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the press release

2016
Nuits sonores 2016
LYON
FRANCE
4 –
8 MAY
NUITS
SONORES
Press
release
2016
Press release
Nuits sonores 2016
Summary
Nuits sonores 2016
03.
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08.
10.
Confluence, act 3 !
The main sites of Nuits sonores 2016
The festival's locations
The set design 2016
The visual identity 2016 by Studio Feixen
We are Europe
The program in a wink
THE DAY PROGRAM
12. Inauguration
13. NS Days : A day with...
14. NS Days Thursday : A day with MCDE
18. NS Days Friday : A day with Laurent
Garnier
22. NS Days Saturday : A day with Seth Troxler
26. Cool Korea • Carte Blanche to Seoul
31. Mini sonore, the festival for children
35. Sunday Park x Crédit Mutuel
36. Extra!
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THE NIGHT PROGRAM
38. The spirit of the main Nights
39. Night 1
42. The Absolut Company Creation presents OX
44. Night 2 / Le Circuit
47. Resident Advisor x Nuits Sonores
49. Night 3
52. Night 4
55. Burn — Energy Drink — presents Light it up!
57. Special Concert
58. Closing party Nuits sonores
ABOUT NUITS SONORES
60. Institut Français at Nuits Sonores 2016
61. Useful information
65. Nuits sonores goes cashless !
66. Eating at Nuits Sonores 2016
67. Programs to be revealed soon
68. Nuits sonores 2016's partners
70. Arty Farty
71. Contacts
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Nuits sonores 2016 : 14th edition
Confluence, Act 3
«Confluence» reaches its third and final act! Since 2003, urban experimentation has been at
the heart of all things Nuits Sonores.
The identity of the festival has been shaped, to a large extent, by its capacity to unearth the
most spectacular heritage sites, to inhabit the city's main industrial areas, to occupy public
spaces, and to witness the development and regeneration of the city at first-hand.
Back in 2014, the Arty Farty team decided to stretch the boundaries of this urban experiment
even further, by bringing the main sites of Nuits Sonores and the European Lab Forum together
within one urban district: La Confluence.
In doing so, our initial dream of the „ephemeral city" became reality, a rare departure from
everyday urban life dedicated to artists, to creation, to innovation, to conviviality and, last but
by no means least, to the public. It is a unique concept that we have been working on for many
years, and one that can be summarised by a single word: urbanity.
The experience of „Confluence 2014" saw Nuits Sonores and the European Lab Forum embrace
a new outlook, envisaging for the first time the mobility and proximity of all participants – audiences, artists, forum speakers, partners, staff – within one confined territory. A considerable
amount of work was required to develop the urban setting, to bridge gaps between the different
locations, to imagine potential passages and paths, and to tailor the work to the respective
requirements of residents and participants in La Confluence.
Bolstered and fine-tuned in 2015, this cultural and urban experiment, almost unique of its kind,
will reach its conclusion in 2016 at the 14th edition of Nuits Sonores. With the loss of the Ancien
Marché du Gros venue – the jewel in whose crown, the Halle Girard, will soon be dedicated to
the French Tech project – our „Confluence" adventure will have run its natural course.
In 2016, the third instalment of this urban trilogy will be played out within a perfect triangle,
between the Ancien Marché du Gros, La Sucrière and the Musée des Confluences, a defining
symbol of our city and the territory of La Confluence if ever there was one.
This area serves as the perfect blank canvas on which to paint this year's program, including
the night-time events and NS Days; the children-only Mini Sonore festival; a part of the Extra
program; the exciting Carte Blanche Seoul; not to mention the entirety of the European Lab
Forum.
Without a doubt, this will be a fitting conclusion to one of the most beautiful chapters in the
festival's history, before Nuits Sonores sets its sights back on the city, and on pastures new.
Vincent Carry
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The main sites
Nuits sonores 2016
ANCIEN MARCHÉ DE GROS
Main Nights
Nuits Sonores has made the Ancien Marché de
Gros one of its flagship venues, and it has become an essential part of the festival's history.
At this 14th edition of Nuits Sonores, for the
last time before the launch of the French Tech
project, the festival will once more pay tribute
to the site.
Ancien marché
marché de
de gros
gros
Ancien
La
LaSucrière
Sucrière
LeMusée
Muséedes
desConfluences
Confluences
Le
Le
LeSucre
Sucre
LA SUCRIÈRE
Inauguration • NS Days • Sunday Park
Back in 2002, Arty Farty was the first organisation to invest in La Sucrière. It has since
become one festival's strongest and most
symbolic venues, and the ideal setting for the
grand opening and daytime festival events.
MUSÉE DES CONFLUENCES
European Lab forum
GARDEN OF THE MUSÉE DES CONFLUENCES
(tbc)
Carte blanche • Mini sonore
The Musée des Confluences is more than a
striking location, it stands for a discursive philosophy, a love of sharing, and the intelligence
that results from converging perspectives.
For the first time, the Musée des Confluences
becomes one of the main venues for the Nuits
Sonores festival and the European Lab forum.
LA GALERIE DES TERREAUX
Information, merchandising and ticket office
Nuits Sonores will make a triumphant return
to the Galerie des Terreaux in 2016, when the
venue will once more be the festival's central
information point at the heart of the city.
LE SUCRE
NS Days • Professionals and partners
This magnificent rooftop venue perched at
the summit of La Sucrière will play a key role
in the NS Days program, as the host of one of
its stages. It will be reserved throughout the
week of Nuits Sonores and the European Lab
forum for professionals and partners of the
two events.
All of the main sites offer disabled access.
For more information : [email protected]
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Festival venues
Every year, Nuits Sonores teams up with some of Lyon's finest clubs and gig venues to organise a
roaming event on the evening of Holy Thursday: Night 2 / Le Circuit
Ambassade 4, Rue Stella - Lyon 2e
A veritable house music pioneer, this unusual club
has forged a national and international reputation
for itself thanks to appearances from the scene's
biggest names, such as Kerri Chandler, Chez
Damier and many more.
Ayers Rock Boat 21, quai Augagneur - Lyon 3e
The Ayers Rock Boat anchored on the quays of the
River Rhône is a real all-rounder: bar during the
day, rock-flavoured gig venue in the evening, and
house club at night. Bellona 84, quai Perrache - Lyon 2e
Located down in the hold of the Bateau Bellona,
moored at the heart of the Lyon Confluence district, this young venue is dedicated to electronic
music, house and techno. Even when the hold
remains closed, there is always a restaurant right
next door on the bridge… DV1 6, rue Roger Violi - Lyon 1er
The DV1 has been at the forefront of Lyon's electronic music scene since 2002. From house to
techno, it has always demonstrated an uncanny
ability to spot the artists of tomorrow.
L'Épicerie Moderne Place René Lescot - Feyzin
L'Épicerie Moderne first opened in 2005 in the
suburb of Feyzin, as a result of a community effort
to mobilise this residential area around three focal
points: broadcasting, artistic support and cultural
action.
La M.M. 21, place Gabriel Rambaud - Lyon 1er
This intimate club and cocktail bar, located right
in the centre of the city, is a veritable Mecca for
fans of soul, funk, hip-hop and afro-beat. Le Marché Gare 34, Rue Casimir Périer - Lyon 2e
Created 10 years ago in the halls of a former wholesale market, Le Marché Gare continues to stage
performances from a series of carefully-selected
and varied artists from the worlds of rock, pop,
hip-hop and more.
Ninkasi 267, rue Marcel Mérieux - Lyon 7e
A venerated local beer institution, Ninkasi also
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puts on gigs and evening shows throughout the
year. Held either in the intimate Kafé or the larger
Kao hall, the line-up is as eclectic as it is rewarding.
Le Périscope 13 rue Delandine – Lyon 2e
Born in 2007, Le Périscope is a genuine cultural hotspot, with a specific emphasis on music.
Whether it be hosting residencies or one-off concerts, Le Périscope is constantly on the lookout for
new sonic experiments.
Le Petit Salon Rue de Cronstadt - Lyon 7e
Le Petit Salon is a hub of nightlife, comprising two
rooms in the heart of Lyon's 7th arrondissement.
It has become an essential venue for the city's
techno aficionados.
La Plateforme 4, quai Victor Augagneur - Lyon 3e
Situated down on the banks of the Rhône, La
Plateforme is an extraordinary river-based oil
tanker that boasts 600 sqm of floorspace spread
over four rooms, ready to host a diverse range of
events.
Sonic 4 quai des Etroits - Lyon 5e
Sonic is dedicated to one thing and one thing only:
underground culture. Part-rock club, reminiscent
of a mini CBCG, part-Berlin electro dancefloor, it
is the venue of choice for all those in search of the
hottest new sounds on the underground scene.
Terminal 3 rue Terme - Lyon 1er
Open since March 2013, Terminal is a modest-sized club that specialises in the very best electronic
music. This unique venue offers an intimate atmosphere and carefully-selected line-ups.
Le Transbordeur 3, bd Stalingrad - Villeurbanne
This former factory hosts a never-ending series
of rock-oriented concerts, spectacles, galas and
cultural events. Its eclectic programming marks
it out as one of the go-to establishments for the
independent music community.
Thursday 5 May 2016 / 7pm-7am /
5 euros per event, tickets at the door
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The set design of Nuits Sonores
LFA & Nuits sonores choose Trafik for 2016
Looking for Architecture
Architects & set designers
Trafik
Guest collective 2016
Looking for Architecture, created in 2011 by
Antoine Trollat and Laurent Graber, is an architecture workshop based in Lyon. Since the
agency was first established, the two founders
have been joined by long-standing team member Gregoire Oriol.
Whether it be graphic design, lettering,
images, lighting, screens, projections, code
or installations, Trafik is an organisation that
loves to understand, form, construct, produce,
organise, deploy, imagine, publish, reveal and
define.
Motivated by dialogue and participation, Trafik's work stands out due to its incentive, fun
and immersive nature. Their "homemade" graphic systems and digital tools produce a final
product that is unfailingly unique, joyous and
uninhibited. As their means of expression are
theoretically infinite, and no situation is ever
the same, their procedures are reset to zero for
each project, resulting in applications of a continually fresh plasticity and perspective.
Why Looking For Architecture ?
The team at Looking for Architecture are
known for the care that they afford to understanding their end users, and to defining their
projects – a result of their diligent consideration of context and program. This background
work is all in the name of achieving an invariably unique architecture. As architects, they
approach all of their projects with the same
levels of attention and sensitivity, focusing
on the art of proportions between bodies and
surrounding spaces.
It is perhaps their background in events that
has led them to develop a singular architectural style, in terms of space, time, landscape
and users. Through their practice of all that's
ephemeral, they have been able to develop a
particular vocabulary that can be applied to all
projects, no matter the size, and which feeds
their architecture from the form and shell outwards. Masters of many arts, the team offer
installations or mobile structures, featuring
both "standard" and "non-standard" architecture. They have now reached a point where
they are at ease producing constructions dedicated to culture and the performing arts, as
well as for residential projects or public places.
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www.lookingforarchitecture.com
"Graphic design and programming are right
at the heart of many of our projects, and the
combination of the two has been Trafik’s
founding concept (since 1997). From the very
beginning, we believed that programming
could be used for creative means, even if the
languages of programming have been devised
essentially for the development of tools. When
we write a program, we must respond to the
technical issues that confront us, solve the
code in order to ensure that the program functions. But ours is also an artistic process, in
that we take an interest in the results generated on an aesthetic level and make our own
visual choices."
www.lavitrinedetrafik.fr
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Visual identity of the festival
Nuits sonores 2016 has chosen Studio Feixen
Studio Feixen is the graphic design work
of Felix Pfäffli, born in 1986, founded after he
graduated in 2010.
In 2011, Felix was appointed to teach in
the fields of typography, narrative design, and
poster design. Since 2013 he is a member of
the AGI (Alliance Graphique International).
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How did you think and realize this identity?
"Our studio is based on a very simple concept.
We understand our work as something like
a game. So actually we just started playing.
Listening music. Designing. Fooling around.
Trying to get the right feeling. After a while of
course, we had a huge collection of elements
colors, patterns we thought are matching with
the festival and we simply organized them.
So finally we decided to have a very modular,
always changing and surprising design that
we hope reflects the diversity of Nuits sonores
perfectly"
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We are Europe
A european project about the future of culture.
Nuits sonores 2016 invits c/o pop Festival & Elevate - Music & Arts
We are Europe is the newly-created association of 8 major European events joining forces in order to promote, create and produce innovative cultural practices, defined by creative diversity
and exchanges:
— c/o pop festival & c/o pop convention (Cologne-Allemagne),
— Elevate - Music & Arts & Elevate - Political discourse + Activism (Graz-Autriche),
— Insomnia & Movement+New Ideas (Tromsø-Norvège),
— Nuits sonores & European Lab forum (Lyon-France),
— Resonate live & Resonate conference (Belgrade-Serbie),
— Reworks festival & Reworks forum (Thessalonique-Grèce),
— Sónar & Sónar+D (Barcelone-Espagne),
— TodaysArt & Bright collisions (La Haye-Pays-Bas).
Coordinated by Arty Farty, our common project aims to develop a prospective vision of electronic culture, technology and entrepreneurship, contributing to new social and political developments with an interdisciplinary approach.
Culture is a central element in the development of this project and a key to build and strengthen
the European identity and citizenship. Electronic, digital, contemporary, innovative: the culture
we represent brings together European communities, throughout a rich and diverse array of
aesthetics, aims at high artistic standards and supports practices sharing.
Through We are Europe, we affirm ou beliefs in:
- a necessary space for reflection beside our events,
- a prospective and educational approach to culture,
- promoting innovation and new models for fostering European exchange,
- high cultural ambitions and artistic independence as key requirements.
For three years, We are Europe will present 56 artistic stages and journeys on the 8 European
territories, encouraging the mobility of ideas and value resources, proposals, best practices and
innovative models for a new generation of cultural change-makers.
"The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not
constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made
of the information contained therein."
