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November 12, 2012 – The British house producer Martin Dawson — a.k.a. King Roc and one-half of the duo Two Armadillos, with Secretsundaze's Giles Smith — has died, reports Resident Advisor. Dawson had been hospitalized since November 1, when he was found unconscious in his studio after suffering a brain aneurysm.In what has become a contemporary mourning ritual, fellow musicians and fans expressed their shock and sadness on Twitter and Facebook.

November 9, 2012 – There was no shortage of highlights at last month's Unsound festival in Krakow; across eight days and nights of performances from nearly 100 artists, though, a lot of the details quickly dissolved into the foggy outline of the festival as a whole. As in recent years, certain themes predominated.

November 8, 2012 – Suffering is overrated. That, at least, would seem to be the message of "Straight & Arrow," the new single from FaltyDL's forthcoming album, Hardcourage. The New York producer has spent most of his career imbuing murky house and broken-beat garage with darkly ambivalent emotion — hence album titles like Love Is a Liability and You Stand Uncertain.

November 6, 2012 – Rusko is discovering that giving music away for free might not be as easy as he had previously thought. No, not because no one wants it. Quite to the contrary, since the shock-mopped dubstepper released his new EP, Kapow, as a free download early Sunday morning, his servers have crashed at least two times.

November 1, 2012 – Thieves threw a wrench in Protect-U's European tour this week when the D.C. duo's gear was stolen from following their set at a Paris nightclub. Mike Petillo, a co-owner of the Future Times label, and partner Aaron Leitko were left with only their passports and the tour money they had earned so far.

November 1, 2012 – A Madrid Halloween party headlined by Steve Aoki ended in tragedy last night when three young women died of injuries sustained in the middle of a crowd crush, reports Spain's El País.