJing at eight.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/arturia-drumfreak-leak-sample-drum-machinehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/arturia-drumfreak-leak-sample-drum-machineFri, 12 Jun 2026 12:42:08 GMTA DrumFreak placeholder appeared on Arturia's own website and was then removed, pointing to a sample-based drum machine carrying the Freak line's hybrid DNA, with no official specs, price, or date confirmed.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/nmpa-udio-klay-ai-licensing-dealshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/nmpa-udio-klay-ai-licensing-dealsThu, 11 Jun 2026 23:34:28 GMTThe NMPA struck the first industry-wide AI licensing deals with Udio and KLAY on June 10, 2026, with the Udio pact the first to value songs and recordings equally for AI training.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/nyege-nyege-mirror-world-brusselshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/nyege-nyege-mirror-world-brusselsThu, 11 Jun 2026 23:34:18 GMTUganda's Nyege Nyege will hold its first European festival, MIRROR WORLD, in Brussels on September 25 and 26, 2026, with 40-plus artists and two-day tickets at 30 euros.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dj-seinfeld-if-this-is-ithttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dj-seinfeld-if-this-is-itThu, 11 Jun 2026 23:34:08 GMTOut now on Ninja Tune, the Swedish producer's 12-track third album pulls nostalgic house, UK garage and 2000s trance around one idea: learning to let go.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/uvi-rumble-multiband-bass-synthhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/uvi-rumble-multiband-bass-synthThu, 11 Jun 2026 23:26:35 GMTRumble is UVI's new bass-focused plugin that gives sub, mids and top end their own synth engines, out now at an intro price of $99 before it jumps to $199.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/what-is-3-step-afro-househttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/what-is-3-step-afro-houseThu, 11 Jun 2026 23:26:24 GMT3-Step is the new South African evolution of Afro House, built on a three-kick-drum groove that fuses amapiano log drums, broken beat and jazzy horns, pioneered by Thakzin.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ironworks-london-7000-capacity-warehouse-venue-royal-dockshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ironworks-london-7000-capacity-warehouse-venue-royal-docksThu, 11 Jun 2026 23:05:22 GMTLWE and placemaking outfit PROJEKT are opening Ironworks, a 7,000-capacity venue at Thames Wharf in the Royal Docks, in October 2026. It pairs a 78,000 sq ft indoor warehouse with an 80,000 sq ft riverside terrace and launches with six electronic shows.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/google-youtube-terms-license-ai-music-training-lyriahttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/google-youtube-terms-license-ai-music-training-lyriaThu, 11 Jun 2026 23:05:00 GMTIn a motion to dismiss indie artists' copyright suit over Lyria 3, Google argues the standard YouTube upload license covers training its AI music model, so it never needed a fair-use defence.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/francis-mercier-petra-jordan-recovery-afro-househttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/francis-mercier-petra-jordan-recovery-afro-houseThu, 11 Jun 2026 17:28:04 GMTOn 28 May 2026, Haitian-American DJ Francis Mercier headlined a Recovery Sessions show at Little Petra in Jordan, turning one of the New7Wonders into an open-air afro house party.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/carl-cox-mau-p-chateau-de-chantilly-garten-june-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/carl-cox-mau-p-chateau-de-chantilly-garten-june-2026Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:25:51 GMTOn June 20, 2026, Gärten brings Carl Cox and special guest Mau P to the gardens of one of France's most famous estates, with more than 15,000 people expected.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/thomas-bangalter-post-daft-punk-2026-rounduphttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/thomas-bangalter-post-daft-punk-2026-roundupThu, 11 Jun 2026 17:25:10 GMTDaft Punk is off the table, and Bangalter has spent 2026 scoring a 16-dancer ballet, reworking himself for CHANEL, and pairing with Keinemusik's Rampa for an Art Basel installation that becomes a rave on June 20.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/yoyaku-objects-berlin-pressing-plant-barcelona-shophttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/yoyaku-objects-berlin-pressing-plant-barcelona-shopThu, 11 Jun 2026 17:23:58 GMTParis distributor Yoyaku has acquired the assets of insolvent Berlin plant OBJECTS Manufacturing and opened a record shop in Barcelona, building a Paris to press to retail chain it controls end to end.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/diplo-djed-son-pace-kindergarten-graduationhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/diplo-djed-son-pace-kindergarten-graduationThu, 11 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTOn Saturday 23 May, Diplo set up and played a real DJ set for his son Pace and a yard full of six-year-olds after their kindergarten graduation, captioning the clip "most exclusive party of the year."https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/bootshaus-culture-ticketshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/bootshaus-culture-ticketsThu, 11 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe Cologne club, ranked 11th in the world, is setting aside discounted 'Culture Tickets' for people who cannot afford regular entry, claimed by email.