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HÏ PREPS FOR OPENING SEASON The White Isle’s newest nightspot reveals opening date and host of A-list residents...

pace Ibiza may have claimed the No.1 Soundorom — will play one of their famed helm on Saturday nights for 18 weeks, beginning spot in this year’s Top 100 Clubs poll, and extended sets; Cadenza boss Luciano will be on on 3rd June. The world’s No.1 DJ, will certainly won’t ever be forgotten, but hand; Nic Fanciulli returns after helping also hold down a resident spot, with his 11-week Sfrom the summer of 2017, a new name close in an epic, if tearful, back-to-back Monday night MULTIPLY party kicking off on 3rd will take over the legendary venue — Hï Ibiza. finale last October; and Circoloco resident Matthias July. Progressive house legend will start Run by the hugely successful company behind Tanzmann takes some time away from his usual his first ever Ibiza residency on 20th June, ruling another of the island’s destination clubs — Ushuaïa haunt of DC-10. the roost every Tuesday for 10 weeks, with Matthew — the space is set to open on Sunday 28th May with Also appearing are the likes of , Kölsch, Dear, Kölsch, Pig & Dan, Agoria, Catz ‘N Dogz, Tube an all-star cast of DJ talent. Topping the bill is Djebali, Bas Ibellini, Bedouin, Anna Tur, Igor & Berger, and more joining him across the South African star Black Coffee, who makes his Marijuan and Paul Reynolds, and ANTS’ Andrea season. And finally, Glitterbox — the house and Ibiza debut on the night and is joined by a long list Oliva will go back-to-back with Davide Squillace. party-starters most famous for residencies at of White Isle veterans. French supergroup Meanwhile, Black Coffee has also been announced and Space Ibiza — will be in Apollonia — Shonky, Dan Ghenacia, Dyed as one of Hï Ibiza’s resident DJs. He’ll take the session every Friday from 9th June.

ONLINE SCALPERS COULD FACE UNLIMITED FINES New legislation might put an end to unscrupulous ticket touts…

he UK government has proposed a change “It’s unacceptable that touts are misusing ensuring that they are acting in the best interests to the Digital Economy Bill to combat technology to bypass security measures and buy of consumers and help the market work for Tonline ticket touts. up vast numbers of tickets before real fans get everyone.” Suggested in response to May 2016’s Waterson the chance, only to sell them on at rip-off The legislation would be similar to the Better Report on secondary ticketing, the change would prices,” said Matt Hancock, Minister Of State for Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act introduced in the make it illegal to use bots to bypass maximum Digital and Culture. US by President Obama last year, which made it ticket restrictions in order to buy up tickets en “It’s a growing problem that affects too many illegal to use software to purchase event tickets. masse, and could result in unlimited fines for people,” he continued. “Ticket sellers also need those found guilty. to do more, by improving transparency and

106 djmag.com DJ MAG PRESENTS... WED 12TH & 26TH APRIL

WE’VE A DOUBLE helping of our bass music live stream party this month as Dispatch Recordings and Renegade Hardware both head down to HQ at Work Bar in . Leeds-based tech specialists Dispatch take over on Wednesday 12th April with Survival, Amoss, DBR UK, Kyrist, Kolectiv and Philth bringing the noise. Then on Wednesday 26th, Hardware launches new mega-compilation ‘The Final Chapter’ with a back-to-back special featuring Loxy, Ink, Digital, Stretch, Invaderz, G.H.O.S.T, Chef, BERGHAIN OPENS NEW Double 0 and more yet to be announced. •Join the party for free by signing up via EXPERIMENTAL FLOOR, SÄULE NICOR

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FAMOUS BERLIN-BASED Berghain has just opened April will see Leisure System.30 take over with live WED 19TH APRIL a new floor called Säule — the German word for sets from Cygnus and Deepmash, plus Gonsher, pillar. N>E>D and Taraval on Friday 21st, and Bristol Previously consisting of two club areas, Panorama favourites Sherwood & Pinch (live) joined by Bar and Berghain, respectively catering for house Opium Hum, Steph and more on Friday 28th. and , the new floor will play host to darker, Berghain once again maintained its spot as weirder and more abstract electronic sounds. Germany’s No.1 club in this year’s Top 100 Clubs Situated directly under the Berghain dancefloor, poll. The venue placed 12th this time around, the space launched over the final weekend of rising four places and widening the gap between March with Mannequin Records signees Alessandro its nearest rival, Cologne-based Boothaus. Adriani, Deena Abdelwahed and Natalia Escobar. WE TEAM UP WITH day festival GALA for a special warm-up party on Wednesday 19th April. Straight outta Nottingham, topping the bill are renowned disco/house group Crazy P, who’ll spin a rare DJ set down at our London location, Work Bar (Angel, Islington). Joining them is local boy Bas Ibellini, a rising star whose trajectory is tilted firmly upwards after cutting his teeth around the , Ibiza and further afield. And completing the line-up are “vanguards of the vibe”, Krywald & Farrer, with their Afrobeat and disco-influenced sound. •For free entry head to djmag.com/guestlist FRI 28TH APRIL

SECRET GARDEN PARTY WON’T DJ MAG SESSIONS returns to our favourite London haunt, , next month with a CONTINUE AFTER 2017 selection of the finest DJs on the circuit. Taking over the main room on Friday 28th April will be partners in crime Santé and Sidney SECRET GARDEN PARTY will host its final ever festival in 2017. The festival’s founder announced the news Charles, bringing their ever-groovin’ blends via the SGP website last month, saying that the much-loved British event will shut up shop after this that traverse house, techno and beyond. year’s run (taking place from 20th to 23rd July). Joining them is Alexis Raphael, a favourite of Known only as the Head Gardener, SGP’s founder wrote: “I hope you don’t find the timing Machiavellian; the London scene who’s solidified his place however there is never the perfect time to drop this bombshell, too early or too late and people are amongst the capital’s best over the past few going to miss out and be disappointed.” years. No specific reason for the festival’s closure has been given, though the official statement suggests the Meanwhile, the Terrace will see US legend and threat of commerciality could be to blame: “I have never compromised our principles and I never will. the DMC’s youngest ever turntable champion, But it is exactly because of those principles that I am committing this senseless act of beauty.” A-Trak, take the headline spot. The Head Gardener also added: “So watch this space for the phoenix rising from the ashes”, hinting a •Get your tickets at eggldn.co.uk new fest could be in the works for 2018.

djmag.com 107 Untitled-1 1 16/03/2017 16:39 Pics: GEORGINA JACKSON This month, South London’s freshest venue, Omeara, plays host to to host plays Omeara, venue, freshest London’s SHADOWS South THE month, IN This DO WE WHAT the second edition of underground techno party, Shadow Faktory... Shadow party, techno underground of edition second the the level of curation that we want to puton,” to we want that levelofcuration the kind ofmusicatsmallervenues, especially with that with market agap inthe like“I feel there’s heaviness. someequallyCorentine pounding,hypnotic for andnewcomers Under Helmet Black talent Joininghimare Lithuanian his label,Vault Series. circuit andthrough onthe respected nameboth becomea where he’s Berlin, capital, techno ofEurope’s streets from the comes straight raw, HeadlinerSubjected underground talent. selectionof another with April on Saturday 1st round two for eventreturns and ClaudioPRC, the CosminTRG, Deepbass Romanian experimentalist with year inNovember back Launched last four-fourlike beats. stomping who those for offering indeed) isLondon’s latest plants—fitting manufacturing wartime secret for phrase from (itstitlepinched the Faktory A BOOTIN’ OFF the appropriately-named Shadow appropriately-named , ofBorough’sdarkness railway vibe,tucked away in the industrial an with night ofbrooding techno you on the dancefloor... onthe you future. See the gothighhopesfor we’ve techno, tough for proving London’s appetite Distortion We Concurand asSuperstition, events such styled ongoingsuccessofsimilarly the with but Shadow Faktory, for days beearly It may still book.” we’d to bereally Ithink excited that alotofgreat There’s up-and-comingacts artists. we’d like really digoutsome lesser-known to create abitofbang,butaswe moveto forward one,just first slightly better-known the peoplefor three “We went for I think,” continues Harri. darker, UK especially inthe harder sideoftechno, slightly anicelittleresurgence ofthe “There’s look. shabby-chic the gone all-inwith that’s river ofthe south venue anew just Omeara, club, for host fit bass pressure —aperfect meansminimallightingand this In simple terms larger venueshappens atthe inLondon.” only really we feel that inaway like that, things atmosphere and lightsandthe the to attention one).“We really pay(no, notthat alotof Ford Harrison foreman, Shadow Faktory explains kicking itthismonth... One clubpromotion unmissable show. truly thought-provoking andaltogether a Arca —expect isanactlike noother ofidentity,concepts gender andsexuality, visuals.Rewiring grotesque-yet-entrancing signature mind-bending, be onhandwith who’ll JesseKanda, regular collaborator with electronica, an eveningofboundary-pushing Recordings, TheRoundhouse Arca headsto for XL self-titledLPfor athird, with returning Now Mute. beatsfor albums ofexperimental solo two outstanding through years few past acclaimover the international Arca hasearned Venezuelan-born,and Björk, London-based West likes ofKanye credits the onalbumsby live gigthismonth,make itthis… If you onlybooktickets for one ALTHOUGH INITIALLY ROUNDHOUSE, LONDON FRIDAY 28TH APRIL &JESSEKANDA LIVE ARCA THE BIG GIG ON THEFLOOR known for production known for djmag.com 109

