Five Electronic Music Stories You Might Have Missed Last Week

Ironworks opens with a sold-out Jamie Jones show, The Warehouse Project prepares for a quieter 2027, and Âme announce their next album. Here’s MITA Magazine’s weekly roundup.

The start of October brought fresh momentum to electronic music, alongside questions about what comes next for some of its most familiar institutions. London welcomed a new warehouse destination, Manchester’s biggest club series announced plans to step back, and established artists opened new chapters through releases and collaborations.

These are five stories to catch up on from the week of 28 September–4 October 2026.

Ironworks London Opens with a Sold-Out Jamie Jones Show

Ironworks London launched on Saturday 3 October with a sold-out opening event led by Jamie Jones and his Voyager concept. Set within a former shipbuilding site in the Royal Docks, the venue brings electronic music into another part of London’s industrial landscape.

As explored in our preview of Jamie Jones’s Voyager concept, the event placed his musical history at the centre of the programme, moving through different periods of his career with DJ sets and live performance. The bill also included Seth Troxler, Adam Ten, Manda Moor and Goosey back-to-back with Florentia.

An opening event gives a venue its first opportunity to establish a relationship with its audience. For Ironworks, the sold-out launch offers an encouraging start to its inaugural season—and another sign of the appetite for large-scale warehouse events in the capital.

Planning your next visit? Explore upcoming Ironworks shows and check ticket availability through the venue’s official ticketing platform.

The Warehouse Project Will Take a Fallow Year in 2027

While London welcomed a new space, Manchester received news of a pause. The Warehouse Project announced that it will take a fallow year in 2027, scaling back its current format after its 20th-anniversary season.

Since launching at the former Boddingtons Brewery in 2006, WHP has become a defining presence in Manchester’s electronic music culture. Its journey through different locations, including Store Street and its current home at Depot Mayfield, has been central to that story.

The announcement concerns a reduced programme rather than a confirmed permanent closure. After two decades, it raises a question for the wider scene: how can an established institution give itself room to evolve while preserving the connection that made it matter?

That tension between growth, identity and audience expectations also runs through our examination of the UK techno scene’s changing relationship with warehouse culture.

Âme Announce ‘Love Is The Dance’

Âme’s forthcoming album, Love Is The Dance, is scheduled for release on 6 November. Its 13-track programme brings together material reflecting the duo’s long-running musical interests, with collaboration woven through the record.

The announcement sits within the celebrations surrounding 20 years of Innervisions, the label founded in 2005 by Âme’s Kristian Rädle and Frank Wiedemann alongside Dixon. Across releases, events and its visual identity, the imprint has built a recognisable world around its artists.

An album offers room for ideas to develop across a longer sequence, allowing listeners to hear connections beyond a single dance-floor moment. Love Is The Dance will be an opportunity to explore where Âme take that format next.

Questions about artistic development and the industry supporting it were also central to the conversations highlighted in MITA’s essential guide to AVA London 2026.

Dom Dolla, Solomun and Skepta Release ‘DANGER DANGER’

Dom Dolla, Solomun and Skepta released DANGER DANGER on 2 October through Three Six Zero Recordings. It is the first record to bring all three artists together, following its premiere during Dom Dolla’s Hï Ibiza residency earlier in the summer.

The track pairs Skepta’s vocals with electronic production built around prominent percussion and synths. It also extends the relationship between Dom Dolla and Solomun, who previously shared the booth during Solomun’s +1 residency in Ibiza.

The island remains an important meeting point for artists whose musical backgrounds might otherwise place them on different circuits. Our full breakdown of Ibiza’s 2026 residencies maps the weekly programme behind that exchange.

With the single now released, a collaboration first introduced to an Ibiza crowd reaches listeners beyond the club—a familiar route from summer DJ sets to autumn release schedules.

Westminster’s New Licensing Policy Takes Effect

Beyond venues and releases, there was a concrete development affecting the framework around London nightlife. Westminster City Council’s revised Statement of Licensing Policy came into effect on 1 October, following its adoption on 16 September and publication on 28 September.

The policy guides decisions about premises serving alcohol or providing entertainment across Westminster, including Soho and the wider West End. Its introduction followed months of public debate about licensing and the future of the area’s hospitality and nightlife sectors.

For club culture, licensing deserves attention alongside line-ups and new openings. Decisions about where venues can operate, and under what conditions, help determine the spaces available to artists, promoters and audiences.

Protecting those spaces also means considering what happens inside them. In our editorial on how phones are changing the dance-floor experience, we examine another debate about preserving the connection, freedom and shared energy at the heart of club culture.

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