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Pete Tong's Essential New Tune
Pop Culture (Joris Voorn Remix)
DJ Dozia
Ovum
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This got an incredible reaction when I debuted it on last week's show and then again when I played it out last weekend, so it just has to be an Essential New Tune. Quite an incredible remix from Joris Voorn and DJ Dozia on Ovum, an amazing job done by the label. 
This week’s Essential New Tune is featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen Again and forward to 29:00 mins here. 
Contact
Label & Management: Matt Brookman, Ovum Records
Publishing: Matt Brookman, Ovum Records
Radio & TV: Adam, Exclusive Promo
Online: Adam, Exclusive Promo
Press: Adam, Exclusive Promo
Live: Sergio Bienati, Club Class
25 Sep 2015
Business
  • Australian independent label Future Classic (home to Flume and Chet Faker amongst others) has partnered with Caroline International for the distribution of its catalogue. (RotD)
  • SoundCloud’s rumoured imminent deal with Universal Music Group is now on ice, according to sources. (DMN)
  • SFX Entertainment has received $90m in financing this week. (Mixmag)
News and Features
  • A man has died after falling from a statue at Paris music festival Techno Parade over the weekend. (Your EDM)
  • YouTuber Lohanthony’s personally curated album Landscapes: A Music Compilation has debuted at No. 3 on the Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart. (Billboard)
  • Take Note conference comes to London. (Pulse)
  • Could techno be used to treat Parkinson’s disease? New research from LIVELab has turned up some intriguing findings. (Thump)
  • Artists on the Collect roster have spoken out after discovering that their label is owned by venture capitalist Martin Shrekli, who recently gained notoriety for hiking the price of an HIV drug from $13.50 to $750 per pill. (Fact)
  • In the UK, albums sold at gigs will now count towards the Official Albums Chart. (Fact)
  • A leaked email from EDM.com has revealed just how prevalent artists paying for editorial coverage and social media promotion has become. (Thump)
  • Manager Amy Thomson responds to the story about why she and Axwell & Ingrosso went their separate ways. (Billboard)
Digital
  • Online retailer Boomkat has relaunched after giving its site a digital overhaul. (Resident Advisor)
  • An in-depth look at the inner-workings of music streaming app Aurous which utilises a decentralised BitTorrent search engine. (Deep House Amsterdam) The team behind the app have cancelled their crowdfunding campaign. (Fact)
  • Sensel have unveiled their new Morph multi-touch controller, which promises to provide countless possibilities for creation. (Fact)
  • Details of Roland’s super mysterious Boutique series have leaked online. (Fact)
  • In America, a new TV network called UphoricTV focussing on "festival culture" is to launch on Verizon's new mobile video service, Go90. (Billboard)
  • Website Song BPM finds the bpm of a track with just the title and artist name. (LifeHacker)
  • Discogs, the online marketplace for vinyl collectors, is set to launch a mobile app for analog lovers. (Billboard, Mixmag)
Live
  • Returning to the US for the second year in a row on November 20 and 21, Time Warp US has announced its 2015 lineup. (XLR8R)
  • Bristol’s In:Motion parties have added Pearson Sound, Jackmaster and more to their 2015 season. (Fact)
  • Milan has a new club called Wall Milano, which officially opened on September 19. Names already lined up to play include Redshape, Jackmaster and Kerri Chandler. (Mixmag)
Comment, Opinion and Analysis
  • This is how Shazam is shaping the music industry. (BBC)
  • Why Apple Music still falls short of SoundCloud. (Hypebot - Oliver Cox)
  • One billion and counting: Eric Zho on the massive untapped electronic music market in China. (Dancing Astronaut)
  • The current focus within the industry on streaming playlists and ‘playola’ doesn’t show any signs of going away, David Balfour comments. (RotD)
  • The new payola: chart-rigging and scams in the EDM bubble. (Thump)
Deals
  • Bucks Music Group has announced a worldwide publishing agreement with Play Records Publishing, which includes a number of works by Deadmau5. (RotD)
Artist and Music Features
  • Harangue The DJ: Jasper James. (Guardian Guide)
  • Has techno become boring, 'angry' music? (Pulse)
  • How Big Gigantic broke the saxophone into dance music. (Billboard)
  • Rave culture was a big influencer on the runways of New York Fashion Week; here’s a look at the positive and negative repercussions. (Thump)
  • A potted history of dance music on British television: disco ducks and acid explosions (Part 1 of 3). (Thump)
  • A rendezvous with electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre. (Fact)
  • Grimes on pop music: 'You’re mostly hearing male voices run through female performers'. (Independent)
  • The short-lived broken beat sound is being brought out of retirement by a new wave of labels and DJs. It’s giving clubs soul again, says Joe Muggs. (Guardian)
  • East Londoners Rudimental have stormed the world’s charts but can still hang around unhassled in Hackney. Louise Donovan meets them. (Shortlist)
  • On Caracal, Disclosure are starting to leave dance music behind. (Verge)
Artist News
  • Stargazing DJ and producer Seven Davis Jr has lined up a month-long residency at The Nest in East London. (Fact)
  • Klasse label founder Luca Luzano is teaming up with DJ Sotofett for upcoming EP Gun Fingers, due for release on November 20 via Hypercolour. (XLR8R)
  • Oneohtrix Point Never has, rather curiously, released excerpts from his new album in MIDI format. (Thump)
  • Eric Prydz brings 12 new originals to light with Pryda 10 Vol. III. (Dancing Astronaut)
  • Ben UFO and Joy Orbison will be playing an all-night session as part of The Hydra’s autumn series on October 17. (Fact)
  • Detroit artist Zach Saginaw (a.k.a Shigeto) has a new EP dropping next month via Ghostly International, after a two-year hiatus. (XLR8R)
  • Diplo and Major Lazer’s sets from Burning Man are now up and available for streaming. (Dancing Astronaut)
  • Following on the heels of her 2015 album, DREI, producer and composer Emika is now launching a Kickstarter project to fund her first-ever symphony, to be recorded by the 70-piece Prague Metropolitan Orchestra. (XLR8R)
  • Major Lazer are the latest act to have their own show on Beats 1, announcing that they will debut new show Lazer Sound on October 2. (Dancing Astronaut)
  • Prince Fox has signed to Casablanca Records and announced his debut EP Musings, to be released October 9. (Your EDM)
  • Kanye West revealed some classic house-sampling new music during his infamous New York Fashion Week show. (Dancing Astronaut)
  • DFA Records duo YACHT have launched a new website which starts playing LA Plays Itself when Uber surge pricing reaches 1.1 times the normal rate in Los Angeles. A Darq E Freaker remix starts when the rate doubles. (Resident Advisor)
  • Techno DJ and Token boss Kr!z was injured in a traffic collision last week, forcing him to cancel his upcoming appearance at Culture Box in Copenhagen. (Resident Advisor)
  • Deadmau5 has been forced to rename his Entropy tour after discovering it already has a section 40 trademark on it. (Your EDM)
  • Benga has shared the reasons behind his retirement from DJing, revealing that he has developed bipolar disorder through taking drugs, with “excessive touring” bringing on schizophrenia. (Mixmag)
Albums
  • Battles – La Di Da Di (Observer - Kitty Empire)
  • Disclosure - Caracal (FT - 3* Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, Sunday Times - Dan Cairns, Times2 – 3* Will Hodgkinson, Guardian – 3* Harriet Gibsone, Star – 4* James Cabooter)
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