Bloc Weekend - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Now in its 5th year, Bloc is firmly established as a truly international music festival devoted to electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

of all genres including electro, hip hop

Hip hop

Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...

, IDM

Intelligent dance music

Intelligent dance music is a term that describes an electronic music genre that emerged in the early 1990s. The genre is influenced by a wide range of musical styles particularly electronic dance music such as Detroit Techno...

, techno

Techno

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...

, House music

House music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...

, reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

, drum and bass

Drum and bass

Drum and bass is a type of electronic music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy bass and sub-bass lines...

and dubstep

Dubstep

Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in south London, England. Its overall sound has been described as "tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals"....

, and incorporates both DJ sets and live shows. Bloc is described as having, 'a reputation for being one of the best festivals for underground electronic music in the UK, marrying high production values and a fairly unique site with exciting bookings both big and small'.

Headline acts

2011 Butlin's Holiday Resort, Minehead. Capacity: 6400.

Aphex Twin

Aphex Twin

Richard David James , best known under the pseudonym Aphex Twin, is an Irish-born electronic musician and composer described as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music"...

, Magnetic Man

Magnetic Man

Magnetic Man is an electronic music project consisting of dubstep producers and DJs, Benga, Skream and Artwork. The trio first met in the late 1990s at the Big Apple Records store in Croydon, England. They perform using three computers, one playing drum samples, one playing basses and the third...

, Laurent Garnier

Laurent Garnier

Laurent Garnier , is a French techno music producer and DJ. Garnier began DJ-ing in Manchester during the late 1980s. By the following decade, he had a broad stylistic range, able to span deep house, Detroit techno, trance and jazz...

, LFO, Moderat

Moderat

Moderat is an electronic music project that originated in Berlin, Germany. It started as a collaboration between Sascha Ring, also known as Apparat, and Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, also known as Modeselektor...

, Four Tet

Four Tet

Kieran Hebden is a post-rock and electronic musician. Hebden first came to prominence as a member of the band Fridge before establishing himself as a solo artist under the moniker of Four Tet....

, Vitalic

Vitalic

Vitalic is an electronic music artist. He was born in France and is of Spanish and Italian descent.-History:His first singles were released in 1996 and 1997, but were confined to the underground electronic music scene...

, Visionquest, Joy Orbison

Joy Orbison

Joy Orbison is a DJ and producer based in London. His style is generally accepted as a coalescence of dubstep, UK funky, UK garage, and house...

, Claude Von Stroke, Matthew Dear

Matthew Dear

Matthew Dear is an American music producer, DJ and electronic avant-pop artist.-History:Texas- born Dear moved to Michigan as a teenager, where he was inspired by the sound of Detroit Techno...

, Speedy J

Speedy J

Speedy J , is a Dutch electronic music producer based in the city of Rotterdam. His breakthrough came with the release in 1992 of the minimal techno track Pullover...

, Dopplereffekt

Dopplereffekt

Dopplereffekt is an electronic music act which has been active since at least 1995 . It is named after the German word for the Doppler effect...

, Beardyman

BeardyMan

Darren Foreman , better known as Beardyman, is a musician from London renowned for his beatboxing skills and use of live looping technology, and according to the BBC "King of Sound and Ruler of Beats".-Stage name and musical style:...

, Venetian Snares

Venetian Snares

Venetian Snares is the main performing alias of Canadian electronic musician Aaron Funk .From Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Funk is known for making electronic music often in odd numbered time signatures...

, Mala (Digital Mystikz

Digital Mystikz

Digital Mystikz are a dubstep production duo from the South London suburb of Norwood. Along with Loefah and Sgt. Pokes, they operate the DMZ record label and host the influential bimonthly nightclub DMZ, held at the Mass club complex in Brixton, London...

), Modeselektor

Modeselektor

Modeselektor is an electronic music band formed in Berlin, featuring Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary. The group draws heavily from IDM, glitch, Electro house and hip hop. In an interview the group said regarding their sound: "Happy metal, hard rap, country-ambient, Russian crunk. We don’t like...

