EXIT Team reveal new acts for Sea Star festival in Croatia!

The first EXIT Summer of Love received new headliner reinforcements at its festivals located at the Adriatic coast: Fatboy Slim, Paul Kalkbrenner, Modestep LIVE and Pendulum DJ Set joined the line-up along with The Prodigy at the Sea Star Festival in Croatian seaside historic town of Umag, which will be held on May 26 and 27.

The festival tsunami that brought The Prodigy to the new Sea Star festival at the Croatian coast is now joined by an even greater wave of performers. The winner of Grammy, three BRIT and 10 MTV awards, the legendary showman Fatboy Slim will make an intro into this years official celebration of the 15th anniversary of his famous Brighton Beach party, where he performed in front of record-breaking 250,000 people! Headliner list will also include the leader of the German electronic scene, Paul Kalkbrenner, famous for stadium-size spectacles and recent Brandenburg Gate performance in front of half a million people!

Modestep, the dubstep band performing fully LIVE for the first time in Balkans, is coming to the Sea Star in Umag, the first in the line of EXIT Festival’s Summer of Love 2017, and the furious quartet of new headliners in Croatia is completed by the DJ set of the Australian bass-rock band Pendulum, who are responsible for some of the greatest EXIT parties in history of the festival! The Sea Star line-up will also be fueled by some of the most prominent local artists, including Elemental, Bad Copy, Brkovi, Artan Lili, Jonathan, High5 & Kukus, Kiša metaka, Krankšvester, Matter and Sassja!

New wave of stars at the first Sea Star festival: https://youtu.be/1M_iP0JCPMY

Special offer for tickets and accommodation for the great EXIT Summer of Love 2017

EXIT Team will connect four festival in the region into one EXIT Summer of Love 2017. First in line is Sea Star, to be held on May 26th and 27th in Umag, followed by the Revolution Festival in Timisoara, June 2nd and 3rd, and right after the EXIT Festival, July 6th to 9th, comes the fourth edition of the Sea Dance Festival from 13th to 15th July!

EXIT Summer of Love (EXIT+Sea Dance+Sea Star Festival) ticket packages are available at http://www.exitfest.org/en/tickets Also available are separate tickets for Sea Star and Sea Dance festivals. You can save up to 50% from the final ticket price.

Check out the special offer for the Sea Star camp accommodation, Premium and Premium Plus, both with 4 stars, including electricity, drinking water, showers, toilets and everything you need, all only 100 m from the festival and the sea! The camp will be open from 24th to 29th of May. Visitors can also reserve accommodation in Sol Aurora and Sol Umag hotels, as well as Melia Istrian villas, and Sol Amfora, Sol Stella, Sol Katoro and Polynesia apartments, all of them between 100m and 1km distance from the festival, which makes Sea Star unique festival in Croatia. More on the festival and the beautiful festival site at http://www.seastarfestival.com/

Accommodation and travel arrangements for EXIT Summer of Love festivals, including EXIT, Sea Star and Sea Dance with packages combining the ticket, accommodation and transport can be found at Exit’s official travel agency, ExitTrip’s website: https://www.exittrip.org/

Contact
Nikki McNeill | Global Publicity
nikki@globalpublicity.co.uk


European Festival Awards Announced

Following its sold-out sixth edition in January, the European Festival Awards – presented in association with Yourope and Eurosonic Noorderslag – will return on January 13 2016 to celebrate the successes of Europe’s music festival industry over the past year. The gala award show will once again open Eurosonic Noorderslag in style at De Oosterpoort in Groningen, The Netherlands.

Entries for the Awards are now open and will run until October 11, during which time festivals can nominate themselves for consideration across a wide array of categories, which include Best Major Festival, Artists’ Favourite Festival, Headliner Of The Year, the Health & Safety Innovation Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Entries can be made here. Nominations close on October 11.

Decided by a combination of public vote and industry juries, the European Festival Awards are the only pan-European body solely dedicated to recognising the contributions and achievements of the event organisers and performing artists that generate billions of euros for local economies and brighten up the summer for tens of millions of festivalgoers each year.

Last year’s European Festival Awards featured over 350 festivals from 35 different countries, with over 1.2 million votes cast.

“We are already looking forward to the return of The European Festivals Awards at Eurosonic Noorderslag 2016, our 30th birthday,” said Ruud Berends, Conference Coordinator for Eurosonic Nooderslag. “We are very proud and grateful that so many international festivals see our event as their home to check out what’s next when it come to discovering new European talent and to discuss, network and party with the European music industry.”

Festival Awards Director and cofounder, Steve Jenner, said: “The EFA is always a great celebration, but after such an exciting, colourful and action-packed European festival season this year, we look forward to an extra-triumphant edition. Roll on Groningen!”

