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After the close of the festival’s 27th edition, MUTEK Montréal is taking local electronic and digital talent well beyond their Canadian borders with an ambitious international tour featuring 32 artists and creators and more than 80 dates across several cities and territories beginning this fall.  Driven by a commitment to supporting artist mobility and bringing... Read more »

With ‘Mother Nature,’ Solee taps into the deeper, more melodic side of progressive house, building the track around a memorable lead that gradually becomes its defining feature. A steady, driving groove sets the foundation, while the melody gives the production its emotional pull, moving between moments of tension and release without ever losing its momentum.... Read more »

The I AM YOUniverse expands with Deer Jade’s ‘Take Me To,’ a fun, bouncy house track built to light up dancefloors from the first drop. Tasteful trumpets and a funky bassline set the pace, while disco-dusted rhythms and house-rooted production build into a track that’s impossible to sit still to. It’s warm, it’s high energy,... Read more »

There is a certain kind of artist shaped not by spotlight but by rooms, records, and the quiet graft behind the counter. Across Leeds in the early 2000s, through long nights, long shifts, and longer record hunts, Ste Roberts found the foundations of a sound that still mutates two decades on.  His story moves through... Read more »

Medlar has spent the last decade quietly shaping his own corner of house music, drifting between UK and US traditions, folding in disco, jazz, broken rhythms and the kind of emotional honesty that’s been there since his earliest productions. From illegal raves in the Southwest to a new life in the Caribbean, his work has... Read more »

Groove Motive welcomes Dillon Marinez with ‘The Growler’ EP, a two-track release that draws on the bass-driven foundations at the heart of his sound. Shaped by a background steeped in funk, reggae, and reggaeton, Marinez brings a natural sense of rhythm and movement to his take on house music. The title track leads with a... Read more »

Steve Lawler, one of the UK’s most enduring and influential underground house artists, makes his debut on Ulu Records with new single, ‘Away.’ For more than three decades, Lawler has been a defining presence in the underground house scene, building a career around an instinctive understanding of the dancefloor and an uncompromising commitment to the... Read more »

Since its first edition in 2016, SXM has built a reputation around something difficult to recreate anywhere else: an entire island becoming part of the festival. There is no single festival site. Over five days, guests move between beaches, villas, clubs, hilltops and unexpected locations across both the French and Dutch sides of St. Martin... Read more »

There’s something particularly appealing about a producer using a record to map out the different corners of their musical identity. That’s exactly what Alessio Collina set out to do on ‘Shades of Me’ E.P., his latest release for Trend Records Limited, and, by his own description, one of his most personal works to date. Across... Read more »

From his early days DJing in Frankfurt to his experiences in New York, Berlin, and beyond, Roland Leesker has spent decades exploring the connections between House, Acid, Electro, and Detroit-influenced music. His career has been shaped by record shops, international collaborations and a lasting commitment to musical discovery. In his latest release on Definitive Recordings,... Read more »