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Saved Launch Party
Saturday 28th February 2008
Matter, The O2, Peninsula Square, London, SE10 ODY
   
** Nic Fanciulli & Andy Chatterley presents Saved **
Hosted at the worlds most ground breaking venue and boasting a mouth watering lineup, its no wonder that the launch of Saved at matter on Saturday 28th February is shaping up to be one of the finest underground events to hit London in early 2009. With the closing of The End also bringing Atomic to a close, Nic Fanciulli is back in the capital with Saved, an all-new residency that encapsulates his and Andy Chatterley’s Saved Records imprint and showcases the best electronic sounds of today and tomorrow.

Live acts and DJs in clubs in London face having both their artist and real names, telephone numbers and addresses recorded by police under increasingly strict licensing arrangements that are being introduced in 21 London boroughs via a document known as Form 696.

Obama’s soon to be inaugurated Vice President Joe Biden was spotted partying at New York hotspot Elephant this week, though press reports said the architect of America’s infamous RAVE ACT remained on best behaviour throughout.

German independent music distribution company Neuton declared itself insolvent last week, citing a 60% drop in vinyl sales in Germany combined with simultaneous dramatic declines in British and Japanese markets.

Tony and DJ Peak from Salon - Zur wilden Renate chatted to Skrufff this week about the escalating mainstream attention their underground Berlin party is attracting and stressed they remain resolutely committed to keeping it underground.

As the Festivities commence on this special time of year, Tidy & Trackitdown bring you some extra Christmas cheer!
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Ibiza superclub Pacha announced this week that they’ve recruited upcoming electro-punk-tech type Jonty Skrufff as a monthly resident DJ for the summer season of 2009.

Detroit techno type DJ Bone dismissed DJ Magazine's top 100 DJ poll as 
a 'popularity contest' based on marketing and hype, this week and had 
an even bigger pop at DJs using laptops such as Sasha.

A London jury found Boy George guilty of handcuffing Norwegian male 
escort Audun Carlsen to a wall and beating him, this week, prompting 
Judge David Radford to warn the Culture Club star that he faces jail 
when sentenced on January 16.

"The fact that your bail is being continued does not imply that this 
will be dealt with by a non-custodial sentence," Judge David Radford 
told George, "I don't want any false expectations created."

George was convicted just hours before he was due to headline a DJ gig 
at London's Ministry Of Sound. He now faces up to 15 years in jail, 
plus an avalanche of bad press, which kicked off immediately after his 
conviction with the BBC painting a harsh picture of  'a lonely, 
paranoid man struggling to find his place in the world'.

Quite how the infamously outspoken star reacts to his predicament 
remains unclear though speaking to Skrufff five years ago he admitted 
being deeply affected by criticism in the press.

I don't court the media, I go out and do my own thing and I'm really 
happy the tabloids don't usually write about me, I wish they'd all 
just fuck off and leave me alone. They're always saying 'washed up and 
sad and desperate', so don't write about me," said George.

"They're always trying to perpetuate this idea that I don't do 
anything, that I'm a sad washed up old pop star, who just does a bit 
of DJing at the weekend.

Fuck off, leave me alone," he added, "It's so fucking British to kick 
people," he observed.

http://www.boygeorgelive.com

A new study of University of Sydney students' sex lives has revealed 
that male science students were the most likely to be virgins with 
female art students the least likely.

Psychotherapist Stephen Carroll said the male students' work ethics 
was one of the main factors keeping them unusually pure.

"And who are the people at unis (university) that go to the rave 
parties and the bar? It's not the nerdy boy science students," he 
added, "They're carrying on doing their experiments, going to the 
library or doing their assignments." (Daily Telegraph).

Easily distracted net surfing nerd boys should meanwhile check out 
Britain's Ministry Of Justice website urgently, after the agency 
issued detailed guide lines of what constitutes newly criminalised 
'extreme pornographic images'.

The UK agency outlines three criteria: 'that the image is 
pornographic; 2. that the image is grossly offensive, disgusting, or 
otherwise of an obscene character, and 3. that the image portrays in 
an explicit and realistic way, one of the following extreme acts," the 
site says.

"A: An act which threatens a person's life; B. An act which results in 
or is likely to result in serious injury to a person's anus, breast or 
genitals; C. An act involving sexual interference with a human corpse, 
D. A person performing an act of intercourse or oral sex with an 
animal (whether dead or alive), and a reasonable person looking at the 
image would think that the people and animals portrayed were real."

http://tinyurl.com/63osuw (Extreme pornographic images legislation in 
full)

Jonty Skrufff (Skrufff.com)

: Skrufff Bites (1)
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Never Say Never: Don't Go Breaking My Heart: F**K Off!: Forest Fire: 
Violent Silence:

"It's not an exercise in nostalgia, the time just seems right. 
Everything just seemed to fall into place. I've played at the Big 
Chill before, I DJed there and had a really good time - it's an 
amazing festival." (Big Shot mag)

Phil Hartnoll confirms Orbital have reformed five years after retiring.

It’s been a rather apocalyptic time for London clubland over the course of 2008 – with the closure of Turnmills, Canvas, The Cross, The Key, and the impending closure of The End. And it could be argued that no one scene has been affected, or hit quite as hard, as drum bass. Beyond concluding the bountiful D residencies at The End (Marky Friends, Shogun Audio, Ram Records, Renegade Hardware, Swerve), countless D parties held at Turnmills and mammoth D raves at Bagley’s (aka Canvas, back in the day), D recently got knocked back even further when Heaven changed its programming and dropped Hospitality off its roster two months ago.

Euphoria presents

The 6th Annual Hard Dance Awards 2009 powered by Trackitdown.net

Friday 27th February @ Leeds Academy

Supported by BBC Radio 1


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On Friday 27th February, Leeds Academy will host the UK’s most powerful event in hard dance, where the pioneers and innovators of the scene are awarded for their contribution... Yes, boys and girls, it’s back and bigger than before – it’s the Hard Dance Awards 2009.

Councillors in Bolton are to hand out children's bubble-blowers to revellers in a novel attempt to reduce street violence in the tough northern town.

“Route 66 is no longer an official road but you can still follow its path. It’s basically been broken up into a series of roads and it will be a bit treacherous. We’ll be on the shoulder of a freeway with lorries passing us at 70 MPH (and Hummers and Cadillac’s) then at times we’ll be on small neighbourhood streets. We’ll even have to hop a fence or two to ride on abandoned stretches of the old Route 66.”

US house legend Josh Wink chatted about the inspiration behind his new 4th studio album 'When A Banana Was Just A Banana’ this week, and revealed that his choice of unusual title was highly significant.

Tickets went on sale for acclaimed alternative festival Glade this week, just as organisers announced they’re seeking a brand new site where they can make ‘some proper noise’.

Welcome to the 6th Annual Hard Dance Awards! It's time to celebrate the scene we all love with the first major event in the annual hard dance calendar.

Hello everybody,

I hope you’ve all had a cracking first week of December, and that you’ve not been making yourselves ill by eating too much advent calendar chocolate! We’ve been very busy here at Trackitdown Towers with the launch of our brand-spanking-new merchandise store - http://www.trackitdown.net/merchandise/!