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Versatile
L.P. Rhythm
Disorder
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"This week's ENT is from a man from the northeast. He's featured on my label, Yumi Records, but this track, he's taking it up a whole other level. It's L.P. Rhythm with this track 'Versatile', his debut on Disorder. Danny Howard opened up with this for our B2B at Glastonbury, and it erupted the festival. So here we go." 
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 30.09 here.
Contact
Label: Amy Collins, Disorder
Management: Joe O’Leary, Continuous Entertainment
Publishing: Copyright Control
Radio: Jay Ahmed, Your Army
Club: Olivia Ward, Your Army
Live Agents: Andre Belcourt, NGE
22 Jul 2025
Business
  • The Chainsmokers’ Mantis VC has officially scored $100m in fresh capital following a “grueling” third fundraise. (DMN) 
News and Features
  • Paris Techno Parade cancelled due to 'lack of budget'. (RA) 
  • Global technology company Orfium has been awarded a major grant from the European Commission to lead a research project to tackle how to detect and attribute the use of copyrighted works in AI-generated music. (RotD) 
  • Management company Three Six Zero has appointed Aimee Jessiman as UK Head of Management. (RotD) 
  • Emerging DJs Declan Knapp and Baobei (宝贝) have won the opportunity of a lifetime to play on Ibiza by opening Radio 1 Dance Weekend 2025 on Friday 1 August at 528 Ibiza. (BBC) 
Digital
  • SoundCloud adds SMS direct artist-to-fan text Messages via a partnership with Subtext. (Hypebot) 
  • TikTok has beta launched TikTok Songwriter Features, meaning that songwriters' musical works and their shared content will sit side-by-side in one place on TikTok for the first time, giving songwriters the opportunity to highlight the works they have written or co-written, to share stories about their work, their music and their lives, and to help fans of their music to explore, use, share and save further works from their catalogue. (RotD) 
  • Spotify: The rise of AI-generated fake artists; Discovery Mode’s hidden costs; Daniel Ek military investments; alternatives to start listening elsewhere. (MusicX) 
Live
  • Dreamstate SoCal unveils monumental 2025 line-up featuring Tiësto, Paul van Dyk, and more. (EDM) 
  • Bristol festival Machina Bristronica has confirmed a lineup for 2025. (RA) 
  • Tomorrowland Festival:
    A huge fire destroyed the main stage at Belgium’s Tomorrowland just 48 hours before the electronic music festival was due to begin. (Guardian) 
    Tomorrowland completed its alternative main stage set-up just as guests began to arrive onsite. (RA) 
    David Guetta has praised the "incredible performance" of the Tomorrowland team after they built a new main stage after the original was destroyed by a fire. (DJ) 
    Tomorrowland paid tribute to Avicii at the 2025 festival, ten years after his final headline performance at the event. (DJ) 
    Tomorrowland has released a range of luxury tableware in collaboration with Belgian design brand Serax. (DJ) 
    A 35-year-old Canadian woman has died in hospital after falling ill on the opening day of Tomorrowland. (DJ)
Comment, Opinion and Analysis
  • Luminate’s 2025 mid-year report reveals continued double-digit growth for music streaming. (MusicAlly) 
  • Chartmetric has published its 2025 Make Music Equal Report, which presents the its analysis of pronoun data from a database of over one million artists across 230 countries and territories, and addresses the current state of gender equity across sectors of the music industry. (Chartmetric, Chartmetric) 
Beatport
  • Alesso showcases Beatport Streaming on the CDJ-3000 (Beatportal)
  • Playlist of the Week: Illusionize (Beatportal)
  • “Power” Moves Only: Paul van Dyk launches VANTEC Label with NATURE ONE 2025 Anthem (Beatportal)
  • Eight Emerging Artists On Our Radar: July 2025 (Beatportal)
  • RSVP Now: Maya Jane Coles & Nala | Beatport Live LA (Beatportal)
  • Hilit Kolet Discovers Beatport Streaming in The CDJ-3000s (Beatport)
Clubs
  • Ibiza:
    Ushuaïa Ibiza has announced the line-up for its 2025 season closing party. The spectacle will take place on 11th October. (DJ)
    Carl Cox announces The Chemical Brothers set at [UNVRS] Ibiza. (DJ) 
    Ibiza Rocks have issued a statement and paused events following two people falling to their deaths. (NME)  
  • Brooklyn nightclub Paragon is reopening this summer, following backing from Kevin Saunderson. (Mixmag)
Deals
  • Defected Label Group has signed producer Anthony Gorry and M People's Andrew "Shovell" Lovell for their debut album, marking the dance music label's first move into the therapeutic music market. (RotD) 
  • Armada Music Publishing announced a strategic partnership with Joris Voorn’s music label, Spectrum Music, to launch Spectrum Music Publishing. (RotD) 
Streams & Podcasts
  • RA.998 Kim Ann Foxman (RA) 
  • Uffie | Boiler Room: Chicago (BoilerRoom) 
  • DJ Pierre | Boiler Room: Chicago (BoilerRoom) 
  • Monolink live at Cercle Odyssey, Paris (Cercle) 
  • Miss Monique | Mixmag Lab Kyiv | Ukraine Special (Mixmag) 
Artist and Music Features
  • How Motion Bristol shaped a generation of south-west raving. (DJ) 
  • Transformed from a second world war bunker into Germany’s buzziest dance venue, the acoustics at Open Ground in Wuppertal are raved about by DJs such as Floating Points – and may even be good for your health. (Guardian) 
  • “Richard James is quite a nice young man”: How Aphex Twin and Philip Glass came to work together – and what they thought of each other’s music. (MusicRadar) 
  • Selections: Hannah Holland (DJ) 
  • Shaquille O’Neal breaks down each track and feature on his new EP and Dubs One collaborator ‘The Bass Music Steph Curry’. (Billboard) 
  • Cormac talks about finding commonality in polarising times, CSD weekend and his podcast, Queerly Beloved. (RA) 
  • Inside Floating Points' Sunflower Sound System (RA) 
  • 20 questions with Soulwax: How the band’s new music is a ‘Reaction to how formulaic so much music has become’ (Billboard) 
  • The co-founder of Loop shares how a late-night tinnitus scare morphed into a global movement—and why the electronic music community was the first to listen. (EDM) 
  • SoundCloud has long positioned itself as an alternative to paid-upload streaming platforms. Today, its success—especially in electronic and hip-hop—makes it a crucial tool for emerging artists. (Chartmetric) 
  • Spotify didn’t solely cause the songwriter crisis — the disappearing royalty checks, the broken splits, the vanishing middle class of music creators — but it sits right in the centre of it. (HR) 
  • The Industry must unite for fair & ethical use of AI (IMS)
  • Club Culture & Electronic Music can learn from the 'Global South' (IMS)
Artist News
  • Above & Beyond’s album 'Bigger Than All Of Us' delivers a heartwarming lesson in community and catharsis. (EDM) 
  • Kaytranada and Justice are going on a co-headlining North American arena tour this fall. (Billboard) 
  • Flume has joined forces with Emma Louise to craft a new collaborative album, DUMB. (Billboard) 
  • Massive Attack, Brian Eno, Fontaines DC and Kneecap have announced the formation of a syndicate for artists speaking out about Israel’s military assault on Gaza, who they say have been subjected to “aggressive, vexatious campaigns” by pro-Israel advocates. (Guardian) 
  • Fat Freddy’s Drop founder Chris 'MU' Faiumu has died. (Mixmag) 
  • UK artist and Liquid cofounder Eamon Downes, AKA Ame, has died from a brain tumour. (Mixmag) 
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