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Pete Tong's Essential New Tune
Set My Mind Free
Matt Guy
Armada Music
09 Sep 2022
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The track samples the vocal from Tony Terry's Forget the Girl which was the used by Route 94 in the Eton Messy days of the early 2010s. Now Matt's version has been a club hit all summer long. Hammered by the likes of Solomun, Marco Carola and Joseph Capriati and Solado and many, many more. We previewed it on the show before, after hearing it on Sarah Story's show, she gave me the track ID nod earlier and it's finally out on Armada Music. A rising star in the making, step up Matt Guy, with Set My Mind Free.
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 35.15 here.
Contact
Label: Phil Sagar, Armada Music - A&R
Marketing: Reju Sharma, Armada Music
Management: mattguy@littleempiremusic.com, fmyer@littleempiremusic.com, shutt@littleempiremusic.com
Live agents: Ben King, Radius Artists
20 Sep 2022
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  • Festicket collapse will lead to "detrimental losses" for clubs and promoters. (Mixmag)
  • Trax Records responds to royalties scandals, lawsuits: ‘We had no real control of the company’. (RA)
Digital
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  • How SeatlabNFT teamed with Lost Village for immersive NFT festival experience. (MW) 
  • Web3 music creation startup Arpeggi Labs announced a $5.1m seed round that drew support from Steve Aoki, and an array of others. (DMN) 
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  • Is it too late to make the music industry sustainable? (RollingStone) 
  • It is vital that the economics of the music industry change to challenge exploitative power, support independent artists and benefit society. Tom Gray, founder of the #BrokenRecord campaign, explains what can be done. (Mixmag)
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Clubs
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  • New Dublin club Racket announces autumn and winter schedule. (RA) 
  • The Cross - the nightlife institution in King’s Cross between 1993 and 2007 - is back at nearby Wharfdale Road as a six floor bar and club. (RotD) 
  • New London venue HERE at Outernet books LSDXOXO, JME, and Kerri Chandler. (RA) 
  • New York club Elsewhere celebrates fifth anniversary with Mura Masa. (RA)
  • Berlin club Watergate celebrates 20 years with parties, compilation, streetwear range. (RA)
  • The Edinburgh festival Terminal V has added names including DJ Boring, Skream and Ki/Ki to the bustling programme. (Mixmag)
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Artist and Music Features
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  • What to do in a recession. (RA)  
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  • Reinier Zonneveld: live and direct. (DJMag) 
  • Exploring the relationship between neurodiversity and dance music. (DJMag) 
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Artist News
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