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Pete Tong's Essential New Tune
All I Want (feat. Andrea Martin)
Secondcity & Paul Woolford
Black Butter
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Comment
"This week's ENT is the coming together of the man who made I Wanna Feel -  a massive hit on Ministry of Sound back in 2014. We are talking about Secondcity, and a man who is riding high in the charts with his collaboration with Diplo and Kareen Lomax. We talking about Looking For Me by Mr Paul Woolford. So here they are: Secondcity and Paul Woolford teaming up with the incredible Andrea Martin for All I Want."
This week's featured Essential New Tune was featured in last week’s Friday show on BBC Radio 1. Listen again and forward to 33.26 here.
Contact
Label: Ciara Hanley, Black Butter Records 
Management: Secondcity - Joe Daly 
Publishing: Secondcity - Joe Daly
Radio: Martin Cook, Your Army 
Club: Tom Currie, Your Army 
TV: Peter Black, Black Butter Records 
Online: Jess & Abi, Infectious PR
16 Oct 2020
Business
  • Get Physical Music and Zebralution join forces to extend Label Management and Distribution Services on a global scale, starting with Brazil. (RotD) 
News and Features
  • Saffron has announced plans to bring its Mix Nights DJ course for women and minority genders to London this weekend. (Mixmag) 
  • Cultural spaces in the Berlin face scrutiny for throwing events while being given few options to stay afloat. (ElectronicBeats) 
  • The dance/electronic winners at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards were The Chainsmokers (Top Dance Act), Marshmello “Marshmello: Fortnite Extended Set” (Top Dance/Electronic Album) and Ellie Goulding x Diplo ft. Swae Lee “Close To Me” (Top Dance/Electronic Song)
  • The majority of streaming listeners want musicians to be paid more by their respective platforms, a survey conducted by YouGov for #BrokenRecord says. (DJMag) 
  • Raj Chaudhuri has cited R&S co-founder Renaat Vandepapeliere’s unprogressive stance on ‘the roots of techno, Black Lives Matter, charity initiatives, diversity and basic decency’ as his reason for leaving his role in A&R at the label. (DJMag) 
  • A new documentary, Born Balearic: Jon Sa Trinxa and The Spirit of Ibiza, will be available next month. (DJMag) 
  • The Ibiza Government has plans for rapid COVID-19 testing systems to open a tourist corridor next summer. (DJMag)
  • The UK government is set to cover 67% of employees’ wages in businesses shut by Covid-19 restrictions, as part of the UK's winter economy scheme. (DJMag) 
Digital
  • Spotify reports that listening time for its collection of mental health playlists and associated content has surged in 2020. (DMN)
  • Spotify is launching a new feature that combines spoken word audio commentary with music tracks. The new format will allow Spotify to reproduce the radio-like experience of listening to a DJ or a music journalist offering their perspective on the music. But Spotify is also making it possible for anyone to use the format to create a music-filled podcast through an integration with Spotify’s own DIY podcasting app, Anchor. (TechCrunch, Spotify)
Live
  • Movement Detroit's 20-year spanning history is being commemorated in a new photography exhibition. (RA) 
  • Save Our Stages has launched livestream festival SOSFEST for 16-18 October featuring Major Lazer, Dillon Francis, Miley Cyrus, and more. (DA) 
  • Manchester and Salford initiative Save Our Scene launches campaign to help local music communities. (RA) 
  • Primavera Sound is organizing a "pilot concert" in collaboration with Barcelona's Hospital Germans Trias and the Fight AIDS And Infectious Diseases Foundation (FLSIDA) to assess the efficacy of recently developed rapid result Covid-19 tests. (RA) 
  • The BPM Festival has announced a three-day Ibiza event for 2021. As part of a collaboration between IMS and Pollen, BPM festival will host three events in Ibiza from the 29 April to the 1 May 2021. (DJMag) 
  • The promoters behind a controversial Chainsmokers concert held in Southampton, New York will be fined $20,000, Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced via Twitter. 
