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Fatboy Slim still 'loses control' on stage and admits ''rave demons'' take over and he feels like a teenager again.

Fatboy Slim still 'loses control' on stage and admits ''rave demons'' take over.

The 'Eat Sleep Rave Repeat' hitmaker, who has been one of the biggest names in dance music for more than 20 years, has been sober since entering rehab in 2009 for alcohol addiction and insists although he no longer drinks, he enjoys his shows more and still gets lost in the moment.

He told the Daily Star newspaper: ''I cherish the shows more now. It's nice, actually being able to remember them afterwards. Before, it was me and the crowds having a big party together.

''It's still a party, but I feel directly involved now, and having been a DJ for so long I know how to press people's buttons to get them dancing.

''But I still lose control on stage, especially in the last half-hour. The rave demons take over, and I find myself doing dance moves I didn't know I had in me.''

The 50-year-old star, real name Norman Cook, lives in Brighton with wife Zoe Ball, 43, and children Woody, 13, and Nelly, four, but insists he likes to ditch his dad image during festival season and will be heading to the likes of Creamfields and Glastonbury this year.

He said: ''Once I'm on stage, I go from being responsible father-of-two to a giggling 15 year old, hell bent on mischief and hedonism.

''The crowds keep me young for those two hours on stage. But as soon as the show finishes, I'm spent. I'm knackered and go straight to bed.''

The star also claims his teenage son Woody has started to realise his dad has the ''coolest job in the world'' and no longer finds it cringe-worthy.

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One of the hottest acts in electronic music right now, ADVENTURE CLUB has been a tireless source of banging remixes, uplifting summertime anthems, infectious DJ mixes, and explosive live shows since the duo's musical trip took off in 2010. The Canadian duo composed of Christian Srigley and Leighton James rounded out the end of 2013 in a big way with the release of their debut EP CALLING ALL HEROES on BMG.An elegantly crafted soundscape featuring four-songs with transforming bass and whirling synths, the EP includes Gold featuring Yuna, Wonder which has the pair teaming up with Australian producer The Kite String Tangle, Crash and Thunderclap. The EP hit #1 on iTunes Dance Album chart in the U.S. and Canada plus it ranked over 10 HypeM #1 hits. Look for ADVENTURE CLUB to release their debut studio album this fall. Check out their videos for Gold here: http://vevo.ly/vS7SdR and Wonder here: http://youtu.be/JDMfpeUWS3Q

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BIG GIGANTIC SATURDAY, MAY 24 Bethel Woods, NY Mysteryland at the Woodstock 69 Grounds

Boulder, CO-based electronic act BIG GIGANTIC is currently touring in support of their brand new album, THE NIGHT IS YOUNG. Released February 11 via their own Big Gigantic Records, the 8-track album, available as a FREE download via the band's website http://www.biggigantic.net, features the title track The Night Is Young featuring their friends in Cherub. Check out the song's videowhich debuted on RollingStone.com on 2/20here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEfBv4POfik&feature=youtu.be. The Night Is Youngwhich charted at #10 on the Dance/Electronic Album and #18 Heatseekers Album Billboard charts respectively as well as #2 on iTunes Electronic Album upon its releasefollows the band's latest album, 2012's Nocturnal, which has received more than one million downloads to date. Their new album is an eclectic mix of tracks that span genres from electronic and dance to hip hop and electro soul, including Touch The Sky, a blazing instrumental that made its debut in late 2013 to critical acclaim throughout the blogosphere, as well as the crushing dubstep song Lets Go!, the dazzling sax-hooked track Just For the Thrill and the velvety number Shooting Stars. The duo of Dominic Lalli (saxophone/producer) and Jeremy Salken (drums) recently made their debut at Coachella, which featured performances from a local high school marching band (read all about it here: http://www.desertsun.com/story/life/entertainment/music/coachella/2014/04/14/shadow-hills-high-school-marching-band-coachella-sahara-tent/7720981/) and will be hitting up various other festivals this summer including CounterPoint, Spring Awakening, Mysteryland, Firefly and The Hudson Project along with Bonnaroo where they'll perform with Skrillex during his Skrillex and Friends Superjam. BIG GIGANTIChave spent the last two years on various sold-out headlining tours across the country and received rave reviews from their many festival appearances that have includedLollapalooza,Ultra Music Festival,Hangout,Austin City Limits,Governors Ball,Bonnaroo, Electric ForestandOutside Landsamong many others.

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Bolton DJs launch club night after success of 'illegal rave' in woods

9:14am Friday 2nd May 2014 in News By Melanie Wallwork, Entertainment reporter

IT was following an illegal rave in woods in Bolton that a pair of DJs decided to launch their own club night.

