• Featuring artist collaborations with Galen Behr, Sied van Riel, Daniel Wanrooy, Joop, Cliff Coenraad, Thomas Hagenbeek, Freek Geuze (Global Illumination) and Jonas Steur.

• Album launch party at Club Poema, Utrecht in The Netherlands 26th September, 2008

Leon Bolier is one of the spearheads of the Netherland’s Trance Generation: 2.0. The new wave of DJs & producers that have risen up to form a closely-knit EDM community in the country… Unlike trance’s first wave, do not expect one specific sound from Leon’s debut album. ‘Pictures’ demonstrates, to the greatest possible degree a broad swathe of EDM textures that pushes the pigeonhole term ‘trance’ to the point of combustion.

Leon was born in 1980 in the deliberately vague (but not The Hague!) “some where in the middle of Holland”. From birth he was pre-installed with a love of moody music. After releasing his tracks and providing remixes for many big labels over the years he felt that 2008 was the right moment to launch his first artist album.

As a veritable production house, Leon has worked at the rate of (close to) one track or remix a month for the last 2 years. Disc 1 sees Leon flying production-solo and includes his latest biggest slammers like ‘Ocean Drive Boulevard’. On Disc 2 meanwhile he is joined by compatriots from across the lowlands for an avalanche of collaborations. Leon has teamed up with some of his best friends & colleagues including rising stars & noted new-guard luminaries Galen Behr, Sied van Riel, Daniel Wanrooy, Joop, Cliff Coenraad & Thomas Hagenbeek, Freek Geuze (Global Illumination) and Jonas Steur.

The first album track to be taken from the album, ‘I Finally Found’ will be released on the 8th of September 2008 on 2Play Recordings. ‘Pictures’ will be released on the 29th of September 2008, while the 26th will see the album lift-off at a massive launch party at Club Poema, in Utrecht with a line up including: Fine Taste, Joop, Sied van Riel, Orjan Nilsen & Leon Bolier

www.leonbolier.com www.myspace.com/leonbolier www.spinninrecords.nl

Hundreds of cities, countless countries, tens of thousands of people - if you need a reminder of just how big 2008 has been so far for tech-trance legend Markus Schulz, look no further - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BDgFBI_1RY!

In the last eight months alone, Markus has taken in New York, LA, San Francisco, Miami, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Seattle, Detroit, London, Paris, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Shanghai, Ibiza, Seoul, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Bogota, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Montreal, Sheffield, Jinan, Belfast, Glasgow, Minsk, St Petersburg, Moscow, Riga, Medellin and many, many more.

A residency at The Gallery in London’s Ministry of Sound, a worldwide radio show that airs on every continent, headline sets at every single major dance festival and a fanbase that grows with each gig.

Electric atmospheres, crowds lifting things to a new level, packed venues and one man taking music higher and higher - this has been the year of Markus Schulz.

For more information on Markus Schulz visit www.markusschulz.com.

London hard house DJ Lee Osborne formally denied being involved in the drug related killing of 29-year-old Jon Bartlett, this week as the murder trial of alleged gunman John Seton, 24, started at the Old Bailey.

Chief prosecutor Victor Temple QC told the court Seton had confronted car mechanic Mr Bartlett over a £24,000 drug debt last May, shooting him dead in a quiet side street in Chislehurst, Kent.

“It was an unequal confrontation which culminated in the two men arguing,”
the QC suggested, “Mr Bartlett was unarmed, but by contrast Seton was in possession of a 12-bore shotgun. The argument ended in Seton firing two shots, one missed the other hit Mr Bartlett in the area of the left eye. Put shortly this was a cold-blooded murder which had all the indications of being planned in advance by Seton,” he claimed.

Lee Osborne is accused of being an accomplice in providing Seton with a new mobile phone, a hideaway for several days and a transit van, which he used to flee to Holland where he was arrested some months later.

The killing happened just three months after Scandinavian website Trance.nu interviewed the DJ about his rapidly developing career, describing him presciently as ‘a name you will no doubt be hearing a lot of in the coming year.’

