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Punch Drunk and Livity Sound. The Tom Ford aka Peverlist’s creatures

Claudia Galal
The mainstream celebrities from Bristol are Massive Attack, Tricky and Bansky, but the town on the River Avon can offer a wider range of resources, often hidden in the undergorund, and it features the heart of a peculiar music scene. Among the key players of this animation there is Tom Ford aka Peverelist, dj and producer, but also essential entertainer of the so-called Bristol Sound through his labels Punch Drunk and Livity Sound.... READ MORE...
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Get Physical Music. Portrait of a label

Claudia Galal
The official story of Get Physical Music, one of the most appreciated Berliner label by audiences and professionals in the international clubbing scene, Beatport best-selling, started in 2002. In that year the djs and producers concealed by moniker M.A.N.D.Y., Dj T and Booka Shade decided to make a job of their passion for electronic music, especially house.... READ MORE...
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Motion Sickness. The Domino Records’ night side

Claudia Galal
The Domino Records, first rank English label, has just released a double album gathering up some of the best remixes of its large discography. A definitely winning operation, because it sees great names of international clubbing (some very famous “veterans”, others young on the crest of a wave) in the throes of songs from equally important bands.... READ MORE...
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DECiBEL. A melting pot to dance

Claudia Galal
Within the landscape of the international electronic music Tectonic, a label based in Bristol, has always been very careful in the selection of its artists. Pinch alias Rob Ellis, “the godfather of dubstep” and founder of this label in 2005, doesn't give all his blessings. The last going into the multicolor family is DECiBEL, dj and producer born in London (real name Jay Fontaine) grown up in the sign of the cultural contamination.... READ MORE...
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A Taste of Sonar. South Africa Deals with Avant Guard

Ludovica Amoroso
Sonar of Barcelona, an International festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art, landed for its 19th Indaba Design edition (from 29th February to 4th March) in Cape Town, by using a completely new special format. In order to know more about that, we asked Georgia Taglietti, Head of the International Media Department of Avanced Music (the organization which, every year, arranges Sonar event), to describe this new partnership.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 72, March 2012

CTM Festival Club Transmediale 2012

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With an extensive program of concerts, discourses, and an exhibition space, CTM.12 – Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Arts is appropriating the festival theme SPECTRAL to explore the current reemergence of all things ghostly, mysterious and dark in music, avant-pop, art, and to speculate about its possible causes and potentials.... READ MORE...
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Bozar Electronic Weekend. Electtronic Music In The Heart Of Europe

Silvia Bertolotti
The heart of Europe beats at the rate of electronic music. The proof of that is Brussels, the city that hosted, on October 28th and 29th, the Bozar Electronic Weekend, one of the not-to-miss events for lovers of electronic music and experimentation applied to it. More than thirty, among digital artists, musicians, DJs and VJs, took part to it... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 69, November 2011

[DISK / CTM] The Icas Suite

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The ICAS SUITE kicks off today at Monarch in Berlin with a program by the Todaysart Festival (Brussels & The Hague) featuring live and DJ-sets by three spearheads of Benelux electronic dance music: Conforce, Peter van Hoesen and 2562. At the same time Sperm Festival from Prague presents new Avant-pop from the Czech Republic, while Insomia! (Tromso) & Cynetart (Dresden) join forces to cook-up the Paloma with DJ-sets by Galina Hardgrove, Charlotte Bendiks, DJ JSN and Boska.... READ MORE...
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Alpha-Ville 2011

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Taking place from 22nd to the 25th of September, the third edition of Alpha-ville Festival will spread across several venues in London, running alongside the London Design Festival and the Digital Design Weekend at V&A , and including venues such as Whitechapel Gallery, Rich Mix, Netil House, The Vortex, XOYO and Space Studios.... READ MORE...
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Todaysart 2011 Leap into the Void

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The Hague / Brussels - The International ambitions and collaborations of the TodaysArt Festival have resulted in the first Belgian edition of the festival. TodaysArt.BE will take over the EuroStation / Zuid Station - one of the city's emblematic sites - from 29 September to 1 October, precisely one week after TodaysArt.NL in The Hague. TodaysArt uses and transforms the city's infrastructure and creates temporary spaces to produce events in exciting settings, such as main squares, public buildings, museums, concert halls, clubs and theatres.... READ MORE...
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Late “primavera”. Recorded Report From The Festival

Pia Bolognesi
Even if it seems impossible to combine such a big number of so different bands on the same event, the Primavera Sound 2011 'back to the present' operation managed to hit the bull's eye. Three days - from May 26th to May 28th -of historic pop, rock and post-punk icons of the eighties and the nineties that performed on stage with new artists, offering more electronic and contaminated music than the post-dance, dubstep and hip hop wave.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 66, July / August 2011

Muv Festival 2011

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La settima edizione di Muv, festival di musica elettronica ed arti digitali, si svolgerà a Firenze dal 1 al 5 giugno 2011. Il programma, realizzato da Associazione Culturale Muv e Intooitiv organizzazione eventi, prenderà forma all'interno dell'esclusiva cornice della Limonaia di Villa Strozzi.... READ MORE...
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Lunchmeat Festival

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Lunchmeat festival: to turn Prague into one of the European centres of audio-visual art. As last year, March in Prague will be about visual art and electronic music. The second year of the festival will be held during 18 – 20 March. The headline musicians are Luke Abbott (Border Community), Teebs (Brainfeeder) and King Cannibal (Ninja Tune). The headline visualizers are the Spanish group NiñoViejo or the inventor of the VJ software Modul8, Boris Edelstein.... READ MORE...
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