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Online and mobile music authority Data Transmission will be hosting our next Big Chill Presents with a line-up of fresh, bright-eyed artists looking to cause tremors in 2012 such as xxxy, D/R/U/G/S, Disclosure and Error Operator alongside the Data Transmission DJs and Ben Gomori.

One of the hardest working duos in dance music, Cosmic Gate are proud to announce they have mixed the latest edition of the prestigious Trance Nation series for Ministry of Sound. Following on editions from Above & Beyond, Rank 1 and Andy Moor, Nic & Bossi have compiled some of their favourite producers, remixers and artists over a 2CD release, perfectly capturing the future sound of the genre. This will be Trance Nation’s first worldwide release and Cypher have been taken on to handle key worldwide pr.

A block-party of global beats and Tropical Bass for Afro ravers, Latin funksters and Balkan b-boys, featuring a headline performance from the Afrobeat/ hi-life ten piece Yaaba Funk and live electronics from the Balkan/ swing quintet Gypsy Hill. Also on the line-up will be a whole host of continent-hopping DJs mixing global rhythms with heavy basslines, a live jam from the FFTANG! FFTANG! Sound Sistema and African, Caribbean & South American vibes from the first lady of Future Tropical, Marsali.

Previously known under the alias 8Bitch, Maya Medvesek makes her eagerly anticipated return with ‘Night Heat’ EP under her Nightwave guise, dropping on Hot City’s UTTU Records. The EP has already seen plays from SBTRKT, Sinden, Bok Bok, Lone and Bremar.

We’re handling key worldwide PR and digital marketing for Everlasting, the brand new compilation selected by leading light on the international dub and bass scene Gaudi. The compilation features a selection of largely new and unreleased tracks from a selection of artists who have defined their genre, such as The Orb, System 7, Trentemoller and Eat Static.

We’ve also designed a fantastic new Facebook app for Everlasting, where you can see the tracklist, video and get more information about the compilation, as well as Gaudi’s upcoming tour dates.

Once again, we’re handling specialist music PR including radio, print, online and social marketing for Glade Festival. After a successful comeback last year, Glade is already gearing up for 2012, with a doubling of capacity from 5,000 to 10,000 on the same site at Houghton Hall, King’s Lynn. The Glade team are focused on bringing together an incredible array of artists and genres for this premier electronic dance celebration. To view the photos from last year, click here.

We’re celebrating Australia Day at the Big Chill House on the 26th Januaary. The night will feature all the best Australian hits from across the board from Damn Arms, to Empire Of The Sun, to Hilltop Hoods, mixed in with some classics from Mental As Anything and INXS. For more info, check out our promo video here.

Following on from his recent bootleg ’Brandy & Coke’ which received a lot of hype from Oneman, Jackmaster, Benji B, EZ and Hot City, 1Xtra’s DJ Q returns to Unknown to the Unknown Records for the start of their Ice Age Part II season, with his latest EP ’All Junglist’ with early support from Rob Da Bank.

Facebook Apps let you customize your fanpage in terms of branding or creating a portal for promoting a release, event or social activity. Apps can help engage you fans, inform new ones and are great for hosting competitions.

Check out some of the great recent apps on our Facebook page, such as Gaudi - Everlasting, Boomtown Fair and the Pumped Up Running Mix.

Social media is evolving at great speed and as digital marketing experts our role is to keep abreast of the latest developments to help you untangle the web and develop the best campaign suited to your needs.

We can create exciting strategies to engage your audience and help build your networks across all main platforms.

With over ten years experience at the forefront of online PR, we have seen the internet rise, fall and rise again to become the most important media platform. We have excellent contacts across a wide range of websites, blogs, platforms and social media across covering all genres, styles and subject put simply - if you’ve got something to promote, we’ll ensure it gets coverage everywhere.

Our blog-service is two-fold; firstly we can service your music to a wide range of blogs getting exclusive posts on leading blogs, or widespread coverage across all relevant blogs in your genre. Secondly, we can help design and build your blog as well as implement a successful blogging strategy that’s best suited for you.

Video From creating exciting viral videos, post event coverage, interviews with artists or just documenting your event or campaign, video is the best medium to chose and we can help every step of the way from conception to production to promotion via popular sites such as YouTube, Vimeo or Muzu we have it covered.

Check out some of the recent videos we’ve created, such as the post event video for the Grand Opening of Electric Brixton, featuring Felix Da Housecat and DJ Hell here

And here is one we put together after Ghostpoet came to the Big Chill Bar

Photo We ensure that we have the best photographers down at each of our events to capture the greatest and most exciting moments to produce highly interesting post event coverage.

Audio Audio is one of the key tools needed for a successful PR campaign. Whether setting up a regular podcast through iTunes, streaming audio across popular platforms such as Soundcloud, Mixcloud, Official.FM or branded mixes for events, we can help create and distribute the best solution for you.

As part of the launch of Big Chill Presents event at Big Chill House Viceland posted event info and link to an exclusive mix from Cocadisco DJs to promote the event.

Big Chill Presents Cocadisco Mix

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We created a media partnership with Mixcloud and Big Chill Presents to ensure our podcasts received regular featured promotion on their site.

To mark The Gallery’s 15th Birthday at Ministry Of Sound we placed this lead club preview in the Guardian Guide.

To help preview Joy Orbison’s debut at Big Chill Presents at Big Chill House we placed this preview in Time Out’s Clubs section. The event also featured in their Critics Choice list.

To promote Mount Kimbie’s live performance at Big Chill Presents Dazed Digital interviewed the band for their blog.

