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Pete Tong's Essential New Tune

Heartbreaker

DESIREE & Marieme

Ninja Tune

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"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.

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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

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)
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)
Flowthru, formerly Sound Credit, has expanded beyond credits management to bring music collaboration and release preparation into one workspace. (RotD)
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)
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)
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)

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

A State of Trance debut US festival announced. (DJMag)
London festival GALA unveils first names for 2027. (RA)
Montreal festival Igloofest announces 2027 lineup. (RA)

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)

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)

Deals

Producer, DJ and broadcaster Nabihah Iqbal has announced her signing to Ghostly International. (TLoBF)

Artist and Music Features

The history of D-EDGE, Brazil’s most enduring nightclub. (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)
Murder on the dancefloor: are phones, drugs and chatter killing off dancing? (Guardian)
Recognise 118: Shy One (DJMag)
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)
How Eris Drew and Octo Octa formed a band from a four-day psychedelic trip. (Mixmag)
HAAi is a producer striving to stay "on the edge of being uncomfortable". (MusicTech)
SOFI TUKKER on collaboration & dance music. (Paste)
Amelie Lens: labour of love (DJMag)
Jazzy on her debut LP, the solutions needed for Ireland's nightclubs and the 'laziness' of AI. (MW)
‘People might think I’m a closed book’: On her debut album, Jazzy is opening up. (Billboard)
Irish singer and DJ Jazzy: The artist dropping her debut album after a billion streams. (BBC)
Why the charts are full of old songs - and so are your playlists. (BBC)
Why Live Nation is going all-in on designing its own concert venues. (FastCo)
30 years of ADE, electronic music's essential annual gathering. (DJMag)

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

Silva Bumpa and Rossi. share new single under A.B.C. alias, 'PEOPLE IN THE PLACE'. (DJMag)
Jade Cicada has announced an indefinite hiatus from performing solo. (EDM)
Rockstar Games reportedly tried to reunite Daft Punk for GTA 6. (Mixmag)
Daft Punk’s ALIVE 2007 pyramid LEGO set officially announced. (DJMag)
Nastia cancels US shows over Trump administration's Ukraine policy. (RA)
Charlotte de Witte's forthcoming EP features an AI vocalist. (RA)
Mathame have launched a new label, NEO Records, with first single ‘Oh Baby’. (DJMag)
Boris Brejcha to retire from music in 2028. (RA)
Samaʼ Abdulhadi withdrew from the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) line-up, citing the booking of “several” artists who have previously served in the Israeli Defence Force (IDF). (Mixmag)
Richie Hawtin to co-curate 24-hour experience during Art Basel Paris. (909Originals)

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