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BEN TURNER
Co-Founder, International Music Summit
Pete Tong's Essential New Tune
Bombay Acid
Indo Warehouse
Crosstown Rebels
out now
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"Damian Lazarus's label Crosstown Rebels continues a strong run for the back end of 2025. SYREETA has also turned in an impressive remix of this tune, but I'm going to go for the original created by Kunal Merchant, co-founder of the Indo Warehouse project, featuring Grammy-nominated artist Raja Kumari on vocal duty. This week's ENT is 'Bombay Acid' from Indo Warehouse presents Kunal Merchant, featuring Raja Kumari."
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 33.55 here. 
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Label: Crosstown Rebels
04 Nov 2025
Business
  • Universal Music has reported a 5.3% year-on-year revenue improvement for Q3 2025, when recorded music streaming revenue turned in a modest 1.6% YoY increase. (DMN) A summary of Q3 2025 and year-to-date results. (RotD)
  • Broadwick Group, known for Printworks London, Magazine London and Manchester’s Depot Mayfield, has secured a new financing partnership to accelerate its next phase of expansion in the UK and internationally. (AAA) 
News and Features
  • Radio 1 revealed the recipients of Annie Nightingale Pioneers 2025, dedicated to spotlighting exceptional women and non-binary DJs making waves in the global dance and electronic scene - Heléna Star, Saint Ludo, and Taahliah. (BBC) 
  • Beatport announced a new partnership with Youth Music, building on Beatport's Diversity + Parity Fund and Youth Music's ‘Rescue the Roots’ campaign. The fund will provide £15,000 in funding to four organisations. (RotD) 
  • Women in Music has announced the official re-launch of its UK chapter under the leadership of co-chairs AFEM's Trina Smith and TuneCore's Sarah Wilson. (MW) 
  • Irving Azoff and the Music Artists Coalition responded to Universal Music Group’s partnership with AI platform Udio, demanding clarity and compensation for creators. (DMN) 
  • Universal Music Group and Udio announced industry-first strategic agreements, under which the companies settled copyright infringement litigation and will collaborate on new commercial music creation, consumption and streaming experience. The new platform will be launched in 2026. (MusicAlly) 
  • Universal Music Group and independent multi-modal generative AI company Stability AI announced a strategic alliance to develop next-generation professional music creation tools, powered by responsibly trained generative AI and built to support the creative process of artists, producers and songwriters globally. (RotD)  
Digital
  • DistroKid has introduced a platform designed to let artists set up online stores and sell merchandise featuring their artwork. (RA) 
  • SoundCloud has launched a new ‘all-in-one’ subscription plan for the musicians, podcasters and creators who upload to the service. (SoundCloud) CEO Eliah Seton interviewed about the future. (MusicAlly)
Live
  • Floating Points, Four Tet and SHERELLE are among the artists playing Boomtown Fair 2026. (RA) 
  • Music festival EXIT previously announced it will not be held next year at the usual Petrovaradin Fortress, due to political pressure from the Serbian authorities. Instead, events will be held in Malta, Croatia, the Great Pyramids of Giza, and India, with more to be announced. (RotD) 
  • GALA Festival has revealed the first wave of artists for its 2026 festival. (DMY) 
  • UNTOLD Dubai unleashes its full daily line-up. (EDMTunes) 
  • Croatia's Love International Festival reveals first acts for 2025. (RA) 
  • DGTL Festival returns to Amsterdam’s iconic NDSM Docklands for its 14th edition in April 2026. (EDMTunes) 
Beatport
  • Miami Horror on the Art of Curation: Building Temporary Pleasures (Beatportal)
