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Spundae was founded in 1993 by Peter and Guiv to expose electronic dance music to San Francisco’s club scene. The duo brought the global scene to west coast culture by constantly throwing electronic dance parties like California had never seen before.

Inspiring audiences for over a decade, Spundae shows no sign of slowing down their musical crusade. Guests on their turntables have included international DJs such as: Sasha, John Digweed, Timo Maas, Armin van Buuren, John ‘00′ Fleming, Nick Warren, Cass, Christopher Lawrence, Tiesto, Pete Tong, Jerry Bonham, DJ Dan, Sandra Collins, Sander Kleinenberg, Deepsky, Ferry Corsten, Max Graham, Infusion, Steve Lawler, Dave Seamen, D:Fuse, Doc Martin, Dieselboy, Carl Cox, DJ Irene, Simply Jeff, Donald Glaude, Lee Burridge and many, many more.

The production wing of the company continues doing one-off events, DJ-centric events in San Francisco at various venues, while in Los Angeles they are going back to their weekly roots at Circus starting in March 2005. Spundae will also bring various one-off events to Las Vegas at various venues.

Dedicated to the music Spundae Records was founded in 1997. In an effort to expand internationally, they brought in Torsten Jurk as their director. No stranger to the recording industry, he was the driving force behind the wildly successful MFS label and their main act Paul van Dyk. With offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles and with a wide network of international partners, Spundae showcases the sound of tomorrow already now.

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Upcoming Calendar for Spundae @ Ruby Skye
05/25/12 Nadia Ali
06/01/12 Andy Moor
06/06/12 Armin Van Buuren
06/08/12 ATB

MILPITAS, Calif., Jul 20, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — SanDisk Corporation (SNDK 41.43, -0.36, -0.86%), the global leader in flash memory cards, today announced that it is partnering with Tiesto, the world’s No.1 DJ, to create a crowd-sourced music video using mobile phone footage from concert audiences around the world(1). Consumers who attend Tiesto concerts can contribute footage from the events, and customers who purchase specially marked SanDisk microSDHC(TM) cards can download exclusive tracks created by Tiesto for his “What’s Next” virtual mix CD.

SanDisk will sponsor select Tiesto concerts throughout North America and Europe. During each event, the audience will be encouraged to record their concert experience using mobile phones while Tiesto performs a track from the exclusive mix offered to SanDisk customers. Concert-goers can upload their footage to www.wakeupyourphone.com/tiesto, and later Tiesto will select his favorite fan-generated clips for use in the track’s official music video.

“Tiesto’s concert audiences are going to help create a professional music video shot using mobile phones,” said Bob O’Keefe, vice president, retail marketing, SanDisk. “Consumers are already taking mobile videos every day, and SanDisk is giving Tiesto’s fans the opportunity to showcase the power of today’s handsets.”

Smartphones do more than place calls; they serve as mobile offices, music players, movie theaters, cameras and camcorders, GPS devices and gateways to the mobile Internet. These features produce large files that can quickly fill a phone’s onboard storage capacity. SanDisk microSDHC cards provide consumers with maximum freedom and flexibility in how they create and distribute content, letting them enjoy their mobile phones without worrying about running out of storage.

“I love the way technology is evolving. It’s amazing that SanDisk is the little memory card inside all of those phones and cameras every night,” said Tiesto. “Everyone is a photographer and movie maker, and it’s all happening in real time.”

Download Exclusive Tiesto Content

SanDisk is also making available premium Tiesto content for download fromwww.wakeupyourphone.com/tiesto; Tiesto’s “Whats Next” mix contains five exclusive tracks and an extended mix. SanDisk is offering the content without charge to all customers who purchase a specially marked SanDisk microSDHC card*. The cards are available now in Europe, and will be available in North America starting in the fall.

New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Area Event) - Area Event presents global DJ/Producer sensation, Tilsto as he makes his JerseyShore debut on July 16th & 17th, 2010 at Asbury Park’s newly renovated Convention Hall. Tiesto is set to bring an incredible and over the top experience to New Jersey that will be a must-attend event for the electronic music community. Racking up a number of sold out performances in North America and Europe in support of Kaleidoscope and its Billboard dance chart topping single ‘I Will Be Here,’ Tilsto has garnered universal acclaim from critics and fans alike for his state-of-the-art live performances and progressive approach to the worlds of electronic dance, pop and rock.