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/warner-music-buys-sureel-aihttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/warner-music-buys-sureel-aiThu, 11 Jun 2026 01:16:39 GMTWarner Music Group has acquired Sureel AI, a startup whose patented 'AI DNA' technology traces how generative models use an artist's work, the clearest sign yet that the majors plan to police, and bill, AI from the inside.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/synplant-2-phenotype-text-to-patch-offlinehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/synplant-2-phenotype-text-to-patch-offlineThu, 11 Jun 2026 01:16:34 GMTSonic Charge has given Synplant 2 owners a free tool called PhenoType that builds a fully editable synth patch from a typed description, using a neural network that runs entirely offline inside the plugin.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/elektron-analog-four-os-155-euclidean-control-allhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/elektron-analog-four-os-155-euclidean-control-allThu, 11 Jun 2026 01:16:28 GMTElektron released OS 1.55 for the Analog Four and Analog Keys on June 10, a free update that adds two Euclidean generators, page looping and the Digitakt-style 'Control All' to hardware that first shipped in 2012.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/honey-dijon-madonna-confessions-ii-filmhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/honey-dijon-madonna-confessions-ii-filmWed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTMadonna's 14-minute 'Confessions II - The Film', now on YouTube, threads six songs from her July album and stacks the cast with club-world faces, Honey Dijon, Arca and Shygirl among them, as she returns to the house-and-disco sound of 2005's 'Confessions on a Dance Floor'.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/bonobo-distance-in-static-albumhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/bonobo-distance-in-static-albumWed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTSimon Green's new album lands September 11 on Ninja Tune: 14 tracks, a guest list from Arooj Aftab to Nilüfer Yanya, and a lead single, 'Me and You', he has been testing in DJ sets in London and Paris.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tresor-how-to-run-a-club-goes-globalhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tresor-how-to-run-a-club-goes-globalWed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Tresor Foundation's free three-week mentorship at Kraftwerk Berlin and OHM, once Berlin-only, now invites club makers worldwide, with a focus on cities where subcultural spaces are disappearing. Applications close June 29.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/pacha-new-york-opens-brooklyn-mirage-sitehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/pacha-new-york-opens-brooklyn-mirage-siteWed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTPacha takes over the demolished Brooklyn Mirage at 140 Stewart Ave, opening with a Rampa-curated weekend on June 13 and 14 before Michael Bibi and Black Coffee headline the official launch on June 20 and 21.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/thomas-bangalter-the-lot-radio-surprise-sethttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/thomas-bangalter-the-lot-radio-surprise-setTue, 09 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMTDaft Punk's Thomas Bangalter played a surprise 75 minute set on Brooklyn's The Lot Radio on June 8, threading Burial, Aphex Twin and Plastikman through unreleased music from his new solo album and closing on Daft Punk's 'Contact'.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/behringer-d-mini-minimoog-99-euroshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/behringer-d-mini-minimoog-99-eurosTue, 09 Jun 2026 15:30:00 GMTBehringer has opened EU pre-orders for the D Mini, a 99 euro portable take on Moog's Minimoog Model D, with three oscillators, three-voice paraphony, a built-in motion sequencer and per-knob MIDI.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/live-nation-climate-of-fear-uk-committeehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/live-nation-climate-of-fear-uk-committeeTue, 09 Jun 2026 15:00:00 GMTA House of Commons committee found Live Nation controls up to 66 percent of UK ticket sales and operates in a 'climate of fear,' and has urged the Competition and Markets Authority to open a full market investigation before the end of 2026.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/alphatheta-acquires-dj-monitor-kuvo-club-royaltieshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/alphatheta-acquires-dj-monitor-kuvo-club-royaltiesTue, 09 Jun 2026 14:30:00 GMTAlphaTheta, the company behind Pioneer DJ and the CDJ, has acquired DJ Monitor's track-identification technology and folded it into KUVO, its long-running push to pay producers when their records get played in clubs.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dupieux-mr-oizo-le-vertigehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dupieux-mr-oizo-le-vertigeTue, 09 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTQuentin Dupieux, the Ed Banger producer known as Mr. Oizo, premiered Le Vertige at Cannes: a low-poly animated trip about a man who becomes convinced life is a simulation and cannot get his friends to believe him.