ADE 2020 kicks off today where the Sound of ADE is powered by Deezer
First ever digital event features official ADE Channel and gender-balanced playlists from DJs around the world
Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) the annual conference and festival is returning on Wednesday, 21st October. Dance fans will be able to watch all music content including DJ streams or listen to the Sound of ADE via a live video stream powered by Deezer starting at 11 am CET.
Being cooped up at home is hard enough. But for the dance community, there’s no question about it, we thrive on the dance floor. But don’t put away your club gear just yet. Global music streaming service Deezer is ready to add some spark back to club culture with an exclusive partnership with Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE).
In the first ever all-digital event, ADE participants will have access to a large number of performances, speaking sessions and masterclasses. Dance fans will also be invited to check out the official ADE channel on Deezer. Here they can listen to 40 of the most exciting DJs from around the world, ranging from mainstream dance to underground techno. We’ve asked each artist to curate a 20 track playlist that defines the sound of 2020.
The ADE channel is split equally to include 20 female and 20 male DJs. Featured artists include heavy hitters and upcoming stars such as Nina Kraviz, David Guetta, Yaeji, Honey Dijon, Tiestö, Deadmau5 and Oklou. The channel also features a growing dance scene in Africa featuring Asna from the Ivory Coast, South African DJ Black Coffee and fellow Mzansi stars including: Sio, Electro star Master KG and Amapiano pioneers MFR Souls.
“ADE is one of my favorite times of the year. It’s an opportunity to shine the light on so many hard-working DJs and rally the dance community, who contribute so much to this industry. At Deezer, we’ve always made it our mission to champion DJs and the dance scene. First, we started with our artist fair payment with our exclusive DJ Mixes. Now we’re supporting DJs with our gender balanced ADE channel featuring the best talent from around the world,” said Nigel Harding, VP Artist Marketing, Deezer.
“We’ve been partnering with Deezer for three years now and this year is unique given the circumstances. We are once again proud and honored to announce that Deezer powers the Sound of ADE. ADE offers a free-to-access, immersive virtual experience during ADE 2020 this October and in this digital-first edition, our partnership makes it possible to support the music industry and enthusiasts. We look forward to this special online edition and future collaborations,” said Meindert Kennis, co-Director of ADE.
Check out our exclusive ADE channel here as well as the official ADE events page to livestream your favorite session.
About Deezer
Deezer connects 16 million monthly active users around the world to 56 million tracks. Available in over 180 countries worldwide, Deezer gives instant access to one of the largest and most diverse global music streaming catalogs. Deezer is the only music streaming service with Flow, the unique mix of all your old favorites and new recommendations in one ever-changing stream. Based on an intuitive, proprietary algorithm and created by people who love music, it’s the only place to hear all your music back-to-back with fresh discoveries tailored to you.
Deezer is a privately held company, headquartered in Paris with offices in São Paulo, Berlin, London, Miami, Dubai and around the world. Deezer is available as a free download for iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows devices or on the web at deezer.com. For the latest news on Deezer go to Deezer.com/company/press
About ADE
The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), an initiative of Buma, has grown into the world’s largest and most influential club-based festival and conference for electronic music. The event continues to grow and develop each year, with last year’s edition featuring over 2,500 artists and 600 speakers in almost 200 venues. The five-day event attracts visitors from over 146 countries and features every conceivable aspect of electronic music culture, with dedicated conference programming, an extensive arts & culture program, live music and DJ/artist performances, all spread across the city of Amsterdam. More information about ADE can be found here.
ADE – Electronic Music Gathers Here
The Amsterdam Dance Event is organised by The Amsterdam Dance Event Foundation.
Founding partner: Buma
Principal partners: Heineken 0.0 | Desperados
Contact:
Nikki McNeill | Global Publicity
nikki@globalpublicity.co.uk
Timbaland, David Guetta and Martin Garrix to Speak at ADE Online
Amsterdam Dance Event and Beatclub are delighted to reveal that a special session of “The Evolution of Our Sounds” will be the closing event of ADE Pro. Broadcast at 9pm CET on Friday, October 23rd, through the ADE Online platform, the event is free-to-air, and open to everyone. This exclusive glimpse into the artistic and creative life of individuals who have made a special contribution to the global music scene, features legendary producer Timbaland, DJ and production giant David Guetta, and leading Dutch DJ and producer, Martin Garrix. The talk will be moderated by BBC Radio1 DJ, Danny Howard.
