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Sep 12, 04
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Spooky Main Room Headliners!!!
Azim and I have been receiving a TON of emails, PM's and phone calls all asking when are we going to release the line-up and tickets... With that being said, here are the four headliners confirmed for our main room at Spooky:
 LISA LASHES - UK, www.djlisalashes.co.uk DJ Lisa Lashes is hailed throughout the world as the undisputed Queen of Hard House . Lisa's tireless dedication to the hard style has made her not only a superstar in her native UK, but also the world's most popular female DJ. Lisa is the first and only female to be considered among the top ten DJs in the world by DJ Magazine , ranking ninth in 2000 and continuing as the top-ranking female DJ in 2001, 2002, and 2003. The Lisa Lashes mixed albums, Hard House Euphoria (2002) and Extreme Euphoria Vol. 2 (2003), also achieved the status of highest selling hard house compilations in the world. Most recently, Lisa conquered Ibiza with her own Lashed in Ibiza nights at Eden, packing in the crowds with her superb technical skills and explosive musical style. "Whatever style of house it is, I play it hard and dirty; it's my favourite way!" Lisa Lashes's first gig was at a boat party on the River Severn in 1996, where she was discovered by Madders ( Polysexual , formerly of Sundissential ) and quickly given her first residency. From there, Lisa added further residencies and regular club nights at the most prestigious clubs in the UK, including Base, Escape, Euphoria, Eat Your Words, Frantic, Fully Charged, Gatecrasher, Godskitchen, Golden, Goodgreef, Hotdog, Koolwaters, Naughty But Nice, Progress, Radioactive, ROAR, Scream, Slinky, Storm, Temple Theatre, The Met, Tidy, and Transaction . Since 2000, Lisa has also headlined all of the top festivals -- Godskitchen Global Gathering, Homelands, Tidyweekender, Tidy Magna, Creamfields UK and Ireland, Homelands, Knebworth, Escape Into the Park, and Gatecrasher Summer Sound Systems --while at the same time playing numerous special events, including 2FM in Ireland, Godskitchen and Sundissential University Tours, Radio 1 - One Live in Nottingham, Radio 1 - One Live in Brighton . Lisa has as also displayed her ferocious skills in locales around the globe. She claimed another 'first' on the Slinky in Heineken Tour in China as the only female DJ to have played to a crowd of over 5,000 in that country. In South Africa, Lisa performed at sold-out shows of 12,000 in Cape Town and 20,000 in Johannesburg as part of the Camel Cigarettes Tour . Lisa has also toured the United States , Canada , and Australia , while making appearances in Brazil with Guess Clothing , Tenerife , and Corfu . One of Lisa's most important accomplishments in 2003 was the successful launch of Lashed in Ibiza www.lashedibiza.com For several years, Lisa has held residencies in Ibiza, the summer's hottest club location, playing Godskitchen , Judgement Sunday's , Slinky , and Tonic , to name a few. Lisa, however, wanted to create something completely unique, "to put the fun back into the party." For 15 weeks in summer 2003, Lisa did just that, bringing her furious brand of music to legions of grateful clubbers. For Lisa, "It has to be the most amazing project I have ever been involved with." The next stage involves bringing Lashed to an even greater global audience. To further this goal, Lisa has teamed with Nettwerk Management , whose international experience will help to cement Lisa Lashes as a top world DJ and Lashed as a premiere dance event. Beginning in 2004, Lashed will travel to China , Korea , Canada , New York City , Miami , Holland , Australia , New Zealand , and Japan . To all UK fans, however, Lisa says, "I'm not leaving anyone, because hard house and the stuff I play in the UK is still massive here, so there's no reason for me to go away. I just want to go abroad to show them our style." In fact, Lisa has already brought Lashed back home to the UK. In December of 2003, Lashed in Coalville was a sold-out event, and upcoming London and Liverpool shows in early 2004 promise to reach the same height of success - www.lasheduk.com It is impossible, however, for Lisa's talents to be constrained to DJing alone. She has produced Tidy's two biggest-ever selling hard house tracks, " Unbelievable " and " What Can You Do 4 Me ", along with " Lookin' Good " and "Dance 2 The House (Don't Go)" for Tidy, "We Came We Saw" for Sundissential, and "Give It All You've Got" for The Originator. In addition, Lisa's mixed albums for Tidy, Slinky, Mixmag, and Euphoria, which include a gold disc for Hard House Euphoria and a silver disc for Extreme Euphoria Vol. 2 , have been acclaimed by critics and embraced fans. Future releases include studio collaborations with BK , the biggest hard house producer in the world and many more! Rest assured that whatever Lisa Lashes does, she does it hard and dirty, it's her favourite way!  