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The world’s premier electronic music cruise returns with 30+ artists, live performances, mixed visuals, and #GCFAM parties, with major talent all weekend long.
Miami, FL (Sept 20, 2020) – Whet Travel, the leader in independent music cruise experiences, prepares for one of their largest Groove Cruise Virtual Sail Aways Live streaming events to date. The weekend of Sept. 25-27 will see 30+ live performances from worldwide headliners such as Tritonal, Autograf, Jorn Van Deynhoven, Mark Sixma, Solarstone, and more. Thanks to their super-tech hub based in FL, the 3-day massive is able to host these acts from all over the world; alongside adding live mixed visuals atop of the artists. The Groove Cruise Night Swim After Hours series will also be taking place, which are renowned for their 24+ hour sessions feat. costume changes, pizza deliveries, and more. Viewers will be able to donate for rewards on the Groove Cruise Twitch to help both artists performing and the Whet Foundation; also known as Whet Travel’s 501c3 nonprofit that focuses on giving back to those facing hardships and creates exciting experiences for underprivileged children in South Florida, the Caribbean and Mexico.
The floating-festival-gone-virtual will kick off on Friday, September 25, 2020, and the weekend will host all live performances; plus donation incentives like exclusive Groove Cruise merchandise, Artist Activities, and backstage experiences aboard their upcoming Miami sailing this Jan 7-11, 2021! Their previous Sail Aways hit an all time high with just over 640,000 live viewers – totaling up to 6.19 million total minutes watched on the GC twitch, their main streaming platform . As a top tier twitch partner, Groove Cruise was featured on the Twitch frontpage throughout the weekend; plus saw organic support from Amazon Music and was a trending fundraiser on Tiltify. It’s obvious to see that the GC Captains, also known as those who make up their community, are always excited to dance all weekend long with their favorite music cruise. The Whet Travel team has expressed nothing, but positivity towards continuing to give their vast music community a fun weekend and support within these hard times.
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WHO: Anyone interested in donating to help support the incredible talent performing or the Whet Foundation will be able to during the stream for rewards and prizes such as GC merchandise, Artist Activities, and backstage experiences during their next Miami sailing Jan 7-11, 2021.
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WHAT: This live stream event will feature artists from all over the world, performing from locations such as the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Poland, Miami, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and more; plus live visuals will be added to simulate a real in-person show. The Whet Foundation is a 501c3 that was started 8 years ago and all donations are tax deductible.
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WHEN: September 25-27, 2020 for approximately 9 hours per day.
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WHY: What’s important during this time is supporting the people who make up our diverse community; giving back to both the artists who represent Groove Cruise, the Captains who make up our Groove Cruise Family, and to those underprivileged who we are able to extend a hand to is the only thing that makes sense for us during the pandemic and aboard our music cruise experiences.
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HOW: Our tech team has been online streaming collectively for over 20 years and will be having all streams from artist homes going into their mega-center in Florida with added live visuals and then out to the world across all Groove Cruise, artist, and media channels.
For the latest Whet Foundation updates, visit the Groove Cruise website, and follow the event on Twitch, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
About the Whet Foundation
The Whet Foundation is a Florida based 501c3 organization that offers grass roots disaster relief for those experiencing hardships and creates exciting experiences for underprivileged children in South Florida, the Caribbean and Mexico. Through our Community Captains and Destination Donation programs, we strive to excite the lives of those less fortunate in a fun and engaging way while positively affecting an entire generation.
With recent news that their Big Grief tour would only be going ahead in a limited format, Brisbane heavy hitters WAAX, while crushed to have had to take these measures are committed to make it up to their loyal fans with a special streamed performance.
WAAX will perform selections from their amazing debut Big Grief within Brisbane’s famous Tivoli in front of an intimate (and socially distanced) live audience.
Big Grief explores the very definition of the word grief in universal terms; it’s a mourning that as sentient beings in the modern world, with all its technological trappings, we should all be able to relate to.
