Christian Hornbostel (@christianhornbostel) has never sounded especially interested in chasing the loudest part of the room. That is part of what makes “Eridanus” feel right for Magnetic Magazine Recordings. The track works with patience, letting its synth programming, harmonic detail, and gradual modulation carry the arrangement rather than relying on oversized transitions every 16 bars. [...]

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Decadence Colorado just finalized its 2026 lineup. The nation’s largest New Year’s rave is back at Denver’s Colorado Convention Center on December 30-31, hooking up mile-high ravers with a cross-genre roster of 23 performances from the EDM scene’s biggest stars. This year, the oft-dubbed “bass capital” will play host to major dubstep acts like GRiZ, […]

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ARC Music Festival just announced its massive run of city-wide afterparties. When the mammoth house and techno festival returns to Chicago’s Union Park on Labor Day weekend, ARC After Dark will keep the party pumping with nightly afters at 10 venues across the city from September 3-7. The run opens with late-night takeovers from Sara […]

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WAKAAN Music Festival returns to Arkansas' Mulberry Mountain October 1-3, 2026 with Liquid Stranger, Flux Pavilion, Doctor P, and a stacked bass lineup.

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Wakaan's esteemed founder is poised for a pair of unique sets at the festival, which will also feature Flux Pavilion, Getter and Whethan, among others.

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Sennheiser is taking the newest MOMENTUM line smaller with the MOMENTUM True Wireless 5. The new true-wireless earbuds are built as the compact counterpart to the MOMENTUM 5 Wireless headphones, bringing the series’ sound, noise cancellation, connectivity, spatial audio, and personalization features into a redesigned earbud format. They begin shipping September 3 through Sennheiser and [...]

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SoDown is taking the next phase of his project across North America with the newly announced “Scenes of Consciousness” Tour, a run of more than 20 dates spanning the United States and Canada. Kicking off August 21 in Nashville, the tour will combine headline dates, festival appearances, and shows alongside a wide-ranging cast of artists [...]

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FM synthesis has never lacked power. It has lacked patience from the people trying to learn it. The sound can be glassy, metallic, percussive, strange, emotional, and almost impossible to fake with subtractive synths, but the workflow has scared off plenty of musicians who do not want to spend the first hour of a writing [...]

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Deadlynoiz’s “Disco Weapon” is out now via LVLD Music, and the title gets the point across fast. This is bass house built with the room in mind. The low end hits hard, the groove keeps pushing, and the whole thing has that slightly ridiculous club confidence that makes the title feel earned. It is not [...]

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Spotify is making playlists a little more personal. The streaming platform has launched Playlist Notes, a new feature that allows its editorial team to add written context to individual tracks inside select playlists. At the same time, Spotify is introducing Editor Profiles, giving listeners a closer look at the people behind some of the platform’s […]

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