This year we have a New Secret Dance Area featuring Shy FX, Toddla T, Kode9, Julio Bashmore, DJ EZ, Oneman and many more. The Meantime Discovery Stage is a collaboration between Standon Calling and London’s finest craft brewer, the Meantime Brewing Company, and will bring together some of the hottest names in electronic music. The secret stage will be revealed on the Friday night after the main stage closes and entertain late-night revellers until the early hours on each night of the festival. In fitting with the ‘Journey to the Ends of the Earth’ theme festival-goers will have to discover the secret area for themselves.
“Our 2012 theme is all about discovery and adventure. We will be embarking on a Journey To The Ends Of The Earth in search of the very best in bass music,” says Standon founder Alex Trenchard. “This stage is going to explode when it is revealed on the Friday night and we aim to create as much anticipation and speculation as to its location at the festival.”
One of the UK’s best underground club brands, Spectrum are in charge of proceedings on Friday night and their multi-genre remit promises a line-up that will cause serious bass bin damage. Leading the charge is a true innovator and pioneer: drum ’n’ bass don Shy FX. Alongside him are BBC Radio 1 favourite and all-round smasher Toddla T, while party-people Union, Spectrum founder and resident Pete Jordan and Neil Navarra (powered by Skullcandy).
Having been voted one of the best club nights of 2011, Audio Doughnuts bring a unique take on dance music to Standon on Saturday. Twisting and turning through house, disco, funky garage, synth-led hip hop and bass music, they bring renowned underground producer Kode9, super-hot, bass-house fusionist, Julio Bashmore, bass upstarts Dark Sky, London trio LV and Deep Teknologi’s house genius T. Williams. Then there’s Pusherman, Rinse FM’s Shox and Boiler Room favourite TOYC, plus Teeza, Orgy Banton and AD residents.
On Sunday Urban Nerds bring their arsenal of underground bass bombs to the stage! They bring a slice of London warehouse madness to the Hertfordshire countryside with legendary UK garage pioneer, DJ EZ, dubstep and garage evolutionary Oneman, UK funky don Marcus Nasty, Urban Nerds resident Rattus Rattus and Daddy Nature.
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