UK techno pioneer Dave Angel released his new album "A Time And Place" on R&S Records today, September 18, his first full-length for the label since it discovered him in 1991 and his first album of any kind since 2013's "Frame By Frame".
Sonicware has repackaged its 18-engine ELZ_1 Play keyboard synth into a keyboardless desktop module, the ELZ_1 Core, and is selling it in a made-to-order run of just 50 units at $499.
Tony Humphries' 1982-1994 residency at Newark's Club Zanzibar and his parallel KISS-FM 98.7 show forged the gospel-drenched "Jersey Sound," now being unearthed on new Running Back Records archival compilations.
A 1,736-signature petition and video evidence of 110-decibel sound systems now back what Ibiza's licensed nightlife operators said in June: unlicensed "floating nightclub" boats off Platges de Comte are running full DJ sets with none of the rules land-based venues must follow.
Oddment Audio has launched ODD-1V, a VST3/AU plugin port of its ODD-1 hardware granular synthesizer, in early access for $149 and free for existing hardware owners.
KKR, the private-equity firm whose leveraged buyout loaded Toys R Us with the debt that eventually sank it, closed a roughly $1.4 billion deal for Superstruct Entertainment's portfolio of more than 80 festivals, including Sónar, Boiler Room and Wacken Open Air, in 2024.
Berlin's Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district has become general tenant of the RAW-Gelände site, a two-year public-lease deal backed by 3 million euros that shields techno venues Cassiopeia and Crack Bellmer from commercial redevelopment.
The American Federation of Musicians is fighting Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group in federal court, arguing their Suno and Udio AI licensing settlements broke a contract that promised session musicians a cut when their recordings get reused.
Ibiza's town hall has suspended urban license 11/2026 for the Corso project meant to house Lío Ibiza's relocated megaclub, halting construction over an occupancy-cap breach its own municipal architect ruled could not be fixed by modifying the project.
Dirtywave has launched the M8 tracker as an iPhone and iPad app for $29.99, running the same five synthesis engines as the hardware with projects that move freely between phone and device.
Amelie Lens has released AURA, her debut studio album, eleven tracks on her own EXHALE Records with singer Angèle as the only guest, a decade into her career as one of techno's biggest touring names.
Arturia has released free firmware 5.0 for the MiniFreak hardware and software synth, adding drag-and-drop sample import and custom wavetable loading for the first time.
Disctopia has been granted a US patent for paying creators based on verified listening presence and engagement rather than raw play counts, per Digital Music News and RightsTech Project.
Masaka Africana, the Afro house ritual concept led by Mickey Dastinz, ends its 2026 Cova Santa residency on September 26 with a closing ceremony built around the theme 'The Awakening of Earth.'
MOTU's Digital Performer 12 adds a native Dolby Atmos renderer with 9.1.6 surround and binaural output, plus in-house AI stem separation, priced at $499 while Apple has bundled Atmos into Logic Pro for free since 2021.
Get Out Festival's ninth Lima edition lands November 21, 2026, with a Phase 1 lineup led by Raresh, Deborah De Luca, Anfisa Letyago and Gaiser (Live), confirming Peru's biggest club-music date as a fixture on the global touring map.
Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs signed a multi-year licensing and product-development deal on September 10, 2026, to build an opt-in AI platform for fan remixes, mashups and personalized vocals, and neither side had to sue the other to get there.
Time Warp will hold its first-ever US festival on November 27-28, 2026, inside LA's Ace*Mission Studios, with a 30-plus artist bill led by Richie Hawtin, Ben Klock, Loco Dice and Rødhåd.
The Observatory, Ho Chi Minh City's techno anchor for nearly 13 years, will close at the end of October 2026, citing rising rent and tightening limits on booking international artists.
DJ Mag closed voting for its 2026 Top 100 DJs poll on September 16 and will reveal the World's No.1 DJ live at [UNVRS] Ibiza on October 6, the same club its own readers just voted the world's best.
Charlotte de Witte releases 'The Resistance' EP on her own KNTXT label on September 24, with 100% of proceeds going to The Nighttime Foundation, a global nonprofit that funds club culture defense.
On September 15, 2026, Joseph Capriati and Richie Hawtin played a back to back on Amnesia Ibiza's Terrace as part of the club's 50th anniversary Metamorfosi residency, built around musical negotiation rather than the peak-time tech house formula that runs the island's terraces.
Sound City Festival ran seven independently run sound systems and more than 100 artists across three days at Bath & West Showground in September 2026, and its follow-up date sold out too.
IFPI-backed labels and distributors including UMG, Warner, Sony Music, Merlin, FUGA, AWAL, Ditto and HYBE have launched a Streaming Integrity Initiative after executives put the industry's fraud rate at roughly 10% of all streams.
Neutral Labs has released firmware 1.3 for its Scrooge synthesizer, adding MIDI modulation of the CHOP parameter so the deliberately glitchy instrument can play chromatic, pitched notes through its onboard sequencer.
Audient has launched the Horizon range, three Thunderbolt 3 interfaces scaling from 24 to 50 channels with 0.99ms round-trip latency at 192kHz and 32-bit mastering-grade conversion.
LA DJs Heidi Lawden and FLABBERGAST released the explicitly anti-fascist, queer-nightlife track "Children of the Revolution" on Berlin label DESSERT Records on September 4, 2026.
Germany's Landgericht Augsburg has ruled a home search of a City Club Augsburg employee unconstitutional, eight months after roughly 200 police officers raided the club's day-rave on since-disproven suspicions of large-scale drug trafficking.
Mint XL, a new 2,500-capacity club built inside the former PRYZM venue on Leeds' Woodhouse Lane, opens September 25, 2026 with Craig Richards and Enzo Siragusa headlining a Funktion-One-equipped room.
Voting for DJ Mag's 33rd annual Top 100 DJs poll, an open vote with no eligibility criteria, closes tonight at 23:59 GMT, ahead of a live reveal at UNVRS Ibiza on October 6.
Serato DJ 5.0 entered public beta on September 11 with Lucid Beatgrids, a rebuilt analysis engine that auto-detects downbeats and tracks tempo changes within a single file, alongside Open Streaming and a Pro-only Cue Loops tool.
A new German public-broadcaster documentary went undercover in the hardtekk scene and filmed Hitler salutes, Nazi symbolism and SoundCloud tracks glorifying deportation, splitting the genre between artists denying a problem and artists demanding it be purged.
Soundcraft's four new Signature Plus analog consoles (12 to 32 channels, $799 to $1,499) add a built-in 4x4 USB-C interface for recording and playback, not Dante or AVB network audio.
ACASO, a London Afro-house collective founded in 2025, now runs DM-only, dress-coded events in London, Manchester, Marbella and Ibiza, a fast case study in the sound going luxury.
Barry Can't Swim and Sammy Virji have released "I Could Be Madonna", a collaboration born from a surprise back-to-back set at Sammy Virji's Alexandra Palace show in April.
Mpilo Ntsika Shoba lost his sight to a rare childhood eye cancer at two, grew up as DJ Influence in Black Coffee's circle, and at thirteen has released his first collaborative single under a new name, MPILOZA.
Germany's Federal Court of Justice ruled on September 3, 2026 that producer Moses Pelham's uncleared two-second sample of Kraftwerk's "Metall auf Metall" is protected as pastiche under EU copyright law, closing out a 27-year lawsuit and setting a precedent for sample-based music across the EU.
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