EXIT Presents...
21-02-2010
EXIT trapt het nieuwe decennium af in stijl. Met trots presenteren we de eerste bevestigde namen voor het festival van 2010.
De headliner van de line-up tot nog toe, zijn The Chemical Brothers. Hun exclusieve live shows zijn altijd verschrikkelijk goed, maar dit keer hebben ze iets zeer speciaals in petto. Bereid je maar voor op hun beste optreden ooit! Ook op het hoofdpodium staan Mika, met zijn opvallende poptastische producties, en het Noorse duo Röyksopp met hun mooie melodieuze electronica.
De Dance Arena is dit jaar host voor de electro koningen Crookers, Boys Noize, Erol Alkan en Ed Banger's SebastiAn, Busy P, Ida Engberg en DJ Mehdi. Ook de Don van de techno Ricardo Villalobos, een lang verwachte show van Moderat live en Josh Wink, die de 15e verjaardag van Ovum viert, staan op het programma.
De Dance Arena wordt door velen gezien als de beste in Europa - zo niet de wereld - en de ervaring van dansen met 20.000 mensen wanneer de zon opkomt over de muren van het fort is absoluut mind-blowing.
Big beat sound
pioneers, the band with the greatest audience ever gathered at the biggest world
festival - Glastonbuty, nerds famous for completely ignoring superstar Liam
Galagher's whims, a duo whose imperative have been live acts from day one, are
finally coming to Exit. Even though the audience is used to being surprised by
Tom and Ed's live performances, and to always experiencing a performance at
least one step beyond the previous one, this time they have promised a special
ace up their sleeve, and invited the audience to get ready for their best
performance yet.
The Chemical Brothers started going unstoppably towards
electronic music top from their very first performance at Albany pub in London,
their audience even back then being Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller, James Dean
Bradfield, Tim Burgess... It could be supposed that they owe their planetary
success to a successful blend of hip-hop, techno, house, spiced up by Balear
sound and skillfully incorporated vocals into smart yet giddy music. After
almost twenty years of existence and six albums, The Chemical Brothers are one
of the most important names in dance music scene, equally wanted in Europe and
the States, and most importantly for us - they are experts exactly for huge
parties.
And they talked and
they danced...
While being nominated for the best
video ("The Girl And The Robot") for Spellemannprisen Award (which is Norwegian
Grammy), this apparently unstoppable duo is making a new album, due to be
released this year. And if this wasn't enough, "This Must Be It", another
collaboration in a row with Karin Derijer Anderson (aka Fever Ray) is currently
raiding MTV, VH1, parties all around... Röyksopp are also Last.fm's favourites,
taking place 24 on their list of top 2009 performers, with over 750,000
listeners that heard them around 4.000,000 times. Yes, they are inevitable, and
yes, they're coming to Exit.
Saying that they have been on a good row
since their beginning would be a wild understatement. Remember their first
single "Eple" (Norwegian for apple), which not only made people turn around and
listen, but also placed a new challenge for electronic music performers and
inspired them to redefine boundaries. Then in 2002, they won European MTV award
for the best video with "Remind Me", and every next year brought at least one
more award, more thrilled audience... Simultaneously with their popularity
picking up pace, their music became more up-beat, reaching its so far maximum in
the above mentioned smashing hits. Collaboration with Swedish female vocals only
confirms that these boys mean business, and know how to do it. Come to witness
that.
Blame it on
Mika
They call
him a flamboyant stage persona. They call him an educated artist. All true. His
second studio album called "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" was released towards the
end of 2009, and on Friday 19th February the new single from that album, "Blame
It On The Girls" (with a video as well) saw the light of day. And in July, he's
performing at Exit.
He says for his music that it's easily condensed,
its basic principles being joyfulness and empowerment to resist fashion and
conventions, in that way revoking what seems to be the forgotten message of pop:
individuality. And he really does stay true to this. With his two albums and
numerous awards he has managed to gather for as short as since 2007, Mika has
shown us we need to feel free to be free. No taboos, no conventions, with
musical education to back him up in his technicolor creativity. You will dance,
you will smile.
Crookers are coming from Milan,bringing a hybrid house sound
to Dance Arena, and while waiting for them, we can warm up with their new album
"Tons Of Friends", due for release on 8th March. After a whole bunch of great
remixes for great stars Crookers went one step further by collaborating with
such artists as Kelis, Soulwax, Spank Rock, Tim Burgess, Kardinal Offishall and
Roisin Murphy on the making of their new album. These Italian boys have been
only climbing the charts since they got together in 2003, they have been making
parties that celebrated them as 'dons of the dancefloor', and they have been
traveling the net and the world making new friends. And by now there is a whole
one ton of them. After Exit, there will be ten more.
