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Stereosonic
Various venues, Australia, November 24 – December 2, www.stereosonic.com.au Australia’s premier dance music festival returns for its sixth outing Tiësto, Avicii, Carl Cox, Calvin Harris and Major Lazer top the bill Kicking off in Sydney, the touring festival also hits Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane Calvin says he only plays Aus so he can do the Neighbours tour. He’s met Toadfish 18 times
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Life In Color
The Warehouse Project
Various venues, USA, October 18–November 30 www.dayglowtour.com The world’s largest paint party will take in Oklahoma, Alaska, Michigan, Texas and more The party began when students blasted each other with paint on Florida Uni campuses Acts including Steve Aoki, David Solano and Nervo are playing throughout the tour Damien Hirst has called it the world’s most democratic art movement for a generation
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The XX
Wolverhampton Civic Hall, December 12 www.thexx.info The XX make their first full scale UK jaunt since the release of second album ‘Coexist’ The tour takes in Brighton, Newcastle and Bristol before culminating at Brixton Academy ‘Coexist’ went into the UK album charts at No.1 but failed to get a Mercury nomination The XX are set to star in hit US vampire drama True Blood as the house band
Carrier Command: Gaea Mission A classy remake of a classic Spectrum/C64 title from 1988, Carrier Command brings the original gamechanging concept up to date. You take command of a futuristic aircraft carrier on a mission to capture islands, using the resources and strategic properties of each to build your force of customisable amphibious Walrus vehicles and airborne Manta attack craft. The genius is its total integration of first-person shooter and strategic skirmish battle play, set between two huge campaign modes. While single-player, this is a dynamic undertaking, an interweaving of Halo and Command & Conquer into something totally unique. Phil Dudman
F1 Race Stars Whoever thought mashing up the best bits of Mario Kart with the real world of Formula 1 racing would be the bog’s dollocks was absolutely right. So welcome to F1 Race Stars, featuring the entire cast of F1 drivers and outrageous themepark style versions of circuits from Spa to Monaco. Yes, it’s time to reach for Hamilton’s helmet and put your pedal to the Vettel for the ultimate in fastpaced fun as you hit pit lanes, collect power-ups, cast wet weather clouds on your multiplayer opponents and sling-shot into the lead with a KERS boost-up. This one’s on pole. Phil Dudman
Trafford Park Rd, Manchester, December 6 www.thewarehouseprojct.com Skrillex flies into Manchester for his only UK date this winter Although not planning to play UK shows this season, the prince of dubstep was keen to test out Warehouse Project’s new venue Skrillex is hand-picking the line-up (TBA) Skrillex has cited Manchester poet John Cooper Clarke as his style icon
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Jessie Ware
Brighton Concorde 2, November 12 www.jessieware.com Every producer’s go-to songstress Jessie Ware begins her full UK tour Jessie will also play Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham, Bristol and London Her album was partly produced by flamehaired house hero, Julio Bashmore After conquering the pop charts, Jessie has a clothing line on the way called Jessie Wears
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Resident Evil 6 Hold on to your holsters, because Resident Evil is back for another epic horror show. With graphically intense live action, new characters join Leon and Chris to face a new outbreak of the virulent C-virus across a narrative that moves from the US to Eastern Europe and China. Kicking off with a zombieinfected US President, mysterious agents and the resurgent threat of the Neo-Umbrella Corp, stories are interwoven on a cinematic level, with new crossover action letting up to four players experience the horror together online with an evolved control system and some awesome new vehicles. Phil Dudman
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Smart As (Vita) If caffeine alone doesn’t stir your grey matter in the morning, it’s time to take your brain to the gym. And with Sony’s Smart As on the Vita, undergoing a daily schedule of intuitive and reaction-based exercises, will beef up your noggin in no time. Split across four categories – logic, arithmetic, language and observation – this quickly becomes addictive as you engage both touchscreens, draw missing letters, do maths and join dots to build up scores and compete with friends via online leader boards and Facebook integration. A first-time effort implying I’m only 31% logical suggests it’s very accurate, too. Phil Dudman
They heart techno
competition
win a trip to i love techno Get flights to Brussels, hotel, the lot (and don’t worry, there’s house music too!)
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◆ On Saturday November 10, the
great and the good of electronic music will be taking over Flanders Expo in Ghent, Belgium for I Love Techno, the ultimate dance music winter festival. Despite the name, this indoor festival encompasses all kinds of dance music. There’ll be five rooms of tunage from the likes of Boys Noize, Vitalic, Tiga, Erol Alkan, Spank Rock, Netsky, DJ Fresh, Flux Pavilion, Excision, Zeds Dead, Camo & Crooked, Joris Voorn, Chris Liebing, Nero, A-Trak, Major Lazer, Sub Focus, The Magician, Moonlight Matters, Benga, Modeselektor, Jamie XX, Flying Lotus, Rudimental, Martyn and more. ILT offers a flight and party package that costs the same from 21 cities. Fancy it? We’re offering two of you a VIP trip! For details on I Love Techno’s amazing package deals check www.ilovetechno.be
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What you can win:
◆ Return flight to Brussels
Airport ◆ Access to the exclusive I Love Techno Lounge in Sheraton Brussels Airport ◆ Transfers to and from Brussels airport ◆ I Love Techno VIP package: separate VIP entrance, access to the new VIP deck ◆ One night accommodation with late check out and breakfast
How to enter:
Email competitions@mixmag.net with your contact details and the answer to this simple question: which city is I Love Techno held in? Normal Mixmag T&Cs apply as found at www.mixmag.net. Closing date is October 31. Hurry! Flights are from the following airports: Birmingham, Bristol, Newcastle, Milan, Manchester, Lyon, Nice, Toulouse, Rome, Bologna, Berlin, Hamburg, Geneva, Stockholm, Gotheburg, Copenhagen, Oslo, Vienna, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon.