Silverdaw, a free AGPL-3.0 Windows DAW released 20 July 2026, splits vocals, drums, bass and other stems locally on your machine, so producers never upload audio to a cloud AI service.
TIDAL is raising its Individual plan to €12.99 a month in Europe from August 3, 2026, its first hike in about three years, landing on the same number Spotify already charges, while its US increase (reported as either $11.99 or $12.99 depending on the outlet) leaves the two services closer than ever.
The Munich I Regional Court ruled on 31 July that Suno's AI models reproduced GEMA-protected songs, including Boney M.'s "Rasputin" and "Daddy Cool" and Lou Bega's "Mambo No. 5," ordering the company to disclose revenue and pay damages in one of Europe's first major AI-training copyright verdicts.
Marco Carola's Ibiza institution Music On stages its first branded night outside its home island on August 1, 2026, at Malta's Fairs & Conventions Centre, betting that a residency built on one club's DNA can travel.
OkayAfrica's July 29 roundup of Afro House's best current tracks flags suspected AI-generated vocals and horn lines on two of its six picks, the clearest sign yet that AI-authenticity anxiety has reached the genre's biggest mainstream showcase.
Bachblyten Festival in Schleswig-Holstein dismissed sexual violence allegations against a leadership-team member as unverified rumors, then reversed course and removed that person from all duties mid-festival after eight DJs cancelled their sets in protest.
FRCTL Audio has released AURA, a $24.99 (intro) VST3/AU/CLAP reverb plugin whose CLARITY engine ducks tails band by band based on the source's actual dynamics, no threshold or sidechain needed, alongside a permanently free AURA Lite.
Luminate's midyear 2026 report found electronic music grew faster than any other genre in US streaming during the first half of the year, even as hip-hop and R&B kept the largest overall share of plays.
Chase Bliss has turned its ambient Mood micro-looper into Bad Mood, a rawer, glitch-prone Small Batch pedal with new fragmentation algorithms and full MIDI control, priced at €469 with pre-orders open through August 31, 2026.
Kingston's working-class speaker stacks helped invent DJ culture, sound clashes, dub, dancehall, hip-hop, and the bass-heavy logic that still runs through house music today.
Egypt's Halim El-Dabh, Cameroon's Francis Bebey and Nigeria's William Onyeabor were building electronic music from tape, synths and drum machines as early as the 1940s, work that placed Africa at the root of house music's own electronic lineage.
Techno headliners Charlotte de Witte and Enrico Sangiuliano have ended their six-year relationship and 2022 marriage, calling the split mutual in a joint Instagram statement on July 25, 2026.
John "Jammin" Collins, the Underground Resistance ambassador who ran Submerge's Exhibit 3000 techno museum and DJed Cheeks Nightclub alongside Jeff Mills in the 1980s, has died; Detroit Techno Militia announced the news on Facebook on July 26, no cause disclosed.
For a decade, Larry Levan turned a converted King Street parking garage into dance music's first true listening room, and the sound and selection philosophy he built there still runs through house and garage music today.
Ricardo Villalobos will release his first solo single of 2026, "Wings," as a vinyl-only pressing on his own label Rawax on August 10, per Resident Advisor.
1010music has released a firmware 1.3 beta for its bluebox mixer-recorder that adds sidechain compression, a 24-bit/48kHz USB audio overhaul, a microSD card reader mode and a 32-band spectrum analyzer, per Synthanatomy.
MoNgoma Records marks one year of curating nights at Koda Nairobi on July 31, headlined by Durban afrohouse and afrotech duo Kususa.
UNTOLD Festival in Cluj-Napoca, Romania has rebranded as 'UNTOLD ONE' for its 2026 edition (August 6-9), revealing a gold, wing-shaped main stage and a 200-plus-artist lineup that spans Carl Cox, Solomun and Jamie Jones alongside pop-crossover names like Marshmello.
ORIGIN, a new indoor/outdoor venue opening late summer or early fall 2026 at 613 Imperial Street in LA's Arts District, is fitting a custom analog KV2 Audio rig designed by Marc Dizon, the engineer behind Brooklyn Mirage and Output New York.
