Global Underground marked its 30th anniversary on October 16, 2026 with THIRTY, a box set of 30 exclusive tracks from 30 artists, four of which hit No. 1 on Beatport before the album's release.
Grammy winner Zakes Bantwini has reworked Gregor Salto's 2009 Dutch house hit 'Your Friend' (feat. Chappell) into an Afro House extended remix, out October 16, 2026 via Universal Music Africa and Salto Sounds.
Detroit house pioneers Inner City released the new single "Positivity" on October 16, a vocal house track written and produced by Kevin Saunderson and his son Dantiez, with a Todd Terry remix package due November 6.
London producer Steven Julien released "808 Prince," a 10-track album built entirely around the Roland TR-808 and TR-1000, out October 16 on his own Apron Records imprint.
Naya Beat's new four-track remix EP sets a Dino Soccio rework of Asha Puthli and Say She She's 'Pawa!' alongside three overlooked South Asian diaspora dance vocalists reworked by Woolfy vs Projections, Turbotito & Ragz and Psychemagik's Thomaas Banks.
South Sudanese-Australian producer Skin On Skin has released "Someone Like You," his own label's first single since 2025's "Home Is True" mixtape, after road-testing it in sets all summer, including closing Dekmantel's main stage.
Aurora Halal ends a seven-year silence on her own solo catalogue with Red Alert, a new EP landing October 19 on her label Mutual Dreaming Recordings.
Four Tet released TEXT059, an eight-track vinyl LP on his own Text label on October 2, 2026, capped at 2,000 copies worldwide and including two tracks that previously only existed as digital files.
Giegling affiliate Edward has curated Running Back Records' latest Mastermix compilation, reworking 13 classic tracks by Carl Craig, Sven Väth, Kirk Degiorgio and others for a November 20 release.
Eight volumes of Annie Mac Presents, the house and techno compilation series that ran from 2010 to 2017, are streaming on Apple Music for the first time, split into 16 individual DJ mixes after years as CD-only releases.
nthng's fifth album, "Last Light of the Sun," presses vintage house vocal fragments into dub techno's restrained 4/4 structures and melancholic drum & bass, out now on topo2.
Lorenzo Senni returns to Warp Records after six years with "All Ages", out November 20, 2026, his first album to feature vocals, including his own, with skateboarders Chad Muska and Jamie Thomas and Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart.
Marie Davidson and Pearson Sound have released their first collaboration, an EBM-tinged slow burner called "Heat," with an Autumns remix due October 30.
HAAi releases her second Mute album, "DIGITiSE," on October 9, pushing 2025's "HUMANiSE" onto the dancefloor with a cast that spans a Medellin children's choir to London spoken word.
John Talabot resurfaces after more than a decade of solo silence not as himself but as OR, releasing a 17-track beatless ambient album, "Music For Empty Stadiums," on October 30 via AD 93.
Oden & Fatzo release their 19-track debut album "Somehow It Flies" on Defected Records on October 16, the UK house institution's clearest signal yet that French touch and disco warmth are back in favour.
Berlin-via-Netherlands veteran Steffi distilled more than 40 compositions into the nine tracks of "Half An Owl And A Full Moon Rising," her fifth solo album, out on Dekmantel Records on October 9.
Yogyakarta producer Sanjonas releases his sophomore album 'Ngelmu Tirakat', named after the Javanese ascetic practice of tirakat, on his own label RAMPAK G on October 15, 2026.
Djrum's instalment of !K7's DJ-Kicks series arrives October 16 as a 31-track vinyl mix that threads ambient field recordings, post-punk, acid and breakcore into one sequence, built on three turntables with four new Djrum originals plus exclusive cuts from Skee Mask and Clark.
"Second Office," the first full-length album from Speedy J and Rødhåd, arrives October 9 on WSNWG: eleven tracks built from ten days of studio sessions in Berlin in January 2026.
South African artist Moonchild Sanelly is abandoning the future ghetto funk sound that made her career to release an Afro house album, 'The Blueprint,' on Zakes Bantwini's Mayonie Productions.
Andy Stott's first album in five years, Late Loop, bans the bass, reverb and layered effects that built his sound, leaving two vocalists and a single delay unit to carry eight songs out October 30 on Modern Love.
