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Nuits sonores 2016

LYONFRANCE

2016

NUITSSONORES

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03. Confluence, act 3 !04. The main sites of Nuits sonores 201605. The festival's locations06. The set design 201607. The visual identity 2016 by Studio Feixen08. We are Europe10. The program in a wink

THE DAY PROGRAM

12. Inauguration13. NS Days : A day with...14. NS Days Thursday : A day with MCDE18. NS Days Friday : A day with Laurent Garnier22. NS Days Saturday : A day with Seth Troxler26. Cool Korea • Carte Blanche to Seoul31. Mini sonore, the festival for children35. Sunday Park x Crédit Mutuel36. Extra!

THE NIGHT PROGRAM

38. The spirit of the main Nights39. Night 142. The Absolut Company Creation presents OX44. Night 2 / Le Circuit47. Resident Advisor x Nuits Sonores49. Night 352. Night 455. Burn — Energy Drink — presents Light it up!57. Special Concert58. Closing party Nuits sonores

ABOUT NUITS SONORES

60. Institut Français at Nuits Sonores 201661. Useful information65. Nuits sonores goes cashless !66. Eating at Nuits Sonores 201667. Programs to be revealed soon68. Nuits sonores 2016's partners70. Arty Farty71. Contacts

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Nuits sonores 2016 : 14th editionConfluence, Act 3

«Confluence» reaches its third and final act! Since 2003, urban experimentation has been at the heart of all things Nuits Sonores.The identity of the festival has been shaped, to a large extent, by its capacity to unearth the most spectacular heritage sites, to inhabit the city's main industrial areas, to occupy public spaces, and to witness the development and regeneration of the city at first-hand.

Back in 2014, the Arty Farty team decided to stretch the boundaries of this urban experiment even further, by bringing the main sites of Nuits Sonores and the European Lab Forum together within one urban district: La Confluence. In doing so, our initial dream of the „ephemeral city" became reality, a rare departure from everyday urban life dedicated to artists, to creation, to innovation, to conviviality and, last but by no means least, to the public. It is a unique concept that we have been working on for many years, and one that can be summarised by a single word: urbanity.

The experience of „Confluence 2014" saw Nuits Sonores and the European Lab Forum embrace a new outlook, envisaging for the first time the mobility and proximity of all participants – au-diences, artists, forum speakers, partners, staff – within one confined territory. A considerable amount of work was required to develop the urban setting, to bridge gaps between the different locations, to imagine potential passages and paths, and to tailor the work to the respective requirements of residents and participants in La Confluence.

Bolstered and fine-tuned in 2015, this cultural and urban experiment, almost unique of its kind, will reach its conclusion in 2016 at the 14th edition of Nuits Sonores. With the loss of the Ancien Marché du Gros venue – the jewel in whose crown, the Halle Girard, will soon be dedicated to the French Tech project – our „Confluence" adventure will have run its natural course.

In 2016, the third instalment of this urban trilogy will be played out within a perfect triangle, between the Ancien Marché du Gros, La Sucrière and the Musée des Confluences, a defining symbol of our city and the territory of La Confluence if ever there was one.

This area serves as the perfect blank canvas on which to paint this year's program, including the night-time events and NS Days; the children-only Mini Sonore festival; a part of the Extra program; the exciting Carte Blanche Seoul; not to mention the entirety of the European Lab Forum.

Without a doubt, this will be a fitting conclusion to one of the most beautiful chapters in the festival's history, before Nuits Sonores sets its sights back on the city, and on pastures new.

Vincent Carry

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ANCIEN MARCHÉ DE GROSMain NightsNuits Sonores has made the Ancien Marché de Gros one of its flagship venues, and it has be-come an essential part of the festival's history. At this 14th edition of Nuits Sonores, for the last time before the launch of the French Tech project, the festival will once more pay tribute to the site.

LA SUCRIÈREInauguration • NS Days • Sunday ParkBack in 2002, Arty Farty was the first orga-nisation to invest in La Sucrière. It has since become one festival's strongest and most symbolic venues, and the ideal setting for the grand opening and daytime festival events.

MUSÉE DES CONFLUENCESEuropean Lab forumGARDEN OF THE MUSÉE DES CONFLUENCES(tbc)Carte blanche • Mini sonore The Musée des Confluences is more than a striking location, it stands for a discursive phi-losophy, a love of sharing, and the intelligence that results from converging perspectives. For the first time, the Musée des Confluences becomes one of the main venues for the Nuits Sonores festival and the European Lab forum.

LA GALERIE DES TERREAUXInformation, merchandising and ticket officeNuits Sonores will make a triumphant return to the Galerie des Terreaux in 2016, when the venue will once more be the festival's central information point at the heart of the city.

LE SUCRENS Days • Professionals and partnersThis magnificent rooftop venue perched at the summit of La Sucrière will play a key role in the NS Days program, as the host of one of its stages. It will be reserved throughout the week of Nuits Sonores and the European Lab forum for professionals and partners of the two events.

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All of the main sites offer disabled access.For more information : [email protected]

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Festival venues

Ambassade 4, Rue Stella - Lyon 2e

A veritable house music pioneer, this unusual club has forged a national and international reputation for itself thanks to appearances from the scene's biggest names, such as Kerri Chandler, Chez Damier and many more.

Ayers Rock Boat 21, quai Augagneur - Lyon 3e

The Ayers Rock Boat anchored on the quays of the River Rhône is a real all-rounder: bar during the day, rock-flavoured gig venue in the evening, and house club at night.

