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Signal Festival 2017
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August 17-20, 20:00
Nikola-Lenivets Park 
The mutual attraction of two aesthetic systems - music and architecture - has resulted in a creative impulse, a signal that inspired a team of enthusiasts to organize a large-scale international festival.Dozens of worldwide renowned electronic artists and musicians have confirmed their participation in Signal 2017. However, the lineup will be revealed stepwise. Live performances, DJ sets and concerts by numerous artists from the USA, Germany, Sweden, Great Britain, France, Romania, and Russia are announced to take place on four main stages of the festival and within the frameworks of Signal sub-events.
Veronica Vasicka is a musician and DJ who has revived the layer of minimal dance music from the 70s and 80s, making it an actual genre, and turning its accompanying elements into the new club aesthetics. Matias Aguayo, the Cologne-based and Chile-born boss of the Cómeme label, made radical adjustments to the alignment of forces on the German electronic scene. Ryan Elliott, a former financial analyst at Ford Motors, is now a world-renowned techno-DJ and resident of the infamous Berghain club. The founder of L.I.E.S. Records Ron Morelli requires no extra introduction. The DJ-diva Maayan Nidam is as much in demand under her real name as under her star pseudonym Miss Fitz. The program also features notable European artists Thomas Melchior, Tobias Linden and Cabanne, as well as Herodot, one of the founders of the Romanian label Unanim.
Signal’s live performances include: a big concert by “the German Soul Clap" Wareika, Swedish techno producer Peder Mannerfelt, widely known as The Subliminal Kid and the author of the “Request Line” track, which became Signal’s musical theme of this year, the French trio dOP with an expressive show, thanks to the success of which the band is on parade at the largest musical events of recent years. The international collaboration project Soundwalk Collective is now a trio on a new wave of popularity due to the resonance caused by collaborations with Patti Smith and choreographer Sasha Waltz. In addition, there will be solo performances by the American artist and musician Thorne Hawke, the festival’s guest from New York Kamran Sadeghi, The Chi Factory ambient quartet, severe techno coryphaeus Joey Blush, performing under the pseudonym Blush Response, and Ark, the pioneer of the French minimal house. One of the festival’s most important events will be the live performance by Zoviet France, a prolific band from Newcastle upon Tyne. Although its music might contain elements of industrial, it still meets the definition of ambient, and the band has a mysterious and legendary reputation, no less than someone like Daft Punk.
Representing the international music program, the festival team makes every effort to present the potential of the Nikola-Lenivets natural area to the broad audience. Nikola-Lenivets is a part of the Ugra National Park, listed in the Earth's biosphere reserve by UNESCO. Trendsetting studios and landscape bureaus are involved in the festival implementation. The eco-settlement Prizma and the stage of the same name will be built according to the Dom architectural workshop’s project. One of the festival's bars will be created with the participation of the Kontora architectural bureau. The Sila Sveta team is responsible for the festival’s main stage design. The endless path landscape project and one of the festival’s main stages called Moebius were designed by the architect Ivan Shchetinin.
Signal is authentic and self-sufficient: its creators are building the settlement themselves and rendering it habitable, so that by the time the festival starts it will have become a public multifunctional space, integrated into the local ecosystem. On the Signal territory, comprising the forest and adjacent open areas near the Ugra banks, there will be four music scenes, two camping sites, and a number of experimental objects designed by the festival team.
Signal Festival's artists:
Veronica Vasicka is a photographer, musician, DJ and founder of the epic record label and on-line music resource Minimal Wave. As one of the founding members of East Village Radio, she managed the station during its pirate days and began collecting obscure and long forgotten gems that fell somewhere between the Cold Wave, Post Punk and Minimal Synth genres. Veronica Vasicka was born in New York City to an Uruguayan mother and Czech father. At an early age, she had a passion for music and photography. She studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design and later co-founded East Village Radio. Inspired by the music she gathered for her weekly 2 hour radio show, she launched the Minimal Wave label in 2005. Specializing in obscure electronic gems, she loves old New Wave, Italo and House music. She aims to bring rare recordings to the public via Minimal Wave, as well as her sublabel Cititrax, which features newer bands and classic house reissues. She hosts a weekly radio show on East Village Radio, and also DJs bimonthly in various clubs around New York City and the world. She also records her own music under various pseudonyms and collaborations.
 dOP - the Parisian trio of Clément , Dam, and JAW—have been on a tear since they burst upon the scene three years ago, riling dance floors with their strange, sexy, infectious brand of irreverently soulful house, and leaving writers scratching their heads at the same. Resident Advisor's Todd Burns came closest to getting it right when he credited them with "trying to reenergize house music with horns, roses, vodka and a whole lot of vocals." The three musicians aren't just great showmen—something their drunken live sets amply prove—but also real musicians: before discovering house music, they played rock, jazz, hip-hop, reggae, classical, and African music, and they bring that wealth of knowledge to bear in their quest to turn dance music inside out. Down in their basement studio, the three musicians used virtually every instrument they own—horns, pianino, Chinese flute, harmonica, melodica, cajon, gongs, cuica, analog synthesizers, acoustic drum kit—and many of their friends stopped by to contribute. The acclaimed Calypso drummer Andy Narell plays steelpan drums. Their childhood friend and former bandmate Raphaël Gaiotti plays trumpet; Damien Dassaradanayadou plays street arp, a homemade guitar of his own design; Aquarius Caloni (Aquarius Heaven) lends guest vocals. Parisian minimal techno producer Seuil mans the computer on one track, and Guillaume Coutu Dumont sits in on balafon.
