Sankeys has once again been leading the Northern line with the most cutting edge techno music around, with the likes of Tania Vulcano, Thomas Schumacher, Trentemoller and Booka Shade serenading to a dedicated Friday faithful in recent months. Having closed the book on Tribal Sessions, the team at Sankeys have continued to secure electric bookings for a Friday night – possibly why DJmagazine recently made the club the 17th best on the planet… and why The Fresh Page placed the club in their top 10 in the world, quipping “their aim is for you to have a good time, and luckily, you’ll find it hard to be disappointed… where else would you want to be?”

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Kick the Summer off with a BANG with the hottest house, electro & techno Friday night in London! Pacha London’s stonking new Martin Audio Soundsystem is now fully road-tested and tweaked to perfection, and ready to pummel you into submission. Throw in some of the most in-demand names in dance music and London’s most exciting DJs, and a feisty, friendly crowd, and you’ve got the formula for Twisted Disco

This month Twisted Disco brings you the blisteringly hot act The Japanese Popstars. Since bursting onto the scene in the last 12 months, their raucous, no-holds-barred brand of peak-time electro has seen them support Klaxons on tour, bag new talent features from Mixmag and I-DJ, been chosen as Featured Artists on Myspace, had an Electro Single Of The Month accolade from DJMag, been booked for Wireless and Glastonbury festivals, and received support from the likes of Erol Alkan, Pete Tong, Paul Woolford, Darren Emerson, Mason, 2ManyDJs, Philippe Zdar, Eddy Temple Morris and Fergie. Not bad going at all.

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Everyone goes to Ibiza in search of that once in a life time crazy experience. Look no further! The Zoo Project on Saturdays has created a really cool daytime electronic pool party experience that is hidden away in the hills of Ibiza in an old abandoned Zoo from the 1970s!

We are getting so excited as the summer season approaches. We are proud to announce that after the success of The Zoo Project in 2007 we will be opening the doors and letting the animals stampede again for another season.

The Zoo Project is seen as the most original party concept to hit Europe in recent years. With 4 arenas, The Zoo Project is an underground musical gathering which is definitely the place to be this year.

The beautiful garden of Gala Night is the most attractive setting for The Zoo concept. The Zoo Project will be kicking off at 4pm on the June 21st 2008. The Zoo Project will be teaming up with Pepo Lanzoni’s famous Ibiza Underground Movement, for an official “Zoo Project carry on” as we host the Coco Loco room four times this season, at the world’s biggest club Privilege on Saturdays.




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Judgement Sundays, the album, is back for 2008. This time, bigger and better as it teams up with club-phenomenon Kissdafunk providing the ultimate summer dance experience.

True to form Judge Jules, mixes up the big room ‘Judgement Sundays’ sound on CD1 while, djing legend and Kissdafunk main man Rob Tissera gives us a dose of cutting-edge abd big-room house on disc two.

The Kissdafunk disc is to celebrate the coming together of the two parties at Eden, Ibiza this season when KDF takes over the newly extended second room at Judgement Sundays for the true ‘ party within a party.’ night out.

Judge Jules’ trancetastic mix on CD1 includes the biggest records on his Radio 1 show from the hottest producers on the scene. Standout tracks come from trance giants such as Above & Beyond, Warrior, Ernesto & Bastian and Agnelli & Nelson.

Rob Tissera represents Kissdafunk’s raw energy on CD2 with a selection of cool house destined to be the soundtrack for the year. Hot talent such as Fedde Le Grand, Seamus Haji, Steve Angello & Sebastian Ingrosso feature alongside some gems from residents Filthy Rich and Marc Leaf.

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01 (01) BRUISED WATER CHICANE VS NATASHA

02 (04) PJANOO PRYDA

03 (NE) THIS IS MY LIFE EUROBAND

04 (07) THE ONE SHARAM

05 (05) SHOW ME BE ROBIN S VS S ANGELLO

06 (03) ANOTHER LOVE MAC PROJECT

07 (10) THE LAUNCH RELAUNCHED DJ JEAN

08 (NE) WHEN YOU TOUCH ME FREEMASONS

09 (15) GETTING READY 08 K-KLASS

10 (NE) KEEP ON RISING IAN CAREY

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Defected Records the original purveyors of quality House music launch a new, bang up to date, digital download mix of fresh dance tunes inspired by the sound of the labels international events.

Download a monthly 60 min mix and get all the tracks included unmixed in the bundle too – all for under a fiver. Out June 9th.

Defected Records always quick to get off the mark with anything digital have released a new download only compilation series, aimed at dance music devotees, that will keep them fully hooked up with current releases quickly and easily.

Each month they will release an episode of ‘Clubland Adventures’ a 60 minute mix of all the latest and most pristine releases from the worlds dance floors. It will give a snapshot of the sound at many of their international events featured around the world.

