MUSIC

Originally published on Monday, 09 June 2008

Urban Junkies Mini Guide to...

 

Sonar 2008

What: 15th Festival Internacional de Musica Avanzada y Arte Multimedia de Barcelona
When: 19.20.21 June, 2008

The 15th incarnation of the world's best music festival has two main themes this year: "female factor" and "hybridism".

So Goldfrapp, Roísín Murphy, MIA, Camille and, our recent favourite, Chloe all get prominent place among the vagaries of boys' noise. Top of the boys' list then is X-102 discovers The Rings Of Saturn (Saturday 21 June, 03.15, Sonarclub) aka Mike Banks and Jeff Mills of Underground Resistance aka the founding fathers of Techno. Also catch Konono Nº1, Buraka Son Sistema and the really amazing Basquiat Strings .

Below Urban Junkies has picked a few of our favorite acts from the festival - although almost anything will do when you factor in sleep deprivation, endless sunshine (touch wood) and cerveza.


Sonar  Times, Acts, Venue

Basquiat Strings

Thursday 19.06.08

17.00 Pram [Sonarhall] beating XX Teens by a hair at 17.30 [Sonardrome]
20.30 Basquiat Strings [L'Auditori]
01.00 Leila [Sonarpark]

Justice

Friday 20.06.08

16.00 Konono Nº1 (Sonar Village)
19.40 Deepchord [Sonardrome]
00.30 Diplo [Sonarclub]
01.30 Flying Lotus [Sonarlab] 
02.00 Justice [Sonarclub] 
03.00 Buraka Som Sistema [Sonarlab] & a little bit of Theo Parrish to get you in mood for  
05.00 Frankie Knuckles [Sonarpark] & maybe last song by Hercules and Love Affair "Blind" so aim for 04.45

MIA

Saturday 21.06.08

17.00 Matmos [Sonarhall, live] 
21.00 Camille  [SonarPalau]   
00.00 Chloe [Sonarlab, live]
01.30 MIA [Sonarpark, live]
02.30 Clark [Sonarclub, live]
03.00 DJ Mehdi (FR) vs A-Trak feat. Kid Sister (US) [Sonarpark]
03.15 X-102 Discovers The Rings Of Saturn [Sonarclub] 
04.00 Sebastian [Sonarpub]
05.00 Ricardo Villalobos  [Sonarpub] 

 

Music selection by Jeffrey Disaster of Audio Sushi, London's leading music stylists for iPods and events

Comments:

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Date: 11-06-2008 16:43:46
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