*COCOON IN THE PARK//27.06//LEEDS*

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Cocoon in the Park

SATURDAY 27TH JUNE 2009 | TEMPLE NEWSAM, LEEDS

12pm – 11pm | Early Bird Tickets: £35+bf

Tickets available from: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/45902 |

themintclub.com/system | http://www.residentadvisor.net/citp

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SVEN VATH

LUCIANO

STEVE BUG

ADAM SHELTON

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If you go down to the woods today, you’re in for a big surprise…

Leading Leeds club night, System, are temporarily ditching their city

home, scaling up,- and shipping out to the 600 acres of Leeds’ 16th

Century Temple Newsam estate. The enchanting and plainly

beautiful surrounds are to be sound-tracked by three of electronica’s

most revered artists, and cast under the spell of techno overlord

Sven Vath’s magical Cocoon production: a sonic punch packing

Funktion-ONE, the famed and glamorous Cocoon Club dancers from

Frankfurt, and a northern light show to rival its natural polar

namesake.

The scene is set, then, for some out-of-this-world house and

techno…

Good job, as they don’t come much bigger than thoroughbred tech

titan, Sven Vath. Since the early days of legendary techno

gatherings at Germany’s Dorian Grey and Omen club, Sven has

trodden his own path. Always picking tunes from, and producing

tunes for, techno’s tougher reaches, Vath eventually decided he

wanted his own platform. In 2004 he built one of the most

technologically advance clubs in the world, whilst birthing one of the

sharpest labels in the process. Cocoon parties have legendary status

at Amnesia on the White Isle, and Vath’s annually released round up

of the summer’s best electronic music is always an essential

recording. Welcome to the world of Cocoon.

Joining the rave’s ring leader are another two of the planet’s coolest

label bosses…

Moustachioed carnival house and tech purveyor Luciano is a party

loving megastar with an impressive knack for weaving a rhythm.

From the shabby booth of DC10, to the darkened caverns of Fabric,

Swiss-Chilean Luciano has an informed and varied musical past which

he uses to devastating effect, wherever he plays. Having cut his

teeth alongside luminaries like Ricardo Villalobos during the 90s in

Chile, then having spun all round South America and eventually

Europe after moving to Switzerland in 2000, the varied and colourful

rhythms Luciano lays down, as well as the man himself, are adored

the world over.

Steve Bug is the other label leader to compete for your attention in

the ancient woods, and compete he will. For ten years his label

Poker Flat has nudged at the boundaries of EDM with streams of

untouchable deep house and techno releases from the boss himself,

and some other of the scenes main men. Its name spread like

wildfire with Steve’s eternal minimal club hit “Loverboy” in 1999, and

has only flourished since. The recently released Ten Years of Poker

Flat LP sums up some of EDM’s finest moments, so it’s no wonder

Poker Flat is established as the number one source for stripped

down, futuristic house music under the expert guidance of minimal

connoisseur Steve Bug.

Completing this compact but killer line-up is Adam Shelton. Spurred

like many by the hedonism of 90s Ibiza, Adam began spinning the

sounds he heard from there, as well as New York, Frankfurt and

London. Skip to now and he’s the successful promoter of

Birmingham’s freshest warehouse party, Below. Showcasing the best

of the house and techno talent breaking through, as well as giving a

stage to some of the scenes finest, it’s clear he knows his business,

and is safe bet to back up the event’s big names.

Coupling the boutique nature and otherworldly setting of this festival,

with headlining DJs who’ll rock the sunniest terraces around the world

this summer, Cocoon in the Park is a genuine and affordable

alternative to Ibiza, and is something Sven Vath hopes to curate

again, every year from now.

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Saturday June 27
12pm – 11pm
Temple Newsam
Temple Newsam

Road, off Selby Road
Leeds LS15 0AE

Links

Facebook Event – http://www.facebook.com/inbox/?

ref=mb#/event.php?eid=69414677089&ref=ts

System Facebook Group – http://www.facebook.com/inbox/?

ref=mb#/group.php?gid=10715616517

Tickets

http://www.residentadvisor.net/citp

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/45902

themintclub.com/system

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