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/the-tunegirl-awakenings-debut-63-modular-technohttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/the-tunegirl-awakenings-debut-63-modular-technoTue, 09 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMTAndrea Gill, who performs as The Tunegirl, made her Awakenings debut on 17 May 2026 at 63, playing fully improvised live techno on a self-built 188-module Eurorack system, with no laptop and no pre-recorded tracks.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/marshall-jefferson-fisher-anna-lunoe-forza-horizon-6https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/marshall-jefferson-fisher-anna-lunoe-forza-horizon-6Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMTForza Horizon 6, the year's biggest racing game, hands house a global stage: Chicago originator Marshall Jefferson sits beside FISHER and Anna Lunoe on the Horizon Bass Arena station, putting the genre in front of tens of millions of players.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/pedro-winter-because-music-head-of-creationhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/pedro-winter-because-music-head-of-creationTue, 09 Jun 2026 08:30:00 GMTPedro Winter, the Ed Banger founder and former Daft Punk manager, has been named Global Head of Creation and co-director of Because Music France, formalizing a 20-year tie between the two French houses and handing one of dance music's most influential operators a label-wide remit.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/khan-soho-licensing-mayoral-overridehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/khan-soho-licensing-mayoral-overrideMon, 08 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMTThe Mayor of London called the Soho Society's vote to oppose all new and extended licences 'bad for London' and pledged to use new powers to overturn borough licensing decisions.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/hide-christchurch-closing-sold-while-thrivinghttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/hide-christchurch-closing-sold-while-thrivingMon, 08 Jun 2026 13:00:00 GMTHide, the Saint Asaph Street club in Christchurch, holds its final party on 27 June 2026 after seven years, closing not because of rent or noise but because owners Mitch Ryder and Sam Smith took a buyer's offer.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ewan-mcvicar-keep-it-tribal-scotland-world-cup-anthemhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ewan-mcvicar-keep-it-tribal-scotland-world-cup-anthemMon, 08 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTOn 5 June 2026 the Ayr DJ released 'Keep It Tribal', an unofficial Scotland anthem for the FIFA World Cup 2026 that fuses euphoric dance, spoken word, bagpipes and tribal drums.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/philipp-jung-get-physical-music-legacyhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/philipp-jung-get-physical-music-legacyMon, 08 Jun 2026 11:00:00 GMTPhilipp Jung, the Berlin label founder and one half of [[artist:mandy|M.A.N.D.Y]], died in May 2026 aged 55, and the scene gathered on 6 June to honour the catalogue he built.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ableton-push-lego-prototype-powerhouse-museumhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ableton-push-lego-prototype-powerhouse-museumMon, 08 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMTAbleton's head of hardware Jesse Terry built the first Push out of Lego and chopped-up Novation gear so he could move buttons around for free, and Sydney's Powerhouse Museum has now acquired one of only two surviving prototypes.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/deadmau5-covers-30k-vet-bills-rescued-catshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/deadmau5-covers-30k-vet-bills-rescued-catsSun, 07 Jun 2026 17:05:34 GMTJoel Zimmerman, the Milton-area producer known as deadmau5, covered roughly $30,000 in medical care for 36 cats taken in by his local humane society, after reaching out on Instagram.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/kava-bars-sober-dancefloor-economyhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/kava-bars-sober-dancefloor-economySun, 07 Jun 2026 12:21:00 GMTA wave of kava lounges is turning the alcohol-free rave from a wellness gimmick into a real hospitality business, and the people opening them are coming straight for nightlife's spend.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/engine-dj-5-rane-system-one-onboard-stemshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/engine-dj-5-rane-system-one-onboard-stemsSun, 07 Jun 2026 12:21:00 GMTEngine DJ 5.0 makes the Rane System One the first standalone DJ hardware that splits a track into four stems on the unit itself, with no computer in the chain.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/warehouse-project-20-years-whp26https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/warehouse-project-20-years-whp26Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:21:00 GMTThe Warehouse Project marks two decades with a Leigh Powis short film and an expanded WHP26 at Depot Mayfield, anchored by an Overmono all-nighter on 30 October, Solomun on 25 September and Tiësto on 11 December.