The Swiss Grand Hotel will be converted into a resort under the management of QT Hotels and Resorts. Sixty Nine apartments known as “QT Residences” will be built on the existing site. The Swiss Grand will close in September before work commences and is expected to be completed by 2016.

– In the 2011 Census the population of Bondi Beach was 10,748 and was comprised of 51.5% males and 48.5% females.

– The median/average age of the Bondi Beach population is 33 years of age, 4 years below the Australian average.

– 47.3% of people living in Bondi Beach were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England 9%, New Zealand 4.3%, Ireland 2.5%,South Africa 2.2%, United States of America 1.5%.

– 68.7% of people speak English as their first language 2.2% Russian, 2% Spanish, 1.8% French, 1.5% German, 1.4% Italian.

– The religious make up of Bondi Beach is 31.1% No Religion, 22% Catholic, 11% Anglican, 8% Judaism, 2.4% Eastern Orthodox.

– 25.2% of people are married, 62.7% have never married and 7.5% are separated or divorced. There are 247 widowed people living in Bondi Beach.

– 70.3% of the people living in Bondi Beach are employed full time, 20.8% are working on a part time basis. Bondi Beach has an unemployment rate of 4.4%.

– The main occupations of people from Bondi Beach are Professionals 39.2%, Managers 17.8%, Clerical and Administrative Workers 10.6%, Community and Personal Service Workers 8.8%, Technicians and Trades Workers 8.1%, Sales Workers 8.1%, Labourers 3.6%, Machinery Operators And Drivers 1.7%.

– The median individual income is $1050.00 per week and the median household income is $1856.00 per week.

– 17.2% of homes are fully owned, and 19% are in the process of being purchased by home loan mortgage. 60.1% of homes are rented.

– The median rent in Bondi Beach is $490 per week and the median mortgage repayment is $2687 per month.

On August 27th 2013 Staten Island co-ed duo Paulie “D” Cigliano and Debra Torres aka Dare 2B Dif’rnt release their follow up to the critically acclaimed “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” entitled “Stand Up For Your Love Rights.”

Penned in 1988 by Yasmin Evans of Yazz & The Plastic Population, this tune originally released as an anthem against domestic abuse takes on a whole new meaning in this climate around the battle for marriage equality. Paulie D. says “It’s easy to see the title and listen to the lyrics and equate the tune with the struggle for marriage equality, which of course Debra & I completely support. However, the song stands for more than that as a lot of people gay and straight struggle to find happiness and peace in relationships. The real message is that everyone deserves to love and be loved and not be judged. Whether it be a relationship of mixed race or religion as well as same sex relationships, it is up to all of us to make our own happiness and if need be to stand up for it!” Debra adds, “We have been performing this tune at Pride events for the last few years and in that time things have come a long way but not far enough. As long as people are being judged for who and how they love, this song will be relevant and we are proud to sing such empowering lyrics and hope people everywhere will find strength in these words and stand up for love!”

The first set of mixes feature stellar versions from Georgie Porgie (Chicago) and Funk3d (Great Britain), next up are the original production from Giuseppe D. (long time Dare 2B Dif’rnt producer) and San Antonio’s Klubjumpers.

Look for Dare 2B Dif’rnt to go out in support of “Stand Up For Your Love Rights” this fall.

“Stand Up For Your Love Rights” is available on Sirenia Records distributed by the Music Plant Group on iTunes, Beatport, Traxsource and Music Plant Records.com.

Tonight the reputable Electric Elements are hitting The Beach Road Hotel, a Sydney based group who eclectically combine blues, funk and hip hop into a rhythmical unique sound of their own. Having recently released their brand new single ‘Smile’ in conjunction with The Suicide Watch Project and produced by Zeed The Mantis the crew are ready to take the Beach Road stage. They will be giving Sydney a taste of their new sounds, playing old favourites and some unreleased material from their upcoming album.

Successful DJ and producer Florian Picasso and his management team at Kronos, have announced today that they will be bringing the DJ Mag franchise to France and
Switzerland starting in October.

This is a great opportunity for France to have a dedicated magazine which is devoted only to dance music and Florian already has received some powerful support on the project from fellow
countrymen, David Guetta and Bob Sinclar.

The plan for the magazine will be to deliver the most upfront news, music and interviews to their readers and to establish DJ France as the go to guide for all things EDM related in France
and Switzerland.

The debut issue is slated for release this October at the conclusion of ADE, and following the announcement of the DJ Mag Top 100 results in Amsterdam.

Florian will contribute to the magazine with editorial, interviews and at large coverage, with the inaugural issue set to feature an in depth interview Florian did with Showtek.

It’s no surprise that nightclubs are dark places, they foster feelings of lust, sex and love and sometimes, when we dance there, we can go through the stages of fancying, loving, fumbling foreplay, intercourse, climax and post-coital bliss just by making eye contact, and holding it, with someone on the other side of the dance floor. Dancing is, according to George Bernard Shaw, “The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music”.

There is tons of evidence for this, from the anecdotal to the scientific. Lets start with the science and work our way down. Darwin thought that dance was part of the mate selection process and more recently two groups of researchers (Brown et al., 2005 and Fink et al., 2007) suggest that the way we dance might be influenced by our hormonal and genetic make up, such that we use dance to communicate the quality of our genes to potential mates.