  • Q&A with SIPPY: Turning pain into power and sharing her story across the world’s biggest stages (Beatportal)
  • Swimming Paul turns heartache into motion on 'Smiling Through the Pain 2' (Beatportal)
  • Behind The Label: Qilla Records (Beatportal)
  • Playlist of the Week: Sara Landry (Beatportal)
  • Bakey’s debut album is a love letter to UK Sound System Culture (Beatportal)
  • Speed up your music digging with Beatport DJ (Beatport)
Clubs
  • New club to open in the disused Peckham Palais building next year, called Palais. (DJ Mag) 
  • New 3,500-capacity warehouse to open in Derby, ULTRA. (RA)  
  • Ministry of Sound to revive heritage club nights with new event series, From The Archives. (DJ Mag) 
Streams & Podcasts
  • Andy C | Boiler Room: London (Boiler Room) 
  • Armin van Buuren & KI/KI live at AMF 2025 (Armin van Buuren) 
  • Bonobo solo live at Cercle Odyssey, Paris (Cercle)
  • L.P. Rhythm | Mixmag Lab London (Mixmag) 
  • KILIMANJARO | Mixmag Lab London (Mixmag) 
  • Marsolo From DJ Mag HQ (DJ Mag) 
  • KITTY CA$H | Boiler Room x White Claw: LA (Boiler Room) 
  • Jyoty High Energy DJ Set for DJ Mag Presents at Skatecafe, Amsterdam (DJ Mag) 
  • Delilah | Mixmag Lab London (Mixmag) 
  • RA.1011 Carrier (RA) 
  • Roland Clark 'I Get Deep' | The Making Of A House Anthem (DJ Mag) 
  • AlphaTheta has announced a new Equal Beats podcast, which will focus on stories and insights from leading female/non binary artists from the electronic music world. (Mixmag) 
Artist and Music Features
  • Berlin clubs kick the drug habit as sober nights lure crowds. (Observer) 
  • Metadata lives and breathes across everything we do. But what does it actually mean and how does it affect those working in music? (Synchblog) 
  • Charlotte de Witte: nothing left to prove. (DJ Mag) 
  • Paul van Dyk talks about the state of modern trance, what it takes to create a legacy and writing his most recent album. (RA) 
  • Chris Avantgarde on his groundbreaking new imprint Hyperreal. (YourEDM) 
  • Paul Webster talks ‘Holding The Light’, Tiësto, Luminosity and more. (EDMTunes) 
  • Is Afro House killing dance music? (CULTR) 
  • Inside PHANTOMGRID: Joachim Pastor discusses memory, machines, and control. (Magnetic) 
  • Radical North: Industrial Coast proves experimental music and culture can flourish beyond England's big cities. (Mixmag) 
  • Is London’s next superclub this warehouse by a sewage works in Barking? The 4,000-capacity Eutopia is independently owned and run by clubland veterans – and despite being on the city’s eastern fringe, clubbers say they’re prepared to trek. (Guardian) 
  • New Noise: How Loudness became a creative tool. (RA) 
  • The rise of headphone listening has changed us profoundly—and maybe not for the better. (Atlantic)
  • Selections: K Motionz (DJ Mag) 
  • The 15 best melodic techno tracks of October 2025. (Magnetic) 
Artist News
  • Clarky, early jungle DJ and producer, has died. (Mixmag) 
  • Paul van Dyk announces new immersive live show, CORE360, with New York debut. (DJ Mag) 
  • Fatboy Slim’s Brighton Big Beach Boutique returns with three shows in June 2026. (NME) 
  • Anyma was named as League of Legends Worlds 2025 Co-Creative Director. (EDMTunes) 
  • Skrillex to play Berghain set for ‘Live From Earth’ next month. (EDMTunes) 
  • Sub Focus and Grimes drop hypnotic new single ‘Entwined’. (YourEDM) 
  • Diplo has revealed that Jack Ü, his defunct project with Skrillex, recorded a complete second album prior to the duo’s split. (EDM) 
  • Swedish House Mafia plan to host NYE Show in San Francisco. (EDMTunes) 
  • The John Lewis department store chain Christmas TV advert features the 1990s club classic 'Where Love Lives' by Alison Limerick as its soundtrack, which segues into a slower new version by the British singer and producer Labrinth. (Guardian) 
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