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/psychedelic-therapy-music-producer-economyhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/psychedelic-therapy-music-producer-economySun, 07 Jun 2026 11:14:00 GMTAs psychedelic therapy scales into hundreds of clinics, electronic producers are licensing music into the treatment room, a quiet new revenue stream with a catch buried in the contract.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/festival-cancellations-2025-middle-class-househttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/festival-cancellations-2025-middle-class-houseSun, 07 Jun 2026 11:14:00 GMTDozens of mid-size festivals were cancelled across 2025 as infrastructure costs jumped 30 to 50 percent since 2019, hollowing out the exact rung of the touring ladder where most working house DJs build their fees, even as Tomorrowland and EDC sell out.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/machinedrum-iamsiam-bl00mshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/machinedrum-iamsiam-bl00msSun, 07 Jun 2026 11:14:00 GMTTravis Stewart pulled his new six-track mini-LP BL00MS off the major-independent circuit and put it out himself on a relaunched IAMSIAM, his first instrumental club record in years and a clean break from his Ninja Tune era.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sonic-liberation-global-south-drum-machinehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sonic-liberation-global-south-drum-machineSun, 07 Jun 2026 10:07:00 GMTSonic Liberation Devices unveiled its first production instrument on 4 June 2026, a $1,600 sampler and drum machine whose voices are tuned to non-Western intonations sourced with ethnomusicologists, with all schematics, code and research promised open-source.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/afm-sues-umg-warner-suno-udio-settlement-sharehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/afm-sues-umg-warner-suno-udio-settlement-shareSun, 07 Jun 2026 10:07:00 GMTThe American Federation of Musicians sued Universal and Warner in New York federal court, arguing their settlements with AI generators Suno and Udio triggered a contract clause that requires paying the musicians whose recordings trained the models.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/all-day-i-dream-15-years-organic-house-brandhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/all-day-i-dream-15-years-organic-house-brandSun, 07 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMTAll Day I Dream, the daytime party Lee Burridge and Matthew Dekay started on a 2011 Brooklyn rooftop, hits 15 with a global 2026 run, and the template it built is now the default playbook for organic-house promoters everywhere.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/black-coffee-xenophobia-fake-quotehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/black-coffee-xenophobia-fake-quoteSun, 07 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMTBlack Coffee publicly disowned a viral 'xenophobic nation' quote on 6 June 2026 as a coordinated online campaign and street attacks pressure foreign nationals to leave South Africa, the country whose migrant labour built the dancefloors Afro house now sells worldwide.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/why-claude-vonstroke-sold-dirtybirdhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/why-claude-vonstroke-sold-dirtybirdSun, 07 Jun 2026 05:12:26 GMTThree years after the fact, Barclay Crenshaw has finally explained why he sold Dirtybird: it got too big and too commercial to stay weird. “The worst business decision, but the best life decision for me.”https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/polyend-drums-vs-roland-tr-1000https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/polyend-drums-vs-roland-tr-1000Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:42:08 GMTPoland’s Polyend unveiled Drums, a $2,699 eight-track hybrid drum machine with four analog SSI voices, squaring up to Roland’s TR-1000, and the scene is already split on whether it can match Roland’s reliability.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/pacha-new-york-liquor-licencehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/pacha-new-york-liquor-licenceSun, 07 Jun 2026 04:42:07 GMTPacha New York won a temporary liquor licence on 30 May, surrendered Avant Gardner’s permit, and pledged $27m over a decade to safety and community as it targets a 13 June opening at the former Brooklyn Mirage.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/medi-uncollected-royalties-africahttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/medi-uncollected-royalties-africaSun, 07 Jun 2026 04:42:05 GMTMEDI’s expanded data portal, now mapping all 55 African countries, estimates nearly $286m in recorded-music revenue goes uncollected in Nigeria and Kenya alone, and flags 46 countries worldwide with no functioning copyright system.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/grace-jones-glitterbox-amnesia-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/grace-jones-glitterbox-amnesia-2026Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:20:25 GMTGrace Jones will play live at Glitterbox on 24 July as the disco-house party settles into Friday nights at Amnesia for 2026, with Jorja Smith joining the 9 October closing.