true IMS Industry Insider | Welcome
Pete Tong's Essential New Tune
It'll All Be Over (DJ Koze Remix)
Gerry Read
Pampa Records
out now
Comment
"My Essential New Tune of 2019 is going to the butcher from Hampstead, Gerry Read and the DJ Koze remix of It'll All Be Over. It's a song that puts a smile on my face and makes me feel good every time I play it, so why not."
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 1:56:55 mins here.
Contact
Label: Pampa Records
Publishing: Copyright Control
Management, TV & Live: Marcus Fink, Pampa Records
Radio, Club & Online: Adam Carter, Exclusive Promo
20 Dec 2019
News and Features
  • Cyberpunk 2077 video game taps Nina Kraviz, Grimes, and more. (DA) 
  • Avicii's Wake Me Up has been named as the highest charting dance track of the decade on UK singles chart, which also includes four tracks from Calvin Harris. (DJ Mag) 
  • Armin van Buuren is the new global ambassador for the World Wide Fund for Nature charity, which aims to "motivate millions of people to join the movement to stop plastic waste being dumped in oceans".  (DJ Mag) 
  • Electronic Sound Summit returns to Liverpool in 2020, with Abelton Live and Crazy P announced. (iDJ) 
  • London Music Conference has announced its next list of speakers, including the timetable for its tech masterclasses. Artists include Hannah Holland, Red Rack'em, Third Son, Stefano Ritteri and Jamie Lidell, while Young Turks, FUSE, Brownwood Recs, Women in CTRL, Armada Music, Pxssy Palace, CapitalFM, Identification of Music Group and fabric itself will take part in panels. (DJ Mag) 
  • Fred P, Robyn, The Black Madonna and more share Christmas playlists for Help Refugees pop-up stores. (DJ Mag) 
  • Families of the victims of the Ghost Ship fire will be allowed to continue their civil lawsuit against California power utility PG&E. (RA) 
Digital
  • Behringer unveils Eurorack Go case and new Moog modules. (Mixmag) 
  • Denon DJ has added wifi and streaming to their Prime range in the latest firmware update. (DJ Mag)
  • Deezer is to feature unheard mixes from DJs exclusively on the service. (RotD) Each mix is around an hour long and is followed by the original tracks. Michael Mayer, Modeselektor, Mark Knight, Will Saul, Sultan + Shepard and Makoto start the series, with more to come.
  • FL Studio and SoundCloud have linked up to give users of both services the ability to upload their productions directly to SoundCloud from within the programme. (DJ Mag) 
Live
  • Melt Festival unveils new additions to 2020 line-up. (RA) 
  • Berlin's CTM Festival in 2020 is collaborating with Ugandan festival, label and collective Nyege Nyege. (Mixmag) 
  • Peggy Gou, DJ Koze, Special Request and more will play FLY Open Air Festival in Edinburgh next year. (RA) 
  • Zamna Tulum is back for a fourth year this month, with more than 50 names announced so far. (Mixmag) 
  • Madrid's Paraíso Festival announces Dixon and Honey Dijon for 2020. (RA) 
  • Fisher, Rüfüs Du Sol, Bob Moses and more announced for Wynn's Art of the Wild 2020. (Billboard)
  • Seth Troxler, The Black Madonna and DJ Stingray are among the initial acts announced for Movement Detroit. (RA) 
  • Caribou, Bicep, Amelie Lens, Squarepusher and more will head to Lyon in May for the Nuits Sonores festival. (RA) 
  • Adam Beyer, Cirez D, Amelie Lens and The Martinez Brothers are booked to play the RESISTANCE stages at Ultra Music Festival. (RA) 
Comment, Opinion and Analysis
  • Why is the virtual reality market bigger in the UK than anywhere else in Europe, the Middle East or Africa? (Mishcon)
  • Queer the dancefloor: How electronic music evolved by re-embracing its radical roots. (Mixmag) 
  • 2019 legal round-up – and what it means for the music industry in 2020. (Synchtank)
Clubs
  • Creamfields Ibiza will be revived for the 2020 season. The three-day festival will take place at Ibiza Rocks Hotel between Friday 3 and Sunday 5 July. (Ibiza Spotlight) 
  • New club, Sierra Neon, has opened in Saint-Denis, Paris. (RA) 
  • Boomtown Fair's Bristol club Area 404 will throw a five-room party on New Year's Eve, featuring David Rodigan and Chinese Man. (Mixmag) 
  • The line-ups for the Warehouse Project's Concourse events have been announced. Eclair Fifi, Noisia, Michael Bibi and many others will grace Depot Mayfield's Concourse room next year. (Mixmag) 
  • London party Buena Vida is throwing a New Year's Eve party with East End Dubs headlining. (Mixmag)  
Streams & Podcasts
  • DT675 – Archie B (DT)
  • RA.707 Changsie (RA) 
  • RÜFÜS DU SOL - Burning Man 2019 (Robot Heart) 
  • Floorplan | Boiler Room Toronto (Boiler Room) 
  • Sherelle | Boiler Room Festival Day 4 (Boiler Room) 
  • Brava b2b La Diabla at Ballantine's #TrueConexion, Madrid (Mixmag) 
  • Lauren Lane in The Lab LA (Mixmag) 
Artist and Music Features
  • How I play live: RÜFÜS DU SOL (DJ Mag) 
  • Recognise: LUCY (DJ Mag) 
  • Fresh kicks 128: AQXDM (DJ Mag) 
  • Renegade riddims: Toronto is Broken (DT) 
  • One to watch: Haai (Observer)
  • 12 emerging artists you need to hear this December (DJ Mag) 
  • December: Six artists you need to check out this month. (Mixmag) 
  • Genre-hopping Mancunian maestro Sasso. (iDJ) 
  • 20 questions: Maya Jane Coles. (XLR8R) 
  • In conversation: Underworld (Magnetic) 
  • Illegal Raves, the Sheffield Sound and Acid Blues: Yorkshire's changing club scene 1989-91. (DJ Mag) 
  • Ross From Friends looks back at his decade with 10 defining tracks. (Mixmag) 
  • How Alok became South America's biggest EDM star. (Billboard) 
  • How the fall of the Berlin Wall inspired Ellen Allien's marathon career in techno. (Billboard) 
  • Techno is technocracy. (FACT) 
  • With offices in London, Berlin, Paris and Los Angeles, Ninja Tune will celebrate its 30th anniversary in a digital age where indie acts have more options than ever. (Billboard)
  • The older clubbers who won’t stop dancing. (Guardian)
  • From Singapore to Hong Kong to Thailand with Busy P and company. (Billboard) 
  • My culture fix: Pete Tong (Times)
  • The MDMA Mozart: Inside the mystique and mythology of Aphex Twin. (Mixmag)
  • Flying Lotus: "I listen to ‘Drukqs’ all the time. There’s something about it – the craziness, the piano and everything else" (Mixmag)
  • Kelela: "The 'making something out of thin air' feeling is so delicious" (Mixmag) 
  • How Fisher's Losing It became one of the biggest dance hits of the decade. (Billboard) 
  • 2019: The year in black electronic and dance music. (Afropunk) 
  • The best dance music films of the decade. (DJ Mag) 
  • The best dance tracks of 2019. (PopMatters) 
  • Fact's best tracks of 2019  
  • DJ Mag's top 50 albums of 2019 
  • DJ Mag's top 50 tracks of 2019 
  • 2019: a year in dance music. (DJ Mag) 
  • The top 100 moments of the EDM decade (Billboard) 
  • The 72 best albums of the decade 2010-2019. (Mixmag) 
  • Mixmag's 8 acts who defined 2019.
  • Mixmag's top 20 DJ mixes of the year 2019 
  • Mixmag's 100 best tracks of the year 2019 
Artist News
  • Hunee launches a new label, Lifetones, with Hydromantic EP. (RA) 
  • SZNS7N boss L U C Y has dropped Project Ghost. (Mixmag) 
  • Honey Dijon to host four-night residency across various London venues in 2020. (RA) 
  • Synth pioneer Gershon Kingsley, who was best known for his 1969 electronic track ‘Popcorn’, has died aged 97. (DJ Mag) 
  • Ruth Anderson, pioneering electronic composer, dies at 91. (NYTimes) 
Recent newsletters

