 Tania Von Pear It was pure deck dedication that got Tania her new position, having impressed the club management for three years on the trot with her Going Places club night. She’s been running the night in the club’s T2 backroom for three years. 'Official house resident' Turnmills’ boss Danny Newman explained: “Tania has been a loyal servant to the club over the years and we felt it was about time to make her 'official house resident' for The Gallery - the club night she's served so well with Going Places." |
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 Mason Who the hell is Mason? I’m 26, half-Greek, half-Dutch and based in Amsterdam. I’m about 177cm tall, 70kg, have brown hair, greeny-brown eyes and I’m left-handed. Does that mean you mainly DJ with you left hand? No I’m good with both hands. My first gig was in 1995, when I was too young to legally enter a bar. It was a very dodgy nightclub in my hometown. I used to nick my gran’s turntables every week and the crowd usually consisted of five alcoholics and one prostitute. After a couple of months, some even more scary people bought the place and told me to F off. |
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 Justin Martin
By successfully merging minimal with house and funk with techno, Claude has risen to become one of the hottest names in dance music. But now a new cock is crowing in the Dirtybird nest - Justin Martin, a producer and DJ who’s just as talented as VonStroke.
Dirty Bird
“Probably 75% of the music I play is either mine or Claude's,” revealed Justin to DJmag.com
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 Annie Mac
Friday 19th October sees Miss Mac kick off the ‘Annie Mac Presents’ tour, with a date at Brighton’s Concorde 2 for Stompaphunk. She’ll be joined by Mancunian electro hotheads The Whip and ghetto house supremo, Hervé. On subsequent dates, DJs and artists like Sinden, Switch, Scratch Perverts, Simian Mobile Disco and Erol Alkan will all be rocking up with Annie to tear down the place. |
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 Astrix
It appears that the promoters of this weekend’s sold out SW4 festival have heard our last issue’s awesome Astrix covermount CD, for they’ve just added the psy-trance wizard to the line-up of their afterparty at Brixton Academy at the last minute.
Booked to play after Judge Jules and before God aka Paul van Dyk— the No.1 DJ in our Top 100 poll for the last two years running — this promises to be one of the highlights of this forthcoming bank holiday weekend. Doubling as the launch party of PvD’s new fifth artist album ‘In Between’, Rotterdam trance lord Ronald Van Gelderen also plays the mighty main room alongside local favourites Wynand Delport and Richard Launch. |
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 Taprikk Sweezee
How does it feel to be in the limelight again? It’s been a while since your last solo album…
“For me the last solo album was just a fun thing to do. I totally concentrated on Funkstörung at that time. Now since Funkstörung is gone, ‘Dos’ feels like a complete new start.”
What’s the record that got you into music?
“AC/DC ‘Back In Black’ when I was eleven or so, then Public Enemy ‘It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back’ when I was 13 or 14 and then finally Human Resource’s ‘Dominator’ got me into techno.” |
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 John Burgess
Infused with the spirit of acid house, but with an open-minded attitude that embraced breakbeat, techno, house, electro and everything in between, Bugged Out! has grown into a monster that’s spawned innumerable offshoot club events and 12 years later is still going strong. There could be no better time to drop a special retrospective compilation — ‘Bugged Out Classics’ — out 3rd September on New State Music. DJmag snared Burgess to get the full lowdown on the new comp and more… |
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 Pete Tong
The hugely popular DJ and host behind Radio One’s Essential Mix, Tong is a regular fixture in Ibiza with his crowd-pleasing sets, and he’s set to play at both events of the SW4 weekender on Bank Holiday — on 25th August at London’s Clapham Common and 26th August at Coopers Field, Cardiff. We caught up with the radio champion to find out his thoughts on the festival and where dance music is at right now…
You’re playing at both SW4 events on the Bank Holiday weekend — are you looking forward to them?
“Of course! I was thoroughly impressed last year so I’m looking forward to doing it again.” |
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 The Skipper AKA Captain Tinrib
We’re pleased to announce that despite the current negativity in the scene, hard dance is most definitely not dead — as a sold out Koko last Saturday night for Frantic and Nukleuz’s respective tenth and 15th birthdays more than illustrates.
The next big event on the hard dance calendar is the tenth birthday of pioneering night Superfish! on Friday 24 August at Brixton’s The Fridge. The Skipper aka Captain Tinrib aka Jon Bell will also be celebrating the re-launch of his label Tinrib Digital, plus it’s his final farewell set in this summer’s UK tour before he’s back on the high seas and heading home to his new dock in Christchurch, New Zealand. |
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 At Villa Mercedes
Time stands still for no man — particularly not Greek club pioneer and DJ Vassili Tsilichristos. After steering Athens’ colossal Venue Club into our 2007 Top 50 Clubs poll, he decided it was time for a fresh challenge. Some months down the line and Vassili already has new ventures on the boil. Not only is he responsible for the city’s ultra-hip Venue Café — a plush musical oasis, bar and eatery based in one of the coolest districts of Athens, he’s also the mastermind behind one of the capital’s most talked about new nightclubs.
That club is Villa Mercedes. Six nights of the week it operates as a glitzy upmarket venue offering open-air fine-dining coupled with dancing in luxurious surroundings. But the real action takes place every Sunday, when the club’s Beachball parties bring extra bounce. Responsible for both the venue and the DJ line-ups, Vassili has brought in big name DJs like Louie Vega and Dennis Ferrer recently to rock the venue. But tonight he’s opted for a friend, fellow Greek and DJ he respects in Nick Varon, flying him over from his current home in New York. If it proves one thing, it’s that Vassili is confident in homegrown talent. |
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