Best Festival / Record Label BEST OF BRITISH
Field of dreams
When it comes to festivals, Global
Gathering proves that size does matter.
A
ccording to Calvin Harris, British dance music since its inception in
Global Gathering is one of the 2001. Who’d have thought an airfi eld in
biggest discos in the universe. Strafford-Upon-Avon would play such an
He, like so many other artists and DJs, important part on the international
can’t wait to play there, for Global has music festival calendar?
been graced by the great and good of Be they Faithless, Morales, Rampling,
Jules, Tiësto, Grooverider, Cox or Radio 1,
The other
everyone wants to go Global come the
last weekend in July. Last year saw the
nominees:
event sell out in record time, when many
other dance events were experiencing
Best Festival
festival fatigue. Over 45,000 people can’t
Bestival
be wrong and 2007 looks like they’ll be
Creamfi elds
back in even bigger numbers.
But then with Release Yourself,
Glade
Godskitchen, Essential, Air and Circo Loco
SW4
just some of the hosts involved, how
T In The Park
could this not be a winner?
Global Gathering organiser James Algate
Best Record Label sees their event as “more an
Anjunabeats
international thing”, but he recognises
Buzzin’ Fly
their unique British touch.
“When we started at least 95% of the
Cr2 line-up was certainly British based. But
Rekids
then for dance music in general, the UK
Best
Simple
has always been at the epicentre. We are
the market leaders and everybody else in
FESTIV
AL
the world seems to follow suit.
Global
Do you agree that the best festival According to James, the dance music
and record label won? world always has its eyes on the UK. Gathering
Have your say at “Everyone looks at this country for rising
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trends, new acts, new festivals and new
DJs,“ he says.
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KATE WILDBLOOD
Out on the range
Beating off stiff competition, Freerange
pick up Best Record Label.
“B
arcelona is obsessed with “The Freerange style is quite diverse, but
minimal, but at Sonar I defi nitely I just call it proper house music,” says
felt a backlash,” Jamie Odell tells Jimpster, pictured with the Freerange
Best
DJmag. “I was DJing at La Terraza, a club clan. “We’ve been doing the same thing
in the hills, and at the end of the night all for the last fi ve years but it seems that R
EC
OR
D
the bar staff came up to say it was really now more and more DJs are picking up on
LABEL
nice because ours was the fi rst deeper us and fi nding our releases work in their
night they’ve had in years.” sets. Clubs like Go Deeper in Cork, Sub Fre
erang
e
Club in Glasgow and Buoyancy in Bristol
Best known as a DJ and producer under are getting packed out with clued-up
the name Jimpster, and a founding house heads.”
member of The Bays, the act that brought up in the autumn, including the ‘Swell such as Buzzin’ Fly, Third Ear, Simple,
live improvisation to the electronic music With a roster that includes stalwarts such Session’ LP, which features collaborations Miso, Dubsided and 20:20 Vision, and it’s
scene, Jamie is also label head of as Kirk Degiorgio and the prolifi c Milton with the likes of Mr Scruff. There are not hard to believe Jamie’s predictions of
Freerange Records, winner of our award Jackson boosted by high profi le remixes remixes coming from Karizma and Charles 2007 as the year that people begin to
for Best Record Label. And his from the likes of Solid Groove’s Dave Webster, which I’m really excited about, “party to a more eclectic mix of sounds
observations, he believes, mark what is a Taylor, Odell’s hopes for the future of and September sees the start of a new rather than run-of-the-mill druggy
growing trend toward deeper house on Freerange are high. residency at AKA in London.” fodder that seems to be reigning supreme
UK dancefl oors too. “We’ve got some great projects coming Add to this his praise for fellow UK labels at the moment.”
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JOE ROBERTS
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