The trio will be discussing the artists and recordings that formed their musical universe as they were growing up, the events and personalities that contributed to forming their view of the world, as well as their current and future projects. They will also be discussing what they learned from each other when working on joint projects, their favourite studio gear, workflow across multiple time zones, and what inspires them both musically and culturally from the world of today. Timbaland will also be discussing his plans for the future of his platform Beatclub, which will be expanding its operations into new areas. The first public reveal of Beatclub’s future plans comes in the form of a competition for beat makers and songwriters, to be organized in association with ADE.
About the competition:
Timbaland’s Beatclub partnered up with ADE, BMG, Roland and Ableton for the ultimate contest. Submit your best ONE songs or beats and win the chance to get them played on Twitch by the legend Timbo The King himself. he will give you feedback on your tracks and set you up with new gear from Roland and an Ableton Suite Package which will bring your production to the next level. and that’s not all, BMG will help elevate your career by inviting you to their next writing camp with some of their best writers and producers - Submit your music here www.beatclub.com/ade
The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) has grown into the world’s largest and most influential club-based festival and conference for electronic music. The five-day event continues to grow and develop each year, with last year’s edition featuring over 2,500 artists and 600 speakers in almost 200 venues and welcoming 400,000 visitors to the city of Amsterdam.This year, ADE is offering a free-to-access, immersive virtual experience in October. As always, ADE centres itself around the global electronic music industry with a program dedicated to offering something exceptional for every type of visitor. With DJ sets, live music, art projects, film premieres, studio tours, masterclasses and more, ADE 2020 showcases the whole spectrum of electronic sub-genres and a broad range of artists. More information about ADE can be found here.
Amsterdam Dance Event Announce complete online program
Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) has announced the full program to its all-new online platform. Running alongside the ADE Pro digital conference from October 21st - 25th, ADE offers a free-to-access, immersive virtual experience during ADE 2020, exploring every aspect of global dance culture through a multidisciplinary live streaming program. The complete digital live streaming program can be found here.
With an immense lineup of music, art, film, exclusive studio tours, masterclasses, live premieres and other creative endeavours, ADE 2020 showcases a broad range of electronic sub-genres and global artists, including; Bloody Mary (FR), Carista (NL), Carl Cox (GB), Chip E (US), Colin Benders (NL), DJ Harvey (GB), DJ Marcelle / Another Nice Mess (NL), Genevieve Murphy (GB), Helena Basilova (RU), Hiroko Yamamura (US), Illyus & Barrientos (GB), Infected Mushroom (IL), Joe Smooth (US), Joris Voorn (NL), Kim Booth (GB), KMRU (KE), Kypski (NL), Lady Starlight (US), Mary Lake (NL), Moody Mehran (NL), Native Moons (NL), Noisia (NL), OTION (NL), Rachel Collier (GB), Reinier Zonneveld (NL), Niklas Paschburg (DE), Pan-Pot (DE), Roger Sanchez (US), Shelly Knotts (GB), SOFI TUKKER (US), Speedy J (NL), Steve Rachmad (NL), Willikens & Ivkovic (DE), Woody'92 (NL) and many more.
The 2020 program features a multitude of musical, artistic, engaging and creative live streams premiering during the Amsterdam Dance Event, along with an exclusive peek into the inner lives of world-class artists and DJs, live jam sessions and plenty more special surprises. Notable highlights include guided tours through the studios and record collections of Bloody Mary, Carista, Carl Cox, DJ Marcelle / Another Nice Mess, Âme's Frank Wiedemann, Kypski, Niklas Paschburg, Pan-Pot and Reinier Zonneveld. Furthermore, Elrow is streaming live from De Duif in Amsterdam with Joris Voorn and others, and our cross-cultural program features Helena Basilova x Nick Verstand x Salvador Breed, a multi-day program by Minimal Sounds x Nxt Museum, and an extensive film program featuring premieres such as Larry’s Garage, plus a series of films from the Queer & Migrant Film Festival.
In addition, this year’s edition of the annual Cycle to ADE fundraiser initiated by non-profit organisation Bridges for Music is taking place as an exceptional virtual cycling race, joined by global DJs including Richie Hawtin, Pan-Pot, Gigee, Rebekah, Floyd Lavine, Juliet Fox and Goldfish riding from all over the globe to support education in underserved communities in South Africa. The entire 8-hour fundraiser event will be broadcast live on Wednesday, Oct 21st.