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/juno-download-shuts-downhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/juno-download-shuts-downSun, 07 Jun 2026 04:20:24 GMTJuno Download, the digital store that served DJs and collectors since 2006, is closing, its COO blaming streaming’s dominance and the rise of direct-to-fan platforms.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/prospa-free-your-mind-circolocohttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/prospa-free-your-mind-circolocoSun, 07 Jun 2026 04:20:19 GMTLeeds duo Prospa release their debut album ‘Free Your Mind’ on 5 June, the first full-length in CircoLoco Records’ history, led by a title track with Cloonee.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/suno-raises-400-million-ai-musichttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/suno-raises-400-million-ai-musicSun, 07 Jun 2026 04:20:16 GMTAI music startup Suno has raised over $400m at a $5.4bn valuation, more than doubling its worth in seven months, even as Universal and Sony move to add 61,000+ recordings to their copyright suit.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/hor-acquired-by-99solutionshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/hor-acquired-by-99solutionsSun, 07 Jun 2026 04:02:54 GMTThe Berlin livestream platform HÖR has been fully acquired by music-services company 99Solutions, which says it will keep the brand independent while adding label, publishing and booking arms.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/teenage-engineering-ko-sidekick-expandable-mixerhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/teenage-engineering-ko-sidekick-expandable-mixerSat, 06 Jun 2026 16:49:00 GMTTeenage 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/amapiano-export-economy-spotify-504mhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/amapiano-export-economy-spotify-504mSat, 06 Jun 2026 15:42:00 GMTSouth 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/om-records-30-years-independent-deep-househttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/om-records-30-years-independent-deep-houseSat, 06 Jun 2026 15:42:00 GMTOm 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/music-on-amsterdam-permit-court-losshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/music-on-amsterdam-permit-court-lossSat, 06 Jun 2026 15:42:00 GMTMusic 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/arturia-memory-v-memorymoog-149-pluginhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/arturia-memory-v-memorymoog-149-pluginSat, 06 Jun 2026 14:35:00 GMTArturia'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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/berlin-tourism-2025-decline-clubsterbenhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/berlin-tourism-2025-decline-clubsterbenSat, 06 Jun 2026 14:35:00 GMTBerlin 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dj-tennis-life-and-death-what-i-sign-forhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/dj-tennis-life-and-death-what-i-sign-forSat, 06 Jun 2026 13:28:00 GMTManfredi 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/erica-synths-richie-hawtin-bullfrog-drumshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/erica-synths-richie-hawtin-bullfrog-drumsSat, 06 Jun 2026 13:28:00 GMTErica 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/redisco-impala-vinyl-recycling-opens-to-consumershttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/redisco-impala-vinyl-recycling-opens-to-consumersSat, 06 Jun 2026 13:28:00 GMTFÉLIN'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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/brazil-funk-beatport-top-10-markethttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/brazil-funk-beatport-top-10-marketFri, 05 Jun 2026 20:17:00 GMTAt 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/l-acoustics-cs1-source-intelligence-infocommhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/l-acoustics-cs1-source-intelligence-infocommFri, 05 Jun 2026 19:10:00 GMTAt 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/5-magazine-first-vinyl-with-love-20-yearshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/5-magazine-first-vinyl-with-love-20-yearsFri, 05 Jun 2026 18:03:00 GMT5 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/beatport-walked-from-its-own-salehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/beatport-walked-from-its-own-saleFri, 05 Jun 2026 18:03:00 GMTBeatport 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/amnesia-pyramid-2026-villalobos-rareshhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/amnesia-pyramid-2026-villalobos-rareshFri, 05 Jun 2026 18:03:00 GMTAmnesia 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tech-house-number-one-afro-house-growth-beatport-2025https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/tech-house-number-one-afro-house-growth-beatport-2025Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:56:00 GMTTech 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/buchla-ziggy-standalone-west-coast-synthhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/buchla-ziggy-standalone-west-coast-synthFri, 05 Jun 2026 17:56:00 GMTBuchla'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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ableton-extensions-sdk-code-your-own-livehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ableton-extensions-sdk-code-your-own-liveFri, 05 Jun 2026 17:56:00 GMTAbleton 