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Pete Tong's Essential New Tune
Asa
Âme
Innervisions
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Comment
"It comes from the German duo Frank Wiedemann and Kristian Beyer. They are back with their first original material in three years. Âme are at the core of the label Innervisions alongside Dixon. For me such an influential duo, who provided one of my all-time favourite Essential Mixes back in the day, 2006 to be precise. I think I drove around Ibiza in my car all summer listening to it. I am very happy to have them back. This is a special record. It's anthemic. It's a banger and this week's ENT."
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 30.25 here.
Contact
Label and all other requests: Michael Quack, Innervisions
Management: Leon Alexander, Redlight Management & Felix Bierling, Chab Chop
Publishing: Michael Quack, Innervisions
Radio: Christian Nockall, Your Army
Club: Will Brigham, Your Army
Live: Dominik Ceylan, T S Agency 
16 Jul 2024
Business
  • The board of Downtown Music Holdings, the parent company of independent distributors CD Baby and FUGA as well as a number of other publishing and rights administration businesses, is exploring a sale. (Billboard) 
  • Universal Music UK announced a sizable restructure, with many of its frontline labels reorganising into two groups. A new central division is to focus on media, marketing and data. (RotD) 
  • Dice is in talks to sell a significant stake that will value its business at hundreds of millions of dollars. (Bloomberg) At least three of the interested parties are private equity firms, according to sources. 
News and Features
  • Emerging DJs Boo and Shelly win the chance to perform at Radio 1’s Dance Weekend Ibiza 2024. (BBC) 
  • UK charity Music For All has launched a new three-year campaign calling for improvements in accessibility to music making. (DJMag) 
  • Anjunadeep announces the launch of its new imprint titled ‘Anjunadeep Explorations’. (Anjunabeats) 
  • Venue operator Broadwick Live has launched Broadwick Live Presents, a promoting vehicle that will see it work with external venues to present grassroots and established electronic music acts. (AAA) 
Digital
  • Equipping artists with the resources to fight artificial streams proactively, data-driven artist services company Amuse has introduced Stream Check, to increase data transparency and identify fraudulent streaming. (RotD) 
  • Beatdapp partners with Beatport to combat streaming fraud, which they report has been costing the music industry $2bn a year. (MusicAlly) 
  • How Fortnite and Roblox are becoming marketing tools for the music industry. (DigiDay) 
  • With a new integration, Shazam users will now be able to purchase tickets from Ticketmaster. (DMN) 
  • Apple Music has added requirements for all new uploaded music, including that all songs uploaded must include lyrics. (Hypebot) 
  • Resident Advisor and SoundCloud announced a strategic partnership to further connect artists and fans and improve music and event discovery by intermixing SoundCloud and RA profiles. (RotD) 
  • YouTube Music is introducing two new ways to boost song discovery on its platform - experimenting with an AI-generated conversational radio feature, and rolling out a new Shazam-like tool to help users discover the name of a song by singing, humming or playing parts of it. (TechCrunch) 
Comment, Opinion and Analysis
  • Why record labels need to move on from using data to impact the short term, to embed a culture of analysis for the long term. (Medium - Patrick Clifton) 
  • Music isn't getting worse, genre is (Midia) "Genre is not going away, but while it was once the only place music could go, it is now just one part of a much more nuanced and complex picture. And that's a good thing."  
  • The value of UK music sales (combining vinyl, CD and downloads) grew by 7.9% to £163.8m in the first half of 2024, according to figures compiled by ERA, significantly outpacing video sales and videogame sales. (RotD) Vinyl album sales were up 13.5% to £86.3m, CD sales 3.2% up to £57.9m, and streaming volume – the number of streams accessed was up 11%.
