the techno arena looks good, glad to see glasgows twisted and brainfire having an arena.....
sum shit arena's tho
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the techno arena looks good, glad to see glasgows twisted and brainfire having an arena.....
sum shit arena's tho
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Originally Posted by ds2
In hindsight mentioning the size of the budget here was probably a mistake too, word was bound to get round.
not such an interesting line-up, joey beltram was complete gash when i saw him play at family groove. i tried to book him to play an oldschool site once but his promoter said he's only interested in playing 'filtered' tech-house these days
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Originally Posted by Stella Boy
cheeky why? I havent seen the line up
welcome to 21st century. where've you been last 5 years, mate? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by admin
THE ULTIMATE NEW YEARS EVE ALL NIGHT PARTY
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THE UK'S UNDISPUTED NUMBER ONE PARTY VENUE
THE BIGGEST NEW YEARS EVE EVENT EVER HELD IN THE UK.
THURSDAY 31st DECEMBER 2009
11 HOURS 7pm - 6am
13 ARENAS OF THE LARGEST BRANDS IN THE UK
WITH OVER 100 ARTISTS
13 WORLD EXCLUSIVES
MARK EG & FRIENDS: TECHNO SESSIONS ARENA
(PURE TECHNO)
One of the most recognized artists in the UK club scene, Mark has also been responsible for countless techno releases on his own label Blackout Audio, Planet Rhythm and many others. Tonight Mark EG invites some of the world’s biggest international techno fiends along to join the party. The Arena will be held in The Cave – a stunning themed room almost custom made for techno music with rock-like cave walls and super-tight acoustics. You wont believe the sounds coming from here! Rave hero, techno originator and the creator of the ‘Mentasm’ and ’Energy Flash’ classics - Joey Beltram - will fly in especially from the USA for an exclusive two-hour midnight set. Also exclusive is The Surgeon – presently perceived as the biggest name in the world for pounding, serious techno music. Welcome to the Techno Sessions.
JOEY BELTRAM (WORLD EXCLUSIVE - TWO HOUR MIDNIGHT SET – R&S/TRANSMAT/TRESOR – USA)
THE SURGEON (WORLD EXCLUSIVE - INTERNATIONAL NO1 POUNDING TECHNO DJ – COUNTERBALANCE/TRESOR)
MARK EG (UK TECHNO INNOVATOR - BLACKOUT AUDIO/THE ANXIOUS)
DAVE THE DRUMMER (TECHNO LEGEND/HYDRAULIX)
CHRIS LIBERATOR (ACID TECHNO ORIGINATOR/STAY UP FOREVER)
WRAGG VS RIBBZ (SOUTH-WEST VS TECHNO RAVE HERO)
MUCKY BEATS B2B JAY KNIGHT (COLOURS, MANCHESTER)
TIPTOE B2B MARK ANDERSON (THE TECHNO EXPERIMENT/DARKSIDE, LEEDS)
Without wanting to be pedantic, who the hell is 'The Surgeon'?? Also 'International no.1 pounding techno DJ' completely belittles what he does these days.
aye,sorry to say, its hardly an outstanding line up, then again with what you were saying about people asking for huge fees etc i can now understand.
this a decent enough line up, but i was expected maybe cari lekebusch or hard techno djs like OBI possibly to shake things up a bit
"silver: £45 +booking fee / fast track entry / rides"
does this ticket include all the rides?
and what does fast track entry mean?
thanks in advance :)
and a question about eventztravel
bustrips i've done so far worked like this:
they pick u up, bring u to the party and like 30min after the party is over the bus drives home again
is it the same with eventztravel?
Looks like a Helter Skelter-esque chavfest
can anybody answer my questions?
c'mon!
I agree and I made them take that comment off the flyer. However 'The Surgeon' is a typo that I didn't spot until it was too late. Should have been 'Surgeon' obviously...Quote:
Originally Posted by slimboy
i think it's an outstanding line-up for the UK ON NYE, but i agree, it's not as good as it would have been were DJ's not charging DOUBLE, sometimes TRIPLE their usual, high prices. if this arena goes well for NYE, next year I will have a really good budget at normal prices. then i can really go to town here.Quote:
Originally Posted by basslinejunkie
that will happen next year on normal techno dj prices.Quote:
Originally Posted by djfilthmonger
i'm not the promoter mate. i really cant help you with these questions. try asking on the facebook group, or phone the no on the flyer:Quote:
Originally Posted by Seneca
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135144315846
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135144315846
chav fest? if by that you mean a load of young people from all corners of life in alot of different arenas with different music styles, well yes it is. it's a rave-up, what do you expect :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by slimboy
but if as i suspect you mean a tracky fest with a bunch of council house tenants, i think you're totally off the mark mate.
thanks anyway Mark :)
dude, honestly mark how you gonna give joey beltram top billing over tony surgeon? musically there is no comparison... "pounding, serious techno music" lulz
It be good night.
Can Chris Liberator play bit later he was on too early last one!
I think the line up could of been better for a nye event tbh mate.
