Hybrid has a new album out next month, and he's made some rather nice videos about the making of it. Full on orchestral action! The single, 'Disappear Here' is out this week

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Melt Festival in Germany is back for it's 13th year from July 16 -18. Headliners this year include Massive Attack, Booka Shade, The xx, A-Trak, Chromeo, DJ Shadow, Riton, Four Tet, Fred Falke, Sinden, Ellen Allien, Fake Blood, Lindstrom & Christablle, Two Door Cinema Club, Carl Craig feat. Mike Banks, Ricardo Villalobos, Crookers, and an entire stage curated by Modeselektor. 3 day tickets are €94. More info is at meltfestival.de

The 1-2-3-4 Festival will return to Shoreditch Park on July 24 with bands and DJs including A1 Bassline, Action Beat, A Grave With No Name, Autokratz, Blood Music, Bo Ningen, Breton, DDD, Dark Horses, Deep Sht, Dollop, Drum Eyes, Dum Dum Girls, Egyptian Hip Hop, Invasion, Is Tropical, Kool Kids Klub, Lele (Speaks), Le Shark, Maria & The Mirrors, Matthew Wowow, Mazes, Necro Deathmort, No Bra, Not Cool, Random Impulse, S.C.U.M, Sharks, Smash & Grab, Sunderbans, The Lovely Jonjo, The Knock Out Drops, The Ruling Class, These New Puritans, The Toes, Toddla T & MC Serocee, Trailer Trash Tracys, Tronik Youth, Veronica Falls, Victor Talking Machine, Vivian Girls, Von Haze, Wavves, We Have Band, Wild Palms, Zombie Zombie. There will be five stages, nine after party venues plus early bird tickets are only £15. See the1234shoreditch.com for more.

Calvin Harris and Audio Bullys are the latest top names announced for this summer’s Eden Sessions at The Eden Project in Cornwall. The show will take place at the home of the iconic Biomes on Saturday July 3. Tickets are £35 plus BF from edensessions.com

Check out this 10min doc on Leeds' night Back to Basics.

It features interviews with founder Dave Beer and DJ Pete Tong.

It's a great little watch and coincides with the promo of Back To Basics Recordings 001 from
Buckley & Woodall 'Kitch N Sync' which features mixes from Jamie Jones and Chris Duckenfield.

Check out this little beauty. Well, maybe less of the little.

This is Pioneer's DJM-2000 mixer which launches today.

It has an innovative touch screen and arsenal of remixing FX, with six individual effects processors. It has effectively built in the technology of the EFX-1000, removing the need for an external effects unit along with touch screen technology from the SVM-1000.

The mixer has been developed with the help of a number of DJs. James Zabiela, Roger Sanchez, Eddie Halliwell, Tom Middleton, The Swedish House Mafia, Paul Woolford, John '00' Fleming and Kutski have all tested out the DJM-2000 at various stages of development.

You can buy the mixer in June - its price: €1,999 (£1822). For more see pioneerprodj.eu

Don't Stay In has teamed up with Trance Energy and is giving you the chance to win an exclusive Trance Energy Travel Package for April 3rd!

The Trance Energy Travel Package contains return flights from Birmingham International Airport to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.

Upon arrival in Utrecht, you will stay in 4-star hotel Mitland, only a ten-minute drive from the Trance Energy venue. But not to worry… You won't have to drive yourself since you and your friend will be brought to and picked up from Trance Energy!

The morning after you can chill out in the swimming pool or Turkish steambath before you make your way back to Schiphol Airport and go back to the UK!

Enter the competition here

Vandit’s 10th Anniversary World Tour rolls into the UK on Bank Holiday Sunday May 30 at The Brixton Academy.

As one of dance music’s seminal labels, Vandit has been responsible for furthering founding father Paul van Dyk’s legendary status, as well as bringing to the world’s attention artists such as Alex M.O.R.P.H., Giuseppe Ottaviani, Jon O’Bir and Filo and Peri.

PVD is already confirmed for the event. More names are to be added. The party kicks off at 10pm and advance tickets are £20.

Underage have confirmed their initial line-up with MIA, Annie Mac, Tinchy Stryder, Caspa, Chase and Status, Ellie Goulding, Egyptian Hip Hop, Daisy Dares You, Gold Panda, Hadouken! Lightspeed Champion, Sub Focus, Tinie Tempah and more. The festival takes place on Sunday August 1 at London's Victoria Park.

V Festival sold out in record time. It took just 1.5 hours for both sites to sell out last week.

Beach Break Live takes place from June 14 - 18 and Pembrey Country Park, South Wales with Calvin Harris, Chase And Status, Ellie Goulding, Plan B, Annie Mac, High Contrast, Subfocus, Fake Blood, Scratch Perverts, Zinc, Jack Beats, Jaymo & Andy George, Toddla T Feat. Mc Serocee, Nero, Dub Pistols Soundsystem, Burns, Zero T, Marc Roberts, Decibel, The Futureheads, Example, New Young Pony Club, Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip, I Blame Coco, Daisy Dares You, Beardy Man, Fenech Soler and more.

Parisian label Record Makers have made a free iPhone application along with a special digital compilation to commemorate a decade in existence.

