Melodic Techno

Radikon‘s annual ‘Reto’ compilation returns with its fourth installment. 2021 has come and gone, and it’s been another year of ups and downs, last-minute cancellations, beautiful glimmers of hope, and label firsts: Radikon’s label showcases debuted across Europe, and they celebrated their first long-player release by a solo artist. Above all, this year has shown... Read more »

For their first release of 2022, Fur Coat and his label Oddity welcome Amsterdam-based Romanian Alex Preda, who already participated on Odd Echoes Vol. 3, and this time, he presents his debut EP ‘Moons & Stars’ on the label with a fabulous remix by Lexer. The Preda sound has developed over the years, with his... Read more »

Riding a remarkable wave of success following a hugely prolific year in 2021 – a year which saw the critically lauded release of his sophomore album Under Darkening Skies and one of his biggest-selling world tours to date – celebrated German artist Monolink now looks to inaugurate the New Year in the same emphatic fashion... Read more »

Venezuelan Fur Coat returns to Balance Music alongside Germany’s Avidus for four beautiful cuts that should find favor with a broad section of selectors.  The vocals soar high on ‘In Our Town’ (Fur Coat version), which is best described as a deep, throbbing melodic house and techno beast filled with intense emotion and main room... Read more »

Frankey & Sandrino, based in Essen and Berlin respectively, have been making music together for just over a decade. In that time, their rich, detailed style has graced the upper-echelons of house and techno’s worthiest institutions, garnering a legacy of releases on labels such as Innervisions, Mule Musiq, Kompakt and Diynamic. The impact of tracks... Read more »

French techno titan POPOF celebrates the milestone one-hundredth release of his beloved FORM Music imprint in January 2022, as he enlists a selection of his all-time favourite producers to provide their own inimitable interpretations of his iconic 2009 hit record, Serenity. Almost exactly thirteen years to the day since the minimal juggernaut first did its... Read more »

A lot of musical roads lead to Israel for Renaissance in 2021, but could there be a new geographic trend in the offering? Whilst having always been passionate about their clubbing, there’s an undoubted movement coming out of Eastern Europe, more and more seem to be converting their dancefloor enthusiasm into production technique, which is... Read more »

Seasoned style master general, Argy joins Afterlife with this two-track expedition “Tataki”. Argy’s credentials demonstrate his diversity and innate talent, which is evident here on this EP. The title track opens the release, Argy demonstrating his dexterity with a mesmerising looped vocal clip and mystical atmospherics. On the flip it’s ‘Magic Order’, a driving cut... Read more »

One of Amsterdam’s finest, Colyn expertly puts Armin van Buuren and AVIRA’s collab with Be No Rain in a new light. Gracing the original vocals with textured grooves and a new set of chord progressions, the studio magician gives fans more than enough reason to deep-dive into ‘Hollow’ again. Colyn evokes transmissions of emotions through... Read more »

​​Following on from their essential Zukunft album on their own Radau Music label in November, GHEIST now serves up a hugely poignant new video for ‘We Are Not Alone.’ The video touches on the subject of mental heath, which is close to the German pair’s heart as they recently lost a close friend and tour... Read more »