Bellona 84, quai Perrache - Lyon 2e

Located down in the hold of the Bateau Bellona, moored at the heart of the Lyon Confluence dis-trict, this young venue is dedicated to electronic music, house and techno. Even when the hold remains closed, there is always a restaurant right next door on the bridge…

DV1 6, rue Roger Violi - Lyon 1er

The DV1 has been at the forefront of Lyon's elec-tronic music scene since 2002. From house to techno, it has always demonstrated an uncanny ability to spot the artists of tomorrow.

L'Épicerie Moderne Place René Lescot - FeyzinL'Épicerie Moderne first opened in 2005 in the suburb of Feyzin, as a result of a community effort to mobilise this residential area around three focal points: broadcasting, artistic support and cultural action.

La M.M. 21, place Gabriel Rambaud - Lyon 1er

This intimate club and cocktail bar, located right in the centre of the city, is a veritable Mecca for fans of soul, funk, hip-hop and afro-beat.

Le Marché Gare 34, Rue Casimir Périer - Lyon 2e

Created 10 years ago in the halls of a former who-lesale market, Le Marché Gare continues to stage performances from a series of carefully-selected and varied artists from the worlds of rock, pop, hip-hop and more.

Ninkasi 267, rue Marcel Mérieux - Lyon 7e

A venerated local beer institution, Ninkasi also

puts on gigs and evening shows throughout the year. Held either in the intimate Kafé or the larger Kao hall, the line-up is as eclectic as it is rewar-ding.

Le Périscope 13 rue Delandine – Lyon 2e

Born in 2007, Le Périscope is a genuine cultu-ral hotspot, with a specific emphasis on music. Whether it be hosting residencies or one-off con-certs, Le Périscope is constantly on the lookout for new sonic experiments.

Le Petit Salon Rue de Cronstadt - Lyon 7e

Le Petit Salon is a hub of nightlife, comprising two rooms in the heart of Lyon's 7th arrondissement. It has become an essential venue for the city's techno aficionados.

La Plateforme 4, quai Victor Augagneur - Lyon 3e

Situated down on the banks of the Rhône, La Plateforme is an extraordinary river-based oil tanker that boasts 600 sqm of floorspace spread over four rooms, ready to host a diverse range of events.

Sonic 4 quai des Etroits - Lyon 5e

Sonic is dedicated to one thing and one thing only: underground culture. Part-rock club, reminiscent of a mini CBCG, part-Berlin electro dancefloor, it is the venue of choice for all those in search of the hottest new sounds on the underground scene.

Terminal 3 rue Terme - Lyon 1er

Open since March 2013, Terminal is a modest-si-zed club that specialises in the very best electronic music. This unique venue offers an intimate atmo-sphere and carefully-selected line-ups.

Le Transbordeur 3, bd Stalingrad - VilleurbanneThis former factory hosts a never-ending series of rock-oriented concerts, spectacles, galas and cultural events. Its eclectic programming marks it out as one of the go-to establishments for the independent music community.

Thursday 5 May 2016 / 7pm-7am / 5 euros per event, tickets at the door

Every year, Nuits Sonores teams up with some of Lyon's finest clubs and gig venues to organise a roaming event on the evening of Holy Thursday: Night 2 / Le Circuit

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The set design of Nuits SonoresLFA & Nuits sonores choose Trafik for 2016

Looking for ArchitectureArchitects & set designers

Looking for Architecture, created in 2011 by Antoine Trollat and Laurent Graber, is an ar-chitecture workshop based in Lyon. Since the agency was first established, the two founders have been joined by long-standing team mem-ber Gregoire Oriol.

Why Looking For Architecture ?The team at Looking for Architecture are known for the care that they afford to under-standing their end users, and to defining their projects – a result of their diligent considera-tion of context and program. This background work is all in the name of achieving an invari-ably unique architecture. As architects, they approach all of their projects with the same levels of attention and sensitivity, focusing on the art of proportions between bodies and surrounding spaces.

It is perhaps their background in events that has led them to develop a singular architec-tural style, in terms of space, time, landscape and users. Through their practice of all that's ephemeral, they have been able to develop a particular vocabulary that can be applied to all projects, no matter the size, and which feeds their architecture from the form and shell out-wards. Masters of many arts, the team offer installations or mobile structures, featuring both "standard" and "non-standard" architec-ture. They have now reached a point where they are at ease producing constructions de-dicated to culture and the performing arts, as well as for residential projects or public places.

www.lookingforarchitecture.com

Whether it be graphic design, lettering, images, lighting, screens, projections, code or installations, Trafik is an organisation that loves to understand, form, construct, produce, organise, deploy, imagine, publish, reveal and define.Motivated by dialogue and participation, Tra-fik's work stands out due to its incentive, fun and immersive nature. Their "homemade" gra-phic systems and digital tools produce a final product that is unfailingly unique, joyous and uninhibited. As their means of expression are theoretically infinite, and no situation is ever the same, their procedures are reset to zero for each project, resulting in applications of a con-tinually fresh plasticity and perspective.

"Graphic design and programming are right at the heart of many of our projects, and the combination of the two has been Trafik’s founding concept (since 1997). From the very beginning, we believed that programming could be used for creative means, even if the languages of programming have been devised essentially for the development of tools. When we write a program, we must respond to the technical issues that confront us, solve the code in order to ensure that the program fun-ctions. But ours is also an artistic process, in that we take an interest in the results genera-ted on an aesthetic level and make our own visual choices."

www.lavitrinedetrafik.fr

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Visual identity of the festivalNuits sonores 2016 has chosen Studio Feixen

Studio Feixen is the graphic design work of Felix Pfäffli, born in 1986, founded after he graduated in 2010.