In my own lab I have observed similar findings. I filmed people dancing naturally in a real nightclub and I found that men with high levels of the sex hormone testosterone dance differently to men with low levels of testosterone and, most importantly, women prefer the dancing of high testosterone men. Now, if we couple this with the finding that the female sexual partners of high testosterone men report having more orgasms during sex than the sexual partners of low testosterone men we can see how dancing style is well worth looking at when we are looking for a mate.

What about women? When women are at the more fertile stage of their menstrual cycle they dance differently to when they are at the less fertile stage of their cycle. I have found that men rate the dancing of women who are at the fertile stage of their cycle to be more attractive than the dancing of women who are at the less fertile stage of their menstrual cycle. So what’s so different about the dancing of fertile and less fertile women? It’s all in the hips. At the more fertile stage of their cycle women move their hips more when they are dancing compared with when they are at the less fertile stage. I have used eye tracking devises to see where men look on a woman’s body when she dances and I have found that men spend more time looking at the hips of women who are more fertile than they spend looking at the hips of women who are less fertile. So, the more time men spend looking at a woman’s hips the more attractive they find her!

by Dr Peter Lovatt

Defqon.1 – 18,000 people attended and they are all those terrible drug addicts you hear about…apparently

Well you’ve probably heard that a bloke died at the Defqon 1 party allegedly from a cocktail of drugs and 84 people got themselves arrested.

All the same grumblers are now grumbling in the same way they have been since the old days of Warehouse Raves in that time-tested “We told you so” way. Of course no one is bothering to mention that the extent of police attention to the event was likely to produce these sort of arrest numbers. No one is mentioning that Alchohol kills more people and causes more havoc than recreational drugs ever do week in week out…tut tut

I am sure if on the same night the police were out in force at any event where young people were letting off steam and having fun they would have averaged about the same numbers of bodies in vehicles. Why if they just visited the average suburban party, proportionally they’d find just the same number of young people taking drugs.

I Popped a pill, danced a lot, snuggled in the corner with a hot guy..what a night..Little did I know that was it: the demon was on my back. I needed more and more and more. A week later I was mainlining heroin and prostituting myself to not hot guys and listening to Death Metal..

There were even 20 overdoses apparently! Little wonder that people gulped all their pills down quickly and unsafely at the sight of barking dogs and mobs of snarling policemen. If there were more than the happy level of overdoses one could perchance blame that on an over the top police presence?? If they really “care” as they suggest, then possibly not turning up ala Gestapo might be more helpful…

Out of 18,000 people enjoying the music the police arrested 84 for possessing or taking drugs. That means around 0.004% were being slightly naughty…lets have a bit of perspective here!

Ok I’m not exactly a big fan of drugs, but I do like Dance Parties and this exact same stigma has been dumped on people enjoying music outside the norm since..oh I don’t know…the late eighties when warehouse parties were the thing (yes kiddies once we could just take over a Warehouse and enjoy the music, no insurance, no police, no barking dogs…).

People took pills then, maybe the same percentage that do now. But it only makes sense that if there’s all us old Ravers still creeping around waxing lyrically about the “good old days” that nothing too harmful was going on. Of course every generation believes it parties harder than those previous, but lets face it we had just as much fun and we’re all still alive and not a generation turned into Zombies by a few recreational party lollies.

Fresh off his hosting and performance duties at the  yearly charity festival Žur z razlogom his hometown of Ljubljana, Slovenia this  past weekend, UMEK today announced plans to hit the road relentlessly through  the years end. The tour will take the titan across North America, South America and Asia respectively.

ROUND
ONE: consists of stops in the US and Canada, with major appearances at
Insomniac events Beyond Wonderland and
Nocturnal Wonderland and club dates at
Exchange , LA and Shine in
Vancouver.

ROUND TWO: see’s the superstar hitting South
America for two weeks followed by a return to North America for an extended tour
on the club and festival circuits. Included stops have UMEK showcased on some
prime stage real estate; FreakNight/Seattle, Pacha/NYC, Lavo/Las
Vegas, EDC/Orlando and Mansion/Miami– just to name a
few.

ROUND THREE: can be affectionately dubbed ‘UMEK
goes to Asia.’ For nearly all of December UMEK will be covering the wide expanse
of Asia crisscrossing the continent to deliver a few very lucky countries some
early techno cheer!

SEPTEMBER
21   San
Bernardino, USA -Nocturnal Wonderland
27   Vancouver, Canada- Shine
28
Los Angeles, USA – Exchange
29   San Francisco, USA- Beyond
Wonderland

OCTOBER
1     Las Vegas, USA –
Lavo
3     Lima, Peru – Fauno (Toro Retro)
4
Bogota, Colombia – La Bolera
5     Pereira, Colombia-
Paradise
10   Cordoba – Voodoo Lounge
11
Buenos Aires- Crobar
12   Mar Del Plata- Mute
13   Rosario Punto-
Arroyo
18   Boston, USA – Bijou
19   New York, USA- Pacha
25   Seattle,
USA- FreakNight
26   San Bernardino, USA- Escape from
Wonderland

NOVEMBER
8     Philadelphia, USA-
Sound Garden
9     Orlando, USA- EDC
15   Ottawa, Canada- Era
16
Montreal, Canada- Circus
22   Toronto, Canada-
Maison
23   Miami, USA-
Mansion

DECEMBER
Asia (dates TBA)