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This week Karina Stepina   Karina has appeared from out of nowhere on event flyers all over town recently. With her full, party-on attitude, good looks and classy track selection, she’s quickly become one of the most popular female DJs on the island. She’s seen spinning tunes from Uluwatu to Seminyak, Ubud and even down […]

Last night we were at the Grand Opening of the new restaurant at Desa Kitsune in Canggu with a crowd of industry people and friends of Kitsune and Savaya. The booze and snacks were flowing freely, which always makes a grand occasion even better. There must have been at least 200 invited guests along and […]

Something for all you jazz heads out there. The 11th Ubud Village Jazz Festival (UVJF) is coming soon and will take place on August 2nd and 3rd, 2024 at STHALA Ubud Portfolio Hotel and from this year the festival will be officially known as the STHALA UBUD VILLAGE JAZZ FESTIVAL. The UVJF began with small […]

Sometimes I need to look at my phone gallery to recall where I’ve been in the past week. I’m sure you do too. We had Ms Penny in town again last weekend and she was out entertaining a visiting friend so it was on for young and old once more. First stop was a delightful […]

We are now deep into July. That means we are closing in fast on the Bali High Season. That’s the time tourism and the party season is in overdrive.  However, July normally sees families visiting the island, not so many independent travelers.  Really, it should be busier now than what it is and a few […]

I’ve noticed that many DJs, clubs and collectives around the island don’t promote themselves online with a music background on their posts. I don’t get it. You may notice The Beat does make a point of finding music for just about every post we make on Instagram. It does my head in sometimes trying to […]

W Bali – Seminyak have announced they will host a new live electronic music series from W Hotels – W PRESENTS, a global live music series that will spotlight a diverse array of emerging and established artists, each representing the brand’s distinctive sonic identity. This initiative, under the visionary leadership of Global Music Director LP […]

While in the past week I haven’t been out too much, still recovering from the week before, I’ve been doing the right thing when I do go out and catch app taxis instead of driving myself. Not just because of the accident I had last year which kinda put me off going anywhere on my […]

This week DJ and co-founder of Hatch in Uluwatu, Muska.Where are you from?I’m originally from Perth, Western Australia, but I consider Melbourne my home since I’ve lived there for most of my life. How old are you?Old enough to be djn for 20 years haha How long have you been in Bali?I’ve been in Bali […]

It is very busy around the island right now. Just getting down the shops from the house in Berawa was a mission earlier today. It was like being on the screen of an arcade machine; people, cars, bikes heading in every direction and seemed most of the time heading directly at you. I held fast […]

Nakadia is on her way back to Bali and Red Ruby in June. We thought it must be time for a quick chat with Thailand’s greatest export in electronic music. She’s now gigging her way around South East Asia and South America for the next month or so, but has been living in Berlin, Germany […]

Last weekend was all about Ultra Festival at Café del Mar. The music was really quite rowdy, well most of it, but the fun times came in droves. Yes, it was definitely good times all round and the crowd turned up in force, too. I must say it is not easy putting on big shows […]

So, David Trauts and friend are back in the centre of Kuta to find out what’s going on in the original nightlife hub of Bali. This is part two of our exploratory search into the unknown of Kuta nightlife.  It was now Saturday night and we sat down right in the middle of the action, […]

You could call this week…. busy. To begin with a major international electronic music festival, Ultra Beach Bali is coming to town for two nights and starts on Thursday and continues through Friday. It is being held at Café el Mar in the Batubelig/South Berawa area. The set-up is enormous (well, it was last year […]

David Trauts heads to Kuta on a Friday night to check the nightlife and to find out what’s happening down there right now.  Kuta, what a place! It has everything you need for a great holiday; hotels, a beautiful white sand beach, restaurants and bars all over the district, and it’s right next to the […]

The season has begun. Well, that’s according to ‘the home of techno’ in Seminyak, Red Ruby, as they will be holding a party this Saturday night with the name ‘Season Launch Party’. And I suppose you would have to agree with them. It’s almost June, the sun is shining, the weather’s great, and tourist numbers […]

Special guest Lithuanian DJ producer, Ten Walls will be playing at Tropical Temptation with Mantra People this Friday. After having a smash worldwide hit in the clubs in 2014, “Walking with Elephants” he went on a somewhat forced hiatus for almost a decade after speaking his mind a little too candidly, but now Ten Walls […]

De La Noise hits the ground running! We noticed DJ De La Noise pop up out of nowhere recently and all of a sudden seemed to be playing all over town. This is all in the last week. I’m not kidding. I thought this guy must be a mover and shaker – let’s check him […]

The weather on the island right now is nothing less than amazing.  May/June is always the best time of the year, weather-wise, and after all those months of it being super hot, it is such a relief to have the good weather back again. 3o degrees, blue skies and light winds. A great place to […]

DJ Harvey is the resident DJ at Klymax Discotheque, Potato Head for the next month of Saturdays. The DJ, producer and global scene provocateur took the controls of the booth he helped to design, kicking off the residency last Saturday night and will be behind the dials for the next three consecutive weekends from 18 […]

ULTRA Beach Bali 2024 is on the way back to the island for the sixth time this year and looks like being the best edition yet. ULTRA Beach Bali will be held at Café dal Mar in the Canggu area on Thursday, June 6 and Friday, June 7, 2024. This will be first time the […]

We were busy last week. Maybe you noticed, as nowadays the LIVE Instagram feed is being activated at just about every venue we visit around town, for better or for worse. You never know what’s going to happen next when you press that LIVE button, however, it is kinda fun and I hope you enjoy […]

This week with … CLEM WEISS The basics. Where are you from and how old are you? FRANCE, PARIS. I am 27. How long you been in Bali? I’ve been in Bali for 2 years. How did you first get into electronic music? Like, was there a certain moment it all made sense? My brother Ben […]

Last Saturday night we dropped over to La Brisa, which was popping with the grinding beats of the No Request show and La Brisa’s new laser light extravaganza on the dance floor. It was packed. The crowd was a friendly bunch, too, with good spirits all around. We had a great time boogying to the […]