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Secretsundaze have announced details of their third annual party at La Terrazzza, the amazing open air club in Barcelona, along with news of their new booking agency The Secret Agency.

2010’s party looks set to be the best yet with it being the first time secretsundaze have utilised the picnic area just a few minutes walk from La Terrazzza. This is beautiful grassy area with trees overhanging the dance area with picnic benches and seating making it the perfect way to ease into the evening as a pre cursor to moving into La Terrazzza at midnight.

Along with La Terrazzza it provides one of the only true open air parties one can experience during the Sonar festivities. La Terrazzza itself is without doubt one of the most stunning locations for a party at Sonar. The party will go on for a marathon 12 hours!

Headlining this year is Patrice Scott from Detroit. Patrice’s productions on his Sistrum imprint have garnered him fans the world over and his DJ sets at the likes of Panorama bar, Fabric and indeed secretsundaze In London have furthered his appeal. Joining Patrice are two of secretsundaze favourite artists of the moment with The Mole and Trus’me.

The Mole has been a favourite appearing at secretsundaze a number of times now but usually performing live. This will be in fact his first time djing. Manchester’s Trus’me has shot to popularity over the last few years and his albums “Working Night’s” and “In The Red” have received huge acclaim. He has an extremely busy DJ schedule and this will be his debut set for secretsundaze.

Also representing The Secret Agency are young guns Ethyl and Flori who at the tender age 23 have already released on Quintessentials, Freerange, Cecile and forthcoming on secretsundaze. They are no slouches in the djing department either! Last up ever reliable residents Giles Smith and James Priestley will be on hand to keep the party burning long into the late hours.

secretsundaze at Sonar has become an institution attracting a great crowd of European party people and industry heads alike. This promises to be another unmissable party with it being the longest ever Sonar party (12 hours) and a double header with the party taking place across 2 sites. Baton down the hatches!

Date:
Sunday 20th June

Times:
5pm to Midnight in the picnic area, Midnight to 5am at La Terrazzza

Prices:
5 euro concession list, 10 euros including drink.

To be added to the concession list e mail info@secretsundaze.net

Address:
La Terrazzza, Poble D’Espanyol, Barcelona

For further information visit secretsundaze My Space or visit  The Secrest Agency website.

Garden festival goers indulge in fine food and drink, travelling around the region and lazy sun-kissed days and hedonistic nights, all framed by the festival itself, which again takes place across the first and second weekends of July from 2nd-11th.

Nestled on a narrow peninsular jutting into the seductive Adriatic waters, the festival features a fully live outdoor stage and beach bar where waters lap around revellers’ feet, twice daily Argonaughty Boat Parties, club sessions in the retro-tastic Barbarellas Discotheque and attracts sun and fun seekers from all over Europe.

Nick Colgan, one of the Garden Festival’s founders, explains that, “We’ve already got some cracking names down for the summer and we’re all really pleased the way it’s taking shape so far. There are some really exciting developments with the Argonaughty Boat parties and also Barbarellas Discotheque too. I am personally really excited by Killer Whale (The Arthur Russell Project) and also Tensnake, both making debuts, along with some cracking DJs making their first trips to our little spot of paradise.”

The lineup is indeed taking shape to be the most inspiring yet in the Garden’s esteemed 5-year history, with everything from NYC deep disco from Metro Area jousting with the sublime sounds of  Floating Points, one of the most talked about acts of 2009 for a string of revered releases and remixes, through to Leeds’ finest deck devil, Dave Beer.

One of Scotland’s finest, The Revenge, is set to unleash his fine disco cuts, and since his Resident Advisor podcast his stock has risen even further. London’s Horse Meat Disco also star, themselves enjoying their most fruitful year yet, and three late night specialists, Moodymann, Sebo K and Seth Troxler, bring a tech-noir edge to nocturnal proceedings. Of course it’s not just all about the new boys – some already legendary Garden guests also return, including Greg Wilson, Henrik Schwarz, Kelvin Brown, Terry Farley, No’ Fakin and a great deal more also star.

Croatia itself has enjoyed a bumper year as a travel destination, offering everything from secluded coves and deserted stretches of pristine beach to historic and vibrant cities, succulent sea-food and an enriching culture of old and new. Many of those who attended one or more of the weekends last year also took time out to explore some of this inspiring and seductive country too.

Croatia Garden Festival confirmed so far:

LIVE ACTS: 2020 Soundsystem • Bonobo • Crazy P • Henrik Schwarz • Killer Whale (The Arthur RussellProject) • Tensnake • Trojan Sound System DJ SETS: Adam Regan • Adam Shelton • Ame • Andy Blake • Basement Boogaloo • Bobby Beige • Christophe (Redux) • Daddy G • Dave Beer • Dave Jarvis • Deano Ferrino • Discomendments • Dixon • Dolan Bergin • Dom Chung • Ed Cotton • El Diablos • El Harvo • Electric Minds • Emma Chibuku • Faith • Felix Dickinson • Floating Points • Florian Keller • Futureboogie DJ’s • Geddes • Greg Wilson • Hang The Dj • Harri and Domenic • Horse Meat Disco • James Holroyd • Jimpster • Joe 90 • Karen P • Kelvin Brown • Kid Bongo • Metro Area (Darshan Jesrani) • Moodymann • Nick Shaw • No Fakin DJ’s • Ole Smokey • PBR Streetgang • Pete Herbert • Phat Phil Cooper • Red Rackem • Sam Redmore • Sebo K • Seth Troxler • Shur-i-kan • Smith and Mudd • Soul Jazz Sound System • Ste Hodge • Stu Patterson • Subb-An • Terry Farley • The Revenge • Tirk • Yam Who?

