Rewire Festival

This contemporary arts and music festival aims to rewire your old expectations about art and how it should be presented by plugging into unconventional venues – think an old warehouse or parking garage – with an exciting mix of experimental rock and electronica that has plenty of potential to spark your interest.

 

JULIA HOLTER
soundcloud.com/juliaholter

 

This singer/multi-instrumentalist has a gift for translating cerebral source material into music that’s not only conceptually interesting but also beautiful, eccentric and emotionally evocative.

 

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HOLLY HERNDON
soundcloud.com/hollyherndon

This laptop composer manipulates her voice with the precision of an ice sculptor, carving it into myriad forms before carefully arranging it amidst chilly electronic soundscapes.

 

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BATHS
soundcloud.com/baths

On this American producer/singer-songwriter’s new album, his sweetly quavering vocals and palatable glitch-pop sugarcoat some fairly perverted and bleak sentiments.

 

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ICEAGE
warmsoda.bandcamp.com/

 

These young Danes serve up a refreshing mix of goth, hardcore and post-punk, undeniable energy and near-religious fervor that has led many to label them the saviours of punk rock.

 

//www.youtube.com/embed/wtIbGik0Sys

 
 

CLOUD BOAT
soundcloud.com/cloud-boat

This London duo’s majestic and vocals-centred take on post-dupstep would sit comfortably next to James Blake or Vondelpark on a mixtape.

 

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STELLAR OM SOURCE
soundcloud.com/omsource

 

After a three-year hiatus, this Antwerp-based retro-futurist producer has returned with Joy One Mile, one of this year’s most interesting techno records.

 

 
 

LUCRECIA DALT
soundcloud.com/lucreciadalt

A geotechnical engineer by day, by night this Colombia-born experimental pop artist uses bass guitar and drum machine to construct surrealist sonic landscapes.

 

//www.youtube.com/embed/g6uocemOBVc

 
 

JAMES FERRARO
soundcloud.com/b-e-b-e-t-u-n-e

On his new album, NYC, Hell, 3:00 AM, this highly conceptual American producer adds his own vocals to his usual hypnagogic pop palette.

 

 

Rewire Festival takes place at various locations in The Hague on 8 and 9 November. For more information visit, RewireFestival.nl.