Time schedule revealed
Club nights at Summer Darkness
The timeschedule of the dark underground lifestyle festival Summer Darkness is published at: http://www.summerdarkness.nl.
From 13 - 15 August the Summer Darkness Festival 2010 will take place in the heart of The Netherlands: the city of Utrecht. Only 20 minutes away from Amsterdam, this city has a unique gothic centre and a diversity of small clubs. This eighth edition of the Summer Darkness Festival is again packed with the best live music, poetry, arts and fashion.
Summer Darkness also features several club nights to party till late. On Friday we go in style and masked to Bal Du Masque. On Saturday there is Cyberia and the Industrial Night. On the last night, Sunday right after headliner DAF, there is the official after-party Spinning Further Towards the End.
Alter der Ruïne and W.A.S.T.E. unfortunately had to cancel for the Industrial Night, but happily we found more than worthy replacements: From Flint Glass to Tzolk’in to Empusae and Geistform. Cyberia goes back for a one-ff and xxxclusive edition to the location where it took place 13 years ago: the hall that’s now called the Spiegelbar (mirrorbar), next to the balcony of Tivoli Oudegracht. Saturday afternoon the Spiegelbar is the X-Rated Ambient Stage hosted by KinkFM DJ Bob Rusche.
Cyberia
Cyberia is the longest ongoing dark underground/gothic club night of the Netherlands. Thirtheen years ago Cyberia took place in the hall that’s now called the Spiegelbar (mirrorbar), next to the balcony of Tivoli Oudegracht. For a one-off and xxxclusive edition we go back to this legendary hall with music ranging from Electro to Future Pop, from EBM to Electro Industrial, from Nu-wave to Dark Pop and from Synth Pop till Hellectro. Covenant, VNV nation, Spetsnaz, Combichrist, Editors, Miss Kitten, Mesh and Suicide Commando. You can hear it all at Cyberia, a Dark Underground combination of Hits, Tips and Classixs with DJ -X-X-X-, DJ SPUD and DJ PRIMI.
X-Rated Ambient Stage
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Saturday afternoon, before Cyberia takes control over the Spiegelbar, the KinkFM radioshow X-Rated hosts a special program of ambient. The X-Rated radio show on KinkFM is one of the most special, beautiful, dark and obscure radio shows that exist in the Netherlands. Every Sunday at 21:00 you can tune-in to X-Rated on KinkFM Radio. X-Rated was founded in 1995 by late Arjen Grolleman. Of-course, just as last year Summer Darkness features the X-Rated stage again where this year the dark ambient acts: Phelios and Allseits will present their new albums.
Online: http://www.kinkfm.com/
Drone musician Nina Kemicke a.k.a. Allseits takes her inspiration from the deepest and darkest undertows of the human soul, and looks for the width and depth in sounds that seem to come straight out of hell. Her ultra-minimal music is like a vast gas cloud that washes over you, elusive but inescapable and piercing right through everything.
Phelios is the alias of the German musician Martin Stürtzer, who makes noisy dark ambient. First, he released his music himself, free on the internet, which led him to get signed by quality labels such as Eternal Soul and Loki Found. His music consists of long soundscapes, without rythm or melody, beautifully deep and layered sound fields that have a thrilling, very subtle dynamic.
Industrial Night
Traditionally, the Industrial Night on Summer Darkness is the absolute climax in aural experience. The most intense, noisy, loud and steamy night of the festival. As a brutal punching monster this night features the musically most extreme acts and together with DJ sets by DistortedChaos & Krat it becomes a full force club night with a lot of excitement and pollution.
From Flint Glass to Tzolk’in to Empusae (FR/BE)
The Industrial Night of Summer Darkness 2010 will have a very special, never done before openings show. Three projects morphing from one in to the other and further, showing all their combined force and new sounds. This al blended in to one truly unique live experience. The three projects are the one man projects Flint Glass and Empusae, and their collaboration project Tzolk’in. Mind you: the man behind Empusae is also a member of This Morn’ Omina. Especially and exclusively for Summer Darkness, these two great musicians will give you the best of these three projects, presented as a very exiting cocktail to open the Industrial Night with, which will warm you up and will prepare you for the intense climax of this day.
Geistform (ES)
Even though the name suggests otherwise, Geistform is from Spain: Rafael Martinez Espinosa. As Geistform he lets his love for old, analogue synthesizers run free. Sharp beats, oscillator sounds and other noise: Geistform cuts and pasts his electronic-industrial music into one piece with the meticulous precision of a watchmaker. After the albums Uno and Sequentia 2.0 (and don’t forget his work for the Dive album Behind the Sun) in 2008, he released the climax of his career so far: Pro Analogic, Powernoise as powernoise is meant to be!
Mono-Amine (NL)
Mono-Amine is the noisecore/industrial-sensation Joost G, also the driving force behind the Darkforce organisation. With Darkforce, Joost G organises events for the promotion of loud underground music, with his own project Mono-Amine he promotes the destructive psychedelic mindfuck. Even better than the anti depressant that the act is named after, Mono-Amine will leave you in a state of euphoria and full of adrenaline. This unavoidable electronic warfare will start the special industrial night of Summer Darkness in a fittingly sick style.
Imminent (BE)
Imminent is the Belgian industrial producer Olivier Moreau. In his music, Moreau does not wield the axe, but he uses his tools like surgical filleting knives, hitting even harder in the end. He builds complex, layered rythms, and puts atmospheric, slightly sinister textures on top of that – whistles, layers of synths, samples. The music is a sparkling and very exciting sonic pallet, that will leave you chained to the floor. Imminent made remixes for Sonar, Iszoloscope en Orphx and collaborated with Synapscape. The intelligent, but loud music of these bands is surpassed even by the great soundscapes of Imminent.
Spinning Further Towards The End
Official afterparty with DJ –X-X-X-, DJ Krat, DJ Spud, DJ Azrael & DJ DistortedChaos.
Complete programme
The complete line-up consists of more than 50 (inter)national bands, including exclusive performances from artists like Brendan Perry, Daf, And One and Project Pitchfork. It varies from the Celtic Folk from Orfeo and Keltia to the more experimental electronica from In Slaughter Natives and Geneviéve Pasquier. Besides live music, Summer Darkness offers lots of other art forms from the Dark Underground scene. Such as poetry from Poel Des Doods, the Cinema Obscure Viewing of Sopor Aeternus and fashion shows (from among others Attitude Holland). Striking this year are the X-rated Ambient stage at the Spiegelbar and Bal du Masque.
For the entire list of bands and activities go to http://www.summerdarkness.nl
Information in short:
Club nights at Summer Darkness:
BAL DU MASQUE | Friday 13th of August | Tivoli Oudegracht | 22:00 CYBERIA | Saturday 14th of August | Tivoli Spiegelbar | 22:00 INDUSTRIAL NIGHT | Saturday 14th of August | Tivoli de Helling | 22:45 SPINNING FURTHER TOWARDS THE END | Sunday 15th of August | Tivoli Oudegracht | 22:15
Passepartout for the entire festival: € 65,-
Daytickets Saturday and Sunday: € 37,-
Single ticket Bal Du Masque: € 15,-
More info: http://www.summerdarkness.nl