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Pete Tong's Essential New Tune

Raiva

Trikk, MEUTE

Innervisions

out now

Comment
"Portugal's Trikk returns with his first release of 2025. He joins forces with the eleven-piece powerhouse Hamburg brass band called MEUTE. I think this is a future classic. Influenced by riffing vibes of label boss Âme's ENT from last year 'Asa'. It also has shades of Kolsch's 'Grey'. I hope you are gonna love it as much as we do."
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 30.57 here.

Contact
Label: Innervisions
Management: Rouven Lüer / Michael Quack
Radio & Club: Will Brigham, Your Army
Live Agents: TS Agency

18 Mar 2025

Business

Believe published its financial results for the year ending 31 December 2024, showing revenues of €988.8m across its entire business, up 12.3% year-on-year. (DMN)

News and Features

Youth Music launches £1 million fundraising campaign to save grassroots projects. (DJMag)
IMS Ibiza is to spotlight and celebrate four decades of Jungle and Drum'n'Bass with a curated programme and event. (RotD) The theme of the April 23-25 event is intergenerational exchange.

Brand Partnerships

Tomorrowland has partnered with architect Dieter Vander Velpen to incorporate its signature dreamlike designs into luxury hotels, entertainment venues and more. (EDM)

Digital

DJ and club night discovery platform Dancefloor launches, describing itself as "is to club nights what Songkick is for gigs". (RotD)
SoundCloud has shared a new documentary focusing on electronic music producers from the Latin diaspora. (DJMag)
Spotify says it paid more than $10bn in royalties to the music industry in 2024, more than 60% of its €15.7bn in total revenue in its annual report Loud and Clear. Nearly 1,500 artists earned at least $1mn in royalties, which includes 80% of that group not having a song reach Spotify’s 'Top 50' chart. For the first time ever, an artist who received one in every million streams generated over $10,000 on average in 2024, which is 10x what the same streamshare would have generated a decade ago. Over the past decade, the 10,000th-ranked artist has seen their royalties increase almost 4x – from $34,000 to $131,000, while the 100,000th-ranked artist has seen their generated royalties multiply by over 10x – increasing from under $600 in 2014 to almost $6,000 in 2024. (TechCrunch) Half of Spotify’s royalties are going to independent artists. (HR)

Live

Sergio Ricciardone, the founder and director of Turin's C2C Festival, has died. He was 53 years old. (RA)
Coachella 2025 to debut new 20,000-square foot Red Bull Mirage structure at Quasar Stage. (Billboard)
Tomorrowland Winter has announced its full streaming programme for 2025. (DJMag)
Chicago’s ARC Festival has revealed the full line-up for its 2025 edition. (DJMag)

Comment, Opinion and Analysis

The BPI reported the UK recorded music market, across streaming, physical/download formats, public performance rights, and sync, achieved a decade of continuous growth in 2024 with revenue rising by 4.8% to £1.49bn. (RotD)
Spotify paid over $4.5bn to music publishers over the last two years, so why are songwriters struggling? (Variety)
Spotify is trumpeting big paydays for artists – but only a tiny fraction of them are actually thriving. (Guardian)
Midia released its annual recorded music market shares report. (Midia) The global recorded music market in 2024 reached $36.2bn, up 6.5%.

Beatport

Diversity + Parity Fund: Black House Radio's Mission to Celebrate Black Artistry and the Evolution of House Music (Beatportal)
Indo Warehouse: 10 Essential Indo House Records (Beatportal)
Beatportal Exclusive: Storm Mollison - A Journey of Groove, Soul, and Sound (Beatportal)
Will Clarke & Armada Music Launch 'Midnight Mass' Remix Contest (Beatportal)
Playlist of the Week: Indira Paganotto (Beatportal)
Mau P Secures a Beatport #1 with "The Less I Know The Better" (Beatportal)
Dramatically speed up your DJ setlist prep (Beatportal)

Clubs

Ibiza:
Calvin Harris is heading to Ushuaïa Ibiza this summer for the club's debut "double residency". (DJMag)
Saturday nights are all about BRESH at Amnesia in 2025. (Ibiza Spotlight)
Glitterbox has revealed a 2025 summer programme at Hï Ibiza. (RA)
Boiler Room will host its first-ever Ibiza club residency at Amnesia on Thursdays this summer. (RotD)
Motion Bristol has presented a new bid to their landlords to extend their agreement, which is due to expire in July, but the team said that it's "increasingly likely" the venue will close. (RA)
At least 59 dead after nightclub fire in North Macedonia. (RA)
Berlin Police are looking into the alleged sexual assault at Berghain, which was reported earlier in March. (Mixmag)

Deals

Ministry of Sound has signed an extensive partnership deal with ticketing platform Dice. (RotD)

Streams & Podcasts

RA.980 Philippa Pacho (RA)
bullet tooth | Boiler Room SYSTEM: Bristol (Boiler Room)
Oppidan | Boiler Room SYSTEM: Bristol (Boiler Room)
Hamdi | Boiler Room SYSTEM: Bristol (Boiler Room)
ALISHA groovy tech-house DJ set live from DJ Mag HQ (DJMag)
Don Diablo epic DJ set live From Bootshaus, Cologne (DJMag)

Artist and Music Features

Six emerging artists you need to hear: March 2025 (DJMag)
Five artists to check out in March (Mixmag)
A history of vocal dub techno in ten tracks. (RA)
Selections: DJ Holographic (DJMag)
Recognise 079: MoMA Ready (DJMag)
5 highlights from John Summit’s soaring set at Billboard’s The Stage at SXSW. (Billboard)
The new age of Nigerian Electronic Music. (Mixmag)
Hardwell’s full-circle Story: His start at Ultra Miami to headlining its 25th anniversary. (Haute Living)
‘Everyone knew who he was’: James Hamilton, the ‘eccentric aristo’ who catalysed British club culture. (Guardian)
Carl Cox talks about why he is going all in on performing live electronic sets and why DJs who don’t are succumbing to “laziness”. (MusicTech)
Author and journalist, Liz Pelly: “Spotify is not the music business – it’s the technology industry”. (MusicAlly)
Maeve de Bordons speaks with Jennifer Marr about her new venture, The Legal Centre for Dance Music, and its mission to provide legal support to professionals in electronic music. Part 1 & Part 2.
Whether you’re looking to improve your DJ or production skills, locate funding and resources, or network with like-minded people in the electronic music industry, DJ Mag’s community resource directory is a hub for the best new workshops, courses, grant schemes and more.

Artist News

Calvin Harris has bought the pub where he used to drink in Dumfries before he became famous. (Sun)
Martin Garrix will play a trio of nights at the the L.A. State Historic Park this summer. (Billboard)
Everything But The Girl are set to play two small shows at London's Moth Club next month. (DJMag)
Hardwell told Haute Living: "AI can't come up with anything truly 'new'... it's always four steps behind" (DJMag)

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