M.I.K.E. PUSH - BELGIUM, www.mike.be M.I.K.E. is Mike Dierickx. Formerly known as Dirk Dierickx… He lives in Belgium around the area of Antwerp. In 2000 he decided to change his real name from Dirk to Mike. Mike quotes: "When I started to dj at the age of 16, i used the name Dj Mike as my artist name…later on it changed into my producers name M.I.K.E., and that's why I decided to make it my real name…" He produces under the name M.I.K.E. , and also started to DJ under this alias. M.I.K.E is releasing records under the guises; Solar Factor, M.I.K.E, The Blackmaster, Return Of The Native, Plastic Boy …and last but not least, Push. As a dj,Mike’s style is very similar to the music he makes, techy- edged on a progressive trance tip. M.I.K.E is at the forefront of Europe's new sound, regularly topping charts in several leading countries. The story began when an 11 year old boy discovered the potential of samplers and keyboards... A kid who preferred knobs and backlight displays instead of playing in kindergardens. At the age of 18, Mike handed his first demo tape to the Antwerp based record company, 'USA Import'. Shortly after, his first record, 'Vision Act' was released on the Atom label in 1992. Mike released a series of successful records before he signed up with Lightning back in 1996. M.I.K.E's reputation shot through the roof, and although a commercial crossover had never been anticipated, in 1998 'Universal Nation' took the world by storm, winning several dance awards, and undoubtedly being recognized as one of the classic dance-records of the trance era. Pole positions in the worldwide dance charts were soon putting the Belgian dance scene firmly on the map.His Push follow up single, 'Strange World', destroyed hundreds of clubs across Europe, in the same vein as 'Universal Nation'. This was followed by yet another blockbuster, 'The Legacy' once again topping all dance charts across Europe and entering the British National charts at #21. Over the years Mike received several music awards including best club singles and best dance-producer,and entered 6 times the national top 40 in the UK. Mike also teamed up and did rmxs for Sinead 'O Connor,Moby,Mauro Piccoto,Bom Funk Mc's,Oliver Lieb,Ian Van Dahl… This kind of success did not go unnoticed, as M.I.K.E. was asked to DJ at some of the best venues in the world, including: 'Gatecrasher' and 'Godskitchen' in the UK,'Fura' and 'Vel Farre' in Japan, 'Massive and 'Trance Energy' in Holland,'Limelight' U.S. and the Berlin Love Parade…are a few to mention… In 1999 he decided to start-up his own label,and Scanner-Records was born… The music stands for minimal electric dance. Scanner got a backup from the likes of Steve Lawler,Marco V,Timo Maas... More info can be found on www.scanner-records.be Recently Mike teamed up for a fashionable new imprint called “Club Elite “ with Armada Music. 4 releases a year…with a close eye to the seasons. More info info can be found on www.club-elite-records.com And with the dawn of the progressive Tech and Trance era, you can expect to see M.I.K.E at the very front,leading the way.  ALPHAZONE aka. Skywarp - GERMANY, www.skywarp.de The two heads behind Skywarp, the producers of wellknown trance projects like Alphazone, DJ Kim, Saltwater and Nebulus, are Alexander Zwarg and Arne Reichelt. They are in producing dancefloor approved clubmusic in their own studio since 1995. The past two years they have continously built their reputation as trance maniacs and now sail on a big and steady growing wave of support. Skywarp productions took their place in record bags and boxes of many superstar djs quickly and many labels trust the overwhelming power of a Skywarp remix for their big and coming releases. Besides their studio work Alex and Arne have been busy on the dj front since the beginning, but in 2001 they decided to take a break and focus on studio work to improve their productions skills. Since autumn 2003, they are back behind the decks and are going to rock dancefloors all around europe with their massive hi-nrg trance sets in the future. Be prepared! While Arne collected his first experiences with electronic dance music in the early nineties, Alex joined his passion in 1995. Thanks to his technical understanding of synthesizers and samplers, it was Alex -a former student of telecommunication- who made it possible for both of them to start producing techno and dancemusic in an own little studio at home. With the time their studio grew bigger and bigger, and also their production standards and mixing skills. They decided to create a small enterprise and start producing on a more professional level. Their first official release was "Overload" in 1996. After having released some progressive stuff on various labels till 1999, they decided to give their sound a more trancy, melodic feel in 2000. Finally the remix of DJ Kim's "Jetlag" in 2001 -which was a smashing floorburner all across europe- was the initial success for their continuous work: the Alphazone sound was born. In Spring 2002 they released their first Alphazone vinyl "Stay" on Waterworld Records in Germany. With a rolling baseline, a bumping kick, tremendous acid feel and an exstatic synth hook they created a huge anthem, often played and well known in the entire hardtrance scene. Between, "Alphazone" remixed projects like Ian Van Dahl, Kira, Dave Joy, Jay Walker and BK. While these singles already took their place in record-cases of many