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About time: Time Warp comes to NYC.

For three months, Time Warp found itself in limbo. The first festival in the city where it is still based Mannheim, Germany, having debuted in 1994 Time Warp has grown to become the most prestigious techno festival in the world. But that didn't mean getting to New York would be easy.

Two years ago, Rob Toma and Antonio Piacquadio invited Time Warp founder Steffen Charles to check out New York. Charles knew the two men, now working at Space, from their years in Ibiza. After a six-day working holiday, Charles says he was blown away by the vibrancy of the local underground dance scene.

"What I see going on in New York," Charles says, "is people playing regularly, underground artists with a huge following. That's super-great. Not a lot of other big capitals have developed such a vibrant underground scene over the last two years. I'd talk to promoters who'd say, 'I play this little warehouse.' You only hear about EDM, but there's all these underground spaces that don't play commercial music at all." Not just in "outlaw" spaces, either: Charles was equally impressed by the lineup at big rooms like Pacha, Output, and Space.

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On September 3, Sinatra's iconic crooning of "New York, New York" announced Time Warp's first U.S. events, on November 28 and 29. Although both Kraftwerk and Donna Summer's ur-techno song "I Feel Love" originated in Germany, there's no question that techno really began with black DJs experimenting in Detroit. So for Time Warp, the 20th-anniversary year took on new meaning as a homecoming of sorts.

After obvious choices like Pier 94, which couldn't make a commitment far enough in advance, were ruled out, the selection of Kingsbridge Armory seemed inspired. With its huge layout (180,000 square feet) and the Bronx's strong association with underground music, the armory harked back to the genre's roots in Detroit's abandoned warehouses and factories.

Then, on October 16, the Daily News reported that "the party's over for ravers looking to takeover [sic] Kingsbridge Armory." The News wondered whether the party would happen at all. For the next few weeks, ticket buyers and scheduled artists wondered the same thing. In a strong not to mention unusual show of support, however, most ticket buyers expressed strong support on social media. The first night, November 28, had already sold out.

"None of the artists were worried that it wouldn't happen," Charles says. "They knew from 20 years that we have never had an event canceled." Brooklyn-based DJ Francis Harris, booked as Frank & Tony with Parisian DJ Anthony Collins, tells the Voice he was philosophical about it: "I figured there's nothing you can do. Things fall through all the time. You keep your head down and hope for the best."

Only two weeks before the first night, it was announced that Time Warp had secured the 39th Street Pier in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. For two nights, the warehouse will become "the Cave," a traveling total-design concept with dozens of laser lights beaming between rows of man-made stalactites. Charles must have taken Sinatra's optimism to heart; he shipped the Cave from Germany before signing the final papers.

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The Great British Bake Off is back on our TV screens for its fifth series.

The ratings have shown the move to BBC One to be a massive success, with more of you watching the show than ever before.

1. Mary Berry was born in 1935, the second child of Alleyne and Marjorie Berry. Her father served as the Mayor of Bath in 1952 and her mother lived to the ripe old age of 105.

2. At 13, she contracted polio and spent three months in hospital, leaving her with a twisted spine, a weaker left hand, and a thinner left arm. Always looking on the bright side of life, however, she's credited the illness with toughening her up and teaching her to make the most of every opportunity. Amazingly, Mary Berry's horse came to visit her in hospital.

3. Academic studies were never her forte, but she began to shine in domestic science class, under the guidance of the aptly named Miss Date. Berry's first creation was a treacle sponge pudding.

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5. Rumour has it that the prim and proper judge is a bit of a party animal. She tried her first cigarette at the age of 8, and while she never touched another one, she can still rave with the best of us. Believe it or not, she was partying at Pacha in Ibiza at the age of 71, and famously started knocking back tequila slammers like water after a Bake Off cast dinner.

Skip to 2.45 to see Bake Off hosts Sue and Mel reveal Berry's debauched ways to Alan Carr.

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6. While we don't want to entertain the idea of her no longer being with us, what would she eat as a last meal?

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"Wooo, disco bus!"

The vehicle idling by the manicured white lobby of the SLS Beverly Hills Hotel is nothing special, but Hot Since 82 is easy to please.

Daley Padley is a rakish 30-something Brit wearing a white graphic tee and an unflagging smile that persists despite his present exhaustion. A rigorous tour schedule has seen Padley jet from London to Chicago to Los Angeles in as many days, with another cross-continental flight to New York looming tomorrow.

