All About Dave Clarke

The Observer newspaper highlighted some of Donald Trump’s key tips for success this week including ‘think big’, ‘be paranoid’ and ‘have a short attention span’, to the (partial) approval of top British techno type Dave Clarke. [more]

A new study examining the links between obesity and testosterone has discovered that men who gained just 30 pounds (13.6kg) lost as much testosterone as if they’d aged 10 years, Reuters reported this week. [more]

UK Techno don Dave Clarke unveiled details of his retrospective remix compilation “Remixes & Rarities” this week and revealed that he’s never considered saving ideas for his own productions instead of others’. [more]

Dave Clarke, Judge Jules and Princess Superstar are joining the Skrufff team as regular contributors, sharing opinions, news and views about the club scene, club life and Skrufff’s regular diet of sex, make-up and music. [more]

British DJs carrying laptops and CDs overseas will have to risk checking their music and equipment into aircrafts’ holds from now on, following this week’s UK terror alert and subsequent ban on almost all items of hand luggage. [more]

DJ Magazine unveiled details of this year’s top 100 DJ poll this week and revealed that they’ll be awarding medals for new categories including ‘Best House DJ’, ‘Best Electro DJ’ and ‘Best Hard Dance DJ’ at this year’s awards party. [more]

UK chemists chain Superdrug launched a new male cosmetics range this week, offering up a new range of man-friendly kohl under the brand name of ‘Guyliner’. [more]

German electro uber-producers Tiefschwarz chatted to Skrufff this week about their upcoming compilation CD for Fabric and revealed that they were massive supporters of electroclash and all its associated elements. [more]

Novi Sad officials charged three Exit Festivals key organisers with giving out free tickets worth €140,000 at a previous event, last week, some two years after they first took Dušan Kovačević, Bojana Bošković and Deana and Ivana Gligorić into custody [more]

Exit Festival organiser Paxton Talbot chatted to Skrufff this week about Serbia's upcoming annual music event and revealed that over 3,000 Brits have so far bought tickets for the 80,000 capacity gig. [more]

As the Madrid Electronic Conference (MEC for short) swings into preparation, the City of Casa De Campo - in the heart of Spain's capital city Madrid - couldn't be more excited [more]

An eight year study of the sub-culture lifestyles of over a thousand young Brits published this week, has revealed that 47% of the Goths have attempted suicide and 53% practised self harm, making the youth fashion by far the most self-destructive sub-cultures. [more]

As punters across Europe continue to wipe their eyes and wait for the sobbing subside with the announcement that the annual mud-fest Glastonbury won't be happening again this year, Serbia's Exit Festival is riding high as they scoop up the broken hearts and generously put them back together. [more]

Carl Cox's recent decision to spend his summers in Melbourne Australia could become a permanent one he told Sydney magazine 3D World this week, declaring 'I've found my place in life'. [more]

UK techno pioneer Dave Clarke is urging fans not to buy vinyl copies of his early club anthem Red 2, after re-pressed copies of the 90s techno smash appeared for sale on a British website. [more]

The State of Exit is Eastern Europe's premier festival and in 2005 it looks set to be even bigger. Headliners will include Underworld, Fatboy Slim, Dave Clarke and Sasha. EXIT runs from July 7 to 10. [more]

Trend spotting electro-tech tastemaker Damian Lazarus tore into records by some of the biggest producers in dance music this week, including Seb Fontaine and even his peers Arthur Baker and Dave Clarke. [more]

UK Techno King Dave Clarke announced this week that's he's giving up mixing vinyl for CDs some seven years after he first considered the switch. [more]

Brit techno don Dave Clarke revealed he's got no plans to stop wearing eye makeup since embracing the electro fashion last year, telling Onion magazine (Australia) this week, 'I've always toyed with it, I've just never had to guts to do it before.' [more]

There was no initial feeling of dissatisfaction. Dave Clarke. Prince of Wales. Top Melbourne support. It was always going to be sensational. Always going to be a minimum eight-outta-ten evening. In hindsight, I'd say that was about on the money. But from the top we go... [more]

A late change of venue, a case of musical stages on the night and a certain high profile Frenchman missing his plane into town (despite what the local street press will tell you) could not dampen peoples spirits for what turned out to be the biggest Sunday Session of summer. Read on..... [more]

World Service is a double cd highlighting Dave Clarke's techno mastery and his love of electro. Both cds contain many highlights and are quite dark and moody to say the least. [more]

7 years on from the essential Red trilogy, Dave Clarke is back with an even more eclectic selection of fat, funky techno, hip hop and electronic funk. [more]