In 2011, Felix was appointed to teach in the fields of typography, narrative design, and poster design. Since 2013 he is a member of the AGI (Alliance Graphique International).

How did you think and realize this identity? "Our studio is based on a very simple concept. We understand our work as something like a game. So actually we just started playing. Listening music. Designing. Fooling around. Trying to get the right feeling. After a while of course, we had a huge collection of elements colors, patterns we thought are matching with the festival and we simply organized them. So finally we decided to have a very modular, always changing and surprising design that we hope reflects the diversity of Nuits sonores perfectly"

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We are Europe is the newly-created association of 8 major European events joining forces in or-der to promote, create and produce innovative cultural practices, defined by creative diversity and exchanges:— c/o pop festival & c/o pop convention (Cologne-Allemagne), — Elevate - Music & Arts & Elevate - Political discourse + Activism (Graz-Autriche), — Insomnia & Movement+New Ideas (Tromsø-Norvège), — Nuits sonores & European Lab forum (Lyon-France), — Resonate live & Resonate conference (Belgrade-Serbie), — Reworks festival & Reworks forum (Thessalonique-Grèce), — Sónar & Sónar+D (Barcelone-Espagne), — TodaysArt & Bright collisions (La Haye-Pays-Bas).

Coordinated by Arty Farty, our common project aims to develop a prospective vision of electro-nic culture, technology and entrepreneurship, contributing to new social and political develop-ments with an interdisciplinary approach.

Culture is a central element in the development of this project and a key to build and strengthen the European identity and citizenship. Electronic, digital, contemporary, innovative: the culture we represent brings together European communities, throughout a rich and diverse array of aesthetics, aims at high artistic standards and supports practices sharing.

Through We are Europe, we affirm ou beliefs in:- a necessary space for reflection beside our events,- a prospective and educational approach to culture,- promoting innovation and new models for fostering European exchange,- high cultural ambitions and artistic independence as key requirements.

For three years, We are Europe will present 56 artistic stages and journeys on the 8 European territories, encouraging the mobility of ideas and value resources, proposals, best practices and innovative models for a new generation of cultural change-makers.

We are EuropeA european project about the future of culture.Nuits sonores 2016 invits c/o pop Festival & Elevate - Music & Arts

"The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the au-thors, and the Commission cannot be held responsi ble for any use which may be made of the information contained therein."

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Within the We are Europe forum, Nuits sonores 2016 invites c/o pop Festival and Elevate - Mu-sic & Arts to share their vision of the European cultural scene throughout the festival's inaugura-tion at la Sucrière, and during Night 3, at the Ancien Marché de Gros.

"The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsi ble for any use which may be made of the information contained therein."

We are EuropeNuits sonores 2016 invites c/o pop Festival& Elevate - Music & Arts

c/o pop Festival • Cologne, GermanySince 2004, annual festival c/o pop transfor-med the city of Cologne into an essential mee-ting for emerging and confirmed artists pop music lovers, labels and professionals from musical and event industries, from Germany and beyond. The festival's success relies on an atypical selection of its locations : clubs, gigs venues as well as places derived from their ori-ginal function such as the Cologne Chamber of Philharmonic.

We are Europe by c/o pop Festival:Wednesday 4 May 2016 Michael Mayer (see page 12)Friday 6 May 2016 Domenique Dumont, Weval, Moderat, Low Jack and Bambounou (see page 49)

Elevate - Music & Arts • Graz, AutricheElevate - Music, & Arts is an annual festival taking place since 2005 in different locations around Schlossberg in Graz, Austria. Mixing music, contemporary Art, political and critical talks, Elevate frees itself from the usual festi-val's scheme.

While maintainig various content and aes-thetics, artists presented at Elevate all have a common characteristic: Courage to break up with conventions, satisfying their need by developping their own path, far from main-stream.We are Europe by Elevate - Music & Arts:Wednesday 4 May 2016 Zanshin and Ogris Debris (see page 12)Vendredi 6 May 2016 Bajram Bili, Elektro Guzzi, James Holden & Camilo Tirado, Ninos du Brasil feat. Mémoires d'Avenir and J-Zbel (see page 50)

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Wednesday 4

Nuits sonores & European Lab forumInauguration→ La Sucrière6pm/11pm

Night 1→ Ancien Marché de gros9pm / 5am

The Absolut Company Creationpresents OX→ Le Sucre11pm / 5am

Thursday 5

Extra!→ Various venues

Mini sonore→ Jardin du Musée des Confluences (tbc)3:30pm/7:30pm

Carte blanche→ Jardin du Musée des Confluences(tbc)3:30pm/ 9pm

NS Days Thursday→ La Sucrière3:30pm/ 9:30pm

Night 2 / Le Circuit→ Various venues9p / 6:00am

Resident Advisor x Nuits sonores→ Le Sucre11pm / 5am

Friday 6


Mini sonore→ Jardin du Musée des Confluences(tbc)3:30pm/7:30pm


NS Days Friday→ La Sucrière3:30pm/ 9:30pm


Saturday 7


Mini sonore→ Jardin du Musée des Confluences(tbc)3:30pm/7:30pm


NS Days Saturday→ La Sucrière3:30pm/ 9:30pm


Burn presents Light it up !→ Le Sucre11pm / 5am

Sunday 8


Sunday Park xCrédit Mutuel→ tba3:30pm/ 8pm

Closing Party Nuits sonores→ Le Sucre

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THE DAYPROGRAM

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InaugurationWe are Europe by c/o pop & Elevate - Music & Arts

6pm-7:10pm : Zanshin (Affine / Vienna- Austria) Dj setA versatile presence on Vienna's electronic scene, Zanshin is a sculptor of sounds with a pallet extending all the way from abstract jazz to broken step. An avant-gardist who has been known to flirt with IDM, the Austrian is signed to the Affine label, on which he has already released two albums and a series of ma-xi-singles. He has developed a visual universe reminiscent of the martial arts, nourishing for both body and mind.