Pic: DANIEL SHEA ON THE FLOOR The venues pulling the BEHIND THE SCENE strings of clubland

A NEW(ISH) HOPE Hope Works has been the heart and soul of serious Sheffield clubbing for the past five years, but it seems that’s only the beginning...

iam O’Shea can’t have a lot of spare Linneman, and homegrown legend Chris but a handful — will play tunes to a background of time on his hands. As the guy behind Duckenfield. Last month saw another South art creation, live coding, talks, and Sheffield’s one of the North’s most treasured Yorkshire lad done good, Blawan, sharing honours infamously hedonistic atmosphere. L nocturnal institutions, not to mention with Clouds, Abdulla Rashim, Call Super, Batu, and the real name of acclaimed DJ, Lo Shea, he’d Bruce, in one fell swoop. Meanwhile, April Onwards and upwards, to say the least, Lo Shea rather keep pushing forward to explore fresh sessions will welcome Clone Records with remains typically realistic and straight talking ideas, than rest on any laurels. Well earned as Legowelt and Randomer, then Hunee and Vakula. about this thing of his. they are. Serious business indeed. “I think the way in which Hope Works has His brainchild, Hope Works, is an old industrial developed, survived, and flourished, must mean spot on the fringe of Sheffield city centre, which Not content with running roadblock parties, Hope there was a need for it, otherwise it would have has cemented its reputation by forsaking the Works is also used for artistic pursuits, from died. But I take nothing for granted, whatsoever. profitability of passing for the credibility texture-mapped installations exhibited during Things can turn on a knife edge, I’m fully aware of that comes from opening doors to dedicated all-day , to a VR poetry piece, with the latter that. But at the moment I’m expanding what we’re heads on both sides of the booth. Now in its fifth set to become an instalment during a new doing. year, this is the latest chapter in a decade- multi-venue festival coming to Sheffield, No spanning story that has seen Lo Shea passionately Bounds, which is spearheaded by Lo Shea, with “For No Bounds there are other models out there promote, help develop and support artists, Hope Works at the epicentre. The main event is — using the city as a venue — but I’m doing it in a producers, record spinners, and hedonists since scheduled for October, coinciding with the venue’s Sheffield way, and in a way that’s pretty personal relocating from Nottingham. next birthday, but the concept will be unveiled on to me, and to the team I’m building, which is only 9th June via a mammoth 18-hour session a few. It’s a product of its environment, and a On any given weekend when the club is in full featuring a typically stellar, hand-picked line-up. logical, natural development from what I’ve been swing, you’re likely to find enviable guests Names like Nina Kraviz, Helena Hauff, DJ Nobu, doing for years with Hope Works, and with the programmed to perfection, joining local rising Lena Willikens, Mumdance, Shackleton, Avalon programming, but also reaching quite far out from talent, the main man, and fellow residents, Emerson, and London Modular Alliance — to check that.” MARTIN GUTTRIDGE-HEWITT

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Untitled-1 1 16/03/2017 16:25 ON THE FLOOR RAMPAGE @ SPORTPALEIS, ANTWERP Pics: PHILIPPE WUYTS

RAMPED UP Antwerp’s annual drum & bass blow-out, Rampage, brings together 15,000 fans and artists from across the genre spectrum. Could the often cliquey UK scene learn a thing or two from its Belgian counterpart?

hether you’re — come on UK, get a grip! At Held at Sportpaleis, a huge stadium the stage in towering vertical walls, huddled up like Antwerp’s famous d&b and on the edge of Antwerp, the enormity over a thick swamp of smoke which penguins in the festival, Rampage, they play tech of the event is mind-blowing. The reflects thousands of twinkling lights. Wdamp corner of a next to jump-up without batting an line-up is just as intense, and The music stops and Youthstar MC freezing Saturday night smoking area eyelid, and with the insane although tonight’s festivities start at welcomes living lyrical legend, Jenna or willing yourself into a rage reading eyebrow-singeing production values, 7.30pm, the majority of sets last just G, to the stage; the floor and through hoards of attention-seeking trust us when we tell you it’s fire 45 minutes, with only ’s Outer surrounding wall erupt into a sea of Helvetica, in the the wavy world of emoji times three. Edges show and Mefjus’ finale taking whoops and whistles. After the UK drum & bass scene, it feels like the conventional one-hour time slot. instructing everyone to raise their you can’t buss a one-foot skank Hans Machiels, otherwise known to hands, she reveals her stunningly without tumbling into an argument. bass benevolent brethren as We walk into the arena as AMC & powerful voice. Listening to her Fights over reusing classic samples, Murdock, is the well-respected Murdock thoroughly assault the perform a live PA of ‘Makes Me outrage that DJs may not have heard creator of Rampage, and in a mere venue with an almost evil arsenal of Stronger’ is a testament to her of every other DJ on the entire eight years he’s grown this event sonic weaponry. Yes, the war-torn unrivalled longevity as a vocalist. Her planet, and, of course, the never- from a small 1000-capacity party to a metaphors which compare bass music voice is as effortlessly soulful as it is ending, highly intellectual debate of 15,000-strong winter pilgrimage for to dark artilleries are tired and commanding and captivating. “jump-up’s for scumbags” versus followers of drum & bass and dubstep overused, but this time they really The lads step down and Eptic begins “tech-heads are up their own arses” across the globe. are necessary. Fire detonates from his set, the lights dim, the BPM

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changes and the crowd goes crazy. even cares what this track is called or slip. SASASAS charge onto the stage The lights are spinning, drinks are As our heads bob in synchronisation, who it’s by. All they care about is and hit us with a torrent of spilling and every lost drop is totally like an army of deranged nodding experiencing this specific moment well-loved skippy bars, along with a worth it. dogs, we frantically rack our brains and the overwhelming of soundtrack of fresh dubplates and for a track ID… Nope, don’t know it! 15,000 people dancing to the same some modern classics, like last year’s In the UK, d&b and dubstep are our We assure ourselves the lack of syncopated beat. ‘Ready Or Not’. babies; is this why we are so highly knowledge is fine — judging by the Noisia’s Outer Edges show deserves strung and protective? Is it a purist crowd’s reaction, everybody else is One half of Mind Vortex jumps all the recognition it has been mentality, or is it just an absurd clued up. We ask a small lad donning around excitedly, absorbing the showered with recently, and their overspill of the divisive political an Eatbrain hat — he can’t intoxicating positivity which is ability to adapt the production to state in which we all currently remember. We tap a girl in front of hanging in every atom of the air. He any venue is extremely impressive. reside? Whatever the reason, we us, skanking tall on a folded-down drops an intro he’s specially We all love the trio, we all know the need to step back and stop. We’ve stadium chair, while exhaling a drag prepared for his mammoth drill. Utterly immersive soundscapes seen the other side, stadiums full of of a cigarette — she doesn’t know. back-to-back-to-back with Loadstar and out of this world production — like-minded people dancing We turn to a Parisian, sweat dripping and DC Breaks. Even when the snapbacks off to Noisia. Doctor P, together. This is what can be down his unshirted chest — he has high-octane set draws to a close, the Funtcase and Krafty MC step up to achieved when an entire scene is no idea. Not one person, at least in energy is still continuing to build the suitably hyped and still teeming treated as one entity, and given the our immediate vicinity, knows or and the next act won’t allow it to venue, dropping tracks like ‘Vibrate’. respect it deserves. WHISKY KICKS

djmag.com 113 QUICKFIRE CLUBBING A -a-day keeps the doctor away (probably)...

