18+/21+ P3E, Arctic & VOLUME Presents: Hard Sessions 001:TECHNOBOY

Phase 3 Events, Arctic Productions & Volume Nightclub are teaming up to bring you one of the biggest names in HARDSTYLE, the man credited as the inventor, & pioneer of the genre. the one and only....

Hard Sessions :001
TECHNOBOY

When you randomly ask some Technoboy fans to describe their idol in one sentence, you can be sure the line “he is the King of hardstyle” will be spoken. That’s quite something, being compared to one of the biggest legends in the music industry. But the ones that have heard and seen Technoboy perform during the ten years of his still-going-on-strong career will understand why. Maybe his clothing style is less extreme than how we know the King of rock ‘n’ roll; it’s also flamboyant, trendy and something that goes hand in hand with his personality. His enormous collection of Nikes in all shapes and colors will most probably contain some blue and suede ones. And although the hip shakes of Elvis will never be beaten, when the Italian hardstyle DJ is performing he doesn’t stop moving behind his DJ-booth. But the most important similarity is that both icons ARE their music. When you say hardstyle, you say Technoboy.

The story of Technoboy starts in Bologna, Italy in the second half of the 80’s, when a hard-working schoolboy named Cristiano Giusberti stepped into a local discotheque for the first time. What was nothing more to his peers than a night out without having to bother about books and teachers, appeared to be a life-changing event for Cristiano. It was like every fiber of his body soaked up the music and he knew after that night what his destiny was: to be that guy on the podium, making people feel the same as he just experienced. Some years, much practicing and a lot of money spent on dance records later, Cristiano became that guy.

In 1992 Cristiano’s musical career started. As DJ Gius he was offered a residency in an Italian club and in the following years many other clubs, like Pachito Club, Elixer Vitae, Escape, Station and East Side were added to his curriculum. In 1992 Giusberti also started working as an A&R manager for 'Route 66 Music Market for DJ's' and four years later also for ‘Arsenic Sound’. That’s where a new chapter in Cristiano’s life emerged: next to playing music, he started producing it. Again, his musical talents didn’t stay unnoticed: in 1999 he achieved worldwide fame with his DJ Gius remix of the track ‘Kernkraft 400’ by the German techno/electro project Zombie Nation. It was an important year for Giusberti: he also joined ‘Alternative Sound Planet’, that is part of one of the biggest record companies in the world: The SAIFAM Group. After finishing two tracks for the ‘Titanic’ label in October, Cristiano needed a cool and catchy alias for his production work. In Italy, ‘techno’ was a generic name for the different styles in dance music. It sounded good together with ‘boy’: Technoboy was born.

Technoboy gave a name and face to a musical style that took the dance scene by storm. Hard, energetic and banging dance music, but always supplied with a touch of Italian class and style: there couldn’t be a better name for it than hardstyle. In 2001, after almost a decade of performing as DJ Gius, Cristiano stepped into a plane to Holland, the dance capital of the world, where he played his first gig as DJ Technoboy. He injected his beats into the crowd and within a couple of years, the whole country was infected by the Italian hardstyle virus. And not only Holland: Technoboy made people in countries like Germany, France, Italy, South-Africa and Australia shake their hips, stomp their feet and clap their hands. He was a headliner at every major hardstyle event on the globe: famous Dutch parties like Mystery Land, (45,000 visitors), Hard Bass (12,000 visitors), Decibel Outdoor (20,000 visitors), Qlimax (25,000 visitors), Defqon.1 Festival (30,000 visitors) and Sensation Black (40.000) and parties like Tomorrowland (Belgium), Sonic (Switzerland), Planetlove (Ireland) and Airbeat One (Germany) are on his résumé. In 2009, X-Qlusive Technoboy was added to this list and this night, where everything revolved around Cristiano Giusberti and his music, was a crown on his career and a night he and his fans will never forget.

With more labels than any other hardstyle artist under his belt (Dance Pollution, Red Alert, Titanic Records, Bonzai Italy, Green Force and BLQ), Cristiano released an uncountable amount of tracks under more than 30 different aliases, such as Pacific Link, The Hose, Giada, The KGB's, Citizen, TNT, Hardstyle Masterz, Tuneboy, 2 Best Enemies and, of course, Technoboy. He did remixes for the biggest names in the hardstyle scene, mixed CD’s and has a discography that one easily could fill a book with.

Technoboy, the King of hardstyle: the comparison may be clear. And the good news is that Cristiano didn’t intend to leave the building yet: his main goal for the future is to spread his hardstyle-word all over the planet and share his unconditional love for his music with as many people as possible!

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What Does The Government Shutdown Mean For NASA?

The MAVEN Mars mission launch is among those activities that could be affected by the U.S. federal government shutdown. Credit: NASA/GSFC

A forthcoming NASA launch to Mars could be in danger of losing its launch window should a shutdown in the United States federal government that began today (Oct. 1) continue for a while. That’s just one of the ways in which NASA is affected amid a lapse of funding that is affecting all government agencies and an untold number of government contractors.