I'd like to add here, that I did actually offer my services, at a reasonable price I might add, dunno if I would have made the line-up any more interesting for you lot, but it just pains me somewhat that I offer people a good deal and then read comments like the last few about what the outcome was... that said, I do feel a bit like yesterdays news these days to be honest, so apologies if it sounds a bit like sour grapes, just feel an opportunity was missed...
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Originally Posted by crime
As much as we have butted heads on things on here, I have to say- that sounds grim mate. Yes, I think you would have been great on the line up.
But mate, shake that mindset! I still listen to your mixes- it gets me through work- some days are just plain shit in here, your stuff helps.
hey mark aka crime. sorry mate.. you have to understand i have to get this arena established first. as it stands on my first crack, the way to do this is use names that ppl in the uk 'rave' scene are gonna know. joey is an obvious one. surgeon is sort of too. chris and h do alot in this country also.
the plan is to get this arena established on this occasion, then we really go to town when dj prices are more reasonable and the newly established converts to the sound trust the arena. it's about building the uk following for this sound...
this is not europe where you can put 'the advent' on and pack a party. uk is ****ed for good techno as you know but putting an arena like this on in a seriously big event with 13 arenas like this is unheard of imho. all we have right now at big events like this is dave clarke's 'electro arena' or sven vath's 'cocoon arena'. it's pitiful. bear with me bro. i actually wanna take this to ALL the big uk events if i can.. but we gotta be clever... we gotta pull ppl from the big events who don't know techno, and then make them realise how good it is...
that way we make a scene in the uk. ok everyone is doing there own thing here in the uk (ie atomic jam/colour/split etc) but we can't deny the fact that we would get thousands upon thousands of ppl from the big events i play at (creamfields/pleasuredome/slammin vinyl - some of which are the biggest parties in the uk) into techno if we get serious arena's on these parties. Alot of these guys are now starting to ask me to put on arenas. But we need to do it cleverly. Call it a kinda underground resistance if you will :)
Welcome your thoughts guys/gals...
I think it is wicked that techno is going to be represented at a big bash like this, get some of the enthusiastic glowstick wavers that go to slammin vinyl etc exposed to techno because they are a fresh young crowd, thing is mark I think you can’t really win, if you make this a success and techno appears regularly at big events people will grumble that it is being sold-out and is going commercial, if you don’t make it a success people say “oh you should have booked him/her/it” instead..
.. I think looking at it long-term is the way to go – what with the cyclical nature of electronic music I think that over the years having seen hmv/virgin etc stock “best of” hard house, best of trance/best of dnb/best of old skool/electro-house etc that techno is due its time in the spotlight..
..I think that perhaps this particular cycle has adopted minimal techno as its turn in the spotlight but all that means is next time the cycle goes around, a few new genres will have their "best of" moment in the spotlight before once again techno is in position to shake everyone up - so it is up to everyone who really gives a shit to use this time now, while the scene doesn’t have a load of fashionistas/moneymen/gangsters involved trying to dilute everything, just people in it for the love and avin it factor , time to prepare, get producing, DJing, getting new blood into the scene via big nights like these, waiting to pounce and tear the techno walls down..
..dnb springs to mind as the most obvious template to learn from imo, going back to the mid 90s with all the moody jungle, violence at raves, then into that cold techstep, then all of a sudden Roni Size won the Mercury Prize, all the wankers went to UK garage nights and smashed each other over the head with champagne bottles at Coliseum etc instead of dnb events – and dnb matured into the sound and scene that it is now, secure, popular and always evolving..
..so for me this night and others like it is all about setting the foundation to get people into techno in the next few years, it is up to those with an interest to be ready to take advantage when it does happen by doing things now, so when people are gagging for something more..more TECHNO then we will be ready
Sorry that sounds a bit like some sort of bad Fight Club speech, 1st rule of techno club etc, I now have visions of DJ Ogi throwing Richie Hawtin to the ground saying “no more minimal” ;-)
Ideologies are just ideologies at the end of the day.
Big events usually equal stupid ticket prices.
Doesn't matter really. In times of recession we should eat drink and be merry- tomorrow we might die.
Not sure to be honest. I think everything comes and goes in phases. Techno evolved faster than the scene could cope with. Now we're in the settling time. It will be back, but different.
Good question. From my own perspective I think it all started to come apart at the seems 2007ish. That's when I really started to see changes. We had record companies going bust, Vinyl drying up and the digital changeover, record shops going bust and promoters leaving the scene. This is all based on what I saw first hand in my town. I'm sure it differs from local to local.
The recession also kinda tipped it over the edge. It is insanely hard to get people out to a night nowadays unless you have the likes of Green Velvet or Dave Clarke etc etc///
That's trends for you though, they pop up and BLAM they take the place of what you were into before. It is a pain in the neck.
I never really got my head around Trance to be honest. I do have a love of Acid trance though.
you are going about it the right way imo. it is the natrual progression, hardcore / hard trance then techno, thats how i got into it with the likes of ribbz aggressor etc etc and im sure alot of people where introduced to techno the same way.Quote:
Originally Posted by MARK EG
ive got alot of your tunes mate - your productions are off the hook, you shouldnt feel like that!!Quote:
Originally Posted by crime
lol just stumbled over this thread....
boot time folks ears pricked up too silly fee'z...