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Siete Catorce Strips Back and Still Keeps Moving

Techno on In-Correcto and Discos Nutabe, built on rhythmic assumptions that European dancefloors have trained out of themselves.

Siete Catorce Comes From a Scene That Never Asked Europe for Permission

El Valle, on In-Correcto and Discos Nutabe, is techno built on a different set of rhythmic defaults, and it travels anyway.

How to Read a Ticket Page Before You Pay

Passports, golden passes, final releases and VIP tiers. The words are marketing. The terms underneath are what you are actually buying.

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.

Jeff Mills on Science Fiction, Art and the Discipline of Techno

Mixmag’s long-form conversation with Jeff Mills explored an artist whose interests reach far outside a conventional DJ career. The conversation is useful…

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The Pitch Fader Came Back, and It Is Not Nostalgia

The most discussed DJ hardware of the year competes on physical control rather than screens. That says something about where playing records is going.

Mr Beatnick Keeps the Samples Light

A sample-led record on Tartelet that moves towards techno without ever getting heavy about it.

Shelley Parker Makes Dissonance Feel Deliberate

Screed, on Sneaker Social Club, is bold enough to risk the label's own audience, and keeps sound-system weight while doing it.

Why Festival Dates Keep Sending People to the Wrong City

A four-day festival listed by its opening night becomes a one-day event everywhere else. A small, fixable problem that costs real money.

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.

Push Without the Laptop Gets Closer

Live 12.4 lets you build controller mappings on the hardware and switch off the scripts that fight with it.

nthng Moves Between Tempos Without Announcing It

An hour on Topo2 that treats tempo as a texture rather than a genre marker.

Barnt Still Refuses to Make the Obvious Record

After Completing the Hex, on Magazine, is techno written as a structure rather than as a sequence of peaks.

The Night Economy Finally Has Numbers

A first international index built from tens of thousands of events gives club culture something it has never had in a licensing meeting: evidence.

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.

Wireless Audio Arrives in the Booth, Carefully

A club mixer now has a transmitter built in. Here is where that genuinely helps, and where a cable still wins.

Jon Hassell's Last Concert, Reworked

The third Pentimento volume arrives on Ndeya, assembled from the final performance.

The Engineer Is the Author: Marta Salogni and the Tape Machine

One of the most sought-after studio minds of her generation closes Transmissions XVIII with work made on a medium that fights back.

The Part of the Festival Nobody Photographs

Four consecutive years of daytime conversation at Teatro Regio, and a free training programme for young curators. This is what separates a festival from a line-up.

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.

Stem Separation Became Normal, and Nobody Discussed What That Means

Pulling a vocal out of a finished record is now an editing step. The technical problem is solved. The taste problem and the rights problem are not.

The Infiniti Catalogue Comes Back Whole

Tresor's remastered and expanded edition restores a track the original album was missing.

Iggor Cavalera's Second Life Behind the Machines

A drummer formed in extreme metal has spent years rebuilding himself around electronics, and he is not doing it as a novelty.

What Is Actually Confirmed for 2027

Three festivals have published their own dates. Everything else circulating is a guess, and some of those guesses will cost somebody a flight.

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.

Move Grew Up: Four Tracks, Real Recording, Effects on the Way In

Ableton's cheapest hardware becomes a four-track recorder and a performance effects box in the same update.

Acid, Played Straight, With No Irony

A-Eno-Acid builds from late-eighties Chicago vocabulary on Chicago Bee, and treats old machines as current technology.

Kevin Richard Martin Takes the Heaviest Music He Has Into a Theatre

Sub Zero, with Radwan Ghazi Moumneh and Frédéric D. Oberland, opens Transmissions XVIII in a room designed for listening rather than dancing.

Five Days in a Forest

The Amsterdamse Bos shapes everything about Dekmantel, including the kind of sets that work there. The 2027 edition runs 29 July to 2 August.

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 mixer.

The Free Ableton Update That Removes a Box From Your Studio

Link Audio streams sound between machines on a local network. Everything else in 12.4 is useful; this one changes setups.

Barnt Writes an Album, Not a Set of Tools

Concept-led techno on Magazine, structured for the second listen rather than the first drop.

Holy Tongue Keep Pulling Dub Somewhere It Has Not Been

Electric guitar and post-punk edges enter the trio's played, unsteady dub on a new album for AD93, and nothing falls apart.

Three Days Inside a Steelworks

Parco Dora is the real headliner at Turin's July festival. Passes for 2027 are already on sale, with no names attached.

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.

Sixteen Tracks on Screen: What the CDJ-3000X Is Really Solving

The club standard gets a bigger display, WiFi and USB-C, and admits that browsing is now harder than mixing.

Holy Tongue Add a Guitar and Keep the Groove

The trio's played dub takes on post-punk edges for AD93, and the hypnosis survives.

Seven Hours Is an Argument, and Theo Parrish Is Making It in Turin

A Detroit selector gets a whole night at C2C. The long set is the format that separates a DJ from a playlist, and it is disappearing everywhere else.

