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BLOC WEEKEND 23rd – 25th March 2007.

 

Pontin's Holiday Park, Hemsby, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK.

 

www.blocweekend.com

 

PRESS RELEASE: Autechre added to line-up

 

Bloc Weekend are extremely excited to announce the addition of electronic legends Autechre as headline act on the already impressive three day line-up.

 

Autechre are quite simply one of the most important electronic outfits ever. Consisting of music pioneers Rob Brown and Sean Booth, they have, over the last two decades, created a distinctive sound ranging from the intricately melodic to chaotic industrial beats and beyond. Often reluctantly pigeonholed under the ‘electronic music’ banner, Autechre are above such simple categorisation and create a sound like no other, along with mouth watering, visually mind blowing live shows.

 

Since releasing their first album Incunabula in 1993, they have released seven more electronic masterpieces, the most recently being Untitled in 2005. The earlier albums would comfortably fit in to a club environment, with easy going 4/4 patterns, but as time has moved on, so too have Autechre, creating a more experimental approach in their later albums focusing very much on complex rhythms, manipulated percussion and clusters of tweaked electronic sound. To many it has simply been described as unlistenable, but to those who have warmed to Autechre, it is a sound of genius and delight, displaying varying atmospheric tracks and intense techno trips.

 

It’s a good bet that even in 100 years time Autechre’s sonic tapestries will still be regarded not as a quaintly nostalgic reminder of yesterday, or a museum of obsolete technology, but as uncompromising sound art, skittering across the years with timeless, head-scratching efficacy. It will speak of today – and, chances are, it may still sound like the future…Now you too can catch their electronic genius at this year’s first ever Bloc Weekender!

 

Full confirmed lineup:

 

ARENA 1: BASSBLOC

 

Kool Keith aka Dr Octagon / Dr Dooom - LIVE / Kutmasta Kurt / Newcleus aka Jam-on Productions – LIVE BAND / TwoLoneSwordsmen – LIVE BAND / Pest - LIVE BAND / Wevie Stonder – LIVE BAND / Toob – LIVE BAND / Clark – LIVE / TTC - LIVE / Skud presents: Mary Anne Hobbes / MRK 1 and the Virus Syndicate - LIVE / Vex'd - LIVE / Plastician / Downshifter / Therapy sessions feat. Technical Itch / Noisia / Dead Silence Syndicate – LIVE drum & bass BAND / Black Sun Empire DEXnFX / Congo Natty aka Rebel MC / Mu-ziq aka Mike Paradinas – LIVE / Tim Exile - LIVE / Urban Dub - LIVE BAND / SubDub present / Iration Steppas DJs / Exodus / Digital Mystikz / Loefah / MC SGT Pokes

 

ARENA 2 -TECBLOC

 

Autechre - LIVE / Luke Slater aka Planetary Assault Systems / The Advent - LIVE / Surgeon / CJ Bolland / Alex Smoke - LIVE / Rob Hood – DexNFx / Neil Landstrumm - LIVE / Universal Indicator aka Mike Dred – LIVE / Billy Nasty / Marco Passarani / Rhythm and Sound / Aux 88 - LIVE / DMX Krew - LIVE / Disco D / Michael Forshaw - LIVE / Kronos Device aka Bass Junkie and The Dexorcist - LIVE / Ceephax Acid Crew – LIVE / Cursor Miner - LIVE / Ugly Funk vs. Don’t records present / Jerome Hill / Lusinda / Edit - LIVE / Ben Pest - LIVE / Luke's Anger – LIVE / Sigma / Sikaflex

 

ARENA 3: SMASHBLOC

 

Seed Records present Ardisson - LIVE / Kansas City Prophets – LIVE / Posthuman / Le Couteau Jaune / Rag and Bone present:DJ Controlled Weirdness / Noyeahno / Varial records present: Mat Carter / Derailleur - LIVE / Technique 6th Birthday: Dave Martin / Kid Blue / Mcqueen / Jay Kilka / The Cleaners / Wide present: Cutlass Supreme / Debasser - LIVE / Paul blackford - LIVE / Bola - LIVE / Silicon Scally aka Random Factor - LIVE / Vector Lovers - LIVE / Andrea Parker / Point B - LIVE / Rob Hall / Jacen Solo - LIVE / Abstrakt Knights - LIVE / Kelpe – LIVE / Cultek – LIVE / ADJ / Pathic – LIVE / Ed Chamberlain – LIVE / Synapse – LIVE / Mat Chester / Lee smith / Stormfield vs Scanone / Rebel Intelligence / Computer Controlled DJs / Plex DJs / BLOC residents: Joe Hart

Disco Dave, Symmetrik, Georgie Skull

 

For full information and a new and improved website featuring bios for these artists, please visit… www.blocweekend.com/press

 

TICKETS & INFO

 

Tickets weigh in at a thoroughly bloody reasonable £105 This gets you:

 

Full private apartment self-catered accommodation.

Access to all of the park’s wonderful leisure facilities.

And of course entrance to all three music arenas the whole weekend through.

 

So that’s that and that’s flat. Tickets will not last forever, and info on their acquisition appears below. We expect to see you there!

 

TICKETS: 0870 604 5606 (Mon-Sat: 8:30am-8:30pm, Sun: 9am-5pm). Quote ref. BLOC.

 

INFO: 0870 8031 626 (Mon-Fri 10pm)

w: www.blocweekend.com

m: www.myspace.com/blocweekend

 

PRESS / RADIO CONTACTS:

THE DETAILS BELOW ARE NOT FOR PUBLICATION. They are for press and radio contact purposes only.

 

For all PRESS enquiries please contact Jonas at ePM on +44 (0)20 8964 4900:

jonas@electronicpm.co.uk

 

For all RADIO enquiries please contact Addy at ePM on +44 (0)20 8964 4900:

addy@electronicpm.co.uk

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"Since releasing their first album Incunabula in 1993, they have released seven more electronic masterpieces, the most recently being Untitled in 2005"

 

its amazing people still get the album title wrong after all this time.

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"Since releasing their first album Incunabula in 1993, they have released seven more electronic masterpieces, the most recently being Untitled in 2005"

 

its amazing people still get the album title wrong after all this time.

 

i think that was part of the quiet joke that sean and rob were having with choosing that title. knowing that it would be typo'd from here to eternity.

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got my tickets. this is gonna be an insane weekend - will hopefully take me back to all tommorows parties when it was curated by ae.....

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Excellent line-up! Now if I can just get rich before March then I should be able to fly to England and go to this. yes

 

Well I've done it before (seen Ae abroad), but that was when I was still living with my moms and didn't have all these stupid bills to pay.

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