Weekly radar recap
This week in electronic music: 2026-W42
Rising
Cooling
Notable evidence
- How Shimza’s Pacha residency is helping African dance music take root in Ibiza
- US musician given 18-month prison sentence for $8 million AI streaming fraud
- YouTube Music will now tag AI-generated content
- The Mix 127: Bae Blade
- Non-infringing music removed from DistroKid amid UMG copyright cull, artists claim
- Roni Size to host “world’s deepest rave” in abandoned Welsh mine
- Small nightclubs are still making a big impact in Ibiza
- Interactive bus tour visiting Dublin’s “vanished” music venues to begin this autumn
- New affordable weekly club concept to launch in Hackney, Club Empire
- Black music events are more likely to be “cancelled, shut down or restricted” than white-run events
- Tresor.West to close down at the end of 2026
- Home of Miami music festival III Points to be turned into college campus