Sets from the stage will be live-streamed online across the weekend

Dekmantel has completed the lineup for its 2026 edition with the unveiling of the programming for its RADAR stage.

Sets from the stage will be live-streamed online across the weekend, with the first day’s lineup taking in sets from the likes of Objekt, Juan Atkins and Skrillex. The following day, Ben UFO, CCL, Colin Benders and Polygonia, among others, will play at RADAR, while the weekend will be rounded off with a final day featuring sets from Mala, Sampha, Octo Octa, Verraco and more.

They all join the previously announced likes of aya, Underground Resistance, Dopplereffekt, Ricardo Villalobos, Nídia, Batu, Tikiman, Olof Dreijer, Steffi, SHERELLE, Kode9 and lots more on the lineup…

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Derek Walmsley revels in a late-period concert document that addresses and answers the age old issues about live electronic music

Nag Nag Nag (Live 2025 Single Edit) by Cabaret Voltaire

When they were young, members of Cabaret Voltaire used to walk up to strangers at bus stops in Sheffield and spray them with sounds from reel-to-reel tape recorders. They wanted to liven up everyday life in a Northern industrial town, and observe what would happened when people were jolted out of familiar habits. This pranksterism sticks in the memory, not just because it speaks to the DIY graft that’s part of Cabs’ origin story, but because spending hours splicing sounds onto tape and then blasting them out for a few seconds touches…

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Quiet Light

Blue Angel Sparkling Silver Angel 2

From Texas, Riya Mahesh moves from impressionistic vignettes to pop precision on her True Panther debut

Blue Angel Sparkling Silver 2 by Quiet Light

Quiet Light’s music is best listened to during the in-between parts of life, where change is most felt. Fittingly, her mixtape Blue Angel Sparkling Silver 2 throws the listener into the middle of this moving sound, with ‘Star100’ beginning like a half-heard conversation. Layering delicate harmonies, gliding synths and soft drum patterns, the song spirals through accelerated changes in tempo and pitch until reaching a climax, after which details melt away to leave the bare essentials, concluding with a sampled conversation asking why no one’s midlife crisis ever involves Bagel Bites.

The opening…

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Encompassing eight pieces, the record was produced to accompany the eponymous ballet

Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter is releasing a solo album, Mirage – Ballet For 16 Dancers.

Spanning eight pieces, the music featured on the album was produced for the eponymous ballet conceived by choreographer Damien Jalet and contemporary artist Kōhei Nawa, which premiered at the Grand Théâtre de Genève last May.

The first extract from the album, ‘Mirage: Part II’, will be released digitally tomorrow. For now, you can watch a brief video trailer for the record below.

Mirage – Ballet For 16 Dancers follows on from a number of solo releases by Bangalter in recent years, following the end of Daft Punk. In 2024, he released the soundtrack album CHIROPTERA MATIERE PREMIERE,…

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It’s his first full-length release under the name for six years

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Tricky has shared details of a new album, titled Different When It’s Silent.

It’s the UK artist’s 15th studio LP, and marks his first full-length release under the moniker for six years. The 15-track album was recorded between France and his home base of Bristol, and takes in elements of hip hop, guitar and electronic music. Mitch Sanders, Marta Złakowska and Run Red Rambo all appear on the record as guests.

Listen to the Marta Złakowska-featuring ‘Out Of Place’ below.

False Idols will release Different When It’s Silent on 17 July 2026.

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More than 1,000 artists have signed a letter criticising the contest for its decision to allow Israel to compete

No Music For Genocide, the campaign that has seen hundreds of artists geo-block their music from streaming platforms in Israel, has now turned its attention to the Eurovision Song Contest.

In an open letter, a number of artists have called for a boycott of the competition due to its decision to allow Israel to compete. The letter has been signed by the likes of Brian Eno, Massive Attack, Mogwai, Primal Scream, Dry Cleaning, Erika de Casier, Smerz, Sigur Rós, Hot Chip, Roger Waters, Nadine Shah, Olof Dreijer and Black Country, New Road, among hundreds of other acts.

The letter reads: “This May, millions of…

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The sharp-dressed man of letters and music takes us through his life in 13 tracks, from formative punk singles to the epicentre of Acid House, via encounters with Steve Albini, The Stone Roses, a pre-fame Fontaines and more

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John Robb has been a polymathic presence in British music since the beginning. Emerging in late-70s Blackpool as the bassist and frontman of essential post punk and noise outfit The Membranes, he was also forging a parallel career as a writer and music chronicler from the off, first publishing his own fanzine, Rox, before breaking into ZigZag, Sounds (where he was the first to interview Nirvana), Melody Maker and more.

That second strand then saw him set up…

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On his new album, Maramfa Musick Pro, the 27-year-old South African producer bypasses the polished globalism of modern club music to deliver a raw, ancestral, and intensely localised masterpiece

Over the years, the global taxonomy of dance music has been utterly rewritten by South Africa. The slick, mid-tempo luxury of Amapiano and the dark, bruising minimalism of Gqom have migrated from the townships of Johannesburg and Durban to the most exclusive clubs in London, New York, and Ibiza. These genres have become highly polished export products, designed for massive streaming numbers and international festival stages. To assuredly understand the true, beating heart of South African electronic music, it takes one to occasionally leave the cosmopolitan centres behind and travel north, into…

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Bali Gamelan Sound

Topeng Semar Pegulingan

Agustín Oscar Rissotti’s recordings of Indonesian music capture the ritual context often stripped from Western gamelan releases

Topeng Semar Pegulingan by Bali Gamelan Sound

The musicological study of Bali that Canadian-US composer Colin McPhee and his colleague Lou Harrison undertook during the 1930s is usually seen as critical in bringing gamelan to the West. However, the infatuation of European practitioners with the traditional Indonesian percussive form and its shimmering layers of interlocking patterns reaches at least half a century further into the past.

Alex Ross’s 2007 book The Rest Is Noise, for instance, recounts Claude Debussy’s writings from 1889. During a visit to the Paris Universal Exposition, the story goes, the French composer was left transfixed by the “minimal…

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In this month’s subscriber essay, Spark biographer James Bailey explores her bleak masterpiece of a life’s descent into an “anguished shriek of bloody despair”, making comparisons with “giallo horror at its grisliest”.

In a department store somewhere in northern Europe, a young woman named Lise is trying on a dress. The garment is garish, its pattern featuring a psychedelic clash of geometric shapes and vivid colours. Yet Lise seems delighted with her choice. “That’s my dress”, she announces happily to the shop assistant: “Lovely colours”. The assistant tells her that she agrees; the fabric of the dress, she adds enthusiastically, has been “specially treated” so that it won’t pick up stains. In an instant, the cool air of the fitting room…

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