Summadayze on New Year's Day set to shine with Basement Jaxx

After four years of sell-out crowds, Summadayze is set to shine again this New Year's Day, Wednesday 1st January 2003, at Melbourne's Sidney Myer Music Bowl.

The world-renowned Summadayze event is this country's largest and most highly anticipated dance festival, and for that reason it's no surprise that one of the world's biggest dance acts, Basement Jaxx, have decided to get in on the action with a special DJ set on the day. They'll be joined across multiple stages by a hand-picked selection of international artists including The Freestylers, DJ Misha, Graham Gold, Junior Jack with Kid Creme, plus the finest local talent such as Groove Terminator, Rogue Traders, Andy Van and Sean Quinn.

The whole extravaganza will explode in a flurry of sights and sounds from 8am until 11pm within the sublime environment of the Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne's natural amphitheatre with its vast green, grassy mounds and tree-covered areas.

Across five amazing stages, a brilliant day and night of music will feature an endless variety of the finest sounds from right across the spectrum of dance genres, including trance, house, drum 'n' bass, progressive, techno and breaks. In addition, to add to all the fun in the sun, there'll be the Foam Fun area, Water Slides, Future Spa Land, amusements and rides, plus festival stalls selling a variety of ice cream, fresh fruits and other party essentials. As well, party goers will find plenty of shaded areas, and over 70 free water drinking points.

Presented by Future Entertainment, Australia's foremost dance music event producers who have brought to this country some of the globe's biggest club names, the full line-up for Summadayze is as follows:

Future Dayze STAGE

Basement Jaxx (DJ set)
Basement Jaxx are Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe, and their universally acclaimed debut album 'Remedy' showed us that baselines and classic tunes weren't mutually incompatible. Basement Jaxx took underground music and fused it with Latin, with ragga, with hip hop, with all the sounds and attitude of their native South London and threw it back in our faces. Their second album 'Rooty' brought us 'Romeo' and 'Where's Your Head At' and thrust Basement Jaxx to the top of the dance tree as they merged R&B songs with house tempos, brutal punk shouting with bone-crunching garage beats, booming bass with Tijuana trumpets and a cavalier disdain for the dancefloor's strict tempo rulebook.

Graham Gold
Graham Gold broadcasts weekly on Kiss 100 London, showcasing an upfront selection of quality house that has been described by Carl Cox as "Inspirational" and Paul Oakenfold as "Excellent". Graham regularly has exclusive mixes aired on radio all over the world, but is was in the 80's that he started out DJing soul in clubs before joining Kiss and starting the Good:As label and management organisation. In the studio, Graham has remixed for Carl Cox, Shawn Christopher, Alarma, Lionrock and 2HD, while he has played in South Africa, Israel, the US, Canada, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Ibiza, Scandinavia, and the list goes on, at events like Homelands, The Love Parade and Glastonbury.

Plus local DJ's Sean Quinn, Mark James, Kasey Taylor, John Course, Jason Midro and Jason D'Costa.

House Dayze STAGE

Junior Jack & Kid Creme
Nico Scaravelli, aka Kid Creme, met his current DJing partner Vito Lucente, aka Junior Jack, at Let's Go Studios. Nico's formative years were spent learning to spin hip hop and studying music theory and classic piano. In 1991, he decided to set up his own home studio, inspired by the London hardcore breakbeat scene. Discovering house, he formed the DTM Recordz label which caught the attention of people like Boy George, Junior Vasquez and Topazz. Further down the track, releases under the name Sharpside quickly gained support from the likes of Dave Angel, Claude Young, Pete Tong, Carl Cox, Danny Tenaglia, Luke Slater< Tags

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