Strategic Move Solidifies Create’s Position as Electronic Music’s Most Aggressive Consolidator Create Music Group has officially taken a minority stake in DistroKid, marking another significant power play in what has become an unprecedented consolidation spree across the electronic music landscape. The investment, confirmed by Create CEO and co-founder Jonathan Strauss in late October, represents the […]

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Chilean producer Diego Miranda (CH) is back with “Love Odyssey,” his latest progressive house single, released October 30 through Magnetic Magazine Recordings. The record arrives as MMR083 and continues a productive year that has seen Miranda release music across progressive house, melodic house, organic house, and downtempo, including recent appearances on Take Away, Boys & [...]

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Some spiritual language can flatten a record before anyone gets to the song. It gets too abstract, too soft around the edges, and suddenly the music starts sounding like it exists to explain an idea instead of making you feel one. Starry Venus’ “Do You Feel It” uses a lot of language around energy, embodiment, [...]

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I think one of the more difficult parts of producing music is knowing when to ask somebody for help and when you need to figure something out yourself. There are plenty of technical problems that another producer, mixing engineer, or mastering engineer might solve in a fraction of the time it would take you, and [...]

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Goa-based producer Varun Fernandes has returned with Stronger, a three-track EP released October 23 through Pumproom Records that brings together several different sides of his production style. Moving from the deeper house influences of “Taken” into the progressive arrangements of “Surface” before finishing with the more club-oriented title track, the EP reflects Fernandes’ experience working [...]

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I think one of the most valuable things an experienced producer can teach somebody is how to approach a problem they haven’t encountered before. Plenty of tutorials explain how to program drums, work with samples, or get a particular synthesizer to behave the way you want it to, but knowing which buttons to press doesn’t [...]

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Wavey Garms has spent more than a decade connecting London’s underground music and streetwear communities, building a business around vintage clothing, rave culture, and the relationships among the people who participate in those scenes. Now the brand is taking another step into music with the launch of Area Records, a new record label from founder [...]

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MYLAMINE has returned to Electronic Brew Records with “Kessi,” a new deep house single released October 30 that continues his interest in jazz-influenced harmony, soulful vocals, and the relationship between acoustic musical ideas and electronic percussion. The track follows a consistent run of releases over the past two years, including “Setting Sun,” “Kindred Soul,” “Gravity,” [...]

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Belgian DJ and producer Kenn Colt has spent much of his career finding ways to connect the melodic, accessible side of dance music with the records he wants to play in clubs. That balance has taken him from Tomorrowland and Ultra Music Festival Korea to an extensive residency at Belgium’s Club Versuz, and it continues [...]

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Festival Founder Commits to Relocation Following Community Feedback The electronic music community witnessed a significant moment of reckoning this week when GRiZ, one of dubstep and bass music’s most respected figures, announced that his annual Seven Stars Festival would enter a temporary hiatus while the organization searches for a new venue. The decision comes after […]

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