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Pete Tong's Essential New Tune

The Future

Ankhoï & Luch

Ninja Tune

out now

Comment
"It was teased during a back-to-back at ADE to a packed out crowd, and also during Luch's guest Hot Mix on the show last week, he opened with it, and everyone took notice. This week's ENT sees him team up with Ankhoï, a man who has been playing some huge shows alongside the likes of Adam Paul and Carl Cox and getting his tunes played. Ankhoï also collaborated with Jazzy recently, of course, it's sounding very much like a future hit."
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 33.00 here.

Contact
Label: Ninja Tune
Management: Ankhoï - Tom Shea, Act Management / Luch - TeamLuch, WME
Publishing: Ankhoï - SACEM / Luch - Daniel Grossman Rubio/Rooftop 77 Publishing/Honua Songs (BMI) admin by Kobalt
Radio: Indigo Wallis,Your Army
Club, TV & Online: Tom Shea, Act Management / Oliver Berg
Live Agents: Ankhoï (EU) Guillaume Blanchet & (US) Chad Cohen, Wilcox Weaver, UTA / Luch (EU) Brendan Long, WME & (US) Rico Pedraza, Stephanie LaFera, WME

18 Nov 2025

Business

GoDigital Music has acquired Switzerland-based digital music distributor Octiive, which just launched a first-of-its-kind partnership with SoundCloud. (DMN)
Sony Music has posted a 11.7% revenue increase for Q3 2025, when publishing’s contribution spiked nearly 15.6% year-on-year thanks to significant streaming gains. (Variety)

News and Features

BSI Merch has rebranded as BSI Merch & Artist Services, as it expands beyond merchandise into comprehensive artist support and development. (RotD) As part of its label offering BSI Music has also teamed up with digital distribution partner Believe.
Music-marketing startup Un:hurd recently raised its latest funding round for investors, but now it wants artists, managers and labels to chip in too. (MusicAlly)
Bristol is set to launch the world's first 'clean power hub' for festivals and film crews, with the city council and regional authority collaborating with Massive Attack's ACT 1.5 on a mobile battery system that will ensure all of Bristol's summer events in 2026 run entirely on renewable energy. (Guardian)
The UK government will announce plans tomorrow to outlaw the resale of tickets above face value. (BBC) New legislation will also cap service fees charged by resale platforms to stop price limits being undermined by the addition of hidden costs to a ticket.
Live Nation Entertainment stated: "Live Nation fully supports the UK government's plan to ban ticket resale above face value. Ticketmaster already limits all resale in the UK to face value prices, and this is another major step forward for fans — cracking down on exploitative touting to help keep live events accessible. We encourage others around the world to adopt similar fan-first policies."
Haven's 'I Run' track was excluded from the OCC chart for being "potentially infringing", the hit appears in the Australian charts, with The Music investigating the story behind the composition. The full details are still not entirely clear - it may just be previously-uncredited vocals, with AI assistance.
The track was removed from streaming services, but remains accessible on Tidal and YouTube, and is at No.4 on Global's Big Top 40 chart.

Digital

Music-mashups app Mixy has attracted 1.5m users since launch. (MusicAlly)
TuneCore announced that artists who distribute through it have now earned over $5bn since the company’s founding nearly 20 years ago. (RotD)
TikTok announced the launch of bulletin board, a new in-app channel which helps creators with over 50,000 followers communicate and share content directly with their fans and followers. (RotD)
Spotify is shaking up its premium offering and introducing new tiers called Premium Lite, Premium Standard, and Premium Platinum in five markets, including India, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa. (TechCrunch)
Tidal has added a ‘Tidal Upload‘ feature that enables artists to upload tracks directly to its platform, where they can then be streamed – including by listeners who don’t have a Tidal subscription. (MusicAlly)

Live

Lightning in a Bottle drops 2026 line-up, including Empire of the Sun, Mau P, Sara Landry, Zeds Dead & more. (Billboard)
Ultra Miami 2026 line-up: Martin Garrix b2b Alesso, Afrojack, Confidence Man, more announced. (DJ Mag)
Tomorrowland Winter has shared the full line-up for its 2026 edition, with headliners Charlotte de Witte, Steve Aoki and Steve Angello. (DJ Mag)
Insomniac founder Pasquale Rotella has addressed EDC Orlando overcrowding complaints following this year's festival, acknowledging infrastructure issues that left attendees struggling with packed walkways and limited water access. (EDM)
Hungarian festival Sziget is set to leave the Superstruct Entertainment portfolio and return to its original owner and founder, Károly Gerendai, who now rejoins the management team. (DJ Mag)

