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Lucas & Steve Talk ‘Making Melodies’ EP And 15 Years Of Making Music
Prior to hitting the stage at Airbeat One in Germany, we had the pleasure of talking with the marvellous Lucas & Steve.
They recently announced their ‘Making Melodies’ EP which we got some further insights into as well as hearing more about their production process. They also dropped some hints as to future projects which you can find out about below…
Q: You were last at Airbeat One in 2023, how does it feel to get to come back again?
A: Steve – Very good actually it’s one of the biggest festivals in Germany. I think we’ve played there…this is our sixth or seventh time already, so we’ve been there a lot. We know the place, we know the crowd so it’s always good to be back and they are just very very excited to party the whole weekend. They have amazing stages, they have an amazing lineup. It’s one of those festivals which is one of the highlights of our summer always so it’s very good to be back.
Q: Recently on your Instagram you talked about how you’re celebrating 15 years now of doing music and touring all about. How does it feel to still be doing this and still growing all these years on from where you started?
A: Lucas – For us it’s the strangest thing. It doesn’t really feel like we are DJing for 15 years already. I think we’ve been on tour for about 10 years now but also then like we just remember everything so vividly from the past years. It’s cliché but things go really really quick, really fast as long as you’re having fun and we still are, we are very lucky that we are still having fun and still having the opportunity to play all those stages, all those huge stages and making music for a living. That just feels like a huge privilege still and when you look back so many years ago a lot of things changed in touring, in music and it’s also things that you know keep on challenging you in making music, new technologies and everything so…I’m sounding like a grandad when I say it like this but I think that’s just the case you know? It just keeps on being interesting and evolving so yeah. Still totally in love with it.
Q: Last year you got to work with someone who’s been doing it even longer in Tiesto. Obviously, he’s been doing it for about 30 years or so. What was it like to get to work with him?
A: Lucas – I think this is the third record that we just did last year with him. That last one is called ‘Free Your Mind’ and the other one we did with him last year was ‘Zenless.’ Every time we work with him it’s a very educative process I have to say. He knows exactly what music should sound like. He always is ahead of the trends so if you’re making music with him, he’s giving a lot of direction on what sounds are interesting enough, how should the record build, how can you tweak the record so that it’s interesting for everybody to play it you know? And that’s a very interesting process. It’s almost like mentorship in a way if that makes any sense? It’s a strange thing like often when you’re making music with people of course you always learn from each other, but with Tiesto he just really gives very good direction and it’s incredible after all those years how he knows how to do the right thing all the time.
Q: You’ve now released the first track for your ‘Making Melodies’ EP ‘Retro’ which I know myself and everyone has just been loving having waited about 4 years for it. What inspired you to make this EP with melodies being the focus for it?
A: Steve – We get a lot of questions on our social media. We’re very diverse producers. When we’re in the studio we like to make every type of music whether it’s pop music or dance music or melodic music or like the very clubby songs like ‘Free Your Mind’ with Tiesto. We just like everything combined in the studio and the start we made as Lucas & Steve was very melodic so we still play it a lot in our sets especially at the end of our set we always try to make it a little bit more euphoric so that people leave the stage or leave the festival with a very euphoric, happy, energetic positive feeling. The start of our set is quite heavy with ‘Free Your Mind’ and ‘Zenless’ and that kind of stuff. So, we wanted to make a nice present for our fans because we didn’t do that much of the melodic songs the last 2 or 3 years. We were just focussing more on the club stuff that we did. We still really like it.
We will always make melodic stuff, and we were thinking about doing something special as in an EP releasing 4 songs, 1 each week and that was ‘Making Melodies’ and the first one came out ‘Retro’ and we were blown away because everybody was waiting for that record already for I don’t know, 4 or 5 years. We played it for the very first time during Kings Day in The Netherlands at a Radio 538 show so people were asking about melodic music, and we still had so many things that were unfinished. So, we put everything in our studios together and we created this EP with 4 songs. We’re getting so many positive reactions that we’re probably going to do a volume 2 and a volume 3 every year.
Q: When you do more pop esque songs you end up doing club mixes which are always just really cool. Do you ever go into making a more pop oriented song which the thought of it already becoming a club mix or is that something that comes later in the process?
A: Lucas – Sometimes when you’re doing the original mix you already know what the club mix is going to be like. While producing the original stuff you get ideas that you cannot do in a radio friendly, Spotify friendly pop song. You need to keep things a little more quiet and tuck it in in the mix more, and you cannot have those harsh sounds that just stand out too much. Like the more dance sounds will usually not work that well in a pop mix. You get all these ideas and it’s like ‘ahhhh’ I can’t use it right now so just save it for the club mix so actually the process for the original and the club mix go hand in hand.
Q: With having 2 DJs behind the decks when you perform what’s that sort of process like trying to decide who does what and when? Do you plan it beforehand or is it more in the moment?