7:20pm-8:20pm : Ogris Debris (Affine-Com-post Vienna-Austria) LiveTrying to label the Ogris Debris sound feels like an impossible task, such is the duo's propensity to cross musical boundaries with disconcerting fluidity. Since 2007, these two Austrians signed to the Affine label (Cid Rim, Dorian Concept) have been producing music laced with jazz, techno, soul, and so much more besides. Onstage, the duo delivers extra-vagant live performances that always get their dancefloors moving.

8:30pm-11pm : Michael Mayer (Kompakt / Cologne-Germany) Dj setHailing from Cologne, Michael Mayer is one of the most influential figures on today's European electro scene. A DJ since the age of 15, he co-founded the prestigious Kompakt label in 1998. Over the years, he developed the label, widening its horizons via the creation of its subdivisions Kompakt Pop, Kompakt Extra and Freiland. In addition to expertly running a colossus like Kompakt, Michael Mayer has also released two albums – Touch (2004) and Mantasy (2012) – whose sound is located at a crossroads between techno, new-wave and house.

Wednesday 4 May 2016 / 6pm-11pm / La Sucrière / By invitation

The Inauguration day is the real start of the festival, a not-to-be-missed meeting between professionals, journalists, partners or festival aficionados. In 2016, Nuits sonores open by highlighting We are Europe, the European project from which it is a member, by inviting 2 partners. Infos p.9

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After the success of the 2015 edi-tion, For the first time in its histo-ry, Arty Farty has handed its pro-gramming over to the leading artists of electro-nic music. The "A Day With ..." project devotes each day of Nuits Sonores to an artist who embo-dies the spirit of the festival.

The task was not easy but the three selected curators — Motor City Drum En-semble, Laurent Garnier and Seth Troxler — took on some serious personal work as well as the chal-lenge of distilling their influences, stories and visi-ons of contempo-rary music.

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NS Days ThursdayA day with Motor City Drum Ensemble

Motor City Drum Ensemble(MCDE Recordings / Amsterdam-Pays-Bas)

Despite being only 30 years old, Danilo Ples-sow – aka Motor City Drum Ensemble (MCDE) – is well and truly one of the old school, a throwback, an 80s house fanatic with a declared love for all that's retro and analogue. Armed with his vinyl, his drum machine, his synthesizer and his trusty sampler, he conjures up melodious, brilliantly energetic house music.

Danilo spent part of his life in Stuttgart, the home of the German automobile industry – the country's own Detroit, a "Motor City". An industrial thread therefore runs through his music but he also, and primarily, produces red hot rhythms that are among the most exciting to have appeared over the last few years. Influenced by jazz, funk, soul and hip-hop, this trained drummer can take his pick from a variety of styles in recreating little gems of old-school house music, while never shying away

from incorporating more contemporary electro sounds.

Motor City Drum Ensemble is behind the MCDE Recordings label, which he formed with his friend Pablo Valentino, who recently mo-ved to Lyon to take on a residency at Le Sucre.

His open-minded nature promises an eclectic and expertly refined edition of NS Days, befit-ting of his influences, his productions and the artists he endorses.

Thursday 5 May 2016 / 3pm-9:30pmLa Sucrière26 euros, full price / 23 euros, reduced price (excluding rental fees)

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3:30pm-5:30pm : Pablo Valentino (MCDE Recordings, FACES Records / Lyon - France) Dj setA globetrotter who has been collecting vinyl nuggets ever since 1997, Pablo Valentino is an insatiable crate-digger whose musical tastes know no genre boundaries, be it jazz, funk, boogie, disco, house, techno or hip-hop. Founder of FACES Records, he also runs MCDE Recordings alongside Danilo Plessow (aka Mo-tor City Drum Ensemble). Pablo Valentino has recently moved to Lyon and currently has his own residency at Le Sucre, where each month he coordinates the Children of the Drum house nights.

5:30pm-7:30pm : Motor City Drum Ensemble(MCDE Recordings / Amsterdam-Holland) Dj set

7:30pm-9:30pm : The Black Madonna (Argot, Stripped & Chewed / Chicago - United States) Dj setThe Black Madonna's music is a product of the Chicago house scene that has been deligh-ting the city's aficionados since the end of the noughties. Following the release of Exodus and a subsequent series of maxi-singles, Marea Vierge-Noire started her European adventure at the Panorama Bar in Berlin.Since then, this artist has compiled a solid back catalogue via spells with labels such as Classic, Freerange, Home Taping Is Killing Music, Argot and Stripped & Chewed. Since 2013 she has been resident at the Smart Bar, a legendary club in Chicago, alongside other notable DJs such as Derrick Carter.

