GROOVE ARMADA, SLAM, MARCO V AND 'LITTLE' LOUIE VEGA AT AMSTERDAM DANCE EVENT

The program of the Amsterdam Dance Event is complete. Taking place 17 – 19 October in Amsterdam, the conference – Europe’s prime network platform for the electronic and dance music industry – features a large number of well known and upcoming artists from around the globe. As one of the most eclectic and innovative programs in the electronic community, the ADE night program is a true musical discovery journey with little or no respect for genre limitations. With 1400 professional participants, daytime proceedings at the ADE focus on networking and business relations plus a large number of panels, keynotes and meetings featuring expert views and some of electronic and dance music top visionaries.

NIGHT
Cassius t.b.c. (f), Together (Thomas Bangalter & DJ Falcon) t.b.c. (f), Groove Armada (uk), 100% Isis (nl), Justin Robertson (uk), Laidback Luke (nl), SLAM! (uk), Arthur Baker (us), Marco V (nl), The Bays (uk), Remy (nl), The Dreem Teem (uk), Technoboy (i), Rennie Pilgrim (uk), Angelo D'Onorio (nl), Dimitri (nl), 3LW (us), Andre from Norway (n), Ebon-E (nl), Karen Bernod (us), AudioBullys (uk), David Guetta (f) and Tasha's World (nl) are just some of the names confirmed for the ADE (see the full program for more details).

DAY
Meanwhile, the ADE day program is nearing completion too: confirmed now are keynote interviews with ‘Little’ Louie Vega (Masters At Work, us) and Mute Records managing director Daniel Miller. Other confirmed panellists include Eric Morand (F Comm, f), Kenny Gates (PIAS, b), Dominic Smith (Ninja Tune/Big Dada, uk), Horst Weidenmuller (Studio K7, d), Andy Bradley (BMG, uk), Eddie Gordon (Neo, uk), Frederic Rebet (Naïve, f), Jens Thele (Kontor, d), Darren Hughes (Homelands, uk), Andrea Corelli (Warner, i), Mark Reeder (MFS, d), Phil Cheeseman (uk), Dave Piccione (Azuli, uk), John Wai (Neurodisc, us), Bastian (nl), Jesse Saunders (us), Matt Jagger (Ministry of Sound, uk), Kurosh Nasseri (us), Martin Unger (Warner, d), Klaus Maeck (Freibank, d), Matthew Kletter (us), Andre de Raaff (Strengholt, nl) and many more. Panel subjects include Cash for Credibility, Making the Most of Your Copyright, Past, Present & Future, Avalanche of Vinyl, Open Manager Meeting, Nostalgia Boom Panel, US Distribution Panel, New developments in Clubbing, Licensing Panel, We're Not In For The Money, International Festival Meeting and New developments in Producing Music.

LDMC
A special feature at the 2002 edition of the ADE is the first Live Dance Music Conference (LDMC). As the first platform aimed at professionals from the live electronic, urban and dance music industry, LDMC brings together festival organisers and other professionals from the most successful live music genre in Europe, the Live Dance Music Conference serves as a forum to exchange ideas, meet peers and to experience new music. LDMC will take place as a separate entity within the ADE. Registrants for LDMC have full access to all ADE facilities and vice versa.

1400 professional participants, including all the name labels and record company in the international dance industry, attend the ADE, making it the biggest professional gathering outside the US. The Amsterdam Dance Event has a proven track record as the place where the right people are, where deals are actually being negotiated, music is discovered and where panels are equally enjoyable and informative. Focussed on electronic and dance music in its broadest sense, the ADE night program is broadcast live by Hollands Radio 3FM and Danish radio DR. Last years ADE night program was broadcast to over ten European countries including Belgium’s Studio Brussel, BBC, Ireland’s RTE, DR and Radio 3FM.

program subject to change
REGISTER BEFORE OCTOBER 1 2002, FOR Euro 225
For a registration form, call + 31 35 621 87 48, register online or download a registration form:
www.amsterdam-dance-event.nl