A: Steve – Lucas does all the work and I just drink
Lucas – Yeah that’s actually try. I donated my liver to Steve for this
Steve – We’ve been doing this for almost 15 years together as DJs, we’re touring the world for 10 years already. We just know what to do, we have our own CDJs, I’m always standing on the left side because it’s like the name Lucas & Steve it’s easier for the crowd to remember. Lucas is on the right, he has his 2 decks, I have my decks on the left side, and the mixers in between. Usually, Lucas tries to hype the crowd with his microphone and dancing. He’s very good at that and I just know what to do while he’s walking around the stage and trying to hype the crowd. It sounds a bit cliché but we’re almost a married couple.
Steve – DJs, colleagues, partners, but also lovers
Lucas – Hahaha
Q: This year we’ve seen a lot of big back 2 back sets. Are there any artists out there that you really want to do a back 2 back set with?
A: Steve – We did a small back 2 back with Tiesto which was sick. I would love to do that for 90 minutes or something. Maybe with Martin Garrix would be nice because he’s always very energetic. He knows how to get the crowd going. Love his shows. Also, something would be nice with a legend like Carl Cox or something that would be sick like very housey, techno, tech house set would be sick.
Lucas – And just play entirely different stuff, could all be interesting.
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Carl Cox to headline Croatia’s Cave Romane for BSH Events with a special open-air performance at the historic quarry venue this August
Following the Gates of Agartha collaboration in early June and parties with Amelie Lens and Black Coffee in July, BSH Events will round out its summer season on August 7, 2026, when Carl Cox headlines a special open-air performance at Croatia’s ancient quarry venue, Cave Romane. Taking place near Vinkuran, the event brings Carl Cox to a former Roman quarry surrounded by limestone walls and open vertical space, placing the show outside the usual club or festival setting. The date continues BSH Events’ run of large-scale electronic music events across historic locations in Croatia, where the setting plays a central role in the event itself.
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The Historic Cave Romane Setting Behind Carl Cox’s Croatia Show
For Carl Cox’s upcoming Croatia show with BSH Events, Cave Romane gives the booking a setting that goes far beyond a standard open-air venue. Located in Vinkuran, near Pula in Istria, the site is a former Roman quarry with a history connected to the region’s ancient stonework. Local tourism sources link Cave Romane to the stone used for the Arena of Pula, while the official Pula Arena site also notes that material for the amphitheater came from quarries around Pula, including Cave Romane near Vinkuran. That connection places the August 7, 2026 event within a location tied to one of Croatia’s best-known Roman landmarks, giving the show a stronger sense of place than a touring event placed into a rented outdoor site. For BSH Events, whose recent calendar has focused on historic and architecturally significant locations across Croatia, Cave Romane continues that direction while bringing Carl Cox into one of the country’s most distinctive quarry venues.
Surrounded by large limestone walls, exposed rock surfaces, and open vertical space, Cave Romane already carries much of the visual identity for the night before production is added. The dancefloor is framed by the quarry itself, which gives BSH Events and Highscream a site where lighting, laser mapping, and large-scale installations can follow the structure of the venue instead of competing with it. That approach fits the idea behind Carl Cox at Cave Romane, where the setting is part of the reason the show reads differently from a normal club date or festival slot. The production detail also connects back to BSH Events’ wider focus on historic locations, as the show is being planned around the physical character of the quarry rather than treated as a standard event site. With Carl Cox headlining a former Roman quarry closely connected to Pula’s architectural history, Cave Romane becomes more than a location listed under the event details. It is not only a Croatia date on BSH Events’ summer calendar, but a show tied to a venue with its own history, scale, and physical presence.
Carl Cox Brings Decades Of Club History To Cave Romane
With Cave Romane bringing the Croatia date into a former Roman quarry near Pula, Carl Cox gives BSH Events a headliner whose own history is tied to several eras of club culture. Before the long-running Ibiza residencies and global festival stages, Carl Cox began as a mobile DJ and came up through rare groove, electro, Chicago house, acid house, house, and techno. That background gives the August 7, 2026 show more weight than a standard summer headline slot, especially in a venue already connected to the stone history behind the Arena of Pula. Carl Cox has never been tied to one short period of dance music, which is why his name still carries across older club audiences and newer festival crowds. For BSH Events, placing him at Cave Romane connects two histories in one setting: a former Roman quarry in Croatia and an artist whose career has followed dance music from early club spaces to major open-air stages.
Space Ibiza remains a major part of that story, with Carl Cox’s Music Is Revolution residency running for 15 years before its final season in 2016. His Carl Cox & Friends concept has also become familiar across major festival settings, including Ultra Music Festival, where his stage has been closely associated with the festival’s techno identity. Those examples give the Cave Romane booking more context because Carl Cox is not just appearing as another name on a summer calendar. His history already carries the kind of scale that works with a venue surrounded by limestone walls, exposed rock surfaces, and open vertical space. With Highscream handling laser mapping, lighting, and large-scale visuals for the quarry site, Carl Cox at Cave Romane brings together club history, architectural history, and BSH Events’ continued focus on historic locations across Croatia.
