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With Oramics’ Cut the Wire, Polish and international artists in plea for crisis at Belarus border

At the border of Belarus and Poland right now, all the fault lines of the world's overlaid human catastrophes seem...

Iranian Duo Temp-Illusion has assembled a perfect sampler of bleeding-edge production

The duo of Shahin Entezami and Behrang Najafi has produced a tape/digital release of reworks that buzzes and screams with...

In FRKTL’s Azimuth, an ethereal world of undulating sonic and visual surfaces

In fragmented, alien futuristic materials, FRKTL – aka Sarah Badr – has produced another spectacular release. This project fuses her...

Moog now has a line of playing cards for making patches, plus a music EP

The answer to the question "what if Oblique Strategies, a synthesizer patch sheet, and Magic: The Gathering had a love...

Building on Shazam tech, Apple will pay artists and producers for tracks in DJ mixes

As Apple Music expands its selection of DJ mixes, it's also set to compensate artists and producers. Here's how it...

Go watch techno’s Lisa Smith talk about the power of being Noncompliant

"You have more power than you did then - and you can keep finding your power." Producer, DJ, writer Noncompliant...

Worlds as instruments, as artists collaborate in VR using modular metaverse Patch

This summer, across four continents and eight time zones, artists have gone beyond just playing in virtual reality. They've been...