As the band’s firebrand vocalist Maz DeVita states, “the whole album is about grief for so many things that I felt when we were writing the record. The way the world is at the moment, the environment, I talk about coal, I talk about problems in the past with my body image, and it’s almost like a big mourning. It’s definitely an outpouring of grief in every sense of the word.”
The show will be streamed live, and will not be available to view online following the event. Please note during the event you will not be able to pause, rewind or fast forward the stream.
“We are thrilled to be able to create this experience, we love our community so much. We want to still give something back to the rest of Australia since you’ve all supported us so much over the years. We’ll come back and visit as soon as we can, but before then please enjoy this live stream from the comfort and safety of your home.” – WAAX
OCTOBER 29TH, 2020 – 9:00-10:00PM AEDT
https://www.momenthouse.com/
Photo credit: The Sauce / Kane Lehanneur
“Lonely Diamond feels like a musical moment, a landmark release for a band on the cusp of Australian music prestige” – Music Feeds
**** “a monster of a record that manages to inspire excitement at every one of its dizzying turns” – NME Australia
**** “one of Australia’s most accomplished and exciting bands on the scene”
– Rolling Stone Australia
7.5 “showcases Ocean Alley at what they do best, unadulterated psychedelic rock”
– The Line of Best Fit
Ocean Alley are proud to announce their upcoming film Lonely Diamond – Live In Studio, a live performance of their recent third album Lonely Diamond played in full. Presented in conjunction with the band’s community brand A Day For The Beaches, the film will premiere online at 8pm local time on Friday 25 September in Sydney, UK, New York City and Los Angeles, available for ticket-buyers to watch at any time globally for 48 hours. The band will join a live Q&A chat hosted on the video platform to coincide with the premiere in each time zone.
Lonely Diamond – Live In Studio tickets are available for $16.99 from oceanalley.com.au.
Shot on 16mm film and digital by frequent collaborators The Sauce, Lonely Diamond – Live In Studio was recorded at Sydney’s Studios 301 and provides an intimate live setting for music-lovers to experience Ocean Alley’s latest album, immersing fans into their world with a look into the action and banter that goes on behind-the-scenes and during a live performance. With audio recorded by the band’s long-time producer Callum Howell, Ocean Alley’s renowned production and performance quality is at the forefront of the film – never losing the charming or dynamic essence for which they are so celebrated – reimagining how Lonely Diamond can be experienced in a new and socially-distanced way while providing the first opportunity for fans to connect with the album in a full band performance, despite the current pause on touring due to COVID-19. Adding a dimension of otherworldliness to the film, the album’s visual identity is integrated into the set’s design, using irregular shapes and contrasting gradients to lean into Lonely Diamond’s themes of exploration and escapism.
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A record number of people visited Moscow Music Week 2020
Moscow Music Week 6th annual showcase festival and conference took place in Moscow from 2nd to 5th September with over 100 artists distributed across 24 thematic showcases and over 5000 visitors — a record number for MMW, which is especially remarkable considering the pandemic year with all its cultural events cancellations. Online showcases with live streams from Budapest, from the Moscow events and the live stream of MMW x IMI 2020 educational program were watched 55K times, which not only significantly enlarged the audience and festival’s borders, but also offered an opportunity to partially «visit» the festival to people outside Moscow.
Festival’s program presented a diverse multi genre line-up (MMW special feature often compared with American analogue — SXSW, which take place since 1987): from Caucasian peoples traditional music, contemporary fem-punk and new Russian wave to jazz, experimental improvisation and techno within day and night events.
Among MMW musical program participants are Turkish band Lalalar, CENTR, Hadn Dadn, SOYUZ (Belarus), Bad Zu, Zaur Nagoev, Intourist, Lucidvox, Fardi, USSSY, CEO Of Everything, Dima Midborn, Wooden Whales, Lutik and many more.
No matter how niche each of the offered directions of the music scene was (each wrapped in one or the other showcases), Moscow Music Week managed to get a full-house — organizers report about clubs and conference space full of people.