JONWAYNE @ THE JAZZ CAFE, LONDON TRUTH-SAYER Cali rapper Jonwayne makes an affecting return...

KITSUNÉ CLUB THROUGHOUT 2012 and 2013, LA’s Jonwayne was hands-down one of the most promising NIGHT FRENCH KISS talents in hip-hop: A uniquely forward-thinking @ beatmaker who could also effortlessly deliver PARTY VILLAGE on-point lyrics. Then he just up and disappeared. Last month Jonwayne finally UNDERGROUND, re-emerged, detailing his absence and the DJ MAG OFFICIAL reasons for it (primarily alcoholism), on new LP LONDON ‘Rap Album Two’. When he appears on stage at PARTY @ ILLUZION, PUCKER UP London’s Jazz Cafe, wielding a tea cup — and Love is in the air as Kitsuné hits the UK later for his encore, a banana — Jonwayne is not PHUKET, THAILAND capital... only sober, but, for us, instantly back at the top KEEPIN’ IT REAL of the game. As he reels off classics such as ‘Numbers On The Hoard’ — “Motherfuckers can’t DJ Mag pulls no punches in Phuket... FRENCH BRAND Kitsuné has been throwing bashes in the capital for the last few years, rhyme no more, ‘bout crime no more/Shit they just go to instead and settle scores” — SINCE LAUNCHING a few years back Illuzion though never so extravagantly as at Shoreditch’s Phuket has gone on to become one of the own Village Underground. It’s driving rain and along with material from his new album (our hottest night spots in the Thai region, offering sub-zero temperatures outside as DJ Mag rolls personal highlight, the soul-baring ‘Out Of up a seven-night-a-week rota of some of the up to the cavernous club on a Friday night in Sight’), the Cali rapper is humble and grounded, biggest international names on the DJ circuit, Feb, with the mostly under-25 crowd already despite the confidence and precision with which including , Sven Väth and Nervo. snaking in a huge queue out front pre-9pm. The he delivers every bar. A humorous rapport with Tonight, the DJ Mag Allstars step up onto the French club promoters, label and sometime the audience lends to the positive, main stage to provide a soundtrack that keeps apparel company have gained a considerable UK down-to-earth vibe, and special moments such the 3,000-strong crowd rocking. The club is following thanks to their sunny, French pausing to read poems and finishing on an exhilarating, capturing the spirit of the highly touch-focused , with Parisian hero acapella of an as-yet-unreleased track complete populated Bangla Road, with queues extending Zimmer topping tonight’s bill, plus local lad what is one of the most impressive hip-hop down the street as soon as the doors open. A Fono and Aussie act Young Franco. Franco is first shows we’ve witnessed in a good while. Welcome strong varied crowd, made up of locals and the to hit the decks with a spin of his chart-topper back Mr. Wayne… BEN HINDLE international holiday party set, really brings the hit ‘I Miss You’, along with a smattering of club to life — the atmosphere is electric. The noughties hip-hop and ‘90s diva R&B. It’s a massive soundsystem is on-point, pumping out massive reception for the Australian producer the tunes into the auditorium-style main floor. who’s just finished a down under tour — despite If Phuket is your holiday destination you won’t his opening slot he all but steals the show. DJ be disappointed by the delights Illuzion has to Mag dances the night away in a sea of loved up offer. MICK WILSON couples (the party is titled the French Kiss Party after all) — it’s romance and raving all wrapped up in one! CHARLOTTE LUCY CIJFFERS

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CRYPTIC STATE @ ISLINGTON MILL, @ GREEN VALLEY, MANCHESTER BRAZIL TOUGH CODE TO CRACK DEEP IN THE VALLEY New Manc party survives onslaught of A coming of age moment for Brazilian house misfortune... music...

SOMETIMES YOU’RE dealt a bad hand. Take CARNIVAL. That time of year again. When booking hard-hitting techno don Pariah to Brazil’s most bold and beautiful lose their minds launch a new session at a woefully underused within the party spirit. The streets awash with space, with Alex Coulton in support. It sounds costumes, papier-mâché floats and flamboyant great, until reality strikes. dancers, while Brazil’s many go Almost losing the venue amid a licensing battle, all-out with a packed schedule featuring the relief at the final decision was short-lived when most prized acts their booking power can Pariah cancelled due to illness, impacting on muster. numbers. Nevertheless, 72 hours after that While Laroc and Anzu have curated the likes of news we’re standing amid a small but enthused Claptone, Jey and Kolombo between DJ MAG BUNKER #6 crowd dancing to Coulton’s bass-fours. His set is them throughout the weekend, the one that’s perhaps too early, and the system a little quiet really kicking up a storm is the return of Vintage ASTROPHONICA @ (ringing alarm bells about possible new council Culture to Green Valley. The local boy wonder restrictions), but nobody is complaining. Things went stratospheric in 2016 with his bouncy WORK BAR, get more agreeable still when Meat Free’s Blasha pop-flavoured deep house and his appearance at and Allatt, two stars of Manchester’s thriving Brazil’s leading club has in excess of 9,000 LONDON scene, do their replacement headline billing people spilling out from under the venue’s justice with techno to please a crowd enormous canopies. This year has a circus theme READY FOR LIFTOFF disinterested in paint-by-numbers drivel. While and a third tent installed to add to the vibe, but Fracture’s crew launch the ‘Gradients’ LP… not the birth Cryptic State deserves, it’s at least the hype is all connected to Brazil’s new poster proof things can still feel special regardless of boy of house music tonight, his four-hour set ALTHOUGH USUALLY landing on the second the turn out. MARTIN GUTTRIDGE-HEWITT supported by an array of skimpily dressed Wednesday of every month, DJ Mag’s burlesque contortionists and acrobats on bass-infused Bunker has teamed up with trapezes overhead, jugglers and fire-breathers Fracture’s Astrophonica label for a special extra too. It genuinely feels like a coming of age show to launch the imprint’s debut compilation, moment for Brazilian house music. Think Elrow ‘Gradients’, at of February. The honcho meets Cirque du Soleil with all the glory of himself closes the show with an eclectic set of carnival. Green Valley have seriously brought it forward-thinking drum & bass and juke beats, for 2017. ADAM SAVILLE while elsewhere Teklife’s DJ Earl, Critical Music-affiliate Sam Binga and Sully all impress. Stealing the show for us, however, is Neptune. The Astrophonica co-founder has been absent from the scene in recent years, raising his family — a worthy cause, of course — but his return is more than welcome. Rinsing out the room with a ‘97/’98 influences set, he brings drums galore with classics and Astrophonica favourites alike. This is why we fell in love with the label in the first place. The sound has stood the test of time, and while the sound has morphed, it’s as cutting-edge as ever. We can’t wait to see what new magic they bring in the future. BEN HINDLE

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A SLICE OF FRIED GOLD Drum & bass figurehead Goldie takes over legendary jazz joint Ronnie Scott’s to showcase his new album and live show...

