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Pete Tong's Essential New Tune
Eire 2000
David Jackson
Frank Music
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Comment
"This week’s Essential New Tune comes from a 19-year-old DJ and producer from Heidelberg in Germany. This track is from an EP on Johannes Albert’s label Frank Music and the EP features a track with his 14-year-old sister. It's also a big favourite of our new Radio 1 resident, Denis Sulta too. This is Eire 2000 by David Jackson."
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 35.52 mins here.
Contact
Label & Publishing: Frank Music
Management, Radio, Club, Online & TV: Felipe Pineros, Paint it Blank
27 Sep 2019
News and Features
  • Reprezent Radio regulars Naina and SHERELLE have announced their new label Hoover Sound. (Mixmag) 
  • Manchester-based station Limbo Radio has returned to the airwaves, having relocated to Downtex Mill just above Hidden. (Mixmag) 
  • MDMA can apparently be comedown-free, research says, producing an “afterglow” instead of a severe mood drop caused by a lack of serotonin. (Mixmag) 
  • Bassnectar's non-profit charity launches a free climate change course for high school teachers and students. (Billboard) 
  • DVS1 has launched Support Organize Sustain (S.O.S.), an independent Initiative to promote community and artistry in electronic music. (DJ Mag) 
  • UK-based music services company Monokrome Music has launched Rights HUB, an online contractual rights and file management platform for labels, artists, managers, and other rightsholders. (RotD)
Digital
  • Ninja Tune's long-awaited Zen Delay hardware unit is finally available to order. (DJ Mag) 
  • VirtualDJ 2020 has added Beatport LINK capability, allowing users to stream the whole of Beatport's catalogue directly into VirtualDJ. (DJ Mag) 
  • Spotify has refreshed its Spotify for Artists app with real-time stats for new releases. (Spotify)
  • Audius has launched its music streaming and free hosting service backed by DJs like deadmau5 and Zed’s Dead, plus $5.5m in A-list venture capital. (TechCrunch) In early 2020, the startup plans to let artists opt into requiring users to occasionally listen to ads or pay a few dollars per month for an Audius subscription.
Live
  • London-based collective Half Baked continue their 10th anniversary celebrations with a two-part event this November and December. (DJ Mag) 
  • Holly Herndon, Tim Hecker, Christian Vogel and more locked for ACCA Digital 2019 in Brighton. (DJ Mag) 
  • EDC Las Vegas has sold out in record time. Tickets went on sale Friday 20 September at midday and had completely sold out by 1pm on Sunday 22 September. (DJ Mag) 
  • Unsound has finalised the line-up for its 2019 edition in Kraków, with Object Blue, TSVI, DJ Plead and more. (DJ Mag) 
  • Melbourne Music Week has locked Miss Kittin, Soichi Terada, Nu Guinea and more for its 2019 events. (DJ Mag) 
Comment, Opinion and Analysis
  • Poland's club community is tackling homophonic violence and right-wing bigotry. (Mixmag) 
  • How local DJ workshops are smashing down gender barriers in club culture. (RB) 
  • What does an artist-centric future for music-tech look like? (Cherie Hu)
  • IFPI released the ‘Music Listening 2019’ report, which examines the ways in which music consumers aged 16–64 engage with recorded music across 21 countries. (RotD) Ten takeaways from MusicAlly.