16 Apr 2024

And 1 - Melé
"I'm not picking this just because he's my mate, I was going to sample this tune, I had literally heard...

09 Apr 2024

Time - Carlita
"Carlita started releasing music way back in 2017, but really hit her stride during the past few years with releases...

02 Apr 2024

Ascendance - Elzace
"This week's ENT comes from a brand new act called Elzace. I don't think we played any Elzace music on...

26 Mar 2024

TAKA - Ahadadream, Priya Ragu & Skrillex
"Skrillex is back with his first release of the year collaborating with one of our Radio 1's Dance Future Stars,...

19 Mar 2024

Thandaza (feat. Arabic Piano) - Keinemusik & Alan Dixon
"This week's ENT comes courtesy of Keinemusik's &ME, Adam Port and Rampa. They have been lying low musically since the...

12 Mar 2024

Holy Ghost (Martin Solveig Remix) - Omah Lay
"Our ENT this week comes courtesy of a bit of a legend Martin Solveig. He's put together an inspired remix...

About IMS

IMS: International Music Summit is a global educational and motivational thought-leadership platform dedicated to the continued development of electronic music primarily through the presentation of global summits for the industry. 

About Beatport

Beatport is the worldwide home of music for DJs, producers, and their fans. Founded in 2004, the Beatport family of companies includes Beatport, the preeminent store for electronic music DJs, Beatsource for the open-format DJ community, and Loopmasters, Loopcloud and Plugin Boutique for music producers. Follow us on Twitch, Facebook and Twitter, and Instagram.

About AFEM

AFEM: A global voice for electronic music; representing our culture and commerce. AFEM's membership spans all industry sectors, with over 250 company members across 25 countries, the organisation connects its worldwide membership to develop opportunities and enable change.

About ROTD

Record of the Day has produced a subscription-based daily publication for the music industry for over 21 years, featuring all the best news and comment, along with an editorially-chosen future hit. Sign up for a free trial here.
Submit your news stories here.
About Industry Insider | Get in contact | Privacy policy | Terms and conditions
Brought to you by: www.recordoftheday.com