Pete Tong's Essential New Tune
Blowin' Up The Spot
Bontan
No Art
out now
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"Our choice of ENT is 'Blowin' Up The Spot' by Bontan. We've known him for years. The first time we went to Ibiza was together with him, Josh Butler, playing Sankeys, and we've been releasing his music since I think the last two or three years. This is a six-sig release out today on an own imprint No Art. Shout out, Andrew! Yeah!"
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 36.45 here. 
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14 Jul 2026
Business
  • Primary Wave Music's acquisition of Kobalt's worldwide operations, its catalogue of owned copyrights, and its digital collection society amra, from private equity firm Francisco Partners, has closed in a deal said to around $1.5bn. (MBW)  
News and Features
  • Electronic artists share stories behind their career-changing records in new book, Breakthrough. (DJMag) 
  • 72% of young people have felt unsafe working in the music industry, according to a new report by Youth Music. (Mixmag) 
  • Believe unveiled a new unified structure for its Global Commercial and Product, Tech and Operations organisations, claiming “this new structure is a game-changer designed to supercharge our artist development strategy on a whole new scale.” (RotD) 
  • IFPI, RIAA, A2IM, WIN, IMPALA, The Grammys, SAG-AFTRA & Human Artistry Campaign announced a unified approach to voluntary track labelling to give fans clearer information about the use of generative AI in sound recordings. (RotD) 
  • Change the Beat, a global non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting women and gender expansive artists in electronic music, has expanded its mission to create pathways for artists through education, mentorship, industry access, live events and release programmes. (RotD) 
Digital
  • Spotify announced a series of updates to Release Radar, giving listeners more control over the music recommendations they receive every Friday. (9to5Mac) 
Live
  • Berlin festival Wall2Wall announces 2026 lineup. (RA) 
  • London’s RALLY Festival 2026 stage splits announced. (DJMag) 
  • UNTOLD Festival to offer free HPV testing and breast ultrasounds to attendees in 2026. (DJMag) 
  • The streaming programme for Tomorrowland's upcoming 2026 edition has been revealed. (DJMag) 
  • Adam Beyer, Charlotte De Witte and Solomun are to play Brunch Electronik Lisbon. (RA) 
Comment, Opinion and Analysis
  • The future of the music creator economy. (Midia - Mark Mulligan) 
  • New figures from UK Music revealed a record 24.7m music tourists came to concerts and festivals in the UK in 2025, spending an all-time high of £11.2bn. (RotD) 
  • There’s more new music than ever before, but it’s having less impact. (Stvdio) New music (defined as released in the last 18 months) dropped below a quarter of music consumption for the first time ever in 2025. 
Tech
  • AlphaTheta is rolling out the XDJ-AN, a 2-channel all-in-one system priced at $1,200. (DJTechTools) 
Beatport
  • New Dance/Electronic venue, ORIGIN, to open in Downtown LA (Beatportal)
  • Pig&Dan dig into 10 Downtempo Records that shaped their sound (Beatportal)
  • Dunmore Brothers on KOBA, club culture and trusting their instincts [Q&A] (Beatportal)
  • Playlist of the Week: Ezequiel Arias (Beatportal)
  • Artist of the Month: Ellen Allien (Beatportal)
  • Beatport launches Greenroom for Artists & Labels, a new centralized hub for profile management and analytics (Beatportal)
Clubs
  • Ibiza: 
    Armin van Buuren announces F2F sets coming to [UNVRS]. (EDMTunes) 
  • London club FOLD unveils summer programming. (RA) 
  • London's Ministry of Sound launches search for new resident DJs. (Skiddle) 
  • Insomniac to stay involved with Miami’s Club Space & Factory Town venues after legal settlement. (Billboard)
Streams & Podcasts
  • RA.1047 deep creep (RA) 
  • Goldmax | Boiler Room: Durban (Boiler Room) 
  • Kayzo | Mixmag Lab NYC (Mixmag)
  • Lost Frequencies DJ Set Live From DJ Mag HQ (DJMag) 
  • Joel Corry epic rooftop set from Edge NYC (DJMag) 
  • KSHMR Live Orchestral performance from Hollywood Palladium (DJMag) 
Artist and Music Features
  • Recognise 110: GIDEÖN (DJMag) 
  • Tom Oberheim at 90: "I can never retire, first of all" (MusicTech) 
  • Venezuela’s raptor house legends DJ Babatr and DJ Yirvin are coming together for the culture. (Mixmag) 
  • Martyn on flow state, communal music-making and his new album, Music for Existing. (RA) 
  • Eat, sleep, rave ... make peace! DJ Yousuke Yukimatsu’s mission to change the world with topless raves. (Guardian) 
  • FISHER: setting sail (DJMag) 
  • Wonder: A Conversation with TEED. (RansomNote) 
  • Inside the long-awaited comeback of Dash Berlin: "It’s been a hell of a ride" (EDM) 
  • Jeff Mills: Seeing Is Believing (RA) 
  • 20 questions with Doc Martin: What the ’90s L.A. rave scene was really like & remembering his friend DJ Dan. (Billboard) 
  • "A melting pot of dance music cultures": How Archivio Records became a hub for electronic music in Brooklyn. (BKMag) 
  • “It changes my future:” How AHEE discovered deeper creative freedom with Rekordbox Performance Mode. (EDM) 
  • Night-time economy: How music makes cities great after dark. (SoundDiplomacy) 
  • Music prediction markets: The opportunity, the risk, and the rules. (Hypebot - Jeff Sloan, Founder & CEO of FanLabel) Now is the time for the music industry to establish licensing, data, and integrity standards, to turn data into revenue and prevent mass manipulation. 
  • After a saga at the club once located at Pacha New York site, Pacha Group CEO Aloki Batra and his team are celebrating the launch and preparing to host year round weekend events in its indoor venue. (Billboard) 
  • Newly appointed CEO Matt Gralen and president Helen Sartory explain why downloads and data are driving Beatport forward, and what challenges a marketplace faces with gen AI music arriving in full force. (MusicTech)  
Artist News
  • Michael Bibi returns with new single, ‘Mobile Groove’. (DJMag) 
  • BBC to live broadcast Calvin Harris show in Glasgow on 1 August. (EDMTunes) 
  • Zedd to headline the official U.S. Open Finals Afterparty. (Billboard) 
  • Pete Tong has denied copying or stealing John Summit's remix of 'Missing' by Everything But The Girl. In an interview posted on Friday between Pete Tong and Alex Tripi, the CEO of the Pete Tong DJ Academy, Pete explained his side of the story. (Billboard) 
    The Dutch DJ Franky Rizardo has withdrawn from the scheduled release of his remix of Everything But The Girl's 'Missing' over concerns about the track's origins. (MusicRadar)
  • Dutch drum & bass artist Teije van Vliet, AKA Lenzman, has died. (RA) 
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