Just Jack is back. Following a sold-out UK headline tour and his smash-hit LP ‘Overtones’ debuting at Number 6, the sparkling wordsmith returns on June 18th with the stunning new single ‘Writer’s Block’. Described by the Observer Music Monthly as “Genius” and “Eloquently capturing the reality of life in England”, it deftly follows the Top 10 mainstay hit ‘Starz In Their Eyes’
Can’t get enough of the sumptuously deep undulating sounds of minimal and techno? If so, then head down to Kaluki on Saturday the 14th July, where Get Physical diva Margaret Dygas heads to Sankey’s for a night of Berlin soaked überism.
One of the main players at Europe’s hippest club, Panorama Bar in Berlin, Margaret Dygas is also the Queen of Cool on the underground club circuits of East Europe, London, Amsterdam, and Ibiza; regularly taking in venues such as Fabric, Space, DC10 and Club 11.
Known for her cutting-edge image as much as her music, the German fashionista is regarded as one of the very few minimal elite. A main player with the highly-regarded Get Physical Music Squad, which also manages techno mavens Booka Shade & M.A.N.D.Y, she has earned her tag as one of East Germany’s best female DJ exports.
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It’s back! Peach, London’s most infamous night is taking on Heaven for a sensational night of the juiciest
house, trance, electro and classic dance music ever..
Heading up the line-up are Tiesto favourites Mark Norman. Signed to the big man’s Magik Muzik label, Mark
de Jong and Norman Lenden are one of the only artists ever commissioned to mix the globally renowned
‘In Trance We Trust’ series. Solo DJ Norman has ripped through dance floors the world over with his
energetic and emotionally driving sound. Peach will not be the same after we’ve let him loose!
Joining him and making their hotly anticipated London debut is Egyptian duo Aly & Fila. Eye Of Hours and
Spirit Of Ka may have put them on the map but it was with Why? featuring Jahala that they really grabbed the
world’s attention. Since then there’s been no stopping them – and why would you want to? This really will be
a musical landmark for the capital so make sure you’re right down at the front to witness it!
It’s time to dust off your records and pull out your biggest indie rock beats as Carling Academy venues across the UK open their doors for a new local DJ search. The most exciting regional DJ talent will be on display as Carling AAA DJ gives the best up and coming DJs the chance to win a place behind the decks at the Carling VIP room at Carling Weekend: Reading Festival.
Over the next few weeks Carling AAA DJ will be taking place at renowned Carling Academy club nights Ramshackle in Bristol and Birmingham and Revolution in Newcastle. Entry is simple, DJs submit their top ten tunes with 50 – 100 words describing their dream gig to Carling.com or send their demos into Carling’s AAA DJ team*. The clubs promoters will then pick the best four DJs to play a one-hour set at one of the club nights in June and July. The winner, who will be judged by the residents of each club, on choice of tunes and crowd reaction will then go on to DJ at the Carling VIP room at Carling Weekend: Reading Festival.
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Hi Martin, how you doing today?
I’m good thanks. A little hot from running around London but apart from that, all good.
It has been a crazy year for you so far, have any particular moments stood out?
Trip to Brazil was pretty amazing. Rio and Sao Paulo are very cool cities. I am hoping to go back in November which would be great because there are a lot of great parties there that I would love to check out plus a bit more sight seeing never hurts.
What is your biggest achievement so far?
Well I don’t know about most producers but not having to get a normal job is a pretty great achievement I think.
Tell us something interesting about yourself that not many people would know?
I was in Alien in the film ‘Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy’. I spent most of one summer a couple of years ago running around in a very heavy suit made of metal, foam and rubber. Hot work!
Some groups do it for money, some groups do it when solo careers don’t pan out, and some do it because they can finally sit in the same room again. Other groups do it for a great cause. In this case original Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) members Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi, and Ryuichi Sakamoto have re-formed to help the Live Earth cause with a special performance from Kyoto, Japan on 7.7.07.
Live Earth Founder and Producer Kevin Wall joined with Tatsu Kitagawa, the principal of the Live Earth Japan office, at a press conference to announce the special Yellow Magic Orchestra reunion and complete artist lineup and ticketing information for Live Earth Japan. Wall announced that Japan is the only country hosting two events as part of the 24-hour, 7-continent Live Earth concert series to combat global warming. Makuhari Messe in Tokyo will host a daylong Live Earth Tokyo concert. A special broadcast event will be held at the To-ji Buddhist Temple in Kyoto later in the day.