, Drop The Lime

Drop the Lime

Drop the Lime, is an electronic producer and DJ and founder of dance label Trouble & Bass. Drop the Lime's new material and DJ sets also feature live vocals on original compositions....

, Toddla T

Toddla T

Toddla T is the stage name of Thomas Mackenzie Bell – a DJ, record producer, re-mixer and composer from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.- Biography :Toddla T, born 22 February 1985, was raised in Sheffield where he attended King Edward VII School...

, Jamie xx

Jamie xx

Jamie Smith is an English music producer and remix artist, who gained fame both as solo act and as a member of the London-based band The xx....

, Ben Klock, A Guy Called Gerald

A Guy Called Gerald

A Guy Called Gerald is the stage name for the musician, record producer and DJ Gerald Simpson ....

, Gentleman's Dub Club

Gentleman's Dub Club

Gentleman's Dub Club are a British Dub band, originating from Leeds, UK.-Live:Gentleman's Dub Club have toured extensively, supporting a number of established artists such as Roots Manuva, The Streets, The Wailers and Finlay Quaye...

, Black Devil Disco Club, King Midas Sound, Apparat

Apparat (musician)

Apparat is a German electronic musician living in Berlin and was previously a co-owner of Shitkatapult records. Starting out with dance floor-oriented techno, he later started to create ambient music and more recently became "more interested in designing sounds than beats".In 2004, he appeared at...

, L-Vis 1990, dOP, Pinch

Pinch (dubstep musician)

Rob Ellis, better known as Pinch, is a dubstep artist from Bristol, United Kingdom noted for his fusion of styles such as Reggae, World Music, and Dancehall with dubstep. He released his first album, Underwater Dancehall in 2007, on Tectonic records, which he founded...

, The Advent

The Advent

The Advent is a British electronic music act. It was originally founded in 1993 by Cisco Ferreira and Colin McBean. Soon after leaving school, Ferreira began working as an engineer at Jack Trax Records, a job which enabled him to glimpse first-hand the work of such artists as Derrick May and...

, Daedelus

Daedelus (musician)

Alfred Darlington is a music producer based in Los Angeles, California. Daedelus pioneered using the Monome in conjunction with Max/MSP for live performances. He is a part of the groups Adventure Time and The Long Lost...

, Shackleton, Soul Clap

Soul Clap

Soul Clap is the debut EP from underground Hip Hop duo Showbiz & A.G.. The album featured later Runaway Slave album cuts, "Party Groove", "Soul Clap" and "Catchin' Wreck", as well as the exclusive songs "Diggin' In The Crates" and "Giant In The Mental".-Track listing:...

, Jimmy Edgar

Jimmy Edgar

Jimmy Edgar is a Detroit-based electronic music artist, signed to K7 Records. Influenced mostly by Jazz, funk, street beat and r&b in these early years, he began his musical pursuit by playing the drums in experimental bands and by making tape recordings...

, Ramadanman, DJ Funk

DJ Funk

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, Loefah, DJ Pete, Rustie

Rustie

Rustie is a Scottish electronic musician from Glasgow.Rustie's first singles were released in 2007 and 2008, and the producer signed with Warp Records in 2010 for the release of a digital EP. In October 2011 he released his debut full-length on Warp....

, Floating Points, Ikonika

Ikonika

Ikonika is an electronic musician, producer and DJ often associated with Hyperdub Records and the Dubstep genre.Her debut 12", "Please/Simulacrum" was released in 2008 on Hyperdub Records. She has released music on Planet Mu, as well as a remix of DJ Mujava’s "Township Funk", released by Warp...

, Untold, Oscar Mulero, Iration Steppas, Kyle Hall, Ancient Methods, Redlight, Luke Abbott

Luke Abbott

Luke Abbott is an English electronic music producer from Norfolk, with releases on Output Recordings, Trash Aesthetics and James Holden's Border Community label.-Discography:...

