Starbase
SLANDER Pull the Plug on Inaugural Starbase Music Festival Due to COVID-19 Surge
The outer space-themed Starbase music festival has officially crashed to Earth. Starbase’s proprietors—electronic duo SLANDER—had revealed the Charleston festival back in June before unveiling a stellar lineup a month later featuring Alison Wonderland, NGHTMRE, and San Holo, among other dance music superstars. Now, Derek Andersen and Scott Land of SLANDER have taken to social media to share a statement announcing the cancellation of this year’s inaugural Starbase due to the impact of COVID-19. “Due to COVID-19 currently reaching peak levels in South Carolina, with new cases and hospitalizations at the highest level ever recorded, we have decided that now is not the time to have a music festival in the area,” the statement reads. “We have made this de...
SLANDER Announce Massive Lineup for First-Ever Starbase Music Festival
SLANDER have officially announced the lineup for Starbase, their first-ever curated music festival. The two-day, outer space-themed melodic bass fest, which is scheduled for October 8th and 9th, flaunts an unsurprisingly massive lineup. Scheduled to throw down are Alison Wonderland, Subtronics, Big Gigantic, SVDDEN DEATH, San Holo, and NGHTMRE, among many others. Aside from the headliners, the festival’s undercard features some of the brightest artists in the bass music scene, such as Chime, Au5, Ace Aura, Wooli, and EDM.com Class of 2021 artists Blanke and William Black. Lineup for the inaugural Starbase Music Festival, curated by SLANDER. Starbase Music Festival Starbase will also feature the highly anticipated debut B2B DJ set from SLANDER and Said The Sky, a perfor...
SLANDER Announce New Curated Music Festival, Starbase
SLANDER returned to the festival circuit with a triumphant DJ set at Tampa’s Sunset Music Festival over the weekend. And while their performance—rife with soaring future bass and dubstep—was one of the event’s highlights, it was a different drop that sent ripples through the EDM community. The famed electronic duo took time during their Sunset performance to formally announce Starbase, a curated melodic bass music festival they had first teased in summer 2020. According to an attendee, whose initial tweet has been circulated widely on social media since SLANDER’s set, the fest will go down in October 2021 in Charleston, South Carolina. SLANDER revealed the event back in June 2020, when the duo announced that they were planning an outer space-themed ...