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/elektron-outbox-8-eight-individual-outputshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/elektron-outbox-8-eight-individual-outputsFri, 05 Jun 2026 16:49:00 GMTElektron'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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sonicware-deconstruct-minimal-grooveboxhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sonicware-deconstruct-minimal-grooveboxFri, 05 Jun 2026 16:49:00 GMTSonicware'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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/roger-sanchez-spectrum-album-pacha-residencyhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/roger-sanchez-spectrum-album-pacha-residencyFri, 05 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMTRoger 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/brooklyn-mirage-empty-lot-pacha-takes-overhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/brooklyn-mirage-empty-lot-pacha-takes-overThu, 04 Jun 2026 20:17:00 GMTAvant 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ibiza-priced-out-its-own-dancefloorhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ibiza-priced-out-its-own-dancefloorThu, 04 Jun 2026 20:17:00 GMTIbiza 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/chris-stussy-debut-album-lost-found-forgottenhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/chris-stussy-debut-album-lost-found-forgottenThu, 04 Jun 2026 19:10:00 GMTChris 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/unvrs-hyperclub-cost-dj-mag-number-onehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/unvrs-hyperclub-cost-dj-mag-number-oneThu, 04 Jun 2026 19:10:00 GMTUNVRS 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.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ulu-records-beatport-hype-label-may-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ulu-records-beatport-hype-label-may-2026Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:38:00 GMTBeatport named Robin M's London imprint Ulu Records its Hype Label of the Month for May 2026, capping a five-year run of platinum certifications, chart-topping Afro and melodic house, and an event series that already touches four continents.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/germany-clubs-cultural-venues-uk-ntiahttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/germany-clubs-cultural-venues-uk-ntiaThu, 04 Jun 2026 10:31:00 GMTGermany's federal cabinet has approved a building-law change that reclassifies music clubs as cultural venues rather than entertainment businesses, and within a week the UK's night-time lobby demanded London do the same.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/glitterbox-amnesia-defected-chinois-ibiza-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/glitterbox-amnesia-defected-chinois-ibiza-2026Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:24:00 GMTAfter eight years building Sundays at Hï since its 2017 opening, Glitterbox jumps to Amnesia's Friday terrace for the club's 50th, while Defected itself drops down to the 1,000-capacity Chinois, redrawing Ibiza's brand map.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/l-acoustics-db-sde-noise-prediction-standardhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/l-acoustics-db-sde-noise-prediction-standardThu, 04 Jun 2026 09:24:00 GMTL-Acoustics and d&b audiotechnik, the two firms that almost never agree, have co-launched SDE with SoundPLAN: a shared file that makes festival noise predictions comparable across rival rigs for the first time.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/freerange-30-years-volume-onehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/freerange-30-years-volume-oneThu, 04 Jun 2026 09:24:00 GMTJimpster's Freerange Records started its 30th-anniversary campaign on 29 May 2026 with Volume One, the first of five EPs that together gather 30 tracks from 30 artists before a vinyl boxset closes the run.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/echostage-l-acoustics-l2-rider-requirementhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/echostage-l-acoustics-l2-rider-requirementWed, 03 Jun 2026 15:06:00 GMTEchostage in Washington DC has installed an L-Acoustics L2 system because touring artists now write the brand into their riders, and its installer says that expectation is forcing venues into six-figure upgrades.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/devianza-records-anti-vip-underground-ibiza-2026https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/devianza-records-anti-vip-underground-ibiza-2026Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:59:00 GMTItalian imprint Devianza Records, run by Gianluca Motta, Alex Satry and Nunzio Santagata, is pushing a deliberately anti-VIP, no-trends tech house catalogue at Ibiza's club floors for summer 2026.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/white-hotel-manchester-closing-2027https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/white-hotel-manchester-closing-2027Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:52:00 GMTManchester's most uncompromising club, a 300-capacity former car garage in Salford, is shutting in January 2027 as flooding and a 7,000-home regeneration plan close in, and its founders are taking the energy to a new Blackpool festival.