Pete Tong's Essential New Tune
Edge of Desire
Jonas Blue & Malive
Defected
out now
Comment
"It comes from an artist more familiar with the mainstream pop world. An artist who already has three songs that each have over 1 billion streams. An artist who I honestly believe, if he put this out under a pseudonym, it would still be the ENT of the year, and none of us would be any the wiser. But he put it out under his own name, so respect to him, he completely cracked it. The ENT of 2025, crowned in July, released on Defected, is 'Edge of Desire' from Jonas Blue and Malive."
The Essential New Tune of 2025 was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 1:56.20 here. 
Contact
Label: Defected Records 
Management: Infinite Future 
Publishing:  Ultra Music Publishing Europe AG, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd & Copyright Control
Radio: Lois Marshall, Defected
Club: Lois Marshall/Phoebe Spencer, Defecte
Live Agents: Europe: Jonas Blue - CAA / Europe: Malive - Plus Network
16 Dec 2025
News and Features
  • Ticket Fairy announced a significant expansion of its global financing capabilities that will unlock growth opportunities for event promoters, festivals and venues across the UK, Europe and the US. (RotD) 
  • As beatBread celebrates its fifth year of operations, the company has now funded independent artists and labels with over $100m of advances across 1,700 deals with creators in 42 countries. The music represented in the deals has generated 67.6bn all-time streams, with 13.6bn of those coming from deals signed in 2025 alone. (RotD) 
  • A campaign to protect artists’ works from being mined to train AI models without consent has received a boost after 95% of the more than 10,000 respondents to a government consultation backed their case. (Guardian) 
  • The winners of DJ Mag Best of British awards 2025: Interplanetary Criminal (DJ); Silva Bumpa (Breakthrough DJ); Sammy Virji (Producer); SHERELLE (Breakthrough Producer); Window Kid (MC/Vocalist); Jayahadadream (MC/Vocalist); Pineapple Records (Label); Rossi.Home//GRXWN.(Breakthrough Label); Maribou State 'Hallucinating Love' (Album); Moxie 'The Sound Of Love International #007' (Compilation); Max Dean, Locky & Luke Dean 'Can't Decide' (Nexup Recz); The Loft (Club); Fuse (Club Event); Hide & Seek Festival (Festival); Save Our Scene UK (Underground Hero) & DJ Ez (Outstanding Contribution). (DJ Mag) 
Digital
  • Suno has acquired Songkick: What it means for artists. (Hypebot) 
  • Vevo unveiled its annual end-of-year charts for 2025. (RotD) 
  • AlphaTheta announced its DJ application rekordbox for iOS/Android is now compatible with Spotify. (RotD) 
  • Spotify is launching 'Promoted Playlists', a feature that will initially be available to Premium subscribers in New Zealand. (TechCrunch) The new tool allows users to describe what they want to hear in a personalised playlist that reflects the “full arc” of their tastes. 
  • Shazam has announced a new feature, Popular Segments, that shows exactly which parts of a song are the most popular among listeners. (DMN) 
  • TikTok unveiled its Year in Music Report, covering the most popular artists, songs, and trends on the platform in 2025. (BBC) Los Angeles-based girl group Katseye were named as the platform’s Global Artist of the Year. The late singer Connie Francis's 1962 hit 'Pretty Little Baby' became Global Song of the Year, while 'Hold My Hand' by Jess Glynne was at No.2, and also UK Song of the Year. All 13 UK #1s on the Official Charts had a viral moment on TikTok. 