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We are Europe
Nuits sonores 2016 invites c/o pop Festival
& Elevate - Music & Arts
Within the We are Europe forum, Nuits sonores 2016 invites c/o pop Festival and Elevate - Music & Arts to share their vision of the European cultural scene throughout the festival's inauguration at la Sucrière, and during Night 3, at the Ancien Marché de Gros.
c/o pop Festival • Cologne, Germany
Since 2004, annual festival c/o pop transformed the city of Cologne into an essential meeting for emerging and confirmed artists pop
music lovers, labels and professionals from
musical and event industries, from Germany
and beyond. The festival's success relies on an
atypical selection of its locations : clubs, gigs
venues as well as places derived from their original function such as the Cologne Chamber of
Philharmonic.
We are Europe by c/o pop Festival:
Wednesday 4 May 2016
Michael Mayer (see page 12)
Friday 6 May 2016
Domenique Dumont, Weval, Moderat, Low
Jack and Bambounou (see page 49)
Elevate - Music & Arts • Graz, Autriche
Elevate - Music, & Arts is an annual festival
taking place since 2005 in different locations
around Schlossberg in Graz, Austria. Mixing
music, contemporary Art, political and critical
talks, Elevate frees itself from the usual festival's scheme.
While maintainig various content and aesthetics, artists presented at Elevate all have
a common characteristic: Courage to break
up with conventions, satisfying their need by
developping their own path, far from mainstream.
We are Europe by Elevate - Music & Arts:
Wednesday 4 May 2016
Zanshin and Ogris Debris (see page 12)
Vendredi 6 May 2016
Bajram Bili, Elektro Guzzi, James Holden &
Camilo Tirado, Ninos du Brasil feat. Mémoires
d'Avenir and J-Zbel (see page 50)
"The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not
constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors,
and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the
information contained therein."
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The program
in a wink
Wednesday 4
Thursday 5
Friday 6
Saturday 7
Sunday 8
Extra!
→ Various venues
Extra!
→ Various venues
Extra!
→ Various venues
Extra!
→ Various venues
Mini sonore
→ Jardin du
Musée des
Confluences
(tbc)
3:30pm/7:30pm
Mini sonore
→ Jardin du
Musée des
Confluences
(tbc)
3:30pm/7:30pm
Mini sonore
→ Jardin du
Musée des
Confluences
(tbc)
3:30pm/7:30pm
Carte blanche
→ Jardin du
Musée des
Confluences
(tbc)
3:30pm/ 9pm
Carte blanche
→ Jardin du
Musée des
Confluences
(tbc)
3:30pm/ 9pm
Carte blanche
→ Jardin du
Musée des
Confluences
(tbc)
3:30pm/ 9pm
Sunday Park x
Crédit Mutuel
→ tba
3:30pm/ 8pm
NS Days
Thursday
→ La Sucrière
3:30pm/
9:30pm
NS Days
Friday
→ La Sucrière
3:30pm/
9:30pm
NS Days
Saturday
→ La Sucrière
3:30pm/
9:30pm
Closing Party
Nuits sonores
→ Le Sucre
Night 1
→ Ancien
Marché de gros
9pm / 5am
Night 2 /
Le Circuit
→ Various venues
9p / 6:00am
Night 3
→ Ancien
Marché de gros
9pm / 5am
Night 4
→ Ancien
Marché de gros
9pm / 5am
The Absolut
Company
Creation
presents OX
→ Le Sucre
11pm / 5am
Resident Advisor
x Nuits sonores
→ Le Sucre
11pm / 5am
Nuits sonores &
European Lab
forum
Inauguration
→ La Sucrière
6pm/11pm
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Burn presents
Light it up !
→ Le Sucre
11pm / 5am
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THE DAY
PROGRAM
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Inauguration
We are Europe by c/o pop & Elevate - Music & Arts
The Inauguration day is the real start of the
festival, a not-to-be-missed meeting between
professionals, journalists, partners or festival
aficionados. In 2016, Nuits sonores open by
highlighting We are Europe, the European
project from which it is a member, by inviting 2
partners. Infos p.9
6pm-7:10pm : Zanshin (Affine / ViennaAustria) Dj set
A versatile presence on Vienna's electronic
scene, Zanshin is a sculptor of sounds with a
pallet extending all the way from abstract jazz
to broken step. An avant-gardist who has been
known to flirt with IDM, the Austrian is signed
to the Affine label, on which he has already
released two albums and a series of maxi-singles. He has developed a visual universe
reminiscent of the martial arts, nourishing for
both body and mind.
7:20pm-8:20pm : Ogris Debris (Affine-Compost Vienna-Austria) Live
Trying to label the Ogris Debris sound feels
like an impossible task, such is the duo's
propensity to cross musical boundaries with
disconcerting fluidity. Since 2007, these two
Austrians signed to the Affine label (Cid Rim,
Dorian Concept) have been producing music
laced with jazz, techno, soul, and so much
more besides. Onstage, the duo delivers extravagant live performances that always get their
dancefloors moving.
8:30pm-11pm : Michael Mayer (Kompakt /
Cologne-Germany) Dj set
Hailing from Cologne, Michael Mayer is one
of the most influential figures on today's
European electro scene. A DJ since the age
of 15, he co-founded the prestigious Kompakt
label in 1998. Over the years, he developed the
label, widening its horizons via the creation of
its subdivisions Kompakt Pop, Kompakt Extra
and Freiland. In addition to expertly running
a colossus like Kompakt, Michael Mayer has
also released two albums – Touch (2004) and
Mantasy (2012) – whose sound is located at
a crossroads between techno, new-wave and
house.
Wednesday 4 May 2016 / 6pm-11pm / La Sucrière / By invitation
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NS Days 2016
A day with
After the success
of the 2015 edition, For the first
time in its history, Arty Farty has
handed its programming over
to the leading
artists of electronic music. The
"A Day With ..."
project devotes
each day of Nuits
Sonores to an
artist who embodies the spirit of
the festival.
The task was
not easy but the
three selected
curators — Motor
City Drum Ensemble, Laurent
Garnier and Seth
Troxler — took
on some serious
personal work as
well as the challenge of distilling
their influences,
stories and visions of contemporary music.
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NS Days Thursday
A day with Motor City Drum Ensemble
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Motor City Drum Ensemble
(MCDE Recordings / Amsterdam-Pays-Bas)
from incorporating more contemporary electro
sounds.
Despite being only 30 years old, Danilo Plessow – aka Motor City Drum Ensemble (MCDE)
– is well and truly one of the old school, a
throwback, an 80s house fanatic with a
declared love for all that's retro and analogue.
Armed with his vinyl, his drum machine, his
synthesizer and his trusty sampler, he conjures
up melodious, brilliantly energetic house
music.
Motor City Drum Ensemble is behind the
MCDE Recordings label, which he formed with
his friend Pablo Valentino, who recently moved to Lyon to take on a residency at Le Sucre.
Danilo spent part of his life in Stuttgart, the
home of the German automobile industry –
the country's own Detroit, a "Motor City". An
industrial thread therefore runs through his
music but he also, and primarily, produces red
hot rhythms that are among the most exciting
to have appeared over the last few years.
Influenced by jazz, funk, soul and hip-hop,
this trained drummer can take his pick from a
variety of styles in recreating little gems of oldschool house music, while never shying away
Thursday 5 May 2016 / 3pm-9:30pm
La Sucrière
26 euros, full price / 23 euros, reduced price
(excluding rental fees)
His open-minded nature promises an eclectic
and expertly refined edition of NS Days, befitting of his influences, his productions and the
artists he endorses.
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NS Days Thursday
Salle 1930
3:30pm-5:30pm : Pablo Valentino (MCDE
Recordings, FACES Records / Lyon - France)
Dj set
A globetrotter who has been collecting vinyl
nuggets ever since 1997, Pablo Valentino is
an insatiable crate-digger whose musical
tastes know no genre boundaries, be it jazz,
funk, boogie, disco, house, techno or hip-hop.
Founder of FACES Records, he also runs MCDE
Recordings alongside Danilo Plessow (aka Motor City Drum Ensemble). Pablo Valentino has
recently moved to Lyon and currently has his
own residency at Le Sucre, where each month
he coordinates the Children of the Drum house
nights.
5:30pm-7:30pm : Motor City Drum Ensemble
(MCDE Recordings / Amsterdam-Holland) Dj
set
7:30pm-9:30pm : The Black Madonna (Argot,
Stripped & Chewed / Chicago - United States)
Dj set
The Black Madonna's music is a product of the
Chicago house scene that has been delighting the city's aficionados since the end of the
noughties. Following the release of Exodus
and a subsequent series of maxi-singles,
Marea Vierge-Noire started her European
adventure at the Panorama Bar in Berlin.
Since then, this artist has compiled a solid
back catalogue via spells with labels such as
Classic, Freerange, Home Taping Is Killing
Music, Argot and Stripped & Chewed. Since
2013 she has been resident at the Smart Bar,
a legendary club in Chicago, alongside other
notable DJs such as Derrick Carter.
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Thursday 5 May 2016 / 3pm-9:30pm / La Sucrière
26 euros, full price / 23 euros, reduced price (excluding rental fees)
Included in NS Days Thursday
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Le Sucre
3:30pm-6pm : Lakuti (Uzuri Recordings / Berlin, Germany) Dj set
Lerato Khathi – aka Lakuti – was brought up
in Soweto, Johannesburg, by a mother with a
passion for Motown and a jazz-crazy, double
bass-playing grandfather. Needless to say, she
fell in love with music at a very early age. With
some memorable nights already under her belt
from her days running the Planet Hendon club
in the suburbs of Johannesburg, she moved to
London in 1997, where she started putting on a
monthly night at Plastic People. Her next move
came with the creation of her own booking
and management agency, Uzuri, alongside
friend Alan Abrahams (aka Portable).
Now settled in Berlin, Lakuti moves from one
collaboration to the next – with Portal, Tama
Sumo, even Matias Aguayo – and can boast,
at one time or another; to have set foot in the
majority of the world's finest clubs.
6:15pm-7:30pm : Tony Allen (Jazz Village /
Lagos-Nigeria) Live
For a long-time Fela Kuti's friend and drummer – and even his artistic director between
1968 and 1979 – Tony Allen's status as one of
the pioneers of afrobeat is beyond argument.
Once described by Brian Eno as "possibly the
best drummer who ever lived", the Nigerian
possesses an aura that extends well beyond
the confines of afrobeat and the African continent. He has repeatedly collaborated with
Sebastien Tellier, Charlotte Gainsbourg ,Theo
Parrish, and has formed two supergroups with
his friend Damon Albarn: The Good, the Bad
& the Queen and Rocket Juice & The Moon
(with Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers). Two
tracks off his last album have been remixed by
Ricardo Villalobos and Fort Romeau.
8:15pm-9:15pm : Leroy Burgess (Atlantic /
New York, USA) Live
Although he has always kept a very low
profile, Leroy Burgess was one of the 1970s
funk and soul scene's most prolific artists.
His unique voice and instantly recognisable
keyboard riffs saw him collaborate with some
of that era's most exciting groups, including
Black Ivory, Aleem and Inner Life.
Invited by MCDE for a unique and exceptional
live set, Nuits Sonores 2016 will be on the stage for a major comeback by the 62 year-old.
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Thursday 5 may 2016 / 3pm-9:30pm / La Sucrière
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Esplanade
3:30pm-6:30pm : Sadar Bahar (Sounds
Familiar, BBE / Chicago - USA) Dj set
Already fascinated by the DJs he saw mixing
records in clubs at the dawn of the 1970s,
Sadar Bahar's career was kick-started the
day his parents gave him his first set of decks,
at the end of that same decade. The rest of
his story is the stuff of legend on the Chicago
house scene.
Freely admitting to having cleared a few dancefloors at the start of his career due to some
over-ambitious sets, Sadar Bahar is nevertheless someone who accepts the consequences
of his action. What's more, his audiences
would not have it any other way: they come
expecting the unexpected, gems uncovered by
the expert after years of relentless digging. For
Sadar, it is a passion which he is now determined to share with new generations.
3:30pm-9:30pm : Antal (Rush Hour /
Amsterdam - Netherlands) Dj set
Antal is not just the head of the prestigious
Rush Hour label. The Dutchman is also a hoarder of vinyl nuggets, who has been scouring
the world's record stores for over 20 years,
ever seeking out the missing record from his
incredible collection. The buzz he gets from
unearthing a rare gem remains as fresh and
exciting now as when he first started out,
regardless of genre: his collection includes
house, soul, disco, afrobeat and traditional
music. And it is this insatiable thirst for reinvention that makes his DJ sets so unusual and
unique.
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A day with Laurent Garnier
Laurent Garnier
(FCOM / Lourmarin-France)
residency at Le Sucre, the venue he plays more
than any other.
Laurent Garnier and Nuits Sonores: over 12
years of shared memories.
Forever attentive to reinventions on the electronic scene, Laurent Garnier's artistic journey
is one that, above all else, bears the seal of
irreproachable integrity. A tireless seeker of
new talent, he takes pride in his unwavering
support for emerging artists. It is therefore
with no small amount of enthusiasm that the
Arty Farty/Nuits Sonores team is devoting
one of its NS Days to him in 2016. This is the
opportunity for the artist to make an unprecedented contribution to this latest edition and,
more generally, to continue to stamp his mark
on the history of the festival.
This undisputed godfather of the French
techno scene, and globally renowned and
respected producer and DJ, has witnessed
the growth of the festival at first-hand. A
participant year after year, he has made a
telling contribution to its development, as well
as providing some of its greatest moments
with his unfailingly innovative appearances
at each edition: back-to back sets with other
pioneers like Carl Cox, or the new generation
(including Brodinski and MCDE); as a DJ or
live; night-long performances or afternoon
sets; even a child-friendly appearance for Mini
Sonore. Throughout the year, Arty Farty is
also involved in managing the artist, notably
coordinating his recent project of releasing
five records on five labels – which culminated
in the release of Home Box on FCom – and
maintaining his strong ties with Lyon via his
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3:30pm-5:30pm : Laurent Garnier B2B Jay Robinson (2Swords / Colwyn Bay - Walles) Dj set
At 28 years of age, Jay Robinson has already
won the support of some of the biggest names
on the contemporary electronic music scene.
