March 30, 2013
Save Festival presents: LFO, Byetone, Mira Calix feat. Oliver Coates, Andy Stott, Denseland, SND, Metaboman, Large M, Heatsick, Ben UFO, Pangaea, XXXY, Easy Changes, Three_Angles, No Regular Play, Piticu, Lichterloh. See detailed information about participants below, artists are listed in alphabetical order...
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Andy Stott
 Andy Stott made his debut for the Modern Love label in 2005 with the 'Replace EP' — a 4 track exposition of his uniquely slanted production style taking in Chi-Town and Motor City influences with an obtuse genetic code at its core. In the years since he has released over a dozen EP's and two albums under his own name, as well as several productions under the Andrea moniker for Modern Love's 'Daphne' sublabel. Refusing to settle, his output has veered from deepest Techno to broken Garage, slowed down House and hyperactive Footwork — always referencing his unique stylistic signatures: deep, complex and oddly beautiful...  As one of the co-founders of Hessle Audio, Ben UFO has been responsible, alongside Pearson Sound and Pangaea, for some of the most varied and ground breaking releases of recent years. Having become immersed in the still emerging dubstep scenes in London and Leeds in 2005, his musical taste was shaped primarily by the DMZ and Sub Dub nights taking place in those cities. However, as tastes have shifted and scenes have fragmented, Ben UFO's approach to the music and to Hessle Audio itself has developed...  Olaf Benders experimental work with film material started during school time. The casual finding of a complete 16mm movie equipment gave the initiation. From this time on started an intensive dealing with the medium "film" as well as the raw material "film". Technical limitations forced special methods: he scratched directly on the footage with objects to create geometrical figures. The results were archaic motion patterns. Due to the experiments he came into contact with the east-german underground band AG-Geige...  Listening to Denseland evokes shades of bygone music's and not: Lou Reed's Berlin period, Joy Division, Einstürzende Neubauten, the extended vocal madness of Roy Hart and Laurie Anderson, the distortions of the early Contortions, reduced Grandmaster Flash and John Carpenter. But Denseland's sound also exists in its own sealed universe — one spanned by sinister timbres of seduction, grooves of foreboding imbued with a sardonic, almost wicked humor...  This duo techno project of (Denis Cast, Kilrill Sil) as we know by the name of Easy Changes, who made lot of noise with they back to back two releases on Foundsound records continue to develop they unique symbiosis of rhythmical patterns with the world of mysterious sounds and sub minded mood currents. Easy Changes create unique suspense that catch the ears of techno funs all over the world. As a result core of they music has continues progression, kind of like a story with multi scenarios between current and future life's...  The solo project of Berlin-dwelling Brit Steven Warwick, Heatsick batters a solitary Casio through a myriad of effects, looping up a coarse, crisp and twinkling out-house music into a wonderfully queasy eternity, teasing out melodic and rhythmic mantras to an off-kilter, Burroughsian effect that WINS on the floor and never forgets to be lo-fi fun(k). Combining a palette of sources from early Chicago house mixtapes (in sound, texture AND mixing technique) through to musique concrète and psychedelia, Heatsick proposes a live dance music that expands and unlocks the senses...  Two twentysomewhat young guys from western austria, grown up together in the claws of a residential school; after surviving this, they moved to Vienna, ready to become what you call a nerd. They use their rural as well as their new urban background to create intelligent, on beat videos, animations and installations using various analog and digital techniques showing o ff that you may not use your ears only but also your brains and eyes when you go out to forget what you’ve done the whole day...  At first there was hip-hop. Metaboman wanted to rap and that he did. In his easy and loose manner with the Feindrehstar founding member to which he belongs. Coming up from the rear was house and techno. He took his MPC under arm and together with him back from whence he came. From the back to the front he came "up on’em" and that was in 2002. Musik Krause was born. The tandem DJ & thought team with Carlson Basu named Krause Duo took to the road...  Mira Calix is an award winning composer, producer and performer based in the United Kingdom. She is signed to Warp Records, on which she has released five albums. Although her earlier music is almost exclusively electronic and organic in nature, in recent years she has incorporated classical orchestration into her work for dance, film, theatre, opera and installations. Mira has been commissioned to write new works for many established music and art institutions; the London Sinfonietta, Bang On A Can, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Aldeburgh Festival, Opera North, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic-Ensemble/10/10 and The Manchester International Festival, to name but a few...  No Regular Play are a duo equally at home in the rehearsal rooms of Julliard as in the main room of Fabric. Emotive and unapologetically organic, their fluid approach unites more than a lifetime of influences. Their impressive live show, which features Paulus’ inimitable trumpet and vocals alongside DeBruyn’s masterful manipulation of the rhythm and soundscapes bridges the gap between the indie arena and the heartbeat of the dancefloor. Greg Paulus and Nick DeBruyn met as 8 year olds growing up in St...  Raised in the West of England and now residing in North London via Leeds, Pangaea, aka Kevin McAuley, is one of the key producers and DJs in forward-thinking dance music. Although he made music from an early age, Pangaea was inspired to step up his productions after being exposed to the then-emerging sounds of dubstep in 2005. He was involved in Leeds’ first dubstep night ‘Ruffage’ and then formed the Hessle Audio label with Pearson Sound and Ben UFO at the start of 2007, with the aim of releasing original music which wasn’t being represented elsewhere...  SND are Mark Fell and Mat Steel. Like no other project before scape they stand for the propagandised clicks and cut sound. However as label mate terre theamlitz points out, these "unwilling godmothers of clicks and cuts" are keen to distance themselves from the genre they are often thought to have spawned. Mat and Mark met at sheffield city polytechnic where they studied 3d design and video art respectively. Together with Jeremy Potter (Shirt Trax) and Robert Baker (Clock Dva/Anti Group) they formed an artists collective called Non-Axiomatic Living Room (aka Premium Leisure), the label on which the blir recordings were released...  Longer the creative path... There is always to understand and above digest, all that remains is poked out impetuously. Give vent to our emotions, our paranoia, turning them into rhythm, sound, passing through the sounds of life, experiments and alchemy...  Having spent his youth in various bands Rupert Taylor finally decided to hang up his guitar and mic and began producing electronic music fuelled by his love at the time of drum and bass and techno. Through the influential record shop Pelikan Neck he picked up on the early forms of dubstep and began focusing his productions on bass heavy garage influenced tracks. This led to his first release as "forensix (mcr)" on Revolution music in 2006 with one of his first productions... |
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