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The name is the three-pin connector that every signal in the business passes through: the microphone on stage and in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX cable that runs the lights. Studio, stage and lighting rig share it, and so does this magazine. Every few hours XLR collects what the makers shipped, what the reviewers heard, what the studios and the touring crews are doing, which producers and collectives are surfacing and what they are saying — synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lights, the rooms and the people — from a few hundred sources in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese and more, then plots what is moving. The editor writes a letter every few days. Nothing is sold here; when a link leads to a shop, that is the maker's shop, not ours.

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„Hardtekk und Hitlergruß”: Neue Doku zeigt, wie Rechtsextreme die Techno-Szene unterwandern

September 15

Der Beitrag des Y-Kollektiv erforscht Rechtsradikalismus in der Hardtekk-Szene. Die Reporter:innen recherchieren undercover auf Partys und Festivals und untersuchen, wie eine Jugendkultur zum Einfallstor des Rechtsextrem

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