A protégé of Laurent Garnier and Copy Paste
Soul (the founder of the 2Swords label, on
which his latest maxi-single Totem was released), Jay Robinson floats around the sphere of
bass music and has strung together a series of
remixes and collaborations, flirting with both
house music and future bass sounds.
5:30pm-7:30pm : Laurent Garnier B2B Copy
Paste Soul (Exploited, Gruuv, 2Swords / London - England) Dj set
Hyperactive London-based producer Copy
Paste Soul has developed his own unique identity by handpicking the very best sounds from
Detroit techno, US garage, drum'n'bass and
bass music. He started out on the Exploited
label, and his crossover sound has seen him
appear alongside some of the all-time greats:
he was invited to play at the O2 Academy in
Oxford by Annie Mac, and at Space Ibiza by
Carl Cox. A protégé of Laurent Garnier – whose track Enchanté he remixed for the HOME
box-set, released in 2015 – Copy Paste Soul
also founded his own label, 2Swords, in 2014.
7:30pm-9:30pm : Laurent Garnier B2B Jackmaster (Numbers / Glasgow - Scotland) Dj set
Be it Dance Mania tracks from another age,
techno or forgotten disco gems, you never quite know what a set by Jackmaster may hold in
store. Co-founder of the Numbers label (home
to Hudson, Mohawks, Doc Daneeka, SOPHIE,
Jamie XX, Rustie and SNTRKT) the Scot does
not think of music in terms of genres, but
rather energy potential. Distancing himself
from all the hype and latest trends, his eternal
aim (that he unfailingly achieves) is to quite
simply bring happiness to his dancefloor.
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4:45pm-5:45pm : Ghost Of Christmas (Sounds
Like Yeah! / Toulon - France) Live
Each hailing from very distinct musical backgrounds, the members of Ghost of Christmas
met for the first time at a studio jam session
in 2013. The trio immediately hit it off, giving
birth to a project whose signature sound is
made up of an organic and sensual bass music, inspired by the blues, soul music and UK
garage. The energy of their music immediately
caught the ear of Laurent Garnier, who soon
invited them to join his new label Sounds Like
Yeah!, which released their debut EP, Awake,
in December 2015.
6:15pm-7:15pm : Arnaud Rebotini & Christian
Zanési (Blackstrobe Records / Paris, France)
Live
Made up of Arnaud Rebotini (producer and
leading figure on the French electronic scene,
a lover of analogue machines and prone to
epic live performances) and Christian Zanési
(artistic director of the Music Research Group
since 2006, a former pupil of Pierre Schaeffer
who is making waves in the concrete and electro-acoustic music circles), Frontières is first
and foremost a harmonious collision of two
sonic whizzkids who delight in fusing together
seemingly contradictory music genres. Their
first maxi-single has just been released on
Blackstrobe Records.
8pm-9:15pm : CHASSOL (Tricatel / France)
Live
Pianist, composer, arranger and musical director (Phoenix, Sebastien Tellier) charismatic
and talented Christophe Chassol is the author
of an unclassifiable work. His brilliantly-dazzling fourth album, in Martinique, crowns his
trilogy of ultrascores (a method he elaborated
for harmonizing, symphonizing real life, thehere and now), which started out in Creole-speaking New Orleans before pursuing its route
through India.
Chassol plays, with a natural feel, a natural
touch, pieces that are far from natural.
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3:30pm-5:30pm : Radiomeuh Soundsystem
(Radio Meuh / La Clusaz - France) Dj set
A few months after welcoming them to his
Yeah! festival, Laurent Garnier has once more
extended an invitation to this most famous of
independent Alpine webradio music stations.
Since it started broadcasting in 2007, the
address radiomeuh.com has become one of
the landmark stations in the history of French
webradio. The resident DJs can certainly pick
a tune, and they'll be more than happy to sift
out some dancefloor bombtracks especially for
this occasion.
5:30pm-7:30pm : Ivan Conti Dj Drum Set
(AZYMUTH) (Far Out Recordings / Rio de Janeiro - Brasil) Dj set
Azymuth are one of the most influential groups
in Brazil, revered by fans the world over who
hunt down their every release. Formed in the
1970s in Rio de Janeiro, Azymuth mix funk,
soul and jazz with samba, and in doing so
have developed their own unique sound: the
"Samba Doido" (crazy samba). Ivan Conti, the
group's drummer and spiritual leader, is also
an unrivalled crate-digger. He is making the
journey to Lyon to share his vinyl collection
with the NS audiences, bringing proceedings
to a close on the Esplanade stage.
7:30pm-9:30pm : Mr Bongo (Mr Bongo Records / Brighton - England) Dj set
Since 1989, the Mr Bongo collective and label
have been the authority on the incredible
golden age of Brazilian, Latin, African, jazz,
soul and psychedelic music, uncovering some
of the greatest sounds ever recorded. Mr
Bongo's resident diggers (Graham Luckhurst,
Gareth Stephens, Ally Smith and Ville Marttila)
bring this music to dancefloors all around the
world, playing exclusively off vinyls, and share
it every month on their radio show Mr Bongo
Record Club.
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A day with Seth Troxler
Seth Troxler
(Tuskegee / London-United Kingdom)
Although generally considered to be one of the
world's finest DJs, Seth Troxler is not one to
take himself too seriously and always demonstrates humility and a great sense of humour.
His charisma is legendary, both on and off the
stage, and his sets reflect his expansive, hedonistic and often unpredictable personality. Neither has Troxler allowed his huge popularity
to dilute his demanding artistic standards, and
he continues to promote independent music
through the avant-garde label Visionquest
(which he co-founded) and more recently with
Tuskegee.
Born in Kalamazoo, located halfway between
Detroit and Chicago, Seth Troxler was raised
in Detroit before spending several years in Berlin. He has played the best clubs all over the
world, and regularly collaborates with other
producers and DJs including Jackmaster,
Matthew Dear and Modeselektor.
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On-stage, Troxler serves up a unique musical
journey, an avalanche of funky house and
round bass lines, creating a generous sound
bursting with energy. He has an encyclopaedic knowledge of techno and house music, and
the line-up he settles on for this final NS Days
is sure to contain some real treats.
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3:30pm-9:30pm : Seth Troxler B2B The Martinez Brothers (Tuskegee / New York - USA / Dj set)
Originally hailing from the Bronx, and influenced from an early age by their father's love for Paradise Garage, Steve and Christian Martinez kicked off their music career in 2007, when they
were signed to the New York label Objektivity. Emerging from the underground house scene,
they were suddenly propelled onto the world stage with an Ibiza summer residence in 2011.
In 2013, they founded their own label Cuttin' Headz, and started inviting the leading lights of
the American house scene (DJ Qu, Rick Wilhite and Kerri Chandler, among others) to share the
stage with them at their Mad Beats & Crazy Styles events. At the forefront of the renewal of the
US house scene, nowadays the duo can be found tirelessly trawling clubs the world over.
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Le Sucre
4:45pm-6:15pm : Seven Davis Jr (Ninja Tune /
London-England) Live + Dj set
Have you heard his tracks Wild Hearts and
Sunday Morning during a set by one of your
favourite artists? Have you felt the dancefloor
come alive at that exact moment? That’s
perfectly normal. American Seven Davis Jr
is the future of soul music, one of the most
electrifying producers around at the moment.
Citing both Frankie Knuckles and Gil Scott-Heron as principal influences, he produces a
sound that is laced with dazzling house,
visionary funk and bass-heavy post-disco. His
album Universes, on the Ninja Tune imprint,
was one of 2015's essential releases.
6:30pm-7:30pm : Kate Simko & Tevo Howard
aka PolyRhythmic (Last Night On Earth / Chicago - USA) Live
Born out of a meeting between two Chicago
house DJs and producers, Kate Simko and
Tevo Howard, PolyRhythmic is a project that
showcases the versatility and eclecticism of
the two artists. The duo's sound lurches from
soul to African rhythms, taking in acid, new
wave and, of course, house. Their eponymous
debut album, which came out on the Last
Night On Earth imprint in 2015, is a precise
and subtle inventory of Chicago's contemporary musical landscape. Pushing back
boundaries on all fronts, it can be considered a
genuine masterpiece
7:45pm-9:15pm : Mathew Jonson (Wagon
Repair / Berlin-Germany) Live
The hyperactive Canadian Mathew Jonson,
member of the Cobblestone Jazz and Modern
Deep Left quartets and duo Midnight Operator,
is one of a handful of modern producers whose
sound is instantly recognisable from the very
first listen. Co-founder of the Wagon Repair
label and currently based in Berlin, he has
been trawling the world's stages for the last 10
years, consistently delivering his trademark
melodious live techno with relentless energy,
while never shying away from incorporating
his new compositions.
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3:30pm-6:30pm : Fort Romeau (Ghostly - Live
at Robert Johnson / London-England) Dj set
Michael Greene is the guy behind Fort Romeau. He's a London based producer and was
keyboardist for the synth pop band La Roux.
He made his mini-album Kingdom in 2012 in
the privacy of his home studio on an old laptop
with a Yamaha DX7 synth.
It has since brought him great acclaim from
both the press and the public. Since then, Fort
Romeau has continued to release records on
top labels such as Ghostly International and
Live At Robert Johnson.
6:30pm-9:30pm : Honey Soundsystem
(San Francisco-USA) Dj set
Inspired by the venerable cultural institution that is San Francisco's gay underground
scene, Honey Soundsystem was founded in
2006 by Ken Woodward and Jacob Sperber
as a collective of DJs, musicians, performers
and designers. The onstage line-up of Jacob
Serber, Jason Kendig, Robert Yang and Josh
Cheon share with audiences their love for
timeless dancefloor hits, never ceasing to
analyse and reflect upon the essence of the
past in order to continually evolve and better
shape the future.
Between 2008 and 2013, the quartet put on
weekly events featuring appearances from DJ
Sprinkles, Todd Terje, Prosumer, Boris, Steffi,
Horse Meat Disco, Discodromo, Eric Duncan,
Derek Plaslaiko, Maurice Fulton, Kink, Ivan
Smagghe and Optimo, among others.
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Cool Korea !
Crossed Years France-South Korea
x Institut Français
Having shown spotlight on Warsaw, Brussels,
Tokyo, New York and Glasgow, Nuits sonores
invits South Korea and particularly its capital
Seoul. Between modernity and tradition, Arty
Farty has discovered a fascinating, magnetic
and abounding city, a creative, cultural, social
and economic ferment.
Megacity of a thousand faces, Seoul is an
intellectual, technologic and cultural excitement. Between traditional houses and
skyscrapers, the team has landed in the heart
of Hongdae, an alternative district with its
numerous clubs, café-concerts, start-ups and
studios and decided to dedicate its Carte blanche to the independent and innovative vitality
of Seoul.
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Music, cinema, food culture, robotics, entrepreneurship, set design... Arty Farty puts for a
week the Nuits sonores Festival, the European
Lab forum and le Sucre in the Korean sauce
from 1st to 7 Mai 2016, inviting dozens of
bands and cultural activists.
In collaboration with Pop up Market,
Comœdia, RTU and Vague Coréenne.
Event organized in the framework of the Year
France-Korea 2015-2016 :
www.anneefrancecoree.com
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Thursday 5 May 2016
Warm-up and stage shiftings by RTU : interviews, guided tour of alternative Seoul and dj sets
4pm-4:45pm : Su:m (Seoul-Korea) Live
Su:m consists of duo Jiha Park and Jungmin
Seo. These two brilliant musicians breathe
new life into traditional Korean music through
their own original compositions. Refined and
elegant, their music has already found an
international audience following tours in Asia,
Europe, USA and Canada. Hypnotising.
5:15pm-6pm : Glen Check (The Basement
Resistance / Seoul-Korea) Live
Glen Check have been a huge success since
they first emerged on the scene in 2011. The
proof is in their countless live performances in
Korea and beyond (USA, Japan), during which
their efficient dancefloor electro-pop translates into a truly hectic live experience. Unusually for a Korean act, they are also known
for their remixes. Winners of the Korean Music
Award for Best electronic album in both 2013
and 2014, Glen Check have quickly become a
mainstay of the Korean indie scene.
6:30pm-7:15pm : DTSQ (Loose Union / Seoul-Korea) Live
The four skaters who make up DTSQ listen to
punk, garage, new wave, psychedelic, techno
and house. These raw and varied influences
can be heard in their frenetic garage rock, performed at no-holds-barred live shows in front
of growing audiences at all of Seoul’s best
alternative venues. But who better to introduce you to DTSQ than the group themselves?
We love subculture, cats and pepperoni pizza.
Of course we love beer as well.
7:45pm-9pm : KIRARA (Seoul-Korea) Dj set
Maintaining a hyperactive rate of production,
Kirara is constantly refreshing his Soundcloud
page with new music, each composition striving to be more surprising than the one before.
Situated somewhere between house and
techno, Kirara has developed a split identity
built around sampling and other, more original
production ideas. Productivity and originality
are the most appropriate qualities to associate
with this promising DJ from Seoul.
Thursday 5 May 2016 / 3:30pm-9pm / Jardin du Musée des Confluences (tbc) / Free
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Friday 6 May 2016
4pm-4:45pm : Look and Listen (Beatball Records / Seoul-Korea) Live
"Look and Listen are pop-punk as it should be.
Simple, straightforward, and full of energy." A
short but perfectly fitting introduction to this
trio, made up of a striking two-thirds female
line-up. Flourishes of surf music add the finishing gloss to their already refreshing, sunny
musical pallet. Following the release of their
first album Ready to Go in 2012, the group
released an album of cover versions of punk
rock's greatest anthems in 2014.
5:15pm-6pm : The Killer Drones (Loose Union /
Seoul-Korea) Live
Less confrontational that their name would
suggest, the Killer Drones play a brand of noisy,
sunny and hazy psychedelic garage music that
seems to belong in California. Composed of
three American expats and a native South Korean, the group was formed in Seoul in 2012 and
released their eponymous debut album in 2013.
6:30pm-7:15pm : NP Union (Stoneship / Seoul-Korea) Live
100% acoustic hip-hop, built around horns,
drums and an MC (Rocky L). Created in 2013,
NP Union exploded onto the Seoul scene with
their fiery live shows and surprise street performances. These eight musicians play a truly
old school – even old-fashioned! – hip-hop in a
resolutely jubilant atmosphere. Their unstoppable hit Raw Pow Pow has earned them a
new-found international fame.