After a run of four top-selling electronic artist albums, the electronic pioneer has made Kaleidoscope, an artist album in the truest sense: a stunning collection of songs written and recorded in collaboration with a variety of music talents from the worlds of dance, pop and rock: Jonsi Birgisson from Sigur Ros, Kele Okereke from Bloc Party, Nelly Furtado, Calvin Harris, Emily Haines from Metric, to name a few. Having made the DJ performance an artform, Tilsto has now made the dance album an artform.

These dates will be Tilsto’s only U.S. shows all summer from his ongoing Kaleidoscope world tour, the largest DJ-only tour in history, playing more than 175 dates to over 1,000,000 people.

Tiesto vs. Diplo -C’Mon - Live @ Ultra Music Festival

Friday, July 16th & Saturday, July 17th, 2010
Area Event presents

Tiesto

Asbury Park Convention Hall
1300 Ocean Ave.
Asbury Park, NJ
Doors @ 9pm, All Ages
$45 in advance (Friday)
$55 in advance (Saturday)
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MIAMI, FL. (Top40 Charts/ ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL) – As the first major U.S. festival of the year, the ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL (“UMF”) offers fans the chance to see new music first. This year’s UMF represents one of the strongest and most diverse electronic line-ups ever assembled.

Set to join previously announced artists including headliners Tie”sto and Deadmau5-who’ll be closing the festival this year-are: Damian Marley & Nas performing from their electronic influenced Distant Relatives collaboration; David Guetta, fresh off his “Best Remixed Recording” Grammy win for “When Love Takes Over” featuring Kelly Roland; a reunited Orbital playing in the U.S. for the first time since disbanding in 2004; as well as Little Boots, Erick Morillo, Sasha & John Digweed, Paul Oakenfold, Benny Benassi, Fedde Le Grand, Fake Blood, Calvin Harris, Boys Noize Vs. Erol Alkan, Andy C & MC GQ, Subfocus and Kaskade, among many others.

Tickets for the world’s leading two-day electronic and alternative music experience-taking place Friday, March 26 and Saturday, March 27 at Bicentennial Park in Miami-are available now exclusively through www.ultramusicfestival.com. Two-day general admission tickets are $139.95. Two-day VIP tickets are also available for $350.00.

Friday, March 26

ULTRA MAIN STAGE: TIE”STO, *DAVID GUETTA, GROOVE ARMADA LIVE, PASSION PIT, *LITTLE BOOTS, DAN BLACK, *WOLFGANG GARTNER, *MISS NINE. BAYFRONT LIVE STAGE: THE DISCO BISCUITS, THE CRYSTAL METHOD LIVE, RABBIT IN THE MOON 3D, INFECTED MUSHROOM, PRETTY LIGHTS, LOTUS. CARL COX & FRIENDS ARENA: CARL COX, GREEN VELVET, TIMO MAAS, LUCIANO, UMEK. UMF IBIZA ARENA: ERIC PRYDZ, DIRTY SOUTH, WILL.I.AM,*KASKADE, FELIX DA HOUSECAT, *LAIDBACK LUKE. BISCAYNE STAGE: PLUMP DJS, *FAKE BLOOD, *STANTON WARRIORS, ADAM FREELAND, BASSBIN TWINS VS. UBERZONE LIVE, ALEX METRIC LIVE, *BOY 8 BIT, EVIL NINE,

Saturday, March 27

ULTRA MAIN STAGE: DEADMAU5, SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA, ARMIN VAN BUUREN, FAITHLESS SOUND SYSTEM LIVE, *BENNY BENASSI, *DAMIAN MARLEY & NAS, GROOVE ARMADA DJ SET, *CALVIN HARRIS DJ SET. BAYFRONT LIVE STAGE: *ORBITAL, CROOKERS, BLOODY BEETROOTS LIVE, GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY, A-TRAK, *BOYS NOIZE VS. EROL ALKAN, DIPLO, STEVE AOKI, AFROBETA *JAPANESE POPSTARS. CARL COX & FRIENDS ARENA: CARL COX, *SASHA & JOHN DIGWEED, *ERICK MORILLO, *FEDDE LE GRAND, *YOUSEF. UMF BRAZIL ARENA: ABOVE & BEYOND, *PAUL OAKENFOLD, *ATB, *MARKUS SCHULZ, *SANDER VAN DOORN, *GARETH EMERY, *RODRIGO VIEIRA, *JEROME ISMA-AE, *MARCOS CARNAVAL, *FERRIS. BISCAYNE STAGE: MAJOR LAZER, *PENDULUM DJ SET, LTJ BUKEM, BASSNECTAR, *ANDY C & MC GQ, RUSKO, THE GLITCH MOB, *PLANET OF THE DRUMS, SKREAM, *SUBFOCUS, BENGA, *FREQ NASTY, *NERO, CASPA, TODDLA T.
*denotes recent line-up addition

About ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL:

Tapped “Best Overall Event” by URB.COM and heralded by the Los Angeles Times as bringing “out raucous revelers as well as electronica’s elite,” UMF has also won “Best MusicEvent” by the International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) in 2009, 2008, 2007 & 2005, “Best International Dance Music Festival” by the Ibiza DJ Awards in 2008 and “Best Festival” by the Village Voice Media New Times consecutively five years running from 2005 through 2009.