t’s probably safe to say the wonder to classical masterpiece. come back, we don’t mind. Hers is a egging on drummer Adam Betts, staff at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz The majority of tonight is dedicated voice unlike anything else, as who’s going hell for leather, Club aren’t expecting a rave to to ‘The Journey Man’, however — a ferocious as it is velveteen. Hearing hammering out the beat; he’s at the Ibreak out when Goldie takes to first taste for many, as the album her live, Duncan’s discovery by back, listening from afar; he’s the stage on a bustling night in won’t drop until June, and material Goldie on his Goldie’s Band By Royal perched on a table, eyes closed, lost Soho. Granted, he’s a legend of the has been kept strictly under-wraps Appointment show for the BBC feels in the music; he’s with friends, eager jungle/drum & bass scene, and for the most part. What becomes as precious and monumental as to gauge their reactions. Goldie’s not certainly has no trouble getting the immediately apparent is that the LP discovering the Ark of the Covenant just an orchestral conductor, but an party started — but still, a room has been crafted specifically to be — except upon opening the lid, it’s electrical one too — his passion and filled with 30 and 40-somethings, performed live. While we’ll leave a hearts that melt, not faces. energy flowing freely through each purposefully designed for sitting and full review of the release for a later By this point, you may be asking member of the audience. listening, doesn’t exactly conjure up issue, what we will say is this: As with yourself where the hell Goldie is. In hindsight, of course a rave was ideas of raised gunfingers and most records, nothing compares to He’s the man of the hour after all, going to break out. To expect a room skanking out. the raw emotional energy of being in and yet since mentioning him full of drum & bass headz to sit It begins — as Goldie’s forthcoming a room with a group of musicians walking out on stage he’s been quietly through a Goldie show album ‘The Journey Man’ does — putting in their all. noticeably absent from this page. (especially when golden oldies like with ‘Horizons’. Vocalist Terri Walker Particular highlights include ‘Truth’, But Goldie’s is a performance all of ‘Kemistry’ and ‘Sense Of Rage’ come is joined onstage by support singers on which singer Natalie Duncan is its own. He doesn’t use instruments out) is, in all honestly, Vanessa Haynes and Sam White, joined by cellist Ben Trigg, and ‘This (apart from the occasional shake of a unreasonable. But, when DJ Mag along with a selection of Is Not A Love Song’, when Duncan tambourine or maraca). His spots a couple of staffers sneakily instrumentalists from The Heritage duets with Tyler Lee Daly. A note on contribution is pure petroleum; fuel joining in the dance, it’s clear that Orchestra, with whom Goldie Duncan: Listen. Now. Go on, you can for the fire. The Metalheadz boss while it may not be the reaction famously transformed his seminal operate YouTube while you continue darts around the room — he’s on Ronnie Scott’s expected, it’s the one album ‘Timeless’ from electronic reading. Or take five minutes out and stage, dancing with his singers or they wanted all along. BEN HINDLE

Tyler Lee Daly & Goldie

Natalie Duncan CHELONE WOLF Pics: CHELONE

djmag.com 117 Untitled-1 1 17/03/2017 13:44 @ ROUNDHOUSE, LONDON ON THE FLOOR

THE GODFATHER PART TWO Following the release of his potentially final (again) album ‘Godfather’, Wiley takes to Camden’s Roundhouse to prove why he’s still the don of … ven within the crazy confines of grime, Wiley is considered a particularly curious case. An underground scene innovator, who went on to E achieve crossover success before heading back to his roots and taking a swathe of his new pop followers with him, fans and critics have always struggled to pin him down or predict his next move. It’s part of what makes Wiley, well... Wiley. We know people who rate him as the best MC in the game, who also believe he’s never delivered a good single. He’s grime’s great paradox.

Having just delivered his biggest musical statement in some time on his long-awaited recent album ‘Godfather’, expectations are high that the first live performance since the release of the largely collaborative LP would not only see Wiley actually show up, but be a memorable and star-studded affair. It doesn’t disappoint.

Opening with the interview-sampling ‘Speakerbox’, a clearly amped up Wiley kick-starts the night’s proceedings with a blistering set of bars that generate the kind of reaction that few artists of any genre could hope to garner. “I’ve achieved tings I was dreamin’ of/ step on the stage, start reelin’ off,” begins Wiley, to a diverse crowd united in their collective hype. Having quickly settled into his groove, the man born Richard Cowie then proceeds to perform ‘Godfather’ pretty much in its entirety, welcoming the album’s all-star cast on stage with him for their various numbers at different points.

Old rivals and Lethal B deliver particularly slick renditions of their respective parts on ‘Bring Them All /Holy Grime’ and ‘My Direction’, further highlighting just how far the genre has come from the muffled mics so often heard on the pirate broadcasts of the scene’s earliest machinations. Meanwhile, grime 2.0 pioneers and Skepta provide a taste of more modern sensibilities. Yet, if Dev and the Bizzle’s performances showcase just what level is expected of grime in the live arena in 2017, it’s old hand Scratchy who provides the best example of grime’s initial appeal, serving up an energetic helping of ‘Bait Face’ as he and Wiley seamlessly exchange flows on the track’s back-and-forth narrative, much in the same manner as the two childhood friends would on back-to-back sessions for radio sets and raves in the early noughties.

There are also a few deviations away from ‘Godfather’ throughout the night, most notably from chart-conquering new school don , who treats the crowd to raucous versions of his hit singles ‘Big For Your Boots’ and ‘Shut Up’, with BBK’s Solo 45 similarly bringing the heat with his club banger, ‘Feed ‘Em To The Lions’.

Wiley himself rarely troubles his back-catalogue, save for a well-received orchestration of 2007 cut ‘Gangsters’, which, backed by an appropriately lo-fi set of visuals, serves as a timely reminder of the power of some of his earlier works. Closing with an apology for previously missed gigs and a promise for a brighter future, we’re hopeful that Wiley 2.0 can be every bit as brilliant as the second coming of the scene he played such a pivotal part in building. Eski Boy! REISS DE BRUIN MIKE MASSARO Pic:

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S U R V I V A L TRACK-TICS DJ Mag heads to London’s Village Underground to see if synthwave outfit S U R V I V E can live up to their newfound fame...

he sharp rise to notoriety other founding members Mark their released material. As they ‘RR7349’, as well as a searing of Austin-based synth- Donica and Adam Jones, who are all construct their proggy synth-wave, extended version of 2010 single wave band S U R V I V E is in flanked by a myriad of vintage the four-piece don’t get a moment’s ‘Holographic Lands’, which forms a Tno small part due to two synths including a Roland SH-101, rest, working through strobe-lit highlight towards the close. The members of the band’s work on the Korg Mono/Poly and an ARP sonic noodling and choruses built only minor disappointment of the epic soundtrack to cult, ‘80s-set, TV Odyssey, with the band’s hardware from squealing synth lines. show it that S U R V I V E don’t play sci-fi hit Stranger Things, which having become the subject of wide The band members rarely interact on any of the material from the went on to be nominated in the Best attention amongst gearheads stage, each absorbed in engineering Stranger Things soundtrack, but Score Soundtrack Category at the following S U R V I V E’s exposure the huge array of synths in front of despite that fact, their measured 2017 Grammy Awards. And tonight’s from Stranger Things. them. As they work through the set, delivery of Lynchian synth-wave show at the Village Underground is the music shifts from the sound of suggests a band that deserve to fill part of the band’s first major As the lights drop and the four-piece an epic movie soundtrack to Way Out even bigger spaces than Village European tour, ahead of being enter the stage, each is lit by a West if they’d peaked in 1984 Underground. booked to play at Coachella and single white spotlight overhead, instead of 1999, as well as elements Movement later in the year, appearing something like a new age of more obvious contemporaries like As the band leave the stage to mass demonstrating their huge crossover Kraftwerk, each at their own bank of Emeralds, Oneohtrix Point Never and applause from a crowd who appeared success. hardware. The band work their way Blanck Mass — presenting an spellbound for most of the show, all For their show in the UK capital, Kyle through a slow and sludgy intro, entirely different sonic palette to eyes turn to Dixon and Stein, who Dixon and Michael Stein, the pair building an intense atmosphere that the Stranger Things material. are set to head back into the studio that worked on the soundtrack steadily propels through the course The majority of the set pulls from to soundtrack the second season of together, are joined by the band’s of the show through live reworks of last year’s full length album Stranger Things. ROB MCCALLUM Pics: BRANDON SHEPHERD

