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Pete Tong's Essential New Tune
Touch Your Body
312
Crosstown Rebels
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Damian Lazarus handed this track to me personally the other day. It comes from the 312, which is the name of a group of three Chicago heavyweights, three legends in the game; Felix da Housecat, Jamie Principle and Vince Lawrence. Felix is in the UK at the moment playing Dublin tomorrow night, and this is their brand new tune called 'Touch Your Body.' Think we're gonna hear this all summer.
Contact
Label: Leon Oakey, Crosstown Rebels
Management: Dan Ross, X-Mix Productions 
Publishing: Zeka Music (ASCAP) / Datlilgirlmusic (ASCAP) / Slang Groove Publishing
Radio: Jessica Lamb, maouris 
TV: Melissa Maouris, maouris
Online: Melissa Maouris, maouris
Live: Dan Ross, X-Mix Productions / Matt Kingsley, CAA
27 May 2016
Business
  • Live Nation has acquired YouTube rights-management company and multi-channel network (MCN) InDMusic as it continues to seek new opportunities in video. (IQ)
  • The US's largest secondary ticketing site StubHub, owned by eBay, has become the world's largest with the buy-out of its main Latin American rival Ticketbis. (IQ, VentureBeat)
  • Revenues at Spotify surged 80% last year to nearly €2bn (£1.5bn) but losses widened as it invested heavily amid tough competition. (Guardian)
News and Features
  • Sigma and Take That's single Cry is No. 1 on this week's Official Trending Chart. (OCC)
  • A judge has granted a motion for David Lowery and Melissa Ferrick’s lawsuits against Spotify to be consolidated. Spotify will file a motion to dismiss and/or to move the case to New York. (Billboard)
  • Iggy Pop has taken a huge swipe at the current state of music in a recent interview, stating "Why don't you just kill me now?" (EDM.com)
  • Magnetic Magazine announced that they will be launching in Spain and Latin America at this year's IMS Ibiza conference. (MagneticMag)
  • Deadmau5 has threatened to sue fellow artist FAKU over his track Purple Eyes, which bears similarities to deadmau5's newly uploaded melody Sellout. (EDM.com)
  • Ushuaia Ibiza boss Yann Pissenem revealed at IMS Ibiza that the current Space building in Playa d'en Bossa wouldn't be knocked down, but couldn't divulge on what it would be called in 2017. (Mixmag)
  • Space Ibiza legends Carl Cox, Pepe Rosello and Lynn Cosgrave held a panel during the first day of IMS Ibiza to reminisce about the first days of the venue while looking ahead to the club’s 27th year - set to be its last as we know it. (IbizaSpotlight)
  • 25-year old Inder Phull has won IMS and Mixmag's 2016 Visionary award, givene very year to the leading light in the next generation of electronic music visionaries. Inder is the founder of KRPT, a UK-­based brand­-building network made up of creatives with expertise in youth culture. (Mixmag)
  • An annual business report on the state of the electronic music industry was presented at IMS Ibiza. Download here. Growth in the sector is slowing - up just 3.5% year-over-year. (Billboard, DancingAstronaut, Thump) In the US, dance streams grew by 33% to 15bn in 2015. 54% of US dance ‘sales’ are now streams.
Digital
  • MQA has the potential to bring far higher quality sound without sacrificing the portability and ease of streaming - if labels and streaming services decide to use it. (Billboard)
  • Pioneer DJ announces details of ‘festival ready’ Tour range. (Fact)
  • Landr, the instant online mastering service, now links directly to SoundCloud. (CDM)
  • Spotify’s personalised Discover Weekly playlists generated 1.7bn streams between its launch in July 2015 and Christmas, but the company now says that the total is nearing 5bn. The feature has been used by 40m users. (MusicAlly, Verge)
  • Dubset Media Holdings announced exclusively on the stage at IMS Ibiza that it has reached an agreement with Spotify that will dramatically expand the global footprint of its MixBANK distribution platform. The deal makes it possible for DJs all over the world to upload and legally stream their original long-form mixes and single track remixes. (PRNewswire, Thump, DancingAstronaut)
Live
  • Cocoon boss Sven Vath has announced a full May - October tour. (MixMag)
Comment, Opinion and Analysis
  • Are subscription music services a sustainable business model? (MusicClout) “There is significant revenue that can be generated by the services as a whole, but the individual stream payments will remain in fractions of a cent and will only decrease as the services become more popular”.
  • ‘Partying With Depression Turned My Life Upside Down’ – a look at mental health in the club scene. (Thump)
  • Co-founder and former CEO of Beatport from 2002-2010, Jonas Tempel, penned an open letter to the SFX-owned music streaming and digital retail site in response to recent news of the downfall of the site. (EDM.com)
  • The two Spotify charts you need to see. (Mark Mulligan)
  • Chart of Spotify free users compared to global record revenues and YouTube revenues compared to global record revenues. (ArtistRightsWatch)
Artist and Music Features
  • How a lost generation will save the music industry from itself. (Forbes)
  • Mixpak boss Dre Skull talks to Thump about the upcoming Red Bull Culture Clash. (Thump)
  • Five tips for Lost Village Festival. (Thump)
  • Fact Mag were on hand to document all the highs and lows from this year's The Great Escape with a comprehensive photo diary. (Fact)
  • After years of drugs, sex and drink, Moby is coming clean in his new eye-opening memoir. Miranda Sawyer interviews the man himself to find out the inspiration behind its release. (GuardianWeekend)
  • Speaking with Pete Tong at IMS Ibiza this week, Erick Morillo opened up about his problems with alcohol and drugs, revealing that things got really "ugly" when he started to inject ketamine. (Mixmag, MagneticMag, EDM.com, Pulse)
Artist News
  • Exclusive stream from Elka, ahead of full cassette release for 1080p. (Thump)
  • ·A look back at James Blake’s deep cuts and rarities. (Fact)
  • Deadmau5 is bringing back his infamous cube stage, and sparing no expense to ensure its unrivalled. (EDM.com)
  • Flume has unveiled 5 new tracks from his new and highly-anticipated second album Skin, and you can now take a listen. (EDM.com)
Albums
  • Gold Panda (Metro - 4* Simon Price)
  • Flume (Metro p34 - 3* Sharon O'Connell)
  • Pantha du Prince (Guardian - 3* Harriet Gibsone)
Live
  • James Blake - Village Undergound, London (Telegraph - 4* Patrick Smith)
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