Steffi Named Her New Album After Half an Ecstasy Pill. The Rave Was Always the Point.
Steffi's fifth solo album, out Friday, October 9, 2026 on Dekmantel Records, comes as a 4-side 2xLP and digitally.
Marco R. · 5 min read
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Andy Stott Went Quiet for Five Years. He Came Back by Cutting Almost Everything Out.
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.
Garage Bars, Dream-Pop Vocals, a Deep-House Diva: Josh Baker Bets One EP Can Hold Them All
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.
Marco R. · 5 min read
Ultra Naté Topped the Charts in 1997. She's Doing It Again, Twenty-Nine Years Later.
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."
Marco R. · 4 min read
Maceo Plex Just Made His Rekids Debut. It Only Took Him Three Decades to Get There.
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.
Marco R. · 5 min read
Everyone Already Knew This Track. Now It Finally Has a Home.
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.
Marco R. · 5 min read
In Moll Went Without Its Fourth Track for 25 Years. Now It's Finally on Vinyl.
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.
Nikolai V. · 4 min read
Chloé Caillet Headlines Creamfields This Weekend. Her New Single Says She's Still Just a Raver.
Chloé Caillet has released 'After Dark' on Ninja Tune, the fourth advance single off her EP 'Dance Again', out September 25.
Marco R. · 4 min read
fabric Just Broke a 20-Year Silence on Broken Beat. Only 100 People Get It on Vinyl.
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.
Marco R. · 5 min read
Jen Cardini Just Reclaimed Her Own Classic. 'August In Paris' Turns 20, But Not on Mobilee
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.
Nikolai V. · 4 min read
Jlin Came Up Making Footwork in Gary, Indiana. Now Philip Glass Is on Her Album.
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.
Marco R. · 5 min read
Eris Drew and Octo Octa Have Always Played as Two. Their First Album Makes Them One.
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Everyone Filmed Moby and Jacob Lusk's Coachella Duet. Defected Turned It Into a Single.
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
DJ Tennis Runs Life and Death. He Almost Never Sings on It. At 15, He Finally Does.
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Amelie Lens's Debut Album Has One Feature. She Gave It to a Pop Star, Not a Techno Name.
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Axel Boman Hiked Three Days to a Swedish Glacier. He Came Back With a New Label.
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
After a Decade of Singles, Cloonee Is Finally Making the Album Tech House Told Him He Didn't Need
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Pan-Pot Are Bringing a Truck to the Streets of Berlin. Their Label Is Riding Shotgun.
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Floating Points Wrote His First Ballet Score. Deutsche Grammophon Is Releasing It.
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.
Marco R. · 5 min read
Ela Minus and Nick León Made a Breakup Record. Nobody Broke Up.
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.
Marco R. · 5 min read
Palms Trax Went Quiet for Five Years. He Broke the Silence on fabric.
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Overmono Took a Sledgehammer to Their Own Sound. Pure Devotion Is What Survived.
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.
Marco R. · 5 min read
HAAi's New Single Is About Being Gay in a Small Town. It Doesn't Sound Like a Confession.
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Ricardo Villalobos Isn't Streaming His New Single. He's Pressing It.
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.
Nikolai V. · 4 min read
Launaea's Adai Doesn't Chase the Dancefloor. It Chases Your Head.
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.
Marco R. · 3 min read
Five Years of Silence. Lee Burridge Breaks It With an 8-Minute Track Called Fading Out.
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
HoneyLuv Took a 2001 R&B Slow Jam and Turned It Into a Peak-Time House Cut
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.
Marco R. · 3 min read
Michael Bibi Built a Tech House Track Around the Nokia Ringtone Everyone Thought They'd Forgotten
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.
Marco R. · 3 min read
Bonobo Was Just Testing His Microphones. Then the Take Became the Heart of His New Album.
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'.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Sasha & Digweed Are Reissuing Their Most Sacred Mix. They Also Quietly Cut Underworld From It.
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.