... with current college radio airplay on stations like WEOS Geneva NY, WKDT Highland NY and in-store play & 1st CD-orders in NY record stores like Area Geneva NY, Fye Lockport NY, Off Center Utica NY, Rhino New Platz NY, Sound Trax Monroe NY, Record Rochester NY... and leading NY press showing interest like Metroland Alabany NY and SPIN magazine New York NY... and that's not all... tracking report also confirms college radio airplay for our Red to Violet CD on WECS Willimanti CT, WSAM West CT, WMLN Milton MA, WKNH Keene NH, WRLC-2 Piscataway NJ, WGDR Plainfield VT... and continuing in-store play and orders reported by record stores like Dimensions Baltimore MD, Record Waterville ME, In Your Ear Plymouth NH, Soundgarden Concord NH, E MC East NJ, Full Blackwood NJ, Brass City record store Albequerque NM...

THRILL JOCKEY SHOW THIS SUNDAY

The Thrill Jockey show is this Sunday (15 Sept) and ticket are going pretty fast.
Tickets are available from Ocean Box Office on 0207-314-2800. The 1st 1000 people through the door will receive a 12 track compilation of Thrill Jockey acts featuring unreleased tracks from Tortoise and The Sea and Cake. The show is at Ocean in Hackney London and Tickets are 20 pounds for the whole day starting at Noon until Midnight.

RUNNING TIMES FOR THE EVENT ARE AS FOLLOWS:

Doors 12pm
Chicago Underground Duo 1.30pm - 2pm
Brokeback 2.30pm -3pm
Radian 3.30pm - 4pm
Eleventh Dream Day 4.30pm - 5.00pm
National Trust 5.30pm - 6.15pm
The Sea and Cake 6.45pm - 7.30pm
Bobby Conn (Karoke Set) 8pm - 8.30pm
Trans Am - 9pm - 9.45pm
Tortoise 10.15pm - 11.30pm (75 min set)
Curfew 12am

THE DAWN PARADE LAST MINUTE ADDITION TO 'IN THE CITY'

Radio One and Rolling Stone favourites The Dawn Parade will appear at Manchester's In The City this Saturday, 14th September. The Dawn Parade will perform at 9-45pm at The Black Lion, 65 Chapel St, Salford.

The In The City show comes at an exciting time, as The Dawn Parade record a BBC Radio One John Peel Session on September 11th, appear on ITV's The Biz on Friday October 4th, and receive press acclaim from Rolling Stone, Rocksound and The Fly.

Following the success of the band's mammoth summer UK Tour, The Dawn Parade's autumn tour begins at Kings Cross Water Rats on October 1st, and runs for eight weeks until the end of November.

ANONYMOUS GROOVE MOVE UP A GEAR

Anonymous Groove presents
‘The Rhythm Suite’
Every Thursday 9pm - 2am
The Atrium

Anonymous Groove’s regular live event, ‘The Rhythm Suite’ has now moved up a gear. Now hosted over three floors within the outstanding surroundings of The Atrium in Leeds, the night promises to bring the best up and coming talent to its stages.

Keeping the regular format of two live acts and dj’s upstairs in the loft lounge, we will be drawing on the ever growing number of high quality and energetic acts from Leeds, and the rest of the UK. DJ Dot 9 will be spinning tunes before and after the acts, which will be tied together by The Rhythm Suites very own Compere. The bar floor will be hosted by the Atriums own Dj Erol, who will be churning out the party classics alongside dj Templeton BOOM!

Our most exciting new develop is held in the Basement of the Atrium. We have teamed up with Sub-Dub’s/Tribe Records Simon Scott to bring you ’Rebel Hi-FI Int.’. Hosted twice a month the night will be bringing the best in old school to new school roots’n’culture, dubwize, dance hall and drum’n’bass. Simon Scott will be playing alongside very special guests such as Iration Steppa’s and Blood & Fire Sound System Dj’s. We also have Dj’s from Green, the North’s hardest and darkest dub reggae and drum’n’bass event, who will be with us once a month, ensuring the addition of a dedicated root’s room to The Rhythm Suite.

Our VJ’s and artists will also be utilising the Atriums brand new state of the art visuals set up. Monkee from Unkle and other arts collectives will be providing video and slide projections alongside club decor to create a continually unique atmosphere to the venue.

