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John: Welcome back to Hong Kong! It’s been a while since you played here, is there anything in particular you are looking forward to doing during your stay?
Sasha: Eating the wonderful food that I've missed in Hong Kong because it’s one of the best places in the world to eat I think. And, you know getting back to know the Hong Kong crowd, I used to really enjoy playing in HK and the scene sort of dried up from my end. I wasn't getting any offers and the big gigs that I was doing didn't seem like they were happening for a while, I know there was a big clampdown on clubs and stuff, so I was really quite upset that happened as there was a period of time when I really loved coming to play here, so let’s hope this is the first step back to that.

Articles - Interviews

“Disco's been a part of my life since the very beginning, it’s definitely been my first and most important school and has been there when I played a 134-bpm remake of Indeep's ‘Last Night A DJ Saved My Life’ or Robert Hood sampling Kool & The Gang 5 or 10 years ago. It’s like the air I breathe - I don't think about it, I just breathe.”

Sao Paulo DJ Benjamin Ferreira started DJing aged 11 after being inspired by listening to the records of two DJ uncles in his hometown of Belém in the Amazon. Kicking off his professional career six years later at his local Belém gay club he discovered the internet simultaneously, opening his ears to the world outside the Amazon.

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Australian expat Sarah Main lives in Ibiza where she’s a Pacha resident DJ all year round.

Spinning in the club’s main room two or three times a week in summer, she spents the off season months touring the world and jams in a weekly radio show on Radio FG (Sarah Main presents Pacha) every Thursday night between 9 and 10pm CET.

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Crystal Ball- the Next 10 Years: Pete Heller

Kicking off his career DJing at London’s seminal rave club of the 80s Shoom ‘acid house relic’ (Twitter) Pete Heller went on to establish equally influential label Boys Own before having chart success in the early 90s producing the likes of The Farm and Primal Scream. Simultaneously recognised as one of the clubland’s big name house DJs, he later crossed over to the mainstream courtesy of his filtered disco Ibiza anthem Big Love, which topped pop charts worldwide in 1999.

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Crystal Ball- the Next 10 Years - Dave Clarke

Brit-in-Amsterdam producer/ DJ/ broadcaster/ bon viveur Dave Clarke remains one of the world’s most popular (and opinionated) DJs, specializing still in the techno and ‘real’ electro he first started championing in the early 90s. Click here to follow Dave on Twitter (http://twitter.com/DJdaveclarke) 

Skrufff: What trends- in music and clubs, do you expect to be big in 2010 and beyond?