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Creamfields Boss Cashes In

Published May 10, 2012 | By skrufff

Superclub/ dance music festival pioneer James Barton has sold Creamfields to Live Nation as part of the US event conglomerate’s plans to expand into hosting EDM events. Continue reading →

Coachella’s ‘Dumb & Thumpy House’ Headliners’ Mocked

Published April 14, 2012 | By skrufff

LA Times’ pop music expert Randall Roberts criticized Coachella’s superstar DJ headliners David Guetta and Kaskade for producing ‘dumb and thumpy . . . anti-thinking’ house music’ this week and said their presence ‘suggests to many that Coachella has lost sight of the dance music vanguard’. Continue reading →

LA Rave Fugitive Hides in ‘Jungle’

Published April 7, 2012 | By skrufff

Missing corruption suspect Tony Estrada taunted authorities to ‘come over here and get me’ in a phone call to the LA Times this week, in which he said he was ‘floating around . . . in the jungles of Brazil’. Continue reading →

Skrufff Top 5 (563): Kidnap Kid/ Kate Wax/ Bagagee Viphex13/ GgDeX/ The Hacker

Published April 3, 2012 | By skrufff

1: Kidnap Kid – Vehl / Black Butter Recordings TUNE OF THE WEEK 2: Kate Wax – Dust Collision (Solvent Remix) / Border Community 3: Bagagee Viphex13- Lost9 (Citizen Kain Remix) / 4:GgDeX – Disco Wombat / Kling Klong 5: The Hacker – Shockwave (Mark Archer / Altern 8 remix) Continue reading →

Mainstream America Goes Raving Mad

Published March 21, 2012 | By skrufff

Billionaire business publication Forbes launched a new ‘Entrepreneurs’ series focusing on the ‘worlds greatest DJs’ this week in which ‘Gen Y’ expert Dan Schawbel used his acclaimed analytical skills to uncover the secrets of superstar DJ success. Mercilessly grilling his first interviewee Avicii, Dan discovered that the Swedish 22 year old travels quite [...] Continue reading →

Project X Party Murder

Published March 17, 2012 | By skrufff

A teenager was shot and killed in Houston this week, as 1,000 revellers flocked to a house party reportedly inspired by a film trailer for new Hollywood rave movie Project X. The film features American school kids throwing a house party when their parents are away, which attracts hundreds of ravers who take [...] Continue reading →

Luciano Links Up With Lenny Kravitz

Published March 15, 2012 | By skrufff

Details were released of a new three-day pop festival in San Antonio this week, which will combine a bizarre selection of veteran pop stars playing alongside DJs including David Guetta, Axwell and Luciano. Promising ‘on-stage collaborations’ between mainstream pop stars including Sting and Fatboy Slim and ‘today’s global superstar DJs’, organisers were particularly [...] Continue reading →

Burning Man Threatened By Over-Popularity

Published March 3, 2012 | By skrufff

Organisers for Burning Man announced they’ll be distributing 10,000 of their 52,000 tickets by hand to veteran revellers and those involved in creating its legendary infrastructure after a planned ticket lottery left many regulars without tickets. In a lengthy statement posted on the event’s blog, Burning Man business guru Marian Goodell was apologetic. [...] Continue reading →

Fears Grow For Missing London Free Party Reveller

Published March 2, 2012 | By skrufff

The father of missing London raver Andrew Cooke said they are increasingly ‘coming up with odd conclusions about what may have happened’ some three weeks after the 29 year old vanished from a Chingford squat party. While initial postings on free party portals suggested Andrew might have lost his memory after inadvertently [...] Continue reading →

1988 TV documentary on London raves

Published January 16, 2012 | By skrufff

a World in Action 30 minute program about raving in London in 1988…… Continue reading →

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