And from those underground beginnings, the party brand Mute was born, landing Daniel Sanders and Keiran Sharples, from Tonge Moor, stints behind the decks at some of Europes best clubs.

Now the pair can be heard working their musical magic at iconic Manchester club Sankeys, which is back in full swing with its series of spring events, following a hiatus last year.

Mr Sanders, aged 25, from Astley Bridge, said: I started playing there in 2008, at a night called Kaluki.

At the same time, we started our own night called Mute.

I stopped doing Sankeys and started to concentrate on Mute. As thats grown, theyve asked us to go back.

The musical pair, who used to play bars and clubs in Bolton town centre, including J2, Mawdsley Street, now host the second room at the Tribal Sessions night at Sankeys, held on the first Friday of every month.

With a no-holds barred, any genre style, their sets have been drawing positive feedback from club-goers both in the North West and at Sankeys and Space in Ibiza.

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OLD SKOOL: Mallorca Lee will play an Ultra-Sonic set

THE most exciting and enduring Scottish DJ of all-time, Mallorca Lee makes awelcome return to Dublin for a special 1994-themed old skool party at Voodoo Lounge on May 4.

Its the first Ultra-Sonic classics set the rave pioneer has played in almost two decades.

In 1994 they were one of the most popular live acts to play venues such as the Ormond Multimedia Centre, and next weekends bank holiday party looks close to selling out.

Since those heady days of rave, Mallorca has gone on to sell five million records and hes consistently performing at events such as Coloursfest, Judgment Fridays, Ibiza and Creamfields.

His DJ sets dont pander to genre mixing current floor-fillers with obscure underground tracks and rave anthems.

He is conscious of keeping up with the times, while realising hes got an army of old-skool fans who want to also hear the classics.

The crowd know each U-S track inside out, he tells Clubmix.

They mean so much more than the sum of their parts to people its where they were, who they were with, 20 years of memories tied up in audio.

Clubmix asked him how he would compare the Ultra-Sonic golden era to modern clubland, and he told us: Back in the day was special, I was making tracks with synths and samples Id never used before and playing massive raves for the first time.

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Under the Electric Sky was made by Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz, who also brought you recent big-screen docs about Justin Bieber and Katy Perry. After involvement with two of the worlds biggest pop stars, its natural that their eyes should come to rest on whats known over there as the EDM scene (for Electronic Dance Music no Acoustic Dance Music for Americans, oh no).

The sound characterised by a thudding house beat, cavernous synthesized riffs and a naggingly catchy, turn-that-frown-upside-down chorus now dominates the charts through euphoric singles released by multi-millionaire DJs such as Avicii, David Guetta and Afrojack.

Now that America gets it, Vegas is the new Ibiza and its culture of excess means that DJs command fees that dwarf the Nineties era of the UK superclubs such as Ministry of Sound and Cream. The business magazine Forbes now publishes a Rich List for DJs. Scotsman Calvin Harris was at the top in 2013, pulling in $46million (27million) for more than 100 shows, as well as the songs he has written for himself and others, including Rihanna.

Looking at what this is today and what it was when it started blows me away, says Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) promoter Pasquale Rotella in the film. He put on the first EDC on a much smaller scale as far back as 1997 in Los Angeles and speaks fondly of an American warehouse party scene at the start of the Nineties, suggesting that his countrymen arent quite as green as we old-hand Brit ravers might sneeringly imply.

In fact, they invented the form, even if the masses never really took it to heart, at the Eighties Chicago parties of DJ Frankie Knuckles, who died last month. But Rotella is correct to say that whats happening now is on another level entirely.

EDC is currently the biggest dance festival in the world, with spin-off events in Mexico, New York, Orlando and now the UK: an inaugural event took place at the Olympic Park last summer and this year 50,000 clubbers will taste the experience at the Milton Keynes Bowl.

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Whats changed? Many point to Daft Punks live appearance at Californias Coachella festival in 2006, at which the French robots performed on top of a giant illuminated pyramid and made all the rock bands on the line-up look pretty limp.

At EDC in 2013, each DJ was revealed by the unfurling wings of a giant animatronic owl, and the overwhelming light show made 3am look like midday. There are no LEDs left in North America. Theyre all here, said one stage-hand.

Theres also something wholesome about EDC that has meant little resistance to its arrival in the mainstream. Theyre careful to call it a festival, not a rave. There are no police battles here, and the film-makers, while acknowledging the presence of drugs, try to play it down.

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