Electronic Beats Festival Budapest 2011

Apparat is a German electronic musician (Sascha Ring) living in Berlin, Germany who since 1999 has been running the Berlin based record label “Shitkatapult” together with T.Raumschmiere. Starting out with dance floor-oriented techno, he later started to create ambient music and recently became ”more interested in designing sounds than beats”. Recent music is closer to glitch, clicks and cuts or idm, accompanied with classical string instruments and other sounds. He works with his own tool created in MAX/MSP framework.

Formed in Amadora, Lisbon, Portugal, in 2006, Buraka Som Sistema brings us a new kind of “kuduro” (Angolan dance). It mixes techno/electronic sounds with the traditional beat of Kuduro (or Kuduru), resulting in progressive kuduro.

The project is born out of the need to re-connect with urban music deepest realities. Musical genres like Kuduro or carioca funk are given a new lease and some dance-floor grease.

FM Belfast is an electronic band from Reykjavík, Iceland. The band formed in late 2005 as a duo with Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson (Plúseinn) and Lóa Hlín Hjálmtýsdóttir. The band was a studio project for some time until the Iceland Airwaves festival 2006 when the band expanded into a full on live act. The members now vary from three to eight depending on who can make it.

Noisy foursome from Reading, England. Blistering synths and clattering drums meet rave horns and rock riffs.