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ministry-of-sound-kv2-the-boxhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ministry-of-sound-kv2-the-boxWed, 03 Jun 2026 12:45:00 GMTFor its 35th anniversary, [[venue:ministry-of-sound|Ministry of Sound]] replaced The Box's sound system for the first time in 15 years, picking [[label:kv2-audio|KV2 Audio]] after auditioning six brands and installing two finalists in the room for a week each.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/comedown-generation-soft-clubbinghttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/comedown-generation-soft-clubbingWed, 03 Jun 2026 12:45:00 GMTA wave of sober, daytime parties built on breathwork, coffee and 6am dancefloors is the fastest-growing format in clubbing, with Eventbrite logging a 478% jump in coffee-rave events year on year.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sao-paulo-nightlife-book-fairhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sao-paulo-nightlife-book-fairWed, 03 Jun 2026 12:45:00 GMTCamilo Rocha and Gaia Passarelli take Sao Paulo's clubbing history to the city's Book Fair on 2 June, reframing the scene through a center-versus-periphery lens rather than a nightlife nostalgia trip.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/twilo-25-nostalgia-loop-house-revivalhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/twilo-25-nostalgia-loop-house-revivalWed, 03 Jun 2026 11:38:00 GMTOn 6 and 7 March 2026 the original Twilo room on West 27th Street reopened for two sold-out nights with John Digweed and Danny Tenaglia, twenty-five years after the club shut, and it forced the question house keeps dodging: is the deep-house revival renewal, or a nostalgia loop it cannot mix out of.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/mau-p-baddest-behaviour-records-debut-albumhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/mau-p-baddest-behaviour-records-debut-albumWed, 03 Jun 2026 11:38:00 GMTTech house's biggest current name announced he will launch his own label, Baddest Behaviour Records, drop a debut album and start a clothing line in 2026, telling Billboard he wants the LP to be "like Radiohead, but for dance music."https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/izotope-ozone-12-stem-eq-stereo-masterhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/izotope-ozone-12-stem-eq-stereo-masterWed, 03 Jun 2026 11:00:00 GMTiZotope's Ozone 12 Advanced adds Stem EQ, which splits any finished stereo mix into vocals, drums, bass and the rest so you can re-EQ each one without ever opening the multitrack.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/vinyl-19-years-growth-usb-reality-elitismhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/vinyl-19-years-growth-usb-reality-elitismWed, 03 Jun 2026 10:31:00 GMTUS vinyl revenue passed one billion dollars in 2025 for the first time since 1983, its 19th consecutive year of growth, yet an estimated 40 percent of buyers do not own a record player and virtually every working DJ plays off USB, which exposes the format war as a fight nobody actually won.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/clout-deepfake-dj-cosign-scandalhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/clout-deepfake-dj-cosign-scandalWed, 03 Jun 2026 10:31:00 GMTUnknown producers are overlaying their own music onto footage of star DJs' packed crowds, and in the worst cases faking an artist's face and voice into an endorsement, to manufacture the viral proof that now drives label interest.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/beatport-track-id-setlist-royalties-aslicehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/beatport-track-id-setlist-royalties-asliceTue, 02 Jun 2026 19:34:00 GMTBeatport's new Track ID looks like a Shazam for clubs, but its CRO frames it as early infrastructure for setlist reporting, the same uncollected-performance-royalty problem that sank DVS1's Aslice in 2024.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/armc-berlin-ai-think-tank-johannesburg-pan-african-licensinghttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/armc-berlin-ai-think-tank-johannesburg-pan-african-licensingTue, 02 Jun 2026 18:27:00 GMTThe Africa Rising Music Conference hosted the first African edition of the Berlin AI Think Tank, with German researchers and South African collecting societies starting work on a Pan-African consent, attribution and remuneration framework for AI music.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/udio-starstruck-licensed-ai-walled-gardenhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/udio-starstruck-licensed-ai-walled-gardenTue, 02 Jun 2026 17:20:00 GMTUdio's licensed app Starstruck lets fans cover, remix and rewrite opted-in artists inside a closed environment, with no export to Spotify and, per Kobalt, songwriters paid well above the usual streaming rate.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spotify-nigeria-streaming-economy-per-stream-payhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/spotify-nigeria-streaming-economy-per-stream-payTue, 02 Jun 2026 16:13:00 GMTSpotify's Africa boss says it will grow paying subscribers in Nigeria rather than raise the low subscription price, which is the core reason a stream pays Nigerian artists about 1.98 naira.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/alphatheta-djm-v5-three-channel-mixerhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/alphatheta-djm-v5-three-channel-mixerTue, 02 Jun 2026 15:06:00 GMTAlphaTheta cut its flagship V10 down to a 3-channel, 4-band mixer with no Beat FX and no crossfader, priced at 1,999 euros, aimed squarely at the layering tech-house and techno DJ who never touched those features anyway.