Thursday 5 May 2016 / 3pm-9:30pm / La Sucrière26 euros, full price / 23 euros, reduced price (excluding rental fees)

Included in NS Days Thursday

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NS Days ThursdayLe Sucre

Thursday 5 may 2016 / 3pm-9:30pm / La Sucrière26 euros, full price / 23 euros, reduced price (excluding rental fees)


3:30pm-6pm : Lakuti (Uzuri Recordings / Ber-lin, Germany) Dj setLerato Khathi – aka Lakuti – was brought up in Soweto, Johannesburg, by a mother with a passion for Motown and a jazz-crazy, double bass-playing grandfather. Needless to say, she fell in love with music at a very early age. With some memorable nights already under her belt from her days running the Planet Hendon club in the suburbs of Johannesburg, she moved to London in 1997, where she started putting on a monthly night at Plastic People. Her next move came with the creation of her own booking and management agency, Uzuri, alongside friend Alan Abrahams (aka Portable).Now settled in Berlin, Lakuti moves from one collaboration to the next – with Portal, Tama Sumo, even Matias Aguayo – and can boast, at one time or another; to have set foot in the majority of the world's finest clubs.

6:15pm-7:30pm : Tony Allen (Jazz Village / Lagos-Nigeria) LiveFor a long-time Fela Kuti's friend and drum-mer – and even his artistic director between 1968 and 1979 – Tony Allen's status as one of the pioneers of afrobeat is beyond argument. Once described by Brian Eno as "possibly the best drummer who ever lived", the Nigerian possesses an aura that extends well beyond the confines of afrobeat and the African con-tinent. He has repeatedly collaborated with Sebastien Tellier, Charlotte Gainsbourg ,Theo Parrish, and has formed two supergroups with his friend Damon Albarn: The Good, the Bad & the Queen and Rocket Juice & The Moon (with Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers). Two tracks off his last album have been remixed by Ricardo Villalobos and Fort Romeau. 8:15pm-9:15pm : Leroy Burgess (Atlantic / New York, USA) LiveAlthough he has always kept a very low profile, Leroy Burgess was one of the 1970s funk and soul scene's most prolific artists. His unique voice and instantly recognisable keyboard riffs saw him collaborate with some of that era's most exciting groups, including Black Ivory, Aleem and Inner Life.Invited by MCDE for a unique and exceptional live set, Nuits Sonores 2016 will be on the sta-ge for a major comeback by the 62 year-old.

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NS Days ThursdayEsplanade

3:30pm-6:30pm : Sadar Bahar (Sounds Familiar, BBE / Chicago - USA) Dj setAlready fascinated by the DJs he saw mixing records in clubs at the dawn of the 1970s, Sadar Bahar's career was kick-started the day his parents gave him his first set of decks, at the end of that same decade. The rest of his story is the stuff of legend on the Chicago house scene.Freely admitting to having cleared a few dan-cefloors at the start of his career due to some over-ambitious sets, Sadar Bahar is neverthe-less someone who accepts the consequences of his action. What's more, his audiences would not have it any other way: they come expecting the unexpected, gems uncovered by the expert after years of relentless digging. For Sadar, it is a passion which he is now deter-mined to share with new generations.

3:30pm-9:30pm : Antal (Rush Hour / Amsterdam - Netherlands) Dj set Antal is not just the head of the prestigious Rush Hour label. The Dutchman is also a hoar-der of vinyl nuggets, who has been scouring the world's record stores for over 20 years, ever seeking out the missing record from his incredible collection. The buzz he gets from unearthing a rare gem remains as fresh and exciting now as when he first started out, regardless of genre: his collection includes house, soul, disco, afrobeat and traditional music. And it is this insatiable thirst for rein-vention that makes his DJ sets so unusual and unique.

Thursday 5 May 2016 / 3pm-9:30pm / La Sucrière 26 euros, full price / 23 euros, reduced price (excluding rental fees)


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NS Days FridayA day with Laurent Garnier

Laurent Garnier(FCOM / Lourmarin-France)

Laurent Garnier and Nuits Sonores: over 12 years of shared memories.

This undisputed godfather of the French techno scene, and globally renowned and respected producer and DJ, has witnessed the growth of the festival at first-hand. A participant year after year, he has made a telling contribution to its development, as well as providing some of its greatest moments with his unfailingly innovative appearances at each edition: back-to back sets with other pioneers like Carl Cox, or the new generation (including Brodinski and MCDE); as a DJ or live; night-long performances or afternoon sets; even a child-friendly appearance for Mini Sonore. Throughout the year, Arty Farty is also involved in managing the artist, notably coordinating his recent project of releasing five records on five labels – which culminated in the release of Home Box on FCom – and maintaining his strong ties with Lyon via his

residency at Le Sucre, the venue he plays more than any other.

Forever attentive to reinventions on the elec-tronic scene, Laurent Garnier's artistic journey is one that, above all else, bears the seal of irreproachable integrity. A tireless seeker of new talent, he takes pride in his unwavering support for emerging artists. It is therefore with no small amount of enthusiasm that the Arty Farty/Nuits Sonores team is devoting one of its NS Days to him in 2016. This is the opportunity for the artist to make an unprece-dented contribution to this latest edition and, more generally, to continue to stamp his mark on the history of the festival.

