ABOUT US :

Coastal Beats commenced in 2004 and has successfully managed to raise the standard of dance events in Ulladulla and on the South Coast. Mathew Ord created Coastal Beats to provide the district with events to showcase and further the talents of cutting edge - up and coming -DJ's and promote dance music. Ordy often attended events in Sydney and looked forward to developing similar events in his home town.

July 2004 the inaugural Coastal Beats event was held on Friday 23rd, Ordy along with his friends and fellow DJ's, Woodrow and Chris Mees performed on stage @ the Ulladulla Civic Centre playing to a near capacity audience. The high energy crowd could not believe the quality of tunes the guys played, the night was awesome. It was all about the music and all about the dancing, the night was a huge success.
Since then Coastal Beats has promoted and developed regular events, the selling of glow merchandise has also become quite popular. By the 3rd Coastal event Peter Oates came on board with his lightshow of lasers, strobes and other visuals making the events look more professional and upmarket. On that night MC Jiffy took control of the mic and declared to the sell-out crowd, that the Coastal Beats team was the best on the South Coast. Since then other cutting edge DJ's have spent time on the decks as special guests, they've included Scream, Linton and Scott Richardson. Ordy tries to mix up the events, with only 4 hours playing time, it is necessary to plan and vary the acts, so the crowd can gain a wider variety of music they can dance to. Tom Pye another local up and coming DJ has proved to be quite popular with the regular dance crowd . Each event has a vast array of new sounds in all kinds of dance genre from fresh house music to better known hip-hop, techno and trance music, breaks are popular with the dance crowd as is the mix of happy hard and drum'n'bass sounds, that Ordy loves to play to the young dance enthusiasts. The main goal of the events is to ensure the dance crowd has something to dance to with their friends all night long. The events have become the highlight of the Underage event calendar, the youth of the district eagerly await the news release via the website of the next date and look forward to seeing the announcement via the pole posters of who will be appearing on stage as DJ.

Coastal Beats finished off their 2nd successful year of Underage events with its Inaugural All Age Outdoor Music Festival held on Saturday December 3rd, 2005, it starred Australia's #1 DJ Kid Kenobi & partner in crime MC Shureshock whose talents have taken them overseas to England, Europe and America. Such a top class act to be drawn to the South Coast was unbelievable and those who witnessed the event could not believe such a quality act was playing in Ulladulla. Ordy would like to thank those who bought tickets and supported the event, unfortunately the event response was not what was hoped for and when the opportunity arises again he is sure those who missed out in 2005 will plan their busy Summer Schedule of events to include Coastal Beats on their event calendar next time. Ordy himself took centre stage and in appreciation to the hundreds of supporters he put together an outstanding set of his favourite drum'n'bass mixes that worked a treat to get the crowd worked up before the main acts came on stage. Jimmy Z made the trip from Sydney and played the music that has recently won him the top spot on several music charts with his newly released CD 4Play Volume 4. If you missed his set then head down to Malibu Music, his CD's are a must for the dance enthusiasts. Scott Richardson put together a top class set that had the crowd transfixed on his unique style. Chris Mees and Scream, the awesome duo, put together a great set also that was applauded by the late afternoon crowd. The younger members welcomed Tom Pye to the stage at his first outdoor event and he didn't dissapoint them with his lively set. Matt Joyce had the task of being first DJ on stage and took great pleasure in cranking up the sound sytem to the max to let everyone know the event had started and one only had to follow the beat to find where it was at. Due to the small crowd a number of DJ's were not able to take up their position behind the decks on the second stage. Perhaps they needed to get the word out a bit more, like Hicksy from Sydney, who was invited back to Coastal's first event of 2006. The local support was pretty dismal, but luckily there was a great contingent of supporters from Canberra & Sydney who made the trip to Ulladulla and Ordy appreciated their support. Jake Trindorfer put together an unbelievable Break Dancing performance and he and others showed some unbelievable athleticism in their manoevers on stage. There was a great mix of ages who attended and all found the event great value for only $35, with a world class DJ Kid Kenobi & MC Shureshock, a top Sydney DJ Jimmy Z and also unlimited free rides on the mechanical surfboard & jumping castle. At the conclusion of the festival all applauded Ordy, who put together a fantastic event that was equal to any of the larger events that command well over $100 a ticket. Check out the gallery, to see what we mean, better still ask around and here first hand what you missed out on. It was an awesome event and one that will be the talk of town for a long time to come.