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Spilt Milk continues at Bloc with ITALOJOHNSON for LONDON 1. PERC TRAX four hours (1st April). I love PRESENTS... BITTER Acid turns ten at Corsica, MUSIC inviting NEVILLE WATSON, FRIDAY 28TH APRIL TERRY FARLEY, JOE HART CORSICA STUDIOS and more; Tectonic’s

showcase sees PINCH back- PERC gears up for a to-back MUMDANCE, RIKO heavyweight three hours DAN, DISTANCE, IPMAN with Truss, Blueprint’s and PARRIS representing James Ruskin is also boundary-pushing dubstep; in the house, and the and makes his new school is well debut with electronic represented too with explorers DEMDIKE STARE, shapeshifting rave- VATICAN SHADOW and grime head Mumdance, POWELL in Room Two (all John Heckle’s Head 7th). LUCIANO and friends Front Panel, Livity don (MARTIN BUTTRICH, GUTI, Hodge and Young Echo ADAM SHELTON, ALEX Sound member Ossia, CELLER) play Printworks who featured in last 24-hours on; and there’ll month’s Bristol feature. be sexier vibes at Ministry 10PM - 8AM £17.50 Of Sound where DJ HARVEY kicks off a four-date residency (8th). London Bridge spot 2. OVAL SPACE MUSIC X 3. SIDEXSIDE 4. THE HYDRA PRESENTS 5. THE BLACK MADONNA ALL Omeara hosts NATHONY CLONE 25 YEARS SUNDAY 16TH APRIL BLUEPRINT NIGHT LONG NAPLES, CINNAMAN, ADESSE SATURDAY 22ND APRIL TOBACCO DOCK THURSDAY 13TH APRIL FRIDAY 7TH APRIL VERSIONS and WOLF MUSIC OVAL SPACE FABRIC XOYO for five years of TheseDays THREE rooms of back-to- (13th). Freerotation parents SERGE’S Clone continues its 25- backs: Jamie Jones with BLUEPRINT, The Hydra and THE BLACK MADONNA takes the STEEVIO and SUZYBEE deliver year celebrations with himself, Nicole Moudaber and Cassy, Fabric bring Underground baton as XOYO’s latest all-night modular techno to The Pickle an all-too-rare appearance Guy Gerber joins , Art Resistance’s Depth Charge resident, signing up for 13 Factory with JOEY ANDERSON from I-F, Legowelt’s unmissable Department and Matthew Dear, (Mad Mike and Mark Flash), weeks. Tonight’s theme is ‘The (14th). And RONI SIZE’s all- production performance, and plus Leon Vynehall with Ryan Octave One, Convextion, Body Electric’, meaning early hardware rendition of d&b an as-yet-unannounced guest. Elliott and Josey Rebelle. Tessela, Truncate and more. electro, EBM and industrial. classic ‘New Forms’, at Oval 10PM - 6AM £15 - £17.50 12PM - 10.30PM £39.50 11PM - 8AM £20 - £25 9PM - 4AM £18.50 Space again (28th).

Out of sync, but logical, THE NORTH 1. UN:DISCLOSED Manchester sees a slew of AND MICRON Zutekh parties — OBJEKT SUNDAY 30TH back-to-back with CALL APRIL SUPER at Soup Kitchen (7th VICTORIA April); Andrew Weatherall THEATRE, and Sean Johnston’s A HALIFAX LOVE FROM OUTER SPACE West Yorkshire in Refuge Basement (15th); is an unlikely and a joint effort with Tpot destination for — ZIP, PARANOID LONDON, Detroit’s finest, BINH and DR RUBINSTEIN Carl Craig, but at Hidden (16th). Back to he’s here at the chronology, W.O.M. hosts historic Victoria d&b futurist PESSIMIST at The Theatre — a White Hotel, and The Electric fittingly grandiose Chair is resurrected in Refuge auditorium for Basement with UNABOMBERS techno royalty. versus AFICIONADO (both Scotland’s Jasper 1st). Coded Rhythm welcomes James is also here, SPECIAL REQUEST to Gorilla as are Micron. (7th); XDB plays Soup 10PM - 5AM Kitchen (22nd); and Project £10 - £15 13 presents 10 Years of Ilian Tape — ZENKER BROTHERS all night at The White Hotel 2. HESSLE AUDIO 10 YEARS 3. HIGH HOOPS 2ND 4. MAYDAY X DIMENSIONS 5. I LOVE ACID TENTH (29th)... Leeds opens on TOM FRIDAY 28TH APRIL BIRTHDAY SUNDAY 30TH APRIL ANNIVERSARY TRAGO and JASPER JAMES at WEST INDIAN CENTRE, LEEDS SATURDAY 8TH APRIL ANTWERP MANSION, SATURDAY 1ST APRIL Homework, Mint Club (1st), HIDDEN, MANCHESTER MANCHESTER HIDDEN, MANCHESTER and Magnify’s party at Mint PANGAEA, Ben UFO and with MIND AGAINST (7th). Pearson Sound head back to OMAR-S, Mike Servito, Spencer ONE ramshackle Rusholme HAVING made a track that SOUL CLAP and CRAZY P hit the city they cut their teeth in, Parker, Aurora Halal and mansion, 15 hours of Octave inspired this party, Luke Vibert Church for 2020 Vision (13th); and stole a street name from Willow, with support coming One, Daniel Avery, Tom Trago, tops the bill. Ceephax Acid HUNEE plays an extended set for Hessle Audio. All three will in the form of Annabel Fraser, Sassy J, Cervo and Dimensions Crew, Jerome Hill, Jon Dasilva, at Hi Fi (21st), and Audiowhore play on a rig built for bone- Akaram and Space Africa. Top Soundsystem threatening to Dixon Avenue Basement Jams goes to Mint Warehouse with rattling dub — aural paradise. buzz. bring the building down. and Posthuman join. SONNY FODERA and SAM 10PM - 6AM £TBA 10PM - 4AM £20 - £25 12PM - 3AM £25 - £30 10PM - 4AM £12 - £20 DIVINE (29th)...

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Beginning with , everyone’s favourite deep SOUTH 1. WIGGLE 23RD house head MOVE D hits BIRTHDAY BASH Patterns (1st), and there’s SATURDAY 28TH APRIL soulful house grooves from AL DUOMO, HENRY WU and the more BRIGHTON Chicago tones of LAURENCE GUY for Discojuice at Al Duomo TIME to show some (7th). Trance heads should proper respect to one note TALL PAUL at Concorde 2 of the UK’s original (13th), and a day later Attic is tech institutions. at Mono for good vibes house Founding fathers from Frenchman JULIANO Nathan Coles and (14th); with Hyperdub’s Terry Francis are SCRATCHA DVA bringing joined by early futurism to the same address resident ‘Evil’ Eddie later (28th). The Arch, on the Richards, with a host other hand, hosts PATRICK of others joining in. TOPPING for Take, part of the Highlights include Brighton Music Conference Magnus Asberg, Andy (27th); and Anjunadeep are in Blake, Rob Anderson, the house, or rather Concorde Lucas Hulan and Dylan 2, with progressive tones Debut. courtesy of LANE 8, LUTTRELL 5PM - 6AM £10 - £15 and (28th). Elsewhere, AKALA is one of several names booked for the 2. HERD 3. MONO 4. AKA DJ SEINFELD 5. CT FEST multi-styled Grinagog Festival, SATURDAY 1ST APRIL SATURDAY 1ST APRIL SATURDAY 15TH APRIL SUNDAY 30TH APRIL spread across various Torquay HERD, BEDFORD MONO, BRIGHTON PATTERNS, BRIGHTON CLUB CHEMISTRY, venues (7th-9th). Old Skool CANTERBURY Oxford lives up to its name via NO fooling, Bill Brewster is THE often mind-melting EMERGING lo-fi hit-maker DJ 2 BAD MICE’s hardcore breaks coming to Bedford. From heavy electronic yarns spun by Seinfeld arrives at the south MAYBE the biggest celebration and jungle (15th); and we underground slo-mo house to Houndstooth’s extraordinarily coast hub. If you’re not tuned of breaks ‘n’ bass to hit finish in Maidstone, where The weird disco rarities and obscure talented Throwing Snow should into this guy yet, get down Canterbury, ever; Blonde, Flava Source will be hosting a street Latin filth, he always delivers be perfect for Mono’s dark, to Patterns and get yourself D, DJ Guv, Eksman, Hazard party headlined by guests the goods. He can write a mean loud, intimate space. Prepare learned — pronto! & Hype, Jaguar Skills, My Nu from Defected In The House book, too... for an adventure. 11PM - 4AM £6 Leng, Tom Zanetti and more. (30th)... 10PM - 4AM £4 - £8 11PM - 6AM £5 2PM - 6AM £20 - £30