In more macabre murder news, former Mr. Gay UK Anthony Morley, 35, pleaded not guilty to killing Damian Oldfield, in Leeds Crown Court this week and was given a trial date of October 8. Press reports at the time of the killing said cops found pieces of Mr. Oldfield’s flesh ‘diced for cooking’ when they raided Morley’s flat in April.

http://www.myspace.com/leeosborneuk

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org (‘The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913: ‘A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court . . .’)

http://mrgayuk.co.uk/home/?topic=545 (‘Anthony Morley 20 years old, a former Costumier now a Chef from Leeds, who represented Doncaster has won the coveted title of Mr Gay UK 1993: Hobbies: Dancing and Body Building: Comments: Likes to please people .

Danny Tenaglia rejected the suggestion that he’s nowadays ‘Danny Tenaglia’- the brand.

“I’m too connected to other people’s music to think that way: I’m primarily a curator of sounds,” the New York veteran insisted, “If I am a brand, I hope my dominant value is diversity.”

The US star remains best known for spinning ridiculously long, predominantly tribal house sets, though pointedly refused to be pigeon-holed.

“My values and my taste have always been consistent,” he stressed, “From the time I was a kid listening to Philly soul, to all of this crazy minimal stuff I’m absolutely loving now,” he said.

He also pointed out that his heroes remain electronic music pioneers from the 70s and 80s, with innovation a key component of the artists he’s admired.

“I try to tell people, they say, “Danny, you play a lot of techno.” And I say, “If you think of the word techno, it’s just short for technology,” he said.

“What was Kraftwerk doing? What was Larry Levan doing up in the (Paradise Garage) booth, with a reel to reel and reverb and all that stuff he used to do with the sound, with Richard Long on sound? They were being experimental with the sound system itself. And Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder, Yello have always inspired me since the late ’70s,” said Danny.

Danny Tenaglia – ‘Futurism’ is out now on Renaissance

http://www.renaissance.com

Chinese midnight rambler Le Xing was rushed to hospital in Hong Kong this week after his attempt to pleasure an isolated park bench went drastically wrong.

The 41 year old ‘lonely and disturbed’ lover reportedly stuck his penis inside a 1 inch diameter hole in the bench though was unable to withdraw when his erection trapped him. Paramedics eventually sawed off the 2.5 metre long pole and rushed him and the pole to the hospital where they successfully parted the pair four hours later.

Doctors subsequently revealed they’d have been forced to amputate his manhood if they’d failed to remove the pole within one more hour (HK Magazine).

Meanwhile in England, an unnamed 12-year-old English boy from Dudley suffered similar ignominy as well as 18% burns to the backs of his legs and his thumb this week, when a lighting farts game went tragically wrong.

“The boy had been pranking around in the garden having a competition with his cousin, when they were breaking wind and lighting it,” Tipton fire commander Paul Harpin told the Daily Telegraph.

“Right behind him was a petrol can and that just flashed. I think he must have won the competition but he will have some nasty burns now,” the Commander continued.

Wikepedia warns that reports of serious burns related to lighting farts are common and advises those determined to experiment to wear thick cotton pants as opposed to synthetic fibres and never to light them when naked.

“Because the methane and hydrogen present are flammable, igniting the resulting gases can result in burns or explosions as well as the desired flame,” Wikepedia explains, “Clothing or hair may catch fire and sensitive tissues can be damaged.”

http://tinyurl.com/5aq535 (Lighting farts on youtube- strangely impressive)

http://tinyurl.com/5qo9xm (when accidents happen- don’t try this at home!!!!!!)

Superclub brand Gatecrasher are offering free taxi rides for all female groups visiting their soon to be launched Midlands club Gatecrasher Birmingham.

Speaking to the Birmingham Mail this week, operations director Adrian Swain said they’ve been collaborating closely with local police to protect visitors to the Broad Street venue, with additional taxi services available at the club, ‘to deter patrons from using unmarked vehicles.”

The move is likely to impress safety campaigners, with unlicenced minicabs continuing to pose serious risks for passengers throughout the UK. London’s Metropolitan police report that 140 people were sexually assaulted in illegal minicabs in the capital last year.

Reporting on the long standing threat in 2002 the Sunday Mirror interviewed Bryan Roland, of the National Association of Taxi and Private Hire Licensing Enforcement Officers, who conceded ‘as in any profession, there will be rogue individuals who commit appalling crimes’, throughout the UK

“There are 451 clubs in the city and you have 120,000 people wanting to get home at the same time on a Friday or Saturday night,” he pointed out, speaking about Manchester.

