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Let It Go
Louie Vega, The Martinez Brothers
Cuttin Headz
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"This week’s ENT comes from last week’s guests The Martinez Brothers who launched our new feature ‘Club Paradise’. Stevie and Chris combine with their hero and mentor Louis Vega on this. It also features Marc E. Bassey and we love it, it’s just so smooth."
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 35.37 mins here.
Contact
Label: Matt Tolfrey, Cuttin Headz
Management: Shauna Slevin, RT Agency / Josh Andriano, indie-pop! 
Radio: James Jackson, Listen Up
Club: James Marsh, Listen Up
Online: Dujon Fairweather, Listen Up
Live: Steve Hogan, WME 
29 Nov 2019
Business
  • eBay has struck a $4.05bn cash deal to sell StubHub to rival reseller Viagogo. (TechCrunch)
News and Features
  • Amsterdam pop-up club Radio Radio will continue to operate for two more years (RA) 
  • London Music Conference has launched its Accelerator Program for aspiring electronic artists and industry talent. (RotD) 
  • The Amsterdam Dance Event board is looking for a new festival director, as Mariana Sanchotene leaves her position after a successful edition. (IQ)
  • Marshmello won the award for Favorite Artist – Electronic Dance Music at the American Music Awards. (EDMTunes) 
  • SFX Entertainment founder and EDM titan Robert Sillerman dies aged 71. (RA) 
  • Scientists from the University of Manchester are creating a blueprint to help bands and pop stars to perform live and tour the world without contributing to climate change after being approached by Massive Attack. (BBC)
Live
  • Snowbombing announces Richy Ahmed, Roni Size and Loyle Carner for 2020. (Mixmag) 
  • Ed Banger Records has announced a party that will take place at Electric Brixton in London on the 31 January 2020. (Mixmag) 
  • Dekmantel has shared the line-up for Dekmantel Selectors 2020 which will take place at The Garden Resort in Tisno, Croatia. (DJ Mag) 
  • Junction 2 festival has locked in Maceo Plex, Octo Octa, Joy Orbinson and more. (DJ Mag) 
  • Armin van Buuren, Steve Aoki, Sven Väth and more are locked for World Club Dome Las Vegas, which will be held at the mammoth event's German home of Commerzbank Arena, Frankfurt, from 5-7 June 2020. (DJ Mag) 
  • HTRK, Jon Hopkins and The Caretaker & Weirdcore confirmed for Netherland's Rewire Festival in 2020. (RA)
  • Mala and Kode9 booked for Comunité 2020 in Oaxaca, Mexico. (RA) 
  • Diynamic and Ricardo Villalobos locked in for OffWeek in Barcelona. (Mixmag) 
Comment, Opinion and Analysis
  • Culture shock: Dissecting a decade of upheaval in Ibiza. (Mixmag) 
  • Why is 2019 so nostalgic for 80s rave? (Guardian) 
  • Bust to boom: How drugs won the war on drugs. (Mixmag)  
  • We need to talk more about legal issues around training musical AIs. (MusicAlly)
  • Three supply-side indicators that signal the new music industry has arrived. (Midia)
Clubs
  • Jungle Jam will host a party at The Cause on 6 December to raise funds for Centrepoint, a charity that supports homeless and vulnerable youth. (Mixmag) 
  • London club The Cause has been granted an extension to stay open. (RA) 
  • A new 1,000-capacity club called District 3 will open its doors next weekend in Stoke-On-Trent. (DJ Mag) 
  • Hakkasan in Las Vegas has confirmed Steve Aoki, Calvin Harris, and Tyga for their New Year’s Eve 2020. (DA)
  • Printworks reveals spring 2020 programme with DJ Koze, Orbital and Annie Mac. (RA) 
Deals
  • DJ and producer Dillon Francis has signed a global publishing agreement with Big Deal Music Group and Diplo’s Mad Decent Publishing. (Billboard)
Streams & Podcasts
  • RA.704 Esa (RA)
  • DT672 – T.Williams (DT) 
  • Louie Vega & Honey Dijon B2B (RA) 
  • On Cue: Jazz Consortium (DJ Mag) 
  • Pangaea techno set | Fred Perry x Made Thought x Mixmag (Mixmag) 
  • Joe Smooth in The Lab NYC (Mixmag) 
  • Marco Faraone in The Lab Mumbai (Mixmag) 
  • Wehbba in The Lab LA (Mixmag) 
  • Ana Lilia in The Lab Mumbai (Mixmag) 
  • KiNK in the Lab LDN (Mixmag) 
Artist and Music Features
  • Renegade Riddims: Kyrist (DT) 
  • In conversation: Eli Brown (Magnetic) 
  • 12 emerging artists you need to hear this November. (DJ Mag) 
  • Meet Cera Khin, the Tunisian-born DJ bringing dark hardcore vibes to the techno floor. (Electronic Beats) 
  • Q&A: Sigma (M Magazine) 
  • Wild relief: RP Boo and SHERELLE discuss the power of footwork. (Mixmag) 
  • The radical noise of Shanghai's underground. (DJ Mag) 
  • How German festival Time Warp became a global techno brand: 'We are crazy for electronic music, we come from the dance floor'. (Billboard) 
  • The essence of Time Warp according to the DJs that play there. (Mixmag) 
  • Bloody Mary: Keeping the fire burning. (DJ Mag) 
  • Richard Fearless: Death In Vegas man goes it alone (iDJ)  
  • Turning it up a notch with RAM Records founder Andy C. (DA) 
  • Is virtual reality the future of DJing? (DJTechTools)
  • The Art Of DJing: Craig Richards (RA) 
  • The real life of an underground DJ. (DJ Mag - Part I / Part II)
  • The 40 greatest dance albums of the decade. (Billboard) 
  • The 60 greatest dance songs of the decade. (Billboard) 
  • The 22 artists who shaped the decade. (Mixmag) 
  • Richie Hawtin discusses his Close Combined project: 'If techno's mission is still about pushing forward, I want to embody that'. (Billboard) 
  • The Chemical Brothers are as big today as they were in the 1990s — yet they never had a plan. (FT)
Artist News
  • Alexander Nut will celebrate ten years of his Eglo Records imprint with a new compilation, titled Eglo Records, Vol. 2. (Mixmag) 
  • Major Lazer have made the full first season of their animated TV series available to watch on YouTube. (DJ Mag) 
  • Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer have released their second album as Vilod, titled The Clouds Know. (XLR8R) 
  • Eric Prydz has shared a recent festival set under his techno alias Cirez D. (DJ Mag) 
  • Justice live documentary IRIS gains its wide release via YouTube Music. (DA) 
  • The Chainsmokers are set to executive produce a drama project in development at Freeform, called Demo. It will be about an aspiring songwriter trying to make her way in the music business. (Billboard) 
  • Louie Vega, Kerri Chandler and Josh Wink feature on Strictly Rhythm 30th anniversary compilation. (Fact) 
  • Avalon Emerson has shared her remix of Four Tet’s Teenage Birdsong. (DJ Mag) 
  • Richie Hawtin releases CLOSER mobile phone app. (RA) 
  • Carl Cox is playing a New Year's Eve rave in Hawaii, with sets planned for both Wednesday December 31st 2019 and Thursday January 1st 2020. (DJ Mag) 
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