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Pete Tong's Essential New Tune
Different Side (feat. Audio Bullys)
Michael Bibi & KinAhau
Solid Grooves Records
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"This week's ENT goes to one of Solid Grooves's co-founders, Mr Michael Bibi, alongside an emerging Mexican DJ and producer KinAhau, who has been featuring on Solid Grooves line-ups for a couple of years. The track features the genre-spanning electronic duo Audio Bullys. It's another ENT that many fans online have been eagerly awaiting for a number of months." 
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 35.38 here.
Contact
Label: Solid Grooves
Management: Michael Bibi: Alberto Bragado, Prime Culture / Audio Bullys: Adam Moujahid & Craig Pugnetti, 285 Group
Publishing: Audio Bullys: Sony Music Publishing
Radio: James Jackson, Tia Cousins & James Marsh, Listen Up / Jake Price, Dispersion PR
Club: Jake Price, Dispersion PR
Online: Jake Price, Dispersion PR / Mikey Corrighan, Listen Up
Live Agents: Michael Bibi: Alberto Bragado, Prime Culture / Audio Bullys: Laetitia Descouens, Decked Out
07 Mar 2023
Business
  • SoundExchange distributed $255.6m in digital royalties to creators in Q4 2022, an increase of 2.5% over Q4 2021. (Hypebot) 
  • Deezer’s 2022 results show it generated €451.2m in overall revenue, up 10.6% year-on-year at constant currency on the equivalent figure from 2021. Operating loss was €166.7m, up from €120.6m. It finished 2022 with 9.4m subscribers globally, down from 9.6m. (MBW) 
  • Universal Music Group reported quarterly revenue from music streaming surpassed €1bn for the first time. Q4 revenue rose 16.7% to €2.94bn, with streaming revenue up 13.3% from a year ago. For 2022 overall, revenue was €10.34bn, a 21.6% increase over 2021. (Variety) 
News and Features
  • Italian ravers plan more nationwide protests against new 'anti-rave' law. (RA) 
  • Fast Company published its annual Most Innovative Companies list. In the music category BandLab came top, followed by Subtext, Tunecore, SoundExchange, Veeps, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Yousician, Black Lives in Music, and Dance Cry Dance. (FastCo) 
  • UK Music, and its music industry members, are backing a proposed new organisation, Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority (CIISA), which would lead work in the creative industries to prevent and tackle workplace bullying and harassment. (RotD) 
  • Musicians including Brian Eno are to name the Earth as a co-writer of their music, in order to divert a portion of their royalties towards environmental activism. (Guardian)  
  • WMG CEO Max Lousada, TaP Music Co-Founder Ben Mawson, SHERELLE, Elijah and Fat Tony are among the first speakers announced for electronic music industry summit IMS Ibiza. (RotD)  
Digital
  • Music rights and data platform Blokur partners with Reactional Music, the music delivery platform and personalisation engine to help connect the worlds of music and games. (RotD) 
  • Digital music distributor TuneCore has launched royalty splits, with the aim to 'better serve the self-releasing artist community and facilitate seamless collaboration between music creators'. (RotD) 
  • In April of 2021, the EU’s European Commission formally accused Apple of distorting “competition in the music streaming market. Now, amid continued pressure from Spotify and others, the Commission has further narrowed its antitrust probe to focus on App Store rules’ impact on streaming platforms. (Spotify) 
  • Back in 2021, Tidal launched direct-to-artist payments as one component of a far-reaching update. Now, weeks after partnering with Universal Music Group to develop a “new economic model for music streaming,” the Block-owned platform has officially ended the Direct Artist Payouts (DAP) program. (TechCrunch) 
  • B2B streaming company Tuned Global has acquired music tech company Pacemaker and its AI-driven DJ and curation applications. (RotD) 
Web3
  • Web3 Technology isn't in vogue like it was last year. But it's still the future of the music business. (MBW) 
Live
  • 15 Montreal festivals have come together to request additional financial support from the local government. (RA) 
  • Movement Detroit has revealed the complete line-up for its 2023 festival this summer. (DJMag) 
  • Kyiv festival ICKPA to host Berlin edition in 2023. (RA) 
  • fabric has announced the second wave of acts for its inaugural EXODUS Festival edition. (Mixmag) 
  • Belfast's AVA Festival adds more names for 2023. (RA) 
