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Pete Tong's Essential New Tune
My High (feat. Aminé)
Disclosure & slowthai
Island
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Comment
"I am happy to say this week's ENT is taken from Disclosure's third album Energy due for release next month. Guy and Howard have always wanted to work with rappers but previously didn't have a way of contacting them living in Reigate and being super young when they started out. The forthcoming album is also set to feature Mick Jenkins, Channel Tres and Common, but here they are teaming up with Amine and slowthai for an explosive new track called My High." 
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 32.18 here.
Contact
Label: Angela Grech, Island Records
Management: Method Management
Publishing: Caroline Elleray & Mark Gale, UMPG
Radio: Christian Nockall, Your Army
Club: Tom Currie, Your Army
TV: Tony Fletcher, Island Records
Online: Beth Drake & Annabel Crowhurst, Toast PR
Live: Tom Schroeder, Paradigm 
10 Jul 2020
Business
  • Los Angeles-born management company Milk & Honey, which largely works with songwriter and DJ/producer clients, has opened an Amsterdam office. (MBW)
  • International Music Summit (IMS) will present and publish the findings of the annual IMS Business Report on Thursday July 16 at 17.00 BST in an interactive Zoom webinar. The report will feature full and detailed data on the last twelve months in the electronic music industry, including the impact of the global pandemic and the total value of the industry pre and post virus. Kevin Watson the author of the business report will present the findings of 2020 in a 60 min keynote, followed by a live debate moderated by Billboard Dance Editor Katie Bain. (IMS)
News and Features
  • No Signal radio has launched a crowdfunding campaign for a permanent studio. (DJ Mag) 
  • Police shut down a 400-person rave in an Essex village this weekend. (DJ Mag) 
  • Youth Music has announced a new £2 million Incubator Fund aimed at tackling inequality in the music industry. (Mixmag) 
  • The Ibiza government have said they are backing the "Together for Health Heroes" scheme, which will offer free holidays to healthcare workers from across Europe. (DJ Mag) 
  • The Cause, Wire, the Barbican Centre, Platform 18 and others have responded to UK's £1.57 billion pandemic package for the arts. (RA) 
  • The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) have issued a statement in response to the UK government's £1.57bn rescue package for the Arts and Culture sectors, highlighting a lack of support for nightclubs and late night venues. (DJ Mag)
Digital
  • Facebook is expanding its fan subscriptions to more countries – edging further into Twitch’s territory. (DMN) 
  • Facebook is introducing a variety of new tools and features aimed at helping artists grow their business. (Symphonic) 
  • Spotify is to launch in Russia on 15 July and is expected to partner with Russian telco MTS. (Variety)
  • YouTube is rolling out a new analytics hub for creators on its platform, which will provide expanded real-time statistics for videos and allow artists the ability to see details on a song’s combined performance across all the videos in which it appears on the platform. (Billboard)
Live
  • An illegal desert rave in Las Vegas on 4 July broke social distancing rules. (EDMTunes) 
  • Refraction Festival and Fact to stream sets from DJ Stingray, Nyege Nyege Tapes and more. (Fact) 
  • Jonas Blue, The Shapeshifters and Sam Divine are set to perform at the UK's first socially distanced festival, Gisburne Park Pop-Up. (Standard) 
  • Nyege Nyege festival has announced plans for a digital festival in September. (DJ Mag)
  • Carl Craig, DJ Deeon, Ash Lauryn, Louie Vega and more to take part in Rave The Vote liverstream on 24 July. (RA) 
  • Organisers of Exit Festival in Serbia may have to reduce the capacity of this summer’s event by “more than 90%”, as the government moves to reinstate lockdown measures amid a new spike in Covid-19 cases. (IQ)
  • Virtual festival Rave Family Block Fest, which claimed to feature over 950 artists and 65 stages over four days, has faced criticism after a day. (YourEDM) 
Comment, Opinion and Analysis