Friday 6 May 2016 / 3pm-9:30pmLa Sucrière26 euros, full price / 23 euros, reduced price (excluding rental fees)

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3:30pm-5:30pm : Laurent Garnier B2B Jay Ro-binson (2Swords / Colwyn Bay - Walles) Dj setAt 28 years of age, Jay Robinson has already won the support of some of the biggest names on the contemporary electronic music scene. A protégé of Laurent Garnier and Copy Paste Soul (the founder of the 2Swords label, on which his latest maxi-single Totem was relea-sed), Jay Robinson floats around the sphere of bass music and has strung together a series of remixes and collaborations, flirting with both house music and future bass sounds. 5:30pm-7:30pm : Laurent Garnier B2B Copy Paste Soul (Exploited, Gruuv, 2Swords / Lon-don - England) Dj setHyperactive London-based producer Copy Paste Soul has developed his own unique iden-tity by handpicking the very best sounds from Detroit techno, US garage, drum'n'bass and bass music. He started out on the Exploited label, and his crossover sound has seen him appear alongside some of the all-time greats: he was invited to play at the O2 Academy in Oxford by Annie Mac, and at Space Ibiza by Carl Cox. A protégé of Laurent Garnier – who-se track Enchanté he remixed for the HOME box-set, released in 2015 – Copy Paste Soul also founded his own label, 2Swords, in 2014. 7:30pm-9:30pm : Laurent Garnier B2B Jack-master (Numbers / Glasgow - Scotland) Dj setBe it Dance Mania tracks from another age, techno or forgotten disco gems, you never qui-te know what a set by Jackmaster may hold in store. Co-founder of the Numbers label (home to Hudson, Mohawks, Doc Daneeka, SOPHIE, Jamie XX, Rustie and SNTRKT) the Scot does not think of music in terms of genres, but rather energy potential. Distancing himself from all the hype and latest trends, his eternal aim (that he unfailingly achieves) is to quite simply bring happiness to his dancefloor.

Friday 6 May 2016 / 3pm-9:30pm / La Sucrière 26 euros, full price / 23 euros, reduced price (excluding rental fees)

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NS Days FridayLe Sucre

4:45pm-5:45pm : Ghost Of Christmas (Sounds Like Yeah! / Toulon - France) LiveEach hailing from very distinct musical back-grounds, the members of Ghost of Christmas met for the first time at a studio jam session in 2013. The trio immediately hit it off, giving birth to a project whose signature sound is made up of an organic and sensual bass mu-sic, inspired by the blues, soul music and UK garage. The energy of their music immediately caught the ear of Laurent Garnier, who soon invited them to join his new label Sounds Like Yeah!, which released their debut EP, Awake, in December 2015.

6:15pm-7:15pm : Arnaud Rebotini & Christian Zanési (Blackstrobe Records / Paris, France) LiveMade up of Arnaud Rebotini (producer and leading figure on the French electronic scene, a lover of analogue machines and prone to epic live performances) and Christian Zanési (artistic director of the Music Research Group since 2006, a former pupil of Pierre Schaeffer who is making waves in the concrete and elec-tro-acoustic music circles), Frontières is first and foremost a harmonious collision of two sonic whizzkids who delight in fusing together seemingly contradictory music genres. Their first maxi-single has just been released on Blackstrobe Records. 8pm-9:15pm : CHASSOL (Tricatel / France) LivePianist, composer, arranger and musical di-rector (Phoenix, Sebastien Tellier) charismatic and talented Christophe Chassol is the author of an unclassifiable work. His brilliantly-dazz-ling fourth album, in Martinique, crowns his trilogy of ultrascores (a method he elaborated for harmonizing, symphonizing real life, thehe-re and now), which started out in Creole-spe-aking New Orleans before pursuing its route through India. Chassol plays, with a natural feel, a natural touch, pieces that are far from natural.



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NS Days FridayEsplanade

3:30pm-5:30pm : Radiomeuh Soundsystem (Radio Meuh / La Clusaz - France) Dj setA few months after welcoming them to his Yeah! festival, Laurent Garnier has once more extended an invitation to this most famous of independent Alpine webradio music stations. Since it started broadcasting in 2007, the address radiomeuh.com has become one of the landmark stations in the history of French webradio. The resident DJs can certainly pick a tune, and they'll be more than happy to sift out some dancefloor bombtracks especially for this occasion. 5:30pm-7:30pm : Ivan Conti Dj Drum Set (AZYMUTH) (Far Out Recordings / Rio de Jan-eiro - Brasil) Dj setAzymuth are one of the most influential groups in Brazil, revered by fans the world over who hunt down their every release. Formed in the 1970s in Rio de Janeiro, Azymuth mix funk, soul and jazz with samba, and in doing so have developed their own unique sound: the "Samba Doido" (crazy samba). Ivan Conti, the group's drummer and spiritual leader, is also an unrivalled crate-digger. He is making the journey to Lyon to share his vinyl collection with the NS audiences, bringing proceedings to a close on the Esplanade stage.

7:30pm-9:30pm : Mr Bongo (Mr Bongo Re-cords / Brighton - England) Dj setSince 1989, the Mr Bongo collective and label have been the authority on the incredible golden age of Brazilian, Latin, African, jazz, soul and psychedelic music, uncovering some of the greatest sounds ever recorded. Mr Bongo's resident diggers (Graham Luckhurst, Gareth Stephens, Ally Smith and Ville Marttila) bring this music to dancefloors all around the world, playing exclusively off vinyls, and share it every month on their radio show Mr Bongo Record Club.



