AUSTRIA AUSTRALIA
DORIAN CONCEPT Friday BEN FROST Saturday
“I guess you could call it funk for unfunky Having emigrated from his Melbourne
people,” laughs Austrian producer Oliver birthplace to Reykjavik, Ben Frost says, “I
Johnson, aka Dorian Concept, and it’s don’t really feel like I have a country per
true that even James Brown would have se. I’m certainly Australian but I also feel
trouble getting his head and hips around very at home in Iceland, even though I
Dorian’s spastic rhythms. couldn’t claim to represent it.”
Having started out with a Fisher Price Similarly, Frost’s sound also oscillates
tape recorder as a kid, Johnson sub- between two very different poles; those
sequently studied jazz before turning of minimal electronica and doom metal.
his hand to the soupy glitch electronics His grasp of atmosphere has made Frost
that can be heard on his ‘When Planets an in-demand soundtrack composer and
Explode’ LP. his 2007 ‘Theory of Machine’ LP contained
His eccentric live shows have also made both pristine ambient and scabrous noise,
him a Youtube favourite, even if he joking but it’s the latter that takes precedence
describes them as just “playing synths and at his live gigs, with Frost cranking up the
doing bits on my laptop whilst jumping volume to create a wall of sound that feels
around, sweating and drinking beer”. like it might crush you at any second.
VENEZUELA IRELAND
CARDOPUSHER Saturday MIKE SLOTT Friday
A man who loves Barcelona so much he When your dad was the fi rst
moved there from his native Venezuela, signed jazz artist in Ireland and
Cardopusher is looking forward to rum- your brother inked a deal when
bling through his adopted home again he was just 17, it’s obvious that
after his fi rst performance at Sonar last music runs in the Slott family
year. veins, and Mike isn’t any dif-
“It’s really cool to show a big festival ferent.
the sounds I’m feeling at the moment,” Calling himself “a general
he enthuses. world citizen”, Slott has moved
For Cardopusher’s style has also moved from his Dublin birthplace to
on with him — with his new album Glasgow and now to New York.
‘Unity Means Power’ delving more into His sound has also ‘morphed’
dubstep than the breakcore of his previ- on the way, from the hip-hop of
ous releases on labels like Peace Off — the Lucky Me collective to the
whilst still keeping true to his roots. dancefl oor electronics of his
“I am what I am because of my back- Heralds of Change collaboration
ground in Venezuela,” he explains. with Hudson Mohawke and his
“My sound is a hybrid between heavy brush-ups of tracks from fellow
low frequencies and a South American leftfi eld beat experimentalists
fl avour.” like Dabrye and Flying Lotus.
MEXICO RUSSIA
NATALIA LAFOURCADE TARAS 3000 Thursday
Thursday A techno producer who doesn’t
Beginning her career in use a laptop might sound like
Mexican teen pop group Twist a decorator with an allergy to
at 14, Natalia Lafourcade has paint, yet that’s exactly Taras
subsequently blossomed into 3000’s sitaution.
one of the country’s most The brains behind the Opa!
accomplished and acclaimed Opa! and Thriller nights in Mos-
artists, with a host of Latin cow, Dmitri Ustinov has played
Grammys to her name at the host to everyone from Diplo
age of 24. Her debut album to Mr. Oizo and his own live
‘Natalia Lafourcade’ reached performances are as equally
No.1 in Mexico in 2003, a feat eclectic and energetic as his
repeated by 2005’s follow- heroes’, featuring a full live
up ‘Casa’, which revealed an band of vocalists, guitarists,
increasing musical and lyrical clarinetists, keyboardists and
maturity in its mixture of bossa sax players combined with his
nova, pop and rock. own synth and sampler duties.
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