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livenews UNITED KINGDOM Traction for Fatboy shoot By Erica Basnicki
TRACTION SOUND provided the system for Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim’s recent East London 12-hour rave marathon. The entire event was filmed, and used as the video for the Cook’s latest chart-topper Eat Sleep Rave Repeat. The song was born out of Cook and production partner Riva Starr’s encounter with Beardyman in a Brooklyn record shop earlier in the year. The famous beatboxer was ranting about a “three-day bender” he had been on, and the resulting conversation was recorded and chopped up into a tune. With £500 on offer to the last person standing, and a team of medics, referees and DJs to help find the strongest of the dancers, what was also required was a sound system with more stamina than the ravers. The Traction Sound crew personally oversaw the installation of the system into a challenging warehouse space. The system comprised two BPS218 Hades infra subs, four BH218 Zeus subs and eight SDS12i Kodiaks, all powered by four Powersoft K10s providing 48k of power in just 4RU. Although there were only 500 dancers, the warehouse
SLOVENIA
Renkus-Heinz systems satisfy at Schengenfest
By Mark Haldon
TURJAK-BASED CONCERT provider Akustika Pirman supplied its Renkus-Heinz systems across three stages for Slovenia’s largest summer festival, Schengenfest. The three-day event included performances from Skunk Anansie and Triggerfinger alongside a roster of DJs from the US and Europe. The Main Stage was outfitted with a Renkus-Heinz line array, with 16 VLX3 cabinets and 24 DRS 18-2B subwoofers per side. Five PN102 cabinets provided front fill, with six PN102LA boxes
Schengenfest’s Main Stage equipped with Renkus-Heinz systems
per side deployed from the FOH roof. Analogue and digital were represented at FOH, with DiGiCo SD8 and Soundcraft MH-3 48 consoles. Xilica XP-4080 processors handled system processing
Fatboy Slim and Traction Sound’s Shreddie: similar taste in shirts
could have held four times that amount, so the ‘club’ was set up in the middle of the space, allowing a multi camera crew, lighting and production staff to use the perimeters. The focused dispersion of the SDS horn
minimised the reverb inherent in such a lively space. Cook was so impressed with
the results that he now uses Traction Sound for events held in his newly acquired Big Beach Café in Hove.
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Lab.gruppen amps Stage monitors were also Renkus, including 12 PNX151 wedges, sidefills with DRS18-2B subs and a PNX121 and DRS18 rig for drumfill. The Electro Stage hosted an ongoing DJ party, equipped with left and right arrays of 12 STXLA/9 cabinets with bass amply covered by 16 DRS18-2B subs. A DiGiCo SD11 console handled FOH mix, with XTA processing and
Lab.gruppen amps. At the smaller Beach Stage, the system included a single TRX151T and DRS18 sub per side with PNX121 boxes for monitoring. Akustika Pirman’s Metod
Komatar says, “We use Renkus- Heinz systems exclusively because they deliver powerful performance, they are dependable, and they sound great.”
www.renkus-heinz.com www.akustika-pirman.si
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