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Les Siestes Electroniques 2009 Once again Les Siestes Electroniques took place in Toulouse, as a summer meeting point for emerging artists from the field of music and digital culture. It's ambitious motley line-up mainly focused on electronic musicians and aimed at a professional audience as well as the general public. |
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Italy's premier electronic music festival is back in 2009 with yet another heavy hitting lineup from leading lights of techno, house, disco and electronica. |
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As a perfect antidote to the grueling city life, Perrier Chill Out Festival takes urban lounging to a new level with a unique musical and lifestyle experience on the Duabi beachfront. |
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The Bloc massive smashed it once again in 2009 stepping it up a level this year at the massive Butlins Holiday Centre in Minehead . Cutting edge artists past, present and future provided the soundtrack for 3 days of absolute mayhem and hazy memories, recalled for years to come. |
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Celebrating their 10th anniversary in 2009 Berlin's Club Transmediale select another considered lineup with electronic musics pioneers of today and tomorrow. |
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Located in Stavanger on the edge of the Norweigan Fjords numusic festival is an experimental gathering of musical minds and local souls to create an event as stiking as the environment in which it's held. |
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Thessaloniki might not be a place known to many yet but the Reworks festival held annually in the coastal town is making it's mark on the electronic festival map with 2 days of music art and installations. |
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Les Siestes Electroniques 2008 Delivering another year of cutting edge musical performances and presentations in the parks and venues of Tolouse, Les Siestes Electronique, with it's carefully chosen line-up, once again confirms the reason for it's significance in promoting and educating the music scene in southern France. |
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Dour festival, a 4 day camping festival in the south of Belgium is a finely curated event that presents a no compromise lineup to a crowd of over 30,000 music fans that are renowned for parting hard. |
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Berlin is one of the most musically diverse cities in the world owing in no small part to the international array of artists that now call the city home. Cheap living costs, a thriving party scene and good connections to gigs all over Europe has attracted musicians from around the world and created a unique community of artists, labels and organisations. |
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Bridging the water between mainstream and underground lands Eurockeennes in the eastern French town of Belfort once again brings underground excitement to the masses. |
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A constant measure by which all others are judged Sonar once again presented 3 glorious days of new and evolving forms of music and media art to an international audience in the beautiful city of Barcelona. |
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At their finest edition so far, Dissonanze, Italy's premier dance music festival, featured another exquisite selection of electronic music's contemporaries. The two night event once again brought to life the stunning Pallazo Dei Congressi with cutting edge audio and visual rhythmic art. |
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Probably the best example of a music, technology and arts festival anywhere in the UK Futuresonic, in the acid house homeland of Manchester, once again presented a selection of eye and ear-opening performances, ideas and directions for the future. |
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Under the theme Unpredictable, CTM.08 investigates artistic concepts that imply the surprising and unforeseeable, accidents, mistakes and coincidences as a means to alter the dynamics of creative processes and to discover new aesthetic forms. |
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There are few international cities that are home to such a mass of musical talent like you can find in Tokyo. Artists from all musical roots from all over the world make this one of the most exciting and unique locations in Asia for forward thinking sounds. |
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The Synch Festival held in the centre of Athens brings together the best international music, and arts to the Greek capital for a three day and night festival of innovative music, moving image and new media. |
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Amsterdam is known around the world for many reasons, but the main reason we think it should be known is through the endless stream of quality music emanating from the artists, labels and creative organisations that call the city home. |
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Les Siestes Electroniques 2007 | Toulouse - France French festivals always do things with a little bit of flair and when you look at the lineup of the local government funded Les Siestes Electroniques you can appreciate the Toulouse municipal authorities, under the curatorship of Samuel Aubert and his team, for pushing music more than most. |
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Benicassim 2007 | Benicassim - Spain The international festival of Benicassim is one of Spain's best known music events. Combining evening performances by some of the biggest names in rock and pop with late night/early morning artists with their focus solely on the dancefloor this event attracts music fans from all over Europe. |
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Eurockeennes 2007 | Belfort - France France's biggest and best known music festival returns to the beautiful Belfort countryside for another 3 days of carefully programmed performances by a diverse range of international and domestic artists. |