, Boxcutter, Billy Nasty

Billy Nasty

Billy Nasty is a techno and electro DJ and artist. He is a Guinness World Record holder for the first commercially released DJ mix. Billy Nasty was originally a House music DJ....

, Silent Servant, SBTRKT

SBTRKT

SBTRKT is a musician/producer from London, United Kingdom. SBTRKT began his career as a DJ in the east London club "Plastic People". SBTRKT has remixed songs by artists such as MIA, Radiohead, Modeselektor, Basement Jaxx, Mark Ronson and Underworld, and has released singles, EPs, and a self-titled...

, Will Saul

Will Saul

Will Saul is a DJ, music producer and the man behind Simple Records and Aus Music.-Career:Will Saul started his first record label, Simple Records in 2003, after having worked at Sony International’s A&R department for two years...

, SDC, Addison Groove, Roska, Al Tourette’s, Mary Anne Hobbs

Mary Anne Hobbs

Mary Anne Hobbs is an English DJ and music journalist from Garstang, Lancashire. She launched a new Primetime show on Xfm on 9 July 2011-Early career:...

, Alva Noto

Alva Noto

Alva Noto is a stage name of sound artist Carsten Nicolai who uses art and music as complementary tools to create microscopic views of creative processes. Another alias he uses is Noto...

, Global Goon

Global Goon

Global Goons Jonathan Hawk is a former programmer from Lydiate who earned a recording contract with Rephlex Records before moving to London and being Richard D. James' 's housemate. He had been making electronic music using SoundEdit 16 while supporting himself with various programming jobs...

, Legowelt

Legowelt

Legowelt is a Dutch electronic musician who describes his musical style as "a hybrid form of slam jack combined with deep Chicago house, romantic ghetto technofunk and EuroHorror Soundtrack."...

, TLR, Kenny Ken, Orgue Electronique, Mark II (Altern-8), Placid, AGT Rave Cru, Gemmy, Guido, B12

B12 (band)

B12 are a British electronic music duo consisting of Mike Golding and Steve Rutter. First appearing in the early 1990s under a variety of monikers, including Musicology, Redcell and Cmetric, the duo were often mistaken as hailing from Detroit, their sound being comparable to the so-called second...

, Union, Posthuman, Siriusmo, DMX Krew

DMX Krew

DMX Krew is the recording name of Ed Upton. He has released 6 full albums on Aphex Twin's label Rephlex Records and numerous singles/EPs for both Rephlex and his own Breakin' Records. DMX Krew's sound spans several electronic music genres but had mostly been rooted in early electro-pop/breakdance...

2010 Butlin's Holiday Resort, Minehead. Capacity: 6400.

Salt N Pepa, Mixmaster Mike, Grandmaster Flash

Grandmaster Flash

Joseph Saddler better known as King Grandmaster Flash, is an American hip hop musician and DJ; one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing....

, Adam Beyer

Adam Beyer

Adam Beyer is a Swedish techno producer and DJ. He is the founder of Drumcode Records, Truesoul Records, Code Red and Mad Eye Recordings...

, Roots Manuva

Roots Manuva

Rodney Hylton Smith , better known by his stage name Roots Manuva, is a British rapper from Stockwell, South London. He is currently signed to Big Dada.-Biography:...

, Model 500

Juan Atkins

Juan Atkins is an American musician. He is widely credited as the originator of techno music, specifically Detroit techno along with Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson...

, Derrick May (musician), Antipop Consortium

Antipop Consortium

Antipop Consortium are an American alternative hip hop group. The group formed in 1997, when Beans, High Priest, M. Sayyid and producer Earl Blaize met at a poetry slam in New York City...

, Flying Lotus

Flying Lotus

Flying Lotus, is an experimental multi-genre music producer from Winnetka, California. His debut album, 1983, was released on Plug Research Records in 2006...

, Joy Orbison

Joy Orbison

Joy Orbison is a DJ and producer based in London. His style is generally accepted as a coalescence of dubstep, UK funky, UK garage, and house...