About ADE
The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), an initiative of Buma, has grown into the world’s largest and most influential club-based festival and conference for electronic music. The event continues to grow and develop each year, with last year’s edition featuring over 2,500 artists and 600 speakers in almost 200 venues. The five-day event attracts visitors from over 146 countries and features every conceivable aspect of electronic music culture, with dedicated conference programming, an extensive arts & culture program, live music and DJ/artist performances, all spread across the city of Amsterdam. More information about ADE can be found here.
ADE – Electronic Music Gathers Here
The Amsterdam Dance Event is organised by The Amsterdam Dance Event Foundation.
Founding partner: Buma
Principal partners: Heineken 0.0 | Desperados
Contact
For more information or media partnerships contact Nikki McNeill | Global Publicity
nikki@globalpublicity.co.uk
BRIGHTON MUSIC CONFERENCE THANK YOU AND CONTENT AVAILABLE ON DEMAND
Brighton Music Conference (BMC), successfully hosted BMC20 Virtual last week, on 1st and 2nd of October. All of the live streamed panel discussions, keynotes and artist interviews are all now available to watch back for free & on demand via the BMC website - https://bit.ly/BMC20_ondemand.
After many changes to the program due to Government guidelines the BMC Team, successfully put together a program that included many of the industries top DJ’s and artists, as well as leading businesses and professionals including; AFEM, Alon Shulman, Audiolock, Beatport, BIMM, Carl Cox, Carl Loben, CMU, Darius Syrossian, DJ Paulette, DJ Mag, DJ Rap, Fatboy Slim, Heiko Hoffman, Jaguar, Josh Butler, Jumpin’ Jack Frost, Krafty Kuts, Nicole Moudaber, NTIA, Rowetta, RSH Audio, Sister Bliss (Faithless), Stanton Warriors, Stuart Knight, Toolroom Records, Ultra Music and many more.
“A massive thank you! We have been overwhelmed by all of the support and feedback on the event so far and it has made all the hard work and challenges we faced this year worthwhile. We just wanted to bring people together and deliver content would benefit people working in our industry and we are proud of what the team has achieved in delivering the conference online instead of in the usual way as a physical event with an audience. We are looking forward to seeing everyone in person in 2021. #WeAreViable” The BMC Team
Day 1 of the conference program kicked off with Carl Cox live from Australia in conversation with Alon Shulman, with other keynote interviews from Sister Bliss (Faithless) and Brighton’s own Fatboy Slim. Other panels included; Strategies for Diversity & Inclusion in Electronic Music, presented by AFEM, The Music Mission presented by AudioLock, Raving, Race and Responsibility presented by shesaid.so & Skiddle, Mental Health & Wellbeing Post-Lockdown, presented by DJ MAG & a:live and Ultra Music talking about A&R.
Day 2 covered more of the important issues in dance music such as How The Industry Is Tackling The Climate Crisis, presented by AFEM, Black Representation in Dance Music presented by DJ Mag, Music Data Discovery & Innovation, presented by CMU and Heiko Hoffman presented Beatport’s Annual Report. Nicole Moudaber featured in a keynote interview with Data Transmission Radio and there was a lively producer Q&A featuring DJ Rap, Jay Hill (Hot Creations / Superfreq), Josh Butler and Krafty Kuts with the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA), wrapping things up discussing the Global Impact of Covid on the Dancefloor.
To access all of the BMC20 panels on demand for free visit http://bit.ly/BMC20_on_demand
Subscribe to the BMC YouTube channel for access to exclusive DJ / Producer workshops & content coming soon - https://bit.ly/BMC_yt
In addition to the conference program BMC also hosted exclusive dj sets in partnership with Beatport on the i360 Viewing Tower overlooking Brighton seafront, which also supported the Brighton #WeMakeEvents campaign. DJs performing on the pod included; Alan Fitzpatrick, Darius Syrossian b2b Ben Stirling, Hannah Wants, Sister Bliss (Faithless) and Josh Butler, East End Dubs and Seb Zito all playing back to back.
Watch DJ streams here:
Faithless: https://youtu.be/XCahxFzSNg0
Alan Fitzpatrick: https://youtu.be/pYbGg2ITbEQ
Hannah Wants: https://youtu.be/j20mN_9FeE0
Darius Syrossian b2b Ben Stirling: https://youtu.be/1NBN-5ifVDs
Do Not Sleep with East End Dubs b2b Seb Zito b2b Josh Butler: https://youtu.be/Jb0dbR_E1iY
About Brighton Music Conference
The award-winning Brighton Music Conference (BMC) is the UK's foremost electronic music conference & networking event, focusing on innovation, education & the key issues facing the electronic dance music sector. BMC brings together Industry-leading delegates and speakers at over 60 talks, seminars and workshops, alongside networking events throughout the conference duration. It is attended by experienced music industry professionals, the next generation of DJs, producers as well as electronic music enthusiasts.