Eugeniy Gorbunov (Intourist and Glintshake bands participant): «MMW 2020 was very soulful. Like all that could happen considering all oddities of this year, the festival gained humble homey form and helped to take some kind of stock of the last several years, which very much changed Russian independent scene. It had a very soothing effect on me — it became obvious that all artists are very different, that there’s no one paradigm (like pervasive post-punk in 2014), at the same time everyone is on one common creative wave, nobody competes no one (at least at the moment) and everyone feel like a part of cool company and at the same time of a boundless chaos, where everything can happen. I see that together we create a new enabling environment for society consciousness evolution. Young musicians today are much more conscious and responsible than 10 years ago, and further it will get better».
Participating in MMW 2020 for many artists became the first performance after quarantine and let not only perform at one of the main stages of the country and show themselves to music journalists, promoters, booking agencies and labels representatives, but also reconnect live communication with listeners.
Nikita Rasskazov (V-A-C foundation showcase curator): «MMW 2020 became a restoring connection event not only between artists and listener, but also with «workmates». If one can maintain dialogue online, for the others it’s very important to communicate within reality, which in turn often leads to the birth of new ideas and creation of the music of the future».
Moscow Music Week x IMI (Institute of the Musical Initiatives — main partner of MMW educational program) conference program gathered musical industry professionals, who discussed the most vital and pressing issues affecting Russian market players including music distribution, digital marketing, working with streaming services and much more, in a difficult year that has changed the course of the industry. Among the themes raised within conference by representatives of the Russian and foreign clubs and festivals, marketing agencies, streaming and record labels were such topics as the search for a balance between creative work and management; future of the festivals in the terms of new reality, what will happen if restrictions will continue for the next year and how the events economy will change; how the perception of the clubs changed and do they have the ability to secure visitors from COVID; whether the musical spaces lost their credibility and many more. Among lectors, moderators and open tables participants were: Pavel Kamakin — partner of 16 Tons company group and eponymous club art director, Daria Shulga — Afisha Picnic director, Ksenia Shapovalova — Melnitsa agency and Park Live festival marketing director, Gleb Lisichkin — ONErpm digital distribution international company marketing director.
Tatiana Makarova (MMW x IMI 2020 conference director): «The main target of the festival and conference was to create a strong, independent musical community. And despite all twists and turns, already now we can say with confidence that we are on the way to reach it. There is a lot to be done, but the foundation for the industry in Russia to develop, improve and become independent has already been laid».
Once again, the organizers of Moscow Music Week showed a cut of the young Russian scene, presented new names that will potentially be popular tomorrow to the visitors and proved that love for music can break all obstacles and overcome any restrictions.
Stream Dates: October 3rd & October 17th
Ticket Link: cosmicgate.tixr.com
When its come to creatively streaming their way through lockdown, Cosmic Gate have known few bounds. From New York City’s rooftops to initiating Miami’s balcony raves, where there’s been a Cosmic will, there’s been a Cosmic way.
In October though, Nic & Bossi will go beyond the simply groundbreaking to take premium-livestreaming to its zenith. Long story short: if you can’t come to Cosmic Gate, Cosmic Gate are gonna come to you. And better yet, in the comfort of your own home! CG will perform two concerts from Miami’s The Temple House dream-factory – a place where the only real limitation is the artist’s imagination. Globally recognised and award winning for its 360-degree projection mapping, the venue will host the concerts in their digital environment, delivering shows the exact likes of which have never been seen before.