, Ellen Allien

Ellen Allien

Ellen Allien, born Ellen Fraatz , is a German electronic musician, music producer and founder of BPitch Control music label. She lives in Berlin, Germany. She sings in both German and English. She has said that one of the main inspirations for her music is the culture of reunified Berlin; her...

, Joris Voorn

Joris Voorn

Joris Voorn is a Dutch DJ who currently resides in Amsterdam. Amongst being a renowned DJ, Joris is a graduate in architecture. Joris is the co-owner of the Amsterdam based labels Rejected & Green...

, Omar-S, DJ Rush, Lindstrom, Lee Curtiss, Surgeon

Surgeon (musician)

Surgeon is the pseudonym of Anthony Child, an English electronic musician and DJ. Child releases music on his own labels Counterbalance and Dynamic Tension. Established imprints, such as Tresor, Soma, and Harthouse, have also released Surgeon's original material and remixes...

A/V, Nathan Fake

Nathan Fake

Nathan Fake is an English electronic music artist from Norfolk, who has released numerous singles as well as two album releases on the label Border Community Recordings. His music has been used in soundtracks for TV shows and an advertisement....

, Alden Tyrell, dBridge

DBridge

dBridge is a drum and bass producer whose career has stretched from the early days of the genres conception back in the early 1990s. His real name is Darren White.dBridge was one member of the iconic super-group Bad Company during the late 90s and early 00s...

, Instra:mental, Breakage

Breakage (musician)

Breakage , is a London, UK drum and bass/dubstep producer and DJ. He is currently signed to the Digital Soundboy label.-Albums:-EPs:* Back Off * The Break Age * Hinds Sight...

, Subhead, Channel One Sound System, Ms. Dynamite

Ms. Dynamite

Niomi Arleen McLean-Daley , who performs as Ms. Dynamite, is a double BRIT Award and three time MOBO Awards winning UK garage, R&B and hip hop singer and rapper.-Biography:...

, Wiley

Wiley (rapper)

Richard Kylea Cowie , better known by his stage name Wiley is a prolific British music producer, MC and recording artist, and rapper with roots from Trinidad...

, Boy Better Know

Boy Better Know

-History:The band and label were established by Jamie Adenuga "Boy Better Know" is a registered trademark, clothing line and Boy Better Know sim cards....

, DJ Zinc

DJ Zinc

Benjamin Pettit, better known by his stage name DJ Zinc, is a drum and bass / breakstep DJ from the United Kingdom. Zinc is well known for 1995's "Super Sharp Shooter", a hip hop / jungle fusion.-Biography:...

, Geeneus, Marcus Nasty, Youngsta, DJ Chef

DJ Chef

DJ Chef is an international DJ from South London. He's been playing records from the age of 11. Known primarily for his involvement in the dubstep scene and being a part of it since its inception, he was featured prominently in a 2008 documentary for BBC Radio 1 by Mary Anne Hobbs called Generation...

, Katy B

Katy B

Kathleen "Katie" Brien, better known as Katy B, is an English singer-songwriter and a graduate of the BRIT School. She is a dubstep, R&B, funky, house and UK garage singer and has also performed under the name Baby Katy. She was born in Peckham, South London...

, Roska, Autechre

Autechre

Autechre are an English electronic music duo consisting of Rob Brown and Sean Booth, both natives of Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1987, they are one of the most prominent acts signed to Warp Records, a label known for its pioneering electronic music and through which all Autechre albums...

, Mark Emestus (Rhythm & Sound) feat. Tikiman, Marcel Dettmann, Noyeahno, Shed

Shed (musician)

Rene Pawlowitz, moniker Shed, is a Berlin-based techno DJ and producer. His debut album Shedding the Past was named the album of the year byResident Advisor—an online magazine with a focus on electronic music.-External links:*...

, Joker

Joker (musician)

Joker is a UK-based musical artist who creates music in genres such as dubstep and grime. He was named "2009 king of bass music" by XLR8R Magazine and was featured in the September 2009 issue of The Wire magazine. He has contributed to two releases produced by the London-based record company Hyperdub...