UMF was originally created as a pure EDM (electronic dance music) festival in 1999 by founders Russell Faibisch and Alex Omes. Together with the addition of Adam Russakoff five years ago, Ultra has grown to present not only the genre’s hottest, biggest and best headline artists (The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, Tie”sto, Underworld, MOBY, FatboySlim, Carl Cox, Paul van Dyk, David Guetta, Armin Van Buuren, Erick Morillo, Deadmau5and Paul Oakenfold), but also crossover headline bands that incorporate EDM elements in their music and have a history, or new beginning in the EDM community (The Cure, TheKillers, The Black Eyed Peas, Santogold, The Ting Tings, The Bravery).

In addition to the annual Miami festival, UMF is continuing to expand internationally. Look for more upcoming UMF events in Brazil, Ibiza and other locations around the world.

DJ Tiesto is trying to conquer the globe and has his sights set firmly on bringing his brand of dance music to the masses, writes Craig Mathieson.

IT IS another week of work for Tiesto, the hugely popular Dutch DJ. He’s in Mexico City (it’s his fourth time playing there) as part of the Latin American leg of his world tour. The previous week, he celebrated his 41st birthday after playing to tens of thousands of people on a Rio de Janeiro beach. He now lives in Miami and soon he’ll be back in Australia.

Frequent-flyer points are his golden breadcrumbs.

”My goal in life is to play at least once in every country in the world. I still have a few to go,” says the man who was born Tijs Verwest.

Like most Dutchmen, he has a dry sense of humour but in this instance he’s serious. He’s ticking nations off.

Dance music has wholeheartedly embraced globalisation; it is a global sound and Tiesto plays to a global audience. Crowds, he says, have the same knowledge and the same enthusiasm nearly everywhere he plays, with local quirks increasingly a thing of the past.

Voted the world’s best DJ three years running by the influential DJ magazine, Tiesto has come a long way from The Spock, the delightfully named club in his home town of Breda, where he honed his turntable skills at the start of the 1990s. He entered as a Madonna fan and departed as an aficionado of trance, with its extended, anthemic peaks.

”I was in a little room off the main one and the boss said I could do whatever I wanted,” he recalls. ”That’s where I developed my style – from a general DJ to a trance one. If the room was packed there was 150 people in it. These days there are 150 people backstage when I play.”

Tiesto is undoubtedly one of the most successful DJs in the world, routinely playing sold-out arenas and other outdoor events. But in recent years his success has taken him, alongside other DJs such as David Guetta, into the centre of pop music. Tiesto’s appearances are now more likely to be concert productions, complete with hits from his own studio albums.

”What I wanted was to be at the centre of everything,” he explains. ”It felt natural at the time but it’s pretty amazing to see other DJs now doing the same.”

On 2009’s Kaleidoscope, his fourth studio album, trance has been put aside for an inclusive mix of electronic pop with collaborators as diverse as Bloc Party vocalist Kele Okereke, Nelly Furtado and Australian outfit Sneaky Sound System (they’re seen via video footage at his shows).

”Sometimes the artists had a lot of influence on me and sometimes I had a lot of influence on the artists,” Tiesto says. ”With Sneaky Sound System, we sent the track back and forth after I saw them at the Miami Music Conference. With Kele from Bloc Party we were in the studio together – he had a hangover – listening to the track over and over again to figure out how to do it.”

Tiesto is still something of an unlikely pop star. In Holland, where he is afforded coverage in the tabloid media, the wildest story attributed to him was that he drank 31 cans of an energy drink in one day; while his idea of fun on a day off is to visit a club unannounced and DJ free.

Most musicians grow conservative with the passing of time but Tiesto is loosening up. He cites alternative bands such as Sigur Ros and Melbourne’s Cut Copy as favourites and is growing less conservative as middle age looms.

”I’m more open these days than I was years ago,” he says. ”With music, people are willing to absorb a bit of everything from me now.”

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