international dj stars, Alphazone kept working in the studio, because there were still many big things to come in 2003. In April they released "Saltwater - The Legacy" (together with the producers of Norman Bass), which had a much trancier approach then the other Alphazone mixes, but nevertheless got impressive support from all the bigh trance jocks like Tiesto, Ferry and Gielen. Some weeks later they released their Alphazone follow-up single "Rockin" on Waterworld Records. Including an ingenious Mat Silver & Tony Burt Remix, which received highest reviews everywhere, this single took of the roof from every club around. In summer 2003 Arne and Alex moved with their studio to a new location and they had to spend the coming months to get everything working again. Back on the track in August 2003, the hardtrance community saw a successful release of the latest DJ Kim single “Time And Space” with an Alphazone Mix on the a-side. But don’t believe the year is already over: For 2003 there a still some surprises to come... The debut singles of two completely new projects are still in the line. Watch out for Celyion and Nebulus, the story continues...  RANK 1 - HOLLAND, www.rank-1.com The story started around 1997 when Piet Bervoets and Benno de Goeij met each other at a party. Piet already was into music and DJ'ing and had his own studio at the time. This sounded very interesting to Benno, who had no experience at all in producing. Benno already had a perfect ear for good melodies, due to his classical musical background by playing the piano and the keyboard. They decided to cooperate and the first releases as Pedro & Benno soon followed. After many successes under different artist name’s, the name Rank 1 was born in 1998, as a joke. They thought it would be nice to see this name at a number 1 position! But the joke became reality when 'Airwave' hit numerous charts at that position. After this they had many successes like their remix of Cygnus X's 'Superstring' , the Sensation theme of 2000. Their next single 'Such Is Life' became next years Sensation anthem, was released in July 2001 and climbed the charts with the speed of light. The album Symsonic, on which Piet and Benno demonstrated their variety, is not just an album for the dancefloor but one to listen to at home as well. Also a DVD with their live performance at Trance Energy 2002 is included along with their video’s. Soon after this release their single ‘Awakening’ hit the European charts. The year 2003 was a busy year for them. Breathing was re-released, it was an updated version of Airwave, with a breakbeat remix. Afterwards they spent 6 months building their new studio’s which can be viewed on the webcam! They also started a side-project for a friend: ‘MAC J’. Nowadays the guys are working on a their second album. Rank 1 has a very tight schedule. In the weekends Piet is travelling around the world for the Rank 1 DJ-sets. Meanwhile Benno is creating new sounds. So when they meet up during the week they have lots inspiration for new records to come! When it comes to interviews, Rank 1 is mostly reluctant to get into details. They rather let their music speak for itself, since they consider themselves as ordinary guys. With a lot of musical talent that is… $45 tickets will be in stores by end of business Tuesday! I will be releasing the remainder of the line-up including locals next week! 
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Show us the house Kraig, the house!!
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wow now thats a good trance lineup, i wonder who else will be playing (rooms 2etc)
save a few tixs 4 me omg, how much VIPs going to be? MIKE rank1 alphazone and lisa is going to rock it
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Holy shit... gotten like 4 PM's in the past 5 minutes!
As for the location, I should be announcing that next week... we are still waiting on the city for that one. I can tell you though that it will be at a venue MUCH more intimate than the PNE so you can see your favaorite DJ's, up, close and personal! Peace. Last edited by Kraig; Sep 12, 04 at 08:29 AM.
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and he hasn't even mentioned the other oom headliners yet!
Wow!
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fuckN rights...now this is gonna be a sweet halloween show....they have proven that spooky is halloween...I've been wanting to see M.I.K.E for the longest time...can't wait for this one...oh and they got more in store for all of us...this can't get any sweeter..or can it?
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fuckN rights...now this is gonna be a sweet halloween show....they have proven that spooky is halloween...I've been wanting to see M.I.K.E for the longest time...can't wait for this one...oh and they got more in store for all of us...this can't get any sweeter..or can it?
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Nice!!!!
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Now where is the Dnb Headliner...Actaully even without a Dnb Headliner I'm headin to spooky w/ my buds. Last edited by phatisphat; Sep 12, 04 at 08:44 AM.
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