The second wave of acts playing this year’s Glade festival has been announced, and includes Booka Shade, Squarepusher and Detroit techno originator Juan Atkins.
As both a solo artist and a member of groups such as Model 500 and Cybotron, Juan Atkins channelled the astral funk of Parliament/Funkadelic into a Kraftwerk-influenced electro minimalism, thereby kinda inventing techno (though the other members of the so-called ‘Belleville Three’, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson, have no less a claim). After a fair old hiatus, Squarepusher has returned to the stage recently, playing in support of his latest album for Warp, Just A Souvenir. Booka Shade, the Berlin-based duo behind such dancefloor anthems as ‘Mandarine Girl’ and ‘Body Language’, will be appearing in their massively popular live incarnation.
They join the previously confirmed headliner Underworld, who’ll be wheeling out their visually stunning live show for their only UK festival appearance of 2009. Other FACT favourites newly announced include Digital Mystikz and Raffertie. The full line-up so far is as follows:
UNDERWORLD (UK FESTIVAL EXCLUSIVE) / BOOKA SHADE / SQUAREPUSHER / JUAN ATKINS (UK FESTIVAL EXCLUSIVE) / MUTANT CLAN AKA TIMO MASS & SANTOS DAVE CLARKE / FREELAND (ADAM FREELAND LIVE) / KRAFTY KUTS / VENETIAN SNARES / RUSKO LIVE / JAPANESE POPSTARS / THE QEMISTS / FEMI KUTI & THE POSITIVE FORCE / NITIN SAWHNEY / FINLEY QUAYE / DIGITAL MYSTIKZ / KID 606 / ATOMIC DROP / ANTIX / RENNIE PILGREM & MC CHICKABOO / THE BAYS FEAT. BEARDYMAN / TRISTAN / PERFECT STRANGER / PAUL TAYLOR / KASEY TAYLOR / LUCAS / LURK / EARTHLING / CHROMATONE SENSIENT / DICK TREVOR / DIMITRI / SPOONBILL / ISHQ / WATERJUICE / KUBA LIVE / DJ ZINC / DEEKLINE & WIZARD / JAY CUNNING / VENT / STEREO: TYPE / THE EGG / LOS ALBERTOS / ORCHESTRA DEL SOL / TRAGIC ROUNDABOUT / GADJO / THE CORRESPONDENCE / JIM MASTERS / DURAN DURAN DURAN / FAR TOO LOUD HEXIDECIMAL / RAFFERTIE / TAYO / NAPT
This year’s Glade is taking place at a brand new secret location: “a real beauty in central south England that combines a beautiful bit of the old green and pleasant, with the desire to be able to crank the music louder after midnight."
The festival takes kicks off on Thursday 16th July and runs through to Sunday 19th July. Tickets are £125, or £99 if you’re a student. Get ‘em at gladefestival.com
