NEWS FROM INSIDE THE ELECTRONIC
DANCE MUSIC INDUSTRY

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BEN TURNER
Co-Founder, International Music Summit
Pete Tong's Essential New Tune
Heartbreaker
DESIREE & Marieme
Ninja Tune
out now
Comment
"South Africa's Desiree is fast becoming one of the most exciting names in electronic music. She's blending deep house, Afro rhythms and serious soul, and after making regular appearances at shows with Keinemusik and Black Coffee, she's been making waves on dance floors around the world. Now she's teamed up with the Senegalese-American singer Marieme for a stunning, hypnotic new release on Ninja Tune. This week's ENT is 'Heartbreaker' from Desiree and Marieme." 
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 32.07 here. 
Contact
Label: Ninja Tune
Management: Jackie Kwenda
Publishing: Copyright Control
Radio: Martin Raviraj & Mig Morland, Cool Badge
Club: Your Army
Online: Saskia Wass, Ninja Tune
Live Agents: ROW - Andre, Worldwide Dancing Club / USA - Andrew & Ryan, Liaison Artists
27 Oct 2026
Business
  • Spotify had a strong third quarter, reaching 788m monthly active users, 306m paid subscribers, and generating nearly €5bn in revenue. (MusicAlly, Spotify full report pdf) 
News and Features
  • Suno is now facing a nearly $200m copyright infringement and DMCA complaint from Reservoir Media, which has also fired off a similar action against Anthropic. (DMN) 
  • As it grapples with high-stakes infringement complaints from UMG, Sony Music, and a slew of others, Suno is now demanding a trove of streaming-data documents, pertaining to several DSPs, from the MLC. (DMN)  
  • Simon Dunmore, founder of Defected Records, has acquired a majority shareholding in House Culture, which started as an Instagram account, developing into a community with its own podcast, curated playlists and events. (RotD)
  • Flowthru, formerly Sound Credit, has expanded beyond credits management to bring music collaboration and release preparation into one workspace. (RotD) 
  • Leading figures from the worlds of music, politics and the BBC came together on Monday to launch UK Music’s Our BBC: Our Music campaign in Parliament and warn of the funding threat facing music at the Corporation. (RotD) 
  • Dancefloor.fm is launching the Dancefloor ID Chart, revealing the records behind the moments that make listeners ask: “Anyone got the ID?”. The chart draws on Dancefloor’s database of recorded DJ sets and audio-fingerprinted tracklists. Its starting point is DJs’ selections, rather than consumer streams or downloads. (RotD) 
  • ADE and VibeLab have launched a new Nighttime Culture Index tracking clubbing culture across six cities worldwide. (NightTimeCulture)
  • Police received dozens of reports of jewellery thefts during ADE 2026, with chemical sprays allegedly used to disorient victims. (EDM) 
Digital
  • Apple Music has unveiled a new visual identity developed with Fred again... (DJMag) 
  • Believe and Spotify have signed a licensing agreement for Spotify’s upcoming tool, allowing Believe and TuneCore’s participating artists and labels to benefit from new creative and revenue opportunities, while enabling fans to create remixes of their songs. (RotD) 
  • Tyger, a startup working on adaptive music for games, now has a deal with Universal Music Group to bolster its catalogue. (MusicAlly) 
Live
  • Amsterdam Dance Event has wrapped its 30th anniversary edition and confirmed next year’s dates. ADE 2027 runs 20-24 October. (EDMTunes) 
  • Creamfields is bringing a new 20,000-capacity Runway 2.0 stage to its 2027 edition. (DJMag) 
  • Montreal festival Igloofest announces 2027 lineup. (RA) 
  • London festival GALA unveils first names for 2027. (RA) 
  • A State of Trance debut US festival announced. (DJMag) 
Comment, Opinion and Analysis
  • Data shows UK music continues to reach international listeners, while UK music listeners are also increasingly passionate consumers. (Luminate)  
  • How do music listening habits change with age? (StatSignificant) How does music listening change as we grow older? 
  • Within the next five years, every record label will run on a holistic Music OS. (RotD) 
  • Will the next social media competitor be social at all? (Midia - Hanna Kahlert) An interesting new entrant in the UK is Zymix.  
