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Review – Balance Croatia 2026: Four Days of Progressive Heat at The Garden

Event Reviews FeaturedAugust 21, 2026August 21, 2026

Taking place over four days at The Garden Resort in Tisno, Balance Croatia returned for its second year, and if year one set the bar, year two came in and…

Stop Letting Entitled Residents Destroy Our Nightlife Cities

Feature Articles FeaturedAugust 20, 2026August 20, 2026

There is a particular kind of audacious idiot that belongs to those who move into the heart of a city, drawn by its energy, its edge, and its reputation, and…

Throwback Thursday: The X-Mix Series, Stud!o K7’s Ten-Volume Document of a Scene in Motion

Featured Throwback ThursdaysAugust 20, 2026August 20, 2026

There are mix series and then there are artefacts. The X-Mix series, released between 1993 and 1998 on the Berlin-based Stud!o K7 label, belongs firmly in the second category. Alongside…

Technics Celebrates 55 Years of the SL-1200 Series with a New Limited Anniversary Edition

Featured NewsAugust 18, 2026August 18, 2026

Technics announces the forthcoming launch of the SL-1200 55th Anniversary Edition, a new special edition turntable created to celebrate 55 years of the iconic SL-1200 Series. Scheduled for global release…

Beatport Bars AI-Generated Tracks While Keeping The Door Open For AI-Assisted Ones

Featured Music IndustryAugust 14, 2026August 14, 2026

Beatport has become the latest platform to draw a line on AI-generated music, expanding its partnership with the fraud detection firm Beatdapp to identify machine-made tracks before they reach the…

fabric Records Announce Broken Beat Compilation

Featured Music PremieresAugust 13, 2026August 17, 2026

FABRICLIVE SELECTS VIII by Various Artists fabric Records returns to broken beat and bruk with ‘SELECTS VIII’, the latest edition of its curator-led compilation series and the label’s first release…

From Detroit Techno to Belgian New Beat: 12 More Electronic Music Documentaries

Featured Music IndustryAugust 6, 2026August 6, 2026

Last summer we rounded up twelve electronic music documentaries and you asked for more, so here we are again. There is no shortage of this stuff now. Barely a month…

So You Want to Be a Promoter? We Spoke to 4 Industry Veterans

Feature Articles FeaturedAugust 3, 2026August 3, 2026

Four veteran promoters, Mark Doyle of Hed Kandi, Nick Ferguson of Godskitchen and One More Time Ibiza, Tim Andresen of Culture Box and Trace Mark Harris of Smartie Partie, on…

Dave Angel Announces Definitive New ‘A Time And Place’ Album

Featured Music PremieresJuly 31, 2026July 31, 2026

A Time And Place by Dave Angel British electronic music pioneer Dave Angel announces his most personal and accomplished album to date, ‘A Time And Place’, with the unveiling of…

Decoded Magazine Turns 12: A Dozen Years of Independent Music Journalism

Featured NewsJuly 29, 2026July 29, 2026

Right then. Twelve years. Decoded Magazine turns 12 this week, or 13 if you count our earlier life as This Is Progressive, which a few of you always will. Either…

Warp Records reissues Aphex Twin’s Drukqs – 25 years since its original release

Featured Music PremieresJuly 28, 2026July 29, 2026

Drukqs by Aphex Twin There are records that arrive quietly and records that stay with people. Drukqs falls into the second group. When Richard D. James released it in 2001,…

Darren Emerson Rebuilds Dark & Long (Dark Train) For 2026

Featured Music PremieresJuly 24, 2026July 24, 2026

DARREN EMERSON · DARREN EMERSON -DARK AND LONG (DARK TRAIN )- [2026 REMAKE]- DETONE Darren Emerson has gone back to Dark & Long, the track he had a hand in…

SASHA & JOHN DIGWEED – Northern Exposure Redux available on streaming platforms for the first time alongside new deluxe CD and vinyl editions

Featured NewsJuly 22, 2026July 22, 2026

“Simply put, it’s unlikely we’ll encounter a mix that leaves a cultural footprint and defines the sound of a generation quite like Northern Exposure again. Both mixes are absolutely 100% astoundingly…