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Meighan Nealon started her career as a dancer on the popular Canadian TV show Electric Circus on MuchMusic. She was always an avid singer and performer from early on but never took the singing aspect of her career seriously. During her time at Electric Circus she was introduced to Hip Hop producer Adrian Gariba. Adrian at the time was working on a hip hop project based in NY. He offered to feature Meighan on one of the songs and took a trip to NY to show her the progress of that project.
In NY Meighan was shown the larger aspect of the music industry while recording at the famous Quad Studios. Upon returning to Toronto she became more and more interested in pursuing a solo career but was unable to find her sound in the Hip Hop. Meighan decided to do the unthinkable and packed her bags and moved to Asia. Initially, she moved to Taiwan to study Mandarin Chinese. The culture shock and media in Taiwan was perhaps the defining moment and inspiration taking her back to music and finding her sound. While in Taiwan, she co-wrote (what would be her first song) “just like this” with Adrian.
Mash up party stronghold Chew The Fat are proud to announce their summer activities for 2007, kicking off with a summer-long residency at one of the best clubs in the world Space, as well as hosting arenas at three MASSIVE UK festivals Chew The Fat are on a big cuddly mission to bring their mash up party spirit back firmly into the public’s eye!
In just under ten years Chew The Fat! Have established themselves as the best no hold barred mash up party night in London from its humble beginnings at The Bug Bar in Brixton to their highly successful offshoot record label Fat! A monthly residency at one of the UK’s best clubs - The End, worldwide club tours AND an international DJ agency Chew The Fat! Have been at the forefront of breakbeat / mash up pressure since the Fat! Boss Mr Paul Arnold first discovered the sound.
With tickets continuing to sell quicker than we can print them, it looks set to be a rather successful summer for the captivating boutique festival Electric Gardens. Set at the breathtaking Mount Ephraim Gardens - a stunning 800 acre stately home & estate in Kent over the weekend of 4/5 August, Electric Gardens 2007 boasts a sublime selection of bands (around 50 in total) across the two days.
This year’s headliners are Supergrass (Saturday) and Happy Mondays (Sunday), with major support from the likes of The Rakes, Calvin Harris, The Young Knives, New Young Pony Club, Patrick Wolf, Jack Penate, Plan B, Lethal Bizzle, Mr Hudson & The Library, The Holloways and The Pipettes amongst many others. Having recently announced the Myspace Stage (featuring Kent’s finest local bands, plus the hottest new talents from further a field), it’s now time to bring you the all important Dance Tent line-up, hosted by Kent’s leading purveyor of underground goodness – ClubClass.
What were you doing twenty years ago? Chances were it didn’t involve Technics 1210’s, stacks of vinyl, fronting a controversial band and producing acid house? Unless your name is Mr C, that is.
On Saturday June 30th the ex-Shamen frontman, The End co-founder, producer and DJ Mr C celebrates twenty years behind the decks with a great big knees-up at The End & AKA. He’ll be joined in the main room by very special guest Luciano, Get Physical’s DJ T and the delicious Dollz at Play.
Mr C started off life as Chelsea Boy the aspiring rapper by night and milkman by day – the raver’s job of choice due its unconventional working hours. Soon ditching his Chelsea Boy moniker and opting for the much easier to rhyme Mr C, he released his first record in 1987 under the name Myster-E, and began DJing at acid house parties around London, including the infamous Clink St parties near London Bridge.
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NEWS SOURCE - BBC NEWS
Emergency crews were called to the Gatecrasher One nightclub - formerly The Republic - in Eyre Street, Sheffield, on Monday evening.
Two people were believed to be inside the building when the blaze took hold but escaped the premises unharmed after calling 999.
The Arundel Street end of the two-storey building later collapsed, narrowly missing firefighters.
South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said five crews - about 25 firefighters - were at the scene tackling the blaze at its height.
Eyewitnesses said plumes of smoke gradually spread across the city centre and turned from a dark grey colour to thick white to yellow cloud.
Sheffield city centre resident Kirsten Law said: “I was on the phone when I first noticed it and thought the whole development was on fire.
“I’ve had to go around closing all the windows because the smell of the smoke’s so strong and have been watching the charred bits fly past the window, and I’m on the other side of town from Gatecrasher.”
Read More At The Gatecrasher Website : http://www.neverstandstill.com/one
Toolroom Records are without doubt one of the hottest dance labels in the world right now - whether it be knocking out dancefloor bombs, or rocking clubs the world over with Toolroom Knights these guys are certainly on fire – S*M*A*S*H*I*N*G I*T!