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NS days SaturdayA day with Seth Troxler

Seth Troxler(Tuskegee / London-United Kingdom)

Although generally considered to be one of the world's finest DJs, Seth Troxler is not one to take himself too seriously and always demons-trates humility and a great sense of humour. His charisma is legendary, both on and off the stage, and his sets reflect his expansive, hedo-nistic and often unpredictable personality. Ne-ither has Troxler allowed his huge popularity to dilute his demanding artistic standards, and he continues to promote independent music through the avant-garde label Visionquest (which he co-founded) and more recently with Tuskegee.

Born in Kalamazoo, located halfway between Detroit and Chicago, Seth Troxler was raised in Detroit before spending several years in Ber-lin. He has played the best clubs all over the world, and regularly collaborates with other producers and DJs including Jackmaster, Matthew Dear and Modeselektor.

On-stage, Troxler serves up a unique musical journey, an avalanche of funky house and round bass lines, creating a generous sound bursting with energy. He has an encyclopae-dic knowledge of techno and house music, and the line-up he settles on for this final NS Days is sure to contain some real treats.

Saturday 7 May 2016 / 3pm-9:30pmLa Sucrière26 euros, full price / 23 euros, reduced price (excluding rental fees)

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NS Days SaturdaySalle 1930

3:30pm-9:30pm : Seth Troxler B2B The Martinez Brothers (Tuskegee / New York - USA / Dj set)

Originally hailing from the Bronx, and influenced from an early age by their father's love for Pa-radise Garage, Steve and Christian Martinez kicked off their music career in 2007, when they were signed to the New York label Objektivity. Emerging from the underground house scene, they were suddenly propelled onto the world stage with an Ibiza summer residence in 2011. In 2013, they founded their own label Cuttin' Headz, and started inviting the leading lights of the American house scene (DJ Qu, Rick Wilhite and Kerri Chandler, among others) to share the stage with them at their Mad Beats & Crazy Styles events. At the forefront of the renewal of the US house scene, nowadays the duo can be found tirelessly trawling clubs the world over.

Saturday 7 May 2016 / 3pm-9:30pm / La Sucrière 26 euros, full price / 23 euros, reduced price (excluding rental fees)

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NS Days SaturdayLe Sucre

4:45pm-6:15pm : Seven Davis Jr (Ninja Tune / London-England) Live + Dj setHave you heard his tracks Wild Hearts and Sunday Morning during a set by one of your favourite artists? Have you felt the dancefloor come alive at that exact moment? That’s perfectly normal. American Seven Davis Jr is the future of soul music, one of the most electrifying producers around at the moment. Citing both Frankie Knuckles and Gil Scott-He-ron as principal influences, he produces a sound that is laced with dazzling house, visionary funk and bass-heavy post-disco. His album Universes, on the Ninja Tune imprint, was one of 2015's essential releases.

6:30pm-7:30pm : Kate Simko & Tevo Howard aka PolyRhythmic (Last Night On Earth / Chi-cago - USA) LiveBorn out of a meeting between two Chicago house DJs and producers, Kate Simko and Tevo Howard, PolyRhythmic is a project that showcases the versatility and eclecticism of the two artists. The duo's sound lurches from soul to African rhythms, taking in acid, new wave and, of course, house. Their eponymous debut album, which came out on the Last Night On Earth imprint in 2015, is a precise and subtle inventory of Chicago's contem-porary musical landscape. Pushing back boundaries on all fronts, it can be considered a genuine masterpiece 7:45pm-9:15pm : Mathew Jonson (Wagon Repair / Berlin-Germany) LiveThe hyperactive Canadian Mathew Jonson, member of the Cobblestone Jazz and Modern Deep Left quartets and duo Midnight Operator, is one of a handful of modern producers whose sound is instantly recognisable from the very first listen. Co-founder of the Wagon Repair label and currently based in Berlin, he has been trawling the world's stages for the last 10 years, consistently delivering his trademark melodious live techno with relentless energy, while never shying away from incorporating his new compositions.



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NS Days SaturdayEsplanade

3:30pm-6:30pm : Fort Romeau (Ghostly - Live at Robert Johnson / London-England) Dj setMichael Greene is the guy behind Fort Ro-meau. He's a London based producer and was keyboardist for the synth pop band La Roux. He made his mini-album Kingdom in 2012 in the privacy of his home studio on an old laptop with a Yamaha DX7 synth. It has since brought him great acclaim from both the press and the public. Since then, Fort Romeau has continued to release records on top labels such as Ghostly International and Live At Robert Johnson. 6:30pm-9:30pm : Honey Soundsystem (San Francisco-USA) Dj setInspired by the venerable cultural instituti-on that is San Francisco's gay underground scene, Honey Soundsystem was founded in 2006 by Ken Woodward and Jacob Sperber as a collective of DJs, musicians, performers and designers. The onstage line-up of Jacob Serber, Jason Kendig, Robert Yang and Josh Cheon share with audiences their love for timeless dancefloor hits, never ceasing to analyse and reflect upon the essence of the past in order to continually evolve and better shape the future.Between 2008 and 2013, the quartet put on weekly events featuring appearances from DJ Sprinkles, Todd Terje, Prosumer, Boris, Steffi, Horse Meat Disco, Discodromo, Eric Duncan, Derek Plaslaiko, Maurice Fulton, Kink, Ivan Smagghe and Optimo, among others.



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Cool Korea !Crossed Years France-South Korea x Institut Français

Having shown spotlight on Warsaw, Brussels, Tokyo, New York and Glasgow, Nuits sonores invits South Korea and particularly its capital Seoul. Between modernity and tradition, Arty Farty has discovered a fascinating, magnetic and abounding city, a creative, cultural, social and economic ferment.

