People of the sun...

While the Glade festival may be nearly unmatchable in it's line-up, no amount of breath-holding can guarantee the weather won't turn the festival into a bad day in Michael Barrymore's swimming pool. In search of warmer climes, SB+B is heading off to Benicassim for the annual beach-orientated shindig. On the coast of Spain between Barcelona and Valencia, for five days people from all over Europe get together to dance all night and sunbathe all day in one of the friendliest festival atmospheres SB+B has had the pleasure to experience. There may be a whole host of lumbering indie trite dominating the main stage, but look deeper into the line-up and the European talent on offer is pants-wettingly good.

Alex Smoke (right) will hopefully deliver lush, complex minimal techno that can move you and make you move simultaneously, if the LP's he's put out on Soma Records is anything to go by. Nature loving German Dominik Eulberg has been delivering top-notch remixes and collabs with the likes of Gabriel Ananda (Harzer Roller being a highlight of the tech-year so far) and no doubt his appearance will meet the demand for twisted layers of beats. Ellen Allien (Grand High Duchess of the excellent B-Pitch Control label) & Apparat (Daddy of the Shitkatapult block) are collaborating live in support of their 'Orchestra of Bubbles' LP, which should mean a nice sit-down set of thought provoking tech-bizness. Isolee (left) is bringing his organic styles for dance music that positively breathes (albeit with the breath of the most weed-infused British tourist in Amsterdam) and judging by his 'Wearemonster' LP the live set should be a lovely place. Everyone's new favourite Frenchmen since Daft Punk stopped making good tunes, Justice will be spreading their manic, filthy-bass driven tomfoolery all over the scantily-clad Spanish masses. Best to prepare for drunken arm-in-arm en masse singing to 'Never Be Alone', their tune with Simian which has been filling dancefloors for the best part of three years now.

There's a huge amount of other terribly exciting stuff (Madness live in Spain?! Oh yes!) so check out the website to see what you may be missing/having to fork out a load of cash to go and see, and expect a sketchy report of sorts at the end of July.