For further information visit The Garden Festival website, click here for ticket information.

Ministry of Sound has become the first label to trial the solution, using an MXP4 MIXTAPE to generate excitement around the launch of Addicted to Bass, Winter 2009, a compilation album due for release today.

The MXP4 MIXTAPE previews a selection of album tracks and enables fans to play with the music, taking control of song transitions to create their own versions of professional mixtapes.  Fans use a simple interface to control which tracks mix together and when, with MXP4 technology working in the background to cue up and generate seamless transitions.  The MIXTAPE module also includes links to ‘Share’ it virally and ‘Buy’ the album from iTunes and others.

You can try out the MXP4 Mixtape here, have a play with the Ministry of Sound tracks and see hear the results immedately.

Albin Serviant, CEO of MXP4, said: “Along with the adoption of MXP4’s solution by an array of leading artists and labels, this is an exciting development for interactive music, and one which helps to address a key challenge for the music industry in the digital era.  By giving fans access to more preview tracks and allowing them to play with the music, we are providing artists and labels with a new way to engage fans in the album experience and power whole album sales, be that on CD or in iTunes Album format.

Jason Reed, Digital Marketing Manager, Recordings, Ministry of Sound, said: “This is a cool interactive module that gives us a new and different way to create excitement and buzz around new album releases.  It allows us to securely preview more of the album, whilst providing the chance to play around with the tracks, mixing them together to create personalised versions.”

UNKLE to release Remix Stories (Volume One)

On 8th September, UNKLE will release ‘Remix Stories (Volume One)’ – released as a 12″ and digitally, exclusively via Beatport for the first four weeks after the release.

The 12″ features four previously unreleased remixes of tracks taken from the last two albums (‘War Stories’ and the recently released ‘End Titles… Stories for Film’).

The deliberate decision to make this release available on 12″ was made in a bid to go back to UNKLE’s roots (of dance music, pre-digital age) and to make ‘Remix Stories’ a collectible item for long standing fans.

Remixes come courtesy of legendary dance duo Layo and Bushwacka!, renowned house DJs and remixers Innervisions, and one of today’s most prolific producers Radio Slave.

The track listing is as follows:

Trouble in Paradise – Variation on a Theme (UNKLE Remix)
Hold My Hand (Innervisions Orchestra Remix)
Twilight (Layo and Bushwacka! Remix)
Chemistry (Radio Slave Remix)

For more information visit

www.unkle.com
www.myspace.com/unkle

Feel The Dream

Feel The Dream is a great new project attempting to organise celebration of the 45th Anniversary of Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have A Dream‘ speech through three main points of focus.

Top DJ’s to play the remix of Martin Luther King’s famous speech
The idea is to involve top DJ’s to play Larry Heard’s fantastic remix of Martin Luther King’s speech in clubs around the world on the 28th of August 2008

The celebrations will also include the 20th Anniversary of House Music, and special events will be promoted on www.myspace.com/feelthedream08 & the other social network sites listed below.

A ‘Silent Disco’ on World Peace Day
On World Peace Day, September the 19th, people all over the world will be asked to tune into selected radio stations with their headphones on, and dance to a ‘Silent Disco’.

Remix album to be released
And finally, there will be a ‘Supermix’ album on Martin Luther King Day, January 2009, containing some of the best mixes taken from all the previous events.

Legendary house music DJ Danny Rambling is already on board and it looks likely that Fatboy Slim is going to get involved with the Brighton organisers.

All proceeds will go to Amnesty International.

To learn more go to the Feel The Dream MySpace page.

Alternatively, you can find out more and how you can get involved by visiting any of the following sites:

Official Feel The Dream Blog

Ning

Twitter

Facebook – fan page

Featuring the likes of Daft Punk, Fatboy Slim, Basement Jaxx, LCD Soundsystem, The Prodigy, Moby, Mylo, Richie Hawtin, Goldie, Sven Vath,  Felix Da Housecat, Sasha, Faithless, Underworld, Dizzee Rascal and more, it’s the biggest dance music magazine cover ever.

The issue goes on sale in the UK on 17th April, 2008, but you can watch some sneaky behind-the-scenes footage from the cover shoot here:

www.mixmag.net/25years

Mixmag are also holding a poll to decide the best tune, club night, DJ and act of the last 25 years. Vote now at www.mixmag.net

1. Ringer
2. Ribbons
3. Swimmer
4. Wing Body Wing

and will be available as a CD, download, and as two 12″s.

Kieran Hebden, the man behind the electronic-folk outfit, has been busy recently remixing Thom Yorke’s solo stuff as well as joining up with Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip to produce “It’s Gone” by London electronic newcomers The Letter G.

Four Tet also has gigs coming up at London IndigO2 on April 24th, and at the Minehead ATP festival on May 17th.

Grooverider, real name Raymond Bingham, was found guilty of possesion and also charged for bringing the drug into the UAE (United Arab Emirates).

He was originally arrested at Dubai airport on 23 November 2007 when a small bag of cannabis weighing 2.16g was found in his luggage.

According to The Guardian, at an earlier hearing Grooverider has stated in his defence that:

“The drugs were in my possession and I forgot I had them in my trousers.”

Grooverider began his dj career on the London pirate radio station Phase One during the mid 1980’s.

Fabio and Grooverider have been two of the most popular drum n bass dj’s since its the early 1990’s; and have been credited for helping to make drum n bass more accessible to a wider audience with their flagship radio 1 programme.

Grooverider has two weeks to appeal.