Around 97% of NASA’s 18,000 employees are off the job. Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus and other social media accounts are going dark. NASA’s website is being pulled offline. NASA Television has also ceased broadcasting.

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Beyond the agency’s public face, activities ranging from certain commercial crew payouts, to conference attendance, to scientific work will cease. Awards and scholarship approvals will be delayed.
“NASA will shut down almost entirely,” said President Barack Obama in a speech late Monday (Sept. 30).

In addition to the agency’s public relations activities, NASA is planning to launch the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft to Mars in November to examine the Red Planet’s atmosphere. There are all sorts of questions vexing scientists concerning that planet, with one of the most prominent ones being why the atmosphere thinned over the years.
Media reports indicate that if the shutdown is lengthy, MAVEN could miss the launch window and have to try again in 2016.
“A shutdown could delay the pre-launch processing currently under way with a possible impact to the scheduled Nov. 18 launch date,” Dwayne Brown, a NASA senior public affairs officer at NASA, told The Planetary Society in a story published yesterday (Sept. 30). The launch window extends for several weeks beyond that time, however.
The 3% of NASA employees who are deemed essential will work without pay until the situation is resolved. These are some of the things that will continue:

The International Space Station. Credit: NASA

• International Space Station monitoring will be maintained, but with the bare minimum of ground crew. (NASA will cease regular updates of the astronauts’ activities during the furlough, although we presume if something urgent happened there would be an update.)
• Robotic missions that are already in operation — think the Cassini spacecraft circling Saturn, or the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) winging its way to the moon — will have small crews making sure that they are functioning properly. No scientific analysis will be conducted, though.
• Certain other programs will continue if a shutdown would be detrimental to their performance. Space News reports that the much-delayed James Webb Space Telescope will be among them, as some of its instruments are undergoing cryogenic vacuum testing at the Goddard Space Flight Center.
• Update, 1:09 p.m. EDT: Several missions run out of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Applied Physics Laboratory are running as usual for at least the next week because these facilities are running under contracted money from NASA and still have funds in the bank. According to the Planetary Society’s Emily Lakdawalla: “At JPL, that includes: Curiosity; Opportunity; Odyssey; Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter; Cassini; Dawn; Juno; Spitzer; the Voyagers; and WISE, among many others. At APL, that includes MESSENGER and New Horizons. It also includes the Deep Space Network.”

Additional Update, 2:09 p.m. EDT: The HiRISE twitter account just replied to inquiries from several space journalists that they will be “open for business” as usual, which is great news since the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter made an audacious attempt to take images of Comet ISON during the comet’s closest approach to Mars today. We’ll provide any news and updates on images as they become available, but the HiRISE team said getting the images back to Earth and processing them may take a day or two.

Many observers noted that NASA is marking its 55th anniversary today by shutting down its activities. There’s no word yet on when the deadlock in Congress will be resolved. The last two shutdowns in 1995 and 1996 (which began in the middle of the STS-74 shuttle mission to Mir) lasted several weeks.

Tom Clancy dies at age 66

Clancy died on Tuesday in Baltimore, Maryland.

Best-selling US author Tom Clancy has died at the age of 66, his publisher Penguin has confirmed.

Clancy wrote a string of best-selling spy and military thrillers. His 17th novel, Command Authority, is due out in December.
Several of his books featuring CIA analyst Jack Ryan have been adapted into successful Hollywood films.
The former insurance broker died in a Baltimore hospital near his Maryland home, according to reports.
Clancy, who died on Tuesday, was remembered as "a master of his craft" by Tom Weldon, chief executive of Penguin Random House UK.
"Tom Clancy changed readers' expectations of what a thriller could do," he said. "He will be greatly missed by millions of fans in the UK and around the world."
'Real gentleman' Written in his spare time, The Hunt for Red October (1984) was Clancy's first published novel and sold more than five million copies.
President Ronald Reagan helped to fuel the success of the book when he called it a "perfect yarn".

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The novel was made into a film in 1990, starring Alec Baldwin as Ryan and Sir Sean Connery as Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius.
Baldwin paid tribute to "the great writer Tom Clancy" on Twitter, remembering him as "a real gentleman of the old school".
Harrison Ford went on to play Ryan in film versions of Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, while Ben Affleck played him in 2002 release The Sum of All Fears.
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, a new film to feature the character directed by Sir Kenneth Branagh, is set for release this December.
Clancy usually wrote a book a year, making him one of the wealthiest authors in the world.
In 2002 he was ranked at 10 in Forbes magazine's Celebrity 100 list with estimated earnings of $47.8m (£33m).
As well as a successful writer, Clancy also became closely associated with the world of video gaming.

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TOM CLANCY IN BRIEF

• The Hunt for Red October was Clancy's first published book, launching his career as a successful writer in 1984
• Red October spawned a Hollywood film as well as a naval war game
• In all he wrote and co-wrote 20 books, including 17 New York Times number one best-sellers
• In 1993 he joined a group of investors to buy the Baltimore Orioles baseball team
• Clancy wrote about commercial airliners being used as missiles several years before the attacks in the US on 11 September 2001
• The French video game manufacturer Ubisoft purchased the use of Clancy's name for an undisclosed sum in 2008
• Clancy's final novel, Command Authority, is due to be published in December 2013

In the 1990s he founded Red Storm Entertainment, later bought by Ubisoft, which developed games based on Clancy's ideas.

