Not Over Yet

It might be late September but Irish club culture is set for an Indian Summer with three more mini-fests on the way. First up Saturday September 23 at the Eastpoint Business Park is YES Festival (pictured), which is celebrating its first birthday with a massive line-up of national talent. See Spinning In The Name Of for further info. Next, Give It Socks takes over the same venue for a bumper bill of local heroes on Saturday October 2. Finally, the lush surroundings of Glendalough, Wicklow is the setting for this weekend’s Gateway Festival, which promises to be a mini Southport Weekender with all forms of disco the theme. Admission is by invite only. Find out more from [email protected].

Featured recently in He’s Electric, Dubliner Adam Keni is picking up speed as a deep minimal house producer, now he’s in the running to win a Beatportal remix competition with his own take on D-Nox & Beckers' 'Call Me’. Hear the track and vote for him at www.beatportal.com/remix/detail/d-noxbeckers-call-meadam-keni-remix/
Some of the biggest names in dance are pit-stopping in Dublin over the next while, with November seeing Underworld in the RDS on November 27. Deadmau5 has moved up a rank to headline the mighty O2 on December 21 and early next year chart-topper David Guetta will be showing off his underground house side at a yet to be confirmed venue on Easter Sunday.
The capital’s first weekly dubstep clubnight has started at Crawdaddy and will be running every Wednesday. On the opening night, Dubstep Dublin brought over their kindred spirits from the west, Limerick’s Filthy Dubstep Bastards. “They shook the walls and our brains,” says co-promoter Robert Connolly, “The same way they’ve been shaking up their hometown with some filthy wobbles for quite some time.” Look Dubstep Dublin up on Facebook for full event details.
Also planning to shake the walls is TrancEFerred, a new trance party in The Vaults this Saturday September 25, run by adopted Estonian Tarmo Tammel, who alongside DJing and promoting, is an upcoming producer, with John Gibbons snapping up Tarmo’s ‘Sunday’ melodic trancer for his label Educate, released this week. More info at www.inlovewithtrance.com.
Lisburn star Sneijer is the latest Irish producer to come under the wing of Paul Van Dyk and his Vandit Records imprint (along with Orla Feeney), his anthemic ‘Away From Here’ gets released this month, backed up with a remix from in-demand Russian producer Artem Stolyarov. For more details see www.vandit.com. Meanwhile, Paul has joined up with fellow titans Armin Van Buuren and Paul Oakenfold under the name DJs United to record ‘Remember Love’, an emotional tribute to legendary German festival, Love Parade, which ended in tragedy this summer when a crowd crush killed 21 people and injured over 500. All proceeds go to the families of the victims.
Digital DJs and those trying to tame their massive tune collections, go to www.pioneer.co.uk, where the latest updated version of digital music manager/manipulator Rekordbox is available as a free download.