  • WARM ranked the Global Top 100 dance tracks over the first half of 2026 using data from more than 200 dance radio stations in nearly 40 countries. ANOTR and 54 Ultra’s 'Talk to You' is the top song. (Billboard) 
Tech
  • Technics unveils new SL-1210MKX direct-drive turntable. (DJMag) 
  • Serato DJ has launched on iOS, bringing its software to iPhone and iPad for the first time. (DJMag) 
Beatport
  • Five Years of unknown - untitled: The Anniversary Compilation, Track by Track (Beatportal)
  • Sammy Virji releases surprise new album 'Open Late'. (Beatportal)
  • Insomniac and Amsterdam Dance Event to launch Electronic Music Conference, Map Point Summit (Beatportal)
  • Six things you didn’t know about dubstep: Inside Lauren Martin’s ‘Aftershock’. (Beatportal)
  • Playlist of the Week: Alex Farell (Beatportal)
  • Eight emerging artists on our radar: October 2026 (Beatportal)
  • Next level music digging with Beatport DJ. (Beatport)
Clubs
  • Lost is applying for a 24-hour licence for its next venue, a full takeover of the former London College of Fashion site on Oxford Street. (Mixmag) 
  • Sydney's Club 77 launches booking agency. (RA) 
Deals
  • Producer, DJ and broadcaster Nabihah Iqbal has announced her signing to Ghostly International. (TLoBF)  
Artist and Music Features
  • 30 years of ADE, electronic music's essential annual gathering. (DJMag) 
  • At ADE 2026, a top music lawyer Cliff Fluet talks AI, independence and what the biz can learn from Radiohead. (Billboard) 
  • Superstruct Entertainment chief operating officer Rebecca Kane Burton explains what was behind the festival giant’s recent publication of an Artistic Code. (AAA) 
  • Why Live Nation is going all-in on designing its own concert venues. (FastCo) 
  • Why the charts are full of old songs - and so are your playlists. (BBC) 
  • Irish singer and DJ Jazzy: The artist dropping her debut album after a billion streams. (BBC) 
  • ‘People might think I’m a closed book’: On her debut album, Jazzy is opening up. (Billboard) 
  • Jazzy on her debut LP, the solutions needed for Ireland's nightclubs and the 'laziness' of AI. (MW) 
  • Amelie Lens: labour of love (DJMag) 
  • SOFI TUKKER on collaboration & dance music. (Paste) 
  • HAAi is a producer striving to stay "on the edge of being uncomfortable". (MusicTech) 
  • How Eris Drew and Octo Octa formed a band from a four-day psychedelic trip. (Mixmag) 
  • With 'System Collapse' out now on Dax J’s Monnom Black, Berlin’s Lars Huismann shows us around the attic studio where it was made. (Attack) 
  • Recognise 118: Shy One (DJMag) 
  • Murder on the dancefloor: are phones, drugs and chatter killing off dancing? (Guardian) 
  • Euphoric evolution: Inside Amnesia's 50th anniversary season closing party (Mixmag) 
  • Bringing the fundamentals of dance music culture to the fore, PULSE is all about carnal queer raving. We spoke to founder Izzy about how it’s creating spaces that aren’t strictly dancefloor-focused, and why she doesn’t want to just "frolic and U-Haul". (Mixmag) 
  • The history of D-EDGE, Brazil’s most enduring nightclub. (Mixmag) 
Streams & Podcasts
  • Wilkinson’s Creative Escape | Making Tracks  (Mixmag) 
  • RA.1062 Loraine James (RA) 
  • Eris Drew & Octo Octa as Alchemical Sisters | Mixmag Lab London (Mixmag) 
  • Peggy Gou B2B Four Tet - Live at Head Trip 2026 (PeggyGou) 
Artist News
  • Samaʼ Abdulhadi withdrew from the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) line-up, citing the booking of “several” artists who have previously served in the Israeli military. (Mixmag) 
  • Boris Brejcha to retire from music in 2028. (RA) 
  • Mathame have launched a new label, NEO Records, with first single ‘Oh Baby’. (DJMag) 
  • Charlotte de Witte's forthcoming EP features an AI vocalist. (RA) 
  • Nastia cancels US shows over Trump administration's Ukraine policy. (RA) 
  • Daft Punk’s ALIVE 2007 pyramid LEGO set officially announced. (DJMag) 
  • Rockstar Games reportedly tried to reunite Daft Punk for GTA 6. (Mixmag) 
  • Jade Cicada has announced an indefinite hiatus from performing solo. (EDM) 
  • Silva Bumpa and Rossi. share new single under A.B.C. alias, 'PEOPLE IN THE PLACE'. (DJMag) 
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