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Pete Tong's Essential New Tune
Too Cool To Be Careless
PAWSA
Pawz
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"Pawz founder PAWSA goes back to back on home turf as he continues to slowly unveil a handpicked selection of heavily requested IDs from his sets. Hot on the heels of the chart-topping 'Pick Up The Phone' and continuing his deep-diving explorations within soul, jazz, funk and house music history, 'Too Cool To Be Careless' brings a slick flip on an '80s Motown classic from Dennis Edwards. I stood next to him when he dropped this at Circoloco and just based on that reaction is why it's this week's ENT."
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 35.13 here.
Contact
Label: PAWZ  Management: Alberto Bragado, Prime Culture
Radio: James Jackson & James Marsh, Listen Up 
09 Jul 2024
Business
  • The sale of Hipgnosis Songs Fund to Blackstone for $1.6bn has been approved by shareholders. (Billboard) 
  • Hipgnosis Song Management announced that Merck Mercuriadis, chairman of the music rights company, is exiting from his post. His departure from the company will be effective upon closing of the proposed acquisition of Hipgnosis Songs Fund by Lyra Bidco, a company owned by Blackstone-managed funds. (Independent) 
News and Features
  • Vintage Culture, NIKS and A Little Sound have joined BBC Radio 1 residency line-up. (Mixmag) 
  • Members of the nightlife industry have welcomed the appointment of Lisa Nandy MP as the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in the UK. (Mixmag) 
  • The UK music industry reacts to election results: "the real work begins now". (DJMag) 
  • Tixr, a ticketing and live event commerce marketplace, is set to open a London office, the company’s first steps into continental Europe with Stephanie Rosa serving as MD of the region. (Variety) 
  • NTIA says UK's night time economy extremely fragile - 16% surge in business administrations demands urgent intervention by new government. (RotD) 
  • Warner Music Group has sent letters to tech companies instructing them not to use the label’s music to train AI technology without permission. (DMN) 
Live
  • Brussels festival Abrupt adds more names for 2024. (RA) 
  • Martin Garrix, Peggy Gou and Four Tet among 300 artists announced for 2024 Amsterdam Dance Event. (MusicTech) 
  • IMS Ibiza announces 2025 dates for the 16th edition and early bird tickets. (DT)  
Comment, Opinion and Analysis
  • From X to Instagram, the line between social video and podcasts is blurring. (Midia - Rutger Rosenborg) 
  • Who asked for AI? Why its future is more boring than you think. (Midia - Hanna Kahlert)
  • A survey suggests 20% of independent artists have used AI music tools. (MusicAlly) 
  • Why record labels need to move on from using data to impact the short term, to embed a culture of analysis for the long term. (Medium - Patrick Clifton) 
Clubs
  • Ibiza:
    SXM Festival announces debut Ibiza Summer Residency. (EDMTunes) 
  • Manchester-based cooperative space Partisan is closing down at the end of this month. (DJMag) 
Deals
  • Believe has taken a 25% stake in Romania-based Global Records, with plans on ‘building a global leader in dance music’. (DMN) 
Streams & Podcasts
  • RA.944 TSVI (RA) 
  • Floorplan | The Mix 020 | House, Gospel & Techno (Mixmag) 
  • Musa Keys Amapiano set | Nando's x Mixmag (Mixmag) 
  • Disrupta x Latte d'n'b set in The Lab LDN (Mixmag) 
  • Zhu @ UNTOLD Romania (DJMag) 
  • Caravel | Boiler Room: Paris (Boiler Room) 
  • Rebekah | Boiler Room: Paris (Boiler Room) 
  • th4ys | Boiler Room x Primavera Sound Barcelona x CUPRA (Boiler Room) 
  • DJ Ramon Sucesso | Boiler Room x Primavera Sound Barcelona x CUPRA (Boiler Room) 
  • Sarah Story b2b Matrefakt @ Snowbombing festival 2024 (DJMag) 
  • Nicole Moudaber - Ankh: Unveiled - Live from Brooklyn Mirage (DJMag) 
  • Disclosure b2b Mochakk at Cercle Festival 2024 (A380 Stage) (Cercle) 
Artist and Music Features
  • Eight emerging artists you need to hear: July 2024. (DJMag) 
  • The 15 best melodic techno tracks of June 2024 (Magnetic) 
  • Selections: Kiss Nuka (DJMag) 
  • “The Jilted Generation is all the kids who’ve grown up on this supposedly corrupt dance music”: revisiting The Prodigy’s era-defining second record, 30 years on. (Louder) 
  • How The Prodigy’s ‘Music For The Jilted Generation' turned rave outsiders into defiant festival headliners. (DJMag) 
  • People at the centre: MOGA 2024 was so much more than sun, sea, sounds and scenery. (Mixmag) 
  • Something in the Ayr: Ewan McVicar's Pavilion festival is a celebration of hometown pride. (Mixmag) 
  • House music all life long: 25 Years Of Defected. (DJMag) 
  • Michael Bibi on beating cancer & ‘The very healing process’ of returning to music. (Billboard) 
  • "It's a dream to share a passion with your best friend." German duo FJAAK talk about life on the road and writing their first album in six years. (RA) 
  • Richie Hawtin is proving why DJs must embrace technology: “It’s about going beyond just putting two records together” (MusicTech) 
  • “We didn’t see any good coming from not having humans involved in the process of human creativity” an interview with Soundraw. (KillTheDJ) 
  • AI Briefing: The music industry raises the decibel for the fight over generative AI. (DigiDay) 
  • Interview: Spotify Global Head of Editorial Sulinna Ong (Hits)
  • SoundCloud global head of music Emmy Lovell: “To have zero plays is soul destroying for musicians.” (MusicAlly) 
  • The club-meets-pop hedonism of Charli xcx's Partygirl sent fans at The Levels into a frenzy... but there was plenty of 'Brat' to be had beyond Silver Hayes. (Mixmag) 
  • The best sets at Glastonbury’s Silver Hayes dance area. (Face) 
  • Babylon Uprising is Glastonbury’s best kept secret for heavyweight dance music (Mixmag) 
  • How Arcadia transformed a war machine into a party paradise at Glastonbury. (Mixmag) 
  • Glastonbury's Block9 in photos: raising the bar for electronic music stage production. (DJMag) 
  • 96 hours at Glastonbury 2024 (RA) 
  • Opinion: Glastonbury hosts world-class electronic music. The problem is getting to see it. (RA) 
Artist News
  • Basement Jaxx have released a collection of acapellas from their back catalogue on XL Recordings. (DJMag) 
  • Hardwell pulled out of his appearance at Romania's SAGA Festival mid-set this past weekend after complaining about issues with the DJ equipment and an alleged lack of payment. (DJMag) 
  • deadmau5 has dropped new single 'Quezacotl'. (EDM) 
  • Michael Bibi encouraged fans to join the stem cell transplant register at his One Life London party last weekend. (DJMag) 
  • Kathy Brown is releasing a compilation album to raise funds for her cancer support fund. (RA) 
  • Pino d'Angiò, Italo disco artist and 'Ma Quale Idea' producer, has died aged 71. (RA) 
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