The 10 Days Off Membercard sale is going steady, you have until July 1st to order yours! If you haven't got one yet, click on "tickets & membercards". A Membercard gives you free access to every single night of the event, yes, all 11 of them, for the pretty democratic price of 65€, plus free entrance to the S.M.A.K. (City Museum for Contemporary Art in Ghent) during the same period. What are you waiting for?

Two Lone Swordsmen will unfortunately not be performing live on Day 00. But the replacement is class: a DJ set by one half of the group, namely Mister Andrew Weatherall himself! He's on from 2 AM at the Mine White Room on July 13th.

We already knew Tiga was going to bring some friends on closing day, but we didn't know who exactly. We do now. It's a select and very international company: the friendly Fin Jori Hulkkonen, the Canadian recidivist Konrad Black, the young and dangerous Russian Proxy and the young hype from Israel Guy Gerber!

Briton Mekon was supposed to drop by on July 20th at the Mine White Room, but the gig has been cancelled. Instead we have Padded Cell flying in for a tasty decks & FX dish.

On July 17th there will be a big bass bombardment at 10 Days Off. Drum'n'bass is boss in the B-Live Room with Fabio & Grooverider, Dobe'n'Daze and Millennium Kru & MC Dapper, while in the Mine White Room dubsteppers Skream, Plastician, Mary Anne Hobbs and DJ Mate will let your belly wobble. Meditate on bass weight, as they say in London.

The line-up for the Mine White Room on July 18th has been completed. Apart from the already announced audio-visual perfomrance by The fucKINGFUCKS (Kendell Geers + Patrick "Front 242" Codenys), Cimatics, supported by Pioneer ProDJ, presents a night full of multi-media violence by Addictive TV, Exceeda and VJ ninjas Hexstatic! the gear used for all of this is state of the art (3 DVJ-1000's and a DJM-800, among other things) with which audio and visuals can be mixed brilliantly.

Someone who's also going to be using this top gear is DVJ X-ian, who will be doing a 100% DVD set at the B-Live room on July 21st. Although the emphasis will be on the music, X-ian will be mixing up both audio and visuals, simultaneously.

The visuals in the B-Live Room will be courtesy of Art Point M for the duration of the event. This French lady has a rock-solid rep on the european club and festival scenes, plus she's responsible for the programming of the Nameless Festival in Lille. Last year Art Point M was all over the ICC.

On Mine.be you will be able to get streamings of all Mine White Room sets. Keep an eye on the website for the proper links.

The line-up for 10 Days Off is virtually complete! After having announced top notch names such as 4Hero, Agoria, Booka Shade, Ellen Allien, Grooverider, Joakim, Laurent Garnier, Martin Solveig, Monika Kruse, Richie Hawtin, Skream, STIJN, Tiefschwarz, Alex Gopher, False a.k.a. Audion, Dixon, Djuma Soundsystem, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Etienne De Crécy, Fabio, Fairmont, The fucKINGFUCKS, John Digweed, Makossa & Megablast, Mason, Riton, Slam, Spirit Catcher, TC, The Presets, Tiga, Tommie Sunshine and Two Lone Swordsmen, we can now proudly announce the rest of them. Actually, there are too many artists to name them all, but here's a little taster:

Briton Sub Focus and Belgians Murdock, Wontime, Dobe'n'Daze and Millennium Kru make the 2 drum'n'bass nights complete. From the land of dubstep we have none less than Mister legendary Plastician and BBC-muse Mary Anne Hobbs Eurostarring in from the UK, with DJ Mate as the defender of Belgian honour.

From France we welcome the mighty fine Philippe Zdar, 1 half of Cassius, and Resopal's Shonky, while The Netherlands deliver the goods with funky lay-deeez 100% Isis and Shinedoe.

In the meantime, Germany is still ze ruler of club land, with natives such as Oliver Huntemann, Martin Eyerer and Marcus Worgull flying in, and label nights by BPitch Control (featuring mater familias Ellen Allien, Modeselektor and Kiki, among others) and Get Physical (with head honcho DJ T., Booka Shade, Jesse Rose and Jona).

More label nights, but not necessarily from Germany: M-Nus, featuring main man Richie Hawtin alongside Magda and Gaiser, and furthermore Cosy Mozzy's Dirty Dancing, with the boss himself bringing along aforementioned Spirit Catcher, Compuphonic and David Garcet aka Pink Slow Motel.

10 Days Off without any Belgian performers is like Summer without 10 days Off: boooooring! Apart from the beforementioned lives of Spirit Catcher and STIJN and the dubstep- and d'n'b DJs, there's also the explosive live performances of Nid & Sancy and Shameboy, plus dj sets by Bolland and Barman tandem Magnus, DJ 4T4, the Beyond Jazz DJs and Squadra Bossa ft. Buscemi.

And finally, we had already mentioned Mr. Tiga, but not that he's bringing a bunch of members of his Turbo Recordings family, to close off the event in fine style 2 the B-Live room!

Senses under attack? We think so!

Good to know
Membercards (allowing 11-day access to the event) are only on sale via the 10 Days Off website until June 30. Amount is limited, the price is 65€. Single tickets are on sale as from May 1, via Fnac and the 10 Days Off website.

If you buy a Membercard or a single ticket on pre-sale, you will also have access to the SMAK (City Museum of Contemporary Art) in Ghent, during the 10 Days Off period. You will then be able to visit the exhibit of South-African artist Kendell Geers, who will be doing an audio-visual performance at the Mine White Room, alongside Patrick Codenys (Front 242). Here's a tip for this Autumn: the work of performance artist Paul McCarthy (from 13 October on).

Mine.be will be streaming part of the event daily, and PureFM will be broadcast a daily podcast (French-spoken) during the event.
In the week before 10 Days Off (July 4 - 8) sister festival 5 Days Off will take place for the 7th time in Amsterdam. Check www.5daysoff.nl.