Video genius and Mixmag Breaks Editor Mr No Hands has chosen a winner in the Mixmag video competition!(actually, he did this some time ago, but it's taken me a while to get the results up - apologies)

MR NO HANDS: I think this is best:

Tasteful, exciting and professional... Very good

Well done everyone who entered, the standard was excellent. I'll be in touch with prize details soon.

Autotuned R&B nightmare T-Pain has a new iTune App that can make anyone parrot the flaccid, unimaginative sound of R&B for the last few years. Surely this is the end?

Missed Creamfields this year?
Never mind, I caught some of it on high definition video with a sturdy little Kodak Zx1 micro camera

4pm and Jules kicks off the Mixmag Terrace with a secret jungle set

Mixmag DJ competition winner Adam Lewis takes over as Jules dashes off to Old Trafford to watch Arsenal get beat

Meanwhile Mixmag's own Nick Stevenson was earning us some booze over at the Jaegermeister stand

Friendly Fires closed the Mixmag Terrace, Saturday night

Dizzee went bonkers on Sunday

Before what seemed like every single person at the festival headed over to Mixmag for Deadmau5

Pete Tong - Mid Season Report - August 2009...

A funny thing happened to me the other day. I went for lunch at my favourite beach restaurant and someone had taken my reservation pretending to be me! I'm telling you this because its indicative of the type of summer we are having in Ibiza, everyone's 'at it', some for the better some for the worse. Ticket prices, drinks, guest lists, things are not always as they should be. This mildly frenzied state has been brought on by the effects of the 'credit crunch' summer. Picture the scene, everyone behind the tills waiting for the gold rush that never quite materialised....

Having said all that there have been some amazing parties, events and fresh excitement. We are mid August, mid season during our second Wonderland summer of Friday nights at Eden in San Antonio and we have had some breathtaking parties. Lady Gaga's appearance was inspired and brought another ground breaking event to a reviving San Antonio and got the club message out around the world.

The following week was even madder as all house attendance records at Eden were smashed as Radio 1's Essential Mix broadcast sets from Deadmau5 and Luciano whilst Zane Lowe & Mark Ronson tore up The Box and I had the pleasure of an epic closing set in the main room that went well after 7am. The quality on show was incredible. Around 5000 people managed to witness it in person (see clip below). Other Wonderland highlights for me have included sets from Nic Fanciulli, Dubfire, Layo & Bushwacka!, M.A.N.D.Y, Casper (in the Box) and our monthly residents Groove Armada.

Across the rest of the island, We Love @ Space had an incredible show with Grace Jones, Cocoon's first Monday of August was about as good a club night as I have ever seen, insane!! Ushuaia has been the Sunday afternoon spot on Playa D'en Bossa with Tania Vulcano, Sands next door has been great too playing host to two Wonderland beach parties... The Guetta's are ruling at Pacha on Thursdays with a night that has turned in to a celeb concert! and The Sweeds have started well on Mondays. Finally we did another Radio 1 party at Privilege on the Saturday with Cream, Over 7000 people danced the night away but poor old Eric Prydz got some horrible leg bruising when a confetti cannon went off behind him at the end of his set, I've seen the pictures he was in agony.

Looking forward to the rest of the season!

Pete Tong

No, that's not an express train lurching across the Creamfields campsite at midnight, it's someone wearing this retina scorching 6LED Energizer headlamp.

I can recommend it as the brightest and lightest on the market, perfect for avoiding potholes, sleeping drunks and treacherous guy ropes, but also for putting on the red LED setting and pretending to be the alien from the classic film Predator.

ratacatatacat

I was lucky enough to be invited to 'Showtime', the launch of the new Sony Ericsson W995 the other day, where I witnessed the incredible Salah. I won't try to describe what he does - you'll just have to watch the video

fast forward to the last twenty seconds to find out why that expression has replaced 'Great Zeus!"

young electro up and comer Burns has had his new tune 'Turbo' mashed up with 80s breakdance classic 'Breakin' by fan Thomas Bachellier
the result is very entertaining
burns - turbo from Thomas Bachellier on Vimeo.

The International Music Summit took place in Ibiza last week.

A sort of boutique version of the Miami Winter Music Conference, with 400 delegates from the dance music industry, Pete Tong as one of the founders, and speakers including Richie Hawtin , the IMS also canvassed delegates on the following questions, which provide a good clue to how the dance music industry is thinking.

