Hard Trance Europe.
Summer Weekend Production and DJ Retreat.
We at HTE firmly believe that the ability to learn is maximised from within a comfortable and relaxed environment and as a result are very excited to reveal our next three day rural studio retreat on 7th, 8th and 9th February. We feel we have found the the perfect remote hideaway situated on the Devon and Cornwall border, a private address that not only boasts it’s own accommodation, but spacious communal areas, a games room with Pool table, Pioneer DJ booth, fully equipped recording studio, kitchen/dining area, free parking and stunning immediate countryside, lakeside views and the famous Tamar river within just a 10 minute walk.
With over 100+ years of combined industry experience Iain Cross, Lab4, SHOCK:FORCE and Nick The Kid invite you to spend an insightful weekend at our secret HTE hideaway where we intend to share our knowledge across a three day learning program, tailored around your specific needs. Maybe you want to get started with production from scratch? Maybe you are struggling to finish your tracks? Want help with specific production techniques? Or just want to spend some time DJ’ing in our booth recording a pro-demo or simply asking questions related to industry, gigs, social media or even how to improve your chances of getting your music noticed? Whatever it is, we will be on hand each day to ensure you leave with the answers, help and skills you need.
Across this invaluable three days, there will be group QnA’s and discussions, guest speakers, non-rushed one-to-one studio time where you can request our advice/ input on your music/career, a session of your own in a fully equipped recording studio with a professional engineer to mix and master your final piece of music. We aim to provide a cost effective, high impact and less rigid learning experience to many similar courses, and one where you will only be honing in on the things that you personally want or need to learn, expand upon or achieve. We also aim to have every participant in the retreat leave the weekend with a fully finished and pro-mastered track or DJ Mix.
Included in our retreat are three nights accommodation on site, all food and drink and 8 hours of learning time with our team each day from 10am-6pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Spaces are limited to just 10 places and supported producer platforms are Logic X, Cubase/Studio One or Ableton. We will be reaching out to each participant prior to the retreat on a call to discuss a bespoke strategy for the weekend ahead. Each participant will also leave with an exclusive HTE Loopmasters Sample Pack (worth £50), 1 Months FREE subscription to Loopcloud (Loopmasters), a personal invite to our Hard Trance Europe Weekender ’24 worth (£50), an inclusion on our weekly promo pool, which means FREE HTE music for life (Invaluable), Free VST's from Devious Machines and a chance to feature on our HTE Hideaway Official EP.
Your team.
Iain Cross
Welcoming UK Hard Trance champion and Country Club/Atmosphere legend Iain Cross as a guest tutor to our next retreat. Iain has lived and breathed the scene since the 90s whether that be through his highly acclaimed residencies, global tour dates or musical outputs on a catalogue of pivotal Hard Trance labels. Someone who really knows his stuff when it comes to the scene, especially the more european flavours and history, and we are very pleased to welcome Iain onto our panel of experience at the HTE Hideaway.
Lab4
(Les Elston)
As one half of award-winning globetrotting live act Lab4, Les Elston has over three decades of experience, knowledge and acquired skills. Whether as a performer, producer, label owner or DJ, Les continues to fly the Lab4 flag globally. Not many can boast a visit to their home studio from the late great John Peel, Les can, and we are very excited to have him on our team for our first ever Hard Trance Europe studio retreat.
Nick The Kid
(Nick Coles)
With over 25+ years of solid front-line industry experience, the previous Hard Dance Award winner has worked in many areas including high-level event promotion, Global DJ’ing, production and engineering, label management, artist representation, music reviews and much much more. Having also worked closely with recognised brands and leading institutions such as Ministry Of Sound, DMC World Magazine, Judgement Sundays (Ibiza), Black Hole Recordings, Trackitdown, Loopmasters, Beatport and many more, the head honcho of Hard Trance Europe is now ready to pass on as much knowledge as he can across this unique three day learning experience.
SHOCK:FORCE
One half of the legendary globe-trotting Hard Trance duo SHOCK:FORCE, Joseph (Sully) returns to our favourite production hideway. A producer and DJ who really has been there and got the T-Shirt. His high end productions took him around the world, won him a Hard Dance award in the process and his own series of sample packs and DJ tools is a best seller here at Hard Trance Europe. Enough said.
Spaces for the summer HTE Hideaway are limited to just 10 places and available to the first 10 people to sign up. We will also be selecting the best productions that emerge from this creative weekend for a a possible inclusion on our next HTE Hideaway.
How much does the three night stay cost?
£750 Per Person (Based on 2 sharing one of our Twin Room En-Suite Rooms)
Live locally or prefer to book your own accommodation?
We can also offer a course only price of £500 for the 3 day retreat that runs 10am-6pm.
(Includes food and drink)
To book places please visit www.hardtranceeurope.com/music
Once booked you will be contacted by your chosen member of our team to discuss the weekend ahead, and how we can tailor the three days best to your needs, and ensure you gain the most out of your three day retreat with us.