Glasgow starts on a high: Rush Hour’s TOM TRAGO joins SCOTLAND & NORTHERN IRELAND 1. AVA CASTLE ALL- resident JASPER JAMES for DAY PARTY Homework at Sub Club (2nd SATURDAY 15TH APRIL April). Subculture welcomes NARROW WATER KINK to the same spot a week CASTLE, COUNTY on (8th), and the address DOWN then hosts YOUNG MARCO (9th), all night AVA FESTIVAL has (13th), three hours of NICOLE established itself as MOUDABER (14th), and Northern Ireland’s most MIDLAND at Thunder Disco cutting-edge electronic (21st). Elsewhere in town, showcase, and this catch A LOVE FROM OUTER one-off is no different, SPACE at The Art School (1st); with Irish-born New Italian techno face ENRICO Yorkers Mister Saturday SANGIULIANO (7th), an Night, Auntie Flo making Ajunadeep label party (14th), his debut on the island, and KÖLSCH (21st) — all at Rødhåd’s Dystopian SWG3. Meanwhile, genre- signing Tijana T, and top hopping Mancunian MR local talent — Clockwork, SCRUFF stops at The Admiral Newry, Inside Moves — (16th)... Edinburgh way, JOY all in a historic castle. ORBISON hits Minival, Sneaky 1PM - 12AM £20 Pete’s (2nd), after the crew’s Theme Park session up in Aberdeen — JOY ORBISON 2. LUMEN 006 3. NOTHING MORE TO SAY 4. TERMINAL V 5. PRESSURE and JENNIFER CARDINI are SATURDAY 28TH APRIL 2ND BIRTHDAY WEEKENDER SUNDAY 16TH APRIL SUNDAY 30TH APRIL both there (1st). Back to the QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY FRIDAY 14TH / SATURDAY 15TH ROYAL HIGHLAND CENTRE, SWG3, capital, check TOM TRAGO STUDENT’S UNION APRIL EDINBURGH at Cabaret Voltaire (6th), THE TUNNELS, ABERDEEN / MAYDAY madness with Slam’s Innervisions and Maeve’s DSNT and Tw!tch double team UNDERDOG, ABERDEEN ADAM Beyer, Alan Fitzpatrick, usual solid wares, fellow deep tech maestro AERA at Belfast’s most notorious space, Carl Craig, , Scotsman Gary Beck and L’Anatomie, Sneaky Pete’s with heaviness par for the TWO-FOR-ONE is always good, Dekmantel Soundsystem, Silicone Soul completing the (7th), and HELENA HAUFF course. AnD live, Dax J, Fran especially when the first night DVS1, Jeremy Underground, Soma contingency, whilst the playing The Bongo Club Hartnett, Ross From Friends, involves Dance Mania don DJ Kerri Chandler, KiNK, Space powerhouse techno of Clouds (14th). Then LEN FAKI for ASOK and Smartbar’s Chrissy. Deeon’s sleazy ghetto electro. Dimension Controller... arrives in town. Pulse at Liquid Room (28th)... 9PM - 3AM £20 £10 - £14 (both) 11PM - 3AM 12PM - 12AM £37.50 - £44.50 10PM - 3AM £12 - £15

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Bristol, listen up! Eminent WEST & WALES 1. SAFE AS MILK welcomes YAKONA for an EP FESTIVAL launch at Dojo (7th April), so FRIDAY 21ST - SUNDAY expect atmospheric techno. 23RD APRIL Freerotation’s house head PONTINS, PRESTATYN done good, JOE ELLIS, stops at Crofters Rights for Musu a WE’LL never tire of week after playing eight hours sessioning chalets at Concrete in Paris (8th). with line-ups like this. Motion teams up with the and Tony mighty Cream for a massive Allen team up, scary soirée — EDDIE HALLIWELL but accomplished and (14th); then experimental techno Ibiza techno sesh Ants hits from Demdike Stare is the venue, and proggier tones here too, as are Karen soundtrack Empathy’s 18th Gwyer, Forest Swords, birthday at The Doghouse — Omar Souleyman, DAVE SEAMAN and STEVE Grouper, Hieroglyphic PARRY headline (both 15th). Being and Dopplereffekt; RAFFA FL plays The Blue with a raft of respected Mountain for Banjax’s fifth bands also booked. anniversary (16th), and Radar 4PM - 11PM £169 (inc. Radio showcase grimier stuff chalet) at The Marble Factory — AJ TRACEY, AMY BECKER, and more (21st). Bristol’s April 2. HOUSEWORK 3. DOPPLER 4. LOOSE LIPS 5. TEMPERANCE TOWN then ends on three highs — SATURDAY 8TH APRIL SATURDAY 1ST APRIL FRIDAY 14TH APRIL SATURDAY 29TH APRIL Anjunadeep’s debut in the ARNOLFINI, BRISTOL UNDERTONE BASEMENT BAR, THE ISLAND, BRISTOL THE VAULTS, CARDIFF BAY city, at Marble Factory, RICHY CARDIFF AHMED next door in Motion IS that a top line-up in Bristol’s COUNTING Aphex Twin, DERRICK CARTER sets the tone (both 29th), and a celebration most prestigious art gallery, or BERLIN’S resident DJs often Surgeon, Blawan and Laurent for one of three rooms, with a of techno with ANTI-SLAM are you just pleased to see us? prove they do it better, and Garnier as fans, Irish pair three-hour set, John Morales & W.E.A.P.O.N., plus BOBBY Fit Siegal flies in from Detroit, Stojche is no exception. Calling Lakker bring bass-first does similar in the second, DAVIS in Basement 45 (30th). accomplished residents Shanti Tresor and the incredible warehouse wares to the West with a raft of native spinners Elsewhere, Factory presents Celeste, Gramrcy, Golesworthy, Griessmuehle home, expect Country, with Idle Hands elsewhere. KRAFTY KUTS and DYNAMITE and Daisy Moon support. punchy, crisp and vital fours. honcho Chris Farrell also in. 10PM - 5AM £20 MC for a breaks throwdown in 10PM - 4.30AM £6 - £9 11PM - 4AM £5 - £6 10PM - 3AM £5 - £10 Plymouth (1st)...

