If it’s a sidequest you desire, a sidequest you shall receive.  In an era of electronic music festivals competing to be the most eye-catching on the planet, Lightning in a Bottle (LIB) looks inward, offering attendees far more than its commercial counterparts ever could. At LIB, music is only the entry point. Beneath the festival’s […]

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Portola just dropped its 2026 lineup. Goldenvoice’s two-night wharf rave returns to San Francisco’s Pier 80 for its fifth edition on September 26-27, bringing another eclectic cast of major dance names, underground favorites, and alternative acts to the 60-acre warehouse site directly on the San Francisco Bay. This year’s bill unearths headline performances from Skrillex […]

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For more than two decades, Tomorrowland’s elusive mastermind Michiel Beers has maintained a strict “no photos, no videos, no interviews” policy, seamlessly blending into his own festival crowds completely unrecognized. However, in a rare and deeply revealing live recording for the Dutch music podcast De Machine at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels, Beers broke his […]

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If you ever fancied a mixer that treated rotary controls like an ex who still had your hoodie, this one was for you. Once again, we did deep into that...

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YouTube has quietly redrawn the rules on how artificial intelligence gets flagged on the world’s biggest video platform, and if you make a living from moving image, you should be...

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Klevgrand’s Altitude feels like one of those vocal plugins that is aiming at a pretty specific problem, which is that vocals can be the most expressive thing in a session and still end up getting treated with the same predictable chain every time. Tuning, compression, EQ, delay, reverb, maybe a doubler, maybe a harmony tool, [...]

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Above Photo Cred: Cercle (taken from Ben Böhmer’s set, linked below) Melodic house has become one of the best entry points into modern dance music because it can accompany you through a wide range of situations and spaces (and, dare I say, even vibes). You can put them on during a long drive, a work [...]

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Audio Damage Traverse feels like one of those plugins that starts with a simple promise and then gets a lot weirder once you sit with the details. On paper, it is a cassette effect and a stereo delay in one plugin. In use, the appeal seems to be how quickly it can turn a clean [...]

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Reverse Osmosis’ Unable Unstable is one of those releases where the first few minutes tell you exactly what kind of space the producer wants to operate in. It is dark, direct, and built around long-form techno movement, with tracks that stretch out long enough for the details to start doing the real work. The album [...]

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I love it when an audio plugin invites experimentation the second you load it up. You throw it on a drum loop, tweak a couple knobs, and suddenly your clean groove sounds like it’s floating through deep space.  BLEASS Spectral Resonator falls does a great job with this, but it also does a whole lot more. [...]

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