This Thursday, three current Tresor Berlin residents and a guest from the Soma People collective headline REVERSE at Ormside Projects in Peckham, a night built explicitly around women, trans and non-binary artists in techno.
Waldorf's new Iridium MK II flagship synth ships with Per-Note-Parameter-Locks, a feature built directly with Aphex Twin that lets every one of its 128 notes carry up to 16 different sound variations.
A refiled class action from rapper RBX accuses Spotify of ignoring roughly 37 billion of Drake's streams for suspicious activity while alleging the platform diverted at least $600 million in royalties through anti-fraud rules it enforces selectively, a claim echoed by a separate Connecticut lawsuit over the algorithmic filtering that quietly cuts independent artists' counted streams.
Audio Brewers' new iOS app ab Recorder captures full 1st-order ambisonics soundfields on an iPhone 16 Pro or later for €6.99, a task that used to require dedicated recording hardware costing hundreds to thousands of dollars.
For years, we were told that partying was a distraction from success. But what if healthy nightlife doesn’t hold people back? What if it quietly teaches some of the most valuable skills for life and work?
In 1955, composer Toshiro Mayuzumi built Japan's first electronic compositions from pure sine, square and sawtooth waves at the state broadcaster NHK's new Tokyo studio, a lineage that runs straight through Yellow Magic Orchestra and the Roland drum machines that built house and techno.
Haus of Kühl, the Jägermeister-backed Johannesburg festival featuring DJ KMAT, sold out both ticket phases for its 24-25 July 2026 edition at Victoria Yards without a single international dance-press write-up before the gates opened.
Mzansi House Fest returns to Johannesburg on July 25, 2026, a single fourteen-hour overnight party at KAVO Beach Club in Germiston with Ralf Gum, Chymamusique and eighteen more DJs on one bill.
Launaea, the alias of producer William Salazar, has released Adai, a five-track, 27-minute EP mastered by Carlos Koschitzky and put out July 10 on Madrid's Semantica Records under catalog number SEMANTICA 206.
Alex Jukes, founder of dance music PR agency Jukebox PR, pleaded not guilty to intentional strangulation, assault by beating and stalking, and the case has been referred to Crown Court, with a trial-preparation hearing set for July 21, 2026.
On July 11, two sound-system trucks led hundreds of ravers on a seven-hour route past Schwerin Castle in a demonstration demanding a constitutional court review of parties Germany already flags as right-wing extremist, chiefly the AfD.
Lee Burridge has released Fading Out, his first solo original single since 2021, an eight-minute deep house track out now on his own All Day I Dream label.
Vobile, the rights-tech company behind Pex, has turned its AI-generated-song detector into an MCP server so DSPs, distributors and collection societies can flag Suno, Udio, Boomy and ElevenLabs tracks straight from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok or GitHub Copilot.
Spotify was the exclusive streaming partner for Afro Nation Portugal 2026 and used the festival to open a permanent in-app destination spanning afrobeats, amapiano, Afro house and electronic content.
Kabza De Small, amapiano's most commercially dominant producer, launched a second label, TechHub, on 9 July 2026 and signed producer Jnr SA as its first artist, both distributed by Sony Music Africa alongside his existing imprint PianoHub.
HoneyLuv's remix of 112's 2001 R&B classic 'Dance With Me', out now, chops the original vocal hook over a bouncing low end and rattling percussion, turning a slow jam from her childhood into a house record built for the floor.
Michael Bibi's new single 'Mobile Groove', out now via ELOVATE, samples the classic Nokia 3310 ringtone at 129 BPM, after the sound got stuck in his head when his brother sent him a phone-unboxing video.
FL Studio 2026, out now as a free update for existing license holders, rebuilds the FLEX instrument from scratch, adds automatic cloud project backup, and expands the Gopher AI assistant so it can route mixer channels, set levels and adjust plugin parameters directly inside a project.