7:45pm-9pm : Dj Soulscape (360 Sounds /
Seoul-Korea) Dj set
A tireless crate digger and a mainstay of Seoul's vinyl scene, Soulscape is simultaneously
a DJ, producer, radio presenter, event organiser, and composer for cinema or live shows.
His DJ sets are made up exclusively of Korean
music, veering from hip-hop to 60s/70s soul,
from afrobeat to bossa nova, with some jazz
and boogie on the way. Rarely quiet for long,
DJ Soulscape is a major player and a mainstay
of the Seoul music scene.
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4pm-4:45pm : Wedance (Utakata Records /
Seoul-Korea) Live
Wedance is a true musical UFO, floating somewhere between Rita Mitsouko, the dance-punk
of the Rapture, and Stereo Total. They have
already released a dozen maxi-singles and
two albums, have achieved great fame in
Japan, are coveted by numerous Korean
record labels, and have just collaborated with
the bassist from Deerhoof, who produces their
latest record. A crazy Korean group who can
really get the dancefloor moving.
5:15pm-6pm : Juck Juck Grunzie (Loose Union
Seoul-Korea) Live
With its irregular rhythms, chaotic soundscapes and a more accessible rock flourishes,
Juck Juck Grunzie's sound is unfailingly dark
and mysterious. Like a psychedelic trip in a
haunted club, you might say. A unique presence on Seoul's musical landscape, over the past
year the group has enjoyed growing success,
performing across Europe.
6:30pm-7:30pm : Jambinai (The Tell Tale
Heart / Seoul-Korea) Live
Jambinai creates post-rock strongly influenced by the genre's Canadian masters,
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, yet allow their
music to tread new paths thanks to traditional
Korean instruments such as the haegeum,
the geomungo, the taepyeongso and the piri.
The delicacy of these traditional instruments
serves as the perfect counter-balance to the
power of the electric guitar, creating an entirely unique, trance-like sound.
8pm-9pm : Yamagata Tweakster (Utakata
Records / Seoul-Korea) Live
A key figure on the Korean underground,
Yamagata Tweakster is a legendary and
100% original performer. With a customary
penchant for colourful costumes and suggestive choreography, he brings the same spirit of
showmanship to each of his many appearances. Armed with a laptop, a mic and a touch
of madness, Yamagata is setting sail to Lyon
with one thing in mind: to get people dancing!
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Carte blanche to Seoul
But music
Korean Cinema
As unusual as it is prolific, today Korea’s is
one the few film industries worldwide to stand
up to the power of Hollywood on its home
territory. For a long time stifled and limited to
propaganda films by strict government directives, in the last thirty years it has become a
formidable hotbed of creativity, exported to
the biggest international festivals.
In collaboration with the Comœdia cinema
Korean Food
Varied in its flavours and its forms, Korean
cuisine is simply bursting with unusual and
surprising tastes. A 100% Korean menu will
be served up to the Carte Blanche audiences, consisting of classic dishes like Korean
barbecue, bibimbap and banchan (small side
dishes).
From Thursday 5 May to Saturday 7 May 2016
3:30pm-9pm
Jardin du Musée des Confluences
(tbc)
Programming still to be finalised.
Monday 2 May 2016 at 8pm
at the Comoedia cinema
Korean sceno
A tribute stage design to Seoul will be specifically created for the Carte blanche at the
Gardens of the Musée des Confluences.
Bal Pop special: South Korea
Every month Le Sucre puts on a traditional-style French ball in partnership with Pop
Up Market. To coincide with Cool Korea, for
one night only the ball will be Korean-themed!
Saturday 30 April 2016
POP UP
11pm-5:00am
MARKET
Le Sucre
Pop Up Market : logotypes monochromes
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Mini sonore
The festival for children
It is May 2011. Pedro Winter is dressed up as a giant dinosaur behind the decks at the Piscine
du Rhône, an outdoor swimming pool in Lyon, playing for a hoard of delighted children. The
smiles beaming from this crowd of blonde heads plant the first seeds of what will become Mini
Sonore. Since then, the event has become a festival in its own right, parallel to Nuits Sonores
and entirely reserved for children. Over the space of 3 or 4 days the mini festival-goers, having
registered free of charge, can take their pick of a dozen creative, musical and multimedia-based
workshops.
The concept is a simple one: immerse the children in the world of Nuits Sonores by introducing
them to the festival's principal artistic disciplines. There is a particular focus on audiovisual
techniques, which tend not to play a part in the everyday lives of children (photo montage,
video special effects, stop-motion, new musical forms).
Similarly, the idea is to approach certain more traditional activities (colouring in, painting,
cutting out, collage, fashion) from a different angle in order to invite the children to experiment
and develop their creativity alongside professionals. Finally, the children get the opportunity to
experience their own festival by attending concerts, letting their hair down on the dancefloor,
sipping a cordial cocktail or by simply exploring the mini festival site.
From Thursday 5 to Saturday 7 May 2016 / 3:30pm-7:30pm
Garden of the Musée des Confluences (tbc)
Mini Sonore at Sunday Park x Crédit Mutuel on Sunday 8 May
with a special retrogaming program.
Free to sign up, from Monday 14 March.
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New site, new activities:
Mini Sonore reinvents itself for 2016!
Mini Sonore reinvents itself for 2016!
With a reworked site, bigger areas and covered spaces, Mini Sonore is being transformed to
guarantee better comfort, maximum security…
and ever more scope for creativity!
— Free to sign up
— For 4–12 year-olds
— 4 themed areas
— 35 professional supervisors
Taking place in the wonderful gardens of the
Musée des Confluences, where the Rhône and
Saône rivers intersect, this year's Mini Sonore
will be held in three geodesic domes. These
domes, mimicking the futuristic style of the
majestic Musée des Confluences which overlooks the site, will for a few days become the
land of the mini festival-goer!
To allow the kids to let off steam in the open
air, Mini Sonore will also have an outdoors
recreation area between the domes, where
greenery and urban furniture will be transformed into one big playground.
on (the BAFA) – will be on-hand to guarantee
the security, well-being and enjoyment of the
little ones.
The children will be free to explore a site specially designed just for them, where everything
is at their disposal, and where the aim is to
experiment and have fun.
A group dedicated to the smallest children will
give them the chance to enjoy all the activities, in a specially-adapted format for their age
group. They will be accompanied throughout
the festival by specialised supervisors.
And what about the parents? They can enjoy – in peace and quiet! – the
European Lab forum and the free program of
Nuits Sonores activities and events taking place by the Musée des Confluences (including
Carte Blanche Seoul and Extra!), or even NS
Days, the daytime Nuits Sonores event, at Les
Subsistances.
This year once more, it is free to register for
Mini Sonore, a festival exclusively reserved for
children! Fifteen professional supervisors and
twenty trainees – graduates of the French national child entertainment training qualificatiFrom Thursday 5 to Saturday 7 May 2016 / 3:30pm-7:30pm
Free to sign up, from Monday 14 March
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The program
Musical Dome Gangpol und Mit & Mémoires d'Avenir Behind the decks, Gangpol will serve up a
selection of his incredible collection of records
from all over the world, while his trusty companion Guillaumit complements the music with
fun interactive videos. Especially for Mini Sonore, the Mémoires d'Avenir collective – a young
team of multi-talented artists from Tangiers
in Morocco, who are simultaneously actors,
musicians and acrobats – will also be on-hand
to entertain the children in the Musical Dome.
— Mask-making with Guillaumit and Mémoires d'Avenir, giving the children the chance to
colour in and personalise their own disguise for the party,
— Introduction to Gnawa percussion,
— A mini percussion concert, with Memoires d'Avenir playing over Gangpol's musical nuggets,
specially edited for the occasion,
— The interactive fun of the Radio Minus Sound System!
Creative Dome
Sewer Gadget and Jérémie "Chienpo" Cortial
& friends
— Le Flippaper : to invent the pinball of the
future, armed with nothing more than felt-tip
pens and one plain sheet of paper, then play
their creation on an old school console worthy
of the best 80s sci-fi games.
— Paper Tronics : "Wow, imagine if my drawings became video games… How cool would
that be?!". We all had that dream when we
were kids, and now Low Tech consoles allow the children to become the inventors, the designers and, above all, the players!
— Sérigraphie yourself : A screen-printing workshop suitable for all, where the kids get the
chance to master the art of multi-layer printing. You need not worry, everyone will end up leaving with their own special homemade Mini Sonore silkscreen!
Multimedia Dome
Kinofabrik, the little animated film factory
The aim is to produce one collaborative film per
day, serving as a shortened history of music:
hip-hop, rock, then electronic music. This film
is then screened and uploaded online the very
same day.
There will be three workshops, for each creative stage, overseen by an expert in the field:
— Creation of characters and scenery
Linda Cerqueda, visual artist, entertainer, clay modeller and musician.
— Animation and recording of images on a multi-angle film set.
Lyonel Kouro, artist, director, musician, entertainer.
— Editing and sounds using fun, child-friendly software.
Cynthia Delbart, director, chief editor.
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The program
Rereation area
How does musical chairs to the soundtrack
of an electric Nuits Sonores playlist sound?
Or how about a giant coconut shy, with jam
jar effigies of the worst popstars in history,
a tribute to the ancient tradition of tomato
throwing? These are just two examples of the
barmy games that will be played all throughout the day in the Mini Sonore recreation
area.
The recreation area is supervised by the
French Union of Holiday and Leisure Centres
(UFCV) www.ufcv.fr
Mini Radio by RTU (radio, interviews, laughter,
music and live reporting)
The RTU is setting up its studio at Mini Sonore
and is handing the controls over to the children for two hours a day! On the schedule: live
interviews, their own playlists, a news bulletin
with all the latest from the mini festival, games, and more. In other words, big plans for a
Mini Radio!
Cordial bar (glouglou, diabolo & mint cordial)
Between workshops, after a musical chairs championship or before a game of Flippaper, it's
high time to quench one's thirst! Mini Sonore has its own bar, and it's not just any old drinks
stand: the staff have been recruited from among the best barmen on the planet, all of them
multiple world champions in cordial cocktail-mixing. Enthusiastically mixing such flavours as
banana and grenadine, the cordial bar is there to rehydrate the children, while reminding them
that, sometimes, nothing beats good old water.
Magical clouring by Kiblind (monumental colouring & magical graphics)
Theee exclusive creations in a monumental and magical colouring for Mini sonore 2016 will be
shown by the Kiblind magazine team.
Rock Your Gif (Gifomaton)
Better than a photo call, Mini Sonore equips itself with a gif-call, a photomaton producing
animated images. In reference to the mythics workshops Rock Your Cover and Rock Your Clip
that made the glory of the last Mini sonore editions, the children can disguise themselves into a
mythical character of the independent music before taking the pose.
From Thursday 5 to Saturday 7 May 2016 / 3:30pm-7:30pm
Free to sign up, from Monday 14 March
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Sunday Park x Crédit Mutuel
Dear partner of Nuits sonores since 2011, le Crédit Mutuel, historical support
for music, is getting involved with us in the festive and family adventure of
Sunday Park !
This year's Sunday Park will have the feel of a huge village
fair! With its giant jumble sale and pop street party, the
festival's closing event will provide the perfect opportunity
to simply chill out and have a stroll around.
Camion bazar
"The Camion Bazar is to the festival what the kitchen is to the house party."
A full-time fun generator and dancing machine, the Camion Bazar is one of those curious collectives capable of lightening the mood at an electro party, much like Otto 10, Alter Paname, La
Mamies, D.KO or Microclimat.
Rock n' roll, funk, electro, pop, house… Every style is welcomed with open arms at the collective's trademark truck, and it's all in the name of chilled out, hedonistic fun. Romain Play looks
after the music, while Benedetta Bertella is in charge of extra-musical activities including false
conferences, a wheel of fortune, sexy yoga, teleshopping, totem parades and fitness classes.
Jumble sale for the Secours Populaire
A loyal partner of Nuits Sonores, the Rhône branch of the Secours Populaire charity
is setting up a huge jumble sale at the heart of the Sunday Park.
Mini sonore
The site of the Mini Sonore festival is being commandeered for the day, to give children the
chance to experience a temporal adventure via the world of video games. Pacman, Tetris,
Mario Kart and Donkey Kong will all give the little ones plenty to do, inviting them to enter their
8-bit universe for some truly barmy life-size games. It's enough to set those joysticks waggling!
In partnership with the UFCV
Advance registration is compulsory. You can sign up from 14 March 2016 onwards at
www.nuits-sonores.com/mini-sonore
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Sunday 8 May 2016 / 12pm-8:00pm
Venue tba / Free
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Extra!
Since 2008, the Nuits Sonores festival has had that little
bit Extra! to offer. But how? Thanks to you.
Nuits Sonores invites anyone who may be interested to create their very own event, in order
to develop an unusual backdrop to the festival
by reinventing everyday locations.
To be a part of Extra!, the rules are alarmingly
simple: you just have to come up with the best
idea in the world.
So once more this year, we're going to add a
little bit of Extra! to spice up the ordinary. And
we're going to do it together.
Curious, extravagant and unique, Extra! invits
cultural activists and addicts to electronic and
independent cultures to invest incredible and
unusual spots, to reinvent the places of our
daily lives and to organize an event at Nuits
sonores festival.
Since 2008, the Nuits Sonores festival has had
that little bit Extra! to offer to festival-goers
looking for an experience : to participate to a
river cruise or a techno karaoke, to get married with his best friend or his dog or try to win
the title of World Champion of musical chairs.
Everything but a off, Extra! is an extension to
the experience of each festival-goer.
Since its launch, Extra! has gathered more
than 149 500 participants around some 280
projects, almost always free and taking place
in unusual or public spaces.
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Budgetary limitations can sometimes prevent projects from
coming to fruition, Nuits sonores has teamed
up with KissKissBankBank, crowdfunding
platform dedicated to creativity, to provide
support to the selected projects.
