Goldfrapp among first acts for Sonar

Spain | | 05 April 2006

The thirteenth Sónar festival takes place from 15-17 June at various venues in and around Barcelona, Spain, throughout both day and night.

This year's line up will be heavily influenced by a tribute to black music culture in its influence on the development of electronic music. Reggae, dub, hip-hop, jazz, funk and disco will be represented on the festival's various stages by acts including the Digable Planets, Chic feat. Nile Rodgers, Fat Freddy's Drop, Kenny Dope, Gilles Peterson, and loads more.

Japanese electronic music will also be heavily exposed. The SonarComplex stage will be almost exclusively given over to Japanese innovators, such as Yanagisawa Marina, Horio Kanta, Optrum, Nobukazu Takemura and Softpad.

The lineup so far looks like this:

12TWELVE (ES)
AFRA & INCREDIBLE BEATBOX BAND (JP)
AZ ROTATOR (ES)
BIRDY NAM NAM (FR)
CHIC feat. NILE RODGERS (US)
DAVE CLARKE (UK)
DIGABLE PLANETS (US)
DIPLO vs A-TRAK (US)
DISCO D (US)
DJ KRUSH (JP)
DORAVIDEO (JP)
FAT FREDDY'S DROP (NZ)
GILLES PETERSON & EARL ZINGER (UK)
Goldfrapp (UK)
HERBERT & DANI SICILIANO (UK)
HIFANA (JP)
HORIO KANTA (JP)
INFADELS (UK)
INSEN: ALVA NOTO + RYUICHI SAKAMOTO (JP)
IRIS (ES)
ISOLÉE (DE)
JEFF MILLS (US)
KENNY DOPE (US)
KIMMO POHJONEN /SAMULI KOSMINEN KLUSTER (FI)
Laurent Garnier & BUGGE WESSELTOFT feat. PHILIPPE NADAUD (FR)
LIARS (US)
LINTON KWESI JOHNSON & DENNIS BOVELL DUB BAND (UK)
MISS KITTIN (FR)
MODESELEKTOR (DE)
Nightmares on Wax (UK)
NOBUKAZU TAKEMURA (JP)
ONE SELF (UK)
OPTRUM (JP)
RAHZEL & DJ JS-ONE (US)
RICARDO VILLALOBOS (CL)
RICHIE HAWTIN (CA)
RYOJI IKEDA (JP)
Sasha (UK)
SATOSHI TOMIIE (JP)
SAWAI TAEJI (JP)
SEÑOR COCONUT & HIS ORCHESTRA feat. ARGENIS BRITO (CL)
SHIT AND SHINE (UK)
SOFTPAD (JP)
SUPERTHRILLER (UK)
.TAPE. (ES)
THE MFA (UK)
Tiga (CA)
TUCKER (JP)
Ugly Duckling (US)
YANAGISAWA MARINA (JP)

For more visit www.sonar.es

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