To promote the release of Brodinski’s excellent Bugged Out mix CD we arranged this interview with Clash Magazine

As part of our work on The Gallery’s 15th birthday we arranged a covermount mix CD with DJ Magazine from Gallery resident and Top 100 DJ Markus Schulz. The magazine also ran a two-page feature on the artist plugging the event.

Off the back of the hype for the debut Big Chill Presents leading dance music magazine I-DJ reviewed the event.

Featuring a future-garage line up to die for including the legendary Zed Bias hot new blood Deadboy and techno legend Warlock DJ Magazine chose our January How’s My Raving? party as their No.1 Club In The Country. It was roadblock!

To support the new direction and exciting line ups we had programmed at The Big Chill House the Metro featured two consecutive nights at the venue as their clubs choice for that week. A very rare accolade!

We were tasked to promote Capcom’s Street Fighter IV to the music, style and fashion communities. To achieve this we focused on the cult of Street Fighter II the classic Super Nintendo video game by looking at it’s impact on youth culture.

We created a multi-tiered campaign that included the production of an exclusive limited edition DJ ‘battle’ vinyl which was sold and promoted via the UK’s leading independent record stores and fashion outlets. We also create a viral video mash up by AV legends Hexstatic (above) and a remix competition giving away the original 8-bit games hosted by the UK’s leading online MP3 store for dance music Trackitdown.net. This not only achieved tens of thousands of hits and excellent PR coverage but also saw the samples used by several underground artists in their official releases.

As part of the the launch for Bionic Commando Rearmed Capcom asked us to create a bespoke marketing campaign to target fans outside of their core audience.

Looking at the heritage of the game as an 8-bit classic we approached three artists to remix the original theme, these artists were either fans of the game or known for using 8-bit sounds in their production. After a bit of research we chose Rusko, Surkin and Clipz. As part of the promotion each artist was asked to promote the tracks to their contacts, blog and feature via their social networks in order to spread the tracks virally online.

This was backed up with a blog campaign which saw each track feature on a high profile blog (in this instance Mad Decent, Big Stereo and Gorilla Vs Bear) which further spread the mixes and message.

Bionic Commando - Surkin Remix

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Bionic Commando - Rusko Remix

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Bionic Commando - Clipz Remix

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Further to this the Rusko and Clipz mix were picked up by Radio 1 DJs Annie Mac and Grooverider respectively enjoying several Radio 1 plays around release and a licensing request for Annie Mac’s compilation.

On the strength of our reputation for programming cool, edgy and exciting events the Cantaloupe Group brought us on board to programme for their London venues; Big Chill House, Big Chill Bar, Camino Kings Cross and Camino Westferry.

Of the four venues the Big Chill House needed the most attention. Our brief was to bring a new lease of life to the venue through new and exciting music programming which we primarily achieved by launching the flagship brand Big Chill Presents to showcase the new musical direction alongside working with some of the capitals most exciting and forward-thinking promoters, live acts and DJs to ensure the venue had the biggest and best line ups and promoters to create widespread interest amongst London clubbers and related media.

This events have been backed up with a solid PR campaign across print and online media which saw rave reviews across key titles such as Time Out, Metro, Fact, Dazed Digital, Evening Standard and many more.

We’re very excited to be working with Glade Festival 2011 this year which is definitely one of our favourite UK festivals! Taking place from 10 - 12 June in a beautiful as yet unannounced venue, this year sees the festival scale back to its roots in term of capacity and vibe in what looks set to be one of best UK events this summer.

Cypher PR has be bought onboard specifically to handle digital marketing, radio and specialist dance media. Bring it on!

Working closely with Last.fm, we have created and been responsible for developing their Last.fm Presents brand which was created to give the website a real-world presence at the capitals leading music venues and festivals across the UK and Europe showcasing it’s support of new, exciting and edgy music.

With events regularly taking place in London and New York, line-ups are put together from the best bands and artists featuring in Last.fm’s acclaimed Hype Charts. Since launching Last.fm Presents has hosted stages at Lovebox, Offset Festival, Futuresonic and hosted bands such as Fleet Foxes, Faust, Metronomy, Lightspeed Champion to Fink, The Dandy Warhols, Late Of The Pier plus many more.

Further to this we have also been responsible for media partnerships giving Last.fm a highly visible presence in the festival, club and gig arenas.

Our brief was to help promote Manga and their releases to a much wider audience outside of the Anime community. Part of our work saw us develop Manga Team Go! a street team of die-hard Manga fans who spent the summer attended festivals and events promoting releases accompanied by an 8-foot tall Tetsujin 28 robot we had built especially to promote one of their releases.

Alongside this we created viral marketing tools to promote The Laughing Man series as well as Ghost In The Shell (image above) as well as allowing visual artists the first official opportunity to mash up Manga footage.

We have worked alongside London’s biggest and best outdoor dance festival the South West Four Weekender for six years as their PR company of choice. We came on board in the second year of the event and have helped develop the brand from its initial stages to becoming one of the world’s leading and most established annual dance music festivals.

We have worked alongside this sell out event year in, year out managing the PR across print and online media to help establish it as one of the UK’s leading independent festivals and a firm fixture on the international festival calendar.

2010 was an exciting year for Cypher as it saw us focus solely on the digital marketing for the festival to develop a unique and cutting edge campaign.

Yamaha’s ground-break Tenori-On is a musical instrument developed by acclaimed Japanese media artist Toshio Iwai and Yu Nishibori of Yamaha’s Music and Human Interface Group.

Initially we were brought on board to help set up beta testing for the instrument with a selection of London’s cutting edge producers. We were then asked to organise the worldwide launch in London which took place at Phonica Records featuring performances from Kieran Hebden (Fourtet) Robert Lippok (To Rococo Rot) Capracara, Secondo and Toshio Iwai, this was followed up by a UK-wide showcase held at key leading independent record stores.