SQUAREPUSHER joins THE PLAYGROUND FESTIVAL
aaamusic | On 08, Apr 2013
Considered as one of electronic music’s most forward thinking artists, SQUAREPUSHER joins THE PLAYGROUND FESTIVAL this year on the 7th + 8th June @ the incredible 02 Academy Brixton. Expecting in nearly 10 000 people across the weekend and hosting some of the biggest names in electronic music that has ever been the festival has already been touted as an emerging SONAR Festival by the likes of DJ MAG amongst others.
Following the critically acclaimed release of ‘Ufabulum’ on Warp Records last year, SQUAREPUSHER’S AV show is an audiovisual barrage of brutal rythms and laser guided melodies wowing crowds worldwide from SONAR to L.A.’s HARDFEST and the Roundhouse in Camden recently.
Tom Jenkinson has stated that “It’s music which is generated purely from programming. There’s no live guitar or drums, there’s nothing in it which is live, really at all.”
Featuring a giant synapse shorting LED display designed and programmed by himself SQUAREPUSHER has reasserted himself in the electronic music pantheon. It’s an intense show that feels like nothing else you’ll see this year.
Joining him for the Saturday line-up, GARY NUMAN is a man that needs little introduction. Since his groundbreaking work and named as one of the figureheads of the electronic movement in the late 70s and early 80s, Gary Numan has been a pioneer of forward-thinking electronic music and a living legend to the UK’s musical history. Since the release of his breakthrough track ‘Cars’ in 1979, Numan has gone on to have a glittering career that still holds strong today. With every passing year, Gary Numan has kept true to himself by breaking barriers and creating diverse and interesting electronic music that wins him new fans every day.
Joining Gary and SQUAREPUSHER on the Saturday will be two of the founding fathers of the Detroit techno scene, DERRICK MAY and KEVIN SAUNDERSON who together reinvented the techno sound in the 80s and have gone on to be two of the most respected tastemakers on the scene today.
We complete the top of Saturday’s line up billing with some of the most inspiring and influential artists in the world. Including German-born PANTHA DU PRINCE, a staple of Europe’s ambient techno scene whose new collaborative album with The Bell Laboratory ‘Elements Of Light’ is looking to be one of this year’s most anticipated new releases. JOHN FOXX & THE MATHS, the new project from original Ultravox vocalist, John Foxx, joins him on the second day. This new project has seen a reinvention of John Foxx as he looks to continue the ground he covered with Ultravox, and bring it hurtling into the new millennium.
Also added to Saturday’s bill will be founding member of electronic pioneers Kraftwerk, WOLFGANG FLUR. Flur left in the group in the mid 80s to pursue other projects that have seen the producer create a number of unique and diverse productions right up to the present day. After leaving Kraftwerk, Flur released his breakthrough single ‘I Was A Robot’, a track that originally made it into the top 10 of the German singles charts. Since then, Wolfgang Flur has been a collaborator to countless numbers of his countries newer stars, as well as becoming a DJ, specialising in tech house and electro.
With further support from LAPALUX, NATHAN FAKE, LUKE VIBERT, OM UNIT, MOLO, STENCHMAN, THE NINETYS, DAKTYL, CHARLIE TRAPLIN, MAXX BAER and TEMPLA.
THE PLAYGROUND FESTIVAL 2013
Friday 7th June
LEFTFIELD DIGITALISM- LIVE UNKLE – James Lavelle Booka Shade- LIVE James Zabiela DJ Hell Kavinsky Cassius Model 500 – LIVE X-Press 2 Boddika Deadboy Krystal Klear Mickey Pearce No Artificial Colours Wildkats Whyt Noyz Severino Dan Beaumont Luke Unabomber Luke SolomonSaturday 8th June
SQUAREPUSHER- LIVE Gary Numan – FULL LIVE BAND Derrick May Kevin Saunderson Pantha Du Prince- LIVE John Foxx & The Maths Wolfgang Flur [Ex- Kraftwerk] Nathan Fake TOKiMONSTA Lapalux Luke Vibert Fantastic Mr. Fox OM Unit Molo The Ninetys Daktyl Flechette Charlie Traplin Maxx Baer TemplaEVENT INFO
The Playground Festival 2013, Brixton Academy, London
Friday 7th / Saturday 8th June – http://www.
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