NASHVILLE |DT: JUNE 19, 2012
FR: ALEXANDRA GREENBERG/MITCH SCHNEIDER
JOHN OCHOA/MSO
HARD SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL
ANNOUNCES
RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY DISCOTHEQUE STAGE
BOOTSY COLLINS & THE FUNK UNITY BAND,
JAMES MURPHY (DJ SET), CHROMEO (DJ SET),
CLAUDE VONSTROKE, BRODINSKI, JUSTIN MARTIN & MORE
WITH RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY ALUMNI
JOHN TALABOT, LUNICE, BRENMAR, AND STARSHIP CONNECTION
HARD Events, producers of the fifth annual HARD SUMMER—returning to downtown’s Los Angeles State Historic Park August 3-4, 2012, as a two-day music festival—have officially released a set of new posters with detailed lineups for the RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY DISCOTHEQUE tent, one of four stages at the 32-acre location.
Curated jointly by the Red Bull Music Academy and HARD Events, the massive tent’s eclectic Friday night (August 3) will host a live performance by funk legend Bootsy Collins and his 18-piece Funk Unity Band, as well as DJ sets by talkbox-toting Canadians Chromeo, France’s party machine Breakbot, Spanish rising star John Talabot, precision disco deities Oliver, Australia’s Light Year, erstwhile Vampire Weekend-er Baio and beat maestro Lunice.
Saturday, August 4, the Red Bull Music Academy Discotheque expands its appeal even further with DFA/LCD Soundsystem front man James Murphy unleashing his world-famous vinyl, playing rare disco, DFA‘s dance punk and everything in between. Taste-makers Dirtybird are heavily represented with Bay Area mainstays Claude VonStroke and Justin Martin, as well as Londoner Zombie Disco Squad and Belgium’s Kill Frenzy. Add in French wunderkind Brodinski, clubber of all clubs Brenmar and B. Bravo’s funktastic Starship Connection and fans may very well forget that headliners like Bloc Party, Skrillex, and Miike Snow are on the open air main stage.
The Red Bull Music Academy is a world-traveling series of workshops and festivals, a platform for those who make a true difference in today’s musical landscape. Every year, some of the finest purveyors of rhythm and sound from all over the world gather between the Academy‘s walls: from future folk to twisted techno, producers to vocalists to industry revolutionaries. Two groups of successful applicants, themselves representing a diverse range of music styles and methodologies, attend lectures by musical pioneers and work on their own tunes in custom-built studios. By night, they have the chance to perform in some of the host city’s most iconic clubs and concert halls. Academy graduates include artists as varied as Flying Lotus, Aloe Blacc, Hudson Mohawke, Jesse Boykins III, frequent Kanye West collaborator Mr Hudson, rising DJ diva Nina Kraviz and Le Butcherettes’ Teri Gender Bender, as well as Lunice, Brenmar and B. Bravo, who will all make appearances at HARD SUMMER this year.
The Red Bull Music Academy was founded in 1998 and is held in a different city each year. In 2012, the Academy’s 15th annual edition will take place in New York City from September 30 through November 2. For more information, please visit www.redbullmusicacademy.com.
Select recordings from all stages at HARD SUMMER will be available at www.rbmaradio.com, where fans may also discover archived recordings from previous HARD Events as well as a variety of exclusive Red Bull Music Academy mixes, interviews and live recordings from some of the world’s leading clubs and festivals.
Two-day passes for HARD SUMMER are available now at www.hardfest.com.
Stream Red Bull Music Academy‘s HARD Recordings:
http://redbullmusicacademyradio.com/global-network/cats/festivals/hard_fest/
Watch videos:
http://www.vimeo.com/redbullmusicacademy
The 2012 HARD SUMMER day-by-day line-up is as follows:
FRIDAY, AUGUST 3:
BLOC PARTY, BOYS NOIZE, MIIKE SNOW (Live), CHROMEO (DJ Set), LITTLE DRAGON, MAGNETIC MAN, EROL ALKAN, BOOTSY COLLINS & THE FUNK UNITY BAND, FAKE BLOOD, GESAFFELSTEIN (Live), BREAKBOT, BURAKA SOM SISTEMA, ARAABMUZIK, JOEY BELTRAM, CRAZE, ALEX METRIC, SURKIN, JOHN TALABOT (DJ Set), DANNY BROWN, ACTION BRONSON, RITON, OLIVER, JOKERS OF THE SCENE, LIGHT YEAR, NICK CATCHDUBS, JIM-E STACK, MR. MUTHAFUCKIN’ EXQUIRE, LUNICE, BAIO, SOUND PELLEGRINO THERMAL TEAM
SATURDAY, AUGUST 4:
SKRILLEX, NERO (Live), BLOODY BEETROOTS (DJ Set), SQUAREPUSHER, A-TRAK, JAMES MURPHY (DJ Set), DATSIK, 12TH PLANET, ZEDD, DILLON FRANCIS, BRODINSKI, CLAUDE VONSTROKE, BIRDY NAM NAM, JUSTIN MARTIN, GASLAMP KILLER, TROLLEY SNATCHA, DESTRUCTO, ALVIN RISK, ZOMBIE DISCO SQUAD, DJ ANTENTION, CODES, HUORATRON, KILL FRENZY, SMIMS & BELLE, JASON BENTLEY, BRENMAR, NICK THAYER, AMTRAC, THE STARSHIP CONNECTION
Tickets on sale now at:
www.hardfest.com
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MSO: 818-380-0400
Alexandra Greenberg x223, agreenberg@msopr.com
Mitch Schneider x235, mschneider@msopr.com
John Ochoa x231, jochoa@msopr.com
