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Pete Tong's Essential New Tune
Moog For Love
Disclosure
PMR
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Here's another track from the new EP - the title track in fact - where they [Disclosure] have teamed up with Eats Everything, featuring another sample from the one and only Quincy Jones. Check this out! 
This week’s Essential New Tune is featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 30:00 mins here.
Contact
Label: Angela Grech, Island/ Sukhraj Johal, PMR
Management: Adam Royal + Max Gerrans, Method/ Becci Abbott + Ben Price + Sarah, Grade
Publishing: Universal Music Publishing
Radio: Michael Pickard + Christian Nockall, Your Army
TV: Andrea Edmondson, Universal
Online: Noam Klar, Toast
Live: Tom Schroeder, Coda
24 Jun 2016
Business
  • SFX has announced that it has terminated its pre-Chapter 11 Restructuring Agreement and entered into direct talks with bondholders and creditors. (Hypebot)
News and Features
  • Dave Clarke, Luke Slater, Marcel Fengler, Tommy Four Seven, Henrik Schwarz, Cassy and Ben Sims are amongst the artists confirmed for ADE 2016, one of Europe’s most important electronic music conferences. (Resident Advisor)
  • Corporates take over the music festival stage. (FT Weekend) Live Nation and AEG Live have grown to dominate a business that began with the countercultural shows of the ’60s. “We’re not a Johnny-come-lately American company that is just discovering festivals,” says Joe Berchtold, Live Nation’s chief operating officer. “It’s been the linchpin of our concert business for the past 10 to 15 years."
Digital
  • A desktop version of Dave Smith and Tom Oberheim’s OB-6 has been spotted in an Instagram post on the DSI account. (Instagram)
  • Berlin-based company Lofelt is behind new bass enhancing technology Basslet, a wearable device that recreates the physical sensation of bass. (Resident Advisor)
  • Any song on SoundCloud could be pressed to vinyl thanks to forthcoming service Vinylize.it. (Fact)
  • SoundCloud has announced a new ‘Suggested Tracks’ algorithm – essentially ending the random next track issue faced by users. (Fact Mag)
Live
  • ONYX is a new weekly techno night at Space Ibiza. Opening night is Monday 27 June.  Champagne, Caviar and Canapés will be served between 8pm - 11pm on the Sunset Terrace. To attend, please RSVP your full name(s) to VIP@onyx-ibiza.com
  • David Lynch is organising a new multi-disciplinary festival, named Festival of Disruption. (DeepHouseAmsterdam)
  • Ibiza’s Government has banned tINI’s beach parties – tINI reacts. (Magnetic Mag)
Comment, Opinion and Analysis
  • Twitter invests in SoundCloud, but why? (Forbes - Bobby Owsinski)
  • How do we keep venues and clubs safe in the wake of the Orlando tragedy? (Pitchfork)
  • Eight top takeaways from EDMbiz conference. (The Wrap)
  • Dance music visionaries unite at EDMbiz conference & expo 2016. (Magnetic Mag)
  • EDC 2016: A lack of festival deaths bodes well for its future. (LATimes)
  • IMS Ibiza 2016: The making of Pete Tong’s Ibiza Prom. (DataTransmission)
Clubs
  • London's Ministry of Sound finalises line-up for M25 Festival. (Resident Advisor)
  • Glaswegian nightclub Sub Club has issued an apology after social media users criticised its 'safe space' claims. (Thump)
  • Clubs in Japan are now able to stay open until 5am after a 67-year old law has been lifted. (Fact Mag)
Deals
  • Downtown Music Publishing has signed UK producer and songwriter Zdot. (DMP)
Artist and Music Features
  • Harangue The DJ: Lakuti (Guardian)
  • Matador: ‘Space Ibiza opened my eyes to real clubs, parties and music.’ (Pulse Radio)
  • For the love of it: A conversation with Disclosure. (Hypetrak)
  • A new festival is heralding the lesser known figures of the electronic music scene. (Guardian)
  • Festival watch: Field Day, London (Observer)
  • I was born on the dance floor: a playlist for Pulse. (NPR)
  • The women who invented electro: inside the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. (Telegraph)
  • Kevin Over: The DJ booth can be the best place on earth. (Pulse)
  • Smirnoff House, in association with Mixmag, hosted a wide variety of sets during EDC Las Vegas. You can hear headline sets from Martin Solveig, Rusko, Lane 8 and Ookay amongst others. (Mixmag)
  • EDC Vegas 2016: The best and the worst. (LA Weekly)
  • EDC 2016: How to age gracefully at the rave. (LATimes)
  • The electronic music community reacts to Brexit news. (Thump)
  • EDC’s 20th anniversary shows that EDM and underground music can thrive together, says Chase Welcher. (Pulse)
Artist News
  • Deadmau5 and Marshmello trade Twitter insults after EDC Las Vegas stunt. Deadmau5 attacks festival as a whole. (Magnetic Mag)
  • Tycho shares his sunrise set from EDC Las Vegas – listen on SoundCloud. (Magnetic Mag)
  • Swedish composer Hans Ek has announced plans to translate classic electronic tracks from the likes of Swedish House Mafia, Daft Punk, Nina Kraviz and many more into a 17-track Orchestral compilation, aptly named Dance Music Symphony.’ (Mixmag)
  • Long time collaborators What So Not and George Maple release latest single Buried, also featuring Rome Fortune. (Mixmag)
  • Henry Saiz launches brand new audio-visual album project, turning to Kickstarter for help. (DeepHouseAmsterdam)
  • Dizzee Rascal and Calvin Harris team up for new single Hype. (Fact Mag)
  • Seth Troxler has collaborated with UK street artist RUN to bring a fully immersive art and entertainment experience called ‘Tomorrow Today’ to Ibiza this July. (Mixmag)
  • Aphex Twin release first video in 17 years for new track CIRKLON3, from forthcoming EP Cheetah. (inthemix)
  • Laurens von Oswald and George Nicholas will release an EP under the guise of GNL for Templar Sound in July. (Resident Advisor)
  • Skrillex confirmed as opening act for Guns N' Roses reunion tour. (Magnetic Mag)
  • Four Tet uploads new collection of tracks Randoms as an album on Bandcamp. (Pulse Radio)
  • Anna Lunoe becomes first solo female artist to play EDC Las Vegas' main stage. (Mixmag)
Live
  • Red Bull Culture Clash - 02 arena, London (Guardian - 4*)
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