Maayan Nidam an artist in flux, continues to change, evolve and challenge boundaries both in her Berlin studio and on stage. She has built a reputation as a fine DJ and producer who favours a subtle approach towards mesmeric moments. Her DJ sets, predominantly based in stripped-back, deep sounds, utilise an intriguing vinyl collection, using obscure interludes for re-contextualisation. This approach makes for some magical moments on the dance-floor, where a night’s highlight may come from the most unlikely of tracks. As a musician obsessed about sound and the technology behind its creation, her workflow places a strong focus on the studio environment. Triggering chain reactions between guitar pedals, drum machines, modular synths and acoustic instruments, generating sounds in unpredictable, exciting ways. Inspired by her 2014 performances as The Waves with an accompanying band, Maayan has developed a solo live set that allows her to further her studio experiments and take them on the road. With a flexibly evolving range of hardware, she re-creates the spontaneous frame of her productions, delving deep into the possibilities of live dubbing and improvisation, keeping the performance exciting for both the crowd and Maayan herself.
 Peder Mannerfelt. Swedish producer and engineer Peder Mannerfelt is equally adept at creating relentless dancefloor tracks as well as noisy experimental works reminiscent of Pan Sonic. Based in Stockholm, he got his start in the music business working at Murlyn Studios, and even participated in the production of Britney Spears' 2003 mega-hit "Toxic." He produced minimal techno under the name the Subliminal Kid, and released nearly a dozen 12" singles on labels such as Ann Aimee and Perspex Recordings. Along with Van Rivers (Henrik von Sivers), he remixed tracks by artists such as Massive Attack and Lykke Li, and produced albums by Fever Ray (whom he toured with) and Blonde Redhead. He formed analog synth ambient duo Roll the Dice with Malcolm Pardon (formerly of Kinky Machine), and the duo released their self-titled debut LP on Digitalis in 2010. This was followed by two albums and two EPs (including a collaboration with Pole) on the Leaf Label. By 2012, Mannerfelt had dropped his Subliminal Kid alias and began producing under his own name. His jagged, harsh electronics were warmly received by London-based duo Emptyset, who issued Mannerfelt's EPs Come Closer (2012) and Stockholm Recorded (2013) on their imprint We Can Elude Control. His debut solo album, Lines Describing Circles, was released to critical acclaim by Digitalis in 2014. He also started an eponymous label and began issuing his own material, starting with EPs I and II, as well as work by Klara Lewis. He also shared a split EP with Pär Grindvik, issued by Stockholm LTD. In 2015, Sendai released Mannerfelt's CD The Swedish Congo Record on their Archives Intérieures imprint. The album was a synthetic re-creation of a 1950s series of field recordings titled The Belgian Congo Records. 2016 was Mannerfelt's highest profile year yet, with further acclaimed releases on his own label such as full-length Controlling Body and EP Transmissions from a Drainpipe, as well as a live EP on Berlin Atonal and 12"s on Numbers and Hinge Finger.
Matias Aguayo lives between Buenos Aires and Paris, DJing, making music, performing concerts alone and together with Marcus Rossknecht with their project "BROKE!". orn in '73 in Santiago de Chile he musically grew up in Cologne, Germany, where he spent the 90s living and contributing to the scene of this city which would have such a deep influence on dance music. He was there, as club kid and DJ (e.g. of the legendary Liquid Sky Club) experiencing the creation of new musical styles and contributing by organizing parties and being involved in musical productions such as the project Zimt (w/ Michael Mayer, 1997). Soon he would come up with a new project: Closer Musik (w/ Dirk Leyers). Touring from disco to disco and around the world, performing live sets which also took him to Buenos Aires, Argentina - where he stayed for some time and never really left, organizing temporary free club spaces like the "juventud clandestina" (clandestine youth) and the "hoy" club - a period reflected in Matias' Album Are You Really Lost (Kompakt, 2005). His main activity nowadays consists in making free parties on the streets together with his friends Ladybumbox, Gary and Pablo, the legendary "bumbumbox" parties in capitals and big cities of South America (Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Asuncion, Paraguay, Sao Paulo, Medellin, Colombia, Santiago de Chile, etc…). In his DJ sets (which are partly live sets, considering the integration of singing and a couple of instruments), Matias celebrates his vision of dance music, with intensity and sensuality, nights where people dance to dark disco gems, futuristic visions of underground house, nocturnal and groove-driven techno, and obviously lots of unreleased tracks, dancing and singing on top included.
 Wareika. It was a warm mid-summer afternoon in 2008 when Jakob Seidensticker, Florian Schirmacher and Henrik Raabe met, “just to play a bit around”. With some congas and drums, some quite old synthesizers plus a sequencer they started jamming in a basement studio close to the Hamburg harbour. The session was ment to be a pure fun thing. Nobody really intended to press the record button, nevertheless someone did! The outcome was a 46 minute recording by three guys talking to each other via a very rhythmic language. The connotation was an epic ritual dance, so it was named “Men Village”. It became more and more known, that Wareika songs are way too long. Each Song as a unique piece and a fine result of three men´s work. No matter if it´s a remix or an original: Wareika puts the same efforts in it, in order to produce their own sound. And within the name itself, “Wareika” contains a huge amount of connotations, which all members have virtually in mind. In February 2010 their debut album “Formation” was released on Tartelet and it was time to conquer the world. Tokyo´s Unit club went crazy, Paris was burnin, Rome full of amore. New York is coming and Berlin´s Berghain is still bouncing. Wareika´s live gigs are worth a visit and always different. If you link their live experience with their recording skills, the next step was a logical one. Recording a one hour piece of music, cross-bordering musical genres and programming and playing. They called it, quite obviously “Harmonie Park” and Perlon released it in June 2010. A classical piece of epic deepness and a confession to Techno.
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