Christof Huber, Chairman of Yourope added: “It’s been a very busy festival summer 2015 and we are looking forward to gather in Groningen to celebrate some of the best festivals and achievements in a friendly atmosphere.”

Public voting in this year’s Awards will run from October 15 and will close on November 12.

The final shortlists will be announced shortly thereafter, with the winners revealed at the show on January 13.

The full list of winners at the European Festival Awards 2014 can be perused here.

European Festival Awards

 


dubfire:live HYBRID World Tour heads to Paris, Brazil and Argentina

Dubfire’s critically acclaimed live project dubfire:live HYBRID adds 4 more dates to the world tour. Having previously touched down at industry-leading events like ADE, Time Warp and Sonar, fans in Paris, Brazil and Argentina will now have the opportunity to witness the experience that’s been taking electronic music world by storm. HYBRID travels to South America next month for Orfeo Superdomo and Tribaltech, then to Big Bang in Paris for the official French premiere, before wrapping up at the mighty EDC Brazil this December.

Says Dubfire: "I'd always intended for my music to be performed live, supported by the latest advancements in music, stage design, lighting and sound technology. It took me years to build up a body of work that I'm proud to stand behind and to find the team to create the HYBRID show. It's been an incredibly inspiring ride and I'm tremendously excited to finally bring the show to the fans who continue to support me and my sound”

Presenting at 2015’s major electronic events, don’t miss your chance to experience this years most talked about electronic event.

Take a sneak preview at what’s in store here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuORN3mydD0

2015 HYBRID DATES

09.10.15 - ORFEO SUPERDOMO - CORDOBA - ARGENTINA
11.10.15 - TRIBALTECH - CURITIBA - BRAZIL
07.11.15 - BIG BANG - PARIS - FRANCE
05.12.15 - EDC BRASIL - SAO PAULO - BRAZIL

PLUS MORE DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED


LEN FAKI ANNOUNCES 'STREET DUB' EP

The Berghain resident and internationally renowned producer readies a new EP on his own Figure Music imprint

Figure's creator Len Faki steps in to the spotlight once again with his brand new 'Street Dub' EP. Constantly striving for excellence in sound design and deadly arrangements, Faki's wonderfully precise and well honed strand of club techno continues to shine on Figure's 70th release - a classic example of Len's tireless approach to production.

Packaged together in three different versions, 'Street Dub' stylishly treads the borders between classic dub techno and modern club weaponry. With just a handful of perfectly balanced elements, perching atop a weighty kick and rolling sub bass, both 'Street Dub' and 'Street Dub Version' are sure to satisfy purist techno fans and newcomers to the genre alike.

As a bonus, an 'Ambience' mix is included, stripping away all the percussion and letting the beautiful subtleties of Faki's production bubble to the surface

Artist: Len Faki
Title: Street Dub
Cat. No: Fig.70
Release Date: 28th Sept. 2015
Label: Figure

Track Listing:
A1. Street Dub
B1.Street Dub (Version)
B2.Street Dub (Ambience)

Street Dub is released on 28/09/2015 via Figure Music


DUBFIRE REDDIT AMA AT 11PM GMT TODAY

DUBFIRE will take part in his first ever Reddit AMA today at 11pm GMT. The Grammy-winning recording artist, renowned for his seamless DJ sets, groundbreaking music and innovative label, SCI+TEC, will open the floor to fans across the globe, ready to answer any questions that come his way.

Expect to discover exclusive news and truths, along with some insights into his new creative project dubfire:liveHYBRID. The critically acclaimed live show, which made its European debut at the Amsterdam Dance Event and its US debut at Time Warp New York, reinvents the concert experience by seamlessly weaving together elements of 2D and 3D animation with live audio and lighting to explore the intersection of science and technology - of man and machine - and their resulting evolution and inevitable fusion. Ahead of this weekend’s dubfire:liveHYBRID show at SW4 in London, Dubfire invites you to “Ask Me Anything”.

The Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session with Dubfire begins at 11PM GMT today on www.reddit.com

HYBRID WORLD TOUR DATES:

29.08 – SW4 – UK
05.09 – SCMF - US
25.09 – CITADELA – CZ
09.10 – ORFEO SUPERDOMO – AR

Preview the dubfire:liveHYBRID show:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL86lEOgmJ5kpc7j_nlsU43ky_Z3XEa0aU   

ABOUT REDDIT: 
AMA stands for “Ask Me Anything.” You can find these in the /r/IAmA/ subreddit. During an AMA post, a person posts who they are, what they did or what they currently do. Reddit users can then ask them questions about literally anything. Previous high profiles that have taken part include Snoop Lion, Richie Hawtin, A-Track, Laidback Luke, Bill Murray, Idris Elba and even Barack Obama.