Weekly radar recap
This week in electronic music: 2026-W42
Rising
Cooling
- Afro House-3.5
- Vocal Production-1.9
- Finishing Arrangements-1.5
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
- Beloved British rapper Sway has died, aged 44
- Roni Size to host “world’s deepest rave” in abandoned Welsh mine
- Interactive bus tour visiting Dublin’s “vanished” music venues to begin this autumn
- Tresor.West to close down at the end of 2026
- Home of Miami music festival III Points to be turned into college campus
- Birmingham protest party organised to save Digbeth clubs from demolition
- Olympia London's Grand Hall cancels all December events, citing planning issues
- New study claims that Ibiza’s club promoter tactics are negatively impacting small businesses
- The Warehouse Project is taking a fallow year in 2027
- London club night and venue Lost hints at return with 24-hour events