  • Edinburgh's Terminal V festival was officially granted its licence at a committee meeting. (RotD) 
  • Hardwell, Martin Garrix, Carl Cox, Adam Beyer and more are confirmed as headliners at Ultra Europe. (EDM)  
  • Dan Shake, Francesco Del Garda, Jayda G, Sama’ Abdulhadi and more are confirmed for Egyptian festival Sandbox in May. (Mixmag)  
  • d.Bridge, Evian Christ, Calibre, Rosa Pistola are set to play at the Brussels Horst Arts & Music festival this May. (Mixmag) 
  • KALLIDA festival announces 2023 line-up including dBridge, LCY and Mella Dee. (Mixmag) 
  • Creamfields has shared its line-ups for both the North, and South, editions of the festival, including Calvin Harris, Carl Cox, Hannah Laing, Swedish House Mafia and Fatboy Slim. (Mixmag) 
Comment, Opinion and Analysis
  • The future of music curation: Two divergent paths. (MusicX - Maarten Walraven) 
  • Creative AI’s next big discussion: art, plagiarism, and copyright. (MusicAlly) 
Tech
  • Christian Henson, co-founder of music software company Spitfire Audio, has announced that he will no longer have any involvement in the company, or its subsidiary operations Pianobook and LABS, following a dispute over alleged transphobia. (Mixmag) 
  • 303 Day: The best free 303 samples (DJMag) 
  • Korg re-releases ARP Odyssey in kit form. (RA) 
Beatport
Clubs
  • ​New nightlife safety app Where You At? is to be rolled out in the UK soon that will help you find your friends on a night out. (Mixmag) 
  • Blawan, Dr Rubinstein, Ellen Allien, Marcel Dettmann, Mood II Swing and Nastia are among those confirmed for London club E1 upcoming season. (Mixmag) 
  • Team behind Berlin's Renate opens new club, M01. (RA) 
  • Pikes unveils opening weekend date, 21-23 April. (IbizaSpotlight)  
  • ANTS colony celebrates ten years strong at Ushuaïa. (IbizaSpotlight) 
  • Calvin Harris returns to Ushuaïa Ibiza for 2023 Residency. (GrooveCartel) 
  • Wynn Nightlife announces Swedish House Mafia as the final addition to Las Vegas artist residencies. (EDMTunes) 
Deals
  • DJ, broadcaster, and selector Jaguar has launched record label Utopia, with the first release comes from Scotland's Van Damn. (RotD) 
Streams & Podcasts
  • Raketka | Boiler Room: Goa (BoilerRoom) 
  • RA.874 Parrish Smith (RA) 
  • Joplyn in The Lab LA (Mixmag) 
  • Vintage Culture @ Amnesia Ibiza (DJMag) 
  • Groove Armada in The Lab Liverpool (Mixmag)
Artist and Music Features
  • Breaking Through: DJ Gigola (RA) 
  • Get to know Gayance, the DJ and producer expressing joyfulness through music (Mixmag) 
  • Fresh Kicks 195: Stones Taro (DJMag) 
  • The pulse of pop music is changing. (Atlantic) 
  • Crossover and collectivity: Why London's house underground is evolving. (Mixmag) 
  • Last night AI DJ saved my life? Testing Spotify’s virtual radio host. (Guardian) 
  • How Drexciya's 'The Quest' embedded the Detroit act's mythology in dance music history. (DJMusic) 
  • Elevate your music production skills with Gui Boratto's masterclass: Learn from a Brazilian electronic music legend. (Magnetic) 
  • Are sped-up songs set to become the future of music? (TheMusic) 
  • Harder, better, faster, stronger: Has dance music got harder and faster? (Mixmag) 
  • AVA London founder Sarah McBriar on how the creative industry can bring the spirit of SXSW to the UK. (MusicWeek) 
  • They Hate Change: parallel worlds (DJMag) 
  • New Jersey's restless Riovaz finds his groove - and he's already eying the next thing. (Billboard) 
  • Continental sound: King Perryy is creating a paradigm shift in Afro Dancehall music. (Mixmag) 
  • Karen Harding Masterclass: Vocal and Songwriting (Magnetic) 
  • A Tale of Ten City: Marshall Jefferson and Byron Stingily on the Past and Present of Love Is Love. (Flood) 
  • In Conversation: Francis Mercier, Michael Brun and Nitefreak on Black History Month. (Forbes) 
  • Cosmicat is Saudi Arabia's first female superstar DJ and producer: "They wouldn’t take me seriously - all you can do is show them how it's done" (MusicRadar) 
  • deadmau5 and Kaskade on Kx5, the perils of signing for a major label and why we should “unleash the beast” of AI-written pop songs. (MusicTech) 
Artist News
  • re:ni and Laksa have launched a label together, called RE:LAX. (DJMag) 
  • Nabihah Iqbal announces new album, ‘DREAMER’, on Ninja Tune. (DJMag) 
  • Jamie Jones has unveiled new record label, Paradise, based on his global party series. (EDM) 
  • Dave Hill, celebrated audio equipment designer, dies aged 68. (RA) 
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