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May 16th - Whopping DJ announcement
To help limber your ticket-clicky fingers, we have extremely arousing news on our music line up:
Stellar international DJ superstar Justin Robertson will be playing in the main room on Friday night. And NICE UP! Records head honcho Shepdog will also be playing a very special slot or two.
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Justin popped into our little Christmas shindig last year to play a few records, and we’re incredibly pleased he and we had such a good time that we’re up for doing it all over again in our favourite Devon mansion.
He’s one of the creators of the UK’s electronic music scene, spending 25 years as a proponent of forward-thinking music. He’s still one of the most relevant and exciting DJ/producers around, as a whole new generation of electronic enthusiasts will sweatily testify. His name is a byword for uncompromisingly jacking sets that come with a party guaranteed, covering everything between wigged out disco and stripped down visceral acid house.
His latest incarnation as The Deadstock 33s has been gushed over from all sides, including praise from Andrew Weatherall to Erol Alkan.
Want to taste Justin?
Try absolute dancefloor melter If You Want To Get Into It. Total classic –Lionrock – from 1992. Another Deadstock 33s belter with accompanying psychopathic video –Underneath the Pines. And Autumn – a spiky collaboration with Daniel Avery.
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We’ve been wanting to get Shepdog along to the Lost Kingdom for yonks. He’s the founder and creative force behind the hugely popular NICE UP! Records – one of the UK's finest record labels and home to artists such as Mr Benn, Blend Mishkin, Cut La Vis, Turntable Dubbers and Poirier.
He’s also the man responsible for some of the biggest reggae mash-ups known to humankind. Witness the brilliance of MCs Act Like They Don't Smoke, Bigger than Jamrock and Groove Is In Jah Heart. Then once you’re feeling spent, try this hour of disco-trousered gorgeousness he knocked out for Good Life. We’ve given him free reign to play what he really loves to play. But whatever we get, you can expect energetic and righteous party vibes.
More DJ and artist announcements next time. But if you picture world-class legendary DJs and musicians playing for the love to an insatiable crowd on an impeccable Funktion One sound system plus some of your favourite previous guests and the What the….? DJs spraying the whole thing with benevolent musical admonishments you’ll have a fair idea how hot hot hot hot hot it’s going to get on the dancefloor.
People, you are So. Very. Lucky. And you don’t need reminding (you might need reminding) what other things are on the horizon After the Lost Kingdom:
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Delicious, hearty and heathy meals included, all weekend long
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Tot-oriented ting like all-night babysitting, bouncy castles, sound sculptures and afternoon entertainers
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The Tiny* Tea Tent serving … tea… in the secret garden
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Powerfully empowering punch
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Wood-fired hot tubs filled with self-cleaning mineral water
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Kayaks and swimming on / in the lake
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Massively powerful lasers and mapping projections over many big surfaces
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Breakfastings in campsitings for your conveniencings
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Clemently-temperatured showers for washing your sore, lithe bodies in.
We’ve had a year off and fuck us it’s all going to go off. Basically.
(We also have plans for some suitably disorienting site rearrangements because we don’t want anyone getting too comfortable with remembering how everything works and where it is and what happens when and how. More on that next time, plus everything you ever will need to know on our theme.)
Jon, Lizz, Gid, Karen, Terry and Fraser. And the other one(s).
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