15th Festival Internacional de Musica Avanzada y Arte Multimedia de Barcelona

What: 15th Festival Internacional de Musica Avanzada y Arte Multimedia de Barcelona
When: 19.20.21 June, 2008



The 15th incarnation of the world's best music festival has two main themes this year: "female factor" and "hybridism." So Goldfrapp, Roísín Murphy, MIA and Camille, and our recent favourite Chloe all get prominent place among all of the vagaries of boy's noise. Top of the boy's list then is X-102 discovers The Rings Of Saturn (Saturday 21 June, 03.15, Sonarclub) aka Mike Banks and Jeff Mills of Underground Resistance aka the founding fathers of Techno. Also catch Konono Nº1, Buraka Son Sistema and the really amazing Basquiat Strings.

Below Urban Junkies has picked a few of our favorite acts from the festival - although almost anything will do especially when you factor in sleep deprivation, endless sunshine and, to put it gently, Neuro-mechanical rearrangements.

Urban Junkies Mini-Guide to.... Sonar Times, Acts, Venue

Thursday 19.06.08
17.00 Pram [Sonarhall] beating XX Teens by a hair at 17.30 [Sonardrome]
20.30 Basquiat Strings [L'Auditori]
01.00 Leila [Sonarpark]

Friday 20.06.08
16.00 Konono Nº1 (Sonar Village)
19.40 Deepchord [Sonardrome]
00.30 Diplo [Sonarclub]
01.30 Flying Lotus [Sonarlab]
02.00 Justice [Sonarclub]
03.00 Buraka Son Sistema [Sonarlab] & a little bit of Theo Parrish to get you in mood for
05.00 Frankie Knuckles [Sonarpark] & maybe last song by Hercules and Love Affair "Blind" so
aim for 04.45

Saturday 21.06.08
17.00 Matmos [Sonarhall, live]
21.00 Camille [SonarPalau]
00.00 Chloe [Sonarlab, live]
01.30 MIA [Sonarpark, live]
02.30 Clark [Sonarclub, live]
03.00 DJ Mehdi (FR) vs A-Trak feat. Kid Sister (US) [Sonarpark]
03.15 X-102 discovers The Rings Of Saturn [Sonarclub]
04.00 Sebastian [Sonarpub]
05.00 Ricardo Villalobos [Sonarpub]