Les siestes electroniques
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Based in Toulouse
, Southern France
, Les Siestes électroniques is a summer festival dedicated to emerging artists from the field of music & digital culture. Its motley line-up mainly focuses on electronic musicians and aims at a professional audience as well as the general public. The fact that its open air concerts are free of charge makes Les Siestes électroniques a rare occurrence within the landscapes of European festivals. Les Siestes offers an opportunity to experience contemporary music though concerts, club nights, workshops and sometimes exhibitions.
The festival runs for four or five days, usually starting on a Wednesday or a Thursday in the last week of June. Next edition of the festival will be held from the 24th to the 27th of June 2010.
Les Siestes Electroniques has been an event by Rotation since 2002.
They played at Les Siestes Electroniques:
Toulouse
Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
, Southern France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, Les Siestes électroniques is a summer festival dedicated to emerging artists from the field of music & digital culture. Its motley line-up mainly focuses on electronic musicians and aims at a professional audience as well as the general public. The fact that its open air concerts are free of charge makes Les Siestes électroniques a rare occurrence within the landscapes of European festivals. Les Siestes offers an opportunity to experience contemporary music though concerts, club nights, workshops and sometimes exhibitions.
The festival runs for four or five days, usually starting on a Wednesday or a Thursday in the last week of June. Next edition of the festival will be held from the 24th to the 27th of June 2010.
Les Siestes Electroniques has been an event by Rotation since 2002.
Line-Up
- 2010 : Aquaserge, Kawabata MakotoKawabata MakotoKawabata Makoto is a Japanese musician and founding member of the band and "soul collective" Acid Mothers Temple.- Band history :Kawabata is chiefly famous for his leadership of Acid Mothers Temple and its variants; however, he has also played in many other bands since the start of his career in...
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, Stanley Brinks, Pantha du PrincePantha du PrinceHendrik Weber, better known as Pantha du Prince, Panthel and Glühen 4 is a German electronic music producer and DJ affiliated with Hamburg's Dial music label and British label Rough Trade.-Career:...
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They played at Les Siestes Electroniques:
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, Ariel PinkAriel PinkAriel Pink is a Los Angeles-based recording artist who is sometimes associated with the freak folk scene.-Biography:...
, Anoraak, The Eternals, Para OnePara OneJean-Baptiste de Laubier, also known by his artist name Para One, is a French electronic music producer and film director.-Music career:...
& San SeracSan SeracSan Serac is a one-man disco music group performed by Nat Rabb. San Serac’s music combines esoteric philosophical lyrics with electronic music reminiscent of '80s Prince, Pet Shop Boys or Cameo. San Serac has released three full-length albums and a 3" CD single on Frog Man Jake Records and a 12"...
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, IsoléeIsoléeIsolée is microhouse artist Rajko Müller. Isolée is a minimalist house producer whose music is reminisent of indie electronic pop music of the early eighties and ambient techno from a decade on. Isolée is credited with creating the very first microhouse record to reach the club charts...
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Press Review
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: Anyone who's ever been to Montreal's Piknic Électronik or Cologne's PollerWiesen knows that electronic music is often best experienced outdoors and in daylight. Toulouse's peerless Les Siestes Electroniques perfects the formula with evening concerts performed in front of a laidback audience sprawled on a spongy lawn.
- PitchforkPitchforkA pitchfork is an agricultural tool with a long handle and long, thin, widely separated pointed tines used to lift and pitch loose material, such as hay, leaves, grapes, dung or other agricultural materials. Pitchforks typically have two or three tines...
: There’s you, there’s baguettes, and there’s dancing : it’s Les Siestes Electroniques (which means "the electronic nap"), plugging in, turning on, and rocking out.
- Resident AdvisorResident AdvisorResident Advisor is an online electronic music magazine dedicated to the global dance music scene. The website won a People's Voice award in the 12th Annual Webby Awards in 2008.-Site History:...
: Small yet perfectly formed, Les Siestes Electroniques (or, The Electronic Nap for those of you dozing in French class) is the self-proclaimed champion of the scaled-down festival experience.