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The 2012 festival presents more than 40 new additions, including 16 artists among those presented by Red Bull Music Academy at SonarDôme and a healthy contingent of leading Spanish projects.
Britain's New Order, one of the most influential bands in music history, pioneers in the assimilation of the language of electronic dance music in a pop context and creators of hits as timeless as "Blue Monday", "Bizarre Love Triangle" and "True Faith" will be performing at Sónar by Night on Saturday 16 June.
Die Antwoord return to Sónar 2012 by popular demand after their show at last year's festival. With their excellent recently-released "Ten$ion" under their belt, they will be taking a well deserved step up to the main stage at Sónar by Night, bringing attitude, songs, image and an undoubted ability to connect with their increasingly numerous fans. Something similar is true of James Murphy, who has been a Sónar favourite for some time. He is returning once again this year to demonstrate his wisdom in one of his rare sessions of house and disco music collector's items from all eras.
The American beatmaker Daedelus will be presenting his spectacular Archimedes Show, with a staging that includes 24 mirrors that reflect and amplify his already colourful live performance to infinity, while Japan's Cornelius (another benchmark for visual concerts) presents the avant-pop project salyu x salyu, in which he is the guitarist.
The festival increases its commitment to the dancefloor with the addition of British house duo The 2 Bears (the side project of Hot Chip's Joe Goddard), the expansive and addictive electronica of Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, the mastery on the decks of the bass music hero Untold, the dancefloor-focused beats of the USA's Pretty Lights, tech-house from the new French star Madeon, live remixes from the Canadian trio Keys N Krates, and the Italian duo of djs Discodromo.
Meanwhile, Sónar by Day will feature three incorruptible characters with very personal styles: Japan's Masaki Batoh, who will be presenting the show Brain Pulse Music, which includes sounds emitted by brain impulses; Brazil's Ricardo Donoso, a leading member of the Boston experimental scene, whose approach is halfway between ambient, noise and organic landscapes; and Daniel Miller, the man behind the seminal label Mute and a living legend of electronica and new wave, who will be giving us one of the festival's most eagerly anticipated sessions... and, of course, the mysterious new Mostly Robot project, concieved by Native Instruments.
Important Spanish additions to the line-up of Sónar 2012 include the hypnotic kraut-pop of Pegasvs, the hand-crafted instruments of Lolo & Sosaku, the kaleidoscopic IDM of Lenticular Clouds, the dark synth pop of the brand new Stand Up Against Crime Heart, the creative freedom of Esperit!, the emotional noisism of d.Forma and the head-to-head session with Sinjin Hawke & Zora Jones.
More confirmations will be announced in the next few weeks!
Sónar 2012: new additions
New Order (UK)
Die Antwoord (ZA)
James Murphy (US)
Daedelus Archimedes Show (US)
Cornelius presents salyu x salyu (JP)
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (UK)
The 2 Bears (UK)
Daniel Miller (UK)
Pegasvs (ES)
Lolo & Sosaku (ES)
Ricardo Donoso (BR)
Masaki Batoh - Brain Pulse Music (JP)
Keys N Krates (CA)
Esperit! (ES)
Discodromo (IT)
d.Forma (ES)
Lenticular Clouds (ES)
Stand Up Against Heart Crime (ES)
Untold (UK)
Madeon (FR)
Sinjin Hawke Vs. Zora Jones (ES)
Red Bull Music Academy presents
DJ Harvey (US)
DJ Spinn & DJ Rashad (US)
Nguzunguzu (US)
Club Cheval feat. Canblaster, Myd, Panteros 666 & Sam Tiba (FR)
Doc Daneeka (UK)
xxxy (UK)
Jesse Boykins III (US)
Om Unit (UK)
Nehuen (ES)
Andrea Balency (MX)
Salva (US)
Raisa K (UK)
Nightwave (UK)
Yosi Horikawa (JP)
Santiago Latorre (ES)
Sizarr (DE)
Exeter (CA)
Clip! (ES)
Eltron John (PL)
Monki Valley (ES)
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