For clubbers who like their tracks unmixed – well they get that too, all in the same bundle. Once the mix is selected then all the unmixed tracks are downloaded automatically to be included in individual playlists and mixes.

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The UK’s leading dance music download store Trackitdown.net has joined forces with Dance Island to host the only festival arena for up and coming DJ talent!

Win a set at Dance Island Festival in the open decks dome. Trackitdown.net are on the search for 15 of the UK’s best up and coming DJ’s to win a coveted slot at the biggest all night festival in the east. You’ll be on the same line-up as Audio Bullys, Freemasons, Mauro Picotto, Tidy Boys, Stonebridge, Dave Pearce, Hixxy, Stanton Warriors, Slipmatt and over 40 other headliners which is an opportunity money can’t buy.

Ever imagined what it’d be like to perform at a mega festival? Course you have!

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Turnmills’ flagship Saturday night event and most consistently busy party of the past decade returns to clubland this summer for a brand new residency. TOGETHER will be re-launching on Saturday 28th June at SCALA, Kings Cross with the same serious take on new music and the same serious take on being silly!! We’re bringing with us all the best bits from Turnmills and embracing our new venue to the fullest to create a new phat chunk of dancefloor happiness.

The last ever Together party at Turnmills (22 March) was fittingly MASSIVE and a highly emotional affair. Teaming up with Heavenly Social for one final rave, we were honoured to have BOTH The Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim on deck duty to give the club the proper send off it deserved. Since then, Together has hot-footed it to Austria where we got on the Piste at Snowbombing and hosted one of the week’s best parties with residents Justin Robertson, Anil Chawla and Streetlife DJs getting the 80s-wearing-crowd into a spin. We’ve since been invited by LOVEBOX to co-host a Together party with ‘em out in Ibiza this summer (4th July @ Eden) as part of their new residency with Pete Tong’s Wonderland event… and best of all, the gang at GET LOADED IN THE PARK have given us our VERY OWN TENT (yes really!) at their amazing festival on Clapham Common (Sunday 24th August) featuring Gossip, Soulwax, The Presets, Mylo, Boys Noize, Streetlife DJs and Uniondjs (all of whom have played Together @ Turnmills over the past 2 years).

Very exciting times ahead indeed. A little closer to home we’ve been secretly plotting our move since the turn of the year and we’ve been exploring all sorts of venues; grand and luxurious, small and quirky, smelly and sexy. But in the SCALA, we feel we’ve found the perfect new home. Like Turnmills, it’s a multi-roomed, labyrinth-style venue (getting lost is fun right?), with its own unique character and a killer new soundsystem. It’s just up the road from our famous former venue and its bang slap in the middle of Kings Cross / St Pancras International… which is handy seeing as we’ve got four Frenchmen hopping on the Eurostar for our unmissable debut event (more of that in a mo!)

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This May, Sankeys will be bringing down the curtain on its weekly Tribal Sessions and it is certainly one that will be remembered. Headlining the final call is none other than Danish superstar Trentemøller. Having played at a number of high profile festivals in the last year including Glastonbury, this will be one of very few club dates that appear on his diary. Trentemøller first hit the headlines back in 2005 when he was voted Best Newcomer in many DJ polls. He followed this up in 2006 by bagging himself the Essential Mix for Radio 1 and was subsequently voted Mix Of The Year by listeners. It was also in 2006 that he released his debut album “The Last Resort”, which received acclaimed reviews all across the world, with leading DJ magazines in Germany and France making it their record of the year. 2008 has also proved a pretty successful year so far, with Trentemøller voted Best Chillout Artist and Best Electronica Artist at the recent Beatport awards.

As well as a DJ, Trentemøller is as much in demand as remixer as he is DJ. Previous remixes include the hugely popular “What Else Is There?” for Royksopp, “Go” from Moby and “Sodom” for the Pet Shop Boys, amomgst numerous others.

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EQ’s Balance presents Electric series is back after a short hiatus with another exciting instalment, this time mixed by Australian DJ and connoisseur Ben Korbel, Episode 3 won’t disappoint those fans expecting nothing less than cutting edge underground dance music, as it showcases a seamless fusion of deep house and techno expertly mixed by one of Australia’s leading DJs.

To say this release has been a long time coming for Ben Korbel is an understatement. Electric_03 is his debut mix proper and it’s a decade in the making. Ben’s peerless sense of lineage, his irrepressible passion for a great tune and his impeccable programming and mixing are all a given; what you get here is warmth, soul and a humane groove that lacks in the click-and-drag age. From the first flutters of Luciano, through the liquid funk of Der Dritte Raum to the classic stabs and washes of LFO this mix provides a consumate selection of the finest producers from the underground house and techno scene, also including along the way the likes of Ricardo Villalobos, Swayzak, Pikaya, Rob Mello and more…

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With only two weeks away from the Liverpool Sound City music festival and conference, more and more acts and well known names from the music industry are clambering to add their names to a list which will form the first festival of its kind in Liverpool 08 Cultural calendar.

