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Like Mike's Comeback, Guetta Conquers The O2 & Drumcode Turns 30 – WTEMN #213
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🎶 Weekly Top Electronic Music News – Week 40
A heartfelt comeback, an instant O2 sell-out, a techno institution's 30th birthday and a pointed take on AI. Everything that mattered between 28 September and 4 October 2026 — with a quick recap of each story.
⚡ Story of the Week
Months after stepping away for his health, Like Mike rejoined Dimitri Vegas for the Tomorrowland residency closing night — his first show back, and fans flooded in to welcome the "king of the microphone."
🎤 Live Shows, Events & Festivals
Guetta's biggest-ever London production — part of The O2's 20th-birthday programme and his only 2027 London date — sold out in minutes on 5 June 2027.
Garrix gathers the whole STMPD family — R3HAB, Matisse & Sadko, Julian Jordan and more — for a label-anniversary takeover of AFAS Live on 22 October during ADE.
🎵 New Music Releases
To mark 30 years of his label, Adam Beyer reworks Faithless's 'We Come 1' and rising star KASIA takes on 'Tarantula' — a double anniversary for two 30-year institutions.
🏢 Industry, Culture & Community News
Amid the AI panic, Fred again.. offers a calm reframe: the opposite of AI music isn't human music, it's the act of making it — "the process is the magic."
After the sound died mid-set in Rio, one of Brazil's biggest DJs publicly dropped the promoter — a rare, blunt call-out of production standards.
What is WTEMN?
WTEMN is short for "Weekly Top Electronic Music News" — our weekly roundup of the stories that shaped the electronic dance music industry. If you don't have time to follow the news every day, this is the catch-up: one page, every week, all the headlines worth knowing.