The Extra! planning
9 February 2016 :
Deadline for Extra! projects
6 April 2016 : the program is out !
Extra! Best of
One Friday a month, till the festival, Nuits
sonores offers the best of the best of Extra!, at
Le Sucre (Lyon). This is Extra! Best of.
Save the dates :
12 February, 11 March & 8 April 2016.
www.nuits-sonores.com/extra
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THE NIGHT
PROGRAM
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The spirit of the main Nights
A passionate, challenging, independent line-up
And so the 14th chapter in Nuits Sonores' colourful history is upon us. Bursting with
stories to tell, remarkable characters to meet, and touching moments to experience.
These are nights that stay true to their origins, nights that stand resolutely apart from
the growing plethora of bloated, media-friendly and too often short-lived artistic
projects.
In this context, Nuits Sonores has assembled a group of challenging and passionate
artists to offer the public a unique spectacle whose impact will be heightened further
this year by the triumphant return of live concerts to the heart of proceedings.
Most of the artists present do not flirt with major record companies or the music industry. Rather, they are the driving force behind a cultural scene that is enduring, participative and independent.
In keeping with these aims, the line-up this year has purposefully left the beaten track
behind, instead focusing its attention on the contemporary cultural scenes of Asia,
Africa and the Middle East. This approach reflects the festival's readiness to fulfil two
of its key principles: to engage in dialogue and to reconstruct culture. Principles that
are further strengthened by the We Are Europe project and the work of the guest "curators", who have been invited to assist us with the programming of this year's festival.
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Night 1 Halle 1
Pantha du Prince feat. The Triad
9:45pm-10:30pm : L'Effondras (Dur Et Doux /
Bourg-en-Bresse-France) Live
A trio who have been roaming the basements
and stages of the Rhône-Alpes region of France since the start of the decade, L'Effondras
perform tortured, brutally honest music. Their
eponymous debut album, released on the Dur
Et Doux label in 2014, is made up of a string of
progressive and hypnotic tracks. A genuinely
cathartic listen
11:00pm-12:00am : Turzi (Records Makers /
Versailles-France) Live
Turzi is a one-man group dreamt up and driven by Romain Turzi, a specialist in producing
disciplined, addictive rock. His subversive
music draws inspiration from both Italian film
music and German rock. Following on from
two masterful releases, C – released in 2015
by Record Makers – is a shape-shifting album,
belying previous attempts to pigeon-hole
Turzi's sound as krautrock or psychedelic rock.
Heard live, this is a complete, elegant and
hypnotic experience.
12:30am-1:30am : Pantha du Prince presents
The Triad (Rough Trade / Berlin-Germany)
For his new project, Pantha du Prince is teaming up with his long-time friend Scott Mou
and Norwegian drummer/composer Bendik
Hovik Kjelsberg. Together they form Pantha du
Prince feat. The Triad, a minimal psychedelic
group whose music is characterised by heavy
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bass and techno undertones, aimed at both
the dancefloor reveller and the more refined
listener.
2am-3am : Red Axes (Garzen Records / Tel
Aviv-Israel) Live
Since 2009 the Red Axes project, the brainchild of Israelis Dori Sadovnik and Niv Arzi,
has been oscillating between post-punk and
Italo-disco. Their first album Ballad of the Ice,
released in 2014, recalled the crude live sound
of their previous project (rock group Red Cotton) but blended with shades of a newfound
dry, acid electro. The album is an unadulterated, groove-ridden digest of eclecticism,
pitched somewhere between Portuguese new
wave and psychedelia. The duo are currently
working on their new label Garzen Records.
3am-5am : Dixon (Innervisions / Berlin- Germany) Dj set
Steffen Berkhahn, aka Dixon, started making a
name for himself on Berlin's club circuit at the
dawn of the 1990s. Having quickly established
himself at the forefront of the international DJ
scene, he embarked upon a series of residencies, from Panorama in Berlin to Fabric
in London. The peerless co-founder of the
Innervisions label, which he created with the
duo Âme, has monopolised the number one
spot in Resident Advisor's Top 100 DJs list
since 2013.
Wednesday 4 May 2016 / 9pm-5am / Ancien marché de gros
38 euros, full / 32 euros, reduced rate (loc. fees not included) • Included in Night 1
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Night 1 Halle 2
Paula Temple
9pm-10:40pm : Mérovée (PapaMaman - Lyon) Dj
set
Merovee likes nothing more than to shake the
techno scene to its very core. A relentless digger, he can draw upon an arsenal comprising
ambient, dub, noise and industrial music.
10:40pm-11:40pm : In Aeternam Vale (Minimal
Wave-Jealous God / Lyon-France) Live
For over 30 years, Laurent Prot has been playing and recording on cassettes. His music is
all about instinct and feeling, mixing modular
techno with energetic new wave. In 2014,
he signed to the excellent Jealous God label,
co-founded by Regis, on which he released his
Jealous God 05 EP.
11:50pm-12:50am : Regis (Jealous God / NewYork-USA) Live
Born Karl O'Connor, and a figure on the electronic music scene since the early-nineties,
Regis is an English artist, producer and artistic
director. He co-founded Downwards Records
in 1993, the Sandwell District collective in
2002, and then, in 2013, the Jealous God
label. He has made a career as a top producer,
specialising in music ranging from the hardest
techno to more psychedelic sounds.
1am-1:40am : Paula Temple (R&S, Noise Manifesto / Berlin- Germany) Live
A techno artist used to going against the grain,
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Paula Temple describes herself as a noisician
who understands music first and foremost as a
construct of noise and silence. Paula's raw and
conceptual techno sound lends her live appearances an unique experimental quality.
1:50am-2:50am : Unforeseen Alliance (Construct Re-Form / Paris - France) Live
Unforeseen Alliance is a French techno supergroup made up of four genius producers –
Antigone, Voiski, Birth of Frequency and Zadig
– put together by the latter's label, Construct
Re-Form. The project's live appearances are
as exciting as they are unusual. Representing
a cross-section of the contemporary French
techno scene, the collaboration is nevertheless shrouded by an air of mystery: there is no
Facebook page, no Soundcloud account, not
even a profile on Resident Advisor. Unforeseen
Alliance can therefore only be discovered in
the conditions most conducive to fully appreciating the energy and power of the project.
Which is live, of course.
3:10am-5am : Rødhåd (Dystopian / Berlin Germany) Dj set
A regular on the Berlin nightlife scene, Rødhåd
has hoaned his own perfect formula of deep,
melancholic techno. The ideal choice for a
closing set, his sombre and powerful music
aims to raise dancefloors as high as they can
possibly get.
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Night 1 Halle 3
Peaches
Maitresses de cérémonie : Chantal La Nuit, Fifi
du Clavaire et Tracy Gareth (Garçon Sauvage
Lyon-France)
Garçon Sauvage has a taste for the subversive.
The transgender offspring of homosexual and
queer cultures, founded by the Plusbellelanuit collective, is an experimental stage. The
audience provide each evening with its own
thematic mythology; the very essence of queer.
to direct the film Peaches Does Herself (2012),
which could have seen her -otherwise known
as Merrill Nisker- mellow out. But to think the
years could diminish her energy or salaciousness would be to underestimate her. And for
proof this sensual genius remains intact, look
no further than the video for her track Rub,
which was censored only a few minutes after
its release.
9:30pm-10:15pm : Shopping (Fat Cat-Milk
Records / London - England) Live
Descendents from the post-punk groups of
the 70's and 80's, Shopping's nervous music
yet remains strangely appropriate for the
dancefloor. With its jumpy bass lines, slicing
guitar riffs and disco-tinged drumming, this is
a group to delight all fans of The Slits or The
Organ. 1:30am-2:15am : Cakes Da Killa (МИШКА
/ New-Jersey-USA) Live
From Mykki Blanco to Le1f, or even House of
Ladosha, it would be too easy to fall back on
obvious comparisons when trying to describe
Cakes Da Killa. In reality he also draws inspiration from Busta Rhymes and nineties rap. A
fashion school graduate with an entourage of
talented producers, the 24-year-old takes the
utmost care of both his image and his lyrics
making the rap game look like a piece of cake.
10:45pm-11:30pm : The King Khan & BBQ
show (Merge-In The Red / Montreal-Canada)
Live
Although born in Montreal, the singular character known as Arish Ahmad Khan has been
living in Berlin since the 90's. With his project
King Khan & the Shrines, he has played his
quirky garage rock at the biggest festivals For
the King Khan & BBQ Show in 2004, he teamed
up with Mark Sultan (BBQ). A gay icon with
an eccentric and ambivalent personality, King
Khan's stage shows are unfailingly energetic
and colourful spectacles.
12am-1am : Peaches (I U She Music / Berlin-Germany) Live
Six years went by between the albums I Feel
Cream and Rub. Six years that enabled Peaches
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2:15am-3:30am : L'Homme Seul (Garçon Sauvage / Lyon-France) Dj set
L'Homme Seul, resident DJ for the so-called
Garçon Sauvage nights, has dancefloors sweating to indie dance, deep house and nu-disco.
3:30am-5am : Horse Meat Disco (Z Records
Londres-Angleterre) Dj set
Together James Hillard, Jim Stanton, Filthy
Luka and Severino make up the quartet known
as Horse Meat Disco. Four heads coming together as one, to conjure up as many different
interpretations of disco music as possible: deep
disco, italo-disco, punk funk, house...
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The Absolut Company
Creation presents OX
Over the last 10 years, live manifestations of electronic culture have become increasingly
immersive and visual experiences. And light, in all its guises, remains a fundamental part of the
most powerful performances. Mapping, LED lighting, holograms and kinetics are constantly
being manipulated and blended by the most creative artists.
A committed supporter of contemporary creation for over 30 years, The Absolut Company
Creation is taking on what may be its biggest challenge yet in 2016: to devise an entirely independent facility, capable of bringing genuine added value to electronic music and cultures, free
from human input.
And so project OX is born, in collaboration with visual artist Romain Tardy.
Romain Tardy
Romain Tardy is a visual artist who largely works in the field of the digital arts. His installations
make use of a full variety of techniques and technologies, including video-mapping, LEDs,
kinetics and motion design. They are designed as in situ sensory experiences, using light as a
means of accentuating existing architecture or structures that he himself has created.
On 4 May 2016, OX will be making an appearance at Nuits Sonores. It promises to be a unique
experience, featuring an exclusive artistic centrepiece!
OX is a TETRO production made for The Absolut Company Creation.
Wednesday 4 May 2016 / 11pm-5am / Le Sucre
9 euros full / 7 euros Minuit Bird (loc. fee not included)
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11pm-1am : Moscoman (ESP Institute / Berlin Allemagne) Dj set
Moscoman is a producer and DJ who splits his
time between Berlin and Tel Aviv, the city of his
birth. He is both the founder and artistic director of the Disco Halal label, and has also scored
various hits on labels such as Correspondant,
I'm a Cliché and Eskimo. His individual sound,
unfailingly evocative of the sweaty dancefloors
of the Middle East, blends techno, new-wave
and house.
1am-3am : Soul Clap (Soul Clap Records /
Boston - USA) Dj set
The story of Soul Clap dates back to a time
when, while searching to understand the
history of dance music, the duo happened
upon the figure of DJ Caril Mitro. This Boston
DJ became their mentor and, soon enough,
invited them to join the temple that is Vinyl
Connection (alongside artists such as Dimitri
From Paris and Frankie Knuckles). The duo
were therefore able to learn from the very
best, perfecting their DJ and production me-
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thods and defining their own style and sound:
a melting pot of throbbing house, 80s funk
and pre-Timbaland R'n'B. And since no-one
emerges from Vinyl Connection without knowing how to drop a tune, the duo's DJ sets are
reliably epic events.
3am-5am : Kartell (Roche Musique / Paris France) Dj set
Kartell is an artist who seems to grow in stature
with every waking day, and has been ever
since his emergence at the start of the decade. And with good reason. The co-founder
of the Roche Musique label, whose seminal
maxi-single Riviera was the Parisian imprint’s
first release, is known for never standing still.
Relentlessly touring throughout the world, this
young producer has taken part in prestigious
collaborations (with Snoop Dogg and Jabberwocky, among others), can boast the support of
artists across the globe (including Kaytranada,
The Magician and Bondax) and continues to
make a key contribution to the international
reputation of the French electro scene.
Wednesday 4 May 2016 / 11pm-5am / Le Sucre
9 euros full / 7 euros Minuit Bird (loc. fee not included)
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Night 2 / Le Circuit
L'Ambassade
12am-1:30am Manoo (Ambassade / Lyon –
France) DJ Set
1:30am-4:30am Culoe de Song (Innervisions South Africa) Dj Set
4:30am-5:30am Manoo B2B Culoe de Song
Dj Set
Ayers Boat
3pm-9pm The Bellrays (Fargo, Cobraside,
Sultan Sounds / Riverside-USA) Live
11pm-1am ALI B2B ki.fran
(Atipik Kolektif / Lyon–France) Dj set
1am-3am Klaar B2B Ortella
(Art Feast Records / Lyon–France) Dj set
3am-5am Hergè (Atipik Kolektif / Lyon–France) B2B Miimo (Art Feast / Lyon–France) Dj
set
Bellona with Difu
11:30pm-2am Patrick Vidal
(Difu-22tracks / Paris-France) Dj set
2am-4am Jus Ed (Underground Quality Bridgeport-USA) Dj set
4am-6am : Laurent Caligaris B2B
Jacques Terrasse (Difu / Lyon-France) Dj set
DV1
12am-2am Jibis
(Tapage Nocturne-DV1R / Lyon-France) Dj set
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2am-4am Robert Owens
(Chicago–USA) Dj set
4am-6am DudMode
(Baldwin Records-DV1R / Lyon-France) Dj set
L'Épicerie Moderne
8:30pm-12am Russian Circles
(Sargent House / Chicago-USA) Live
La M.M.