The idea behind the application is to provide the user with a surrealistic visual game. The introduction theme comes courtesy of label figurehead, Sébastien Tellier, with Mr. Oizo on hand to provide the noises for this eccentric game of mix and match.

Prizes are on offer through the game. The entire discography is up for grabs, whilst every entry will be entered into a prize draw to win a trip for two to Paris in October including a week’s stay at Hotel L’Amour and an invite to Record Makers’ anniversary celebrations on 10/10/10.

It was a big weekend for lavish awards and we're not talking Oscars!

This weekend at Atomik Weekender 3 the gongs were dished out for this year's Hard Dance Awards.

Showtek scooped 4 awards. As a thank you they're giving away a free track 'Expansion' now at trackitdown.net

You'll be asked for a voucher code, which is SHOWTEK-22RKDUBZX2.

All the major artists who won now also appear on the Hard Dance Awards Euphoria album which is out today. The results in full are as follows:

Best track: Showtek 'World Is Mine'
Best Label: Scantraxx
Best Resident: Brian M & McBunn
Best New Face: Swankie & Kashi
Best one-off event: Def Qon One
Best artist album: Showtek 'Analogue Players in a Digital World'
Regional hero: DJ Tone
Outstanding contribution: Kutski
Best UK hard DJ: Kutski
Best European hard DJ: Showtek
Best UK hard producer: Technikal
Best European hard producer: Showtek
Best compilation album: Goodgreef Xtra Hard
Best club: Bionic

Tiësto is in the UK and we've asked him to blog his UK tour dates exclusively for Mixmag.

The first of his diaries are on Mixmag.net now including what happened in Sheffield and Scotland this weekend. He's also told us what the biggest three tracks were from the Friday and Saturday.

There will be three blogs in total from Tijs in the coming weeks so we'll let you know each time he updates us.

We can now happily reveal that Jimbo hotpants was hidden on page 37 in the five a side football team!

After discovering Steve Aoki about to jump off a bridge in London, Mixmag.net talked him down then asked him about his festival plans and who he's been working with.

Have a watch yourself.

Escape Into The Park returns to Swansea on Saturday June 12. Above & Beyond will join Steve Angello, Judge Jules, Andy C, Darren Styles, Scratch Perverts and Lisa Lashes. Over 20,000 will be attending.

The Eden Project will host Rumble in the Jungle on May 7 as part of Smirnoff's Be There granted parties. The indoor event will see Chase & Status and Sub Focus play. For more on Smirnoff's events check here.

Summer Break 2010 is back in Newquay in June. Three lots of four day events will take place for over 9,000 students. Example, Caspa, Sub Focus and Mistajam are confirmed. Find more info here.

ITN yesterday reported on this 69-year-old DJ who is apparently shown here rocking a club in France.

It all started when the granny went to a nightclub to celebrate her grandson's birthday.

DJ Ruth looks like a wind-up to us. Is it April fools day already? Ruth, if you're still with us, get in touch.

Gatecrasher is planning on investing £5m on a 30,000 square foot 'hyper-club' in the heart of Sheffield.

They plan to redevelop the basement of the infamous cheese grater car park (Q-Park) on Charles Street creating over 200 city jobs.

In what is either a genuine attempt at getting public backing or a shrewd ploy for rebuilding their database they're iasking clubbers to show their support for the plans via their 'petition'. Their website promises "If you sign up to this petition you are expressing support for the proposal and your information will be passed onto the planning department."

Why the planning department would need to know each respondent's 'musical preference' is anyone's guess.

It's been three years since the old Sheffield club burnt to the ground. The brand hope to open the new venue by September.

Creamfields has been granted a three year license for its festival site in Daresbury.
It's the first ever dance festival to receive an extended year license.

Event Manager Jim King from Loudsound said: “This decision to grant the festival a 3 year license is a very important decision in that it clearly shows the confidence that the authorities have in Creamfields and it’s management team. The festival has now established itself at its new location in Cheshire as one of the largest, most popular and well operated electronic festivals in the world.”

Creamfields 2010 returns on Saturday 28 - Sunday 29 August Bank Holiday Weekend. Early Bird camping tickets are on sale now

Gorillaz are launching a kind of fan club that allows members to buy tickets for their events early, get a discount on their merch and get an exclusive Gorillaz toy.

If you join before March 24 the 12 month membership costs £24.99 (instead of £29.99).

For that you get an exclusive toy designed by Jamie and not currently available, 25% off your first order from the official Gorillaz store plus the opportunity to buy tickets for events exclusively for the G-club.

For more info visit shop.gorillaz.com

Meanwhile their website has confirmed there will be UK live shows announced on Monday March 8.

Mobile phone giants Samsung reckon they have developed the ultimate phone for Don’t Stay In members.

The new Genio Slide has a slide out QWERTY keyboard as well as a full touch screen, 100MB plus Micro SD (up to 16GB) memory for MP3s, videos and photos, a 3MP digital camera, Wi-Fi, 3G/HSDPA and quad band connectivity, as well as GPS and a 3.5mm ear jack.

Come on Samsung, let’s get that DSI app built - you know you want to!

more at samsung.com