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Pete Tong's Essential New Tune
Impossible (&Me Remix)
Röyksopp
PIAS
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"Fresh off announcing their new album Profound Mysteries 2, Röyksopp has dropped a brand new remix package. The lead track is the co-produced &Me remix of their track Impossible, which features Alison Goldfrapp. No stranger to this show, &Me is part of the Keinemusik collective who are having a moment. Well, they've been having a moment for quite a while as far as I'm concerned. He's done it again. I knew within about sixteen bars that this was the one, it's just got that thing, and Röyksopp are brilliant anyway."
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 35.08 here.
Contact
Label: Andy Moore, PIAS  
Management: Eric Harle, Ida Lyxzén & Tony Poland, DEF
Publishing: Copyright Control
Radio: Luke Ellis, PIAS 
Club: Tom Currie, Your Army
TV: Luke Ellis, PIAS 
Online: Sarah Pearson, Wasted Youth
12 Jul 2022
Business
  • Michael Rapino has officially signed a half-decade contract to remain president and CEO of Live Nation, which could pay him up to $30m per year – in addition to a $6m once-off bonus and more. (Variety) 
  • Deezer has officially listed on the Euronext Paris. (Variety) The company's stock price started at €8.50 per share on the Euronext Amsterdam last Tuesday and finished at €5.10 last Friday. (DMN) . 
  • Privilege Ibiza is now owned by Grupo Empresas Matutes, which has acquired all the shares that were still in the hands of its partner in this business, José María Etxaniz, after a long judicial process.  (Mixmag) 
News and Features
  • Tomorrowland has announced a 21-day streaming schedule for the 16th edition of Tomorrowland Worldwide. (DJMag) 
Digital
  • Event ticketing company SeatlabNFT announced a £1m Event Creator Fund to help artists and event organisers with the cost of running live events. (RotD)
  • At the one year anniversary of the global Shorts launch, YouTube announced the short-form videos are generating 30bn views per day, up 400% from one year ago, with 1.5bn monthly logged in users consuming them. (YouTube) 
  • Some artists are having their work taken down in bad faith by rival musicians; a problem that's particularly hard to counter on Spotify. (TorrentFreak)  
Web3
  • 9 design principles for a musical metaverse. (Water&Music) 
  • Dequency launched its web3-powered music licensing marketplace, allowing any music rightsholder that owns both the recording and publishing rights of a track to license their music directly to a licensee without an intermediary in between the transaction. (RotD) 
  • The next wave of Crypto Music. (Dan Fowler) The dominant trends that will likely shape the next phase of development. 
Live
  • Amsterdam Dance Event, the world's largest festival and business conference for electronic music, announced the first wave of confirmed artists for October. (RotD) 
  • Four Tet, Tsha, Bicep and more announced for the inaugural Making Time Festival in Philadelphia at Fort Mifflin. (EDM) 
  • Josey Rebelle, DJ Flight and Eris Drew back-to-back Octo Octa are among the acts playing the UK festival Field Maneuvers. (RA) 
Comment, Opinion and Analysis
  • What would 'Exit to Community' look like for artists? (MusicX - Bas Grasmayer)  
Beatport
  • How to create custom drum kits with Loopcloud DRUM. (Loopcloud)
  • Playlist of the Week - High Contrast (Beatportal)
  • Production tips to improve your House music tracks (Loopcloud)
  • Watch the Beatport documentary ‘Off The Record with Nastia’ (Beatportal)
  • Label of the Month - Heist Recordings (Beatportal)
  • Streaming enters the DJ Booth and with it, Big Data (RA)
Clubs
  • Ibiza:
    Louder Ibiza has announced the line-ups for its 16-week residency at San Antonio's Eden club. (DJMag) 
  • Sheffield venue Gut Level to make way for luxury flats. (RA) 
  • London's Colour Factory is celebrating its first birthday on Friday 15 July. (Mixmag) 
  • The Metropolitan Museum in NYC has announced its ‘Sun Sets’ series of electronic music evenings for this summer. (Mixmag) 
Deals
  • Insomniac Music Group signs global admin partnership with Sony Music Publishing. (Billboard) 
Streams & Podcasts
  • RA.840 The Lady Machine (RA) 
  • Heléna Star from DJ Mag HQ (DJMag) 
  • Ewan McVicar in The Lab LDN (Mixmag) 
  • Kabza De Small in The Lab LDN (Mixmag) 
  • Block9 at Glastonbury 2022: IICON AV-3D, Honey Dijon, Overmono, Shygirl, Roisin Murphy (Fact) 
  • Eli & Fur live from Courmayeur, Skyway Monte Bianco, in Italy. (Cercle) 
Artist and Music Features
  • How it was made: Booka Shade - Fire & Rain (Durante remix) (Magnetic) 
  • Selections: NikNak (DJMag) 
  • Get to know: Salamanda (DJMag) 
  • Breaking Through: Manuka Honey (RA) 
  • At Home With: Danny Daze (DJMag) 
  • How Norma Jean Bell’s ‘Come Into My Room’ produced the perfect blend of house, jazz and sensuality. (DJMag) 
  • The Sound of: Boxout.fm Recordings (DJMag) 
  • Spotify’s Global Head of Indies, Commercial Partnerships Jen Masset talks about the harmful practice of stream count manipulation and what it is doing to stop it. (Hypebot) 
  • A key figure of the ecstasy-fueled early 2000s rave scene, Disco Donnie and his cohorts recount the RAVE Act's rise - and how the legislation still affects electronic event promoters. (Billboard) 
  • 90s dance music paved the way for the current trends of today and iconic artists like Cher and Massive Attack created some unforgettable anthems that stand the test of time. (Magnetic) 
  • The rise of underground house: How artists like Fisher and Acraze have taken tech house, other electronic genres from indie to EDC. (Grammys) 
  • DIY defiance: Genosys Sound System brought the spirit of ‘90s rave to Glastonbury (Mixmag) 
  • Creating something special: How Notting Hill Carnival brought its joyful spirit to Glastonbury's Block9. (Mixmag) 
  • piri & tommy: “I remember when I first discovered dance music. Once you’re in, there’s no going back” (Dork) 
  • Coco Em's empowering dance music is uplifting East Africa femme artists. (Mixmag) 
  • Flume: "I’ve seen some of my favourite electronic acts try to do a show with live bass and drums and it sucks" (MusicRadar) 
  • "I want to follow my heart": Armin Van Buuren on sound experimentation and the future of trance. (EDM) 
  • The Martinez Brothers: "Performing in Ibiza is special, you can feel it as soon as you step foot on the island" (Mixmag) 
Artist News
  • Ash Lauryn has launched a new audio documentary on the history of techno. (Mixmag) 
  • Calvin Harris reveals release date for new collab with Halsey, Justin Timberlake & Pharrell. (Billboard) 
  • Armin van Buuren and David Guetta performed their first-ever b2b set at Ushuaïa Ibiza on Monday. (DJMag)  
  • Sasha has been awarded an honorary degree from Bangor University. (DJMag) 
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