Ian McNabb, Peter Hooton from The Farm, Eugene McGuiness, The Metros, Make Model, iwasacubscout, The Whip, Santogold, Robots In Disguise and The Dykeenies are just some of the additions to the conference and festival line-up along with over 100 exciting bands and artists playing for free in several key locations across the city.

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The Big Chill festival 2008 continues to take shape with a clutch of trailblazing female songstresses from across the world – and hot comedy straight from the nation’s TV screens.

Beth Orton will be giving a rare acoustic performance accompanied only by multi-instrumentalist Rob Moose of Antony and the Johnsons; Rising Swedish pop-starlet Lykke Li will be showcasing material from debut album ‘Youth Novels’ – and first lady of E-Hop Camille will draw the dots between dance music and hip-hop.

In the comedy tent, Adam Buxton of ‘Adam & Joe’ fame and Simon Day from the BBC’s ‘The Fast Show’ will appear courtesy of festival co-curating partners Underbelly; along with award-winning comics in the shape of Richard Morton and Danny Bhoy…..

Latest Artists Confirmed:

STAGES

Pama International

Lykke Li

Beth Orton

Camille

The Imagined Village

Gong Gong

Afro Funk All Stars (JB Horns, Tony Allen, Manu Dibango, Cheikh LĂ´)

RIZLA AREA

Rizla Arena Invisible Players

Greg Wilson

Justin Robertson

Annie Nightingale

Kid Acne

BIG CHILL NIGHTS

Underbelly presents:

Adam Buxton (Adam & Joe)

The Singing Dentists

Simon Day (Fast Show)

Mitch Benn

Richard Morton

Matt Blaize

Tony Law

Greg Davies

Danny Bhoy

Silky

John Fothergill

Greg Davies

Perverse Universe

Featuring WanDan Human Beatbox, the Top Bananas 5-piece Stilt Band, a Strongman, Lazlo the Gender Blender, The Tragic Loungeabout and more….

KID’S TENT

Lolly Jangles

Live to Tell the Tale

Herefordshire Library Van

Carnival Arts 3D Sculpture Workshops

WORDS IN MOTION

Nick Rosen – How to Live Off Grid

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Kidology Records raises the bar on its musical output this year and launches its very own compilation series: Kidology presents ‘London After Dark vol. 1’ mixed by label don, Mark Wilkinson.

‘London After Dark’ captures the sound of exactly that – London clubbing at night but in particular the sounds of the Kidology parties held at Pacha and The White House, which are rapidly gaining a vast and loyal following, month after month.

The track list brings together sounds from the Kidology dance floors such as the massive Radio 1 ‘Floor Filler’ Dab Hands ‘Supergood’, Armand Van Helden’s ‘I Want Your Soul’ (TV Rock Mix), and a ‘Higher State of Consciousness’ by Wink (TV Rock & Dirty South Mix): as well as unreleased material from Jesse Garcia ‘Off da Hook’ and Sound Dezign ‘Happiness’ with Mark Wilkinson on the remix.

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Summer may seem far off in the distance, but it’s not too early to get a taste; a funky bassline, chunky beats, uplifting hooks and a reggae tinged vocal drenched in sunshine. Is it too early to lay claim to this year’s summer anthem…?

Supafly Inc are duo Panos Liassi a.k.a Mister P, a producer hailing from London, long surrounded by hip hop, dance and funk, and Andrew Tumi a.k.a One, a singer / songwriter immersed in reggae, soul and West African beats from an early age. Together they create a synergy that has consistently rocked dancefloors across the world. Now with new single ‘Be Together’, Supafly Inc have delivered another skilfully crafted song designed to move your feet and pull you on to the dancefloor.

‘Be Together’ is an uplifting and energetic feelgood tune based around a giant hook of a chorus that will get inside your head and stay there, like the best tunes always do. With the rallying cry ‘We Can Be Together’ this tune is already uniting dancefloors and expect to hear it everywhere in Ibiza this year!

Press play and put on your shades – Supafly Inc are delivering a slice of summer early this year.

CALLING ALL NATIONS is a celebration of music from Gung-Ho! Not only is it showcasing the last 2 years worth of outstanding releases from the burgeoning label, but it’s also giving you some upfront tracks for your listening joy.

With2 x cd DJ friendly unmixed package and a stable of producers from Iceland to South Africa, Ireland to New Zealand , and Cleethorps to Carlisle this LP has some very international breeding!

5 artist albums are in the Pipeline for Gung-Ho! and some exclusives are leaked here early, namely Greg Churchills ‘Clown Punch’ (from his forthcoming artist album – ‘Play it Loud’), Zoo Brazil’s ‘Anakonda’, Japanese Popstars ‘Delboys Revenge’ and the soon to be on everyone’s lip’s ‘Find Your Way’ by Luke Walker. The cd ends with a beautiful production called ‘Friday’ by new German artist, Florian Filsinger.

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