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Pete Tong's Essential New Tune
Crazy For It (feat. Vinson)
Keinemusik & Boys Noize
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"The story is so. They've received many before, and I doubt this will be their last. Keinemusik are back. With an official new single teaming up with another man, heralding from Germany, the one and only Boys Noize. The track was partially recorded in Berlin and within the mythical walls of Rick Rubin's Shangri-La studios in Malibu. It was first unveiled beneath the ancient skies in Egypt during Keinemusik's set at the very foot of the pyramids at Giza. They then went on to perform it live for the first time with Vinson on stage at Coachella, it instantly became a live anthem. I can vouch for that, because I played it out at Ibiza last weekend, and everyone was singing the words, and it's only been released today. This week's ENT, 'Crazy For It' from Keinemusik and BoysNoize, featuring Vinson."
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 41.53 here.

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Label: Keinemusik
Radio: James Jackson & James Marsh, Listen Up
03 Jun 2025
News and Features
  • The Guardian to launch new investigative podcast series, Missing in the Amazon, honouring former Mixmag editor Dom Phillips. (Mixmag) 
  • Fan-to-fan exchange Tixel has become first ticketing company to introduce a £1 levy for LIVE Trust to support grassroots live music. (RotD) It also donated £20,000 to LIVE to assist its wider work advocating for the UK live music sector.  
  • Universal, Sony and Warner are pushing to collect license fees for their work and also receive a small amount of equity in generative AI companies Suno and Udio. (Mint) 
  • Massive Attack, HAAi, Annie Mac, and more urge Keir Starmer to “end UK complicity in Gaza horrors” in open letter. (DJMag) 
Digital
  • SyncIt, a discovery and licensing platform for artist-made electronic music, has launched. The platform uses AI to streamline the process of finding and licensing music for visual media syncs providing solutions in seconds from an initial 2,000-song catalogue. (RotD) It's founded by producer, DJ, and member of Disciples, Nathan Duvall. 
  • SoundCloud CEO Eliah Seton has responded to backlash over the platform’s stance on AI as outlined in its Terms Of Use. (NME) 
  • Spotify execs talk superfans, AI and Wrapped 2024 backlash. (Spotify) 
Live
  • Massive Attack have expanded the line-up for their 100% battery-powered performance at LIDO Festival this month. (DJMag) 
  • 46 UK festivals partner with War Child for fundraising ticket draw. (DJMag) 
  • Sheffield’s No Bounds announces Joy Orbison, Sicaria, Aba Shanti-I, and more for 2025 festival. (DJMag) 
  • Sónar has further addressed concerns around ownership of the Barcelona festival and has pledged to make a donation to NGOs working to help those in Gaza. (RA) 
  • Concerns have been raised about two dance music festivals, Existance and Gemfest, due to take place at the same Wiltshire venue on the same weekend. (BBC) 
Comment, Opinion and Analysis
  • How Live Nation is devouring the live music industry. (WSJ on YouTube) It has stakes in more than 425 subsidiary companies or organisations.  
  • European artists earned a record-breaking €1.7bn in royalties on Spotify in 2024 - a 15% year-on-year increase and nearly double what EU artists earned in 2020. (Spotify) Among the stats, the company note more than 17,000 EU artists earned more than €10,000, and more than 27,000 earned more than €5,000. 
  • UK recorded music exports rose in value by 1.9% in 2024 to £794.2m – the highest annual total since the BPI began its yearly survey in 2000 – but growth fell short of 2023’s 7.3% increase. (RotD) 
  • UK music business power players: 2025 list revealed. (Billboard) 
Beatport
  • Ozzy Riot’s PLUM JUICE: Breaking Rules, Beats, and Boundaries (Beatportal)
  • Dj Fucci: Beatport Next Stories 2025 (Beatportal)
  • Beatportal Exclusive: Greta Levska Reconfigures the Club Template with ‘Las Perras’ (Beatportal)
  • Playlist of the Week: Loco Dice (Beatportal)
  • GiGi FM: Shedding Skins and Shaping Sound in the Year of the Snake (Beatportal)
  • The Many Shades of Mantra: A Life Lived Through Drum & Bass (Beatportal)
  • Eats Everything explores Beatport Streaming on the CDJ-3000s (Beatport)
Clubs
  • The cofounder of Tbilisi club Bassiani has left the country after his family home was raided by Georgian police last month. (RA) 
  • Berghain relaunches in-house Ostgut Ton label after four-year hiatus. (RA) 
Deals
  • Producer, DJ and remixer Bob Sinclar has signed a global administration and sub-publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music, covers a catalogue of more than 350 works. (RotD) 
  • Sony Music Publishing announced the worldwide signing of songwriter, producer, artist, remixer and DJ Tino Piontek, professionally known as Purple Disco Machine, to an exclusive songwriter agreement. (RotD) 
  • Round Hill Music has acquired the catalogue of Swedish DJ Linus Eklow. (RotD)  
Streams & Podcasts
  • RA.991 BADSISTA (RA) 
  • tokyovitamin | Boiler Room: Hong Kong (BoilerRoom) 
  • TSHA | Boiler Room: Hong Kong (BoilerRoom)
  • Ahadadream live from DJ Mag HQ (DJMag) 
Artist and Music Features
  • Immersive VR exhibition brings UK acid house history to life. (DJMag) 
  • How Phonique balances deep house roots with modern routines. (Magnetic) 
  • Inside the Grand Opening of Ibiza's [UNVRS] Club, Where reality bends and bathrooms have their own DJ booths. (EDM) 
  • Going wild: How Nathy Peluso set a new precedent for Latin pop club remixes (Mixmag) 
  • Bianca Oblivion has two Master’s degrees — but music, she says, ‘Is my life’ (Billboard) 
  • ‘This s–t is not normal’: Backstage with Mau P at Coachella (Billboard) 
  • Bakermat: “I love keeping imperfections in a track — it’s nice for people to hear that the music is made by another human” (MusicTech) 
  • ‘No artist creates just because there’s a screen’: In the studio with Anyma (Billboard) 
  • ‘I love everything he does, except for that’: Deadmau5 & REZZ discuss REZZMAU5 (Billboard) 
  • Pete Tong on life as a legendary DJ: How the music star went from playing £100 sets in Kent villages to taking over the Royal Albert Hall (Mail) 
  • Music is too important to be left to the marketplace. A conversation with Liz Pelly (Dada - Damon Krukowski) 
  • Keith Jopling explores the impact of AI on the music industry, exploring if the threat of AI to music is more existential than real. (FAC) 
  • How data is shaping the modern music landscape and helping artists market to key fans. (Digital Frontier) 
  • Spotify’s global head of music vertical, Charlie Hellman, talks about the current state of the music industry, how the music streaming era has impacted artists, how artists actually get paid by Spotify, competing with YouTube, the surge in AI-generated music, and artists’ biggest frustrations with Spotify. (Ringer) 
  • Industry Insider: An interview with Beatport CEO Robb McDaniels (Mixmag) 
Artist News
  • Nicole Moudaber has launched MoodCollective, a new record label dedicated exclusively to house and tech house music. (EDM) 
  • Grimes cancels D.C. World Pride appearance, citing "family issues". (Billboard) 
  • Getter is officially returning to the stage after an indefinite hiatus. (EDM) 
  • HAAi announces new album, HUMANiSE. (RA) 
  • The Menendez Brothers have issued an appeal for a DJ bag to be returned after it was stolen at London club fabric. (DJMag) 
  • Solid Grooves has marked the label’s 100th release with a new various artists compilation. (DJMag) 
  • Italian artist Manuel Fogliata, AKA Nuel, has died. (RA) 
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