[Incu Thursday] EMA, Man Man, Ganglians, No Turning Back and four more confirmed for Incubate
June 16, 2011
Hi there! This is Incu Thursday. Every Thursday, 14:00h local time, we announce the musicians that were confirmed for the Incubate 2011 festival during the past week. Whether it’s one or twenty names, as long as we have things to confirm…
Ticket sales are up and running well now. So head over here for your passepartouts or day tickets!
Remember we have acampsite for the first time this year as well! Busses will carry you between the campsite and the city centre. You can buy your camping tickets through the Incubate ticket shop.
Hailing from Nijmegen, Netherlands and using nothing more than sax and drums, we present to you Dead Neanderthals. Expect an epic dissonant fusion of jazzy saxophones mixed with blastbeats from this duo. After releasing 3 albums while having only played their first show earlier this year, this hyper productive duo will bring an exclusive show you sure don’t want to miss!
Add a decent dose of psychedelics and surf rock on top of yourGrizzly Bear, Wavves, Kurt Vile and Woods records and you’ll get something close to Ganglians! Warm and fuzzy acoustic sounds make Ganglians your ultimate summer lo-fi record. Not to mention the catchy Beach Boys influences they merge into their music, which eventually ends up as they call it themselves; ‘None of this should work but it does’. Spot on.
There’s one simple reason why No Turning Back has never been on the bill for Incubate until now; these guys are always on the road. Take that as a compliment! They began playing in 1996 while most of the members were still 16 years old and have been “growing stronger” ever since. Whether they’re bringing their straight forward, no bullshit hardcore to Asia or even Africa, they always get the place moving. Same goes for opening up for Trial!
Wise Blood is the moniker of Chris Laufman, who is based in Pittsburgh and was named ‘rising artist’ on Pitchfork a little while ago. Laufman’s songs are sample-heavy collages, using material from all different kinds of sources and adding his own vocals to it. It should only be fitting that this guy lives in the same city as Girl Talk. Like our booker said: “Witch house, but without the witch and without the house. Chillwave, but without the wave and without the chill.”
While some artists are getting worse with every album, Man Man seems to get more interesting and exciting by the record! They can guide you through an piano driven indie rock by energetic, uplifting songs but also by slowing down to more hooky melancholic songs. With five talented multi-instrumentalists who play piano, percussion, guitar, trumpet, marimba, synth, organ, accordion, alto sax, bari sax, vibraphone, melodic and flute we can guarantee a full stage of madness and dozens of catchy songs!
“I’m just 22 / I don’t mind dying” sings EMA on her debut single. We sincerely hope not, because we have lined her up for this year’s Incubate! Coming from a punk rock scene (pictures from her with Danzig are floating around on the internet!), she played with the indie/noise-folk band Gowns and finally started her own band, named after her initials. EMA easily takes you back to the 80s, sounding in between Courtney Love and Patti Smith mixed with organ sounds and weird noises.
Brasstronaut are something very unique, even though their name will indicate you’re dealing with some corny brass/funk/jazz band. The band bases their music around very catchy indie pop songs, but add some unorthodox instruments like horns and clarinets. What comes out is a very innovating take on pop music, sometimes even cinematic with a little retro touch and textured jazzy drumming parts. Blame it on us if you won’t leave the venue still humming their catchy songs along!
We couldn’t resist booking one of our Incubated favorites from the past editions, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, for the festival as well! His warm, melancholic ambient guitar noises (think stripped down My Bloody Valentine and early Eluvium) will be supported by the visuals of Paul Clipson. This unique combination already brought them to international film festivals like New York Film Festival and will also be performed live at Incubate!
With these three additions, we’re now at 88 confirmations for Incubate 2011. More to come over the next few weeks of course! Want to know more about the artists? Check the artist profiles on the Incubate website.
Attending Incubate 2011? Show your attendance on Facebook and Last.fm so you can see who of your friends are going and stay up to date on the Incubate 2011 news! You can check out the whole line-up on the last.fm page as well. Tune in on our weekly updated Spotify Playlist to listen to the confirmed artists.
We will announce new names every week where possible, so keep an eye out for the blog, or your favorite Social Media channel every Thursday at 14:00h. And of course, share with your friends!
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