Beatport
  • Playlist of The Week: Janus Rasmussen (Kiasmos) (Beatportal)
  • Join the Beatport Campus Reps: Your Ticket to the Ultimate DJ Program (Beatportal)
  • Artist of the Month: Shygirl (Beatport)
  • Beatport x djay Streaming Sessions with Juicy M (Beatport)
Clubs
  • Ibiza:
    Cocoon is back on Ibiza as the party celebrates 25 years. (IbizaSpotlight)
    Arielle Free has been named as one of Swedish House Mafia's supporting acts for their six-week residency at Ibiza's Ushuaia club. (Sun) 
Deals
  • Boutique London-based music publisher Inverted Music UK is to represent the complete catalogue of electronic music pioneer John Mills-Cockell. (MW) 
Streams & Podcasts
  • Becky Hill & Wilkinson 'Afterglow' The making of a dance anthem (DJMag) 
  • RA.945 KYRUH (RA) 
  • Mateo Dufour b2b Julian Anthony in The Lab Amsterdam | Shelter (Mixmag) 
  • Sam Divine Live From DJ Mag HQ (Defected Takeover) (DJMag) 
  • Claptone B2B Dombresky @ Breakaway festival, Ohio (DJMag) 
  • DJ HEARTSTRING in The Lab LDN | Teenage Dreams (Mixmag) 
  • Major League DJz | Boiler Room: Miami (Boiler Room) 
  • Armand Van Helden | Boiler Room: Miami (Boiler Room) 
Artist and Music Features
  • The 15 best techno tracks of June 2024 (Magnetic) 
  • Fresh Kicks 211: Pizza Hotline (DJMag) 
  • Selections: Om Unit & James Bangura (DJMag) 
  • How to make money as a music producer: 7 fantastic ways of making ends meet in 2024 (Magnetic) 
  • Kelly Lee Owens is having the time of her life. (Face) 
  • The Art of Production: Hudson Mohawke (RA) 
  • Charli xcx Forever (RA) 
  • EX.721 Charli xcx: "I started in the clubs, and that's where my heart is." (RA) 
  • Tommy Cash is always in his rave era. (ElectronicBeats) 
  • Miss Monique: green light (DJMag) 
  • Look inside Michael Bibi's emotional night headlining the largest electronic show in London's history. (EDM) 
  • One of half of CamelPhat, Dave Whelan, talks about their Pacha Ibiza residency, that collab with Noel Gallagher, and doing everything in moderation. (Complex) 
  • Together with Snapdragon and a horde of contrarian creatives, ODESZA developed "Echoes," an ambitious project that reimagined tech as a tool for real-world, tangible togetherness. (EDM) 
  • John Summit’s ‘Comfort In Chaos’ debut album, relationship with Kaskade and more. (Billboard) 
  • Floorplan’s divine house music (DJMag) 
  • 20 questions with Salute: On their debut LP and inclusion riders making lineups ‘Less Tokenistic and more like promoters give a F–k’ (Billboard) 
  • Return to Genosys: The comeback of Block9's post-apocalyptic spectacle. (Mixmag) 
  • Now that Block9's NYC Downlow is one of Glastonbury's foremost nightlife temptations, changes have been made to cope with demand. This year its dark and intimate 'Room Two', The Meat Rack, doubled in size and really came into its own. (Mixmag) 
Artist News
  • Floating Points has announced a new album ‘Cascade’, set to land on Ninja Tune this September. (Mixmag) 
  • Or:la will release her debut album, 'Trusting Theta', this autumn. (DJMag) 
  • Massive Attack have shared full details of the decarbonisation measures that will be undertaken at their upcoming ACT 1.5 gig in Bristol. (DJMag) 
  • David Guetta and Armin van Buuren have released their monumental debut collaboration, 'In The Dark'. (EDM) 
  • Faithless have announced the title of their new album, ‘Champion Sound’, and shared a new single called ‘Find A Way’. (DJMag) 
  • Dekmantel celebrates ten years with 44-track compilation featuring Jeff Mills, Steffi. (RA) 
  • Anyma has been announced as the first electronic act to headline The Sphere in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve. (Billboard) 
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