Just saw this in the Herald today...

http://bostonherald.com/blogs/enter...position=recent

Two of the brains behind Thunderdome are starting to think bigger, better and beyond the several hundred kids they have going bonkers at each of their large-scale bi-monthly-ish dance parties. Come February, they’re organizing a whole week of electronic music parties, lectures and sessions. It’s called Together: The New England Electronic Music Festival , it runs Feb. 8 to 14 at venues and halls across greater Boston, and details are starting to trickle out. It looks all sorts of awesome.

Here’s the first release, sent out by co-organizer David Day just a few moments ago. The full lineup and participants will be released next month, but this is quite a taste of what’s in store. Boston needs this.

TOGETHER ANNOUNCES FIRST ANNUAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
City-wide event Feb. 8 to 14 in Boston

Together: The New England Electronic Music Festival announces it’s first-ever annual electronic music festival, held from Monday, Feb. 8 to Sunday, Feb. 14 at various venues around the city of Boston. Over 100 artists will participate in nearly 40 events during the 6-day event, designed to celebrate and promote electronic music in all its facets. Complete programs and schedules will be announced Jan. 13, 2010. For more information, visit togetherboston.com.

Together: The New England Electronic Music Festival is an inclusive event, welcoming guests from around New England and the world. For those new to the emerging Boston culture, guests can explore Boston’s best venues and experience show-stopping regional and international acts.

Beginning with a kickoff reception on Monday Feb. 8, the festival will ramp up through the week with launch events like Hearthrob and Throwed. Together will hold daytime panels at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Schools such as New England Conservatory will show off some of their newest technology with tours. Wednesday and Thursday include award-winning nights Midweek Techno, Elements, Work! and Make It New with guests from inside the city and out. Additionally on Wednesday, Red Bull Music Academy partners with the Together team and group of party innovators from the local community for a special event at Estate.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the festival culminates in a series of even larger events at signature venues like the Middle East Club, the Paradise Rock Club and Downtown Crossing’s Good Life bar. Other weekend festivities will include a VJ symposium, a record fair and trade show, all-ages concerts, film screenings and after-hours celebrations at Rise.

Throughout the week, there will be more to enjoy as well. Activities include classes in the art of DJing and tours of famous collections of synthesizers. To ensure that the young “mixing generation” has a chance to participate, there will be all-ages shows and many different parties open to those 18 and over, including all after-hours events at Boston’s Rise nightclub.

To organize such collaboration, a team of well-established area promoters and aficionados have set aside their valuable time to come together and make this happen.

Founding Officers include:

Mike McKay (Managing Director): Mike is no stranger to collaboration. Three years ago, he started Thunderdome, which in its own way united a disparate group of DJs and parties. He doesn’t sleep in efforts to find sponsors and partnering with Boston’s finest institutions.

David Day (Creative Director): Before he became the Arts & Entertainment Editor of Boston’s Weekly Dig, David had a life’s work in the music business. With connections throughout the world, he’d like to see Boston as a regular location for the music and DJs he loves.

Chris Ward (Promotion Manager): A bass-lover born, Chris is a part of Bassic, who have elevated Boston to an international stop for the greatest subgenre of the noughties: Dubstep.

Jamie Michalski (Young Outreach Coordination): As DJ Die Young, Jamie is one of Boston’s finest new producers. He’s in charge of Together’s DJ mix competition and DJ classes.

Koren Bernardi (Volunteer Coordinator): Active in the industrial underground as DJ Punketta Doilie, Koren is a highly talented manager of people and professional services.

Mike Swells (Sponsorship Manager): A resident DJ at Boston’s Rise nightclub, Mike has built a network of dance music contacts through perseverance, dedication and an award-winning smile.

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yea it's been coming together for awhile, but as i have been reading in their google group its going to be all locals and hardly any non-boston/new england talent (which is ok for boston i guess). best of luck to them.

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Originally posted by cl0wnz0r yea it's been coming together for awhile, but as i have been reading in their google group its going to be all locals and hardly any non-boston/new england talent (which is ok for boston i guess). best of luck to them.

Big name dj's and the people who only go out to those nights don't help a scene thrive. This festival is about what Boston has to offer which is plenty. Leave the trance, the deadmau5's, the david guettas of the world for another time.

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Originally posted by GUBostonDubs Big name dj's and the people who only go out to those nights don't help a scene thrive. This festival is about what Boston has to offer which is plenty. Leave the trance, the deadmau5's, the david guettas of the world for another time.

i mentioned non-boston talent because that's what their previous press release was about. it was basically along the lines of bring in whoever you want, but you are paying for it and putting our stamp on it. that seemed very unfair the way they worded it.

plus, we have a lot of trance locals (listeners, dj's, and producers) and 0 trance nights. leaving out this group would be a mistake, in my opinion. obviously, i support all of what boston has to offer, but from what i have read so far it seems merely a business opportunity and not for the love of the scene or the music. reminds me a lot of the ideology thrown around in the KSB forums.

oh well, i'm sure that regardless of what i think the festival will turn out just fine.

