Lytteguide til STRØM Festival 2012

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BIBZOOM Summertime is festival time and one of the year’s highlights to celebrate electronic music is undeniably Copenhagen’s Strøm festival. Since 2007 the crew behind Strøm has summer after summer filled the Danish capital with exciting electronic events at venues, in clubs, on the streets and in the parks. But who are the people that make music loving people wiser and make Copenhagen one of Europe’s strongholds for electronic music. Bibzoom has met up with the curators behind this year’s Strøm programme to hear more about what they are looking forward to see.

On the following pages you can see which artists from this year’s program, the curators advise you not to miss and you can check out the latest episode of Ultra FM :Transmissions of Exploratory Music, which this month interviews four of the curators and presents tracks from some of the artists who are playing at Strøm. Enjoy!

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U LT R A F M Ultra FM is a monthly free podcast radio programme made by The Library of Herlev in Greater Copenhagen. Ultra FM covers a wide range of electronic and experimental music. In this special edition podcast, we take a look at this year’s Strøm festival with music from various artists on this year’s lineup and interviews with four of Strøm’s musical curators, Thomas Madvig, Åsmund Boye Kverneland, Linus Ellesøe and Kristian Kjøller.

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M A J O R LA Z E R

H E N R I K S C H WA R Z

Major Lazer was started by the two producers and djs Diplo and Switch who met each other, when they were both working with M.I.A. Stylistically, Major Lazer is as complex and diverse as the group’s long line of featuring artists. The Major Lazer formula is often made up of dancehall and reggae and spiced with the style and mood from moombahton, hardstyle, cumbia, mainfloor house, indie and crunk. Expect wild laser sounds, alarms and tropical beats played with an energetic attitude that makes you want to crowd surf and take your shirt off.

Henrik Schwarz is one of the most exciting names on the house scene right now. Through his wild musical experiments the progressive German artist is constantly pushing the limits of house music, renewing the genre in the process. Thanks to his originality and ferocity on stage, Henrik Schwarz is one of the most sought-after performers in house. Weekend after weekend, thousands of people gather to experience his overwhelmingly hyped shows.

It can only be great.

Thomas Madvig (musical curator at Strøm)

Åsmund Boye Kverneland (musical curator at Strøm)

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O C TAV E O N E

LV

Octave One is the closest you get to a real classic house act. The duo have released music for more than 20 years and besides being one of the best suppliers of straight up Detroit techno and house, they are also a sublime live act. They have been around the block more than a couple of times, but they are only getting better by age.

LV’s sound is completely unique and it contributes with a rethinking of the constantly mutating British bass scene.

According to the leading music blogs and magazine, their debut record Routes from 2011 was one of best albums that year. They have yet to visit Denmark, so what better occasion than Strøm? We are incredibly proud to present one of the most interesting electronic names right now.

Pernille Krog Mogensen (musical curator at Strøm)

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Linus Ellesøe (musical curator at Strøm)

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EMIKA

DNT EL

I very much look forward to seeing the Czech-born artist Emika who had her musical growth on the exciting British electronic scene around the Bristol area. Emika possesses a strange melodic talent. Her universe is dark and well produced without being too nice. She experiments without disappearing into geeky tricks and manages to provide almost pop melodies in her dark sound universe.

James ‘Jimmy’ Tamborello from L.A. is a personal hero through many years.

Albums like Life is full of possibilities from his Dntel-alias and Space Settings released under his other alias Headset perch high on the list of this writer’s all time favourite releases.

Both albums are fragile and simple constructed with a balanced crossover of a lot of different genres. At Strøm Dntel will be focusing on 4/4 ambient techno-house oriented tracks from his recently released album Aimlessness.

With a more upbeat sample patchwork he is now moving in a new directing that can be traced back to the path that Fourtet and Gold Panda have been going, however it is most definitely still Dntel’s own.

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K E N T O N S LA SH D E M O N

R A N G L E K LO D S

Silas Moldenhawer and Jonas Kenton aka Kenton Slash Demon are undoubtedly some of the most promising talents on the Danish electronic scene. Even though they have only a few releases behind them, they have already established themselves nationally and internationally. Their live show is notoriously known for being one of the best parties around and is therefore a must see at this year’s Strøm.

“It is surprises like Ranglekolds that puts an end to the critics’ cynicism and rebuilds the faith in music”. This is what Danish newspaper Politiken wrote about Esben Andersen alias Rangleklods’ debut album Beekeeper.

Compositional the Berlin-based Dane moves in the borderland between catchy pop and boundary-pushing electronic sound experiments.

Kristian Kjøller (musical curator at Strøm)

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Niels Mark (Ultra FM : Transmissions of Exploratory Music)

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