MADE Birmingham is a celebration of arts, music and culture in the second city.

Worldwide electronic music brand GlobalGathering Group and the multiple club warehouse Rainbow Venues joined forces to bring a fresh and exciting new event concept to the Digbeth factory complex in Birmingham.

Uniquely combining world-class dance music with exclusive art and street food, MADE Birmingham (Metropolitan Arts & Dance Event) presents visitors with a multi-genre event featuring some of the UK’s most distinguished club brands.

A series of day and evening events, the MADE concept is a strategic collaboration between Birmingham’s own GlobalGathering and discerning clubbing venue Rainbow Venues. Working alongside key partners and artists with roots and association in Birmingham, MADE showcases the second city’s reputation as a groundbreaking, innovative and diverse creative hub.

MADE aims to continue on the same trajectory, paving the way for a new era of large scale events that will look to bring a diverse range of music back to a city that has always had it’s roots deep in underground music.

For DJ bookings: martin@hotcakesmusic.com

Entrepreneur / Record Label Owner / International DJ & Music Producer

Let's Go! Recordings, Hot Cakes, Jungle Cakes, Rat Records, Hardcore Energy, Gorilla Warfare, Disco Cakes, Hot Cakes Bass, Gutter Gutter, Rinse & Repeat, Booty Breaks, Sludge Records, K-Town Records, Jungle Boogie, Hot Roxx & Bass Boutique.

It doesn't get much bigger in the breaks no matter what country you go to. This guy has played damn near every club and festival in every country on the planet.

Martin Flex aka PuRe SX, is one of the freshest names on the bass & breaks scene. A producer who knows how to drop the 808 boom and send the bodies flying around the room. Blasting out of the thriving UK underground since 2008, he currently DJs all over the world from USA to Russia, London to Spain, and beyond. 

Famous for low end terrorism in the form of his smash hits: Jumpin, Hype Ting, Bass Soul, Twisted Mindz, #Beat2Bassline, Oh Kay, Taking It Back, Shake Ur Body, Sunglasses, Another Day, Let Me Go, Bustin Dubz, 212 Booty and Link Up alongside Deekline, Martin Flex aka PuRe SX has picked up support for his music from all the top names on the scene, from Deekline to Stanton Warriors, Ed Solo to Lady Waks and Krafty Kuts to the
Freestylers.

After his successful “Let’s Go Tour’s 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018” of the U.S.A & Europe., he is returning back for run of U.S.A tours in 2025... Watch out!

Here is a producer and DJ with the skills to lock down the club for as long as he's on the decks: a true original with an arsenal of floor-shaking weapons to get those hands up and keep them there 'til the break of dawn.

Wilkinson is one of the UK’s most beloved and successful electronic artists. Hailing from South-West London, his first insight into making music came aged 9 when his parents bought him a drum kit. After performing in bands across the UK from the Birmingham NEC to the local old people’s home; everything changed at 14 when
he discovered his passion for dance music. In his final year at college he bought his first production equipment, turned his bed-room into a studio and started a journey that would take him around the world.


After cutting his teeth on legendary drum & bass labels Ram Records & Hospital, Wilkinson would release a run of hit singles like 'Tonight', 'Take You Higher’ and 'Too Close' which cemented hum as one of the most exciting new producers within UK dance music. He had early chart success in the UK Top 40 with his singles 'Half Light',
‘Dirty Love’ and ‘Hopelessly Coping’. Everything changed with the release of his iconic 2013 record ‘Afterglow’, which became a top 5 hit in the UK, sold over 3 million copies, racked up over 500 million streams and became certified triple Platinum in the UK.


To date Wilkinson has sold a mighty 6 million singles and garnered over one BILLION online streams! He’s released three extremely successful solo albums, ‘Lazers Not Included’, ‘Hypnotic’ and ‘Cognition’. The latter released on his own label Sleepless Music became the most successful drum & bass album for over a decade,
charting at #1 on the OCC Official Dance Chart and at #3 in New Zealand’s album charts. The record included two Top 40 hit singles ‘Here For You’ with Becky Hill and the BBC Radio 1 A-List playlisted ‘Used To This’ with Issey Cross.


As well as solo he has amassed a hugely successful discography of hits, including a 2020 collaborative album with fellow Drum & Bass titan Sub Focus, remixes and collaborations with the likes of Rag N Bone Man, The Prodigy, Ed Sheeran, Chase & Status, Wretch 32, Naughty Boy, Laura Mvula and Becky Hill. 


He’s won ‘Best Single’, ‘Best Album’, ‘Best Video’, ‘Best Producer’ and ‘Best Live Act' at the National Drum & Bass Awards, not
to mention the VEVO Viewers Award at the MVA’s. Remarkably he’s also been playlisted by BBC Radio 1 17 times!


On top of his insane release history, Wilkinson has also built a hugely successful live career by consistently touring around the world over the past decade. He’s sold out a remarkable three headline shows at the iconic Brixton Academy, played headlining sets at some of the world’s premiere festivals including Glastonbury, BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend, Reading & Leeds, Creamfields, Snowbombing, Pukkelpop, Sziget, Rhythm & Vines and EDC Las Vegas among many others, held down multiple Ibiza residencies at Amnesia and toured around the world from New York to New Zealand.


In the last year Wilkinson has gone from strength to strength, releasing a string of huge singles including ‘Shine On’ with American dance music superstar Kaskade, ‘Balance’ with newcomer North which spent 10 weeks on the BBC Radio 1 Playlist and official remixes for Calvin Harris, John Summit and KETTAMA. 


For 2025 he shows no signs of slowing down with his two shows at Outernet London selling out in an hour, his biggest NZ festival show ever to over 17,000 people, plus his biggest ever headline show at Alexandre Palace on Nov 8th!

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