Decoded Magazine

A year after ending a five-year absence from Australian shores, Gilles Peterson returns this November, and this time Sydney gets something a little different. On [DATE], the broadcaster, Brownswood Recordings boss and lifelong crate digger brings Liner Notes: Tales from Down Under to The Vanguard in Newtown for one night only. This is a seated evening rather than a club night.

For a plugin to earn a place in my everyday setup, it needs to solve a problem my existing tools don't, or offer a better way of approaching it. Kreuzberg Audio 's STAFFEL makes an interesting case for itself, although understanding where it fits takes some experimentation. Its central idea is a staged handover between two filters. Rather than simply crossfading their outputs, STAFFEL transfers processing section by section, creating intermediate responses along the way.

If you have never heard Leftfield's Leftism, you have probably heard bits of it without knowing. A bassline in a film trailer, a vocal snatched for a TV advert, a breakdown your mate's older brother used to play in the car. Released on the 30th of January 1995, the debut album from Neil Barnes and Paul Daley has quietly soaked into the culture over 31 years. And if you have heard it, really heard it, you probably own at least two copies, because the first one got played into the ground.

KUVO, AlphaTheta's global platform for music recognition and data services, has entered a landmark partnership with the International Nightlife Association (INA), the worldwide nightclub trade body whose member associations represent over 15,000 venues. The INA will help connect KUVO with clubs across its network, providing more venues with access to tools that identify music played, and turn that data into accurate reporting for organizations that collect and pay music royalties.

Insomniac's Skyline Festival announces its 2027 edition, returning to its newly established home of Ace*Mission in downtown Los Angeles from February 27 - February 28, 2027. Produced by Insomniac's Factory 93, the sixth edition of Skyline will once again welcome internationally acclaimed artists spanning all corners of electronic music alongside the city's rising talent in the heart of Los Angeles.

Bitwig and AlphaTheta have announced an integration that connects rekordbox libraries directly to Bitwig Studio. As of version 6.1.4, Bitwig Studio can read a user's rekordbox library and track analysis data, allowing an existing DJ collection to be opened, edited and remixed inside the DAW. Built-in stem separation is due this winter, and AlphaTheta has launched a subscription, the Studio Plan, that includes Bitwig Studio Essentials.

With Amsterdam Dance Event celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, Roland is marking the occasion with its widest ADE footprint to date, spanning electronic music, culture, and the Detroit techno legacy it helped shape. A few highlights ahead of ADE, taking place October 21-25: EarthSonic at Nxt Museum | Oct. 22, 5-9 p.m. Roland opens this year's EarthSonic program at Nxt Museum with an Electronic Synthesizers Petting Zoo built entirely from EarthSonic's own field recordings.

Amidst their illustrious presence in dance music, Âme have been - and seen - a tumultuous evolution in all that surrounds. Genres have splintered and sharpened, melodies reinvented. Yet, Frank and Kristian continue to stay true to their own meticulously individual art form.

More than half a century after the Minimoog helped transform electronic music, the instrument takes an unexpected place at the front of the symphony orchestra this November as Gabriel Prokofiev's Concerto for Minimoog Synthesizer and Orchestra receives its US premiere in Asheville, North Carolina.

UK DJ, producer, and Whistleblower Records label boss, Reset Robot returns to Last Night On Earth for his latest EP 'Simple', releasing October 16th. The man behind the moniker is Dave Robertson, a Portsmouth-based artist influenced by clubs such as fabric and Slinky, and DJs like Sasha, Digweed and the Wiggle boys. Robertson's signature blend of techno and house, ranging from minimal to heavier sounds, has landed him on Get Physical, Soma, and Adam Beyer's Drumcode, and seen him perform globally.