Highscream’s Visual Concept For Carl Cox At Cave Romane
The production for the August 7 show is being developed around Cave Romane itself, not treated as a standard stage setup placed inside a historic site. BSH Events is working with Highscream, the creative production company behind the visual concept for the night, with laser mapping, lighting, and large-scale installations planned across the former Roman quarry. Since Cave Romane already has limestone walls, exposed rock surfaces, and open vertical space surrounding the dancefloor, the production has a physical structure to respond to before anything is added. The site is not a blank festival field, and the show does not need to hide the venue behind screens or a conventional stage setup. For a Croatia date already framed through Cave Romane’s history, the production detail keeps the focus on the quarry while adding the scale expected from a Carl Cox open-air performance.
At Cave Romane, Highscream’s role comes from working with the venue’s existing structure instead of creating a separate visual identity around it. The laser mapping can follow the rock surfaces of Cave Romane, while the lighting and installations can stretch across the height and width of the quarry instead of staying around the DJ booth alone. For BSH Events, the same approach follows its recent run in Croatia, from the Gates of Agartha collaboration to parties with Amelie Lens and Black Coffee in July. The production is part of how the venue will be seen on the night, especially with Carl Cox performing in a space tied to Pula’s Roman history. The visuals do not need to compete with the quarry, because the limestone walls, open-air layout, and former Roman site already give Highscream the main framework for the performance.
Tickets For Carl Cox At Cave Romane
Carl Cox at Cave Romane takes place on August 7, 2026, with the event scheduled to begin at 22:00 at Vinkuranska cesta 2, 52100, Vinkuran, Croatia. Tickets are now available through Entrio, starting from 49.00 EUR, with the show forming part of BSH Events’ wider summer run across historic venues in Croatia. After recent events connected to Gates of Agartha, Amelie Lens, and Black Coffee, the Cave Romane date gives BSH Events another major open-air show in a location with its own architectural and cultural history.
For those planning to attend, tickets for Carl Cox at Cave Romane can be purchased here.
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In a crossing of paths which no one had on their bingo card, the legendary Carl Cox met the King of the UK, King Charles III.
On May 14th an event was held at Buckingham Palace to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The King’s Trust. The trust was founded in 1976 by King Charles (then Prince Charles) to help young people fighting challenges such as unemployment and homelessness. Carl Cox was invited to the event which may seem random however he does have some history with the trust. Cox revealed on social media that when he was 24 he received £1,000 from The King’s Trust with which he bought his first pieces of DJ equipment.
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He described going to the event as a full circle moment having gotten to celebrate the trust that supported him through such a tough time. The money he received from The King’s Trust has had a huge impact on his life as it came at a pivotal moment. In his post on social media he said, “The big decision back then was whether to take £500 a week as a scaffolder or £60 a week as a self-employed DJ. I chose the music, and that was that ….the rest you know.”
This goes to show how important The King’s Trust and other charities like it are as without it the world could have been deprived of one of the greatest DJ’s of all time. The King’s Trust helped birth DJing royalty and perhaps in the future it will help launch the next Carl Cox’s career.
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[UNVRS] has a hugely stacked lineup for the coming Ibiza season which they’ve just added to with one of the biggest B2B sets in history from two legends of the game. Carl Cox, and David Guetta.
The announcement of this B2B came as part of Carl Cox’s storming residency at [UNVRS] Ibiza. He’ll be taking to the stage every Sunday from June 21st to October 4th 2026 bringing a variety of genres, guests, and his signature infectious energy. In the build up he’s teased fans saying, “expect the unexpected, always” and the reveal of him performing with David Guetta certainly comes as a surprise. Despite both being staples of the electronic music scene for several decades they’ve never shared the stage with each other. Making up for lost time on July 26th they’ll be going B2B for the whole night to create history and add to their spectacular legacy.
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Both Cox and Guetta have their own residencies at [UNVRS] with David Guetta bringing back his ‘Galactic Circus’ residency. This will be running every Friday from June 11th to October 2nd 2026. Support artists for Guetta are yet to be announced but Carl Cox has revealed an outstanding set of artists who will be joining him over the summer. Along with David Guetta the likes of Chris Stussy, Richie Hawtin, Miss Monique, and Camelphat will all be making some noise at [UNVRS].
Tickets for the David Guetta back2back are available here.
The scale of the lineup for [UNVRS] over the summer cannot be understated with Carl Cox and David Guetta going B2B possibly being the crown jewel. Two legends with cataclysmic pedigree meeting on stage for the first time for a full night of music is a recipe for history making.
View the full lineup for Carl Cox’s residency at [UNVRS] below.
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