Dimensions is Croatia's most assured house and techno festival

Joe Claussell, The Stables, Friday

The official, printed Dimensions line-up tells us that Marcellus Pittman is due to follow Midland on Friday night, but there's no fooling Mixmag (who saw the Detroit DJ the night before). From the off it's obvious who this DJ is. It's obvious in the way he shakes his head, as though the towel wrapped around it is a hive of bees he's desperately trying to break free of. It's obvious in the way his whole body moves when he uses the DJ controls, as though the dials on the rotary mixer he most definitely requested had not been cleaned since they started being used in an opium den 700 years ago. It's obvious in the way he uses the EQ and volume controls relentlessly, as though inhabited by some otherworldly and at times frustratingly annoying spirit of unparalleled passion. Yes, it's Joe Claussell, who mangles every record he plays in a skilful, unique and often totally unnecessary way. The way he does so on this Lil Louis track, one he clearly knows very well, is a showstopper though.

Miss Sunshine, Arija, Saturday

Sunčica Barišić aka Miss Sunshine has had a great year. She released a good remix on Etruria Beat, a great EP on Sweden's Random Island, saw her Traum residency in hometown Osijek, Croatia fulfil a successful season and played universally acclaimed festival sets in Rijeka, Croatia and at Exit Festival, Serbia. She is one of Croatia's best known techno DJs and regularly plays international dates of pummelling techno. Her Saturday night set at Dimensions, which finished with this relentless industrial acid groove, similarly pulled no punches. Along with Zagreb's Ekstrakt crew, who had played before Rødhåd the night before, Sunshine offered the best representation of Croatia's techno scene at the festival.