Dour Festival 2013

[joeki]

also, again I didn't read the announcement fully:

BALZAAL For three nights :

THURSDAY : DRUM & BASS :
- Roni Size
- High Contrast
- Loadstar
- Nu:Logic
- Calyx & Teebee
- Camo & Crooked
- Andy C
- Black Sun Empire

FRIDAY : TECHNO :
- Dave Clarke
- Len Faki
- Carl Craig
- Compuphonic
- Paul Woolford
- Fritz Kalkbrenner
- Nina Kraviz

SATURDAY : DUBSTEP ROOTS :
- DMZ
- Loefah (retrospective)
- Pinch & Sherwood
- Kahn
- Bishop Dust

followed by at the same venue

BROSTEP NIGHT
- Downlink
- Skism
- Culprate
- Zomboy

other nights:

SKREAMIZM (4 hour set) THURSDAY (dance hall?)
- Skream ft. Sgt. Poakes

50 WEAPONS LABEL NIGHT (day unknown)
- Modeselektor (live)
- Shed (live)
- Phon.O (live)
- Otto Von Schirach (live)
- Bambounou (DJ)

TRAP NIGHT (day unknown)
- Rustie
- Rockwell
- Surfing Leons
- UZ
- Cashmere Cat
- Cyril Hahn


UNKNOWN STAGE (day unknown)
- Ben UFO
- Huxley
- Dusky

Will be interesting to see where KARENN, Flying Lotus and JETS fit into all of this..they haven't been awarded a stage yet.
Yeah I have some time on my hands, long weekend

[Genevieve]

Not too excited 'bout their dnb but then I rarely am at big festivals. It's mostly... wifebeater, baseball sneaker and fashionable oversized cap dnb (HOW DO PEOPLE DANCE IN THOSE THINGS THAT'S UNEXPLAINABLE HOW). That's the VIBE anyway. Dnb producers are too adaptable in my experience. You can book BSE at a hardcore/darkstep night and they'll play rough, but when they're in the company of dancefloor they'll do that.

Shouldn't have turned the dubstep allnighter into a dubstep/brostep thing either.

[particle-jim]

So is this a particularly gloomy, miserable festival then?

[mIrReN]

Shouldn't have turned the dubstep allnighter into a dubstep/brostep thing either.

[exfox]

Shouldn't have turned the dubstep allnighter into a dubstep/brostep thing either.

though i won't complain at the pinch/kahn/loefah/dmz sequence

[NilsFG]

Might go on the techno day, looks pretty decent. Should've put shed on there too though instead of, well, anyone else except Dave Clarke.

[Genevieve]

Shouldn't have turned the dubstep allnighter into a dubstep/brostep thing either.

though i won't complain at the pinch/kahn/loefah/dmz sequence

Word, that's decent as hell. A line-up like that is more than you can ask from most huge alterna-pop festivals, but when that 'roots of dubstep' thang leaked I did get a lil' excited and with the addition of Digital Mystikz it seemed to be a real thing.

[exfox]

lineup starting to look reaaaaally good. rusko came a bit out of nowhere though, but four tet, joy o, darkstar, charles bradley, dj shadow, ...

[sk4r]

New names:
Jurassic 5 / Ultramagnetic MC's / Gilles Peterson / Veence Hanao /
Watsky / The Herbaliser / Jungle by Night /
The Bug feat. Flowdan, Daddy Freddy and Miss Red / Mungo's Hifi feat. YT & Solo Banton / Panda Dub /
Dub Invaders High Tone Crew SoundSystem /
Brodinski / Pleasurekraft / French Fries / S-Type /
Manu Le Malin / Hellfish / Murdock / Eptic /
Diiv / White Denim / Jacco Gardner / Concrete Knives /
Beware of Darkness / Thee Marvin Gays

+ New Dub scene hosted by Blackboard Jungle

[Genevieve]

[exfox]

[Genevieve]

Are they putting Snares and Hellfish together?

[Genevieve]

They's announcing 40 more names today. The last ones I think. Like all of their fans are screaming for A Tribe Called Quest and they'll be at another festival around that time.

Edit: I knew I shouldn't buy into the hype.

Sub Focus live / LFO live / Pendulum dj set & Verse / Jackson & His Computer Band / SCNTST / Julian Jeweil / Roses Gabor / Keys N Krates / Surfing Leons & Miss Eaves / Issa Maïga / Marvin Horsch / BunZer0 / DJ Guv / Louisahhh!!! / Carbon Airways / Taös / The Joy Formidable / Electric Electric / Alek & Les Japonaises / The Experimental Tropic Blues Band presents The Belgians / Brutality Will Prevail / The Black Heart Rebellion / Deepshow / Burning Time / J.D. Circo / Scylla / Pitcho / Coely / Antwerp Gipsy-Ska Orkestra / La Chiva Gantiva / Yew / Rohan Lee and Asham Band / Wild Boar & Bull Brass Band / Antoine Hénaut / STUFF. / Les R'tardataires / Prince Allah, Sylford Walker & Asham Band / Bush Chemists feat. Culture Freeman, King General, Danny Red & S'Kaya / Stand High Patrol feat. Pupa Jim / Aba Shanti I

Mehhhhhhh.

[sk4r]

LFO live

Big up the Bunzee as well

[exfox]

ELECTRIC ELECTRIC
got me spastic. those 40 names were awesome simply for the fact electric electric was one of them. they are one of the most intense live bands i've ever witnessed, their drummer is on fire

[joeki]

I share Genevieve's sentiment about the last batch of names. Good to see Bunzer0 on the Dubstep stage though, makes all the sense in the world!!

All in all a good line-up imho. Missing a few things but they did a pretty good effort.

[Genevieve]

Yeah no disrespect for BunZer0 or hatin on some of the other names, but as a whole, the last names didn't really impress. But it's a good fest overal

[AxeD]

Yeah last update is a bit weak, but still...

[AxeD]

Just heard I can get one of them incrowd tickets. €50 for everything.
Guess it'll be Exit and Dour and starting a new job somewhere in the middle of it.

[joeki]

Couldn't get any time off from work.

But I got tickets for Friday & Saturday. Leaving straight from work near Brussels at 15.30u hoping to be there and settled in time for Darkstar. Then pretty much entire night La Petite Maison. Old school Dubstep the next day and back to La Petite Maison. Chill on sunday, leave in the later afternoon and back to work at 7am on Monday.

Going to be heavy days!