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/kkr-superstruct-boycott-sonar-field-dayhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/kkr-superstruct-boycott-sonar-field-dayTue, 02 Jun 2026 15:06:00 GMTWhen private equity giant KKR bought festival group Superstruct, artists discovered mid-billing who banks their fee, gutted Field Day and Sónar lineups in protest, and the founders who built Sónar over 30 years finally walked.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/boiler-room-kkr-bellville-exit-layoffshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/boiler-room-kkr-bellville-exit-layoffsTue, 02 Jun 2026 14:59:00 GMTDICE flipped Boiler Room to KKR-owned Superstruct for £25m in January 2025; by late 2025 it was cutting staff amid boycotts, and on 20 January 2026 founder Blaise Bellville's exit was confirmed, leaving the platform that defined online-underground credibility owning no music rights.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/wasserman-music-sale-who-buys-dance-rosterhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/wasserman-music-sale-who-buys-dance-rosterTue, 02 Jun 2026 13:52:00 GMTCasey Wasserman put his agency on the block on 13 February 2026 after the Epstein files surfaced his ties to Ghislaine Maxwell, and whoever buys it inherits the booking spine of dance's top earners plus 33% of Coachella.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/140-is-the-new-128-tempo-warhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/140-is-the-new-128-tempo-warTue, 02 Jun 2026 13:52:00 GMTThe dancefloor's working tempo has crept from a 128 BPM comfort zone toward a 140-to-146 norm, and the slower 120-to-124 house that built the room is quietly being rebranded as warm-up and comedown music.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/the-loop-year-round-drug-checkinghttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/the-loop-year-round-drug-checkingMon, 01 Jun 2026 18:27:00 GMTHarm-reduction body The Loop has secured the first Home Office licences to run year-round, venue-funded drug testing inside two of Britain's biggest clubbing operations, moving real-time drug intelligence off the festival calendar and into the regular season.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/wilde-renate-ten-year-lease-economy-not-culturehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/wilde-renate-ten-year-lease-economy-not-cultureMon, 01 Jun 2026 17:20:00 GMTWeeks before its scheduled 2025 closure, Wilde Renate secured a surprise 10-year lease on 15 December 2025, with the breakthrough credited to Berlin's economic-affairs senator, Franziska Giffey, not the culture department.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sunwaves-leaves-romania-rominimal-pilgrimagehttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/sunwaves-leaves-romania-rominimal-pilgrimageMon, 01 Jun 2026 17:20:00 GMTSunwaves has confirmed that SW35 (May 1 to 5, 2025) was its final edition on Romania's Black Sea coast after 18 years, citing circumstances "out of our control," and is taking the festival abroad.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/pacha-five-holdings-460m-global-expansionhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/pacha-five-holdings-460m-global-expansionMon, 01 Jun 2026 16:13:00 GMTPacha Group booked EUR 118.8m of revenue and EUR 40.5m EBITDA in the nine months to September 2025, and its Dubai owner FIVE has lined up a $460m facility to clone the brand from New York to Asia.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/berlin-a100-motorway-vs-clublandhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/berlin-a100-motorway-vs-clublandMon, 01 Jun 2026 16:13:00 GMTBerlin opened a 721 million euro stretch of the A100 in August 2025, and the planned next phase through Ostkreuz would put roughly 21 cultural venues, including ://about blank, Club OST and Salon Zur Wilden Renate, directly in the path of a state-built motorway.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/devious-pocket-laptop-free-dvshttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/devious-pocket-laptop-free-dvsMon, 01 Jun 2026 10:55:00 GMTNAP Works built a standalone digital vinyl system on an open framework that runs from a USB stick with no laptop in the chain, priced at 249 euro and aimed straight at the closed CDJ economy.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ims-2026-business-report-undergroundhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/ims-2026-business-report-undergroundMon, 01 Jun 2026 09:48:00 GMTPresenting the 2026 IMS Business Report, MIDiA's Mark Mulligan argues the underground's value now sits in scenes and identity rather than stream counts, even as the global electronic industry grows to $15.1 billion.https://timetohouse.com/en/articles/onelibrary-rekordbox-traktor-djay-shared-libraryhttps://timetohouse.com/en/articles/onelibrary-rekordbox-traktor-djay-shared-libraryMon, 01 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMTOneLibrary is a shared export format backed by the makers of rekordbox, Traktor and djay that writes your playlists, cue points and beatgrids to a single USB any compatible player or app can read, so you prep a set once and play it on almost any rig.