Live
  • Boomtown Festival promoted Toby Gwazdacz to the newly created role of managing director. (MW) 
  • Four Tet's All Dayer festival will return to London next year. (DJ Mag) 
  • Ultra Music Festival announces expansion to New Zealand. (EDM) 
  • Sunburn Festival 2025 full line-up announced (DJ Mag) 
  • Voices From The Lake, Kevin Saunderson, Nia Archives and more to play Detroit's Movement. (DJ Mag) 
  • Essen's Stone Techno Festival reveals 2026 lineup, new Curation Series. (Mixmag) 
  • Beatrice M., DJ Babatr and Mala are among the first names for Lyon festival Nuits Sonores. (RA) 
  • Goldenvoice is in talks to develop a new beachfront music festival by Santa Monica Pier. (EDM) 
Comment, Opinion and Analysis
  • Looking ahead to 2026 - some thoughts on how things will evolve. (NetworkNotes - Darren Hemmings) 
Tech
  • Native Instruments revives classic, discontinued synth, Absynth. (RA) 
Clubs
  • Pacha has partnered up with Ibiza football team Sociedad Deportiva Ibiza Islas Pitiusas by becoming the club’s new shirt sponsor. (Mixmag) 
  • Space Ibiza has announced a one-off New Year's Eve event at London's Eutopia Warehouse. (DJ Mag)  
  • Ministry Of Sound has detailed the first events of its 2026 programme. (RA) 
  • More than half of clubbers think smartphones are ruining the clubbing experience, a new study has revealed. (NME) 
Streams & Podcasts
  • Inside London: The Untold Story of Eutopia - London’s New Mega Venue with Nikki Gordon & Tom Ranger (Loud & Unfiltered)
  • Fatboy Slim 'The Rockafeller Skank' | The Making Of A Dance Classic (DJ Mag) 
  • RA.1017 Unai Trotti (RA) 
  • The Mix 087: BLUMITSU (Mixmag) 
  • SOSA Tech-House set Live From DJ Mag HQ (DJ Mag) 
  • Silvie Loto | Mixmag Lab Tenerife | Mappa Festival (Mixmag) 
  • Max Richter live at Cercle Odyssey, Paris, France (Cercle) 
  • Moby live at Cercle Odyssey, Los Angeles, USA (Cercle) 
Artist and Music Features
  • "You're not just a music producer, you're also an event manager, to some degree": 'Immersive first' electronic musician Halina Rice on creating unique live experiences and producing new album, Unreality. (MusicRadar) 
  • Defining her sound day by day, Bristol-based DJ T-Lex is making herself known on the DnB scene. Having had some big moves in her career already, check out what T-Lex had to say about her journey so far. (Skiddle) 
  • TEED on new album Always With Me, his 10-year hiatus, and big tech. (Fader) 
  • ‘This Feels Like a Selfish Time Creatively For Me’: Seven Lions on his new album and staying true to his sound. (Billboard) 
  • PinkPantheress, whose viral phenomenon ‘Illegal’ has been named NME’s Song Of The Year, reflects on a momentous 2025. (NME) 
  • Label Look: How Because Music, home to Daft Punk & Justice, became the ‘Record Company of Tomorrow’ (Billboard) 
  • After five years, a new law gives independent musicians more financial freedom to create. (Billboard) July's passage of the HITS Act represents a long-awaited victory in the Recording Academy and A2IM's work to support creators.
  • Gustav Söderström, Spotify’s Co-President, CPO, and CTO, shares the vision behind Prompted Playlists, and how a new era of listener control is taking shape. (Spotify) 
  • Fan Study by Spotify for Artists: Fans make it possible and we have the data to prove it. (MusicAlly) 
  • Hyperspecific: The Best Electronic Music of 2025 (Quietus) 
  • The 10 best electronic albums of 2025. (Treble) 
  • The 30 Best Electronic Albums of 2025 (Pitchfork) 
  • 2000-25: The Century in Electronic Music (RA) 
  • The Best Electronic Mixes of 2000-25 (RA) 
  • The Best Electronic Tracks of 2000-25 (RA) 
  • The Best Electronic Records of 2000-25 (RA) 
  • The Top 25 DJs Who Defined The Year 2025 (Mixmag) 
  • The Top 25 Breakthrough DJs Of The Year 2025 (Mixmag) 
  • The Top 25 Producers Who Defined The Year 2025 (Mixmag) 
  • DJ Mag’s top tracks of 2025 (DJ Mag) 
Artist News
  • Josh Wink drops eclectic Selects Playlist on Apple Music. (EDMTunes)
  • Cru2 founder and DJ Denon Reed comes to Hidden in Manchester on Saturday 21 March 2026. (Skiddle) 
  • Fatboy Slim's infamous bootleg "Satisfaction Skank" has finally been officially released. (RA) 
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