This year promises to see The Rhythm Suite take off with a bang. Now in its fourth year, the event has proven itself to continually bring the best in raw up and coming talent and enthusiasm into clubs across Yorkshire, and we feel this is our best line-up to date.

For more information please contact Chris on
0113 368 9912
0793 044 3048
chris@anonymous-groove.com
or visit www.anonymous-groove.com

SXSW2003 SHOWCASE APPLICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE

Bands and performers who wish to apply for consideration to appear at SXSW 2003 may now do so via our streamlined and discounted online application process (http://www.sxsw.com/showcase). Gather your credit card, your tax records and your outstanding warrants and you should have all the info you'll need to provide us. You will also find forms to download. The first deadline for showcase applications is September 20th, so act now and beat the rush.

VOODOO MUSIC EXPERIENCE 2002 ANNOUNCES 4TH YEAR TALENT!

New Orleans, LA: On November 2nd, 2002, a spellbinding musical journey like no other awaits those who make the trek to New Orleans for VOODOO MUSIC® EXPERIENCE. By the end of the day, the swampy moss of New Orleans City Park will have seen more than 20 artists and twelve hours of music on three stages and thousands of the world's most ardent music lovers! With performances by No Doubt, The Crystal Method, 311, Sum 41, Garbage, Counting Crows, (hed)pe, Macy Gray, Nappy Roots, The X-ecutioners, Galactic, DJ Z-Trip, J5, Cut Chemist, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Jack Johnson, North Mississippi Allstars, and Blind Boys of Alabama, it's no wonder this day-long event has become an internationally renowned music experience!

"It's been great to see the event grow over the last four years," says Steve Rehage of Rehage Entertainment. "Our goal is to develop one of the world's greatest music festivals, with artists from varying genres coming together in New Orleans to worship the music. We now have attendees from all over the United States; ultimately we're creating a new Halloween tradition."

It's no secret that one of this year's biggest draws will be No Doubt. Still soaring off the success of Rock Steady, the foursome's highly anticipated performance at Voodoo is certain to be filled with the incredible energy that first brought the band to the top of the charts in the early 90s. Stefani's stage presence coupled with Dumont, Young and Kanal's ska-revival and new wave sounds creates a concert experience few people ever forget! Expect Garbage to rock out equally as hard with a sound that has combined some of the underground's biggest movements - shoe-gazer, trip-hop and indie - to form a recipe for mainstream success. Not afraid to wear their heart on their sleeve, Counting Crows will bring some soul to the swamp with music fresh from their recent release Hard Candy while the North Mississippi Allstars dish up something a little bit rock and a little bit blues.

With a sound born in the dirty south, Nappy Roots' performance in the land of muddy bayous and shady alleys is a particularly appropriate for the Halloween-season event. Expect a hearty helping from their recent, critically acclaimed release Watamelon, Chicken, and Gritz with a healthy side of the bouncy rhythms that have them rising up the charts! Spicing up the night will be hip-hop DJ collective The X-ecutioners' turntable tricknology and Z-Trip's unique melding of rock and hip-hop's greatest hits. Expect Macy Gray's emotive lyrics and unmistakable sound to fill the bayou air with music equally hot.

Truly making the event a complete experience is Voodoo After Dark - a series of shows created in conjunction with the House of Blues that features prominent national and local talent performing in notorious venues throughout New Orleans. A new element for Voodoo worshippers this year is the Road to Voodoo, a coast to coast three-band tour concluding with a final bash in New Orleans on Friday, November 1, 2002. Visit the official VOODOO MUSIC® EXPERIENCE website at www.voodoomusicfest.com for more information, scheduling, merchandise and more!

VOODOO MUSIC® EXPERIENCE is created and produced by Rehage Entertai=ment, Inc., a New York/New Orleans-based management, marketing and productions company specializing in the creation and development of entertainment properties.

VOODOO MUSIC® EXPERIENCE is sponsored by PlayStation®2, Cox Communications, Miller, Nola.com, KKND, Extreme, M@x Racks, Rollingstone.com, Gambit Weekly, Much Music USA, Beatgreets.com, Offbeat, SOBE, Aquafina and Voodoo BBQ.

Tickets will go on sale today at 9 am through the event website and at all Ticketmaster locations.