6pm-7:30pm Palmwine Sound System
(Lyon-France) Dj set
7:30pm-9pm Forro de Rebeca Live
9pm-10:30 Palmwine Sound System
10:30pm-12am Kumbia Boruka (Lyon-France)
Live
12am-3am Analog Africa Sound System
(Frankfurt-Germany) Dj set
Le Marché Gare
8:30pm-9:30pm Femmes aux Fourneaux
9:30pm-10:30pm Male Gaze (Castle Face
Records San Francisco-USA) Live
10:30pm-11:15pm Femmes aux Fourneaux
(Lyon- France) Dj set
11:15pm-12:30am The Monsters (Voodoo Rhythm Records / Bern - Switzerland)
Live
12:30am-1:45am Femmes aux Fourneaux
Thursday 5 May 2016 / 7pm-7am / 14 clubs and gig venues
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Ninkasi
Ninkasi Kao
11pm-12:30am French79 (Microphone Recordings-Limitrophe Production / Marseille–France) Dj set
12:30am-2:30am Aurora Halal (Mutual Dreaming / New-York-USA) Live
2:30am-3:30am Cømpass
(Mutewax / Lyon-France) Live
3:30am-6am Zenker Brothers
(Ilian Tape- Tresor / Munich-Germany) Dj set
Ninkasi Kafé
9pm-11pm Maggy Smiss
(Residente Ninkasi / Lyon-France) Dj set
11pm-1am Dote
(Dolfeels & Teets) / Lyon-France) Dj set
1am-3am Wavesonik
(Elektro system / Lyon–France) Dj set
3am-5am Thomas Melchior
(Perlon / Berlin-Germany) Dj set
Ninkasi Terrasse : Carte blanche à 22Tracks.
8pm-11pm La Biche vs Klaaar
(Art Feast Support / Paris-France) Dj set
11pm-1am Mellotron (Paris-France) Dj set
1am-3am Nick V
(Mona-22Tracks / Paris-France) Dj set
3am-5am Carlos Valdes
(22Tracks / Amsterdam-Netherlands) Dj set
Le Periscope
9pm-10:30am Warm-up
10:30am-12am Plaistow (Two Gentlemen
Records / Geneva-Switzerland) Live
12am-1:30am LBNHRX
(Unknown References / Brussels-Belgium)
1:30am-3am Actapulgite
(Unknown References & Le Pacifique Records
Brussels-Belgium)
Le Petit Salon
Salle 1
L-Vis 1990 presents Dance System
(Clone Jack for Daze-Night Slugs /
London-England) Live
Salle 2
11pm-1am Merlin (Trapage Nocturne / Strasbourg-France) Dj set
1am-2:30am Kuna Maze
(Orbit Crew / Lyon-France) Dj set
4am-5:30am Malinké
(Artjacking / Lyon-France) Dj set
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La Plateforme
9pm-10pm Isolée
(Pampa-Classic / Berlin- Germany) Live
10pm-11pm Lb aka Labat
(Groovedge / Lyon-France) Live
11pm-5am Terrence Parker (Parker Music
Works-!K7 / Détroit-USA) Dj set
Terminal
12am-1:30am The Pilotwings (BFDM /
Lyon-France) Dj set
1:30am-4am Veronica Vasicka (Minimal Wave
/ New York-USA) Dj set
4am-7am Ron Morelli (L.I.E.S. Records / New
York-USA) Dj set
Sonic
9pm-9:45pm Dj PJ
(Sonic Crew / Lyon-France) Dj set
9:45pm-10:30pm Poison Point (Lyon-France)
Live
10:45pm-11:30pm Rank
(Automate Records / Lyon -France) Live
11:30pm-12:30am Housewives
(Hands in the Dark/ London-England) Live
12:30am-02:15am Dj PJ
2:15am-4am Trevor Reveur
Transbordeur
Transbo
9pm-9:45pm Nicola Cruz
(ZZK Records / France-Ecuador) Live
10:10pm-11:30pm La Yegros
(ZZK Records / Buenos Aires-Argentine) Live
12am-1am Matias Aguayo
(Cómeme / Berlin-Germany) Dj set
1am-3am Los Hijos Del Tambor
3am-5am Osunlade
(Yoruba / Santorin- Greece) Dj set
Club Transbo
11:45pm-5am Voilaaa Soundsystem
(Favorite Recordings / Lyon-France) Dj set
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Resident Advisor x Nuits sonores
Nuits Sonores is teaming up with Resident Advisor, a loyal media partner of the festival since
2010, to program a very special night at Le Sucre. A varied techno line-up consisting of two live
and two DJ sets will showcase the very best that the new techno generation has to offer.
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Thursday 5 May 2016 / 11pm-5am / Le Sucre
18 euros, full / 14 Minuit Bird (loc. fee not included)
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11pm-1am : Diane (Terminal - Partition Libre /
Lyon – France) Dj set
Having studied at a classical conservatory, Diane was quick to find an interest in electronic
culture and abandon the piano for turntables.
Her influences include the experimental techno of Juan Atkins and Luke Hess, helping to
develop her own unique style. She's got a bit
of deep house from Dial Records and Delano
Smith, with a touch of Detroit techno. She
shakes up cosmic synth sounds with biting
rhythms.
2am-3am : Vril (Dystopian / Berlin - Allemagne) Live
Vril is one of the leading names on the Dystopian label, which is also home to Recondite and
Rodhad. Invariably performing behind a mask,
he is capable of producing music of impressive
energy and creativity. Wherever he mixes, his
sets are notable for delivering a euphoric journey into sound, albeit one tinged with a certain melancholy. Having moved to the German
capital, Vril quickly started collaborating with
Marcel Dettmann, and he has more recently
teamed up with Frenchman Voiski.
1am-2am : Rrose (Eaux / États-Unis) Live
Rrose is one of those endlessly intriguing
figures, the mystery of his personality only
matched by the darkness of his techno sound.
It would appear that he was born in 1969 and
lives on the outskirts of Washington DC. But
hang on, that could be Washington state…?
As you can see, trying to explain Rrose's character is as futile as his art is evocative. Head
of the Eaux label, Rrose delivers sombre and
experimental live shows, which forever strive
to capture the original underground essence
of techno.
3am-5am : Dasha Rush (Raster-Noton, Fullpanda Records / Berlin - Allemagne) Dj set
Dasha Rush's carnal, sombre, atmospheric and
deeply emotional music pushes the boundaries
of techno with its wide range of dreamlike influences. While her first love has always been
for experimental music and the continual exploration of emotions, in recent years she has
increasingly turned towards the dancefloor,
earning the support of artists such as Marcel
Fengler and Peter Van Hoesen.
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Night 3 Halle 1
We are Europe by c/o pop
Moderat
9:45pm-10:30pm : Domenique Dumont (Antinote / Riga-Latvia) Live
Simultaneously textured and minimalist, Domenique Dumont's music is the perfect way to
get away from it all. To turn on the tap of silky
melodies from their 2015 LP Comme ça is akin
to hitting the relax button. Domenique takes
care of the rest.
10:45pm-11:45pm : Low Jack (Modern Love /
Paris-France) Live
Born in Honduras, Philippe Hallais aka Low
Jack, co-founder of the Editions Gravats label,
is known for going against the grain. With one
foot in primal techno and the other in sonic
experimentation, Low Jack has made a career
out of catching everyone by surprise with a
collection of singular and futuristic techno
sounds.
11:45pm-00:45am : Weval (Kompakt /
Amsterdam -Netherlands) Live
You certainly have already heard the track
Detian, from Weval's debut EP, which featured
in an advert starring Penelope Cruz. The
duo – made up of Harm Coolen and Merkin
Scholte, produces a humming, progressive,
melodic and at times downbeat electro. In late
2015, the two put out a new maxi-single on
the Cologne label, It'll Be Just Fine / Grow Up,
a release that verges on perfection in terms of
electronic and vocal production.
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01:15am-02:15am : Moderat (Monkeytown /
Berlin -Germany)
Moderat is one act that surely needs no introduction. From the unlikely association in 2008
between Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary
– better known as Modeselektor, bass music
icons and founders of the prestigious labels
Monkeytown and 50Weapons – and Sasha
Ring – a.k.a. Apparat, essentially their antithesis, a constantly-reinventing exponent of the
most delicate electronic music – a collaboration emerged that has been breathing new
life into Berlin's electronic scene (and beyond)
ever since. The project is by no means solely
restricted to the studio and Moderat now trawl
across the continents, accompanied by the
Pfadfinderei studio, dedicated provider of their
onstage visuals. The year 2016 sees the return
of the group after a year's break, in which time
they recorded III, the new album that they will
be showcasing at this 14th edition of Nuits
Sonores.
3am-5am : Bambounou (50Weapons /
Paris-France) Dj set
Jeremy Guindo aka Bambounou has very
quickly claimed a place at the top table of the
French techno scene. He is signed to 50Weapons, the prestigious label run by Modeselektor, which released his debut album Centrum
in 2015. Over the past few years, he has collaborated with Laurent Garnier, remixed Shlømo
and Jessy Lanza, and was the subject of a
documentary produced by Resident Advisor.
Friday 6 May 2016 / 9pm-5am / Ancien marché de gros
38 euros, full / 32 euros, reduced rate (loc. fees not included) •
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We are Europe
by Elevate-Music & Arts
Elektro Guzzi
9:30pm-10:15pm : Bajram Bili (Another Record-Le Turc Mécanique / Tours-France) Live
Frenchman Adrien Gachet (a.k.a Bajram Bill)
is renowned for his hypnotic, psychedelic
sound. Influenced by electronica, ambient music, techno and, above all, krautrock, his songs
are at once uplifting and melancholic, with
flourishes of noise coming from his modular
synths and other machinery.
10:45pm-11:45pm : James Holden & Camilo
Tirado present Outdoor Museum of Fractals
(London-England) Live
Londoner James Holden is a lover of improvised music. For his new live show, he has
teamed up with producer and percussionist
Camilo Tirado; together they perform Outdoor
Museum of Fractals, whose inspiration Holden
drew from Terry Ryley, and which explores the
digital systems, the statistics, the order and
the disorder at the origins of music. Through
his use of analogue synthesisers, sequencers
and delays, he produces a repetitive sound
influenced minimalist music.
12:15am-1:15am : Elektro Guzzi (Macro Recordings / Vienne-Autriche) Live
The trio who makes up Elektro Guzzi belongs
to that group of people who believe techno
music needs to be approached from a different
angle. These three Austrians experiment
with their basic set-up of guitar/bass/drums,
providing a new take on the most cerebral
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and organic elements of techno music. After
five albums in five years, we can deduce their
experimentation has been prolific.
1:45am-2:45am : Ninos du Brasil feat Mémoires d'Avenir (Hospital Production-DFA /
Venise-Italie & Tangier-Morocco) Live
Originally from the north of Italy, Nico and
Nicolo came up with the idea for Ninos du
Brasil: an audacious mix of batucada, noise,
free rock, samba and electronic music which
resulted in some legendary live performances.
They will be supported onstage by members of
Mémoires d'Avenir, the Tangiers-based gnawa
collective that experiments in the domains of
art and education.
3am-4am : Powell (Diagonal-XL Recordings /
Founder of the Diagonal label with his friend
Jaime Williams, Powell is the author of postpunk and no wave sounds, which he weaves
into a provocative and experimental techno. In
2015, after 6 maxi-singles, his musical curiosity saw him release two singles on XL Recordings, a giant on the indie music scene.
4am-5am : J-Zbel (BFDM / Lyon-France) Live
While they may play around with a mysterious identity, the codes of hardtek and a very
nineties image, the quality of J-Zbel's output
shows that this trio is not just here to make
us laugh. J-Zbel play strong, well and live. A
breath of underground fresh air.
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Night 3 Halle 3
Mbongwana Star
9pm-10pm : Pouvoir Magique (Mawimbi /
Drawing their energy and rhythms from world
music, and with an encyclopaedic knowledge
of afrobeat classics, the duo Pouvoir Magique
(part of the Paris-based Mawimbi crew) are
the authors of a tribal techno characterised by
refined percussion and shamanic melodies.
10pm-11pm : Africaine 808 (Vulkadance /
Berlin-Germany) Live
Following years of musical exploration,
crate-digging, mixing genres and redefining
rhythms and harmonies from all over the
world, two Berliners decided to embark on
a mad project: to use an analogue TR-808
in each of their tracks. Their drum machine,
programmed with polyrhythmic beats, has
been christened Africaine 808 and is the third
member of the group, experimenting a sound
that goes from slow cumbia to percussive
disco and house.
11:30pm-12:30am : Mbongwana Star (World
Circuit Records / Kinshasa-Democratic Republic of the Congo) Live
Mbongwana Star were formed by Franco-British artist Liam Farrell, aka Doctor L, along
with Coco Ngambali and Theo Mzonza,
founder members of the Congolese outfit Staff
Benda Bilili. Together they blend traditional
Congolese rhythms, hip-hop, electronica and
psychedelic, all with an overriding punk fla-
vour. It's a winning combination, and one that
made their album From Kinshasa a stand-out
release in 2015.
1am-2am : Konono n°1 (Crammed Discs Kinshasa-Democratic Republic of the Congo) Live
With the unbelievable sound of their electrified thumb pianos, and wild rhythm section,
Congolese band Konono N°1 have become the
darlings of Western indie rock & electronic
music audiences ever since the release of their
first album Congotronics in 2004. Konono N°1
was founded back in the 1960s by Mingiedi
Mawangu, who sadly passed away last year.
His son Augustin has been leading the band
for the last few years.
2:30am-3:30am : Auntie Flo presents Sun
Ritual (Huntleys + Palmers / Glasgow - Scotland) Live
Migratory bird born in India, having grown
up in Glasgow and now living in London, Brian
d'Souza aka Auntie Flo plays, since 2011, the
claps, congas and other percussions from
world music. Having released EPs and LPs on
labels such as Huntleys + Palmers, Kompakt
and Mule Musiq. Auntie Flo presents at Nuits
sonores his live show with Laurie from Golden
Teacher.
3:30am-5am : Pouvoir Magique (Mawimbi /
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Night 4 Halle 1
The Hacker
9:45pm-10:30pm : Last Train (Cold Fame
Records Lyon-France) Live
Rock'n'roll without cliché, pop without naivety.
The musicians of Last Train are whipping up a
storm of hypnotic music. To catch them on one
of their regular tours is to witness a diversion
for ears that have been dulled by rock bands
for far too long.
