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On saturday April 2nd:
Main hall: Animal Collective, Battles, Not Waving, Factory Floor, Truss
Small hall: Anna Meredith, Gazelle Tein (Kingdom Come), Babyfather, Gebben, Beatrice Dillon, Via App, Lena Willikens & Ben UFO
Tickets are available through the website of Rewire.
Animal Collective
Animal Collective is an experimental popgroup from Baltimore, US. Their music is often described as freak folk but it is hard to define the Animal Collective sound, as they often experiment with diverse styles and ideas from album to album. The group’s newest album ‘Painting With’ – the follow-up to 2012’s ‘Centipede Hz’ – is set to be released on February 19 via Domino. The album was recorded by Panda Bear, Avey Tare, and Geologist at EastWest Studios in Los Angeles. It features contributions from John Cale, as well as Colin Stetson. The collective’s work bounces and pops with an urgent and ecstatic energy, propelled by gurgling modular synths and polyrhythmic beats. Animal Collective is Technicolor 21st Century Pop Music.
Battles
Battles (US) is an Experimental Rock group consisting of John Stanier (of Helmet and Tomahawk), Dave Konopka (of Lynx) and Ian Williams (of Don Caballero and Storm & Stress). They have been anything but a conventional band. As result of its constant forward-momentum – musically and conceptually – Battles’ albums have placed the band amongst the most innovative of Warp Records’ roster. Their latest and most future-leaning album yet, ‘La Di Da Di’, was released by Warp Records on September 18, 2015.
Not Waving
Alessio Natalizia is a London-based Italian artist, forging music as his alias Not Waving. His work reminds the listener of post-punk records and early 80s Italian electronic music. Diagonal just released the artist’s highly anticipated album “Animals”, saying it feels ‘as warped, deep-raved and giddy as a night out in the city they were forged’. Not Waving offers tunes — no, songs — for post-work smash-ups, weekenders and sore commutes.
Factory Floor
Factory Floor is a band from London, UK. They have been described as ‘post-punk’ and ‘industrial’, using live drums, synthesizers and noise. Their work has been released by DFA since 2012. Their analogue set-up and improvised roots prove that a major aspect of the band’s rise to notoriety is their versatility: music that often results in a repetitious song that seems to last forever. Factory Floor’s upcoming album is set to be released on DFA in summer 2016.
Truss
Truss is the primary alias of UK producer Tom Russell. His sound takes influence from the UK’s hardcore and rave scenes, melded with a reverence for past innovators like Neil Landstrumm, Cristian Vogel and Surgeon while resolutely pushing towards new and futuristic constructions/structures. His recent works with Perc, Bleaching Agent, Donor and his younger brother Tessela have seen him use techno as a starting point for explorations into the associated territories of noise, hardcore and tear?out italo. The wider musical world has also been drawn to Truss’ sound, which has resulted in remixes for highly? regarded bands such as Liars and Depeche Mode. A DJ set from Truss uses techno as a starting point to encompass all the sounds, genres and approaches that have gone before it.
Anna Meredith
London-based composer, producer and performer Anna Meredith came to prominence as a classical composer before branching out into electronica. Her sound is frequently described as ‘maximalist’ ‘uncategorisable’ and ‘genre-hopping’. She explores the different worlds of contemporary classical, avant-pop, electronica and experimental rock with her ecstatic, spirited music.
Gazelle Twin
Making its debut in The Netherlands and only performed for the second time, British artist Gazelle Twin presents Kingdom Come, a new audio visual performance in collaboration with Chris Turner and Tash Tung.
Babyfather
Babyfather, Dean Blunt’s freshly introduced moniker, explores the London-based art-pop provocateur’s typical, odd methodology once again. Summer 2015, Hyperdub surprisingly released an unannounced first Babyfather EP. Blunt’s characteristic voice – combined with static chopped samples and lo-fi rhythmic textures – forms the firm basis for this new grimy project.
Gebben
With a versatile taste in music, Gebben is always searching for new sounds to incorporate in his surprising and varied dj-sets. Gerben is also closely associated and involved with Creme Organization, home for artists such as Legowelt, and Orgue Electronique
Beatrice Dillon
London’s Beatrice Dillon is an ambient producer, composer and NTS radio DJ with a string of acclaimed mixes. There’s no obvious entry point to the works of Beatrice Dillon. Between dubby cassette releases, folk compilations, eclectic mixes, and filmic compositions, it’s never clear where tracing her efforts is likely to lead you.
Via App
South Carolina-born and now Boston-based 20 year-old Dylan Scheer is known for her rebellious mediations with techno and house. Known as a key member of Brooklyn’s emerging electronic music underground, her dizzy, dark but extremely funky music goes deep in the most manic and unreliable ways.
Lena Willikens
Nothing trains a DJ more than a long-lasting residency, a truism that the Cologne based musician and DJ Lena Willikens always proves when she spins her vinyl. Lena is never committed to one style: all is welcome as long as it is twisted in her one-of-a-kind way.
BEN UFO
Ben UFO is one of the few DJ’s in the UK to make a name for himself solely as a DJ, without entering the world of production. As one of the co-founders of Hessle Audio, he has been responsible, alongside Pearson Sound and Pangaea, for some of the most varied and ground breaking releases of recent years. As a DJ, he explores sounds both old and new, across the worlds of house and garage, dubstep and grime, and further into the past. Ben UFO is known for his ability to successfully present unfamiliar, experimental dance music to a diverse variety of audiences worldwide.