The man whose music and remixes are
played on stage by Soulwax, Tiga, Justice,techno DJ and producer from Berlin, Boys Noize, has confirmed himself as a
part of the eleventh Dance Arena issue. His other stage names are 909d1sco i Kid
Alex,he owns his own label Boysnoize, and last September saw the release of his
latest album "Power". This year he is busy producing songs for such artists as
Black Eyed Peas, 50 Cent, Erol Alkan...
Erol Alkan is a boy who is believed to have invented mash-up, and
that have run away through his bedroom window to play music at parties, and to
be able to keep the audience at their feet for hours. This London DJ also goes
as Mustapha 3000. He started a psychedelic band called Beyond the Wizard's
Sleeve with Richard Norris, and they are currently making their first album.
World fame came to Erol four years ago when his remixes for Scissor Sisters,
Justice and Franz Ferdinand got him Mixmag DJ of the Year award. Erol Alkan is
the founder and the resident of London's club Trash which has hosted Peaches,
LCD Soundsystem, Klaxons, Bloc Party, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Electric Six and many
others throughout the years.
The Chilean strange-eyed
boy, reputed as one of the biggest names in minimal techno scene, Ricardo Villalobos, is coming to
Petrovaradin fortress. In fourteen years, he has crossed an interesting road -
from a boy who plays congo drums and bongos, over an enchanted Depeche Mode fan,
following them frantically on their tours, to one of the top 100 DJ at Resident
Advisor chart in 2008. On his musical influences, this michrohouse said:
"Brazilian music influenced me the most. Brazilian people listened to techno two
or three hundred years before everyone else.If you compare samba and techno
groove you'll se a very, very similar idea behind both."
Moderat is a German project of three performing live at Dance
Arena. They consist of artists separately famous and successful, Sascha Ring
(aka Apparat) and Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary (aka Modeselektor), and
the sound they make together is a blend of idm, electronic, techno, glitch...
They are fresh and new, intelligent and independent.
Josh Wink, presenter and founder of Ovum label is taking his place
at Dance Arena on. His career started with techno, and he was a part of the
nineties rave raid, yet later, inspired by new wave electronic music, he started
creating his own music, conquering the continents. Since its foundation, Josh
Wink's Ovum imprint has seen releases from Loco Dice, Shlomi Aber, Marc Romboy,
DJ Pierre, Aaron Carl, King Britt, Steve Bug, D'Julz and of course his own
productions. He's not a fan of one-sidedness and genre limitations. He makes
good parties.
Ida Engberg is bringing some Nordic electronica from Sweden and
Ibiza, and her underground musical expression includes deep house, tech house,
funky techno, some minimal and sometimes some electro. Almost by accident in the
DJ world, within a period of five years this lady has created quite an image for
herself, having shared the stage with such performers as Roger Sanches,
Sebastian Ingrosso, Eric Prydz, The Knife, Jo Mills, Joel Mull, Steve Lawler,
Nic Fanctiulli, to name a few. To warm up for her performance, we recommend her
current Last.fm hit single Disco Volante.
French electro house performer SebastiAn has also confirmed his
performance at Dance Arena. He got himself a fine reputation already by his
first release for Ed Banger Records in 2005 entitled 'Smoking Kills' &
'H.A.L', and kept on building it by the remixes he has done for Annie, Daft
Punk, Cut Copy, Kelis, among others. Not a bad set of recommendations.
More French
electro comes to Dance Arena, and will be brought by Busy P, the founder and key
representative of Ed Banger Records, one of the most exciting labels in the
music business. This DJ and producer, inspired by Chicago electronic music scene
and old-school rap, is an expert in recognizing fresh quality, which is
confirmed by the artists he signs up, as well as by the fact that he is Daft
Punk's manager. You will not want to miss this performance.
Completing Ed Banger entourage,
DJ Mehdi is performing at Dance
Arena as well. His most prominent musical expressions are electro and hip hop.
Since he started in 1992, he has played and created music, founded a band and a
label, taken part in movies with his music... Freshness and diversity are to be
expected.
Taking place from 8th - 11th July, in the magical Petrovaradin
Fortress overlooking the river Danube, EXIT has a variety of stages to appeal to
absolutely everyone, food and drink onsite and the best campsite entertainment
whilst bathing in the hot Balkan sunshine. EXIT festival ticks all the right
boxes and is still the best value festival ticket around!