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Technology as a musical tool, performance language, archive and scene infrastructure.

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TECH · MUSIC BUSINESS

Beatport gives Indie Tech its own genre

A new category offers clearer discovery for independent artists and labels.

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TECH · DJ HARDWARE

Behringer teases ANIMA: an open DJ system for $300–$400

An early four-channel prototype promises open hardware and a disruptive price. Reliability, software and release timing remain unproven.

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Jeff Mills takes techno to 2097 on ‘The Trip To Vega’

The new Axis Records project frames a triple-vinyl and digital release as an interstellar journey.

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Carl Craig's ‘Meditations’ finds a new audience through Planet E

The ambient work appears in the official 2026 catalog and reaches digital platforms while retaining its connection to Detroit's history.

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DVS1 proposes a new model for sustaining club culture

Support. Organize. Sustain. turns issues facing clubs, workers and communities into a public conversation led from within the scene.

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‘Kids Like Us’ revisits the underground Detroit that shaped Richie Hawtin

Luke Jaden and Richie Hawtin's short film uses 35 mm film to revisit the early 1990s techno community.

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Gui Boratto shows the lasting power of a coherent catalog

Kompakt's catalog traces a Brazilian career built through albums, singles, remixes and live performance.

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