SUM Festival Marseille - full lineup announced

The chicest, sexiest dance party of the summer is happening in MARSEILLE on 26, 27 & 28 JUNE as the SUM Festival takes over three amazing venues for the first time in this elegant seaside city.

SUM Festival offers an undiluted line-up of 100% proof electronic music that makes every other festival seem watered-down by comparison. Where other festivals throw together a messy musical buffet SUM offers a carefully curated haute audio experience for an international audience of discerning music lovers who love to party.

DARKSIDE – aka Nicholas Jaar and Dave Harrington – opens the festival on THURSDAY 26 JUNE with an exclusive gig at the stunning open-air Théâtre Silvain, which is modelled on an ancient Greek amphitheatre. It is the perfect setting for Darkside’s experimental, genre-blending oeuvre which weaves together futuristic electronica with 70s psychedelica, 40s blues and a splash of pop-nouveau.

FRIDAY 27 JUNE CIRCOLOCO unleashes its twisted circus on the waterfront at Marseille’s extraordinary Dock des Suds. With a capacity for 7,000 people this will be a HUGE party in every sense of the world. Headlined by the crème de la crème of tech and deep house DJs, Friday night’s party features: techno legend Carl Cox, French deep house heroes Apollonia, Cassy, Molly, D’Julz, 

Tania Vulcano, Nastia, David Reyner, Youcef Elaid, Marco Bailey and Davide Squillace. You do NOT want to miss this event!

Legendary artiste and Crosstown Rebels label boss DAMIAN LAZARUS has the honour of closing the festival on SATURDAY 28 JUNE with an unforgettable soirée at One Again Club. This intimate, sophisticated venue is the perfect place to savour the last ecstatic hours of the weekend.

In addition to showcasing the world’s finest electronic music artists in three inimitable venues SUM Festival offers its cosmopolitan audience a chance to revel in and explore one of Europe’s most beautiful, gracious and sophisticated cities. Stunning beaches, glorious weather, chic accommodation, exquisite cuisine and high-end shopping are just a few of the treats in store. 

SUM Marseille tickets are available la carte, allowing guests to choose one, two or all three events to suit their taste and convenience. Unlike other festivals, there’s no requirement to purchase an expensive weekend pass. 

Tickets to these one-of-a-kind parties will sell out so BUY YOURS NOW at www.digitick.com and reserve your space at the most sophisticated dance festival of the summer.

EVENT DETAILS: 

Thursday 26 June: DARKSIDE (Nicolas Jaar & Dave Harrington) featuring special guest ABSTRAXION at Théâtre Silvain, Marseille Address: Chemin Du Pont De La Fausse, Monnaie 13007 Marseille 

Tickets: €25, exclusively from Digitick: http://bit.ly/1jaqomp 

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Friday 27 June: CARL COX, TANIA VULCANO, CASSY, DAN GHENACIA, DYED SOUNDOROM, DAVIDE SQUILLACE, NASTIA, MARCO BAILEY, SHONKY, D'JULZ, MOLLY, DAVID REYNER, YOUCEF ELAID, WHO at Le Dock des Suds, Marseille

Address: 12 rue Urbain V 13002 Marseille

Tickets: €35 advance from Digitick: http://bit.ly/1l3bIT8, €40 on the door

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Saturday 28 June: Closing SUM Festival - DAMIAN LAZARUS at Secret Location, Marseille

Address: TBA

Tickets: €20 advance from Digitick: http://bit.ly/1uUnGoX, €25 on the door 

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SUM website : www.sumfestival.fr

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James Blake To Headline Jabberwocky festival 2014

FRIDAY 15th – SATURDAY 16th AUGUST 2014

EXCEL LONDON

TICKETS ON SALE AT: http://www.atpfestival.com/events/jabberwocky2014/tickets.php

ATP, Pitchfork and Primavera are proud to announce the next wave of announcements for this year’s inaugural Jabberwocky Festival in London.

Last year’s Mercury Prize winner James Blake joins Jabberwocky as the second headliner of an already incredible lineup. From his roots as a club DJ, Blake’s sound progressed into a tender and melancholy mix of modern electronic music and lo-fi indie more akin to contemporaries the XX than his dubstep peers.

The fractured sounds of his self-titled debut lead into the chilling sophomore full length, ‘Overgrown’, an album that achieved widespread critical acclaim and unlikely guest spots from the likes of Wu-Tang legend the RZA. Jabberwocky are ecstatic to welcome James Blake to London for an oh too rare performance in the nation’s capital. 

New York duo Darkside is comprised of Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington and electronic producer Nicolas Jaar. Their 2013 debut for Matador, ‘Psychic’ fused the two musicians’ vastly different backgrounds into a wholly original mix of experimental and ambient rock and brooding, downtempo house and techno. It is an uncompromising vision and works as a whole to clearly display the progressive and incredibly talented minds at work.

With their recently announced hiatus still fresh in people’s minds John Dwyer and co softened the blow with the announcement of their upcoming Castle Face Records album ‘Drop’ and now ATP are thrilled to announced the addition of garage rock heroes Thee Oh Sees to this year’s Jabberwocky Festival! The prolific band’s live show is one of the most energetic and exciting you’re likely to see anywhere in the world and to say that their set will be one of the clear highlights of the weekend is no exaggeration.

Matthew Barnes, aka Forest Swords, debut ‘Dagger Paths’ EP catapulted him into the public consciousness with its skulking, abstract, electronic psych-pop making him stand out from other chillwave contemporaries. Four years on and with full length LP ‘Engravings’ under his belt, he has become one of the go to names in electronic music with remixes having been commissioned by the likes of These New Puritans, Wild Beasts and The Big Pink.

