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Pete Tong's Essential New Tune
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Danny Daze
Kompakt
06 May 2016
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This new record is the one that has impressed me the most over the last seven days. In fact, I was privy to it over the last few weeks before that. We've been playing this out since Miami and actually sneaked it on to last week's show. We weren't meant to do that, by the way. It is more than deserving as an ENT and it's going to be massive this summer. This is the biggest bomb I think Danny Daze ever had and it's coming out on Kompakt on May 6. 
This week’s Essential New Tune is featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 31:00 mins here.
Contact
LabelJon Berry, Kompakt
ManagementBiz Martinez 
Publishing: Copyright Control
PromoFelix Göllner, Kompakt, Biz Martinez 
Live: N+S America: Mariesa Stevens, Liaison / Europe: Chris DuncanNed Beckett, Little Big/ Australia: Wade Cawood, Finely Tuned
22 Apr 2016
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  • AEG Live is in final negotiations to acquire New York-based independent promoter Bowery Presents. (BillboardDancing Astronaut)
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