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Pete Tong's Essential New Tune

Sun Is Shining

Kaz James

krushes

out now

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"So firstly let me tell you that the artwork for the track features the American actor and comedian Bill Murray behind the decks with Kaz James and it's not AI make up that's a real photo. It's the first release on Kaz James's brand new label krushes. This has been a real secret weapon for a few DJs this summer, including the likes of Black Coffee and some bloke called Pete Tong, and it's now finally released."
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 33.00 here.

Contact
Label: krushes
Radio: James Jackson & James Marsh, Listen Up
Club: Tia Cousins, Listen Up
Streaming: Matt Rimmington, Listen Up
Online: Lauren Chester, Listen Up / Anna Fitzgerald, ms.fitz AU
Live Agents: ROW: André Hommen / N America: WME

17 Sep 2024

News and Features

Over a million ecstasy pills have been seized in Ibiza, Spain, in what police are calling “the largest ecstasy drug bust in Spanish history”. (Mixmag)
The recipients of Help Musicians and DJ Mag’s Electronic Music Award, a 12-month career accelerator programme designed for electronic music creators, have been announced. (DJMag)
Newcastle Contemporary Art Gallery is hosting a collection of exhibitions, documentary screenings and an event to celebrate the electronic music and nightlife scenes of North East England. (RA)
Black performance artists and promoters face event licensing discrimination in London, UK organisation Black Lives In Music (BLIM) says. (RA)
New Artist Accelerator platform MXTR launches, committed to championing and funding emerging artists with a 'sustainable ecosystem that puts creative control and ownership first'. (RotD)
DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs Awards will return to AMF in Amsterdam next month for the first time in three years. (DJMag)
Dance music label Armada Music announced a long-term partnership with DJ and producer Arodes, marking the next phase for his newly-founded label, Unreleased. (RotD)
ATC Group announced the launch of Circa - a new transatlantic music promotions company led by Matt Black, former MD of Your Army’s American office. (RotD) The new London office will be headed by Charlie Reid, formerly of Your Army and others. Circa will operate as part of ATC Group’s Services division.
Backed by AFEM, the Respect The Creators campaign urges DJs, brands and promoters to include tags and track names when they post music by other artists on social media. (Billboard)
International Music Summit (IMS), the 'thought-leadership platform at the heart of culture, education, industry, and wellness in electronic music', announced the inaugural edition of IMS Dubai. (RotD)

Digital

Soundiiz allows you to transfer playlists between Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, Deezer, SoundCloud, and 20 other streaming services. (TechCrunch)
LineLeap is a new app that lets users skip the line at bars and events for a price. (TechCrunch) The Chainsmokers’ Alex Pall and others have invested. Users can also buy concert tickets.
Music streaming startup Tune.FM is hoping its differentiated approach will help it garner a loyal following of its own. (TechCrunch)
Spotify says it paid out less than 1% of the $10m or more in royalties associated with an alleged streaming fraud scheme — raising questions about which platform(s) failed to flag the billions of plays at hand. (MusicAlly)
Spotify is launching a new video interview series that dives into new albums before they are released. (HR) Clips from each Countdown To episode will be available on each featured artist’s Countdown Page, and the full interview will be available as a vodcast episode on Spotify and YouTube.

Live

Nocturnal Wonderland festival was cancelled due to the impact of the Southern California wildfires. (EDM)
EDC China is forced to cancel the music festival due to an incoming typhoon. (EDMTunes)

Comment, Opinion and Analysis

Could a new remuneration right be the key to AI music licensing? (MusicAlly)
Chartmetric's Trigger Cities - tactics for artists, marketers, and A&Rs. (Chartmetric)
IFPI has released Music in the EU: A Global Opportunity, its first-ever report on recorded music in the European Union. (RotD) Highlights: The EU is a globally important place for music but there is room for further growth; Record label investment has a positive ripple effect across the European music industry and provides a boost to EU GDP contributions; Domestic artists are relatively more successful in Europe however, the EU risks falling behind in what is the most competitive global market ever.