"I don't know what planet I'm on," he admits. "I don't know if I'm jetlagged or in England or what."

Joined by his manager James Drummond, we pile aboard the disco bus for the drive to San Bernardino, where Padley is set to play Insomniac's Escape from All Hallows' Eve on the ENTER-curated Cannibals' Tea Party stage. The traffic is typical L.A. gridlock, so we take solace in overpriced sandwiches and classic hip-hop while slowly inching our way through the bumper-to-bumper malaise. It's a far cry from the Yorkshire moors that Padley calls home.

"Could you ever live in L.A.?" I ask.

"I couldn't," Padley replies. "Even in Leeds you never get shit like this. Have you ever been to Yorkshire? It's the country, quiet and full of nature. I wouldn't live anywhere else in the U.K."

The topic of conversation turns to hip-hop. Padley is a massive 2Pac fan who plastered his childhood walls with posters of the California rapper after watching Juice. Wu-Tang Clan comes on to the delight of all in attendance.

"Now these guys can fucking rap!" Padley exclaims. "I like that 'Triumph' song, it's a proper story."

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Simon Cowell is confident of winning rave reviews for his own performance as best man for close friend Paul McKenna.

The hypnotist , 50, is to marry personal assistant of 20 years Kate Davey after popping the question last weekend with a 1million engagement ring.

No mind games were necessary as she said yes immediately and then the first call Paul made was to ask the X Factor boss to play wing man at the ceremony in May.

Knowing Simon, he will set out to be the BEST best man ever. The pop mogul, 54, got the news just after leaving the shows stage last Sunday and replied excitedly: Yes, of course.

The Sunday People can also reveal Simon is planing to lay on his private jet for a stag do in Ibiza and 12 of Pauls closest friends have had invitations.

A source close to Paul, who was previously engaged to author Clare Staples, said: He is over the moon. They are planning the wedding and it will take place in London in May.

The stag do is going to be a big one though, he didnt think he would ever marry so it is going to be huge. Simon is excited about the trip to Ibiza.

He couldnt be happier for Paul, he is one of his closest friends and he has seen him watch his friends marry over the past 20 years. Now its his turn.

Paul, who lives in Beverly Hills with Kate, made the news official on Friday when he invited a group of friends to Hollywood restaurant Al Bacia becoming tearful as he told them.

He proposed during a trip to San Francisco and has posted snaps from it on his Facebook page.

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Its that rarest of things, when a song becomes a veritable cultural snapshot of its time. And in the closing scene of Danny Boyles 1996 cinematic masterpiece Trainspotting, Underworlds Born Slippy so sublimely soundtracks the sellout revelation of Ewan McGregors ex-junkie Renton, that it, in a way, poignantly marked the end of the U.K. rave scenes nave but noble idealism and optimism.

Ironic, then, that Underworld were not even actually born of the rave generation. Rather, having long failed as a more conventional band, they opportunistically latched onto the dance scene by slyly recruiting hot young club DJ Darren Emerson. Their 1994 debut album dubnobasswithmyheadman became a genuine zeitgeist marker, and has now been remastered by the bands Rick Smith, with the 20th anniversary edition released this month on Junior Boys Own. A five-disc deluxe edition is also available.

Karl Hyde, who was already 36 years-old upon its original release, recalls it with the enthusiasm of a teenager.

THR: Were you aware that dubnobasswithmyheadman was going to be such an influential record?

Karl Hyde: No, because we didnt even intend to make an album. We were just enjoying making tracks that sometimes applied to the dancefloor and sometimes didnt. Rick started to assemble it into a collection; Im not even really sure what drove him to do that.

Did you have a sense of really being a part of something at that time?

If we were really a part of anything it was a particular club scene that was based around the kind of music that Darren Emerson was playing: Chicago and Detroit house and Junior Boys Own records. It was all about the dancefloor. And thank god it was, because record labels at that time were telling us to get rid of the singer if we wanted to make dance music, or get a drummer if we wanted to keep the singer. At the same time, hundreds of kids were dancing to our music in clubs -- so we knew the record labels were out of synch with what was happening.

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What drew you to Darren Emerson?

Darren was this nineteen year old kid that was really into the Baeleric sound coming out of Ibiza, but also a Beatles fan. He was a rising star in the scene, and he would say to us, bring some of that other stuff in, film music, dub, guitar music. So we developed this very eclectic sound.

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