#john-rave

#john-rave

The two-day electronic music event is set to take place September 19-20, 2026, at Randall's Island Park, promising another immersive experience for dance music fans.

The collaboration marries Yener's distinctive vocals with the punchy sound of Madrigal, resulting in a contemporary track that resonates with emotional complexity.

The lineup for Ultra Europe is impressive, featuring marquee names like Calvin Harris, who has reduced his festival appearances, making this event particularly special.

Before achieving fame, John Summit was known as John Schuster, a CPA at Ernst and Young, who made music on the side.

AMØK has undergone major improvements ahead of the new season, including enhanced VIP areas, a fully renewed lighting system and upgraded D&B audiotechnik sound system that all underline its reputation for immersive, high-spec production.

"the one flyer that I think, received the most attention last year was Doomscrolling Live for a small ambient listening night organized in Antwerp by my friends SYSTM. I don't remember how many times people have come up to me and said ' Oh I loved that poster you did with the goblin '," he says. "Doing self-initiated things, local things, things for your friends does pay off."

Detroit techno, austere and futuristic, grew out of Black/queer culture, sci-fi escapism, and the repetitive language of automobile factories. San Francisco's techno, on the other hand, fused an outdoor hippie aesthetic with ecstatic, UK-derived beats that had crowds mass-hallucinating UFOs on Ocean Beach at dawn. Both shared a deep funkiness, however—remember when people of all shapes and colors once danced wildly?

Metropolis -the tale of an exploited caste of workers breaking free from their oligarchic oppressors by joining together with them to build a new world, as well as an Orpheus-like love story-has famously been in a state of restoration for almost a century, thanks to studio mangling and the ravages of time.

This release is about connection. Not in a strategic sense, but in terms of feeling part of a scene rather than orbiting around it. There's a lot of really strong music coming out of Australia right now, especially in the underground, and this felt like the right moment to place something there.

Each stage is designed with a clear purpose, allowing different parts of the electronic spectrum to exist without compromise, from peak-time headline techno to foundational house, from high-pressure intensity to emerging local voices. Together, the stages form a complete ecosystem where every sound has room to exist properly, and the whole site is steeped in the famously high spec production, light and sound that makes this one of Europe's leading events.

French techno force Shlømo returns in uncompromising form with "DEAD SERIOUS," a blistering new single out Friday 9th January 2026, via his own Taapion Records. Following last month's standout collaboration with Sara Landry, the release marks a decisive solo statement from the Paris-based producer and signals what's to come from his forthcoming LP. While much of 2025 saw Shlømo immersed in collaborative studio work, "DEAD SERIOUS" reasserts his singular vision - raw, relentless, and unapologetically intense.

The work behind "Waiting for You" by Monotronic spanned two years and several geographic mindsets. Its songs were built in the contained spaces of an East Village apartment and the open humidity of Tulum, initially seeming like disparate projects with no clear direction. Only in retrospect did their shared disposition come into focus. This is an album about the slow work of self-knowledge, which here looks less like an epiphany and more like the gradual acceptance of a particular signal,