Baltimore house pioneer Ultra Naté and French producer HUGEL have topped both the Beatport chart and the US Mediabase dance radio chart with their collaboration "Movin' To The Sun," nearly three decades after her 1997 anthem "Free."
Maceo Plex, a producer with three decades and multiple aliases behind him, has released his first-ever EP on Rekids, Radio Slave's Berlin techno label, with the three-track "Monster" out August 28, 2026.
Carl Cox and Christopher Coe's label Awesome Soundwave has launched ASW Live, a new run of small, free-entry club nights in Dublin and Belfast this week, with an Ibiza date in October, deliberately trading festival scale for underground rooms.
Grand Theft Auto VI's Extended Look, watched by tens of millions on Netflix and YouTube on August 27, 2026, ends on Elderbrook and Bob Moses' house track Inner Light, and leaked footage shows CircoLoco Records, the label Rockstar built with Ibiza's DC10 party in 2021, now gets its own in-game radio station.
The free, four-day Chicago House Music Festival & Conference returns August 27-30, 2026 to Millennium Park and the Chicago Cultural Center, with the city's own house pioneers headlining the genre's birthplace.
MUTEK Montréal's 27th edition (August 25-30) pairs a 120-artist electronic and AV lineup, including Jeff Mills' North American premiere of his sci-fi piece Stargate, with an expanded Forum on AI, ecology and digital creativity across five Quartier des Spectacles venues.
Notting Hill Carnival marks its 60th Diamond Jubilee across the August 29-31 bank holiday, sharing the calendar with Channel One's Carnival warm-ups, Body Movements' queer stages, RALLY festival and FOLD's 24-hour marathon.
Beatport will livestream all four stages of Pepsi MAX presents Creamfields 2026 from August 28 to 30, per Beatportal, extending its business from download store and streaming service into live festival broadcast.
AlphaTheta's new CDJ-1500X multi player, debuted at DJX 2026 in Atlantic City, carries the CDJ-3000X's touchscreen, Wi-Fi and cloud streaming into a compact body priced roughly $1,300 below the flagship.
Prospa has turned their long-running Prophecy party into a record label, and its debut release is SAPIAN's 'Reason Why,' a track that spent nearly a year as a DJ-bag open secret before getting an official release on August 14, 2026.
As redevelopment and rising rents force closures at Addis Ababa venues like SHIFTA and Fendika Cultural Center, the city's DJ and electronic-night culture is becoming the backbone keeping its night-time creative economy alive, per OkayAfrica.
drft, a new $19 VST3/AU plugin from SampleRoll, runs six controls across audio and video at once, so a dropout that punches a hole in the sound tears the picture in the same instant.
DJ Marfox, the batida pioneer behind Lisbon's Príncipe Discos, closes the Panorama stage, MEO Kalorama's dance-music-only stage, on August 30, 2026, at a festival expecting more than 100,000 people over three days.
The Music Imbizo, Africa's leading music business conference, opens today in Durban with a four-day programme built around music as intellectual property, not just performance.
Redevelopment has pushed Addis Ababa's most storied venues out over the past four years, from Fendika's 17-year home in Kasanchis to a warehouse that lasted six weeks, and the city's DJs and producers are now rebuilding the scene through pop-ups, radio studios and hotel spaces instead of permanent clubs.
On the night of August 14, roughly 30 people attacked Angelo Ratti, founder of Milan's queer DJ collective Biscotto della Fortuna, at a beach bar in Sardinia, in an assault Italian prosecutors are now investigating as a hate crime.
Bangkok collective NON NON NON ran a month-long mentorship pairing its women and queer DJs with Paris's Olympe4000 and Berlin's Sarah Farina, funded by the Goethe-Institut Thailand and Alliance Française Bangkok, and closed with a joint set at Bangkok World Music Day.
Markus Guentner's 2001 Kompakt dub-techno landmark In Moll returns November 6 as a 25th Anniversary Edition on Black Knoll Editions, remastered in full analog by Rafael Anton Irisarri and pressing "In Moll 4" to vinyl for the first time.
