Music

One man died and six others were hospitalized at the first day of the two day Dreamstate Festival in Sydney this weekend. Source

Super high quality package from Bradley Zero’s Rhythm Section featuring four tracks from Brooklyn duo musclecars with Toribio and Roland Clark on vocals hovering on the organic, jazz-ish end of the house spectrum. Source

Harold Heath looks back at some of 2025’s best electronic music albums, including DJ Bone’s The End of Never – an album of machine music with soul. Source

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