11pm-11:45pm : The Coathangers (Suicide
Squeeze / Atlanta-USA) Live
The Coathangers are a group of anger-ridden
girls from Atlanta, old friends of the Black Lips,
with whom they released a split 7" in 2015.
Their latest album Suck My Shirt showcased
their biting riffs and break-neck rhythms. This
vicious troop of veritable riot girls repeatedly
produces tracks sounding like the finest abrasive no-wave hits you never heard!
12:10am-1:10am : The Hacker presents Amato Live (Zone, Goodlife / Grenoble-France)
Live
Armed with influences as sombre as they are
efficient, this producer from Grenoble first
unleashed his techno in the 1990s, notably alongside Miss Kittin, later being at the
forefront of the electro-clash movement in
Germany. Michel Amato a.k.a The Hacker
goes back to his first loves: new wave, sombre
powerful techno and hardcore flourishes. He
will premiere this exclusive new analogue set
live at Nuits Sonores.
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1:20am-2:50am : Max Cooper (Fields /
A modern-day virtuoso, Max Cooper draws
on both his background as a scientist and his
musical talent to create an unique, hypnotic
and captivating universe. His album Human
on the Fields label in 2014, is a veritable gem,
showcasing his ability to handle melodies and
sonic landscapes. Renowned for his live performances, Max Cooper will perform his new
audiovisual spectacle Emergence, an experience as immersive as it is monumental.
3am-5am : Maceo Plex (ELLUM / Barcelona Spain) Dj set
Maceo Plex – real name Eric Estornel – is an
American artist with Cuban origins. Over the
last 15 years, his development as an artist has
seen him reborn under the aliases of Mariel Ito,
Plaex, and Maetrik. An eclectic apprenticeship
that made his career take off at the start of the
decade. His hit Vibe Your Love, which came
out ahead of his first album in 2011, confirmed
his place in the highest echelons of the world
dance music scene.
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9pm-12am : Juliano (That Place /
Berlin-Allemagne) Dj set
Having moved to Lyon in 2005, Juliano very
quickly became an activist for electronic music,
co-founding the Caramelo label. In 2013 he
created That Place, a label at the very forefront
of the Lyon house scene ever since. Nowadays
a resident of Berlin, he regularly plays the
German capital's most prestigious clubs, from
Trésor to Griessmuehle
12am-2am : Lil' Louis (FFRR /
Chicago-USA) Dj set
While it may have been Marvin Louis Burns
who first declared himself to be "The Founding
Father of House Music", nobody can deny that
title to him : Owner of a club at the age of 16
and organiser of the very first "rave" in 1977,
Burns has been playing DJ sets for over 40
years under the pseudonym of Lil' Louis (given
to him by a policeman on a night out at the
River's Edge Club in Chicago). A producer since 1980, he has been behind French Kiss, the
biggest-selling track in the history of dance
music. Over the course of his career, Lil' Louis
has collaborated with the likes of Jay-Z, Lil'
Kim, Donna Summers and Louie Vega.
2am-3am : S3A (Sampling As an Art Records /
Paris-France) Live
A Parisian symbol of the reinvention of French
house via his alias S3A (Sampling as an Art),
Max Fader's sound is built around a unique
groove made up of the countless sound
samples that inspired it. He recently collaborated with Laurent Garnier, producing a remix
of his track Dinosaurs Are Gone. He made his
very first live appearance in2015, it is the very
same live set that he will play for a second
time at Nuits Sonores.
3am-5am : Dj Harvey (International Feel Recordings / Los Angeles - USA) Dj set
DJ Harvey, born Harvey Bassett, is a true London legend, of the sort that only that city can
produce. At the start of the 1990s, he enjoyed
his first residencies at Moist and Ministry of
Sound in London. In his sets, the Black Cock
Records founder plays gems of sensual house
music drawing their energy from rock.
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A-Wa
9:10pm-10:10pm : Dj K-Sets (Spain) Dj set
Spaniard Manuel Sanchez spends his days
unearthing audio cassettes in countries
bordering the Mediterranean. An unrivalled
crate-digger, he showcases the very best
forgotten or unreleased tracks on breathtaking
mixtapes, which he makes available for free
on his website.
10:20pm-11:20pm : Débruit & Istanbul (ICI /
France) Live
Producer and multi-instrumentalist Xavier
Thomas, a.k.a Débruit, blends world music,
abstract hip-hop beats and colourful synths.
He has collaborated with several generations
of musicians in Istanbul, with a view to developing his own imaginative interpretation of
the city, simultaneously traditional, psychedelic, melodic and experimental. The results are
showcased on his latest album and in this new
live set.
11:50pm-12:50am : A-Wa (The Eighth Note /
Shaharut-Israel) Live
With their addictive mixture of hip-hop, Arab
folk and electro, these three sisters from Israel
– Tair, Liron and Tagel Haim – reinvent the
traditional folkloric songs of Yemen. Their vocal
harmonies and ancestral dialects fuse with
MIDI keyboard-guitars, drums and samples
to produce a never-heard-before châabi/disco-funk groove. Discovered by Tomer Yosef,
the Balkan Beat Box singer who produced their
first album, A-Wa's music brims with a freshness and defies traditional boundaries.
1:20am-2:20am : 47Soul (Indiepush / Palestine) Live
47Soul are at the very forefront of the dabke
and mijwez scenes, types of music that draw
their roots from the exotic ambiance of Levantine weddings, which are then remixed to give
them an electro-dubstep flavour. Founded by
members spread out between Jaffa, Amman,
Ramallah and Washington, the group has
given these traditional styles a new lease of
life with their use of distorted synthesisers,
chanting and crazed percussion.
2:50am-3:50am : Islam Chipsy & EEK (100
Copies / Cairo - Egypt) Live
Islam Said, alias Chipsy, can regularly be
found getting folks dancing at wedding parties
or out in the streets of Cairo. In doing so, he
has become an internationally-renowned
figure on the electro-châabi scene. Signed to
the excellent 100 Copies label, he was one of
the revelations of the festival at the last edition
of Nuits Sonores Tanger. Performing on stage
with two percussionists (EEK), his sound plays
on the trance-like quality that both electronica
and popular Egyptian music have in common.
4am-5am : DJ K-Sets (Spain) Dj set
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Burn – Energy Drink – presents
Light it up ! – Sold-out
Burn & Nuits sonores
Ever since its first edition in 2003, the Nuits Sonores festival has been developing excellent
relationships with the various brands that have supported this independent cultural project.
From the very start, the festival has implemented a strong, mutually-beneficial approach to
partnerships based around continued dialogue, resulting in it building fruitful and enduring
relationships with numerous businesses. The 14th edition of the festival in 2016 sees burn join
the community of Nuits Sonores partners. Historically committed to supporting artists involved
in electronic music and street culture, the brand is currently seeking to restructure its approach
to the arts in France around a new selection of ambitious projects.
Nuits Sonores and Burn cannot wait for their partnership to get underway, and look forward to
offering the festival-goers an even better experience. With a one-off evening event at Le Sucre,
creative features throughout the weekend and appealingly-priced drinks, the partnership's
presence at the festival will be both smart and artistically ambitious.
Burn is making a commitment to the festival in full acknowledgement of our independence.
Burn - Energy Drink - presents Light it up ! Nuits Sonores is welcoming Burn for a one-off club night on the iconic rooftop of Le Sucre.
On the schedule: a stunning setting, unique visual installations combining lighting and graphic
arts, creative features and other surprises.
All in all, a dazzling experience !
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Samedi 7 May 2016 / 11pm-5am / Le Sucre
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Light it up ! – Sold-out
Mind Against
11:30am-12:30am : Mehmet Aslan (Huntleys &
Palmers / Berlin - Germany) Dj set
Mehmet Aslan started out with a residency at
Hinterhof in Basel (Switzerland) and is now
based in Berlin. He's a producer with Turkish
roots who has reappropriated his ancestors'
music through productions that blend folkloric
undertones with contemporary 4/4. Whether
its edits or remixes, his Turkish party anthems
have been quick to seduce Tim Sweeney
and Acid Arab, as well as the English label
Huntleys & Palmers, which signed his first
compositions.
12:30am-1:30am : Fatima Yamaha (Magnetron Music / Amsterdam - Netherlands) Live
Fatima Yamaha is the story of a release on
D1 Recordings, of a small number of records
pressed, and of a side-product quickly put on
the backburner. Yet the story picks up fully
eight years later, with the electronic scene
going mad for that long-forgotten song. For
many years, Fatima Yamaha was shrouded
in mystery, it ultimately turned out to be the
brainchild of producer Bas Bron, also known
under the pseudonyms Bastian, the Dutchman,
founder of the Magnetron label. In 2015, he
collaborated with Dekmantel on a reworking
of his hit "What's A Girl To Do?" Meanwhile,
his live shows unfailingly live up to expectations, offering refined house complemented by
virtuoso synths. A must see!
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1:30am-3:30am : David August (Diynamic
Music / Hamburg - Germany) Dj set
Although he has been honing his musicianship since the age of five, it was not until 15
years later in 2010 that David Nattkemper
burst onto the scene under the alias of David
August. A permanent fixture on the German
techno scene ever since, the young prodigy
has proved he has all it takes to be a true
great. Signed to the excellent Hamburg-based
Diynamic Music, the producer's signature
sound blends a solid groove with virtuoso
keyboard playing. At the still-tender age of 25,
David August would appear to have the world
at his feet.
3:30am-5:30am : Mind Against (Life and
Death / Berlin - Germany) Dj set
"Clearer light, darker darkness ... It is impossible to properly appreciate the light without
knowing darkness." If Jean-Paul Sartre had
been asked to describe the music of Italian
duo Mind Against, there is a good chance
that he would have ended up quoting himself.
The music produced by brothers Alessandro
and Federico Fognini – in keeping with the
other artists that have released material on
the excellent Life and Death label (including
Recondite and Stephan Bozin) – is somewhat
bipolar. Juxtaposing heavy kick and bass with
light synthetic arpeggios, Mind Against's hypnotic techno takes the listener on a gripping
journey to the heart of a cyclical sonic spectre,
from which nobody emerges quite the same.
Samedi 7 May 2016 / 11pm-5am / Le Sucre
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Special Concert Halle 1 - Mogwai
Mogwaï
Mogwai
Mogwai play Atomic (Rock Action Records / Glasgow - Scotland) Live
One of the most influential groups of the last 20 years, Glasgow four-piece Mogwai are a veritable post-rock phenomenon. Heavily influenced by Joy Division, The Cure, The Jesus and Mary
Chain and My Bloody Valentine, throughout their career the band have consistently bucked
rock scene conventions, interspersing EP releases (they have no less than 16 to their name),
with soundtracks for documentaries (2006's Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait) and TV series (Les
Revenants), in addition to a succession of remixes. With their progressive instrumental sound,
punctuated by explosions of noise, Mogwai's music evokes the fears and anguishes of contemporary society, immersing listeners in a dreamlike world set somewhere between death and the
yearning for an escape. Following Kraftwerk, who performed their album Radio-Activity in Hall
1 of the Ancien Marché de Gros in 2014, Mogwai will become the second Nuits Sonores artist to
perform music inspired by the atomic particle, when they take to the same stage this June.
On the occasion of their very own Special Concert at Nuits Sonores 2016, Mogwai will perform
their album Atomic in full. For this, their latest LP, the band have reworked a number of compositions originally recorded for Mark Cousin's documentary Atomic: Living Dead and Promise.
The latter was broadcast on BBC Four during the summer of 2015, as part of the commemorations for the 70th anniversary of the USA's nuclear attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.
The band's first release since they parted company with John Cummings in 2015, Atomic is
more than a simple album. It is a veritable audiovisual experience, a cinematographic kaleidoscope distilling images of atomic science that simultaneously illustrates the horrific nature
of those nuclear catastrophes and the beauty of our infinite universe and its relentless technological progress. Drifting through a hinterland between life and death, Atomic sees the Scots
formulating their most ambitious sonic landscape to date.
Stuart Braithwaite (member of Mogwai): "The Atomic soundtrack is one of the most intense and
fulfilling projects we've taken on as a band. Ever since we went to Hiroshima to play and visited
the peace park, this has been a subject very close to us. The end results, both the film score and
the record are pieces I'm extremely proud of."
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Sunday 8 May 2016 / Doors open at 7pm / The concert begins at 8:30pm
Ancien marché de gros / 29 euros unique rate
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Closing party : Ray-Ban x Nuits sonores
– Sold-out
Daniel Avery (Phantasy / London - England)
Dj set
A key driving force behind the English electronic scene since the turn of the decade, Daniel
Avery has cemented his place among the pantheon of great producers in double quick time.
Lauded by Andrew Weatherall, this former resident of London superclub Fabric has remixed
everyone from The Horrors, to Django Django
and Primal Scream. Avery has an acute sense
of musical synthesis: he reinterprets nineties
rave music, while subtly weaving in his own
modern sounds. Signed to Erol Alkan's label
Phantasy Sound, Avery blends acid house,
ambient and techno, endowed with the same
wholesome primal rock energy that characterised the very first techno compositions.
Dj Harvey (International Feel Recordings / Los
Angeles - USA) Dj set
DJ Harvey, born Harvey Bassett, is a true
London legend, of the sort that only that city
can produce. It was on his return from a trip to
New York in the 1980s that Harvey became DJ
Harvey, abandoning his drum kit and leaving
behind the punk game to try his hand with a
set of Technics, at first with hip-hop and graffiti and, in turn, electronica, house and garage.
At the start of the 1990s, he enjoyed his first
residencies at Moist and Ministry of Sound in
London. Since then, for over 25 years, he has
been making appearances at the most prestigious clubs around the world. Years of experiences and encounters go into every set that
the Black Cock Records founder plays, each
one a gem of sensual house music drawing its
energy from the rock of its creator's youth.
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Laurent Garnier (FCom / Lourmarin - France)
Dj set
This undisputed godfather of the French
techno scene, and globally renowned and
respected producer and DJ, has witnessed the
growth of Nuits sonores festival at first-hand.