  • How video games and VR could change festivals forever. (beatportal) 
  • How major music companies are depending on debt and credit to weather the pandemic. (Billboard)
Tech
  • Getting the most out of rekordbox. (RA) 
  • Teenage Engineering is launching a revenue-share scheme for Black and POC artists. (DJ Mag) 
Clubs
  • Brixton Jamm renovates outdoor spaces ahead of summer event series. Percolate, Channel One and more will host socially distanced parties at the venue this month. (RA) 
  • Paradise postpones 2020 season and launches 2021 super early bird tickets. (Ibiza Spotlight) 
  • Berlin club Watergate launches virtual club night with Pan-Pot, Adana Twins, Who Made Who and more tonight (10 July). (beatportal) 
  • Manchester's legendary nightclub The Haçienda has been recreated in VR. (DJ Mag) 
  • Fans of Glasgow club Sub Club have raised more than £110k after the venue launched a Save Our Sub fundraiser to prevent permanent closure. (Daily Record) Some fans have now asked for a refund after one of the clubs directors, Usman Khushi, boasted about his lavish lifestyle before £90k plea to save the venue. (Scottish Sun)
Streams & Podcasts
  • DT702 – Vele (UA) (DT) 
  • RA.735 Clark Price (RA) 
  • Mix Of The Day: Juliana Huxtable (RA) 
  • Magnetic Mix 105: WDDS (Magnetic) 
  • Podcast 651: Dave Harrington (XLR8R) 
Artist and Music Features
  • Mixmag's 40 best tracks of 2020 so far 
  • Label of the month: ESP Institute (beatportal) 
  • Selections: DJ Boring (DJ Mag) 
  • Renegade Riddims: Accelerated (DT) 
  • Q&A: Truth x Lies (DA) 
  • Steve Mac & Josh Butler: Two UK house titans go head-to-head (iDJ) 
  • Unsung Pioneers: The Burrell Brothers (beatportal) 
  • Asch Pintura on her livestream series, debuting on Anjunabeats, and Summereyes festival. (EDM.com) 
  • Producer Sessions 019: CloZee (DA) 
  • CloZee breaks down each track on her new LP: 'I'll always see a new album as a new chapter of my life' (Billboard) 
  • Meet the homebound DJs tipped to perform at Tomorrowland 2021. (Mixmag) 
  • Anz: "If you're in a position to make things better for other people, do it" (Mixmag) 
  • 20 questions with Shpongle's Simon Posford. (Billboard) 
  • Luciano on DJing after lockdown: "Dancing together is like a religious act" (Mixmag) 
  • Gregor Kraemer, Club der Visionaere founder, talks about the club’s history. (XLR8R) 
  • Mike Mago: “Technology is responsible for about 80 per cent of my success” (MusicTech) 
  • Anti-algorithmic music: How Bandcamp is helping artists beat the odds. (RA)
  • As attractions move through a phased period of reopening we have to ask: Are online experiences here to stay? (IQ)
  • The best electronic music venues in the world. (WeRaveYou) 
  • The rise of electronic music in Hong Kong. (TimeOut) 
  • DJ False Witness examines the "ideal listening space" and how club architecture changed dance music's global tastes. (Electronic Beats) 
  • How Rave Family built Minecraft’s biggest virtual music festival, with Steve Aoki, A-Trak, Paris Hilton and more. (Variety) 
  • A new generation of black artists are reclaiming the roots of techno music. (Washington Post)
  • From Flying Lotus to Fatboy Slim, here are 8 dance tracks that sampled Ennio Morricone. (Billboard) 
  • The Maestro: Ennio Morricone's innovations and personality are woven into dance music. (Mixmag) 
Artist News
  • Tiga and Hudson Mohawke team up for new track, Love Minus Zero. (RA) 
  • Monstercat celebrates nine years with compilation EP of ’90s dance covers. (DA) 
  • Robert Hood and 4 Hero appear on new anti-police brutality compilation, Break The Silence. (RA) 
  • The Avalanches have finished recording their third album. (DA) 
  • Former Cafe Del Mar resident José Padilla has launched a fundraiser following his cancer diagnosis. (DJ Mag) 
  • Slikback, Amazondotcom and LYZZA contribute to new Houndstooth compilation, Alterity. (RA) 
  • Carl Cox has said that Illegal raves during pandemic are “not the answer” in an interview on Sky News. (DJ Mag) 
  • Bassnectar has announced he will be "stepping back" from his career following multiple sexual misconduct allegations. (RollingStone) 
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