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BEN TURNER
Co-Founder, International Music Summit
Pete Tong's Essential New Tune
Live Your Life
Gardna & lau.ra
Gardna Music
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"I've been bestowed the honour once again for picking the ENT, and I went for this. It's from a very, very talented man, and a very, very talented lady. One of them happens to be a very good friend of mine and appeared vocally on my album, 'We Lost Ourselves and Found A Family'. He's from my hometown in Bristol, and I'm not just picking this because he is my mate. I'm picking this because this is an absolute belter and I think it's got real legs, and I think it's really, really great record. This is Gardna & lau.ra, and it's called 'Live Your Life'."
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 29.32 here.
Contact
Label: Gardna Music
Radio: James Jackson & James Marsh, Listen Up
Live: Lauren, Earth Agency
22 Apr 2025
News and Features
  • Anthem Vinyl, Ireland's only vinyl pressing plant, has now started production. (Mixmag) 
  • SOPHIE scholarship fund launched for women, trans and non-binary creatives in electronic music. (DJMag) 
  • The UK's dance music community has widely condemned a Supreme Court ruling which excludes trans women from the legal definition of a woman in England. (DJMag)  
  • A consortium led by Believe founder and CEO Denis Ladegaillerie has announced plans to acquire the remaining shares of the music company from public shareholders. (MBW) 
  • Ultra International Music Publishing will be changing its name to Payday Music Publishing, following a court judgement in a legal case brought by Sony Music disputing ownership of the Ultra brand following the major’s acquisition of the company’s recording division in 2021. (RotD) 
  • IMS Ibiza 2025 has announced its full programming line-up for this week's conference. (Billboard) 
Digital
  • Following the claim that the Spotify 1,000 stream rule has stripped artists of $47m in royalties, the company responded “We believe it’s more impactful for these tens of millions of dollars per year to increase payments to those most dependent on streaming revenue, rather than being spread out in tiny payments that typically don’t even reach an artist.” (Hypebot) 
  • Deezer is receiving over 20,000 fully AI-generated tracks on a daily basis. It equals over 18% of all uploaded content, an increase from the previously reported 10% in January 2025, when the DSP launched its AI-music detection tool. (Deezer) 
Live
  • Danny Tenaglia, Isabella Lovestory, Eartheater and UNIIQU3 are among this year's performers at the New York festival LadyLand. (RA) 
  • Glastonbury's Shangri-La announces line-up and new stages for 2025. (RA) 
Comment, Opinion and Analysis
  • Views of TikTok posts using electronic music as a soundtrack outgrew those tagged for indie and alternative for the first time in 2024. (Guardian) UK views of videos with the #ElectronicMusic hashtag grew 22%, while the number of videos created with the same hashtag rose by more than 50%. 
Beatport
  • Beatportal Exclusive: Cristoph goes deep on concept album Life Through A Different Lens (Beatportal)
  • LabelRadar announces April Offer on PRO Annual Membership (50% Off) (Beatportal)
  • Öwnboss selects 10 Peak-Time belters that fuel his sets (Beatportal)
  • Playlist of the Week: FJAAK (Beatportal)
  • The Beatportal Residency: We Are The Brave & Alan Fitzpatrick (Beatportal)
  • Eight emerging artists on our radar: April 2025 (Beatportal)
  • AIFF, WAV, FLAC? Find out the best audio format for your set up. (Beatportal)
Clubs
  • Ibiza: 
    Honey Dijon announces Chinois Ibiza 2025 residency. (DJMag) 
    Solomun +1 lines up guests for Sunday nights at Pacha. (IbizaSpotlight) 
    Tomorrowland announces line-ups for Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike Ushuaïa Ibiza residency. (EDMTunes)
  • Broadwick, the company behind Printworks, Drumsheds and others, has re-introduced Exhibition, a refurbished, reimagined and revived 2,800-capacity hybrid venue in White City, west London. (RotD) 
  • London's fabric will be taking over the British Museum for a one-off event next month. (Mixmag) 
Deals
  • Swedish House Mafia have signed with SUPERHUMAN, a Stockholm-based label and multidisciplinary creative company. (EDM) 
  • Kobalt has struck a global publishing administration deal with dance and electronic label Thrive Music. (Variety) 
Streams & Podcasts
  • RA.985 Lechuga Zafiro (RA) 
  • Max Dean B2B SOSA tech-house set in South Beach Miami (DJMag) 
  • Rossi. | Mixmag Lab London | Forbidden Forest Festival takeover (Mixmag) 
  • Jan Blomqvist live set from Mojave Desert (DJMag) 
Artist and Music Features
  • Selections: Sully (DJMag) 
  • A history of Tectonic in ten tracks. (RA)  
  • How Kraftwerk’s ‘Autobahn’ altered the course of electronic music. (DJMag) 
  • The Yorkshire-born producer relinquishes her awe for after-hours partying on her second album — aya talks about death metal, returning to Hyperdub and wanting to reach the nivarna between digital and acoustic. (Mixmag) 
  • Goldie, the king of drum'n'bass, is back with new music. He talks about his rebellious spirit, what he's learned in Thailand and why we're failing young men like his son. (Standard) 
  • Songs are getting shorter, thanks in part to Spotify and TikTok algorithms. (Washington Times) 
  • Spotify’s Global Head of Editorial Sulinna Ong talks AI music, new editorial features and short-form video. (Billboard) 
  • Meet the editors crafting some of Spotify’s top playlists. (Billboard)
Artist News
  • Deadmau5 has apologised for his drunken Coachella set. (Billboard) 
  • A new, 19-track posthumous album from Avicii to be released next month. (Mixmag) 
  • PinkPantheress announces new ‘Stateside’ single. (Billboard) 
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