Boston’s second installment of their electronic music/technology/art extravaganza, the Together festival, gets started with its week-long festivities today. Artists from around the world—including Pantha du Prince, Mary Anne Hobbs, Ramadanman (pictured above), Egyptrixx, Trentemøller, Zed Bias, Switch, and many others—will perform in a variety of different venues throughout the historic town between today, April 18, and Sunday, April 24. Apparently, all passes for the festival are sold out, but tickets for individual performances are still available. You can check out the rest of the lineup here, find more ticket info here, and see the entire schedule here.

Mutek, Montreal’s preeminent forward-thinking electronic music festival, has announced that the illustrious techno figure Richie Hawtin will be returning to his former country (as most people know, the now Berlin-based producer/DJ spent his formative years in Canada) for a live performance as his darker Plastikman project (pictured above). Joining the previously announced portion of Mutek 2011’s stellar line-up (including the likes of Four Tet, Jacques Greene, Siriusmo, Gold Panda, Falty DL, and more) comes a second wave of impressive performers such as Beunos Aries’ Sol Del Rio and Chancha Via Circuito, dub-techno veteran Pole, avant-garde electronic musician Badawi, analog synth-scaper ARP, and Mexican ambient producer Murcof, amongst others. Which is to say, the five-day festival has found no problems in once again bringing together some of the biggest names in electronic music for what should prove to be a host of incredible shows. For the full list of participating artists and events to take place as part of Mutek from June 1-5, head here.

If ever there was a list of techno veterans who have continued to push their crafts throughout the years despite whatever momentary ebbs and flows the electronic music community happened to be caught in at the time, Gregor Tresher‘s name would surely make the cut. With a host of records and remixes to his name spanning over two decades of production, Tresher seems nowhere near stopping, and has announced he will be releasing his third proper artist album this June via his own Break New Soil imprint. The Frankfurt-based DJ/producer has another impressive collection of tracks for his new LP, entitled Lights From the Inside, showcasing Tresher’s ability to incorporate a host of musical styles into his sleek, glistening productions that fall under the larger techno genre umbrella. Touted by its press release as continuing Tresher’s reputation amongst “the upper echelons of techno’s most creative,” Lights From the Inside is set to make some waves amongst the adventurous four-on-the-floor fiends when it sees its release June 6. You can peep the LP’s artwork and tracklist below.

Tracklist:
1. Shadow Layers
2. Lights From The Inside
3. Kingdom Of Light
4. Frontline
5. Black To Zero
6. Leaving
7. If Only
8. Echelon
9. Through The Shadow Glass
10. Breaking Routines
11. As Days Go By
12. Destroy

Germany’s consistent home for bubbling tech-house, Get Physical, has a new EP in the pipeline from Jannis Siopis, better known simply by his last name, Siopis. The EP, alluringly entitled Stinky Socks, will consist of three new tracks that are said to find the Grecian-born, now Germany-based producer “marrying beatific sci-fi soundscapes with rumbling basslines.” Given that description, Sipois’ history crafting tracks like his late-2009 banger “Really Love Ya,” and Get Physical’s reputation for sparkly party jams, we just might have a space-age dancefloor filler on our hands come the time Stinky Socks drops next Tuesday, April 18. You can check the forthcoming EP’s tracklist along with a stream of Siopis’ aforementioned “Really Love Ya” track below.

Tracklist:
1. Stinky Socks
2. I Try to Fight (feat. Alfons)
3. Lost Battleships