CLASH XXL Festival
We're taking over Groningen with Art, DJs and Live Music
6 & 7 april, Groningen
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weval
live duo
The first EP of this unstoppable duo convinced German label Kompakt of their genius. Weval
conquered Europe with their incredible catchy arrangements that are perfused by a rarefied pop magic. With their new album The Weight fresh of the printer, we are very excited to welcome them back to Groningen!
FOREST SWORDS
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE USHER (1928) - LIVE SCORE
For the very first time in the Netherlands: a live film score performed by the amazing producer Forest Swords! Matthew Barnes has a refined sense for mixing hip-hop, R&B beats, looped guitars and lively samples. He used his expertise to compose a live film score for the 1928 poetic horror film The Fall of the House of Usher based on masterful poems by Edgar Allan Poe.
AMMAR 808 FT. SIA ROSENBERG
AMMAR 808 is coming to Groningen, full band! An inevitable ultra low TR-808 bass and fiercely aggressive beats deeply mingled with authentic Arabic instruments. A musical world placed within the futuristic visual atmosphere created by Sia Rosenberg’s vjaying!
TINKEBELL.
TINKEBELL. is an artist and a writer. She calls herself a ‘storyteller and maker’. She wrote several books, works as a columnist, she makes films, does public interventions, she’s a lecturer and makes art pieces on the spot but also shows her work in the space of galleries and museums.
GESLOTEN CIRKEL
There are but few artists whose anonymity remains so well intact as it does with Gesloten Cirkel. The only fact that really matters is that the all-encompassing music of Gesloten Cirkel is to reach all ears. It varies from acid-house to badass techno with robot-like sounds and silky synths.
RON MORELLI
This ultra-productive producer once started at the iconic A1 Record Shop in Manhattan. He is the founder of L.I.E.S Records with which he instigated a new wave in the electronic scene in NYC. His years working at A1 made him a diverse DJ who plays across the board, equally skilled delving into the worlds of techno, house, or even disco depending on the circumstances at hand.
IDENTIFIED PATIENT
Identified Patient made a strong uprise through some of the finest musical imprints while filling dancefloors across the country and throughout Europe. Prepare for a highly energetic set with a rich track collection rooted in wave and the darker side of techno.
RAHAAN
Chicago-based DJ Rahaan will boogie the stage with his non-typical mix of dance music. Whether it is producing, remixing, editing or putting up a grand show, this guy does not seem to think twice!
MATTEO MYDERWYK
Special Synth Set
The man with golden hands and a mysterious calmness: piano pioneer Matteo Myderwyk. For Clash XXL he will bring an arsenal of synths to build a magical set to take us round the edges of ambient, electro and minimal.
NICK VERSTAND
aether (i.c.w. boris acket)
Aether a spatial audiovisual live performance. Walls of materialized laser light constantly reshape the environment, organically modulating synchronous to the surrounding sound. The audiovisual composition symbolises the natural elements, created live by use of modular synthesizer and custom software.
Khidja
live
Romanian duo Khidja grew up with Ottomanic lautareasca music and gypsy folk. Today they mix middle-eastern electronic music with organic sounds. Synthesizers combined with cult instruments like setar, ney or saz and grungy guitars that are reminiscent of the Krautrock era.
PHILOU LOUZOLO
A tumultuous period in the Rotterdam club scene made Philou Louzolo aware of how much deep tech is rooted in African sounds and rhythm. His ambition and creativity made him rise through the ranks fast with his signature tropical house sound.
surma
Portugese multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Surma gets compared to Björk, Joanna Newson and Portishead. Her stage floods with amps, percussion instruments, microphones, guitar pedals and sample pads with which she layers her music with much finesse.
PHILIP VERMEULEN
flap flap
Philip Vermeulen builds overwhelming installations and brings us his project: Flap Flap. This huge canvas pulsates and creates hypnotizing and stroboscopic patterns. It balances between the physical and the digital; between fear and fun but above all messes with your perception of sound and movement.
WORKING TITLES
The name Working Titles alludes to the unfinished. Boris Acket and Kaap value the magic of the first untouched creation that is fully analog. Their life motto: “let the machines speak!”. Rumbling Motor City drum breaks, noisy synths and ghostly voices, Working Titles has it all.
PELLE SCHILLING
incandescence - Rain
As a boy he fell under the spell of the aesthetics that welding machines and grinding poles produced in his father’s workshop. In the rain of sparks of Incandescence you experience the beauty that can be found in a metal workshop.
For the past two years, Groningen foundation Art of Clash organized several daring events in sometimes unusual locations whereby it invoked clashes between electronic music and visual art. On 6 and 7 April CLASH takes over the Oosterstraat (VERA, OOST and Grand Theatre) with electronic music, art installations, performances, lectures and workshops during CLASH XXL Festival. The weird yet perfect combination of a rave, an art museum and a festival you never knew you needed.
LOCATIONS
Email: info@clashclashclash.nl
Partners
We work together with a lot of great partners: CBK Groningen, Galerie With Tsjalling, Grand Theatre, Jonge Harten, KopjeK, NP3, Noorderlicht, OOST, SIGN, Simplon, Soundsofmusic Festival, Studium Generale, VERA, City Central, Here and Now, Experience Groningen.
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