Space Afrika's fourth album, "Quiet Storm," out 25 September on Dais Records, wrestles openly with staying artistically honest against the pull of status and capitalism, using diaspora and home as its emotional anchor.
Dan Snaith's house alias Daphni quietly expanded his February album Butterfly from 16 to 29 tracks on September 25, adding remixes from Peder Mannerfelt, Pär Grindvik, Kelbin, BRUX and Aasthma on his own Jiaolong label.
Drumcode has released Faithless Reworks, a two-track EP in which label boss Adam Beyer remixes "We Come 1" and rising talent KASIA reworks "Tarantula," landing in the same year both the techno label and the British dance act turn 30.
French producer DSTRB's new single 'Nexus,' out September 11 via Alveda Subject, pairs tech house's forward drive with a darker techno undertow.
London producer Fifi Forte's three-track 'Gain My Trust EP' landed on Diggin' Records on September 4, her first release on the respected tech house imprint after building a catalogue on Hottrax, Deeperfect, Pakate and Libero.
Masked producer GlassJack has reworked Dolly Parton's 1973 country classic "Jolene" into a piano-driven deep house single, released September 18 on the label Diary of a DJ.
Dutch producer upsammy and Italian producer Piezo have teamed up as Eerie Enterprise for a nine-track debut album, Places Remember Events, out October 30, 2026 on Dekmantel Records.
Boys Noize will release 7LLVSION, his first solo album in five years, on November 6 via his own label Ones and Zeros, arriving after he scored TRON: Ares and remixed Nine Inch Nails with Trent Reznor.
Queens producer BrokinPaper (Harrison Lee) released his industrial techno album "Function Over Form" on September 9, 2026, after Gucci booked him to DJ two of its own events and Timbaland publicly backed his music.
MALUM's "Bouncer" EP, out now on the revived Tellé Records, pairs a Perc Trax industrial-techno rework of the title track with a Mr. Ho remix that folds house, techno and breakbeat into the Bergen band's debut album.
Robert Hood and Radio Slave release their first-ever direct collaboration, "Radio Hood," as Rekids' 300th release and 20th-anniversary milestone on October 16, 2026, trading both artists' trademark minimalism for maximalist textures and sweeping synths.
Kompakt's Total 26, out physically September 22 and digitally September 25, 2026, compiles 16 tracks from Orlando Voorn, Michael Mayer, Kölsch, Robag Wruhme and Jürgen Paape into the label's latest flagship various-artists release.
Darren Cunningham's Radical Frame, his 11th album, landed on Ninja Tune on 18 September 2026 and earned a rare "Masterpiece" rating from DJ Mag.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kieran Hebden quietly released TEXT059 on his own Text Records on September 11, 2026: eight instrumental tracks pressed to a vinyl-only run of 2,000 copies, with every song title rendered in glyphs instead of words.
David Rodigan is overseeing House of Roots, a three-part Defected Records remix series in which Shy FX, Clipz and Prince Fatty rework house classics through dub, jungle and drum and bass between September 11 and October 23, 2026.
Amelie Lens released her debut album AURA on her own label EXHALE and premiered it live to 14,000 people at Antwerp's KMSKA museum square, the biggest event the historic plaza has ever hosted.
Manchester producer Andy Stott ends a five-year album silence with Late Loop, an eight-track record built without basslines, reverb or extra effects, out October 30 on Modern Love.
Steffi's fifth solo album, out Friday, October 9, 2026 on Dekmantel Records, comes as a 4-side 2xLP and digitally.
Manchester producer Josh Baker closed out his breakout year by releasing the four-track Breaking Point EP on his own YOU&ME label, under exclusive license to Three Six Zero Recordings, deliberately pairing a UK garage cut featuring grime MC Capo Lee against a classic deep-house feature from Anabel Englund.
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.
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.
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.
Chloé Caillet has released 'After Dark' on Ninja Tune, the fourth advance single off her EP 'Dance Again', out September 25.
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.
Jen Cardini and Shonky's 2006 minimal landmark 'August In Paris' returns digitally today with three new remixes, and the vinyl edition due September 11 lands on Cardini's own label, Correspondant, not Mobilee Records, the imprint that first released it.
Jlin and the Grammy-winning ensemble Third Coast Percussion release Vernacular on October 23 via Rockwell Records, an album pairing footwork with a Philip Glass arrangement and a David Longstreth composition.