BMC was also awarded by the NTIA at the Ambassadors of the Night Awards 2019 for their work and commitment to developing awareness and education of the UK Electronic Music Scene internationally within the NTE.
www.brightonmusicconference.co.uk
Contact:
Nikki McNeill |Global Publicity
nikki@globalpublicity.co.uk
Amsterdam Dance Event ADE PRO 2020 conference programme complete
Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) reveals its full ADE Pro online conference programme, featuring, amongst others, James Blake, Femi Kuti, Neneh Cherry, Robert Hood and Prof. Dr. Samantha Warren, alongside companies including Bandcamp, Beatport, Hipgnosis, Sony Playstation, SoundCloud, Ultra Records, UTA, VEVO, WME and many more.
Since the first lockdown, ADE has been exploring every avenue in order to create a meaningful ADE experience that respects the restrictions imposed by the Dutch government. This has resulted in a genuinely inspiring online conference, a new social business network, a free-to-access online experience and even a series of physical seated shows taking place in Amsterdam, made possible by the local government as part of the latest Covid-19 regulations.
ADE’s yearly business conference is, as always, packed with workshops, keynotes and interviews, and covers the most relevant topics from both a business and interpersonal perspective. The 2020 edition takes place online from October 21st - 25th and tickets unlock all conference talks, as well as providing a one-year subscription to ADE’s newly launched social business networking platform.
“While the industry attempts to adapt to a challenging new chapter in its long and rich history, ADE is convinced that this is the time to be optimistic, positive and constructive, without losing sight of the current realities. To this end, our conference program is dominated by emerging opportunities, solid, business-based reasons to be optimistic, strategies for coping with the psychology of a crisis, and constructive engagement with the challenges ahead.” Say Meindert Kennis and Jan-Willem van de Ven, ADE Co-Directors.
ADE Pro conference topics include; New Opportunities for Artists, Labels and the Live Industry, How Music Marketing Needs to Adapt in a Pandemic, The Technology Behind Triller, Activism and Music featuring Femi Kuti & Robert Hood, Sexual Misconduct and Gender Equality in the Music Industry, Music in Video Games and Synching and Sampling. The conference program will also look at modern piracy on the high seas with Pulitzer Prize winner Ian Urbina and his recently launched music project featuring Steve Rachmad and Vince Watson, as well as the astounding wave of musical creativity currently exploding across the African continent.
The ADE 2020 Digital Pro Pass grants access to the entire ADE Pro conference program as well as a year-long subscription to its social media platform. It also includes a hefty discount for next year’s edition and is available here.
About ADE Pro Conference
ADE Pro is the annual business gathering for the global electronic music industry. The three-day conference for music industry professionals runs from Wednesday through Friday and features dedicated programming covering subjects from marketing, publishing and bookings to sustainability, social change and mental health. The additional networking opportunities with fellow ADE delegates and industry leaders provide an ideal and global basis for deal making and career advancement.
About ADE
The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), an initiative of Buma, has grown into the world’s largest and most influential club-based festival and conference for electronic music. The event continues to grow and develop each year, with last year’s edition featuring over 2,500 artists and 600 speakers in almost 200 venues. The five-day event attracts visitors from over 146 countries and features every conceivable aspect of electronic music culture, with dedicated conference programming, an extensive arts & culture program, live music and DJ/artist performances, all spread across the city of Amsterdam. More information about ADE can be found here.
ADE – Electronic Music Gathers Here
The Amsterdam Dance Event is organised by The Amsterdam Dance Event Foundation.
Founding partner: Buma
Principal partners: Heineken 0.0 | Desperados
Contact:
Nikki McNeill | Global Publicity
nikki@globalpublicity.co.uk
The first Life Stream kicked off EXIT 20th anniversary celebrations and reached 4 million viewers in support of the UN World Food Program
In the year in which the world music industry was brought to its knees, when most festivals in the world were either postponed or held only online, EXIT managed to realize Life Stream, a global project that will mark the festival 2020 in many ways. Instead of just the virtual world, Life Stream also offered a live experience, while recordings of the performances were then presented at an eight-day streaming festival to audiences around the world. In this way, Life Stream brought together over four million fans from around the world, with the numbers expected to exceed 10 million in the coming months.
