Dance News.

Coming events:
Chris Fortier: Thurs 3 June @ Garage
Hype: Fri 4 June @ Traffic
Jungle Brothers: Fri 4 June @ Adelaide UniBar
Lyrics Born: Thu 10 June @ Traffic
S weatfest 2004 feat. C&C Music Factory, Snap!, The KLF: Fri 11 Jun @ Heaven
inthemix50 party with Kid Kenobi: Sat 13 June @ Traffic
Frantic featuring Phil Reynolds & James Lawson: Sun 13 June @ St Pauls
Bukem and Conrad: Fri 18 June @ Traffic
DJ Jorj: Sun 22 June @ Sugar
Ugly Duckling: Thurs 1 July @ Planet
Winter Enchanted: Sat 3 July
Coming up: Concord Dawn, Mad Racket, Brett Johnson, Luke Chable, John B, Armand Van Helden

The parties are bucketing down like the rain! Big names like this usually hit us in summer, for the obvious weather-related reasons, but this June will see some of the most anticipated dance acts to hit our shores in a more than welcome anomaly in the seasons of dance.

Chris Fortier, America's no 1 progressive DJ plays Fabric on Thu 3 June. Joining him will be Mal Chia, Lachy Pender and the Fabric crew.

We've been waiting many, many years to see this DJ, and finally, if there's not another last minute pull out, we will get to 'believe' as DJ Hype touches down for the first time in Adelaide at Traffic on Fri 4 June, alongside MC Rage for the True Playaz World Tour. This very special event will be capacity, so get there early!

They must have loved us last time, because they're back already! The Jungle Brothers return for an intimate event to be held at Adelaide Uni Bar, also on Fri 4 June.

Lyrics Born also returns to Adelaide for a special show on Thu 10 June at Traffic. If you missed him last year when he toured with Lateef the Truth speaker, as Latyrix at Mojo, then you missed one of the highlights of last year.

The Turbine crew bring Netherlands' Black Sun Empire to Adelaide for the first time for all the junglists at Traffic on Fri 11 June. Joining them will be Perth's Mystique, who wowed crowds a few years ago with her foxy attitude and sexy mixing.

In something that has me so flabbergasted I don't know where to begin, Heaven nightclub present Sweatfest 2004 on Fri 11 June, featuring C&C Music Factory, Snap! and The KLF. Yes, that's not a misprint: the biggest dance acts of the 90s. For true fans of the KLF, note that masterminds Bill Drummond and Jim Cauty are definitely NOT performing, but the line up includes Barbara Tucker, Turbo B, and Wanda Dee from each mega group respectively.

For the hard dance people, look no further than Frantic with Phil Reynolds and James Lawson at St Pauls on Sun 13 June.

By the time you read this, the inthemix.com.au Top 50 DJ poll should be announced. Check the website (inthemix.com.au) to see if your favourite Adelaide DJs made it, and get along to the inthemix50 party at Traffic, with last year's winner Kid Kenobi alongside Odyssey, John Doe, Mr S, Brendon, H-Bomb and ATB on Sat 12 June

Speaking of awards, it appears that a certain person (whom I shall call "Max Headroom") has been having a go at the SA Dance Music Awards in another dance-related publication. Whilst I agree that the current voting system is flawed, I totally disagree that a "panel of esteemed peers" should do the judging for all of the awards apart from "most popular DJ." What's wrong with an entirely public vote? Is Max saying that the Dance music public is too ill-informed on who or how to choose the best DJs? I ask you, "Max," who is better to judge than those who go out to events each and every week to a wide and diverse range of DJs and performers? Everyone knows that the Adelaide dance music scene is more incestuous than the backwaters of Louisiana, with too many egos in the scene, and trying to balance these egos into a "panel of esteemed peers" would cause even more division in (and derision from) the dance community than there is now. Something like the SADMAs needs one person to step forward to take control, and that person appears to be Tony Carracia, who's done a splendid job in the past.