Music

Lunacy makes “sonic playgrounds for music makers,” with several popular plugins like granular synth engine Grains and the Beam effects rack. This year they dropped a couple freebies, the best of which is Haze. Source

Save the Date: The Chicago House Music Festival and Chicago House Music Conference return in August 2026. Source

Nine expertly crafted tracks of alt-disco, deep-house, leftfield 4/4, digital boogie, future soul, R’n’Chug and forward-thinking sonic hybridizing on the very good Almost Music album from UK producer, DJ and musician Rob Mac and violinist/synth player Lucy Wilkins’ new Land Of Echo project. Source

Crashing the Bay Area starting February 27 2026 and featuring shows, parties, panels and podcasts with Jeff Mills, Stacey “Hotwaxx” Hale, Moodymann, Marcellus Pittman, Mike Servito, Rebecca Goldberg and more. Source

Harold Heath looks back at some of 2025’s best electronic music albums, including an album of reconstructed Welsh techno from Louis Digital and Numbers. Source

Music to stomp your feet and blow up your heart. Deep house like you love it from Damian Rausch on What’s Your Name? from his own Rausch Recordings. Source

Clear, clean, sharp house music with a techy edge: Harold Heath on the Jennifer Loveless’ FEVER EP on Aus Music. Source

AI is going to benefit everyone, rich man tells his increasingly impoverished suppliers and customers. Source

Richard Earnshaw gives 5 Mag the lowdown on ARTWORX, a new record label launched with an irresistible soulful house jam “Better For Me,” and what he’s learned over 20 years since he launched his first label. Source

Deep house excellence from Gerd (Dutch producer Gert van Bijl) on Gentle Intensity, a six tracker on Andarta. Source