This event also marked the start of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of EXIT festival, which will culminate from July 8 to 11, 2021, when the festival awaits us in its full format with some of the world's leading stars, such as Tyga, David Guetta, DJ Snake, Eric Prydz, Boris Brejcha and many others to be announced soon.
EXIT presents LIFE STREAM 2020 | GLOBAL ONLINE PREMIERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMpm0tPiR20
In partnership with the United Nations World Food Program, the largest humanitarian organization in the world, EXIT launched Life Stream to raise awareness about devastating environment crisis and also to help millions of people around the planet who have come to the brink of extreme starvation due to the pandemic.
Charlotte de Witte who performed twice, Carl Cox, Hot Since 82, Nina Kraviz, Adam Beyer, Black Coffee, Ben Klock, Paul van Dyk, Mahmut Orhan, Marcel Dettmann and many other, international and regional artists supported the project despite many obstacles and found their way to the fantastic stage of the mts Dance Arena at the Petrovradin Fortress, and to millions of fans around the world online.
The realization of the project took place in September, first with a live festival from the 3rd to the 6th, followed by the gathering of millions of fans who watched exclusive recordings of the sets on social networks and YouTube from the 17th to the 27th. A special challenge was the organization of the event itself, but even on such a demanding task, incomparable to anything so far, EXIT showed how a completely safe event can be organized even during a pandemic.
The Life Stream program also helped launch InfinitX on September 24, Exit's new project that will combine the biggest music names with the most beautiful locations around the world in destination promotion. The first InfinitX set, which was also an important part of the Life Stream program, was filmed by Charlotte de Witte at the Mogren Fortress near Budva and delighted over a million viewers around the world in just a few days. One of them is the legendary BBC music editor Pete Tong, who, during an exclusive interview with the techno heroine, called the Budva coast around Mogren one of the most beautiful places in the world.
After the Life Stream launch last year with a pilot event at the Amsterdam Dance Event, EXIT in 2020, in cooperation with WFP, introduced a new chapter and greatly expanded the scope of its activities in which, in addition to environmental protection. Video materials and messages were broadcast as integral parts of the recordings, which spoke about the ecological mission of the project and the work of the United Nations World Food Program. The days of Life Stream were dedicated to the basic elements - earth, water, fire and air - along with their environmental problems, but also the beauty and importance for the survival of life on Earth.
This year's project was also an introduction to the much broader cooperation between Exit and WFP in 2021, which will mark two exceptional anniversaries, the 60th anniversary of the World Food Program and the twentieth anniversary of the EXIT festival, which will feature some of the world's biggest stars as which are David Guetta, DJ Snake, Tyga, Eric Prydz and many others.
EXIT Festival was established in 2000 in University Park as a student movement for the fight for peace and freedom, both in Serbia and in the Balkans. Over the past 20 years, it has grown into one of the most eminent music festivals in the world, bringing to Novi Sad, its venue, as many as two Best European Festival titles won for 2013 and 2017. The Festival is organized at one of the largest medieval fortresses in Europe. Social responsibility remains one of the key aspects of the Festival through the work of the EXIT Foundation, whose social activism is focused on youth development, peace promotion, creative industries and environmental protection.
EXIT. Where hedonism meets activism.
Contact:
Nikki McNeill | Global Publicity
nikki@globalpublicity.co.uk
Brighton Music Conference And British Airways I360 Support #Wemakeevents With Exclusive Djs Sets From The Viewing Tower
On Wednesday 30th September, Brighton’s iconic beachfront viewing tower, British Airways i360 will support the #wemakeevents activation in collaboration with the Brighton Music Conference. Having morphed from a hybrid to a virtual event, after the latest restrictions, BMC will support the campaign, with DJ’s Darius Syrossian and Alan Fitzpatrick performing on the glowing red pod from 6.30-9.30pm with their sets being recorded and available for everyone to watch on Thursday as part of their event line up.
Billy Mauseth, from Brighton Music Conference said:
“It’s been a tough year for our event like many others in our sector and we are really happy to be supporting this campaign to bring the city’s event industry together and highlight the talented people working in our industry who are unable to work at the moment and need support.”
Tomorrow will see Brighton’s seafront light up red from the British Airways i360 Viewing Tower to the Palace Pier and beyond in solidarity for everyone in the events industry affected by Covid-19. The activity includes all aspects of the industry from conferences, festivals, live music, exhibitions and begins in New Zealand to then travel around the world in local time.
Jacqui Partridge, from Partridge Events added:
“it’s great to have the Brighton Music Conference on board bringing together live, electronic and conferences all together for this campaign.”
