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Tresor Puts the Missing Track Back Into Juan Atkins’ Infiniti

A remastered and expanded edition restores 'Game One' to a catalogue that helped build the bridge between Detroit and Berlin.

Dekmantel Books the End of July for 2027

Five days in the Amsterdamse Bos, from 29 July to 2 August, with tickets out early and the programme still to come.

Kappa FuturFestival Sells 2027 Passes Before Announcing a Single Name

Three days at Parco Dora next July, with passes from €180 released eight months ahead of the line-up. A bet, and a reasonable one.

Transmissions Builds Three Nights Around a Dead King

Ravenna's festival takes the 1500th anniversary of Theodoric's death as its frame, and puts heavy electronic music inside a theatre where the silences register.

Ableton Gives Away the Update That Changes Small Studios

Link Audio streams sound between machines on a local network, and Move quietly becomes a four-track recorder. Both arrive free for Live 12 owners.

AlphaTheta Shrinks Its Flagship Into Three Channels

The DJM-V5 keeps the four-band EQ and Send FX of the six-channel V10, adds a filter that protects the low end, and puts wireless audio in a club…

Technics Builds a New Flagship, and Puts Two Very Different Pitch Ranges on It

The SL-1210MKX arrives in January with a heavier chassis, new isolation feet and a fader that covers both surgical correction and total distortion of tempo.

C2C Turns Twenty-Five by Refusing to Behave Like a Festival

Four days, eight venues, a theatre matinée and a seven-hour set. Turin's festival marks a quarter of a century by spreading out instead of scaling up.

Two in Five Berlin Clubs Are Losing Money, and the Bar Is No Longer Paying the Rent

A survey of 102 venues describes a scene that is not dying so much as inverting: fewer drinks, more tickets, and a business model that no longer works…

ADE Closed Its Thirtieth Edition With a City Full of Artists and a New Set of Numbers

Five days, more than three hundred venues and close to four thousand performing artists. The anniversary edition also produced the first serious attempt to measure night culture as…