A participant year after year, he has made a
telling contribution to its development, as well
as providing some of its greatest moments :
back-to back sets with other pioneers like Carl
Cox, or the new generation (MCDE); as a DJ
or live; night-long performances or afternoon
sets; even a child-friendly appearance for Mini
Sonore. Throughout the year, Arty Farty is
also involved in managing the artist, notably
coordinating his recent project of releasing
five records on five labels – which culminated
in the release of Home Box on FCom – and
maintaining his strong ties with Lyon via his
residency at Le Sucre, the venue he plays more
than any other.
Forever attentive to reinventions on the electronic scene, Laurent Garnier's artistic journey
is one that, above all else, bears the seal of
irreproachable integrity taking pride in his
unwavering support for emerging artists.
Two days after his NS Days as a curator,
Laurent's coming back for the Closing party at
Le Sucre, another opportunity for the artist to
make an unprecedented contribution to this
latest edition and, more generally, to continue
to stamp his mark on the history of the festival.
Sunday 8 May 2016 / 3h30pm-12am / Le Sucre
33 euros unique rate
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ABOUT
NUITS
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Institut français at
Nuits sonores 2016
The French Institute's mission is to spread
French culture around the world, promoting
artists, their ideas and works, the French
language and the creative cultural industries.
It coordinates professional communities,
while also encouraging artistic interaction and
cultural dialogue. A tool that bears significant
influence and encourages cooperation, as well
as a source of expertise and advice, it contributes to creating and spreading around the
world the image of a dynamic and innovative
France.
With a presence in 96 countries, it is the number one partner of the French cultural network
abroad (French Institutes abroad, Embassy
cultural services, French Alliances).
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Every year, the French Institute is involved in:
- Over 2000 international cultural projects
- 450 art projects carried out with local groups
- 650 translations of French authors around
the world
- 700 guest foreign creators and professionals
being welcomed to France
- 36,000 cinema screenings
- 135,000 subscribers to the Culturethèque
digital library
- Programmes and tools made available for the
900,000 French teachers around the world
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What you have to know about Nuits sonores 2016
Inauguration
La Sucrière 49-50 quai Rambaud, Lyon 2e
Wednesday 4 May 2016 / 19:30-23:00
Upon invitation: the first 100 buyers will be
invited to the Inauguration of the festival.
NS Days
La Sucrière 49-50 quai Rambaud, Lyon 2e
— NS Days Thursday 5 May 2016 • 3pm9:30pm
26 euros*, full price / 23 euros, reduced price
29 euros, desk price.
— NS Days Friday 6 May 2016 • 3pm-9:30pm
— NS Days Saturday 7 May 2016 • 3pm9:30pm
— Pass NS Days Access to NS Days Thursday,
Friday & Saturday / 58 euros, single price.
— Pass Nights & Days Access to NS Days
Thursday, Friday & Saturday and to Nuits 1, 3
& 4 140 euros, single price.
Mini sonore
(tbc)
86 Quai Perrache, Lyon 2e
From Thursday 5 to Saturday 7 May 2016
3:30pm-7:30pm
Free access for children from 4 to 12.
Registration will be under the responsability of
an adult, max 2 children per adult.
Sign up for your child from 14 March:
www.nuits-sonores.com/mini-sonore
Cool Korea! • Carte blanche à Séoul
(tbc)
86 Quai Perrache, Lyon 2e
From Thursday 5 to Saturday 7 May 2016
3:30pm-8:30pm
Free, within the limits of available places
Extra!
About 30 projects across the city.
Free
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Sunday Park • Venue tba
Sunday 8 May 2016 / 3pm-8:30pm
Free, within the limits of available places
The main Nights
Ancien Marché de gros
- Night 1 Wednesday 4 May 2016 / 9pm-5am:
38 euros* full rate / 32 euros* reduced rate / 41
euros at the door
- Night 3 Friday 6 May 2016 / 9pm-5am:
38 euros* full rate / 32 euros* reduced rate / 41
euros at the door
- Night 4 Saturday 7 May 2016 / 9pm-5am
: 38 euros* full rate / 32 euros* reduced rate /
41 euros at the door
- Pass 3 Nights Access to Nights 1,3 and 4 / 94
euros* single rate
- Pass Nights & Days Access to NS Days
Thursday, Friday and Saturday and to Nights
1,3 and 4 / 140 euros* single rate
Night 2 - Le Circuit
14 parties across the City's clubs and gig
venues
Thursday 5 May 2016 / 7pm-7am
5 euros per stage, tickets at the door.
NB: some events have pre-sales (plus booking
fee)
*Tickets rates do not include booking fees, reduced rates are available only in pre-sales, to
a limited number, at the festival's ticket office
from 12 April 2016.
To buy your tickets
— Internet sales :
www.nuits-sonores.com
— At the festival's ticketing, from 12 April
2016
— Our Digitick partner and www.digitick.com
— In the usual points of sales :
Magasins Fnac, Carrefour, Géant, U, Intermarché, www.fnac.com, and on your mobile
phone with La Billetterie by Fnac
www.ticketmaster.fr, Auchan, Cora, Cultura,
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Special events
Le Sucre 49-50 quai Rambaud, Lyon 2e
— The Absolut Company Creation présente OX Wednesday 4 May 2016 • 11pm-5am
9 euros*, full rate / 7 euros*, reduced rate
— Resident Advisor x Nuits sonores Thursday 5 May 2016 • 11pm-5am
— Burn presents Light it up ! Friday 6 May 2016 • 11pm-5am
*Tickets rates do not include booking fees, reduced rates are available only in pre-sales, to a
limited number, at the festival's ticket office from 12 April 2016.
To buy your tickets
— Internet sales : www.nuits-sonores.com
— At the festival's ticketing, from 12 April 2016
— Our Digitick partner and www.digitick.com
— In the usual points of sales : Magasins Fnac, Carrefour, Géant, U, Intermarché, www.fnac.
com, and on your mobile phone with La Billetterie by Fnac, www.ticketmaster.fr, Auchan,
Cora, Cultura, E.Leclerc
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Useful information
Terms of access
— The 3 main Nights (Night 1, Night 3, Night
4) of the Nuits sonores festival as well as
parties happening in Le Sucre are forbidden
to minors (under 18), even accompanied by
a legal guardian.
An identity check will be made at the
entrance of the main night venue.
— The 3 NS Days (NS Days Jeudi, NS Days
Vendredi, NS Days Samedi) of the Nuits
sonores festival are accessible to minors uif
accompanied by a responsible adult, designated by the legal guardian of the minor,
and upon presentation of discharge.
An identity check will be made at the
entrance of the main night venue.
For those under 18, concerning the access to
NS Days :
Please download, complete and return the
signed release on our website along with a
photocopy of the identity cards of:
- the legal guardian
- the responsible adult
- the minor concerned
to [email protected]
Nominal discharge for a maximum of 2
minors.
Pro pass Nuits sonores 2016
Access to Nights 1,3 & 4 and to NS Days
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, to Inauguration day and to the festival's pro bar
200euros, unique rate
Pro pass Nuits sonores x European Lab 2016
Nuits sonores: access to Nights 1,3 & 4 and to
NS Days Thursday, Friday and Saturday, to
Inauguration day and to the festival's pro bar
European Lab: access to all public conferences, prioritary access to pro modules, networking
250 euros, unique rate
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Pro pass Day Nuits sonores x European Lab
2016
details on www.nuits-sonores.com
80 euros, unique rate
Terms of access
— Do not buy this ticket from a stranger There
is no guarantee for validity. It could be a
photocopy or a counterfeit ticket! It is strictly
forbidden to re-sell a ticket at a price greater
than its face value.
— We recommend you arrive as soon as doors
open to avoid waiting in line.
—We advise you to purchase tickets in presale, as concerts can sell out.
— In the case of one or more artists at the
festival having to cancel due to ecxceptional
circumstances or Force majeure, tickets are
non- refundable.
— Alcohol consumption is forbidden to under
18s on all Nuits Sonores sites.
— Organisers can refuse entry to any person
whose behaviour is deemed dangerous to
themselves or to others, particularly if in a
state of inebriation.
— All main Nuits Sonores venues are accessible to people with handicaps. Please make
yourself known at the welcome point.
More info at [email protected]
Ticket exchange
A ticket exchange will be available on our
website for reselling and purchasing tickets in
a safe and legal setting:
nuits-sonores.zepass.com
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Useful information
Play it cool with TCL/Sytral !
— Travel as much as you want
with the TCL / Nuits sonores ticket,
for the unique price of 5,50 euros !
Tickets for sale from 2 May 2016, available in
every ticket machine of the network.
Do the return trip with TER Rhône-Alpes !
— From 4 to 8 May 2016,
with the TER illico Événements rate, have a 50%
discount* on your TER return
trip to go to Nuits sonores.
*On the normal rate, from every station in
Rhônes-Alpes to Lyon
Smartphone App Nuits sonores 2016
Soon available with Deezer & Greencopper
Merchandising Nuits sonores 2016
Buy yourself Nuits sonores 2016 on
store.nuits-sonores.com
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Soon available
Info, tickets and merchandising from
12 April 2016.
La Galerie des Terreaux
Place des Terreaux, Lyon 1er
Follow us on
Facebook : Nuits sonores
Twitter : @nuits_sonores
Instagram : @nuits_sonores
Hashtag : #nuitsso2016
For any information:
[email protected]
Infoline available from 12 April 2016
06 65 41 51 03
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Nuits sonores goes cashless !
A secured currency sur le festival.
In 2016, the festival launches his own money, secured, to give the festival-goers a better experience.
Everyone will be able to use the Nuits sonores cashless card to pay drinks, food, merchandising…in all the main sites of the festival. It will be charged 1 euro and will be still valid for the
next editions.
Save time and create easily your account on our website.
You will then be able to (re)charge credits at any time from the mobile app, the website or directly in our cashless points of the festival.
Follow the consuming details, secure the transactions, save time and enjoy Nuits sonores: the
festival makes your time here easier.
The cashless card isn't linked to your bank account. You won't be debited more than the amount
you've decided to credit. Every transaction will be done at your demand.
It's possible to get your credits repaid on simple demand from 9 to 15 May 2016,
only on www.nuits-sonores.com
The data couldn't be used for commercial matters or other use than a internal etude for the Arty
Farty association.
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Eating out at Nuits Sonores 2016
in association with Food Trucks Gourmets
Home-made. Reasonably-priced. Local, but
with an international flavour.
This is the pledge made by Nuits Sonores 2016
and partners Food Trucks Gourmets, who are
going to every length to put on a magnificent
spread of food for this year's festival-goers.
A dozen food trucks will be set up at all the
festivals main sites, including the Ancien
Marché de Gros, La Sucrière and the gardens
of the Musée des Confluences (subject to
confirmation). And the cherry on the cake?
Revelers will be able to pay for their food using
the festival's cashless system.
In addition to the Maison Pignol outlet, currently located in the gardens of the Musée des
Confluences, food from a selection of independent restaurants will also be available, in
association with Carte Blanche Seoul.
Tous les jours du festival
Plus d'infos sur www.nuits-sonores.com
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Programs to be revealed soon
Extra!
Nuits sonores invites whoever wants to, to submit his
or her event with Extra!. This
program aims at giving rhythm
and enhancing the festival
with fresh ideas. 30 projects
will be selected after the call
for project finishing on February 9th, and will be anounced
on April 6th 2016.
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Nuits sonores' partners
Great partners
Official partners
Institutional partners
Patron of Honour
Patrons
LY N
S
E
R
V
I
C
E
S
VISA
Sponsors
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Nuits sonores' partners
Club of partners
Media partners
Confluence 2016
Cool Korea partners • Carte blanche to Séoul
Cultural integration partners
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Arty Farty
Story and philosophy
Born in 1999 in Lyon, Arty Farty is a totally
European and independent non-profit organisation. We aim to develop and promote independent culture in music and the visual arts,
as well as all related disciplinary fields and
modern aesthetics including graphic design,
food and digital creation...
Here at Arty Farty, we pride ourselves on commitment and activism. We strive for a renewal
of generations and public strategies in the
cultural field, both locally and on a European scale. As such, we fight for the notion of
cultural entrepreneurship, the protection and
redistribution of public means for culture and a
strengthened emphasis on the vision of culture
in constructing tomorrow's cities.
Events and activities
In this regard, Arty Farty invents and produces
events, the main ones being Nuits Sonores
Lyon (since 2003), the European Lab forum
(since 2011) and Nuits Sonores Tangier (since
2013).
We also provide advice and artistic direction
for other organisations and cultural venues,
especially la Gaîté Lyrique in Paris (since
2008) and Le Sucre in Lyon (since 2013). We
also worked in service to several companies,
brands, agencies, cultural institutions and
communities.
Over 15 years, we have developed projects in
over thirty cities across the globe, mostly in
Europe. Arty Farty has broadened its horizons
artistic management for a number of emerging
artists, both French and international, and a
few well-established artists, such as Laurent
Garnier.
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Networks and ressources
Arty Farty is now part of a larger ecosystem
that began to develop in 2010. This includes Culture Next (Le Sucre’s management
company), A.K.A. (a booking agency created
in partnership with Alias) and Transmission
(Le Transbordeur'ss management company).
In 2015, Arty Farty is also working on the
creation of a creative hub bringing the ecosystem closer to the organisation in a physical
location, as well as an incubator for cultural
enter- prises and a space for co-working.
We are also involved in several european
networks, especially De Concert!, Yourope
and Culture Action Europe. We are in constant discussion with the European bodies,
especially for our expertise or as a european
projects holder, notably for 2014-2020 Europe
Creative.
Arty Farty is 83% self-financed. Our public
resources (17%) come from the European Union, the City of Lyon, the Rhône-Alpes Region
and the Ministry of Culture.
Today, we have 21 full-time employees and
900 members. Our assignments and projects
are carried out in collaboration with fifty
partners, sponsors and patrons, and over 100
cultural organisations (that are particularly
involved in the Nuits Sonores festival and the
European Lab forum) as well as some 500
suppliers and service providers.
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PRESS CONTACT
Guillaume Duchêne
[email protected]
+33 (0)4 78 27 59 27
Arty Farty Licences : 2-1024000 3-1024001
Graphic design : Studio Feixen
Crédit photos : Brice Robert, Nicolas Dartiailh, Kevin Buy, Anne Simonnot
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