Birmingham’s new arrival, THE MIDLANDS 1. CHAPTER XIII Scru:Club, sets the pace SATURDAY 15TH APRIL with Percolate and Abandon THE RAINBOW Silence bringing MAGDA, ARENA, STIMMING, HONEY DIJON, BIRMINGHAM and JIMMY EDGAR (1st April); bass stuff from Swamp 81 and THE behemoth is back Records (7th), DJ PIERRE, for another chapter, MARSHALL JEFFERSON and this time means and 808 STATE (8th); SOUL even more business. CLAP and WOLF + LAMB’s Massiveness abound Crew Love (16th); and PETRE — Adam Beyer, Joseph INSPIRESCU, CABANNE, and Capriati, Apollonia’s six hours of MANDAR serving four-hour set, Jamie Sunday Breakfast Zurich Jones, Dubfire, Zip; but (22nd). That aside, Foliee you’ll find us locked in hosts JIMMY SWITCH back- at the Leftroom stage to-back LINDSEY MATTHEWS — The Black Madonna, at Lab11; DENNEY’s Full Circle Gerd Janson, Midland, Tour hits Rainbow Venues and Mark E. All of (both 8th); and Fuse’s Chapter which is still only XIII By Night party sees ENZO scratching the surface. SIRAGUSA and cohorts in 12PM - 12AM £35 - £50 full flow (15th)... Wobble marks 25 years at Spotlight — DERRICK CARTER, X-Press 2’s 2. CONTINUUM X MUMDANCE 3. EVERYWHERE FESTIVAL 4. D.E.C. SOUNDSCAPE X 5. 808 ROOFTOP PARTY ROCKY and DIESEL, and more FRIDAY 14TH APRIL 2017 LOOSE LIPS SALTWATER BAR, NOTTINGHAM (16th); and the full-throttle SCRU:CLUB, BIRMINGHAM SUNDAY 30TH APRIL SATURDAY 29TH APRIL SUNDAY 30TH APRIL jump-up of SASASAS (Skibba, STEALTH, NOTTINGHAM SECRET LOCATION, Shabba, Harry Shotta, NEW addition to the Brum BIRMINGHAM SIX years young in 2017, 808 Stormin’) takes The Rainbow, scene, Scru:Club features in DESPITE the name, Everywhere remains focused on intimate with PHANTASY, KENNY KEN, Behind The Scene (p.104) this centres on Nottingham’s most ROMMEK of Blueprint joins vibes aided by esteemed and more (29th). Nottingham month. Shed will be riding on hi-tech space, but let’s not be Medallion Man (Loose Lips), selectors. Tonight it’s house way, Leftback: On Rotation has his latest album, with tech- pedantic. After all, Jackmaster, with the Deep Emotions and techno dame Beatrice another underground house bass-step-rave from Mumdance Latmun, Mall Grab, Skream and Collective of Zakaree, Pawel, Dillon, rising femme Willow, bash, this time at The Caves and Logos also involved. Richy Ahmed are down. Gambeat and Mas also here. Rian Treanor, and Turinn. (1st); CLAUDE VONSTROKE 10PM - 6AM £10 - £19 8PM - 6AM £20 - £32.50 10PM - 6AM £10 4.30PM - 1AM £8 - £10 plays Stealth (7th)...

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GOLDIEROCKS: THE GLOBE! THE SELECTOR DJ REMEMBERS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY...

TO MARK International Women’s Day on 8th March this year, Red Bull launched workshop series #NormalNotNovelty featuring grime/bashment DJ Madam X and WORLD CLUB… WORLD my radio sister Coco Cole to BigCityBeats’ Frankfurt-based mega-club returns for another encourage more women to get into year with yet more crazy additions and a whopping line-up... DJing. Annie Mac posted a really raw and honest blog about the physical demands of being a woman (let orld Club Dome prides Luke, and Zedd will the coolest name in , alone an internationally-touring, itself on being the entertain a 50,000-strong sea of Bernd Breiter. “My team and I are festival-owning media mogul). W biggest club in the festival-goers. Outside this is a always on the pulse of electronic world. In fact, that’s pretty much plethora of supporting parties, from music culture, looking for the most As well as filming for the UN’s been the parent company small gatherings beneath the talented artists from around the #HeforShe campaign, talking BigCityBeats’ entire marketing bleachers, to larger stages hosted by globe.” candidly about the challenges of strategy since day one. But year after Dutch hard dance specialists, Also returning this year are WCD’s being a DJ (who is female) in a year, that tagline continues to feel Q-Dance, and more. optional extras, which include the male-dominated industry. I was also like an understatement. We could fill Then there are the Pool Sessions; Dorian Gray 2.0 club at Frankfurt delighted to DJ for the Mayor of a whole page with terms attempting introduced in 2016 and situated in International Airport — where an London & CARE International to describe the vastness of WCD — but the stadium grounds, this year they’ll A340 aircraft will be transformed into outside City Hall for a huge open-air it would probably be a whole lot again provide a more underground a VIP dancefloor — the ICE Club Train party with Morning Gloryville (the easier, and more helpful, to just tell edge with Cocoon boss Sven Väth, — where punters can dance at 320km infamous early morning sober rave) you the reasons why instead. Luciano, Solomun, Magdalena, Josh per hour on the way from Paris to alongside Krystal Roxx. Before live At the heart of the event is Wink, Kenny Glasgow and more taking Frankfurt — and the Boeing 747 World performances from Emeli Sande, Frankfurt’s CommerzBank-Arena, to the decks. Club Jet — you guessed it, a party at Kate Nash and a Spice Girl (Mel C! My home to Eintracht Frankfurt football WCD also adds a brand new area in 35,000 feet! inner 11-year-old was thrilled). The club and, from 2nd to 4th June, WCD’s 2017, expanding into the surrounding In simple terms, as Bernd says: “If powerhouse that is Annie Lennox main stage, where a 1.8 million-watt forest to host top quality names such you’ve never seen a club with its own spoke passionately and eloquently soundsystem, a mind-boggling array as DJ Koze, Miss Kittin and KiNK. forest, swimming pool, plane and about the plight of refugee women of lights, special effects and “World Club Dome is representing train, then you should visit World before we all marched over Tower pyrotechnics, and the likes of Martin more music styles than ever,” Club Dome 2017!” BEN HINDLE Bridge led by Helen Pankhurst Garrix, , DV&LM, Laidback explains WCD CEO and the man with (great grand daughter of Suffragette Emmeline). It was one of the most inspirational yet unnerving days of my life.

Unnerving because... why in 2017 are we still having to have urgently protest for women’s equality? Why does it feel like things are moving backwards as our basic fundamental human rights are up for debate around the world? And how is this backwards ideology trickling down into our nightlife culture; a culture that is supposed to be founded on the principles of freedom of expression, love and equality? Whether that be misogynist attitudes on the dancefloor or on an industry level with only 17% of dance music bookings in the world going to women. Be bold for change and support your sisters. @Goldierocks

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A veteran of the Parisian underground, DJ W!LD has been there and done it all, fusing together house, techno and disco with the hip-hop influences of his youth and wowing crowds at parties across the globe, including JOCKEYThe on-the-road JOURNAL diary of the world’s Ibiza’s legendary Circoloco, where he became top DJs treading the globe a resident in 2009. This month, W!LD drops his first album in two years, ‘Techno City’, which finds the Frenchman taking a turn towards moody subs and driven four-four DJ W!LD rhythms — tunes for smoky dancefloors during the hour of the wolf. We asked W!LD to give us a peek into his busy schedule...

RAVE ON SNOW, OUTDOOR SAALBACH, AUSTRIA FESTIVAL, ROME, “This was my first time playing for this festival “Again, this was in Saalbach in Austria another first for and only the second me, and playing time in 20 years of for Outdoor DJing that I was playing Festival in Rome surrounded by snow. I was definitely was playing twice that an experience. I night, so it was great to enjoyed myself play two different non-stop during sounds in two different my set and scenarios. Outside was before and after the main stage and a big (maybe a little dancefloor on the snow, too much!). I feel it was absolutely pretty at home freezing and it was a with the Italian Rave On Snow, Austria huge open space, but crowd and I loved when you put a load of the concept of the Outdoor Festival, Rome dancers in the mix festival mixing they’ll warm the place different kinds of up in no time. I wanted music and arts, to keep up the energy to get everyone’s feet moving and stay hip-hop, house, techno, street art, dance, contemporary art, warm, so I played faster techno. In contrast, after that I played installations and light shows. For me, music and art are the two inside in a small club that was hot and cosy, so it was the passions that I can’t live without and these kind of concepts are perfect place to play sexy, hypnotic house. I get the feeling that the perfect combination.” people are always in a good mood when partying up in the mountains, as it’s such a different place to where you’d usually SXM FESTIVAL, SAINT MARTIN go to a gig.” “This gig at SXM Festival was one of my favourites in my career, and the second edition just took place last month. For the first CLUB BERLIN, one I was booked to play on the Paradise stage with Jamie CÓRDOBA, ARGENTINA Jones and co, and it wasn’t a party I’ll forget in a long time. “It was my first time The crowd was really nice and relaxed, it rained like crazy after playing at Club my set but people Berlin, but not my were jumping and first time in the city. dancing through The crowd and the downpours. energy are amazing, It was amazing not only in Córdoba, to see. Strictly but in pretty much positive vibes on all the places I play a paradise island, in Argentina. They’ve what more can you got a real taste for expect? This year the darker, hypnotic the line-up was stuff and their ability even better and I to stay dancing all had the chance to night is one of a have a stage for my kind. That night was new label, Dailycid, Club Berlin, Argentina a really cool open air and a label party. I party with a great was really excited vibe and good music and stressed at from start ‘til finish; the warm-up DJs and the main acts the same time, but brought a real party atmosphere. The crowd let me play my was thrilled with estival, Caribbean favourite underground stuff that I don’t get to play in a lot of the line-up we had, SXM F places — the crowds are really receptive here. There’s a huge putting quality scene in South America for quality underground stuff, as in music first. On to Eastern Europe, but it’s not the case for everywhere I play.” next year!”

