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.
Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs signed a multi-year deal on September 10, 2026 to build a fan-facing platform for licensed remixes and AI-cloned vocals, using only catalogue from artists who opt in.
A Berlin developer's fork of the open-source Gearmulator project turns Elektron's discontinued Monomachine and Machinedrum into free VST3 plugins, but the emulator only runs once you feed it ROM files dumped from hardware you actually own.
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.
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