Tech

Swedish electronics manufacturer Teenage Engineering has announced the release of the “world’s first medieval electronic instrument”, the EP-1320 Medieval. (Mixmag)

Beatport

Kolter & Luuk Van Dijk: Why collaborating is "Good 4 U" (Beatportal)
Playlist of the Week: AceMo (Beatportal)
Artist of the Month: Luciano (Beatportal)
Beatport Streaming with rekordbox (Beatport)

Clubs

Ibiza:
Ushuaïa Ibiza has shared details of its 2024 closing party, The Last dANTS. (DJMag)
elrow recruits artists Alex & Allyson Grey for new closing party theme. (IbizaSpotlight)
Berlin club Watergate to close at the end of 2024. (RA)
fabric is set to have its 25-year legacy celebrated in a new book, fabric - the Book, which will be released on 3 December. (DJMag)
Leeds venue TESTBED has announced a run of club music-focused events for the remainder of the year. (DJMag)
Europe's oldest nightclub, La Paloma, reopens in Barcelona with an autumn programme featuring Theo Parrish, Antal, Nightmares On Wax, Hot Chip, and more. (DJMag)
A safety bill in the UK known as Martyn's Law will require clubs with a capacity of 200 people or more to take steps to ensure they have a plan in case of a terror attack on their premises. (DJMag)

Deals

Warner Chappell Music UK has teamed up with Defected Records to exclusively administer the publishing roster and catalogue of the British dance label. (RotD)

Streams & Podcasts

How Four Tet created "Looking At Your Pager" in 15 Minutes: Ableton Session Breakdown (Tape Notes)
RA.954 Rey Colino (RA)
K Motionz in The Lab LDN (Mixmag)
R3HAB @ Mysteryland 2024 (DJMag)
Fedde Le Grand @ The Wild Corner, Hï Ibiza (DJMag)
Jayda G in the Lab LDN (Mixmag)
Arielle Free B2B Tita Lau @ The Wild Corner, Hï Ibiza (DJMag)
DJ Gigola | Boiler Room x Glitch Festival 2024 (Boiler Room)
Ben Klock | Boiler Room x Glitch Festival 2024 (Boiler Room)
VTSS b2b KI/KI | Boiler Room x Glitch Festival 2024 (Boiler Room)

Artist and Music Features

Recognise: Nectax (DJMag)
Soundtracking with Ryan Elliott & Christian AB (RA)
15 years of Dalston Superstore, East London’s queer clubbing haven (DJMag)
Farewell to Oasis, Marrakech’s one-of-a-kind electronic music festival (Independent)
Sally C and Dr Banana: Earplugs are a dance floor necessity (RA)
Budapest’s thriving drum ‘n’ bass scene is energising the city’s youth culture. (Mixmag)
"They were wild and crazy years." Oscar Mulero discusses his early days in Madrid, running record labels and staying true to his sound for more than 30 years. (RA)
Kaytranada: king of the beats (DJMag)
Fred again.., EDM’s everybro (NewStatesman)
The Blessed Madonna: “Dance music flourishes in times of difficulty” (huck)
Four must-use Spotify features that bring you closer to your favourite artists. (Spotify)
Is there a high demand for music producers? How those with "IT" will stay relevant in the AI era. (Magnetic)
Beatport’s Sofia Ilyas on building global communities and championing diversity in electronic music. (TMN)
Opinion: The end of Aslice exposes dance music's hollow activism. (RA)
Richie Hawtin laments closure of DJ revenue sharing platform Aslice: ‘Famous’ DJs ‘failed us all’. (Billboard)
Aslice: The invitable end but does it have to be this way? (Attack)

Artist News

RÜFÜS DU SOL have announced a new album, Inhale / Exhale. (EDM)
A Kickstarter has been launched to help bring a documentary to life charting the life and legacy of Chicago house legend Ron Hardy. (Mixmag)
Patrick Topping has revealed plans for an alcohol-free daytime rave to mark this year’s Sober October. (DJMag)
Defected is marking its 25th anniversary with a book and vinyl box set. (DJMag)
David Guetta has sold his Miami Beach condo for a record-setting $16m. (RobbReport)
AFROJACK has released a new record under his tech-house alias Kapuchon on Loco Dice's SB Recordings label. (DJMag)
LA-based record label StrataSonic launches with Dan Ghenacia's 'Rouge ou Noir' EP. (Beatportal)
Michael Bibi has donated over £120,000 to the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity following his recent One Life show at Finsbury Park. (DJMag)

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