For its first festival, Beyond 2002, will includes a stellar line-up with Snoop Dogg, OutKast, Busta Ryhmes, Ice-T, Method Man, Afrika Bambaataa, Jackel and Hyde, Rabbit in the moon, Ludacris and many more.

The festival incorporates music and extreme sports together for 25 hours of heart-stopping, bass pumping fun. Beyond 2002 will be hosted in Miami’s Bicentennial Park from 12th to 14th of April.

For full information visit the Shutdown Productions website who are organising this huge event.

The Elite Force is presenting the Stongarm Sessions [#02] in association with nubreaks. An evening that will include tech-fuelled hi-ball breaks & dirty lowdown punk-house, streaming live & direct from the luna module to the online community

This Wednesday (20 feb) sees the second of sHack's fortnightly missives from the frontline. For two hours straight he'll be mixing up a heady cocktail of
future classics including TPs, promos, CDRs & exclusive cuts from the cream of the crop. The show runs from 8 - 10pm GMT (3 - 5pm Eastern / 12- 2pm Pacific)

Hit the link to have a listen.

With Transmission on this weekend and sold out last week its probably worth taking note of whos on the decks and at what time. Below are the set times for the DJs across both rooms for the event this Saturday at Sydney's Blue Cone.

Main Arena
09:00 – 10:15 Sveta vs Amber Savage
10:15 – 11:30 Martyn Allen vs Marty Butler
11:30 – 01:00 Mark Dynamix vs Leah
01:00 – 02:30 BeXta vs Pee Wee Ferris
02:30 – 04:00 Nervous vs John Ferris
04:00 – 05:30 Nik Fish vs Jumping Jack
05:30 – 06:30 Yoshi vs Mantis

Back Arena
10:30 – 12:00 Dr Jerry
12:00 – 01:30 Elroy
01:30 – 03:00 Italic
03:00 – 04:30 pH
04:30 – 06:00 Chromatic

See you there...

The Chemical Brothers have been busy of late with their new album out and tour of Australia to hit early March. New Order's co-production with The Chemical Brothers, titled 'Here To Stay' does not feature on New Order's latest album 'Get Ready' but will be released on the soundtrack of the upcoming movie '24 Hour Party People'. The track will also be released as a single on the 1st of April.

Gatecrasher have made some fundemental changes to the way it runs its weekly Saturday night events by extending the time allowed for DJ sets. They Policies change is mainly focused on ensuring that there is just one headlining DJ playing longer sets of up to four hours. This much needed extra time gives the DJs alot more to work with, develop their set and provide a much better experience for the clubbers.

Scot Project is featuring this Saturday and will be playing a four-hour set alongside residents Nick Riley and Matt Hardwick at the club in Sheffield. On March the 9th Timo Maas will be playing for three hours and Judge Jules [who will be playing at Sydney's sublime@home on March the 21st] now has a bi-monthly residency at the Republic.

With a large number of internationals appearing for the Easter Long weekend it is good to see two of Sydneys most well known events have joined forces to put on an all local affair. Running from 11:00pm till 6:00am and "showcasing two rooms of exceptional local talent" it will hopefully incorparate the best of both the Love and Tweakin worlds.

Latest press release:

For one night only two of the best events in the country, Love & Tweekin, come together. Combining enthusiasm for exceptional music with 12 years experience running all night parties and club nights. This is the ultimate. A party guaranteed to get the crowd moving.

It will highlight the quality and talent of Sydneys outstanding class A DJs. The best local line up spinning a mish-mash of mixed up breaks, house, progressive, tribal, tech fuelled phunk – a mix that defies labels, pushes boundaries, opens minds and rocks the dancefloor. This is an event incorporating creativity, quality and class. And all at a ticket price that doesn’t take the piss.

We will publish further details as they come to hand.

EQ, which has been operating since 1996, will be providing updated information on cutting-edge music from all genres. This includes labels like Bedrock, Whole Nine Yards, Finger Lickin’ and Tresor, along with useful links, artist profiles, charts and tours.

Stomp distributes exclusive labels from around the world and has also developed in-house labels EQ [Grey] and EQ [Yellow] which will focus on signing local and international artists.

Massive Attack fans will have the privilege of hearing their latest work ‘I against I’ via the web if they can’t get their hands on a very limited run of 12” promos that were released last week. Massive Attack's website will have the new single available for download on March 11.

As RA revealed last month Bill Hamel will be the first international DJ to release a CD in the Stomp Balance series following on from Melbourne lads Sean Quinn and Kasey Taylor. Bill will also grace us wih his presence during April/May 2002 to help promote the album. Heres the EQ Stomp press release in full:

Following on from the success of Sean Quinn and Kasey Taylor Balance releases, EQ have selected Bill Hamel as the first international DJ to continue the series theme of quality underground compilation mixes.
Bill Hamel is the founder of Sunkissed Records, America’s leading underground progressive house label. In just the past year, Bill has worked with some of the industry’s biggest names and has recently secured funding and distribution from a major for his label. He has worked with Evolution, Mara, Blackwatch, Sam Mollison, Blue Amazon, and Simon Noble of Breeder fame. His releases receive rave reviews, and are regularly charted and supported by DJs such as Sasha, Paul Oakenfold, John Digweed, Nick Warren, and Dave Seaman.
Recent and notable achievements in Hamel’s production include signing’s to Bedrock, for his collaboration with Michael Thomas (Blackwatch), "Discotek", twice with Perfecto for a remix of "Superstar”, featuring Jan Johnson and the track, "Disco Volante" with Rich Rosario, and with Ministry of Sound America for the track, "Phazon Phrequencies" which is set to be released later this year.
Last year, Bill received the distinction of being named one of URB magazine’s "Next 100" and is favoured to make significant contributions in the fields of Production and DJing in the years to come.
Bill Hamel’s latest project feature’s a remix of the seminal classic, Lamb – ‘Gorecki’, and with the band liking it so much, they will feature it on their next single release in 2002.With so many past achievements, and even more future releases to come, Bill Hamel is guaranteed an incredible year of success.

Expect good things from Bill Hamel.

The Stanton Warriors and Plump DJs are two more acts that have pledged their support to the World DJ Day events that are being held across the globe between the 2nd and 9th of March. They will be joing other headlining acts that include Pete Tong, Danny Rampling, Freq Nasty and James Lavelle at an event in the UK presented by Radio 1 and superclub Fabric.