Hey Music Mag - Issue 5 - April 2019
Hey! Grab your glitter, put fuel in your campervan and hit the road! With festival season on the horizon, our jam-packed Festival Special issue helps you make summer 2019 one to remember. Whether you want to ‘go big’ or ‘go boutique’, our UK festival guide will steer you to the best music festivals in good old Blighty. Or take flight with our pick of the coolest international festivals on the planet. What’s more, we chart the evolution of dancing in fields and there’s fun festival trivia with which to impress your mates. Elsewhere, we catch up with hot-right-now UK hip-hop stars Children of Zeus before they re-embark on their UK tour, get lyrical with songwriting genius Tim Fraser, and question whether 1989 was the best year for music – ever. Your summer planning starts here! Enjoy the issue.
Hey!
Grab your glitter, put fuel in your campervan and hit the road! With festival season on the horizon, our jam-packed Festival Special issue helps you make summer 2019 one to remember. Whether you want to ‘go big’ or ‘go boutique’, our UK festival guide will steer you to the best music festivals in good old Blighty. Or take flight with our pick of the coolest international festivals on the planet. What’s more, we chart the evolution of dancing in fields and there’s fun festival trivia with which to impress your mates.
Elsewhere, we catch up with hot-right-now UK hip-hop stars Children of Zeus before they re-embark on their UK tour, get lyrical with songwriting genius Tim Fraser, and question whether 1989 was the best year for music – ever.
Your summer planning starts here!
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Co-founder of the International <strong>Music</strong> Summit and the<br />
Association for Electronic <strong>Music</strong>, Ben Turner reflects<br />
on his journey through music…<br />
Words_Sara Cooper<br />
IMPACT<br />
Industry<br />
leaders and<br />
artists from the<br />
electronic music world will soon descend<br />
upon Ibiza for the International <strong>Music</strong><br />
Summit. Taking place from 22 – 24 May<br />
this year, IMS will throw the spotlight onto<br />
the “complex challenges and emerging<br />
opportunities that really matter in today’s<br />
ever-evolving industry”.<br />
Now in its 12th year and considered the<br />
start of the Ibiza season, IMS was cofounded<br />
by Ben Turner, who has had a<br />
long and varied career in the scene. This<br />
is his story…<br />
“I grew up in Oxford, England, and from<br />
the age of 15 I wanted to be a music<br />
journalist. At 16 that journey began with<br />
a five-day internship in London at leading<br />
rock music publication Melody Maker.<br />
Along with famous music journalists back<br />
then like Push, Andy Smith, Bob Stanley<br />
and Dave Mothersole, we subverted the<br />
paper with electronic music content,<br />
introducing the DJ as a valid musician,<br />
which had a huge impact on a lot of artist<br />
careers and helped the genre grow in the<br />
UK at a very pivotal point.<br />
“Push and I co-founded Muzik magazine.<br />
It was funded and published by IPC<br />
<strong>Mag</strong>azines (now Time Warner). The first<br />
cover was The Chemical Brothers or The<br />
Dust Brothers just around that time. Muzik<br />
was trying to take the spirit of NME and<br />
Melody Maker to dance music and not<br />
just gush over everything being made. We<br />
wanted to be edgy, honest and heartfelt.<br />
“We launched in May 1995 at Tribal<br />
Gathering and left in the summer of 2000.<br />
I wanted to pursue a more entrepreneurial<br />
role in the industry and also to take some<br />
ownership of projects or properties I was<br />
putting my whole life into. Nobody told me<br />
about equity and IP when launching Muzik<br />
– I was 21 years old and just happy that<br />
a huge company was funding my dream<br />
and our vision. Not that IPC would have<br />
given me any ownership.<br />
“But I was around people like James<br />
Barton who was building his own Cream<br />
brand, and I wanted to set along a path of<br />
building my own concepts, properties or<br />
participating in events created by artists<br />
around me.<br />
“I moved from Muzik initially to be an<br />
Editorial Director of worldpop.com.<br />
Worldpop went bust in the dotcom crash,<br />
and at this point I said I’d never work for<br />
somebody else’s company again and set<br />
up Graphite Media immediately.<br />
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