Three Nights in a Theatre, and Why That Changes the Music

Ravenna's festival puts dub, drone and heavy electronics in a seated room, and builds the whole thing around a king who died fifteen centuries ago.

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.

The Fourth EQ Band Is the Reason to Look at the DJM-V5

AlphaTheta's three-channel mixer keeps the flagship's signal path and adds a filter that stops transitions from collapsing.

Two Hours of Patience From Loidis

Twelve tracks on Incienso, built on the idea that repetition only pays off if you let it run.

Loidis Makes Music for Two Hours, Not Two Minutes

Twelve tracks and close to two hours on Incienso, built on the patience that dubbed-out house was invented for.

The Festival That Treats a City as Its Venue

Twenty-five years in, C2C still refuses the single-site model. Four days, eight rooms and a Sunday that behaves like a club night.

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 the way it was built.

The New Technics Flagship Is Really About One Control

A heavier chassis and new feet solve the booth's oldest problem. The pitch fader is what changes how you play.

Andy Stott Puts a Voice on Top of the Damage

Late Loop arrives on Modern Love, and the human element sits above the corrosion rather than inside it.

Andy Stott Has Spent Twenty Years Making Decay Sound Beautiful

A new album on Modern Love puts voice at the front of music built from tape damage, sagging tempos and bass that arrives late.

How to Survive a City That Turns Into a Festival

ADE 2027 runs 20 to 24 October. After five days spent crossing Amsterdam at the wrong hours, here is what we would do differently.

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 an industry.

Tresor Reissues the Infiniti Collection With the Track the Original Missed

Juan Atkins' Infiniti catalogue returns remastered and expanded, and this time 'Game One' is where it belongs.

Dekmantel Sets Its 2027 Festival for the Last Days of July

The Amsterdamse Bos returns as the festival's home from 29 July to 2 August 2027, with tickets out before the line-up.

Kappa FuturFestival Puts 2027 Passes on Sale Eight Months Early

Turin's Parco Dora festival returns 2–4 July 2027, with three-day passes released long before a single name is announced.

Transmissions XVIII Builds a Festival Around the Ghost of a King

Ravenna's experimental festival takes the 1500th anniversary of Theodoric's death as its starting point for three nights of dub, drone and electronics.

Ableton Live 12.4 Adds Link Audio and Turns Move Into a Four-Track Recorder

A free update for Live 12 owners that quietly changes what the cheapest Ableton hardware can do.

AlphaTheta Puts the V10 Sound Into Three Channels With the DJM-V5

Four-band EQ, Send FX and a wireless transmitter, in a mixer sized for booths that never had room for a six-channel flagship.

Technics Announces the SL-1210MKX, a New Flagship Built for Club Booths

A heavier chassis, new isolation feet and a pitch fader that now stretches from a surgical ±4 percent to a wild ±50 percent.

C2C Turns 25 and Spreads Across Eight Venues in Turin

From the OGR to a theatre matinée and a citywide Sunday, Club To Club marks a quarter of a century by refusing to behave like a single-site festival.

Berlin's Club Study: 39 Percent of Venues Are Now Running at a Loss

The Clubcommission surveyed 102 Berlin clubs. The picture that comes back is not a dying scene, but one whose economics have quietly inverted.

ADE Closes Its 30th Edition With Nearly 4,000 Artists Across Amsterdam

Five days, more than 300 venues and a city that turns into a conference floor. The 30th Amsterdam Dance Event has ended, and the 2027 dates are already set.

Daft Punk’s Alive Pyramid Is Heading Into the LEGO Universe

An official partnership will develop a LEGO set inspired by the duo’s Alive 2007 stage, alongside further projects.

Serato Brings Its DJ Platform to iPhone and iPad

The new iOS application extends Serato’s established workflow to portable devices, including stems and supported external hardware.

Dino Sabatini and Luigi Tozzi Release XAMAN, Eight Connected Movements

Outis Opera Series’ new record moves through eight pieces designed to reward attentive, uninterrupted listening.

Ogazón’s New Label Opens With Deano’s Four-Track Reasons EP

A self-titled imprint turns a DJ’s long-standing enthusiasm for dubplates into a public record label.

Silva Bumpa and Rossi. Give Their A.B.C. Project a First Original Single

“PEOPLE IN THE PLACE” puts the pair’s collaborative name on an original release after months of shared sets and teasing IDs.

Leaving Records Opens All Genre, a Different Kind of Listening Space

The independent label has launched a free web platform linking its catalogue, always-on radio and community tools.

A Survey Finds Nearly Half of US Gen Z Hold Back From Dancing

A US survey has put a number on a familiar dancefloor anxiety: being filmed and posted online without choosing to participate.

The Dancefloor Is Not a Content Studio

A renewed discussion about filming, loud conversations and dancefloor etiquette asks what people expect from a night out.

Berlin’s New Club 119 Builds on a Counterculture Address

A new venue is opening on Storkower Straße in a space long associated with Berlin’s alternative youth and music scenes.

Mtkvarze Faces Closure as Tbilisi Loses Another Cultural Anchor

After 14 years on Tbilisi’s electronic music map, Mtkvarze says the sale of its building has left the club with only a few nights remaining.