, Kode 9 b2b Martyn, Pinch

Pinch (dubstep musician)

, Distance, T++, Mungo's Hi Fi

Mungo's Hi Fi

Mungo's Hi Fi is a sound system based in Glasgow, Scotland, which follows the original Jamaican Sound System tradition. They write, record, produce and perform their own brand of reggae and dub music working in collaboration with other artists and producers such as Ranking Joe and Earl Sixteen.They...

, DJ Hype

DJ Hype

DJ Hype is a stage name of drum and bass producer and DJ, Kevin Ford. His 1993 track, "Shot in the Dark", appeared in the UK Singles Chart in 1993.-Biography:...

, MJ Cole, Raffertie

Raffertie

Benjamin Stefanski , better known by his stage name Raffertie is a composer and producer based in London, UK. He is currently signed to Ninja Tune and also runs the record label.-Career:...

, Kanji Kinetic, Reso, AGT Rave Cru, Marco Bernardi

2009 Butlin's Holiday Resort, Minehead. Capacity: 6400.

Aphex Twin

Aphex Twin

, The Future Sound of London

The Future Sound of London

The Future Sound of London is a prolific British electronic music band composed of Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans. The duo are often credited with pushing the boundaries of electronic music experimentation and of pioneering a new era of dance music...

, Jamie Lidell

Jamie Lidell

Jamie Lidell is an English musician and soul singer living in Nashville, United States...

, Carl Craig

Carl Craig

Carl Craig is a Detroit-based producer of techno music, and is considered to be one of the most important names in the Detroit second generation of techno producers and DJs...

, Green Velvet, Afrika Bambaataa

Afrika Bambaataa

Afrika Bambaataa is an American DJ from the South Bronx, New York who was instrumental in the early development of hip hop throughout the 1980s. Afrika Bambaataa is one of the three originators of break-beat deejaying, and is respectfully known as the "Grandfather" and the Amen Ra of Universal...

, DJ Qbert, Skream

Skream

Skream is a dubstep producer based in Croydon. One of dubstep's first and most prominent producers, he has played an important role in the genre's development. His debut album Skream! was released in 2006, and was followed up by Outside the Box in 2010...

, Benga (musician), Metro Area

Metro Area

Metro Area is a Brooklyn-based dance music production team composed of Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani.- History :Geist grew up in Wayne, New Jersey, while Jesrani is from upstate New York...

, Busy P, Egyptian Lover

Egyptian Lover

Greg Broussard , better known by his stage name Egyptian Lover is an American musician, vocalist, producer and DJ, and was an important part of the L.A. dance music and rap scene in the early 1980s....

, Daniel Bell

Daniel Bell (musician)

Daniel Bell is an American minimal techno DJ. He was born in Sacramento, California, but grew up outside of Toronto, Canada, and later moved to Detroit where he collaborated with Richie Hawtin as Cybersonik for three years on Plus 8 records...

, I-F

I-F

I-f is the stage name of Ferenc E. van der Sluijs, a Dutch producer and DJ based in The Hague. He is a former member of the Dutch electro-pioneers Unit Moebius....

, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Scientist

Scientist (musician)

Scientist, born Hopeton Brown in Kingston, Jamaica, 1960 , was a protégé of King Tubby , one of the originators of dub music.-Biography:...

, Coki, Tipper

Tipper

Tipper is a British composer and producer specializing in electronic music that ranges from Ambient, through Trip Hop, to uptempo Nuskool Breakbeat...

, Rusko

Rusko (musician)

Christopher Mercer, more commonly known as Rusko, is an English dubstep record producer and DJ who was born on 26 January 1985 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.-History:Rusko graduated from Leeds College of Music with a degree in Music Performance...

, Mad Professor

Mad Professor

Mad Professor is a dub music producer and engineer known for his original productions and remix work. He is considered one of the leading producers of dub music’s second generation and was instrumental in transitioning dub into the digital age. He is a prolific producer, contributing to or...

