Vrije Ruimte Festival - Electronic opening
On Saturday the 29th of March the 2nd edition of the Vrije Ruimte Festival will kick off with an inspiring electronic program at the OT301.
For this event we have managed to book a line up that is going to kick ass from beginning till end.
Program:
21:00-22:30: Sarkawt Hamad
22:30-23:15: De Kraters (live)
23:15-00:00: Mathilde Nobel (live)
00:00-01:30: DJ Marcelle (Another Nice Mess)
01:30-03:00: I-F
Artists:
I-F
I-F is a fierce DJ, one who has more music to call upon than most and one who does so with skill, great storytelling ability, infectious charisma and plenty of understanding of dancefloor dynamics... Never making a predictable pull and not afraid of taking risks, his passion for sound is unbridled, and that unadulterated love always shines though in the inimitable DJ sets he performs all around the world. He is the veteran DJ, producer and broadcaster from The Hague who has been making, unearthing, sharing, spinning and defining myriad different electronic sounds since his emergence in the 90s. He's the chef behind Intergalactic FM, Viewlexx, Murdercapital, and was responsible for possibly one of the biggest electro tunes in history. From Italo disco to acid, house to electro, I-F knows and plays it all. As a producer, I-F was behind the 1997 hit "Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass," a track that is often credited with effectively inventing electro, while his mix Mixed Up in the Hague, Vol. 1 is regarded as one of the finest compilations ever put together. As a label head, I-F runs both Viewlexx and Murdercapital with the same unique sense of direction and continues to define techno trends as a result.
Youtube // Insta
DJ Marcelle / Another Nice Mess
Surprise, adventure, entertainment and education: Four key words often used for describing Dutch DJ and producer Marcelle/Another Nice Mess. Using live three turntables, Marcelle takes her mix talents to high heights. She is as much, or even more of, a musician as she is a dj. She produces her own music and has released over ten records in the past eight years, with fine titles like 'A Different Fridge For Cheese', 'Explain The Food, Bitte' or 'DJ Marcelle: The Musical'
On stage Marcelle puts different styles of music in a different contextand by doing so she changes the way we experience those individual styles. Marcelle fuses musical styles like no other, making it seem like they always belonged together and making the audience believe they are listening to one track instead of three played simultaneously!
She plays with expectations and roles: Environmental sounds are combined with avant garde noises, animal sounds are used and mixed with left field techno, free jazz, weird hip hop, cutting edge electronica, new African dance music, dubstep, dancehall and lots of less classifiable records.
Website // FB
Mathilde Nobel (live)
While pursuing her studies in Fine Arts at Breda, Mathilde embarked on a journey to teach herself the art of electronic music production and songwriting. Following her graduation in 2020, she independently released her debut mini-album, "May+Be." Her foundation in Fine Arts significantly influenced her exploration of the intersection between the visual and non-visual realms, which manifests in various forms, including painting, filmmaking, and 3D animation.
Insta // Spotify
Sarkawt Hamad
Sarkawt Hamad is a DJ whose sets strike a rare balance: they are melodic and grooving narratives that activate a dancefloor’s collective body, but also press the dancer to really listen, to hear a wild range of textures, timbres, bliss and grit. With a fully-rounded sound ranging from leftfield- and dub-techno to sparkling house to breakbeat-derived bumpers, the sum total is a kind of sublime – both eerie and blissful, alien and loving. In drawing out sonic spaces that allow euphoria to coexist with darkness and pensive depth, she tests the limits of how far she can drive the emotional current of a dancefloor; patiently pushing towards sensory overloading intensity’s has become a signature. Threads of warm vocal samples woven in and out come back repeatedly, and pivots from chugging bass to bright and weightless terrains animate the seamless progression. In the artist’s own words, each set is built as a layering of moods and rhythms. Disrupted by switching dynamics directing towards other side paths, she remains reminding of, and building from, the solid foundation of her sonic base. Thus more important than continuity of genre is the fluid transition from one musical side-corner to another, and Sarkawt plays the thin line of keeping these movements both consistent yet unexpected. What one hears and dances to, and what makes her work thrilling, is the real-time experimentation of a DJ with markedly wide and deep taste.
Insta // RA // Soundcloud
De Kraters / The Craters
De Kraters is a one-man-synthband, on ancient pre-midi analogue synths and drumcmachines. De tracks vary from 80’s synthwave and synthpunk to 90’s electroclash; from Grauzone and DAF to Diana Ozon and Z.S.K.A. to I-F and Legowelt. Nothing is pre-programmed, everything is live: ramming keys, tweaking knobs and slides, singing and improvising, grooving, pumping and thumping.
Bas van Vlaenderen, aka De Kraters, got his musical upbringing growing up in the Dutch German border town of Venlo in the 1980s. These were the blissful days of tuning into John Peel on the radio, dancing to Fad Gadget and Liaisons Dangereuses. While Bas grew his collection of analogue gear, he spent much of the next 20 years playing guitar in garage bands. But when Corona hit, the band wasn’t able to get together, and Bas found himself with a musical itch to scratch. So he set up his synths in the living room, jammed out Grauzone’s “Eisbär” and the De Kraters project was born.
Insta // Bandcamp
Thanks to
Stichting Amsterdam 750
Insta // Website
