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What happened this week, with the figures and the official source behind each one.
NewsTresor 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.
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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 mixer.
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 the way it was built.
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.