Blockbuster video game titles bearing his name included Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six.
"Tom Clancy was an extraordinary author with a gift for creating detailed, engrossing fictional stories that captivated audiences around the world," said Ubisoft on its Facebook page.
"We are humbled by the opportunity to carry on part of his legacy through our properties that bear his name."
British author Barbara Taylor-Bradford also paid tribute to Clancy on her website.
"I'm stunned to learn of the sudden passing of [a] legendary novelist," she wrote. "A remarkable talent whose books and movie adaptations held me captive for many enjoyable hours."
Clancy was known for his technically detailed espionage and military science storylines. One, written in 1994, told of a crazed Japan Airlines pilot who flies into the Capitol building in Washington.
In a 2003 interview, CNN presenter Wolf Blitzer suggested his precise accounts of the US military techniques were giving away secrets to terrorists.
"I never got any fan mail from Osama bin Laden, and I don't really know how many books I sold in Afghanistan," the author replied.
"You have to talk to the marketing people about that. But I'm not really concerned about it."
"He was ahead of the news curve and sometimes frighteningly prescient," said Ivan Held, president of Penguin imprint G P Putnam's Sons.
"To publish a Tom Clancy book was a thrill every time."

Fedde Le Grand Rocks Amsterdam - beamed live around the world!

One of the true highlights of ADE week, Fedde Le Grand’s annual road-block event is back for 2013, boasting a stellar line-up of established and upcoming talent and this year, for the first time ever, linking up with the might of global broadcaster MTV.

MTV Presents: Fedde Le Grand Rocks Amsterdam, at Escape Venue on October 18^th in the heart of the Dutch capital, will see the international house titan back on home ground, delivering fans who flock from the four corners of the planet a jaw-dropping showcase in immense beats and earth-shattering electro lines.

Teaming up with Fedde on the night will be a host of musical stars, including Dutch rock stars DI-RECT, who have something particularly special lined up for the night. With 15 years behind them, a new album set for release in 2014 and hits including ‘Times Are Changing’, ‘This Is Who We Are’ and ‘Young Ones’, DI-RECT will prove instantly recognizable to Fedde’s home crowd, as will Fedde’s wing man MC Gee who, alongside host Kubik LeFunk – the voice of ‘Rockin’ N’ Rollin’ – will be on hand to introduce the likes of F-Man, ‘Lion’ collaborator Michael Calfan who jets in from Paris for the occasion, rising stars and Fedde-favourites Roul and Doors and London’s Tim Cullen (MOS) for a night that, with Fedde’s track record and reputation, is guaranteed to supersede expectations.

For those that can’t make it to Amsterdam or indeed through the doors of Escape, fear not. Streaming live on both UPC and YouTube, the event will also be broadcast across a network of radio stations around the world, including Brazil, Bulgaria, Cyprus, France, Belgium, Greece and the Ukraine, with more to be added over the remaining weeks.

Tickets for MTV Presents: Fedde Le Grand Rocks Amsterdam are available now at (LINK). For more information, visit  

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NEW UDG Partners for Czech, Slovak Republic & Japan

DISK Multimedia s.r.o & High Resolution Co. Ltd appointed New UDG Gear Distribution partners for Czech, Slovak Republic & Japan respectively.

UDG Gear proudly presents 2 new distributors to represent UDG Gear in Czech, Slovak Republic & Japan. Being a manufacturer of high-quality, specialist travel gear for DJ and Producers and renowned for our huge range of custom-sized bags, trolleys, MIDI controller cases and accessories, we are confident with the forging of these partnerships, our presence & availability in these emerging markets will be further extended. Endorsees who have trusted UDG GEAR include Tiesto, Carl Cox, Armin van Buuren, Nicky Romero and Fatboy Slim;
DISK Multimedia is a well-established company with over 15 years of operation & is amongst the largest suppliers in the field of image and sound in Czech & Slovak Republic. DISK Multimedia team of experienced professionals are experts in the design and implementation of complex multimedia systems. The experienced & accredited teams of professional have rich technical expertise in offering excellent product support. Other important brands in their portfolio include Ableton, Akai Professional, KRK, Native Instruments, Numark & Røde.

DISK Multiomedia sro. (Czech & Slovak Republic): http://www.disk.cz

Tokyo based High Resolution Co Ltd will be reintroducing UDG GEAR into the Japanese market with greater penetration & reach. The Company has more than 10 years of experience as a distributor of exclusive Producer & DJ equipment in the Japanese audio market having successfully marketed brands like Ableton, Allen & Heath, Focusrite & Novation. “We are confident that with the new partnership, the visibility, presence & availability of our range of merchandise in the Japanese market will be improved” commented UDG founder and CEO Michael Schmeitz.

Website High Resolution (Japan): http://www.h-resolution.com