As soon as I saw the lineup for the Bang Face Weekender, I started researching flights to England. It’s that exciting! Alas, the dollar is weak and gas ain’t cheap, so it’s only wishful thinking for now. This happens every year with some music festival or another and the lineups just get more siiiiiick every year. Bang Face hails itself as “A Neo-Rave Explosion of Acid, Jungle, Rave Hardcore, Drum & Bass, Breakcore, Techno, Electronica and Abstract Dance” which only hints at the range of amazing talent presented each year. The 3 day festival takes place at the end of April at Camber Sands and features three different staging areas – the Rave/Jungle/Breakcore Room, The Electro/Bass/Techno Room and a round-the-clock chill-out room.

Rave / Jungle / Breakcore In ROOM 1

SQUAREPUSHER
ALTERN-8
PHIL HARTNOLL (Orbital DJ Set)
KID606
KROME & TIME
LUKE VIBERT
VENETIAN SNARES
RAGGA TWINS
THE FLASHBULB
BOGDAN RACZYNSKI
BONG-RA
THE PANACEA
CEEPHAX ACID CREW
AARON SPECTRE
KNIFEHANDCHOP
SHITMAT
THE DJ PRODUCER
REMARC
DJ SCOTCH EGG
VEXKIDDY
SAINT ACID

Electro / Bass / Techno In ROOM 2

MODEL 500 – JUAN ATKINS JOINED BY UR FOUNDER MAD MIKE BANKS FOR 1ST EVER UK LIVE SHOW
DOPPLEREFFEKT
MODESELEKTOR
DJ STINGRAY
KODE9
BEARDYMAN
JACKSON AND HIS COMPUTER BAND
DJ REPHLEX RECORDS
MALA (DIGITAL MYSTIKZ)
µ-ZIQ
PLAID
CASSETTE BOY
RICHARD DEVINE
DMX KREW
MIKE DRED
LONG RANGE
THE DOUBTFUL GUEST
KELPE
CYLOB
MAT CARTER
ABA SHANTI-I

ROOM 3 is a chill space with refreshments and things…

Damn! I knew I should have been building a TARDIS!
3 full nights under the influence of the foremost pioneers and heavy-weight champions of leftfield electronic music:
Squarepusher was bending possibilities with casios before IDM and breakcore had names, Venetian Snares, Shitmat and Bong-Ra each terrorized the mainstream masses with ear-splitting breakcore experiments, Knifehandchop and Kid 606 have redefined jungle music with their edgy mash-ups and hardcore bangers, Scotch Egg proved that an orchestra of gameboys can be just as respectable as any traditional ensemble, and Aaron Spectre is in a class of his own – alternating alter egos between brutal guitar riffs over spine-breaking blastbeats and jump-up jungle injected with toxic dancehall. Plus the founder of Planet Mu records, the boss man of Rephlex records, Hyperdub’s genre-defining leader Kode 9, members of Orbital, Digital Mystikz and more WARP artists than you can shake an electronic drum stick at!

The Weekender goes nonstop from Friday 25 April to Sunday 27 April in Camber Sands.

Bang Face Electronic Music Festival Links

Bang Face Weekender web is your portal to more info.
Videos from previous Bang Face festivals can be found on their youTube channel:
www.youtube.com/BANGFACETV

Squarepusher video by my fave video director Chris Cunningham: (sorry about the Mtv logo, I do really try to find videos without it…)

Knifehandchop ft. Bounty Killer (audio only):

Plaid – “Itsu”:

Kode 9 & SpaceapeAudio Addiction

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