Producing hot music? (6)

I believe the answer is:

piping

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'producing hot music?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'producing hot music?' is the wordplay.
'producing' becomes 'pip' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'hot' becomes 'in' (both can mean fashionable).
'music?' becomes 'g'.
'pip'+'in'+'g'='PIPING'

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(Other definitions for piping that I've seen before include "The playing" , "Long tubes" , "Descriptive of very hot food" , "really hot" , "Tube; very hot" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.

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