Now, having released a stream of critically acclaimed tracks, the boys are ready to step it up a gear, unleashing the first in a new series of DJ-led mix albums, reflecting the underground sound of Toolroom.
Due for release on 25th June 2007 Toolroom Knights Vol 1 is a superb double pack CD, compiled and mixed by 2 of the labels leading artists Martijn Ten Velden and Dirty Vegas main man Paul Harris, featuring tracks from both artists as well as Tiefschwarz, Splitter, Spektrum & Dave Spoon - the perfect blend of jackin, twisted house.
And so now down to the IMPORTANT business…THE ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY!!
Celebrating the launch of the album the Toolroom crew take over Ministry of Sound on Saturday 23rd of June with Italiain House Supremeo playing alongside label boss Mark Knight & Martijn ten Velden in the main room.
Over is the Bar it’s Joey Negro, Grammy award winning Paul Harris, Jason Herd and Toolroom’s very own ‘leaders of the new skool’ Pete Griffiths and George Andrews.
And its competition time here at Dancenova !! : We have a great prize for you :
The winner of the competition will receive a copy of the Album plus free VIP entry for themselves + 2 guests to the album launch party @ MOS 23rd of June. Just email us HERE with your name and email address and why you deserve the tickets and we will pick the best answer as the winner! - its that easy !!
Open to Over 18s Resident In The UK Only - Entry Closes Midnight Tuesday 19th June 2007
London’s definitive indie-dance festival – Get Loaded in the Park - swaggers back into town on the August Bank Holiday weekend for a 4th rock n’ roll year of live music, DJs & festival fun. Get Loaded’s award-winning festival has established itself as one of the UK’s most groundbreaking inner-city events and this summer we’ll be pushing the musical envelope further with our greatest line-up EVER, reflecting multi-cultural London and everything that’s great about today’s thriving music scene.
Following this week’s announcement of the 4th and final Stage – hosted by Mike Skinners’ record label The Beats… and in addition to the wealth of talent already confirmed to bring on the party on the Common this summer – The Streets, Dirty Pretty Things, The Go! Team, Dizzee Rascal, M.I.A, The Rumble Strips, 2ManyDJs, MSTRKRFT, DJ Yoda, Bonde Do Role, Digitalism et al - we’ve now got another rabbit to pull out of the hat for you here…
With the weather getting warmer the Pukka up parties just keep getting bigger. This month Pukka up brings to you some of that Ibiza magic with one of their famous boat parties followed by a huge line up at Pacha. To mark their exclusive monthly residency at Pacha, PU and Made Up production will transform the club to showcase the DJ’s that have been grabbing the headlines this year. For Saturday 16th June PU will be joined by the likes of Nick ‘Bodyrox’ Bridges, and their fantastic new resident Abigail Bailey.
Newly announced resident Abigail Bailey, who has recently been tipped to be the new Sonique brings you a new concept in DJing. Using her amazing vocal talents she will freestyle sing new and old tracks such as chart topping ‘I Just Cant Get Enough’ over her her DJ set. Abigail says “the idea is to fuse the two together I’ve sung over many DJ sets and it really works so I thought why not do it my self its an exciting new concept that I cant wait to persue” She will inject her innovative touch and personal music selection that doesn’t amaze only the crowds, but DJ’s as well from all over the board! In addition PU residents Rob Wilder and Scott Giles will no doubt be looking to mesmerize us with their trademark upfront house sets.
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Whether you are lucky enough to catch Azuli’s new parties at Space in Ibiza this summer or not, you really need to pick up Club Azuli Ibiza. This exciting compilation encapsulates the true Azuli sound.
Hot, trend-setting and deliciously divine; this 26 track compilation has been programmed to reflect the dance floor right now; fusing the best electronic and upfront quality house music. As many fans of the label will already know, there is more to Azuli than just cutting edge sounds. It has proved itself as your trusted informer for what you need to party to, when, where and how.
It is fair to say that with over 300 releases Azuli has become synonymous with the birth and evolution of house music and this album shows exactly why they are at the forefront. Signing Kamisshake ‘Dark Beat’ exclusively for this compilation plus introducing the Dirty South & Paul Harris ‘Better Day’ beauty. Other future hits include Steve Angello ‘Umbrella’ and Jorgensen ‘Untitled’ which have both been snapped up by major labels.
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