Do electronic artists need labels in the Beatport era?
Yes: 76.5%

Are hype charts still relevant to this business?
No: 53%

Is piracy still a major threat to your business?
Yes: 70.4%    

Is it possible to reverse the trend of "free" music to the consumer?
No:  62%

Do you now accept that 'mobile has become the social fabric of youth'
Yes: 80% 

Will the Spotify streaming model work for the electronic music industry?
Yes: 55%

Does radio ultimately still rule?
Yes: 65% 

Is good festival billing now critical to the success of a breaking artist?
Yes: 62% 

Should DJs aged over 50 be forced to retire from playing in nightclubs?
No: 63%

Do you feel electronic music is properly acknowledged by the wider music business?
No: 65% 

Is the electronic music scene more comfortable as an industry sitting outside of mainstream attention and focus?
Yes: 69%

Would you buy the new Cocoon release (for example) if it was only available only from CocaCola.com?
No:  58% 

Is the recession affecting your business?
Yes:  62%

Can you honestly say that you are in touch with the new generation of music lovers?
Yes:  70% 

Do you consider Ibiza the capital of global electronic music?
Yes / No: 50% split vote
Recount - Yes: 52%

We were sent this picture today by DJ Brian Barrott. It was taken when Brian, aka DJ Barrotthouse, became the first DJ to play the Gothic Cathedral of Beverley Minster in East Riding.

Brian says that at the time the picture was taken, a sixth sense made him feel uneasy.

When he later looked at the picture, he spotted a mysterious 'orb' apparently floating over his chest.

Such orbs are thought by some paranormal investigators to be evidence of spirits manifesting themselves in a photograph. Was some kind of spirit trying to drive Brian's funky house from the Cathedral?

We may never know.

But I Want To Believe.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/video/article300101.ece?vxSiteId=62...

apologies about the source...

This is the in show entertainment from the semi finals of the Eurovision song contest in Russia. Check out the pink tank

With another summer of festivals coming up, I hope you will find this video by Mixmag reader and rave footsoldier 'Benhart' as inspirational as the Mixmag office did.
Ben, we salute you.

there's an exhibition taking place next month at the Idea Generation Gallery that will showcase the life and work of 60s counterculture chronicler and photographer john 'Hoppy' Hopkins.

Among the displays are posters from the UFO club in London, original home of Pink Floyd and some of the first ever 'rave' style parties offering lights, music and visuals (and a LOT of acid).

The following supercool psychedelic posters are © Nigel Waymouth and Michael English, courtesy of Hapshash and the Coloured Coat

The exhibition 'Hoppy Against Tyranny: Talking About a Revolution' takes place at the Idea Generation Gallery, London E2 7JB from 19th June-19th July

Readers of our 'frontiers' issue from last year may remember a feature on Mosul based Iraqi DJ and producer DJ Foundation. Here's a video for his track 'Hot Girls, Hot Guys'- the album 'Paradise' is out in May.

more here http://metalpostcard.blogspot.com/2009/03/paradise-dj-foundation-debut-d...

The latest issue of Mixmag has a feature on Tiga and a box-out on how the rest of the electro 'clash of '01' are getting on these days.

For those who weren't there at the time, Electroclash was camp, deadpan, vacuously ironic, achingly fashionable - and also, for a few short months, incredibly exciting as it lit up 2001 and a bit of 2002.

any excuse to put up these videos - Electroclash's greatest hits. Have I missed any out?

LADYTRON, SEVENTEEN

FELIX DA HOUSECAT, SILVER SCREEN

MISS KITTIN & THE HACKER, FRANK SINATRA

TIGA, SUNGLASSES AT NIGHT

FISCHERSPOONER, EMERGE

Usually I hate jazz worse than death, but The Very Best Of Bob James, out next week, is very cool. Maybe best known as the guy who wrote the theme tune to 'Taxi', James' work has also been sampled by (deep breath) NWA, Public Enemy, Mary J Blige, DJ Shadow, Eric B & Rakim, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Run DMC , Beastie Boys, Missy Elliott, Massive Attack, Nas, KRS One and De La Soul. In fact Bob James is arguably the most sampled jazzer of all time.

I love this