Weekly roundup
13 Jul 2026–19 Jul 2026
This source-backed overview groups the week’s published daily coverage. Items are selected by their recorded release, event, or production type rather than by an additional ranking model.
Beatportal reports that HILLS released Lift Me Up through Experts Only on July 17. The duo says the self-written vocal began inside a house-oriented idea, then label feedback helped move the track toward a faster and more emotional style. Its finished arrangement uses a soaring vocal hook, pulsating bass, driving percussion and bright synths for peak-time impact.
Victor Ruiz released the 14-track VICTOR through his own VOLTA imprint. EDMTunes describes a continuous transformation narrative that moves through melodic electronica, breakbeat, house, ambient textures and cinematic composition, with collaborations including Perry Farrell, Luke Cusato, Tao Andra and Ram Dass.
Published July 17, the report describes Sacred Dance as a new single balancing hypnotic grooves, atmospheric melodic layers, rich synth work and organic percussion. Daijo positions the track between melodic techno and house, with an arrangement intended to work both on a dancefloor and in close listening.
The four-track EP channels fast warehouse rhythms, stripped-back minimalism and 1990s Chicago and Detroit influence. B. Riley says the tracks developed intuitively across different seasons rather than from rigid constraints.
Rave Jungle reports that Before You Go, featuring Luxtides and released by Tomorrowland Music, grew from an earlier remix, touring together and mutual support in DJ sets. The vocal-led track was created as a shared record around the artists' back-to-back performance.
Beatportal reports that What U Like EP gathers four earlier singles and two new tracks. Angels uses driving percussion and an uplifting melodic payoff, while Goddess combines tribal-inspired rhythm, a choral hook and driving 303s in a darker melodic-techno frame.
Electronic Groove reports that the Lisbon-based artist’s 14-track VICTOR album is out on his VOLTA imprint and expands into melodic electronica, house, breakbeat, ambient textures and cinematic composition while foregrounding songwriting and storytelling.
In Beatportal’s July 14 interview, Barcelona-based Korean producer Selena discusses her Green Light two-tracker, balancing energy and emotion through driving grooves, uplifting melodies, synths and vocals. She says the title track took about two months and grew from a vocal-led hotel-room sketch paired with an old-school-inspired synth.
Beatport’s live Melodic House & Techno page currently places Adriatique with Rhys from the Sticks’ Coming Home and Kölsch’s Picasso (Extended Version) among its latest releases. This supports a discovery signal only, not a sales or chart claim.
Anjunadeep lists How Does It Feel EP as a July 10 release. The set pairs Durante with ALLKNIGHT, Emi Galvan and Mayro, presenting three distinct collaborations inside his melodic and progressive sound.
Released July 10 on Colorize, the 12-track album combines solo productions and vocal collaborations. Magnetic Magazine highlights melody, low-end movement and songwriting as the throughline, with Lily Denning featured on focus track With You.
DJ Mag reports that Miss Monique premiered Biorhythm on Tomorrowland’s Freedom stage on July 17. The show combines real-time generative industrial visuals with organic elements around the intersection of nature and electronic music, with further 2026 dates announced for Buenos Aires, New York and Paris.
Awakenings is returning to Amsterdam’s SugarFactory for eight events across October 21–25. The programme includes Drumcode, Joris Voorn’s exploratory A Trip To Galaxy concept, an Adriatique all-night performance, house-led programming and next-generation club pairings, linking established techno names with newer artists.
The independent festival returns July 31–August 1 with artists including Nadia Struiwigh, Daniel Savio and Samuli Kemppi, combining live electronics, electroacoustic performance and local creative collaboration in a geodesic dome.
EDMTunes' Toronto review lists Leaving Laurel, Nicky Elisabeth, Marsh and Because of Art b2b Jody Wisternoff, and reports that Marsh announced his Marshan label after the event. The stop illustrates how a touring label showcase can connect curation, unreleased music and new artist infrastructure.
Resident Advisor reports that the Hamburg festival runs August 5–23 under the theme Hope!, combining club nights with contemporary dance, theatre, live music and visual art. DJ programming includes mi-el, Kontronatura, Meg10 and ZANIAH.
Resident Advisor lists Hard Mondays Amsterdam at John Doe on July 13 from 23:00 to 04:00. The harder programming offers a current live-market counterpoint to this weekend’s melodic and progressive releases.
ROXIE tells EDMTunes that Turn It Up grew from a small looping melody. Raising its tempo from 130 to 135 BPM and choosing a punchier kick materially changed the track’s energy. She handles production, lyrics, vocals and visual direction herself while using specialist mastering for commercial releases, balancing creative control with selective collaboration.
DJ Mag reports that Korg’s NTS-4 is a six-channel DIY analogue mixer assembled without soldering. Four stereo channels and two mono channels support up to ten audio signals; the mono inputs can switch to Eurorack levels, while per-channel sends, master effects and USB-C audio/MIDI support flexible small-studio routing.
Native Instruments’ launch interview explains how Super*Saw condenses complex stacking workflows into one expressive synthesizer. Cook frames instrument design as extending and flipping the limits of familiar musical ideas.
MusicTech’s interview on Lee Scratch Perry’s final album with Berlin duo Mouse on Mars describes first-take sessions, listening before adding parts and extensive room-mic capture. Jan Werner’s control-versus-trust framing suggests a practical method for preserving unexpected performance energy instead of overworking every sound.
A July 12 profile revisits Letyago’s distinction between detail-focused solitary studio work and crowd-responsive performance, plus her stated willingness to make unconventional music that is not designed to go viral. It is useful craft context rather than a new-release claim.
In a July 10 interview around his progressive remix of Olendo’s Folklore, Waxman says studio time develops skills and taste through experiments and mistakes, and recommends protecting uninterrupted attention rather than rushing work simply to remain visible.
This page is assembled deterministically from already-published Music Radar entries. AI may assist research and drafting of the underlying daily digests; source attribution and human review remain part of the publication process.