News Update from AFEM
(Association for Electronic Music)
  • AFEM Membership: Recent new AFEM members include: Hit Eleven; Kobalt Music Group; LabelRadar; Mitek Music Group; Monokrome Music; The Secret Inspirer; Soundmain. Please contact membership@afemorg.net if you would like to know more about joining. (AFEM)
  • AFEM Thought Piece: “Who Said The B Word?”. Centtrip - a leading intelligent treasury management service - have a produced a helpful guide/checklist about the latest Brexit developments and potential implications for the industry. Get your music business Brexit-ready! (Centtrip) 
  • Meet The Team: This month we focus on AFEM members, Monokrome. Get to know the staff behind the company - now home to the full contractual rights and asset management system Rights HUB - and find out more about their plans for the future (AFEM)
Clubs
  • Where to dance in: Detroit (Billboard) 
  • Amelie Lens will play all-night long at revered Amsterdam venue Shelter. (DJ Mag) 
  • London venue XOYO has revealed a Dekmantel Soundsystem residency with Underground Resistance and Helena Hauff. (RA) 
  • Cymatiks, a new event from Agents Of Time, will launch on 28 September at the Hangar in Brussels. (Mixmag) 
  • Italian club Jaiss will reopen after 15 years in Florence, it was forced to close in 2004. (RA) 
  • New club JAKI to open in Cologne's Stadtgarten complex. (RA) 
  • New London venue Werkhaus has opened in Brick Lane, London. (RA) 
Deals
  • Bass music producer Carnage signs with UTA. (Billboard) 
  • Sony/ATV Music Publishing UK has signed DJ, songwriter, artist and record producer Jonas Blue to a worldwide futures deal. (RotD)
Streams & Podcasts
  • DT664 – Louie Vega (DT) 
  • RA.695 Nicole Misha (RA) 
  • Recognise: TSVI (DJ Mag) 
  • Saturday Night Session 028: Justin Caruso (DA) 
  • Nina Kraviz at Depot curated by Aphex Twin. (Nina Kraviz) 
  • DJ Tennis at Gottwood | Rizla+ (Mixmag) 
  • ItaloJohnson in The Lab NYC (Mixmag) 
  • Lazarusman in The Lab Johannesburg (Mixmag) 
  • Tiga BUDX Tokyo (Mixmag) 
  • Kerri Chandler, Detroit Swindle, Tom Trago & Kamma at BUDX Amsterdam (Mixmag) 
  • Jan Blomqvist at Tossa de Mar (Spain) (Cercle) 
Artist and Music Features
  • 11 tracks that define the sound of canonical Berlin techno party Grounded Theory. (Electronic Beats)  
  • 10 early-’00s big room house tracks that can still be used to pump up dance floors today. (Electronic Beats) 
  • Label of the Month: Snatch! Records (iDJ) 
  • Renegade Riddims: Aaron Jay & J-Skeptik (DT) 
  • Fresh Kicks 119: Ziúr (DJ Mag) 
  • Desert Island Kit: Johannes Brecht (DJ Mag) 
  • Watch the Ultra Miami 2019 Aftermovie (UMF TV) 
  • An oral history of the Miami Mobile DJ scene. (RBMA) 
  • The BPM Festival was a house and techno paradise on the beaches of Portimão. (Mixmag)
  • 25 years of Wiggle with Terry Francis, Eddie Richards and Nathan Coles. (iDJ) 
  • Polo & Pan soundtrack life on tour ahead of CRSSD festival. (Mixmag) 
  • MOGUAI mixed vinyl back in the day, but he's just as excited about the future of deejaying and music. (EDM.com) 
  • Sofi Tukker interview (Billboard) 
  • In conversation with Solomun (Ibiza Spotlight) 
  • RYBO, Lubelski, and Wyatt Marshall talk giving back to house music with Percomaniacs. (DA) 
  • Illenium on new album, ascend, and the tour of its namesake. (EDM.com) 
  • Q&A | Klingande (Flaunt) 
  • Deadmau5 reveals how he coded his own tour. (Billboard) 
  • How Paranoid London redefined acid house from their Hackney studio. (DJ Mag) 
  • Meetsss is the dance-centric music industry conference for and by women -- and everyone's invited. (Billboard) 
  • Surrounded by Machines: Electronic music runs through Georgia Barnes DNA. (Mixmag) 
  • How TOKiMONSTA reclaimed her art. (DJ Mag) 
Artist News
  • DJ Shadow has announced details of a new double album, to be titled 'Our Pathetic Age'. (DJ Mag) 
  • Carl Cox had to break up a fight during his set at Techniques Festival at Gazi Music Hall in Athens. (Mixmag) 
  • &ME lands first original on Shazam's Ibiza Dance chart. (Billboard) 
  • Richie Hawtin releases new audiovisual album, CLOSE COMBINED. (DJ Mag) 
  • DJ Tiësto gets married in the middle of the Utah Desert. (Vogue)
  • Denis Sulta to release eight-track EP, Aye Spoake Te Sumwuhn & Theay Listenhd, on Ninja Tune. (RA) 
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