  • New dance festival One Out is scheduled to launch in Surrey in June 2021, with Roger Sanchez among the headliners. (RotD)
  • Defected has launched a new three-part virtual event called We Dance As One. The first event will take place on 30 Friday and will feature Carl Cox, CamelPhat, Sam Divine and more. (RotD)
Comment, Opinion and Analysis
  • The US government has abandoned the music industry (Magnetic) 
  • Is it possible to party safely at dance events during the coronavirus pandemic? (Billboard) 
  • Goldie, SHERELLE, Fatboy Slim, Jyoty, HAAi and The Blessed Madonna share their thoughts on the UK government's disregard of nightlife. (Mixmag) 
  • The government's response to COVID-19 could kill live music as we know it. (DJMag) 
Tech
  • The 5 products that shaped DJ history. (DJTechTools) 
  • Understanding the CDJ-3000. (RA) 
  • Review: Pioneer DJ CDJ-3000 (Magnetic)
Clubs
  • Atlanta club The Sound Table is to close at its current location after ten years. (RA) 
  • A former employee of Berlin club Salon zur Wilden Renate has opened up about racism he was subjected to by colleagues while working at the club. (Mixmag) 
  • The Arts Council of England has published the list of cultural venues benefited by the Culture Recovery Fund. Among the beneficiaries are nightclubs such as London’s Ministry of Sound (£975,000), Corsica Studios (£407,764), Electrowerkz (£78,000), Ormside Projects (£97,695) and Village Underground (£398,000); Bristol’s Motion (£884,796); Birmingham’s Leftfoot (£75,000); Manchester’s Gorilla (£255,500), Partisan Collective (£53,594) and Soup Kitchen (£186,579); and Leeds’ Mint Warehouse (£166,738). (Vice, Mixmag) 
Streams & Podcasts
  • DT716 – German Brigante (DT) 
  • RA.749 Nazar (RA) 
  • Magnetic Mix 122: PER QX (Magnetic) 
  • Fact mix 779: Severin Glance (Fact) 
  • XEN [ LIVE SET 002A ] (XEN) 
  • Podcast 665: HAAi (XLR8R) 
  • ZHU presents Billings Locomotive (Tito's Made To Order Festival 2020) (ZHU) 
  • SG Lewis in The Lab LDN (Mixmag) 
  • Drunken Kong DJ set on the Hill of the Buddha, Japan. (Mixmag) 
  • Sub Focus and Wilkinson, @ Corfe Castle, Dorset (Mixmag)
Artist and Music Features
  • Label Spotlight: 20 years ago, a college project brought Anjunabeats to life. (Billboard) 
  • Artist of the Month: Sub Focus and Wilkinson (beatportal) 
  • The sound of: Banoffee Pies Records. (DJMag) 
  • Renegade Riddims: NUANCE (DT) 
  • On our radar: October 2020 (beatportal) 
  • Get to know Öona Dahl, the Burning Man enchantress informed by psychedelia. (Mixmag) 
  • EX.528 Chris Korda. (RA) 
  • Selections: Machinedrum (DJMag) 
  • Data-driven startup Songfluencer uses analytics to drive TikTok marketing instead of “randomly handing checks to influencers”. (RollingStone)
  • State of Sync: How the entertainment industry is adapting. (Medium)
  • Pirate Studios are building a sustainable future for artists in uncertain times. (DJMag) 
  • Meet the NHS junior doctor who started a record label during lockdown. (Mixmag) 
  • An experimental record label wants to turn animations into pop stars. (RollingStone) 
  • Sub Focus and Wilkinson talk new album, exploring live instrumentation, and more. (EDM.com) 
  • Nazira, the DJ who swapped molecular biology for techno. (Mixmag) 
  • "One day at a time": Nervo on persevering the challenges of breast cancer. (EDM.com) 
  • Yaeji talks about community, collaboration, self-discovery on the dancefloor – and how a trip back to Korea sparked a creative rebirth. (Mixmag) 
  • Annie MacManus: The BBC Radio 1 DJ on life changes, post-Covid clubbing and the inspiration for her new novel. (iNews)
  • Kelly Lee Owens: The Welsh producer’s second album is a meditative, powerful techno-pop triumph in the face of a crumbling world. (NME)
  • Mat Zo breaks down his new album Illusion of Depth: 'I wanted to make a F--- You statement' (Billboard) 
  • The relationship between the dance music of the UK and South Africa stretches back decades. (Bandcamp) 
  • An easy guide to ADE’s online program. (beatportal) 
  • Resident Advisor, an online platform that specialises in electronic music and club culture, will receive £750,000 as part of the government’s arts support grant scheme has defended its application after the amount was described as “unfathomable”. (Guardian)
Artist News
  • Eric Prydz has announced the release date (23 October) for his anticipated fan-favourite, NOPUS. (DJMag) 
  • The Bug reveals new album with Dis Fig called In Blue on Hyperdub. (RA) 
  • Robert Hood has announced he is to release a new album, Mirror Man, on ReKids on 20 November. (DJMag) 
  • Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas are joining forces again to release an album titled ‘III’ via Smalltown Supersound on November 20. (Mixmag) 
  • Kaskade has announced seven drive-in shows in the US for his ‘Road Trip’ series this autumn. (DA)
  • Nastia launched Beatport’s first livestream residency program this week. (beatportal) 
  • fabric records' next fabric presents mix is by Eris Drew and Octo Octa. (RA)
  • Tiësto has joined forces with Spinnin' Records for "The World’s Biggest Demo Drop" contest to give artists the opportunity to have a song released on the record label or his own Musical Freedom banner. (EDM.com) 
  • Erick Morillo’s death has been ruled as an accidental drug overdose. (DA) 
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