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Pete Tong's Essential New Tune

Neverender - Rampa remix

Justice, Keinemusik, Rampa & Tame Impala

Ed Banger / Because Music

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"I previewed it on last week's show and it's been released as part of Justice's Neverender remixes EP. If you went to Keinemusik's show in Finsbury Park this summer you would have heard them drop this to a massive reaction, as well as at parties right across the world no doubt they've been doing. I have had the privilege of playing this out in clubs for the last couple of months, and quite simply, I can't get to the end of the year and talk about my favourite records of the year and not include this. It is a well-deserved ENT, and is right up there as one of the remixes of the year."
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 32.55 here.

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Label: Ed Banger / Because Music
Management: Tyler Goldberg, Jet Management / Mélodie Play & Christian de Rosnay, Etendard Management
Radio: Luke Gray & Indigo Wallis, Your Army
Club: Will Brigham, Your Army
TV: Mimi Brock-Stark, Your Army
Online: Jack Beadle
Live Agents: Corida France / Decked Out / Primary Talent

15 Oct 2024

Business

Insomniac launches new trap music label, Break Room Records. (EDM)
[PIAS] founders Kenny Gates and Michel Lambot are to sell the remaining shares they hold in the company to Universal Music Group. (RotD)
Insomniac Music Group launches Insomniac Publishing. (Billboard)

News and Features

An exhibition exploring the history of Italo disco is opening this week at Frankfurt’s Museum of Modern Electronic Music [MOMEM]. (Mixmag)
DJ Mag is shifting its print magazine from monthly to quarterly publication. (DJMag)
Dolby will take over Amsterdam's TOBACCO Theater at ADE with a series of listening sessions, concerts, talks, and mixing workshops. (Mixmag)
Music industry organisations pledge increased mental health support with Music Minds Matter initiative, Allies. (DJMag)

Brand Partnerships

Time Warp enters new partnership with EDC promoter Insomniac. (RA)

Digital

Techno artist Tescao's new single blends his music with an immersive parkour map in Fortnite. (RotD)
The .MUSIC registry announced the global launch of the community-based .MUSIC top-level domain name extension and its verified MusicID. (RotD)
TikTok’s decision to disintermediate Merlin and walk away from negotiations to renew its current license has sparked widespread concern across the global music industry. (RotD)

Live

Field Day is relocating from its usual Victoria Park home to a new base of Brockwell Park for its 2025 edition. (DJMag)
DJ Python and Nick León are curating a stage at this year’s III Points Festival. (Mixmag)
Butlin's has issued an apology after an alleged transphobic incident took place at this year’s Bang Face Festival, hosted at Butlin's Skegness. (Mixmag)

Comment, Opinion and Analysis

Beyond the obvious: Building future-focused strategy. (Midia)
Burner accounts, AI slop and a fork in the road moment for music marketing. (NetworkNotes)

Tech

10 free sample packs for future house sounds. (MusicTech)
Once-mocked synthesisers are enjoying a new golden era. (Guardian)
Liverpool's Capstone Theatre celebrates 60th anniversary of Moog synthesiser with new concert series. (RA)
Meet Atsushi Hoshiai aka Mr 909, the person responsible for the 909’s iconic hi-hat and cymbal samples. This is the story of the creation of one of the most famous drum machines of all time, the Roland TR-909. (Attack)
XDJ-AZ: first impressions of the four deck standalone (from an XDJ power user) (DJTechTools)
AlphaTheta — the parent company of Pioneer DJ — has launched a new flagship all-in-one DJ unit called the XDJ-AZ. (DJMag)

Beatport

Louis The Child: “Creating this new album felt like visiting an old childhood friend” (Beatportal)
Track Breakdown: John Summit & Sub Focus on the making of "Go Back (feat. Julia Church) (Beatportal)
Artist of the Month: Flowdan (Beatportal)
Lossless Flac audio comes to Beatport Streaming (Beatportal)

Clubs

ADE’s CLUB Lab and DJ Mag have revealed the winning DJs, selected from the CLUB Lab open call. They are DJ Babatr, Slim Soledad (Live), TOCCORORO and TAAHLIAH. (DJMag)

Deals

Armada Music Group's BEAT Music Fund announced catalogue acquisition deals with Kevin Saunderson, Markus Schulz and Robbie Rivera. (RotD)

Streams & Podcasts

Roni Size 'Brown Paper Bag' | The Making Of A Drum & Bass Classic (DJMag)
Nardwuar vs. Fred again... (NardwuarServiette)
RA Live: Caribou (RA)
Roger Sanchez at 7 Pines, Ibiza (Icon)
Rebecca Black | Boiler Room: DC (Boiler Room)

Artist and Music Features

The 15 best techno tracks of September 2024 (Magnetic)
On Cue: Jeremy Sylvester, UK dance music’s underground champion (DJMag)
Streaming services need to build a better ecosystem for artists to avoid fraudsters. (Variety)
La Resistencia: How Ibiza's DIY scene is challenging the Superclubs (RA)
Hï Ibiza's 2024 season offered a glimpse into the future of clubbing. (Mixmag)
Why Bangface – the UK’s last surviving rave-cation – must be protected at all costs. (RollingStone)
Inside Toronto's evolving electronic underground. (DJMag)
Some may say Time Warp is one of the pioneering institutions to bring techno to wider audiences. Its lineups, global reach, commitment to the genre and more prove it is a mecca for techno. (Forbes)
Look at this. We are back’: the impossible return of French touch titans Cassius. (Guardian)
KI/KI: totally entranced (DJMag)
DJ Paulette: Finding my voice through the Musicians’ Union. (MU)
“The more confusing I am as an artist, the better”: Or:la on music and mythology. (MusicTech)
How LP Giobbi followed her deadhead roots to the forefront of dance music. (Billboard)
“I would play solo piano gigs and a producer for Daft Punk came into the bar one night. He asked me if I wanted to join an all-female electronic band”: LP Giobbi on transitioning from jazz to dance music - and remixing Taylor Swift. (MusicRadar)
Rüfüs du Sol have found a new rhythm. (Mixmag)
Rüfüs du Sol on group’s fifth studio album: ‘We had to do a bit of growing up’ (Billboard)
It’s time for electronic music to turn its dreams into reality. (Pitchfork)
Dancing Astronaut’s five can’t-miss shows during ADE 2024. (DA)
The best parties (free and paid) to hit at ADE 2024. (Magnetic)
A guide to the best parties (and panels) during ADE 2024 week in Amsterdam (RA)
Remembering Jackmaster (RA)

Artist News

UK dubstep label Tempa Records has released its entire back catalogue on Bandcamp for the first time, spanning almost 25 years. (Mixmag)
Paul Kalkbrenner releases ‘Kabelmann’ short film project. (909Originals)
Massive Attack has cancelled a series of upcoming US shows, they announced on social media. (RA)
Seth Troxler is set to publish a photo book documenting his 2023 world tour. (Mixmag)
Anyma's Vegas Sphere residency to feature Sebastian Ingrosso, Amelie Lens, Tiësto, Charlotte de Witte, Argy and more. (EDM)
Richie Hawtin's album Musik, released under his Plastikman alias, is getting a vinyl reissue to celebrate its 30th anniversary. (RA)
The Scottish DJ and producer Jack Revill, known to many as Jackmaster, has died aged 38 after “complications arising from an accidental head injury”. (Guardian)

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