Alex Jukes

Social Avenue is taking over a car park in Manchester’s Trafford Park and turning it into a safe and welcoming music and food pop up for a series of socially distant events for six weeks with the red hot Mason Collective headlining the first party. Brands and DJs like Bontan, Mele, Sed Zito and Josh Butler plus Darius Syrossian, Moxy Muzik, Haus22, OC & Verde and many more will all be taking part in future events, ensuring that summer is rescued and people finally get dancing safely and legally for the first time in four months. 

You can expect huge brand partnerships and DJs from all dance music genres to take over this space on Saturday and Sundays at Longbridge Road at Trafford Park, Manchester. Social Avenue will be only powered by the best ‘Void Tri Motion’ sound system and on-site bars will be fully stocked with all of your favourite beers, gins, vodkas, whisky, brandy and much more. 

Mouthwatering eats are also available so you can enjoy a variety of delicious street food to carry you throughout your day at Social Avenue. It starts when you and those in your social bubble will be seated on a table that is exclusively for you and your crew so you can enjoy the day at a safe distance from all. 

As well as food and music there will be photo booths and cameo areas for you to get that perfect social media selfie shot all whilst maintaining a safe distance. One-way systems will be in place in toilet areas, bars and around the site to keep you safe, and face masks and coverings are advised, with sanitiser stations available throughout the site.

It all kicks off with The Mason Collective, who since their inception in 2014 have been drawing attention in the underground music scene for their explosive DJ sets and highly renowned MVSON events. The Manchester based DJ and production trio have been developing their own signature brand of high energy grooves, showcasing them at a number of high profile clubs all round the world, so this hometown gig will be epic indeed. 

Tickets are only available in groups of 2,3,4,5 or 6 and you must stay with your group in your zone for the duration of the day.

August 1st

Origins | Bontan + Josh Butler + Mele + Seb Zito

August 8th

Haus22 At Social Avenue | OC & Verde + Rudosa

August 15th 

Social Avenue | Moxy Muzik 02 – Darius Syrossian 4hr set

August 30th

Social Avenue presents: Retro

September 5th

Social Avenue | Moxy Muzik – Darius Syrossian 4hr set

Saturday 29th August

Cuckoo Land – Sam Divine, Jess Bays, Craig Harrison, Pat Hickey

VirtualDJ significantly improves the sound quality of the separated stems. It also gives additional control to the DJs to adjust in real-time a bleeding parameter, and to fine-tune even more the quality of each track

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Just one month after releasing its game changing new technology, VirtualDJ announces today a new version that significantly improves upon the quality of its real-time track separation technology.

In today’s update, VirtualDJ significantly improves the sound quality of the separated stems. It also gives additional control to the DJs to adjust in real-time a bleeding parameter, and to fine-tune even more the quality of each track.

VirtualDJ is the only pro DJ software that allows DJs to access in real-time, on any computer, separated acapella, instruments or beats of any track. This new technology has been described as a game changer, and has long been the holy grail for professional DJs.

Stephane Clavel, CEO of VirtualDJ, said:

“The release of this new technology last month has really put us in the spotlight, and we saw an incredible number of customers switching over from competitors. That gave all the team a boost of energy and pride, and got us to work double-time to improve on this already amazing feature. And we’re not going to stop there. We all see that what we’re doing here is really impacting the DJing world, and it’s an immensely satisfying feeling. “

VirtualDJ is the most popular DJ software, with over 150 million downloads, and is sold in more than 180 countries. It is used from superstar DJs to curious music enthusiasts all around the world, and has been helping to make DJing better and more accessible for over 20 years.

It is free for non-commercial use, and can be downloaded on www.virtualdj.com

“We Move Together” is a concept t-shirt put together as a community effort from the DnB scene to raise money to help combat and dismantle systemic racism within the industry and society as a whole.

We are asking for your logo and your support, this can happen in one of three ways:

1. Give us permission to use your logo on the T-Shirt, share and promote the product on your social channels.

2. Use of logo, social channel posting and sale on your individual web shop.

3. All of the above as well as becoming part of the board to decide where the funds will be spent. Be available to take part in panels and give time to educate and tutor young BAME promoters, producers, djs and other industry students.

 There will be a run of t-shirts and hoodies printed on sustainable and recycled material which is guaranteed not to be a product of slave labour or exploitation. 100% of all profits raised will go to charity; including key organisations like The Stephen Lawrence Foundation, Black Minds Matter UK, black music charities (TBC) and American bail support charities like The Bail Project. We are open to further suggestions on recipients and will split the funding as the board sees fit by manner of voting.

 The exact numbers of t-shirts, stats and sales will be available to all labels that contribute. Any future plans will be agreed and actioned by anyone involved in the board.

What next?

 Send us your highest quality logo and what level of involvement you’re interested in.

 *Logos on the t-shirts are for example bands have been contacted but not fully confirmed