sonar 2008

[colmenares]

this was the 2003 lineup.. for comparison's sake it looks a lot more interesting i gotta say

CONCERTS:
BJÖRK (One Little Indian / IS)
UNDERWORLD (JBO / UK)
MATTHEW HERBERT BIG BAND (Accidental / UK)
OXIDE & NEUTRINO (So Solid / UK)
LADYTRON (Telestar / UK)
TM RAUMSCHMIERE (Shitkatapult / DE)
FAT TRUCKERS (Gigolo / DE)
DAVID GRUBBS (FatCat / US)
HELLFISH (Planet Mu / UK)
JAMIE LIDELL (Warp / UK)
THE SOFT PINK TRUTH (Sounds Like/ US)
SAFETY SCISSORS (Plug Research / US)

DJS:
APHEX TWIN (Warp / UK)
ANGEL MOLINA (Minifunk / ES)
DJ HELL (Gigolo / DE)
JEFF MILLS (Axis / US)
CARL COX (Intec / UK)
GILLES PETERSON (Talkin’ Loud / UK)
METRO AREA (Environ / US)
LAURENT GARNIER (F Comm / FR)
MISSTRESS BARBARA (Relentless / CA)
DARREN PRICE (Novamute / UK)


SHOWCASES:
ANTICON presents
Jel (US) live
Doseone (US) live
Sole (US) live
Sage Francis (US) live


SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND presents
Jazzkammer + Sir Dupermann (NO) live
Kim Hiorthoy (NO) live
Jaga Jazzist (NO) live

FOEHN presents
Strand (ES) live
Amherst (ES) djs
Polaroide (ES) live

MEGO presents
Tujiko Noriko (JP) live
Pita + Tina Frank (AT) live

CREAM presents
Mucho Muchacho (ES) live
Jekey (ES) dj

JAZZLAND presents
Bugge Wesseltoft (NO) live
Strangefruit (NO) dj

CHEAP presents
Twinnie (AT) live
Patrick Pulsinger (AT) live
Quehenberger (AT) live

MELODIC presents
Pedro (UK) live
David Cooper (UK) dj
Minotaur Shock (UK) live

MUTE presents
Komputer (UK) live
Mountaineers (UK) live
Pole (UK) live
Appliance (NL) live

SONIG presents
Niobe (DE) live
Lithops aka Jan Werner (DE) live

NATIVE INSTRUMENTS presents
Errorsmith (DE) live
Phoenecia (DE) live

TELLÉ/ÉLLET presents
Kaptein Kaliber (NO) live
Bjorn Torske (NO) dj
Uusi Fantasia (NO) live
Datarock (NO) live

BENBECULA presents
Christ (UK) live
Phase 6 (UK) dj

MUTEK presents
Akufen (CA) live
Vincent Lemieux (CA) dj
Deadbeat (CA) live


SONARLABS:
Markus Detmer plays STAUBGOLD (DE)
Wojt3k Kucharczyk & Paul Wirkus play MIK.MUSIK (PL)
Gerhard Potuznik plays ANGELIKA KOEHLERMANN (AT)
Miss Kittin plays RADIO CAROLINE (CH)
Philippe Petit plays BIP HOP (FR)
Kenneth James plays AESTHETICS (US)
Russell Haswell plays OR (UK)
Todd Rocker plays CARPARK (US)
Tom Steinle plays TOMLAB (DE)

[fromkaraoketostardom]

damn, it looks even more sh!t than last year ! Come on, for the last 3 years miss kittin, jeff mills & richie hawtin, ha what an imagination. Justice/Ed Banger french hype...yep, antipop is cool, flying lotus, shackleton, mills & banks. But yeah the off festival should have a lot more to offer. Hope the beach party organisers will work it out with police & new mayor of bcn !

[Marcus Stork]

Who cares about Sonar itself? i have been there twice, first time i had the artist pass but only went to the day-Sonar. Last year i only went into the Day-Sonar once for about 4 hours. The rest is happening all around in the city!

[prenzlauer]

I agree, it's not so much about the official sonar events. With the beachparties gone though, I don't really see the point.

Please post alternatives in this thread! preferably somewhere with the winning formular of sonar: warm/in a great city/near the beach/loads of great music

[colmenares]

Narod Nikki last year was amazing! worth the trip alone... was expecting something like that this year as well

the festival does matter.... no Sonar = no Sonar after parties.... the less quality there is at Sonar then less interesting artists will be making the trip there for the other stuff that goes on imo

[grave]

I agree, it's not so much about the official sonar events. With the beachparties gone though, I don't really see the point.

Please post alternatives in this thread! preferably somewhere with the winning formular of sonar: warm/in a great city/near the beach/loads of great music

as i said before, primavera has a pretty amazing lineup. and its in barcelona.

[Resistance]

anyone been to primavera? whats it like? im seriously thinking of doing that instead.

i went last year to primavera.... excellent festival. very down to earth and the crowd is a bit more normal.... mixed crowd, young - old, ravers -rockers... the electronic acts last year were fairly decent. first time they put some good focus on electronica... some acts last year as a comparison were Ivan Smagghe, Dominik Eulberg, Justice, Luke Slater, to name a few.

worth checking out

[colmenares]

btw shouldn't this be moved to the parties & festivals forum?