, Zion Train

Zion Train

Zion Train are a British dub reggae ensemble . Initially formed in Oxford as a sound system in 1988 by Neil Perch and Ben Hamilton, Colin Cod and Dave Tench joined in 1990 upon relocation to London. The line-up was added to with vocalist Molara in 1992...

, Plastician, Modeselektor

Modeselektor

, Beardyman

BeardyMan

, Pinch

Pinch (dubstep musician)

, Joker

Joker (musician)

, MC SGT Pokes, Robert Hood

Robert Hood

Robert Hood is an American electronic music producer and DJ. He is a founding member of group Underground Resistance as a 'Minister Of Information' with Mad Mike Banks & Jeff Mills. He is often considered to be one of the founders of minimal techno....

, Frequency 7 feat. Ben Sims & Surgeon

Surgeon (musician)

, Redshape, Martyn, Hudson Mohawke

Hudson Mohawke

Hudson Mohawke, also known as Hudson Mo or HudMo, is an electronic music producer/DJ from Glasgow, Scotland, affiliated with the LuckyMe collective. He is signed to Warp Records and released his debut album on Warp, called Butter in October 2009...

, Ulrich Schnauss

Ulrich Schnauss

-Biography:Ulrich Schnauss was born in the northern German seaport of Kiel in 1977. He became interested in a range of music: My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Tangerine Dream, Chapterhouse, and early bleep & breakbeat tracks...

, Ed Chamberlain, Rob Hall, Alexander Robotnick

Alexander Robotnick

Alexander Robotnick is an Italian electronic musician. He made his debut on the Italian music scene as the founding member of Avida, a dance-cabaret band featuring Daniele Trambusti and Stefano Fuochi....

, Rob da Bank

Rob da Bank

Robert John Gorham, known by the pseudonym Rob da Bank, is a British disc jockey. He presents a Friday-night/Saturday-morning show, Rob da Bank, on BBC Radio 1 from 5am-7am, focused on promoting new left field music...

, Russell Haswell

Russell Haswell

Russell Haswell is a multidisciplinary artist.He has exhibited conceptual and wall based visual works, video art, public sculpture, as well as audio presentations in both art gallery and concert hall contexts. Extreme Computer Music is one specialized area of activity...

, Andy Blake, Emptyset, AGT Rave Cru, Altern-8

Altern-8

Altern-8 is a British rave duo, featuring Mark Archer and Chris Peat. Best known in the early 1990s, their trademark was loud electronic tracks with a heavy bass line. On stage, Altern-8's members wore facemasks and chemical warfare suits...

, 4Hero, 2 Bad Mice

2 Bad Mice

2 Bad Mice formed in England in 1991, and was composed of Sean O'Keeffe, Simon Colebrooke, and Rob Playford, the latter the owner of the Moving Shadow record label. 2 Bad Mice were credited as among the first UK hardcore acts to begin incorporating breakbeats into their style...

2008 Pontin's

Pontin's

Pontins is a British holiday business which was originally founded in 1946 by Fred Pontin. It specialises in offering half-board and self-catering holidays with regular entertainment on offer. Accommodation is usually in the form of chalets. The company once grew to be a major operator of...

Holiday Camp, Hemsby. Capacity: 2200.

Karl Bartos

Karl Bartos

Karl Bartos was, between 1975 and 1990, along with Wolfgang Flür, an electronic percussionist in the electronic-music group Kraftwerk. He was originally recruited to play on its US "Autobahn" tour...

, Red Snapper (band)

Red Snapper (band)

Red Snapper are a British instrumental band founded in London in 1993 by Ali Friend , Richard Thair , and David Ayers . The three core members are also joined by various guest musicians and vocalists on different records...

, Amon Tobin

Amon Tobin

Amon Adonai Santos de Araújo Tobin , known as Amon Tobin, is a Brazilian musician, composer and producer of electronic music. He is described as a virtuoso sound designer and is considered to be one of the most influential electronic music artists in the world...