Comment, Opinion and Analysis

What are pop-up shows teaching us about building fandom in 2025? (Chartmetric)
Deezer says that roughly 50,000 fully AI-generated tracks are now uploaded every day, accounting for 34% of all music delivered to the service. (MusicAlly) The new figures were published alongside the findings from a wider survey. It found that 97% of 9,000 listeners in eight countries could not tell AI tracks from human ones. 70% of these AI tracks are used in fraud, with bots programmed to play these tracks repeatedly and capture royalty payments.
A six-month audit published by Fair Play, a new independent initiative aiming for transparency and accountability in electronic music royalties, provides some much-needed insight into how UK royalties are collected and distributed, and how effectively so. (DMN)
According to figures in the annual report from UK Music, the music industry contributed a record total of £8bn to the UK economy in 2024, a 5% rise from 2023. The industry added a net total of 4,000 new jobs in the UK, taking the number of people working full-time in the music industry to 220,000. (Guardian, full pdf report)

Beatport

Cocoon Recordings celebrates 25 years with monumental anniversary compilation. (Beatportal)
Beatport x Elijah: There aren’t enough DJs (Beatportal)
Layton Giordani drops his viral Gorillaz rework “Hold It Down (DARE)” (Beatportal)
Playlist of the Week: Jennifer Loveless (Beatportal)
Beatport unveils a new central hub to empower its Artist & Label Community (Beatportal)
Label of the Month: KNTXT (Beatportal)
Rapid music digging with Beatport DJ (Beatport)

Clubs

New York nightclub Green Room to launch with strict no-phones policy. (Mixmag)
Barcelona, Paris and Tokyo ranked "best cities for nightlife" in new study. (Mixmag)

Deals

Gryffin has returned to WME seven months after making a jump to Wasserman. (Billboard)
Milk & Honey acquires Bigfoot Music Management, citing underground electronic music as 'top priority'. Bigfoot staff, along with clients including Adam Beyer and Joris Voorn, are now part of the Milk & Honey team and artist roster. (Billboard)

Streams & Podcasts

RA.1013 Kilopatrah Jones (RA)
HAAi UK Techno, Breaks & Dubstep DJ Set Live From DJ Mag (DJ Mag)
Didi Han | Boiler Room: Toronto (Boiler Room)
ØTTA | Boiler Room x Glitch Festival 2025 (Boiler Room)
Theo Parrish | Mixmag Lab Bali (Mixmag)
Sub Focus presents 'Circular Sound' Live From Alexandra Palace (DJ Mag)
Panteros666 | Boiler Room: Lyon (Boiler Room)
ARTBAT at Cercle Odyssey, Paris, France (Cercle)

Artist and Music Features

The best tech house tracks of October 2025. (Magnetic)
11 of the best Moby deep cuts, curated by Eris Drew. (Mixmag)
The Art of DJing: Neffa-T (RA)
Clubbing in California: The Year of Fire and ICE (RA)
I Wrote That: Lati Kronlund on writing Alison Limerick’s ‘Where Love Lives’. (PRS)
The Hacienda Hangover: Why is Manchester so obsessed with the 80s and 90s? (Skiddle)
Overmono at Alexandra Palace review: A monumental blow out. (Standard)
Inside Mixmag's party with Idris Elba's Sound International at ADE 2025. (Mixmag)
FKA Twigs – ‘Eusexua Afterglow’: a throbbing testament to experimental pop artistry. (NME)
CCL will change your mind (DJ Mag)
Three years in the making, object blue is about to release her debut album ‘what resembles the grave but isn't’ on TT. She shares a mix of dark, heady beats and speaks about the gruelling process of the LP's creation and the industry conditions it arrives in. (Mixmag)
Dixon, the Innervisions cofounder, reflects on the label's 20-year anniversary, the art of DJing and bringing politics back to the underground. (RA)
Nimble, open-minded outfits such as Nina Protocol, Cantilever and Subvert are looking to bring more money to artists, and a richer experience for listeners. (Guardian)

Artist News

Oppidan and Eliza Rose have joined forces on a new single, ‘Too Slow (All Night)’. (DJ Mag)
Massive Attack have revealed that they will release a "cache of work" that was "created in the recent past" in 2026. (DJ Mag)
Maya Jane Coles launches Night Creatures label. (Electronic Groove)
Zedd to launch his own rollercoaster experience at Universal Studios Japan. (EDM)
Disclosure have released a remix of Faithless' classic song 'Insomnia'. (DJ Mag)
Michael Bibi has donated £113,943 to the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity after two years cancer-free. (EDM)
Dom Dolla has been named as the inaugural recipient of ARIA’s new Global Impact Award. (TheMusic)
Tiësto has wiped his socials and revived a legacy logo, stoking speculation of a full-circle return to trance ahead of his Dreamstate performance. (EDM)
Ninajirachi has won two of five awards at 2025 Triple J Awards. (Billboard)
Swedish DJ Eric Prydz becomes the latest artist to sue business manager Thomas St. John, alleging stolen funds. (EDM) Calvin Harris sued his former financial advisor in September.

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