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08. UNDERGROUND-SHOE.CO.UK We’re a bit spoilt for choice with Underground. Amazing shoes, wicked t-shirts, books and vinyls — they’ve got it all going on. If you have a hankering for creepers, steel toe-caps, winkle-pickers or the like, then this is the place for you. And What you wearing? believe us, they’ve got roots — going back to 1981 when they opened their first store in Manchester. Find them Sian now at 8 Berwick Street in London’s Soho quarter. EXCLUSIVE WARDROBE ACCESS…

What are you wearing right now? own lines which are out of this world “Since I am into collecting sneaker creative and radical, but also the collabs, I have on my black and white conceptual aspect they have Nike X Undercover Japan Court Force introduced into high fashion by sneakers. I looked for them for a collaborating with Nike, Vans and long time, they’re not crazy countless smaller underground skate expensive but I really loved them at companies like Alltimers and Good first sight. I always buy jeans from Co.” DrDenim, skinny as possible, and black or faded black. They have this What’s your favourite boutique? PAULSMITH.COM crazy fabric that is somehow rough “I really like Opening Ceremony, they Paul Smith (actually, that’s Sir Paul but smooth. They’re also the only are constantly surprising and stock a Smith to you) has the lasting ability jeans I can comfortably wear on a big range from established brands 09. to create sharp, wearable clothes plane and when on the road. I’m also like Gosha Rubchinskiy and Acne, to that have been appealing to rocking a t-shirt from Deus ex super-new streetwear stuff like Stray generations across the spectrum for Machina. My jacket is a standard Rats and Terrible. They have a sharp yonks. More than ever, his garms are issue biker, from Schott. A good eye for what’s about to be big news, something to keep and treasure, a investment for the cold rainy and it’s always inspiring to see a go-to when you want to make a nights.” company tuned in and ahead of the statement. And then there’s the curve.” Blackstar t-shirts, back How would you describe your once again, although by the time you style? What is your most treasured item? read this, maybe not so much. Oh, “I would say that I always try to stay “It’s got to be a limited edition pair and Paul Smith is now a .com, true to punk and skater. I grew up of Air Max 1 black, white and grey 10. switching from .co.uk this month. travelling around and sneakers I bought ages ago in skateboarding, messing with music Barcelona. Every time I wear them, a in studios, so it’s like a practical style sneaker-head somewhere too. I go for futuristic sneakers or compliments them, and then sheds a outerwear, which reflects my work tear. I had no idea at the time I got ethic too — always looking ahead for them, but apparently they are like the new, never ever retro.” gold to collectors.”

Describe an outfit you remember What are you currently working from as far back into your on? childhood as possible… “My album ‘Capital Crimewave’ drops “I was big-time into dungarees! As a on the 10th April on Octopus. It PORTUGUESEFLANNEL.COM child I had several pairs of them brings together my influences from Mmm... Portuguese flannel. So soft which looked like a weird collection a range of genres including techno, and cosy. It involves traditional of shell-suits, overall workwear and hip-hop, acid dub and electronica methods by expert weavers who ski suits. Some of them even had into a cohesive one-hour trip. I’ll be ‘nap’ the cloth with a brushing speed stripes and knee-pads built touring the USA, South America, technique that gives the material a into them too! I guess it was a brief Europe and Asia in March through 01. REPLAY £310 replayjeans.com 02. TATEOSSIAN £210 tateossian.com silky-smooth texture. Their current moment in fashion, but I do May, as well as releasing a lot of new 03. SUNDAY SOMEWHERE £195 sundaysomewhere.com ‘The Word Of The Land’ collection for remember feeling so good in them!” music on Octopus from two new 04. DIADORA £85 diadora.com SS17 sets the scene of block colours, artists, Juheun and Shelley 05. HYPE (Jacket) £42 justype.co.uk gentle stripes and lumberjack check. Who is your favourite designer/ Johansson. Plus plans to extend our 06. STORM £179.99 stormwatches.com Although it’s the smiley face label? line of Octopus collab t-shirts and 07. £25 asos.com FILA ‘Contente’ shirt that’s got us in spin. “I have the utmost respect for skateboards, which we produced last 08. THE HUNDREDS £50 thehundreds.com 09. MI-PAC £16.99 mi-pac.com Yay! Comme Des Garcons, not just their year to celebrate our 100th release.” 10. NEW ERA £25 neweracap.co.uk

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BEND IT LIKE...YOGA LESS IS MORE... Manduka introduce men’s Some temptations for ya... flexible collection COLOUR OF THE MONTH... OK, so maybe a handstand is setting the bar a bit Blue. And it’s all about this Converse on the high side, but you’ve got to admit it’s Essentials crewneck. Made with impressive, and maybe something to aspire to? pre-washed material for minimal But even if it’s not yoga you’re into, and just shrinkage. Nice. lunging at after-parties, wearing breathable, comfortable clothes that might even inspire you to get bendy has got to be a good thing, no? So if you’re thinking about splashing out on some decent apparel, you’ll find shorts, pants, tees, long sleeve tops and hoodies in this easy-on-the- eye SS17 collection. Of course, Maduka also have a great selection of yoga mats (six different types, in fact), towels, bags, props and plenty in the women’s clothing department. They’ve also teamed up with House Of Yoga with a selection of yoga practices for you to watch and join in with, should the mood take you. Manduka.com

TROUSER DEPT... Vans chinos MORE BOUNCE DENIM REPORT are just great. Made from ‘sturdy stretch twill fabrication’, which is a Dr Martens lighten up major plus for skateboard action, or their styles... throwing shapes on the dancefloor... just a thought.

WATCH OUT... With the plethora of choice in timepieces, we’ll just pluck out this Flyboy Camo by Avi-8 as an example of something a bit special.

POOL TIME... Bjorn Borg introduce a capsule collection of quality swimwear in several different flavours, including loose, mid, gym, stretch shorts and trunks.

EYE EYE... We’re loving the mirror-tinted shades courtesy of Barcelona eyewear brand Meller. They’re cheap as chips and come in so many great colour combos we’re spoilt for choice. Mellerbrand.com

BOB’S BURGERS... Anyone else fixated with this animated sitcom? Nope? Just us then.

IF IT AIN’T BROKE, don’t fix it? Well of course it isn’t WHEN YOU DIP into the history of a brand, it can BAG IT... Oozing simplistic designs, broken, we’re talking about an iconic brand here, but unearth facts that surprise and delight. Who knew A,M is a luxury brand with a whole load in order to appeal to a ‘broader consumer’ the DM that Farah has been knocking about for the past of neat bags and luggage ideas. The Lite is now part of its roster. After all, Dr Martens 90 years? Well it was news to us, but when you Furze hits the spot when it comes to a Airwair boots have been stomping about the place look closely theirs is a heritage that’s evolved and classy shoulder bag. Am-bag.com since the 1960s, so it was only fitting and timely to blossomed in more recent years — the golden ‘F’ is go ultra-lightweight. It’s the Evade midsole in soft the mark of goodness guaranteed. grey, made of mesh and nubuck that has stolen our Their SS17 collection, entitled Balfron Tower, hearts. Mainly because it’s a unisex shoe, and what takes its inspiration from the East End with its padded collar and memory foam footbed, landmark, with seasonal checks in differing we’re talking some extra cosy comfort here. scales and clean minimal lines nodding to its More changes are occurring this season with a Rigal structure. Their soft denim jeans look great 8-eye boot and Solaris 3-eye shoe, both in the same with a simple shirt and jacket combo, cool airy fabrics. And all shoes and boots come with the slip-ons completing a toned-down preppy- trademark black and yellow heel tabs detail. Phew. ish outfit. Drmartens.com Farah.co.uk

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