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Pete Tong's Essential New Tune
Confusion (feat. Ali Love)
Keinemusik
Keinemusik
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"This week's Essential New Tune comes from Adam Port, Rampa and &ME, better known as the Keinemusik crew. This is the third single from their forthcoming album. We love it. It's called Confusion featuring Ali Love."
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 33.00 here.  
Contact
Label: Daniel Rérat, Keinemusik 
Management: Keinemusik
Publishing: Keinemusik Edition
Club: Keinemusik
Online: Billy Burrell, 9PR 
24 Aug 2021
Business
  • DIY digital music distributor TuneCore has appointed Sarah Wilson as Head of TuneCore UK, with additional oversight of Ireland, New Zealand and Australia. (RotD) 
  • Linktree has acquired Songlink/Odesli, an automated music link aggregation platform. (MBW) 
  • Spotify is to spend up to $1bn between now and April 2026 to repurchase its own shares. The dollar amount represents just under 2.5% of Spotify’s market cap, and its shares rose 5.1% following the repurchase news. (TechCrunch) 
News and Features
  • London record store Phonica has launched another offshoot of its in-house label. (RA) 
  • UK nightclubs plead for passport clarity amid "clear signs" of a slowdown in bookings from the end of next month. (Times) 
Brand Partnerships
  • DGTL, the Dutch festival brand, has announced a partnership with Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) company SkyNRG. (RA) 
  • Honey Dijon wants to be a 'Proponent of Joy' in dark times with new Etsy collection. (Billboard) 
Digital
  • Performance platform Serenade enters the UK market and adds NFTs to its inventory of must-have music collectibles, including new and unreleased performances, to music, documentary footage, rare visuals and more. (RotD) 
Live
  • Tomorrowland has shared further details of the return of its winter festival to the French Alps next March. (DJMag) 
  • ADE in jeopardy as Dutch government closes nightclubs until at least 1 November. (Magnetic) 
Comment, Opinion and Analysis
  • 'We're seeing the change to a consumption model': How streaming has transformed the albums chart. (MW) 
Tech
  • Mixcloud has revealed a new feature, Mixcloud Studio. (RA) 
Beatport
  • Loopmasters are proud to present Felix Weldon – In The Groove. (Loopcloud)
  • Label of the Month - Planet E Communications (Beatportal) 
  • On Our Radar - August (Beatportal)
  • Playlist of the Week - GusGus (Beatportal)
  • Berlin's Eluize shows how she uses cue points and loops with Beatport LINK. (Beatportal)
  • Michał Jabłoński takes inspiration from the sound of nature. (Loopcloud)
Clubs
  • Iconic Tokyo club ageHa to close in 2022 after two decades. (RA) 
  • Berlin court rules that ban on indoor dancing cannot apply to vaccinated or recently recovered people. (RA) 
  • Nightclubs will be closed in the Netherlands until at least 1 November. (RA) 
  • Berlin club Revier Südost to shut temporarily after staff accused of racism and homophobia. (Mixmag) 
Deals
  • Sentric Music Group has signed William Orbit to an exclusive administration agreement. (RotD) 
Streams & Podcasts
  • Objekt: felt cute, might delete later (Objekt) 
  • Kaskade at SoFi Stadium (Kaskade) 
  • S.Murk in The Lab on Location, Cornwall (Mixmag) 
  • Jordan Nocturne in The Lab LDN (Mixmag) 
Artist and Music Features
  • Fresh Kicks 159: Sonido Berzerk (DJMag) 
  • 10 things to know about Kosovo's electronic scene: DJ Regard's guide to the country. (Billboard) 
  • The history of electronic music is inside a warehouse in Harleysville, Pa.(WHYY) 
  • How TikTok chooses which songs go viral. (Bloomberg) 
  • Beginner’s Guide To: Making your music sound more human. (DJMag) 
  • Saturday Night Session 051: Sam Blacky proves her house productions are just as compelling as her live performances with her long awaited debut EP release. (DA) 
  • Anyasa is bringing Indian traditional music and electronic sounds to the world. (Mixmag) 
  • How it all started: Dance Music's most influential labels reflect on their first-ever release. (EDM) 
  • The future is here: RCRDSHP is electronic dance music’s new digital collectibles platform. (Cultr) 
  • Is the party over in Ibiza? Not if you know the right people. (Times) 
  • Can Holly+ solve the problem of deepfake vocals? (Billboard) 
  • Endlesss: A creative operating system for the metaverse. (Endlesss) 
  • Lyra Pramuk & Eris Drew are on a mission to heal us all through music. (Mixmag) 
  • Remembering Paul Johnson: No Weaknesses (RA) 
  • The real story of how Daft Punk became the robots. (DJMag) 
  • The Blessed Madonna: “K-Hand and Paul Johnson did a great job of reaching out across generations" (Mixmag) 
  • Roger Sanchez: celebrating 20 years of ‘Another Chance’. (DJMag) 
  • Moodymann grants a rare interview reflecting on his legacy, his fascination with Prince, and his appearance as a main character in Grand Theft Auto. (GQ) 
  • DJ Carl Cox: ‘When I tell people my story, they don’t believe it’. (Guardian) 
  • How Carl Cox became known as the ‘Three-Deck Wizard’. (DJMag) 
Artist News
  • Aya Sinclair, better known as AYA, will put out her debut album on Hyperdub in October. (XLR8R) 
  • Arca to perform live in audio-visual exhibition at Halle am Berghain. (RA) 
  • Nubya Garcia has announced a remix album of her 2020 debut, Source. (RA) 
  • Fatboy Slim launches new Apple Music mix series, ‘Everybody Loves a Mixtape’. (DA) 
  • Disclosure release new EP Never Enough. (DJMag) 
  • Andrea Oliva launches label, All I Need, with new single, 'Final String'. (DJMag) 
  • Skrillex drops new single 'Don't Go'. (DJMag) 
  • SHERELLE will release a compilation highlighting some of her favorite Black electronic artists. (XLR8R) 
  • Renowned DJ and record producer Ian Carey has died at the age of 46. (EDM) 
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