In exactly one week, me and Tobias will be arriving to one of the biggest highlights in Sweden: Arvikafestivalen. This will be my eighth time there and the first for Tobias, and man we are going to have such a blast! Besides meeting a lot of new people & old friends, drinking way to much beer and sleeping in a fancy tent, we will have the chance to see many producers kicking ass live. I have made a small top five list over shows you simply cannot miss if you plan spending your next week in Arvika. And of course I’m including some tracks and one livemix to download for your boombox.
1. Danger: Simply put; it is pure stupidity if you decide to skip this man live! This is the highlight of the festival!
[Myspace] [Facebook] [Plays live Saturday 02.30 @ Orion-stage]
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mp3 Live at Trashbags 090208(128 kbps)
2. Simian Mobile Disco: Even if I haven’t been diggin’ their latest releases, I’m looking forward a lot to catch them live. There are two good reasons for that; one is that that their debut-album had a huge effect on me. And secondly, for the first time they will perform fully live. No CDJ’s or laptop-dj’ing, just purely machines and synths!
[Myspace] [Facebook] [Plays live Saturday 01.00 @ Apollo-stage]
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mp3 Wooden (Original Mix)(160 kbps)
3. Louis La Roche: Thanks to our friends in TajT, as a Sweden firts we’ll be able to see the UK wonderboy Louis La Roche perform. And man, it’s going to swell! If you haven’t heard him, look up his track Malfunction hear what tuuuune it is. And check his latest track he made together with Ad-Apt, it’s amazing as well!
[Myspace] [Facebook] [Plays live Saturday 23.45 @ Lyran-stage /w TajT]
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mp3 Missing You (Feat. Ad-Apt)(320 kbps)
4. The Twelves: The Brazilian disco-duo are also a must for this festival. With a bag filled with remixes they have done for all the biggest, spicing them with disco and cowbells, they will most certainly not leav a single soul standing still. The people of Stockholm should know this since they played earlier in May as this years Slammer Act for Arvikafestivalen. We couldn’t attend at that event, but now hell yeah we will!
[Myspace] [Facebook] [Plays live Friday 23.30 @ Orion-stage]
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mp3 Metric - Help Im Alive (The Twelves Remix)(192 kbps)
5. Owl Vision: Last to make it to this toplist is Gothenburgs pride Owl Vision. It’s actually thanks to Arvikafestivalen I got to know his music, since he won a competition a couple of years ago and won stagetime there. But since he got to play at the start of the day and I was at my camp with a huge hungover, I missed him out. But this time I won’t! Fresh out of the oven, we bring you his latest track Antichrist (sorry, no download!).
[Myspace] [Facebook] [Plays live Friday 21.30 @ Orion Stage]
Check Arvikafestivalens homepage for a full line-up, there are a lot more good artists/bands/producers to be seen there than just these five. But if you plan on going there and haven’t bought your ticket yet, then we suggest you get a move on it since there aren’t many tickets left at this stage.
Hope to see you all there in week!