Eris Drew and Octo Octa's debut album under their joint alias Alchemical Sisters, a self-titled double LP of hardware-driven acid house recorded in a New Hampshire cabin, arrives October 18 via Detroit's Interdimensional Transmissions.
Defected Records has released "Natural Blues (TECIE)," an official studio version of the viral Coachella 2026 duet between Moby and Gabriels frontman Jacob Lusk, built on Moby, BLOND:ISH and Kiko Franco's already chart-topping 2025 rework.
DJ Tennis and Life and Death newcomer M-High have released the three-mix single "Cold Hands," with DJ Tennis singing lead himself, as the label marks its 15th anniversary year.
Amelie Lens's only guest feature on her September debut album AURA is Belgian pop star Angele, and their single "run" arrived August 7 via Sony Music.
Stockholm producer Axel Boman has founded Blurry, a new label for music and visual-art experimentation, opening with "True Crime," his first collaboration with German producer Superpitcher, ahead of a full album on September 25.
Cloonee, the UK-born, LA-based tech house DJ, will release his debut album 'Are You Still You?', a 16-track project out October 6, 2026 via his own label Hellbent Records and Good Music For Bad People.
Pan-Pot have released the single 'Everytime' on their own HUMAN / Second State imprint, timed to a HUMAN label takeover of a truck-based stage at Rave The Planet Berlin on August 15.
Sam Shepherd's debut ballet score for San Francisco Ballet's "Mere Mortals", recorded with the company's orchestra, arrives as a 14-track Deutsche Grammophon album on August 28, with live dates at the Edinburgh Festival and Sadler's Wells this September.
Ela Minus and Nick León's first joint EP, "qué les pasó a mis amigos?", is out now via Smugglers Way, folding León's club-forward production into Minus's punk-electronic songwriting across three tracks about heartbreak, burnout and fractured friendship.
Berlin-based producer Palms Trax has released "Soft Trance, Hard Gossip," his first solo single since 2021, the lead track from a two-track EP due August 21 on fabric's in-house imprint fabric Originals.
Overmono release their second album, "Pure Devotion," on XL Recordings on August 7, an 11-track record built from re-amped tape, damaged speakers and guest turns from John Joseph Holt, Kindora, Ruthven and Rock Floyd.
HAAi's new single 'Ignition,' featuring Greek producer Echonomist, sets lyrics about growing up gay in a remote Western Australian mining town to a breaks track built for the club, ahead of her October 9 album 'DIGITiSE' on Mute.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bonobo's new single 'Fire on the Water', out now with a companion track 'Drift', started as an acoustic guitar loop he was using to check studio inputs before Arooj Aftab heard it and sang Urdu lyrics over it, and it's now the emotional center of his September album 'Distance In Static'.
Sasha and John Digweed's 1996 landmark "Northern Exposure" returns September 25 as "Northern Exposure Redux", remastered across its original two discs with a new dub bonus disc, but the closing Underworld track has been swapped out for a 2026 Darren Emerson remake.
Berlin techno producer Alexander Kowalski has launched his own label, Cycles Music, opening with the Live 2 EP, a hardware-built sequel to his 2000 Kanzleramt debut Live.
EMJIE'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.
Layton 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.
Berlin'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.
John 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.
John 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.
Parisian 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.
Solomun 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.
Session 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.
New 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.
Kieran 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.
DJ 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.
On 3 July 2026, Berlin producer Budakid put out his debut album, Dreams Stretched Beyond, on his own label Flores.
The 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'.
STL, 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.
The 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.
The 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.
StrataSonic 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.
The 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.
Bonobo 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.
Daley 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'.
Sonny 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.
Manchester 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.
South 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.
Roger 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.
Out 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.
Simon 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.
On 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.
Travis 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.
Leeds 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.
Sonicware's Deconstruct Minimal is a portable groovebox aimed squarely at hypnotic minimal and house, pairing a ten-track drum machine with an acid-leaning bass synth and shipping mid-June from 299 dollars.
Roger Sanchez released 'Spectrum' on 5 June 2026, his first studio album in two decades, and is taking it to Pacha Ibiza for 10 straight Saturdays.
Chris Stussy turned a singles-and-EPs subculture into a 19-track debut album on his own Up The Stuss, and the format choice, not the music, is the signal that deep-tech is professionalising.
Jimpster'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.
Tech 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."