The Brighton activation is spearheaded by a core group of event professionals including the founder of creative event producers Partridge Events, Jacqui Partridge and Ian Silcock, Ian Baird founder of EPIC and Whiskey Bravo Productions and John Wallis from Reveries Events.
Each year Brighton hosts over 14 major events including Pride which contributes £20.5 million to the local economy and hosts 450,000 people over the weekend. A destination city for politicians, entertainment and music lovers, the Brighton Centre alone hosts 90 live events throughout the year for 250,000 people and 30 conferences and exhibitions for 50,000.
The City also hosts a range of festivals from the Fringe, to food and new music with the Great Escape Festival utilising over 80 venues to showcase unsigned bands plus Paddle Around the Pier, the largest free beach festival in Europe. Sporting events are also a feature with the marathon, half marathon and triathlon.
Anyone can get involved from home on 30th by signing up to www.wemakeevents.com to receive information and ideas in support of the campaign.
How people can get involved:
1. Join the Facebook pages ‘We Make Events Campaign’ and invite peers. Use #WeMakeEvents #RedAlert #Lightitinred on social posts.
2. Follow @WeMakeEventsOfficial on Instagram and Twitter.
3. Venues and businesses, can download the #WeMakeEvents logo, print it out and place it in the business to highlight the cause.
a. Take a picture and post on personal social media channels using #WeMakeEvents #RedAlert #Lightitinred and on the Facebook page ‘We Make Events Campaign’
4. Facebookers can add the ‘We Make Events’ logo to their profile picture.
5. Make a donation or buy some We Make Events merchandise. 80% of profit goes to industry charities to support those suffering from financial hardship. Go to: www.wemakeevents.com
NOTES TO EDITORS:
For media interviews with Brighton #wemakeevents stakeholders, further information and images, please contact: eugenie@bigwednesdaypr.com 07813 037109
For more information about the BMC i360 dj sets contact nikki@globalpublicity.co.uk
About #WeMakeEvents
#WeMakeEvents is an international movement to highlight that the live events sector urgently needs support from local governments to survive the Covid-19 crisis. #WeMakeEvents is the champion for all the individuals working in the events industry, creating awareness and understanding of their concerns and issues. As part of this, #WeMakeEvents raises money to give immediate support for our industry charities who in turn will be able to help and support individuals in need.
www.wemakeevents.com
About Brighton Music Conference
The award-winning Brighton Music Conference (BMC) is the UK's foremost electronic music conference & networking event, focusing on innovation, education & the key issues facing the electronic dance music sector. BMC brings together Industry-leading delegates and speakers at numerous talks, seminars and workshops, alongside networking events throughout the conference duration. This year the event will take place virtually from 1st and 2nd of October. With free virtual access for all. Register for free virtual passes here: https://brightonmusicconference.co.uk/bmc-virtual-pass
Europe in Synch at Westway LAB 2020
Europe in Synch returns to the Portuguese Westway LAB in 2020, and will conclude the Music Moves Europe Initiative with a panel presenting its findings, its insights and its conclusions with regards to the follow-up project.
An initiative by music professionals and synch experts who have a wide range of individual professional tie-ins into the synch-business, since its launch at Westway LAB in 2019, Europe in Synch has brought into motion a curated process of networking, connecting, educating, communicating, creative and legal consulting, brokering and exploitation to open the way towards an optimized synch business for artists, composers and European SMEs.
Aiming at the synchronisation work sphere, Europe in Synch works towards territorially bespoke synch-business scenarios by bringing together the “Music” (European rights owners and composers) with the “Opportunities” (advertising and film production). When there are no synch deals done based on European content, that translates into less money, less jobs, and less EU musical culture in film and European advertising, North-American culture dominates our landscape.
Says project manager Markus Linde:
“Europe in Synch has, for the first time, brought into motion a curated process by addressing territorially bespoke synch-business scenarios. With our activities so far we have promoted the basic Europe in Synch idea and with quite some personal effort have tested the waters with proto-type events. The primary goal of this Preparatory Action has been to implement and road-test a workable scheme towards an optimized synch business.”
So far Europe in Sync has prepared and hosted one-day workshops at European music conferences (Westway Lab PT, SPOT+ DK, Live at Heart SWE, Sonic Visions LUX, MENT SLO) bringing together more than 50 participants from the music side with selected senior experts from the world of advertising followed by a public panel presenting the project and the findings of the sessions.
