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Pete Tong's Essential New Tune
My Cosmos Is Mine (ANNA Remix)
Depeche Mode
Sony Music
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Comment
"This week's ENT is a remix of a track from Depeche Mode's new album, Memento Mori, which is out now. The album was produced by Simian Mobile Disco and super-producer James Ford. The track was given its live world premiere when the young lady responsible for the remix played it for the first time in front of a few thousand ecstatic people up at Dalt Villa in Ibiza for the closing of IMS Ibiza at the iconic world heritage site."
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 33.35 here.
Contact
Label: Sony Music
Management: Depeche Mode - Jonathan Kessler / ANNA - Ben Turner, Graphite Music / Leticia van Riel, LVR Management
Publishing: Depeche Mode - EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI) o/b/o / Grabbing Hands Music Ltd. and / EMIMusic Publishing Ltd. (PRS)
Radio: Depeche Mode - Ellie Kemp, Sony Music
TV: Depeche Mode - Samantha Sewell, Sony Music
Online: Depeche Mode - Sofia Kubieck, Sony Music / ANNA - Neil Bainbridge, Neighbourhood
Live: ANNA - Brendan Long, WME / Andrew Kelsey, Liason (Americas)
16 May 2023
Business
  • Warner Music Group’s revenue was up 4.6% and its publishing division posted a strong quarter. In recorded music, revenue was up just 2.2% to $1.14bn, with streaming revenues up 2.2% to $773m, while publishing was up 14.7% to $257m. (Variety) 
News and Features
  • Black Artist Database (B.A.D.) has launched a record label with a VA compilation. (XLR8R) 
  • A European Parliament vote has set the stage for final negotiations on the AI Act, which EU officials are billing as “the world’s first rules on artificial intelligence.” Meanwhile, early music industry responses to the sweeping legislation’s progress appear positive. (DMN) 
  • Over 200 industry leading professionals have been confirmed to take part in panels and workshops for Brighton Music Conference. (RotD) 
Digital
  • CD Baby is to integrate Cosynd's Copyright Registration API into the CD Baby platform. (RotD)  
  • Turntable LIVE is now bringing artist-hosted listening parties — all on the classic Turntable dancefloor. (DMN) 
  • Google's MusicLM, an ‘experimental AI’ tool that can generate high-fidelity music from text prompts and humming is now available for the public to test out. (MusicAlly) 
  • TikTok has launched #NewMusic Hub, a dedicated space for artists around the world to showcase their new songs in one place. (RotD) 
Web3
  • RIP Metaverse: An obituary for the latest fad to join the tech graveyard. (BI) 
  • Web3 platform anotherblock has closed a €4m seed round, led by Stride.VC and joined by Axwell. (RotD)  
Live
  • Italy's Decibel Open Air announces 2023 line-up featuring Amelie Lens, Michael Bibi, Paul Kalkbrenner and more. (DJRevolution) 
  • EDC Las Vegas 2023 set times and festival map are out. (EDMTunes) 
  • Glastonbury’s Shangri-La arena has revealed a stacked line-up, including Nia Archives, Eliza Rose, Conducta, Prospa, and more. (Mixmag) 
Comment, Opinion and Analysis
  • The global dance music industry grew by 34% in 2022. (Midia) 
Tech
  • Korg unveils new synthesis technology in Berlin. (RA) 
  • Top DJ software of 2023 (Magnetic) 
Beatport
  • Break drops his fifth solo album, 'Digital World' (Beatportal)
  • Playlist of the Week: Kim Anh (Beatportal)
  • Artist of the Month: Bedouin invites us to their 'Temple Of Dreams' (Beatportal)
  • Watch: Grzly Adams performs using Beatport and Beatsource Streaming (Beatport)
Clubs
  • Ibiza:
    Amelie Lens has announced the full line-ups for her EXHALE residency at DC-10 in Ibiza this summer. (DJMag) 
    Amsterdam house music label PIV Records has announced its return to Ibiza this summer with six takeovers of Cova Santa. (Mixmag) 
    Ibiza 2023 clubbing updates (IbizaSpotlight) 
  • London's Cabin Fever to host Freerotation party at The Cause. (RA) 
  • Love Family Park returns to Germany at brand new venue after 4 year hiatus. (Mixmag) 
Deals
  • DJ, producer and singer-songwriter Nia Archives has signed a worldwide publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music. (RotD) 
  • Pendulum sign worldwide deal with Mushroom Group and Virgin Music. (RotD) 
  • Ministry Of Sound has signed an exclusive recording deal with Scottish DJ/production duo LF System. (RotD) 
Streams & Podcasts
  • RA.884 Etapp Kyle (RA) 
  • Conducta in The Lab LDN (Mixmag) 
  • Sasha b2b ANNA in The Lab Ibiza | 40 Years Of Mixmag (Mixmag) 
  • Sam Divine @ Snowbombing 2023 (Mixmag) 
  • Mochakk at Plaza de España, in Sevilla, Spain (Cercle) 
  • Four Tet x Fred again.. x Skrillex - Coachella 2023 (DJMag) 
  • IMS Dalt Vila 2023
    Ida Engberg B2B Marshall Jefferson (Beatport)  
    Pete Tong B2B Kölsch (Beatport) 
    Camelphat (Beatport) 
    Layla Benitez B2B Jellybean Benitez  (Beatport) 
    Jaguar x Taahliah (Beatport)
    Constanza Pucheta (Beatport)
Artist and Music Features
  • The 10 best electronic albums of all time (GQ) 
  • Selections: Terr (DJMag) 
  • The Sound Of: BITE (DJMag) 
  • Phonica Records: London’s spiritual home for electronic and dance (VinylFactory) 
  • Festival Epiphanies: Bass Coast's extraordinary community (RA) 
  • The Art of Production: Carmen Villain (RA) 
  • Fun from all angles: 10 photos from Pyramid's pre-season warm-up party at Amnesia (Mixmag) 
  • Minimal marathon: VBX's 10th birthday showcased its influential role in Amsterdam's underground (Mixmag) 
  • The forgotten women who built a 90s rave scene. (Vice) 
  • How Kelly G’s remix of Tina Moore’s ‘Never Gonna Let You Go’ laid the blueprint for 2-step garage (DJMag) 
  • Moby: "It is not nice being hated, maligned or ridiculed" (Telegraph) 
  • After 30 years of pop that refuses the easy path, Roisin Murphy has made the best album of her career. She discusses confronting audiences, timid record execs – and her own mortality. (Guardian) 
  • Alison Goldfrapp: "I lost my mojo a little bit. I lost my desire" (iNews) 
  • "I just woke up one day and went, ‘Come on!’": The reinvention of Alison Goldfrapp (Mixmag) 
  • Tvorchi rehearsed between air raid alarms. Now they're repping Ukraine at Eurovision. (NPR) 
  • Jayda G: sea change (DJMag) 
  • Detroit's Octave One on their contemplative new album, and three decades of techno innovation. (DJMag) 
  • Overmono on why they prefer sampling vocals to recording them (Fader) 
  • Purge all you want, Spotify, it won't cancel AI music – and Grimes has a better idea. (TechRadar) 
  • Nightlife is under threat like never before. Patrick Hinton investigates the scale of problems facing dance music in 2023 and considers solutions, speaking to the industry's most visible workers: artists. (Mixmag) 
Artist News
  • Armin van Buuren unveils “A State of Trance 2023” compilation with three unprecedented soundscapes. (EDMTunes) 
  • Daft Punk unveils 10th anniversary edition of Random Access Memories with 35 minutes of unreleased music. (Magnetic) 
  • Overmono have released their long-awaited debut album, Good Lies. (DJMag) 
  • LP Giobbi has released her debut album, Light Places, out now on Counter Records. (DJMag) 
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