Marco R. · 5 min read
Alexander Kowalski Waited 26 Years to Make a Sequel. He Built Himself a Label to Release It.
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.
Marco R. · 5 min read
EMJIE Didn't Chase a Chart. Her Track With LP Giobbi Just Crossed Half a Million Streams Anyway.
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.
Marco R. · 3 min read
A 1992 Rave Vocal Just Landed Back on Drumcode, Wearing Layton Giordani's Name
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.
Marco R. · 3 min read
Chicago House and Berlin Minimal Just Signed a Truce. It's Called Infinite Sequence.
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Laurel Halo Just Made a Tech-House Record. On John Tejada's Label, Turning 30.
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Twilo Closed in 2001. Digweed Just Spent Five Hours Proving It Never Really Died.
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Deep-Tech Doesn't Have to Sound Cold. This Paris Duo Just Proved It.
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Solomun Crossed Into Skrillex's World. Is That a Bridge or a Betrayal?
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Kenneth Scott, Rossano Snel and Quarion Walked Into Session Victim's Studio. Five Tracks Walked Out.
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
246 Million People Speak Urdu. Dance Music Almost Never Does, Until ZAINAB's New EP
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Four Tet's New Album Has No Name You Can Type. That Is the Whole Point.
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Life And Death Turns 15, and DJ Tennis Put His Own Name Back on It.
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Twelve Years of EPs, and Budakid Finally Made the Album on His Own Terms.
On 3 July 2026, Berlin producer Budakid put out his debut album, Dreams Stretched Beyond, on his own label Flores.
Marco R. · 3 min read
Peder Mannerfelt takes his weirder club instincts to Clasico Records with 'Iguana Aura'
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'.
Marco R. · 4 min read
STL drops a 16-track triple album on clear vinyl, all on his own Something label
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Acid Arab's Resonance Builds a Pan-Arab Dancefloor From Acid, House and 16 Voices
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.
Marco R. · 5 min read
Nikki Nair Joins George Daniel's dh2 and Goes Digging for Old House on The Sick Dimension
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Villalobos and Skee Mask Remix Galcher Lustwerk on One Package, and the Casting Is the Story
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Fluke Are Back: 'The Second Bite' Rebuilds Their Catalogue, with Daniel Avery on Remix Duty
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Bonobo announces new album Distance In Static, led by club-facing single 'Me and You', and hints it may be his last in this form
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.
Marco R. · 5 min read
Hot Since 82 returns with 'Obsessions', his first album in six years, led by a 'Sound of Eden' rework
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'.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Sonny Fodera turned five years and eight singles into one 18-track vocal-house album
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
salute turns his no-phones club night into a mixtape, 'infinite passion', and drops 'check check' to open it
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
DESIREE and Emmanuel Jal turn a village courtship song into Afro house on Ninja Tune
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Roger Sanchez breaks a 20-year album silence with 'Spectrum'
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
DJ Seinfeld trades lo-fi house for trance and garage on his third album 'If This Is It'
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Bonobo announces 'Distance In Static' for September, leading with a club-built single, 'Me and You'
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.
Nicky V. · 3 min read
Ewan McVicar made Scotland a World Cup anthem that is a proper dance record
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Machinedrum Takes BL00MS In-House, Reviving IAMSIAM After 13 Years on Ninja Tune
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Prospa's debut album 'Free Your Mind' is CircoLoco Records' first-ever LP
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.
Marco R. · 3 min read
A 299-dollar groovebox built only for minimal: inside Sonicware's Deconstruct
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.
Marco R. · 5 min read
Roger Sanchez breaks a 20-year album silence with 'Spectrum' and a 10-week Pacha run
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Chris Stussy made a 19-track album. That is the deep-tech scene growing up.
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Freerange Opens Its 30th Birthday With Volume One: 30 Artists, Five EPs, One Boxset
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.
Marco R. · 4 min read
Mau P bets on himself: Baddest Behaviour Records, a debut album and a 'Radiohead for dance music' play
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."
Marco R. · 4 min read