Core Magazine | May 2013

ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL MAKES HISTORY AS THE FIRST GLOBAL MAJOR EDM FESTIVAL TO EXPAND TO TWO WEEKENDS MARCH 15, 16 & 17 AND MARCH 22, 23 & 24, 2013

Beacons could easily be classed as one of those ‘hippy’ boutique festivals which have sprung up as an alternative to large events such as Reading festival, and which have been criticised for attracting fire-hungry alcohol intolerant 16 year-olds. After Beacons was cancelled in its first year due to flash flooding, it returned fighting fit and sold out thanks to a stellar line-up: including house heavyweight Maya Jane Coles and bass music maestro Pearson Sound.

One event you won’t want to be missing this month is Lockdown Festival. Held at the NDSM shipyard, the line-up they’ve crafted has to be the best of the summer for Holland’s bass minded.

Sun, sea, sand, four arenas and an amazing experience: this is what 10,000 lucky ticket holders will be sure to get when they join the likes of Chase and status, Annie Mac, Jamie Jones, Loco Dice, Skream and Benga and many more at this year’s Hideout Festival in June on the beautiful Zcre Beach on the isle of Pag in Croatia.

The three day event returns to the Scottish Highlands on June 10th with non-other than Groove Armada, Chemical Brothers and Mark Ronson in attendance.

Get ready for Italy’s first open-air underground electronic music festival in Picotto’s hometown of Cavour. And for all you music producers out there – this is simply an opportunity of a lifetime!

Festival season is getting hype. Rumours are flying around about who's headlining where in 2011, but we can exclusively reveal that Pendulum will close this year's South West Four weekender in their ONLY London show of the year.

After scooping the Artist's Favourite European Festival in 2010, Melt festival is back in 2011 with Pulp, Robyn, Paul Kalkbrenner and The Streets all confirmed!

With the ongoing construction of Almere Poort which is directly adjacent to the Defcon.1 location, Q-Dance has unfortunately lost permission to hold the event there for future years. In turn, the internationally renowned outdoor festival has no choice but to move.

It’s been busy at Autobot studios since we spoke to you last. We’ve been back to tour Australia for a second time, have had releases on AWsum black, Bionic digital and Intolerance Recordings. We have also been remixing for / been remixed by, Activator, Cally and Juice, Kidd Kaos and Technikal. We are about to start a busy months DJ’ing at lots of our favorite events including Firewall, Atmosphere, Slammin Vinyl, and many more!