, Underground Resistance (band), Kode 9, Skream

Skream

, Dave Clarke, Joey Beltram

Joey Beltram

Joey Beltram is an American DJ and record producer, best-known for the pioneering recordings "Energy Flash" and "Mentasm"....

, Juan Atkins

Juan Atkins

Juan Atkins is an American musician. He is widely credited as the originator of techno music, specifically Detroit techno along with Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson...

, Ben Sims, Phuture 303, A Guy Called Gerald

A Guy Called Gerald

A Guy Called Gerald is the stage name for the musician, record producer and DJ Gerald Simpson ....

, Monolake

Monolake

Monolake is an electronic music act based in Berlin. Originally consisting of members Gerhard Behles and Robert Henke, Monolake is now perpetuated by Henke while Behles focuses on running music software company Ableton, which they founded in 1999 together with Bernd Roggendorf...

, Appleblim, Shackleton (musician), Peverelist, Jackmaster, Rustie

Rustie

, Sleeparchive, Cristian Vogel

Cristian Vogel

Cristian Vogel is an experimental electronic musician.-Biography:Cristian Vogel was born in Chile and moved to England in the mid 1970s. Vogel first began working with electronic compositions in the late 1980s with the Cabbage Head Collective...

, Convextion, Dynamix II

Dynamix II

Dynamix II was an American electro group, founded 1986 in West Palm Beach, Florida. The latter day members of the group were David Noller and Scott Weiser, although the original team was Noller and Lon "Ace in the Place" Alonzo...

, Radioactive Man Keith Tenniswood

Keith Tenniswood

Keith Tenniswood is a British DJ, producer, and remixer.Tenniswood is better known as one half of the electronic act Two Lone Swordsmen alongside Andrew Weatherall....

, Legowelt

Legowelt

Legowelt is a Dutch electronic musician who describes his musical style as "a hybrid form of slam jack combined with deep Chicago house, romantic ghetto technofunk and EuroHorror Soundtrack."...

, Mr Velcro Fastener

Mr Velcro Fastener

Mr Velcro Fastener is a Finnish electro music duo of Tatu Metsätähti and Tatu Peltonen , originating from Turku. They had first met at school, and started creating music together in early 1990s...

, Detroit Grand Pubahs

Detroit Grand Pubahs

The Detroit Grand Pubahs are an American musical group from Detroit, Michigan, comprising Paris the Black Fu and The Mysterious Mr O. . One of the founding members, Dr. Toefinger , left in 2004...

, Black Dog Productions

Black Dog Productions

The Black Dog was founded by Ken Downie along with Ed Handley and Andy Turner. Widely regarded as legends, the group are pioneers who, along with acts like Autechre, Aphex Twin, µ-ziq and LFO, came to define the techno movement known as intelligent dance music in the early 1990s.-Early career:In...

, Bitstream, Christ., Boxcutter

Boxcutter (musician)

Boxcutter is the pseudonym for Barry Lynn , an electronic musician from Northern Ireland whose work, due to its bass-led and rhythmically 2-step nature, is often categorised as dubstep, although in style and idiosyncrasies has more in common with IDM artists such as Squarepusher and µ-Ziq.-...

, Komonazmuk, Lory D, AGT Rave Cru, Luke Vibert

Luke Vibert

Luke Vibert is a British recording artist and producer known for his work in many subgenres of electronic music. Vibert began his musical career as a member of the Hate Brothers, only later branching out into his own compositions...

, DMX Krew

DMX Krew

, Rephlex Records

Rephlex Records

Rephlex Records is a record label started in 1991 by electronic musician Richard D. James and Grant Wilson-Claridge. Rephlex coined the term braindance to describe the otherwise uncategorisable output of Aphex Twin and Rephlex Records...

, Stakka and Skynet

2007 Pontin's

Pontin's

Holiday Camp, Hemsby. Capacity: 2200.