During the 2019 Reeperbahn Festival, Europe in Sync initiated and co-hosted a proto-type Meet&Mingle event bringing together for the first time synch professionals from the music side with creatives and producers from the advertising sector, where a panel discussion introduced the parties and the EinS project and diagnosed the need and willingness for a creative dialogue.
The film/TV sector is addressed in a proto-type Film Brokering event digitally staged in Lisbon in September 2020 in partnerships with ICA, the Portuguese Film Institute. For the first time in Portugal, this film-music brokering-session brings together film-makers in search of music with music-professionals creating film-music or representing music catalogues and music supervisors.
In October 2020 Europe in Sync will conclude its program at the Westway LAB music conference with a panel presenting its findings, its insights and its conclusions for the next step. The findings are being analyzed thoroughly and will become the foundation and the framework for a larger long-term project. The three managers of the project have announced that reactions, input, demand and encouragement have been such, that it is safe to say that EinS will resume its mission beyond 2020.
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Notes to Editors:
Europe in Synch are;
Nuno Saraiva PT
Project Supervisor, SCL Lda. / Europe in Synch
With over 25 years music industry experience in Canada, UK, and Portugal, Nuno Saraiva is the founder of SCL Agency and its group of companies. Saraiva is the Executive Director of the WHY Portugal export office and music exchange platform, founded in 2016. Saraiva is also co-founder of Portugal’s first PRO conference and showcase Festival Westway LAB, which started in 2014, and is also the founding President of the AMAEI, the Portuguese Independent Trade Association, founded in 2012. He is a Board Member of IMPALA, the European Music Companies Association in Brussels; and also Board Member of EMEE – European Music Exporters Exchange, in representation of WHY Portugal.
Markus Linde D
Music Supervisor / Project Manager, Thag's Agent / Europe in Synch
With a long professional history in the record business, publishing and artist management, Markus Linde has been running his music-supervision thag’s agent imprint for some 16 years. His services including music rights research, clearances and creative consultancy, Linde has a track record for music placements in national and international advertising campaigns and he also contributes to films and TV productions. Markus Linde is founding member and Project Leader of Europe in Synch, he conducts a personal consultancy and contributes to international conferences, work-shops and panels.
Nis Bogvad DK
Music Supervisor, Copenhagen Film Music
With 27 years experience as music professional, Nis Bogvad has worked in all aspects of the business. From Multi-Platinum selling Songwriter, EMI signed recording Artist and Producer to A&R director at EMI, Creative Director at Music Sales Group, Executive TV Music Producer to Music Supervisor. Nis has synchronized music to more than 200 commercials, TV series and Films.
Contact
Nikki McNeill | Global Publicity
nikki@globalpublicity.co.uk
Inhaler and Squid nominated for the Music Moves Europe Talent Awards 2021
The nominees for the Music Moves Europe Talent Awards were announced at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, Germany in presence of the European Commissioner for Culture, Mariya Gabriel. This annual EU prize for popular and contemporary music co-funded by the Creative Europe programme celebrates emerging artists who represent the European sound of today and tomorrow. All winners will be revealed at the awards ceremony on January 15 during ESNS (Eurosonic Noorderslag) 2021 in Groningen, The Netherlands.
A total of sixteen outstanding artists are nominated for the Music Moves Europe Talent Awards 2021. The nominees are:
Alyona Alyona (ua)
Bratři (cz)
Calby (dk)
Crystal Murray (fr)
Inhaler (ie)
Julia Bardo (it)
Lina_ Raül Refree (pt)
Lous and The Yakuza (be)
Vote for EU emerging talent
Melenas (es)
Mero (de)
My Ugly Clementine (at)
Nea (se)
Rimon (nl)
Sassy 009 (no)
Squid (uk)
Vildá (fi)
Music fans across Europe will vote to select the winner of the 2021 Public Choice Award. The voting period runs from 18 September to 7 January exclusively via the official Music Moves Europe Talent Awards website. The winner of the Public Choice Award 2021 receives an additional cash prize of € 5.000.
All sixteen nominees will be rewarded with promotion support and a performance at ESNS. From these sixteen, the jury will select eight winners. Each winner selected by the jury receives a prize worth of € 10.000, to be spent towards promoting their international careers.
Celebrating European Talent
Compared to Anglo-American music, the total percentage of music originating from continental Europe is relatively small. The Music Moves Europe Talent Awards are designed to accelerate the international careers of upcoming European artists.