On Saturday October 3rd, Cosmic Gate will perform For Your Mind – a two-hour concert, backed – or more accurately mapped – by retina wowing, purpose-created visuals. Featuring a wealth of new and exclusive CG-composed music, each track will be accompanied by its own thematic take-you-there graphics. Music featured will include new Cosmic Gate & Andrew Bayer collab ‘The Launch’, as well as the CG remixes of Andrew Rayel’s new single ‘Everything Everything’ and their exceptional take on Joe Smooth’s endlessly hope-filled ‘Promised Land’. Also playing their part will be recent CG releases ‘Universal Love’ & ‘Your Mind’, and the desk-hot latest & greatest from trance music’s highest-achievers. Two weeks later on Saturday October 17th Nic & Bossi will be back with their second concert The Classics (more details of which will follow). You can check out this amazing teaser video and catch a glimpse of what’s in store here!
Living in different cities and unable to meet during lockdown has been a surreal experience for two artists accustomed to spending 50 weeks a year together. The concerts will be the first time Nic & Bossi have spun together in six months, doubtless adding an extra expectation to the performance.
Nic says: “naturally we hold out hope that the current situation doesn’t rule out every event for the rest of 2020. Like many though, we don’t like the way it’s looking”. Bossi continues: “we live to play for our fans and if we have to be creative to do that, that’s what we’re gonna do. So we’re doing two unique events that’ll allow us all to club ‘apart-but-together’ in the absolute mask-free safety, and with the added thrill that we’re going to be able to take you hundreds of ‘places’ we otherwise couldn’t!” Talking about the venue, Nic continues: “The Temple House is a place where – digitally – our wildest ‘wanna-play-there’ dreams come true. So for two Saturdays in early autumn, push back your couch, zoom up the brightness (& volume!) and join us for some shows that’ll bring us together for an experience we’ll never forget!”
Tickets for Cosmic Gate In Concert are $9.99 USD for each show or $15.99 USD for both events, with limited early bird tickets (at a 20% discount rate) available now through cosmicgate.tixr.com . You can find regional streaming times for the show below, which will also be available to watch/re-watch video-on-demand-style two hours after their first broadcast.
Berlin 12.00am CET
New York 6.00pm EST
Los Angeles 3.00pm PST
Melbourne 8.00am AEST
Singapore 6.00am SGT
Tixr’s live chat will also be enabled, allowing you to talk with friends locally and internationally throughout the show. Limited virtual meet & greet tickets are also available, allowing you and other fans from around the world to video-chat to Nic & Bossi just prior to concert time. The site’s also carrying a limited edition merchandise line featuring a dedicated t-shirt, Cosmic Gate In Concert flag and CG’s most recent album, ’20 Years: Forward Ever Backward Never’.
Cosmologists: its time for us come together as one and make livestreaming special again! Cosmic Gate bring the party to your place October 3 and October 17. More details at cosmicgate.tixr.com
For more information check socials:
www.facebook.comm/cosmicgate
www.twitter.com/cosmicgate
www.instagram.com/
SATURDAY 19TH SEPTEMBER: 8PM AEST
(3AM PDT, 11AM BST)
LOCATION: LONDON TOPAZ FACEBOOK PAGE
“London Topaz refuses to drown in lockdown” – Mikey Cahill (The Age)
“Taps into emotion and also movement the same way a Hayden James, or RÜFÜS DU SOL track would.” – Purple Sneakers
“London Topaz is his own force, and isn’t just another producer following in the footsteps of his predecessors.” – Happy Mag
“His music feels like an organic extension of himself, and his desire to portray this energy throughout his art is infectious.” – PONDER
After featuring on Untitled Group’s Virtual Day Party series, which saw more than half a million households tune in globally, London Topaz is giving us a glimmer of joy, announcing he will be broadcasting a special one-off headline stream from the Avalon Airport Hangar. London Topaz is providing the opportunity for music lovers to connect with each other whilst confined to their homes. The stream will be presented by Untitled Group, Baxter Vodka, Red Bull and Soda Shades.
Filmed from the monumental 8400sqm Avalon Airport Hangar kitted out with Untitled Group’s signature expanse of impressive lighting and production, London Topaz will be showcasing his versatility with deep melodic sounds entwined with some of his own signature productions.