“If someone wants to pass themselves off as a minicab driver with a view to committing a rape, the amount of resources needed to prevent that would be so massive as to be impossible. It is up to the passengers to make sure their cab is licensed,” he added.

Manchester police chief Superintendent Garry Shewan issued a similar warning two years later, to clubbers taking risks when licenced cabs were unavailable.

“Bogus drivers sometimes just want to make money by ferrying people around without getting insurance or a licence, But a small number deliberately set out to attack lone travellers.”

Gatecrasher Birmingham opens on September 8, promising ‘Music. Glamour. Flashing Lights’ and a music policy that ranges from ‘house to rock to hiphop to trance to drum and bass to indie to pop.’

http://tinyurl.com/5bqrgy (Suzy Lamp lugh Trust: safety advice: ‘If you are ordering a cab from a public place, try not to let people overhear your name and address - anyone could pretend to be your cab.

IF YOU FEEL THREATENED: • Remember to trust your instincts - if you are at all worried - ask the driver to stop in a busy area, and get out of the car.

Kasabian have proved, beyond a doubt, that rock music has a place in the future of Creamfields.

The rockers unveiled their most ambitious live production yet to close the main stage at the dance music festival, which was celebrating its 10th anniversary.

Their road crew began work on the stage shortly after Fatboy Slim’s headline set the previous night, building a series of projection screens set at different angles, giving the impression of collapsing in on themselves.

Taking to the stage and launching into Shoot The Runner, from their second album Empire, the band performed in front of swirling, psychedelic effects similar to the opening credits of the older series of Doctor Who.

Speaking before the set, guitarist Serge Pizzorno said: “We tried to make it look like we were inside a television looking out at everyone.

“It’s mental, it’s like 70s rock, techno-psychedelia.”

Wearing huge black rock star shades and a waistcoat with what appeared to be a massive rose on it, singer Tom Meighan did his best to work up the crowd as the band played Cutt Off, followed by live favourite Processed Beats.

New songs

Serge Pizzorno added new lyrics lifted from The Kinks’ You Really Got Me and White Lines by Melle Mel.

Kasabian also chucked a couple of new songs into the set.

Guitarist Serge Pizzorno gets ready to take to the stage

Fast Fuse, which fans of the band will have heard already, if not live, and Fire from their forthcoming third album - due for completion early next year.

The band played to the clubbers in the crowd with a laser show and even covered a rave classic during their three song encore.

After playing the bass heavy Club Foot and Stuntman, Serge took lead vocals and the familiar opening riff of the classic You Got The Love by The Source featuring Candi Staton kicked in.

It got some cheers and some spontaneous singing but it merely served as an opener to the band’s traditional set closer, LSF and its sing-a-long chorus.

Pizzorno said: “We tried it the other night and it worked. It’s just a little nod and a wink.”

There were questions whether Kasabian, who play rock music, albeit with danceable beats, could hold their own against DJs playing the other stages.

Biggest crowd

Dutch DJ Tiesto proved to be the biggest draw of the night in the Cream tent.

So many people tried to cram into the space that organisers were forced to stop more fans from getting in to avoid dangerous overcrowding.

Frontman Tom Meighan said Kasabian deserved to headline

As a result, Kasabian did not pull as big a crowd as they would have at a mixed music festival and despite the front of stage looking packed, the audience thinned out rapidly beyond the first 20 or so rows.

Meighan said the band weren’t daunted by the challenge: “We’re blessed, we’re special people are we deserve to be headlining at Creamfields.”

Pizzorno agreed: “That was the reason why we said we would do it, we wouldn’t have turned up otherwise.

“People have always wanted to dance to our music and there people are here to dance.”

Rebecca from Manchester said: “I actually loved it. I think they did it miles better than Tiesto.”

Her friend Adam agreed: “Best live set of the weekend, Kasabian are a great band anyway but tonight they just slayed it.”

Other highlights from the second day of Creamfields included Soulwax and disco legends Chic on the main stage and Late Of The Pier, who came on around 20 minutes late but played to a packed Skins Arena.

Kasabian follow up Creamfields with a show at the Hydro Connect Festival in Scotland on 29 August.