Music Moves Europe
Music is one of the most popular forms of art, widely consumed, and a vibrant expression of Europe's cultural diversity. Music Moves Europe, the overarching framework for the European Commission’s initiatives and actions in support of the European music sector aim to help the music sector flourish. In line with this approach, the Music Moves Europe Talent Awards, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme, the EU funding programme for the culture and audiovisual sector,wants to contribute to the creativity, diversity and competitiveness of the music sector in Europe.
Organising coalition
The Music Moves Europe Talent Awards are organised by ESNS and Reeperbahn Festival in partnership with Yourope, Independent Music Companies Association (IMPALA), International Music Managers Forum (IMMF), Liveurope, Live DMA, European Music Exporters Exchange (EMEE), Digital Music Europe (DME) and media partner European Broadcasting Union (EBU), with support from the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Province of Groningen and the City of Groningen. The awards are implemented in close cooperation with the European Commission and financially supported by Creative Europe.
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ESNS 2021 Announce Thirty-fifth Edition, to be both Physical and Digital with Focus on European music during European Music Week
The conference and showcase festival ESNS (Eurosonic Noorderslag) will go ahead as live as possible in 2021. Taking place in Groningen from 13 to 16 January 2021, ESNS is the key exchange and networking platform for European music, European artists, international music industry, production and interactive professionals, companies and organisations.
The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for the music sector have been disastrous. The worldwide shutdown of almost every live event means an unprecedented blow for everyone working in this sector.
Creative director Robert Meijerink: “There’s all the more reason to get together again in Groningen in January 2021 and to review and anticipate the future. It is precisely these uncertain times that call for an opportunity to open the dialogue, to support and inspire, to learn from each other and ultimately to regain trust for hopeful times ahead. Last but not least, ESNS wants to organise an event that does justice to its mission; stimulating and promoting the circulation of new European music. The necessity has never been so great.”
ESNS 2021 will be preceded by the European Music Week; a digital platform in which a large number of partners join forces to promote (new) European music and give the European live music sector centre stage. With this, ESNS and its partners want to make a constructive contribution to a new future for European pop music.
In many ways, the 35th edition will be different from previous years. The current restrictions to contain the pandemic require the necessary adjustments for the physical edition, but this edition is widely supported in a digital form, both for the conference and the showcase festival. Either way, the focus on Europe is greater than ever. While ESNS previously highlighted a focus country every year, for its upcoming edition ESNS chose to focus on all of Europe.
This modified edition gives ESNS the opportunity to once again offer emerging European talent to take centre stage at Eurosonic with the presentation of the Music Moves Europe Talent Awards on Friday and Dutch talent will perform at Noorderslag, the traditional barometer of Dutch pop music. The conference provides extended networking and business opportunities where delegates engage in dialogue to discuss the state of the industry and how to deal with the current crisis. Both the festival and the conference are organised with the safety of visitors, delegates and artists as the highest priority. In addition, ESNS provides sufficient and safe facilities for the international media that travel to Groningen to report on ESNS 2021.
ESNS director Dago Houben said:
“The music sector has been hit hard. But we feel strengthened by the hundreds of music professionals from home and abroad who have still bought a registration for ESNS 2021 in recent months, despite the restrictions imposed by the pandemic. We feel that as a call from the sector. In addition, we receive tremendous support from a large number of partners, not to mention the authorities who indirectly supported us to let us do what we are good at; stimulate the circulation of European music. This extra support gives us the opportunity to drastically reduce the price of our event to make it as accessible as possible for everyone. We are developing an accessible digital edition for people who are not yet allowed to, or who are otherwise not able to travel.”
The ESNS team is working hard on the festival and the conference program to adhere to all applicable guidelines.
Details will become clear in the coming month and will be announced as soon as possible. ESNS is giving a substantial discount on conference tickets for the 2021 edition.
Tickets
The conference ticket price for 2021 will be a fixed price of € 195 and the ticket for Young professionals (<28 years) will be € 115. This includes access to the digital environment with live streams, on demand panels and showcases, access to a network environment and database. The ticket to enter the digital offer is € 50,-. Registrations are available through esns.nl. For those who have already purchased a registration, a suitable solution is available and will be notified.
About ESNS
ESNS (Eurosonic Noorderslag) is the key exchange platform for emerging European music talent, with a proven track record of helping to break new acts on the international music scene. ESNS stages showcases alongside offering a full conference programme with panels and keynotes, alongside multiple networking opportunities and award ceremonies. The event attracts conference delegates from all sections of the entertainment industry, including representatives of over festivals from all over the world.
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Nikki McNeill | Global Publicity
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