With a style reminiscent of top-tier electronic artists such as RÜFÜS DU SOL and Disclosure, London Topaz’s sound has captured the attention of dance music enthusiasts globally. Building on his impeccable discography that has already clocked over 3 million streams, 2020 has seen London Topaz release successful tracks such as ‘Be Mine’ and ‘Drown’. Despite the pandemic he has reached new heights this year, with releases being supported by triple j (click here for recent triple j Mix Up) and a series of out-of-this-world performances including Untitled Group’s Virtual Day Party alongside Dom Dolla & Torren Foot, Beyond The Valley, For The Love, as well as a sold out headline show.
Curating a profound, raw and emotive force, join London Topaz on Saturday 19th September at 8PM AEST.
(Facebook event going live at 4:30PM AEST)
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The National Gallery of Victoria has announced the second edition of the landmark, city-wide exhibition, Melbourne NOW, which will be centred at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia in 2023. The exhibition will mark the ten-year anniversary of the inaugural 2013 exhibition which was a bold and unprecedented survey of some of the most exciting local contemporary practitioners. Melbourne NOW will again highlight the latest art, architecture, design and cultural practice shaping the cultural landscape of Melbourne.
The NGV will dedicate an initial $1.5 million commitment to acquire, commission and present new works by local Victorian artists, designers and architects. In a timely announcement, new works by Victorian artists will begin to be actively acquired and commissioned beginning this year and will continue for the next three years, where the works will be premiered as part of the 2023 exhibition.
‘The NGV is delighted to be able to support our local creative community with the second iteration of Melbourne NOW. We know new and significant works will be created by Victorian artists and designers for this exhibition, which will celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of our creative sector,’ said Tony Ellwood AM, Director, National Gallery of Victoria.
“Embraced by Victorians and visitors alike, the original 2013 Melbourne NOW exhibition was a landmark presentation of the most exciting art and design being made in one of the world’s most creative cities. Ten years on, Melbourne NOW 2023 is set to be an equally momentous event, while playing an important role in the post-COVID recovery of our creative sector. Although we’ll need to wait a while to see the exhibition, the NGV will start investing in the work and careers of local artists now – when they need it most,” Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley.
Celebrating new and ambitious local art and design, Melbourne Now will cross a range of contemporary disciplines including fashion and jewellery, painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, video, performance, printmaking and publishing. The exhibition will also mark the second edition of the hugely popular ‘Design Wall’ showcasing work by dozens of the city’s most innovative design practitioners, as well as popular NGV Kids interactive projects.
Bold in scale, Melbourne Now will be displayed throughout all levels of The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, including permanent collection galleries, showcasing new works and commissions by emerging, mid-career and senior practitioners as well as local collectives, many presenting for the first time in Australia’s most visited art gallery.
At the heart of Melbourne Now will be a collaborative approach to the celebration of Melbourne’s artists and designers, working closely with a range of community, cultural and educational partners.
In 2013, the first edition of Melbourne Now delivered a history-making exhibition at the NGV that surveyed the enormous breath of artistic talent in the local community. Marking the first time the NGV exhibited designers alongside visual artists, the exhibition was an overwhelmingly inclusive experience offering free entry to NGV visitors.
Ten years later, the next edition of Melbourne Now will again offer free entry to NGV audiences and be complemented by an extensive public program and an exhibition catalogue providing further insights into unique aspects of the exhibition.
Melbourne Now will take place in early 2023 at NGV Australia with further information to be announced soon.
Annual conference within Moscow Music Week showcase festival will happen on 3rd and 4th of September in partnership with Institute of Musical Initiatives (IMI).
6th year in a row musical industry professionals will gather to discuss the most pressing and sensitive issues, which are common concerns of Russian market representatives: music distribution, digital marketing, streaming platforms management and many more, in the context of this tough year that changed the normal course of things.
Due to pandemic this spring clubs, music spaces and concert halls stopped working. How it affected musicians, industry and listeners? What can venues and musical events expect in future? How did organizers manage to cope with switching to online and is there any future for this format? These and many other questions will be discussed by conference participants within lectures, workshops and discussions with Russian and foreign colleagues. This year’s conference’s leitmotif is digital communications.
