Kosovo Clubbing

 The Albanian government has approved rapid Covid testing for Unum Festival 2021!!!! Located on the beaches of Shenghin on the Albanian Riviera, the festival have undergone “careful discussions” with the Ministry of Tourism and Environment and the Ministry of Health who have now approved the use of rapid Covid-19 testing for 2021.  Albania is the first county in the world to approve of testing for social and cultural events.  According to a press release, “The advancing technology and accuracy of rapid tests currently allows for results within 10-15 minutes, which is all that would be required to ensure you can enjoy the festival in the way it should be enjoyed . On top of that, vaccines will likely have arrived early next year so that plans for this small, perfectly formed festival are now well underway, all with the support and backing of the Albanian government.” The inaugural Unum Festiva l was held in 2019 , welcoming Ricardo Villalobos, Margaret Dygas, Sonja Moonear, Zip

On the first Friday of every month since March, Bandcamp waived their revenue share to help artists who have been impacted by the pandemic.  They announced that this scheme would be extended until May 2021.  They also revealed that so far the initiative has put over $40 million in the hands of independent artists and labels. The ensuing popularity of the initiative resulted in the platform expanding Bandcamp Fridays throughout the entirety of 2020, allowing for fans to direct assist their favourite artists across the year by cutting out the middle man and making sure they receive all the profits. Bandcamp have also reminded users that their platform is still one of the most beneficial ways to support an artist with digital sales, stating that an average of 82% reaches the artist/label with each purchase. Compared to the pay rates of everyone else out there, we reckon that’s a pretty fair flex to make. [ source ]

Lantern, an 11 year-old nightclub in China’s capital, has a new address.  There's a multi-purpose space, a larger area that will host "the kind of techno events that make up Lantern's core identity" and an intimate room that the club calls a "dark vault." This is the third time Lantern has changed addresses since opening in 2009. Despite enduring "all sorts of trials and tribulations time and time again" throughout the years, Lantern has become "a mainstay of techno culture in China," the club said in August. [ source ] 

This is an ode to the many years in my music life. I chose this particular period of time to do The Goldcast, because I wanted to express a message in these strange times through music. My first set/podcast in eight years and it took me only 47 weeks to prepare.  . This is my personal short story: It starts with a simple yet very meaningful speech (sampled by Alan Watts) about the complexity of us humans. About our dreams and how, even if we get to choose how beautiful, big, happy and crazy they are, in the end we always yearn for more. In the end we always crave the unknown and wonder if something even better might be awaiting us. Mixed with The Workers Of Art by The Cinematic Orchestra, a beautiful, sad piece (my favourite combo), which sets up the story.  . We then move on to one of my all-time favorites, a beautiful, unreleased re-edit by my brother Tito Christophe Bollé with the lyrics "Got to say mmm mmm mmm", something I've been saying a lot lately in response to t

Ahead of Beatport's global NYE livestream celebration to #danceaway2020, they've teamed up with Absolut to present ther final remix competition of the year!  The track in question is a Hott 22 vocal mix of the Roland Clark presents Urban Soul dance floor anthem, "President House."  The remixer with the winning submission will receive $5000 in gear, subscriptions, plugins, and more from acclaimed music companies and an official release on the seminal house and garage imprint, King Street Sounds.  But that's not all!  The winning track will also get a global premiere from one of our DJs during Beatport x Absolut's New Year's Eve livestream — a 20+ hour celebration hitting 15 different time zones around the world with DJs such as Carl Cox, Nastia, Jamie Jones, TOKiMONSTA, and more!  Click below to download the a capellas, learn the guidelines, and get started.  The competition ends on Friday, December 18th, at 12:00 am PST  Apply HERE ! Good luck!

 The audience in Serbia, and around the world, has, during previous years, enjoyed the internationally acclaimed No Sleep parties thanks to which EXIT has toured world capitals such as New York, London, Sao Paulo, Rome, Barcelona, and many more. The No Sleep music platform, created with the support of the cult domestic brand Guarana, has since grown into an independent festival in Belgrade which, after its first two editions, was named Best New Festival in Europe, at the last European Festival Awards held earlier this year.  A traditionally exciting program was composed in cooperation with some of the world’s leading clubs last summer such as Munich’s Mixed Munich Arts, Brazil’s D-Edge and Georgia’s Bassiani phenomenon.  The peak of the sleepless nights at EXIT, according to many electronic music fans, was brought by the globally popular series of parties All Day I Dream, which started in Brooklyn and transferred its specific matinee parties to the well-known islands of Ibiza and Mykon

A YouTube guy named Andy, user named TheRasteri has a solution - he hacked Pioneer DJ XDJ-R2 to run the classic video game DOOM . In the video, the user can be seen plugging a USB stick into the R2, as well as a keyboard into the second USB port and loading the game onto the touchscreen. He discovered earlier this year that Pioneer DJ’s onboard computers not only run Linux and could potentially boot custom firmwares from USB sources. Instructions to get this to work : (do not attempt this unless you’re good at soldering/linux/etc) 1. Cross-compile fbDOOM for ARM – https://github.com/maximevince/fbDOOM 2. Put it on a USB stick alongside DOOM.WAD from the shareware release (or full version if you like) 3. Connect a 3.3v UART to port CN1002 on the main PCB (1=3.3v, 2=TXD, 3=RXD, 4=GND) 4. Get Root ( https://twitter.com/G33KatWork/status… ) 5. kill rbp 6. run fbDOOM from the usb stick (it gets mounted in /media/usbx/sda1) If you want to give it a go yourself, he also posted instructions