Fresh from the release of ‘Benji’, his sixth studio album under his Sun Kil Moon moniker, ex-Red House Painters main man Mark Kozelek’s beautiful and moving indie-folk sounds as absorbing and vital as ever. A true cult hero, Kozelek can count Will Oldham, Ben Gibbard and Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley as collaborators and as a veteran of previous ATP events he fits into this lineup perfectly.

Since the late 90s noise loving producer and musician Kevin Martin, better known by his primary recording alias The Bug, has created dancehall and hip-hop influenced music ranging from the extreme to the ambient and more dub oriented. Last summer’s Danny Brown, Flowdan and longtime collaborator Kiki Hitomi featuring ‘Filth EP’ provided a taster for The Bug’s upcoming ‘Angels and Devils’ full length which promises guest spots from the likes of Death Grips and Gonjasufi.

Having burst onto the punk scene last year with their abrasive ‘I Have Lost All Desire For Feeling’ EP, Syracuse quartet Perfect Pussy proved to be one of 2013’s boldest and most exciting new bands. With lyrical subject matter bordering on the frighteningly personal and a sound both uncompromising and effortlessly compelling they charge into 2014 with the release of their debut full length ‘Say Yes To Love’ this March.

Having been a member of short-lived Brooklyn buzz band INOUK and released solo album ‘Mansions’, Damon McMahon really hit his stride with his Amen Dunes moniker. He creates fuzzy, isolated, eerie pop with hints of the Velvet Underground, Roky Erickson and Syd Barrett that is sure to be perfectly represented on May’s upcoming Sacred Bones Records (David Lynch, Zola Jesus, The Men) full length ‘Love’.

Formed in 1993, New York four-piece indie-rock group The Van Pelt were responsible for what is arguably one of the finest American guitar records of the 90s, the seminal ‘Sultans Of Sentiment’. Having performed reunion shows in 2009 they will again be regrouping to perform at Jabberwocky Festival

Anonymous conceptual musician, producer and Warp Records signee patten’s intricate compositions have gained him critical acclaim since becoming active in 2009. Though he remains shrouded in mystery, he has described his upcoming full length ‘ESTOILE NAIANT’ as being ‘informed equally by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges’s evocative maze-like short stories, late nights at early FWD events and the open tunings of Sonic Youth’s chiming guitars’.

Portuguese band Paus makes bass-driven, percussion-heavy music that defies comparison or categorization. Praised for their distinctive, experimental sound and their largely improvisational, heavily energetic live shows they are an exciting addition to the Jabberwocky lineup.

Canada’s experimental music and performance art collective Yamantaka // Sonic Titan take the genres of post-punk, opera, noise, metal, folk and pop and view them through their very own psychedelic kaleidoscope creating a sound unique enough to entirely defy characterization.

Experimental and progressive Spanish group Oso Leone combine numerous folk and rock based styles to create a powerful yet delicate sound, seeped in beautiful melodies and a level of passion that has gained them a legion of faithful followers.

Hailing from Barcelona, Joana Serrat was attracted to folk and Americana from a young age. As such, her music is a sublime mixture of folk, indie, pop and country with a vocal that carries the warmth and sincerity of her songs perfectly.

Plus DJs:
Fra Soler (Primavera)  +
Pitchfork DJs +
DJ Coco (Primavera)
DJ Cherrystones
Spencer Hickman (Death Waltz Recordings)
Daevid Phillips

Haim, Interpol and Darkside for Open'er Festival 2014

Today's Open'er additions take us to the stages of New York and sunny California. Open'er 2014, will bear witness to a stunning performance from the cutting-edge rock-electronica act DARKSIDE, a return in style from the legendary post-punk trio INTERPOL, and the quintessential sound of now, HAIM!

Interpol

Fortunately, 2014 sees the return of this New York postpunk trio, creators of possibly the albums of the early 2000’s  – the highly acclaimed Turn On The Bright Lights and Antics. Powerful and affecting, their masterful command of pace, atmosphere, and reverb-drenched guitar mark them out as very special indeed. No-one does fragile aggression and melancholy quite as dramatically and their upcoming fifth album will cement Interpol’s status as one of the millennium’s best bands.

Haim

Hailing from the San Fernando Valley, HAIM consists of three sisters, like Tchekov's play. Music is truly a family affair for the band: the sisters, Este, Danielle, and Alana Haim, grew up playing classic rock songs with their parents in a family band, aptly called "Rockinhaim." Then the girls decided to strike out on their own and began writing their own material. In their music, critics often hear echoes of Fleetwood Mac and 90s all-female bands like En Vogue and TLC. Their debut full-length Days Are Gone charted at #1 in the UK, earning the record gold status. In 2013, the band performed at Glastonbury Festival and many more, also earning the title of BBC Sound of 2013.

Darkside

DARKSIDE is the collaborative duo of guitarist Dave Harrington and electronic producer Nicolas Jaar.  They summon a hybrid of electronic music and psychedelic rock with the kind of artistic depth and breadth for which the term “progressive” was coined. In the autumn of 2013 they unveiled their debut full length, Psychic, via Jaar’s own Other People label. DARKSIDE aren't dancefloor producers taking a stab at rock music; nor are they a rock band paying homage to their new favorite techno 12­inches. They're deep listeners and creators of both who see little need for distinction between their favorite sounds.