Sonic City is a new festival in Kortrijk, Belgium. Inspired by festivals like ATP, this festival will be curated every year by another artist. For this first edition, Tim Vanhamel and Aldo Struyf from the band Millionaire were happy to make a very nice bill.
The festival will took place on october 20th & 21st 2007.
This was the line up for the first edition :
Saturday 20 october : Boredoms, Michael Gira, Shit & Shine, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Todd, Sylvester Anfang, I Love Sarah
Sunday 21 october : Deerhoof, Numbers, Dirty Projectors, Gomm, de Portables, Ignatz
In 2009, a new edition of the festival will take place and will be curated by Dälek. The Festival takes place on april 4th and 5th
These are the bands playing on this years edition :
on saturday 04/04
DÄLEK
US / experimentele hiphop / duister / intens
SCORN
UK / Mick Harris / massive bass / ex Painkiller
CHARLES HAYWARD (This Heat)
UK / cultlegend / one man band
SUBTITLE
US – F / avant hop / electronica & rap
CANDIE HANK
D / electronica / madness
ODATTEEE
US / old school hiphop & experiment
ZUCCHINI DRIVE
B / indietronica & avant hop / songs
DJ MARCUS HABLIZEL
on Sunday 05/04
EARTH
US / drones & country / dark and slow
ZU
IT / metal/math/no-wave/free/noise/punk/jazz
SMALL SILENCE (Mats Gustafsson, Terrie Ex, Massimo Pupillo, Paal Nilssen-Love)
NO – NL – IT / improvisatie / noise / rock / superband
GUAPO
UK / 60-ties / psychedelica / prog-rock / weird
ACTION BEAT
UK / noise big band / Sonic Youth tot Glenn Branca
UNIFORM
UK / dark ambient trio / apocalyps
2nd GEN
UK / industrial / techno / cyberpunk
DESTRUCTO SWARMBOTS
US / guitardrones / ambient rock
DJ MARCUS HABLIZEL
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