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Mirage Hard Dance Festival

Date: April 2－8 pm

Venue: Qianshuiwan Culture Art Center

Price: 220-420 yuan

Imagine yourself, dancing to the hardest beats of our generation powered by three of the most iconic Hardstyle Djs, each with his own unique style. Through their music they give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind and life to everything. If you can find joy in music, this is your chance to experience something completely new for the first time ever in Shanghai. Without any doubt, Atmozfears is one of the biggest names and a true legend in the Hardstyle community. His melodies are amongst the most epic melodies ever created, generating an incredible intense and uplifting aura, an aura thousands of Hardstyle minds are getting lost in every weekend. 2015 was the year of Cyber. Supported by almost every big name out there, The Swiss Dj made his way from small talent stages, to the biggest festival stages of Europe. His productions remind of the golden era of Hardstyle between 2008-2010. It was back in 2008 when the young Jesse Koch came in touch with Hardstyle. Even though he started out skeptical, this music grew on him like a virus. He taught himself how to mix and started promoting his mixes on the internet. Becoming a resident DJ on some of the biggest online hardstyle radio stations and playing some smaller gigs, he realized that he had to start producing to grow further, which he did under the alias Festuca. A lot of proactive hours later, Festuca was able to create his own sounds and at the moment things are going really fast for him. With gigs like Qapital, Defqon.1, and X-Qlusive Holland in the past year, Festuca is one to watch. During the LAST 15 minutes of MIRAGE indoor festival, MOTI DANCE has prepared a fabulous and breathtaking endshow for everyone who made it to the end. Lights, laser, dry-ice and other scene effects will be on full throttle. With a special Hard Dance set, composed for this night only, the 7 hours roller coaster ride will come to an end－with a blast!

Richie Hawtin Shanghai Tour 2016

Date: April 9－9 pm

Venue: Mao Livehouse Shanghai

Price: 200-380 pm

Richie Hawtin was born in June 4, 1970. He is an English-born Canadian electronic musician and DJ and three times DJ Awards winner. He was an influential part of Detroit techno's second wave of artists in the early 1990s and has been a leading exponent of minimal techno since the mid-1990s. Richie Hawtin is best known for his work under the alias Plastikman and for his ENTER. events in Ibiza and around the world. He is known for DJing techno sets making use of laptop computers and digital mixing equipment. In May 1990 Hawtin and fellow second-waver John Acquaviva founded the Plus 8 record label, which they named after their turntable's pitch adjust function. In 1998, Hawtin launched Minus Records. In 2007, Slices DVD magazine launched a series of biographies called "Pioneers of Electronic Music", with the first issue being a roughly 60 minute documentary dedicated to the life of Richie Hawtin. Richie Hawtin's successes in music technology were affirmed in July 2015, when he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music Technology by the University of Huddersfield. The Veteran DJ, producer, label owner and tech enthusiast received an Honorary Doctorate in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the world of music technology.