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Faster Than Sound 2007 | Aldeburgh - UK Faster Than Sound is a sound experiment joining the dots between musical genres and digital art forms. Following its launch in 2006, FTS returned in June 2007 to the cold war environment of Bentwaters airbase for more sonic exploration. |
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Dissonanze 2007 returns to the palazzo Dei Congressi for 2 nights of advanced audio and visual experimentations. Featuring a mix of the emerging and the established Dissonanze 07 made another mark on the electronic fabric of Italy. |
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Sonar returns for 2007 with another edition of finely curated music, media and arts, all executed to perfection proving once again why the reputation of this festival has spread around the world. |
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Futuresonic 2007. Manchester - UK Futuresonic is an annual 3-day festival of electronic music and media arts that is urban, cutting edge, international, inclusive, and in Manchester. Taking place in multiple venues throughout the city the festival includes future focused music performances, workshops, interviews and conference sessions. |
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Bloc Weekend 2007. Norfolk - UK The very first Bloc weekend, held at a windswept holiday resort on the east coast of the UK one weekend in March, brought together the establishment of the electronica world with the emerging dubstep and grime sounds for 60 hours of musical mayhem. |
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Club Transmediale 2007. Berlin Under this year's motto, BUILDING SPACE the main program focus of CTM.07 will investigate how music and the interplay of sound and moving images can create new dimensions in our experience of space. Once again, the CTM Festival's approach is interdisciplinary and intensive: media arts meet experimental music. |
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A nomadic festival with it's origins on Mt Fuji Metamorphose is one of Japan's best known festivals of electronic music. Yearly showcases of the best and most cutting edge artists from the international scene and from Japan give this event a unique standing amongst the annual offerings to electronic music fans in Japan. |
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Eurockeennes 2006, Belfort - France Eurockeennes is one of the best known festivals in France building up a reputation in it's 17 years of existence for having a diverse range of artists from the full range of the musical spectrum. Showcasing International talent alongside homegrown French artists the festival appeals to music fans of any taste. |
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The 13th edition of the Sonar festival in Barcelona brought together cutting edge of artists from the usual mishmash of styles and sounds the festival is renowned, for 3 days and nights of advanced music. From from disco to dub, funk to freestyle and everything in-between, Sonar once again proved to a capacity crowd why it's reputation has reached the world over. |
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MUTEK is an intelligently programmed, forward-thinking gathering for artists, professionals and electronic music fans. It has made Montreal a premiere point of contact on the international electronic music scene and helped launch local performers such a Marc Leclair (Akufen), Scott Monteith (Deadbeat), Steve Beaupre, and Mike Shannon onto the world stage. |
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Presenting the Italian vision of our musical future, Dissonanze returned for it's 6th consecutive year to a packed event at the magnificent Piazza Dei Congressi. Live and DJ performances were complimented by an experimental audio and video program projected onto the side of the building and viewed inside the cinema. |
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London's electronic music festival saw some very special performances across the east end of London. A series of club nights at various venues were matched in the daytime by a panel series from some of UK music's most respected figures. samurai.fm returned to the festival with a showcase featuring Ann Arbour, Michigan's Ghostly International, and London's DC Recordings. |
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Club Transmediale 2006, Berlin Challenging preconceptions and joining the dots between music, past, present and future Berlin's Club Transmediale is a music festival that brings together early pioneers with contemporary innovators to present a program of events, seminars, workshops and installations. |
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At the forefront of electronic music festivals for over a decade now Sonar continues to excel with both it's programming and it's execution. Taking place from the 16th - 18th June 2005 in the idyllic Catalonian city of Barcelona this three day and night event featured artist and label showcases from across the world. |
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Celebrating the point where audio and video performances meet Optronica 2005 was the first festival of it's kind in London championing a new wave of audio visual performances. Taking place at the National Film Theatre and the IMAX samurai.fm launched it's on-demand video service with coverage of event. |
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Greg Wilson Electrofunkroots, Manchester Electronic music pioneer A Guy Called Gerald presented this special feature from a DJ who inspired him to start making music. Greg Wilson has been DJing since the mid 70's and with a few others is widely credited for bringing the foreign new sounds of electro to the dancefloors of northern England throughout the early 80's. This retrospective from 82-83 highlights the tracks that inspired them. |
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The first 3 day music festival in London dedicated to alternative electronic music, Encompass celebrated it's inaugural year with showcases, lectures and discussions in a hub of venues around the east end of London. A samurai.fm saturday night showcase as well as overall event broadcast coverage brought samurai sounds to the heart of the festival and took the sounds of the festival worldwide. |
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