Autechre

Autechre

, Kool Keith

Kool Keith

Keith Matthew Thornton, better known by his stage name Kool Keith, is an American rapper from The Bronx, New York. A founding member of Ultramagnetic MCs, Kool Keith has recorded prolifically both as a solo artist and in group collaborations. Kool Keith is the self-proclaimed inventor of...

, Newcleus

Newcleus

Newcleus is an American electro and old school hip hop group that gained popularity in the early 1980s. They are primarily known for their 12-inch singles "Jam-On's Revenge", re-released as "Jam on Revenge " , and "Jam on It" ....

, Two Lone Swordsmen

Two Lone Swordsmen

The Two Lone Swordsmen are British house DJ and producer Andrew Weatherall and studio engineer Keith Tenniswood. Formed in early 1996, following the dissolution of Weatherall's influential Sabres of Paradise techno act, the Swordsmen have explored a variety of styles, from electro and 4/4 techno to...

, Clark, TTC (band)

TTC (band)

TTC is a four member hip hop and electronic band from Paris, France. It is composed of MCs Tido Berman, Teki Latex and Cuizinier plus DJ Orgasmic. They were signed to Big Dada for their first LP Ceci N'est Pas Un Disque, the title of which referred to René Magritte's painting La trahison des...

, Mary Anne Hobbs

Mary Anne Hobbs

Mary Anne Hobbs is an English DJ and music journalist from Garstang, Lancashire. She launched a new Primetime show on Xfm on 9 July 2011-Early career:...

, MRK1

MRK1

Mark Foster, known as MRK1 , is a dubstep and grime producer from Manchester, England, originally a drum n bass artist. He is known especially for his work with the Virus Syndicate, including MCs Goldfinger and Nika D, which he produces and provides instrumental tracks for, and his fusion of both...

and the Virus Syndicate

Virus Syndicate

Virus Syndicate are a British grime collective from Manchester, centered around DJ Mark One and the MCs Goldfinger, JSD and Nika D. They often supply the vocal accompaniment on Mark One's solo recordings, specifically on his debut LP, One Way...

, Vex'd

Vex'd

Vex'd are a British Dubstep duo signed to Planet Mu Records consisting of Jamie Teasdale and Roly Porter. As of 2010 they have released 2 full albums, as well as several EPs and singles.-Singles:* "Function" * "Lion/Ghost"...

, Plastician, Technical Itch, Noisia

Noisia

Noisia, stylized as NOISIΛ , is a Dutch Electronic music trio consisting of members Nik Roos, Martijn van Sonderen and Thijs de Vlieger from Groningen, The Netherlands. They now produce a wide variety of music including drum and bass, dubstep, breakbeat and house music...

, Mu-ziq, Iration Steppas, Loefah, Luke Slater

Luke Slater

Luke Slater is an English electronic musician, DJ and record producer, who has concentrated on techno since the beginning of the 1990s....

, The Advent

The Advent

, Surgeon

Surgeon (musician)

, CJ Bolland, Alex Smoke

Alex Smoke

Alex Smoke is a Scottish music producer and DJ, from Glasgow based in London, making techno, electronic and classical music. He has released three studio albums, Incommunicado and Paradolia , on Soma Records , and "Lux" on his own label Hum+Haw [www.humandhaw.com]-Singles:*Random As *Chica Wappa...

, Neil Landstrumm, Universal Indicator (collective), Billy Nasty

Billy Nasty

Billy Nasty is a techno and electro DJ and artist. He is a Guinness World Record holder for the first commercially released DJ mix. Billy Nasty was originally a House music DJ....

, Marco Passarani, Rhythm and Sound, Aux 88

AUX 88

AUX 88 is an electro group from Michigan, USA. AUX 88 is composed of Tom Tom and Keith Tucker The group was originally formed as "RX-7" in 1985. The group also formed another project known as Sight Beyond Sight, before forming AUX 88 in 1993. In 1995, Tucker went solo and Hamilton continued as...

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