How the electronic scene found its way to fight back against AI
Instead of signing petitions, a group of producers started sabotaging the models from the inside: inaudible adversarial noise that makes the AIs trying to train on their music collapse. The question is no longer whether the machine can copy, but who gets to decide.
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Ambient as refuge: why the slowest music is also the most political
Forty years after his foundational work, Venetian artist Gigi Masin releases on Sacred Bones and reopens an uncomfortable question: in a culture of acceleration and infinite scroll, choosing slowness and the human might be the most radical gesture of all.
How the electronic scene found its way to fight back against AI
Instead of signing petitions, a group of producers started sabotaging the models from the inside: inaudible adversarial noise that makes the AIs trying to train on their music collapse. The question is no longer whether the machine can copy, but who gets to decide.
Boards of Canada return with Inferno and turn silence into a method
Thirteen years after Tomorrow's Harvest, the Scottish duo reappears on Warp with an album announced through VHS tapes and a listening session in Tokyo. In the age of infinite content, their bet runs the other way: less, stranger, slower.
Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai: why the future of techno is being written in the east
While Europe debates the crisis of its clubs, Asia is building a scene of its own — with identity, legendary rooms and a generation that no longer looks to Berlin as the model. K-techno, Tokyo's underground and a new China are setting the pulse.
Hacking the instrument: production's counterculture rebels against the closed box
A PlayStation Vita turned into a groovebox, unauthorized access to the Ableton Push, thirty-year-old plugins given away for free: 2026 confirms that the liveliest part of production isn't in the official releases, but in those who pry the machines open by force.
The drum machines that flopped in the store and founded entire genres
808 Day reignited the cult of the TR-808, and an interview rescued the Japanese engineer behind the TR-909. Two machines Roland gave up for dead ended up defining hip-hop, house and techno. Their story is the story of all electronic music.
The new CDJ lets the crowd request tracks: democracy, or the end of taste?
AlphaTheta launched a player with cloud streaming and real-time crowd requests. The feature sounds harmless, but it touches the most sensitive nerve in club culture: what's left of the DJ as author when the floor gets to vote.
Science is starting to take seriously what the dancefloor knew for decades
A study conducted at Drumsheds suggests that moving to the rhythm of electronic music may help regulate the nervous system. Between sound saunas and conscious clubbing, 2026 proposes seeing the party not as excess, but as health.
The industry is worth US$ 15.1 billion, but the question is who bankrolls the newcomer
The IMS report's record coexists with a live sector battered by venue closures and a wave of platforms promising to fund independent labels and artists. Behind the figures lies a fight over who holds up the base of the pyramid.
Guaracha, raptor house and neoperreo: the vanguard of the dancefloor no longer speaks English
Beatport created a whole category — Latin Electronic — to name what the scene had been saying for a while: the sounds born in Caracas, Bogotá and Mexico City stopped being exotic and became the center of the global dancefloor.