From iconic party pioneers to naughty disco and experimental electronica – Denmark’s Roskilde Festival adds five electronic artists to this summer’s line-up in the form of Chromeo, Forest Swords, James Holden, Kavinsky and Moderat.
Roskilde Festival continues to announce new music for this year’s line-up.
Now five artists are added to the electronic part of the line-up providing both uninhibited party feeling and innovative experimental electronica.
CHROMEO (CA) delivers naughty pop disco – the Canadian duo seem to live and breathe 80s culture. Their music sounds fresh and crisp and is delivered with full knowledge of one pure and beautiful ambition: to make the audience dance the night way and make 2014 unforgettable.
FOREST SWORDS (UK) is a kind of vocal-less mixture of dubstep, R&B, ambient and post-rock. Laptop wizard Matthew Barnes creates all sounds on his computer, and in concert his electronic sessions receive extra organic power from a live bass player.
JAMES HOLDEN (UK) sabotages any attempt to find a tidy genre box for him. Cosmic krautrock, pagan mysticism and primitive free jazz blur into techno, trance and electronica in this rave party for the brain.
KAVINSKY (F) has been buzzing in the underground for a while until a broad audience finally caught up with his French-Italian sound. His startling shows draw the listener into a time machine, where the robots are copulating in a cloud of high octane disco and deeply synthetic Commodore 64 rock.
MODERAT (D) is the electronic supergroup merged from Modeselektor’s bass music and the electronica of Apparat – both giants on the Berlin club scene. Moderat recently released the gorgeous album II, heralded as one of the best electronic albums of 2013.
Many more artists are announced as soon as possible.
Approximately 160 acts are expected to play at Roskilde Festival in 2014.
The line-up currently includes Damon Albarn, Arctic Monkeys, Earl Sweatshirt, Haim, Interpol, Major Lazer, MØ, Pusha T, Rob Zombie and Trentemøller.
Roskilde Festival 2014 takes place from 29 June to 6 July 2014 in Denmark.
A ticket costs 1910 DKK incl. fee (approx. EUR 256).
Roskilde Festival in Denmark is created by dedicated volunteers and is 100 % non-profit. All profits are donated to cultural and humanitarian purposes by the Roskilde Festival Charity Society.