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Originally posted by cl0wnz0r i mentioned non-boston talent because that's what their previous press release was about. it was basically along the lines of bring in whoever you want, but you are paying for it and putting our stamp on it. that seemed very unfair the way they worded it. plus, we have a lot of trance locals (listeners, dj's, and producers) and 0 trance nights. leaving out this group would be a mistake, in my opinion. obviously, i support all of what boston has to offer, but from what i have read so far it seems merely a business opportunity and not for the love of the scene or the music. reminds me a lot of the ideology thrown around in the KSB forums. oh well, i'm sure that regardless of what i think the festival will turn out just fine.

The people putting on this festival have nothing but the best intentions. There's no trance acts because there's no trance scene in Boston anymore other than the big room acts that King Size books once in a few months at the Roxy or Underbar. Rise might have one every so often but trance is of no impact basically at all on the local scene. It hasnt really been a major thing in boston since like 2003 or earlier when Manolo and Dj Nailz were trance residents at Avalon/Roxy.

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Originally posted by GUBostonDubs The people putting on this festival have nothing but the best intentions. There's no trance acts because there's no trance scene in Boston anymore other than the big room acts that King Size books once in a few months at the Roxy or Underbar. Rise might have one every so often but trance is of no impact basically at all on the local scene. It hasnt really been a major thing in boston since like 2003 or earlier when Manolo and Dj Nailz were trance residents at Avalon/Roxy.

so then guys like ben cole from worcester who do highly successful bi-weekly trance nights and the trance guys from providence don't count? what about producers like andrew bayer who go to berklee? its a 'new england' electronic music festival, not just boston.

my point was that the lineup so far is just the same stuff we see every week. nothing new, but a stamp that says its a festival. of course you can argue there are training courses and info sessions during it, but like i said, so far it's just business as usual. if their 'good intentions' were for a festival, they would actually find promoters that aren't so concentrated and at least bring together some talent that gets underrepresented. i get it though, everyone has a different view on what a festival is.

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Originally posted by GUBostonDubs Big name dj's and the people who only go out to those nights don't help a scene thrive. This festival is about what Boston has to offer which is plenty. Leave the trance, the deadmau5's, the david guettas of the world for another time.

Yeah, but when you're talking about a big festival, it's the Guettas and Armins that bring the masses of people out so that the locals can get known...

Nights by Massive Event here in New York, with locals and medium guys, are only successful because of the impact the Tiestos and Armins have had on bringing trance here...

You can't really market a festival if it's just another dose of the same ol'. Everytime I go to Boston, not one person I know or meet there knows what to suggest as far as nightlife... If Guetta or Armin's faces were on a billboard everywhere in town, then the trickle-down effect of that exposure might help foster a greater scene on all levels...

Minitek NYC had the best of intentions AND a good lineup and that didn't even work for them... It has to work on all levels: promotion, execution, etc...

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Originally posted by DJ Eco Yeah, but when you're talking about a big festival, it's the Guettas and Armins that bring the masses of people out so that the locals can get known... Nights by Massive Event here in New York, with locals and medium guys, are only successful because of the impact the Tiestos and Armins have had on bringing trance here... You can't really market a festival if it's just another dose of the same ol'. Everytime I go to Boston, not one person I know or meet there knows what to suggest as far as nightlife... If Guetta or Armin's faces were on a billboard everywhere in town, then the trickle-down effect of that exposure might help foster a greater scene on all levels... Minitek NYC had the best of intentions AND a good lineup and that didn't even work for them... It has to work on all levels: promotion, execution, etc...

but its the brains behind thunderdome

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Regardless of Dj Eco and Vlad's love for trance, it has come and gone in Boston other than the big nights here and there. Naming a few djs (ones Ive never heard of) that actually play trance is not enough to warrant inclusion to this festival imo and Im sure thats what the organizers thought as well.

Why don't you guys complain to the Together people that there's no trance

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Originally posted by Dj_MadirozE but its the brains behind thunderdome

Thunderdome is always so packed you end up waiting in line for hours and still might even get in.

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Originally posted by GUBostonDubs Thunderdome is always so packed you end up waiting in line for hours and still might even get in.

trust me i know...i was jokin..i used 2 live in new england so i actually think this is a cool concept...but hopefully it can get pulled off succesfully ....if its by the dudes behind thunderdome, i wanna see some fucking neophyte

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