Conference program includes such themes like:
• Streaming services in pandemic period: how to find your listener. Opportunities for independent musicians.
• Clubs on lockdown: economics, problems and ethics
• Musician profession: art vs management
• What to do if online concerts will be back? Experience and future of the format in Russia
• I will survive? Or how industry copes with pandemia consequences. European experience. And many more.
Among speakers and curators are managers and art-directors of clubs and concert venues (Dom Pechaty, Tele-Club, Punk Fiction, 16 TONS), festivals organizers (Park Live, SOUND UP, BOL’, Picnic Afishy, Ural Music Night), marketing agencies, streamings and record labels representatives (Effective Records, Yandex.Music, Booking Machine Agency, Future Communications) and of course artists (The Retuses, Intourist, Pasosch, CPBCH).
Main conference partner IMI is a non-commercial organization which develops music industry within the space of Russian-speaking culture. IMI leads a media industry, publishes books for those who are interested in music business, arranges music conferences and showcases in regions. More information at i-m-i.ru and in IMI’s social networks.
Conference partners: Mixmag Russia, Yandex.Music, Moscow Music School, Afisha, ONErpm Russia TuneCore, RMA business school
Detailed conference schedule at MMW website and on conference Facebook page.
Moscow Music Week is 4-days-long showcase festival and conference from 2th to 5th September, with offline and online programs, the only festival format event in 2020 in Moscow.
Musical part will include around 100 artists distributed across 20+ thematic showcases. Once again MMW visitors will be the first to hear musicians, who will become leading voices of the scene in a couple of years.
From dark jazz to emo noise, traditional Caucasian motifs, modern punk, local hip-hop and experimental improvisation. Ionoff Music and BOL’ festival showcases, electronic night program from Dissonance, Quintessence, Oberwave etc.
Full line up includes Lalalar (TUR), CENTR, Hadn Dadn, SOUYZ (BLR), Bad Zu, Zaur Nagoev, Intourist, Lucidvox, Fardi, USSSY, CEO of Everything, Dima Midborn, Wooden Whales, LUTIK, Echo Pamira, Archanga, Hit ’em up, Donatello!, Tundra Art Ensemble, luni ana, Autosport, Vsadniki JKH, Akul’e Slezy and many more.
Open and free online showcase with live streams from Experimental Music Showcase with USSSY and new band called Tvar’, Hungarian Showcase with local scene representatives: Platon Karataev, The Qualitons и Torts from Budapest (with the support of Hungarian Cultural Centre and HOTS (Hungarian Oncoming Tunes) and also stream from Kazan club Werk with participants of club’s community — MITYA and Sveta Luk’yanova (ЯNA). Stream will be available on Youtube and Facebook. Links to the stream will be published n the date of event.
DIY Australian indie-pop artist RACKETT drops new electronic single ‘Everywhere You’re Not’ featuring NY rapper Dante Knows, co-written, produced and mixed by Dave Hammer (Lime Cordiale, Mia Rodriguez), and mastered by Andrew Edgeston (Amy Shark, Tia Gostelow).
Beat driven and bass-heavy, the single punches into a huge dance drop out of a euphoric, stripped back chorus. Featuring 16 bars of rap by NY born, SYD based rapper, Dante Knows, the single is another reveal of what RACKETT fans can expect from her debut mini-album due for release in late November 2020.
“‘Everywhere You’re Not’ is about freedom and liberation from an ex-lover. It’s a realisation that the world is a big place full opportunities and the awakening of possibilities from the limitations of staying in one place, with one person. As a massive Dante Knows fan I was thrilled to have him on the single, I saw him perform in Sydney in late 2019 and have been following his music ever since. I think he’s one of the most talented artists I’ve discovered and as the first feature I’ve ever released, it’s a big moment for me” – RACKETT
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