Set times for the Eastern Electrics (EE) festival in Morden Park, London, on August 5, have been announced. Headliners and acts include Carl Cox, Steve Lawler, Hot Since 82, Sonny Fodera, Art Department, Heartless Crew, Skream, Dennis Ferrer, Waze & Odyssey and many more. Check below to see where your favourite DJs will be playing and when and check back for further updates.
Ahead of the undeniably huge summer that awaits the Amnesia team, the global clubbing mecca lands on the streets of London for one night only at Electric Brixton.
Along with all the trademark attributes you’d expect to find at a typical Amnesia party such as their world-class sound, hedonistic dancers and industrial sized Co2 cannons, the club will also be showcasing their giant pyramid for the fist time ever. To what we can only compare as a spaceship from another galaxy, this 7x7 metre monster is sure to wow ravers on Saturday March 4 with its blinding LEDs and powerful laser beams. Another stellar line-up has been assembled, with Elrow resident Patrick Topping confirmed to headline this special date. Electric Brixton, Town Hall Parade, London, SW2 1RJ Open from 11pm – 8am Fully licensed bar until close Nearest Tube & Night Tube: Brixton (Victoria Line) / Stockwell (Northern Line) Line up: Patrick Topping Catz N Dogz Hector Couto B2B Mar-T Edu Imbernon Clint Lee Jethro Watson (New Music Sessions) Metrospekt (Switch) MADe (Halo) Ben Hooper & Ed Deegan Andrew Morgan Tickets click here
The uber cool ANTS project mounted a
full-scale invasion of UK clubland, with a thumping event at London's
Electric Brixton,writes TopReviews4U editor Paul Christian.
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Black webbing and a huge see-through
egg sac hung from the ceiling of the former theatre as ant-like
clubbers swayed and bounced below to tough beats enveloped in
monochrome lights and smoke.
The black and white colour scheme was
everywhere and created an otherworldly experience, where you forgot
colours existed and became engrossed in the rhythmic soundtrack.
Such production values have become a
feature of the Ibiza-born ANTS colony and nothing looks capable of
stopping this house music powerhouse from conquering the UK.
Fantastic bleeding-edge tracks rumbled
out of the speakers and enraptured the sell-out crowd at this iconic
venue.
DJs on the bill included US star Lauren
Lane, who played a perfectly-pitched early set, ANTS resident Andrea
Oliva, Noir and Waze & Odyssey, whose peak time performance
whipped up the crowd.
The show was the first ANTS gig in the
UK after successful stints in Ibiza in the summer and shows in Miami
and at Snowbombing.
If you missed it, fear not because on
the strength of this event, something tells me the capital has not
seen the end of the ANTS.
A bill featuring the likes of Paul van
Dyk, John '00' Fleming, Guiseppe Ottaviani and Solarstone is
difficult to avoid for trance fan like me, writes TopReviews4U
editor Paul Christian.
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I'd never seen J00F play before and
really love the driving progressive and psytrance sound he has made
his own for many years at the forefront of cutting edge electronic
music. But, leaving aside his fantastic set, I
must turn to the rather odd venue.
Southwark's Great Suffolk Street
Warehouse, or We Are WHSE as it calls itself by virtue of repeated
lighting effects, was bizarre.
I have been to clubs in disused or repurposed Victorian railway
arches before, but they had always had a door and were actually
inside.
This venue was essentially like The
Arches in EastEnders and I expected at any moment to see Phil
Mitchell sliding out from under a car, brandishing a monkey wrench.
I still haven't decided whether this
was a fantastic or truly terrible place to host events.
What was fantastic was the atmosphere
generated by John '00' Fleming, who provided the highlight, as well
as a certain Mr van Dyk's pulsating peak-time performance, which
began with his own seminal trance banger For An Angel.
Fleming ended his early set with the
incredible RITMO remix of The Prodigy's Smack My Bitch Up,
to a stunning light show.
It was clear that the main 'room' or Arch One as it is literally and
aptly known had been lavished with the greater care.
The second arch suffered from a lack of lighting and low volume, and
the basic mixing desk looked sparse and unprofessional, rather than
stripped back and retro.
Other bugbears were the queueing and toilets.
We waited 30 minutes for a cloakroom berth for one coat, which meant
a large slab of the action was missed entirely.
And the toilets were basically portable cabins and open stand-up
festival urinals.
In fact the entire operation was like a cheap (almost) indoor
festival, complete with infuriating drinks token system – which
meant waiting in line again.
But I can't grumble too much as the music was spectacular and more
than made up for the terrible/awesome/not really sure venue.