Ibiza's Consell d'Eivissa is drafting a Tourism Areas Intervention Plan (PIAT) that would ban all new nightclub licenses across the island starting in 2027, locking the current roster of legal venues in for good.
Research from Erasmus University Rotterdam, led by sociologist Julian Schaap, reframes the rave: shared rhythm syncs bodies into 'collective effervescence', and the crowd actively builds the meaning, identity and community of the night rather than passively consuming it.
discoDSP released Corona 7, a free major update for existing Corona 6 owners, adding 8x oversampling, full MPE support and a JP-8000-style Super 7+ unison mode.
Beatport's own mid-year 2026 review names tech house the genre still leading its charts, while Splice and MIDiA Research crowned afro house the outright Sound of the Year off 778% download growth, a split that shows two different economies of dance music pulling in opposite directions.
Ghost In Translation's Drone is an 8HP, four-voice Eurorack drone synth whose 32-bit float DSP engine ships as open-source code on GitHub, not locked inside a black-box chip.
The Munich Regional Court ruled on July 31 that Suno illegally trained its AI on six GEMA-repertoire songs, including Boney M.'s "Rasputin," and ordered the company to disclose the revenue tied to them before any damages figure is set.
Rave The Planet's fifth edition drew roughly 300,000 people through Berlin on August 15 under a 1,500-officer security operation prompted by the July 25 CSD terror attack, opening with a moment of silence before organizers issued ten formal demands including legal protection for the parade and cultural-heritage recognition for club culture.
Resident Advisor's ten-city 25th-anniversary tour opens September 25 at London's Outernet Live, pairing Mala and AliA with a Blawan live set and a Bitter Babe A/V premiere made specifically for the night.
Lucerne club operator Dein Ding AG entered bankruptcy on 6 August 2026 and Dresden techno institution Sektor Evolution has confirmed it may close within weeks, two separate cases exposing the same structural crisis squeezing DACH clubs despite busy dancefloors.
Polyend unveiled Keys at Gamescom 2026, a hot-swappable mechanical QWERTY keyboard with a built-in three-octave MIDI keybed and nine CC encoders, still at prototype stage with no price or release date.
Suno AI, facing copyright lawsuits from Universal Music Group and Sony Music, a German court loss and a 2025 breach that exposed 55.3 million users' data, says it will add audio watermarking, Musixmatch-powered fingerprinting and download limits in the coming weeks.
Teenage Engineering's $58 EP-2350 FX Mic packs four vocal effects and four sample slots into a Raspberry Pi RP2350 chip, and Adafruit had already published a full teardown and hacking guide for it three weeks before the official unveiling.
Spain's Costas coastal authority conditioned its permit for Ibiza's eclipse festival at s'Arenal beach on free public access, but organizers sold tickets from 45 euros anyway, and Sant Antoni's town hall is now trading blame instead of enforcing it.
CEDAR Audio has released Voxis, a neural-network plugin that separates a vocal from a live audio signal in under 10 milliseconds.
u-he, the Berlin studio behind Diva and Zebra, has shipped MELT: a 299-euro Eurorack filter module and its first fully analog hardware product in 25 years of making virtual synths.
Chloé Caillet has released 'After Dark' on Ninja Tune, the fourth advance single off her EP 'Dance Again', out September 25.
Arturia has launched Pure SUB, a $49/€49 monophonic plugin that builds bass sounds from three independently shaped layers, sub, harmonics and texture, instead of treating low end as an afterthought of a general-purpose synth.
Irish producer Eamonn Dubois has filed a $150 million federal lawsuit accusing Traxsource of falsely tagging 11 of his tracks as AI made, and DJ Mag of refusing to correct a story built on the claim.
fabric Records released SELECTS VIII on August 28, an eleven-track broken beat and bruk compilation and the label's first release dedicated to the genre since 2006.