Megacity of a thousand faces, Seoul is an intellectual, technologic and cultural ex-citement. Between traditional houses and skyscrapers, the team has landed in the heart of Hongdae, an alternative district with its numerous clubs, café-concerts, start-ups and studios and decided to dedicate its Carte blan-che to the independent and innovative vitality of Seoul.

Music, cinema, food culture, robotics, entre-preneurship, set design... Arty Farty puts for a week the Nuits sonores Festival, the European Lab forum and le Sucre in the Korean sauce from 1st to 7 Mai 2016, inviting dozens of bands and cultural activists.

In collaboration with Pop up Market, Comœdia, RTU and Vague Coréenne.

Event organized in the framework of the Year France-Korea 2015-2016 :www.anneefrancecoree.com

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Apéros SéoulThursday 5 May 2016

4pm-4:45pm : Su:m (Seoul-Korea) LiveSu:m consists of duo Jiha Park and Jungmin Seo. These two brilliant musicians breathe new life into traditional Korean music through their own original compositions. Refined and elegant, their music has already found an international audience following tours in Asia, Europe, USA and Canada. Hypnotising.

5:15pm-6pm : Glen Check (The Basement Resistance / Seoul-Korea) LiveGlen Check have been a huge success since they first emerged on the scene in 2011. The proof is in their countless live performances in Korea and beyond (USA, Japan), during which their efficient dancefloor electro-pop transla-tes into a truly hectic live experience. Unu-sually for a Korean act, they are also known for their remixes. Winners of the Korean Music Award for Best electronic album in both 2013 and 2014, Glen Check have quickly become a mainstay of the Korean indie scene.

6:30pm-7:15pm : DTSQ (Loose Union / Se-oul-Korea) LiveThe four skaters who make up DTSQ listen to punk, garage, new wave, psychedelic, techno and house. These raw and varied influences can be heard in their frenetic garage rock, per-formed at no-holds-barred live shows in front of growing audiences at all of Seoul’s best alternative venues. But who better to intro-duce you to DTSQ than the group themselves? We love subculture, cats and pepperoni pizza. Of course we love beer as well.

7:45pm-9pm : KIRARA (Seoul-Korea) Dj setMaintaining a hyperactive rate of production, Kirara is constantly refreshing his Soundcloud page with new music, each composition stri-ving to be more surprising than the one before. Situated somewhere between house and techno, Kirara has developed a split identity built around sampling and other, more original production ideas. Productivity and originality are the most appropriate qualities to associate with this promising DJ from Seoul.

Thursday 5 May 2016 / 3:30pm-9pm / Jardin du Musée des Confluences (tbc) / Free

Warm-up and stage shiftings by RTU : interviews, guided tour of alternative Seoul and dj sets

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Apéros SéoulFriday 6 May 2016

4pm-4:45pm : Look and Listen (Beatball Re-cords / Seoul-Korea) Live"Look and Listen are pop-punk as it should be. Simple, straightforward, and full of energy." A short but perfectly fitting introduction to this trio, made up of a striking two-thirds female line-up. Flourishes of surf music add the finis-hing gloss to their already refreshing, sunny musical pallet. Following the release of their first album Ready to Go in 2012, the group released an album of cover versions of punk rock's greatest anthems in 2014.

5:15pm-6pm : The Killer Drones (Loose Union / Seoul-Korea) Live Less confrontational that their name would suggest, the Killer Drones play a brand of noisy, sunny and hazy psychedelic garage music that seems to belong in California. Composed of three American expats and a native South Kore-an, the group was formed in Seoul in 2012 and released their eponymous debut album in 2013.

6:30pm-7:15pm : NP Union (Stoneship / Se-oul-Korea) Live 100% acoustic hip-hop, built around horns, drums and an MC (Rocky L). Created in 2013, NP Union exploded onto the Seoul scene with their fiery live shows and surprise street per-formances. These eight musicians play a truly old school – even old-fashioned! – hip-hop in a resolutely jubilant atmosphere. Their unstop-pable hit Raw Pow Pow has earned them a new-found international fame.

7:45pm-9pm : Dj Soulscape (360 Sounds / Seoul-Korea) Dj setA tireless crate digger and a mainstay of Se-oul's vinyl scene, Soulscape is simultaneously a DJ, producer, radio presenter, event orga-niser, and composer for cinema or live shows. His DJ sets are made up exclusively of Korean music, veering from hip-hop to 60s/70s soul, from afrobeat to bossa nova, with some jazz and boogie on the way. Rarely quiet for long, DJ Soulscape is a major player and a mainstay of the Seoul music scene.

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Apéros SéoulSaturday 7 May 2016

4pm-4:45pm : Wedance (Utakata Records / Seoul-Korea) Live Wedance is a true musical UFO, floating some-where between Rita Mitsouko, the dance-punk of the Rapture, and Stereo Total. They have already released a dozen maxi-singles and two albums, have achieved great fame in Japan, are coveted by numerous Korean record labels, and have just collaborated with the bassist from Deerhoof, who produces their latest record. A crazy Korean group who can really get the dancefloor moving.

5:15pm-6pm : Juck Juck Grunzie (Loose Union Seoul-Korea) Live With its irregular rhythms, chaotic soundsca-pes and a more accessible rock flourishes, Juck Juck Grunzie's sound is unfailingly dark and mysterious. Like a psychedelic trip in a haunted club, you might say. A unique presen-ce on Seoul's musical landscape, over the past year the group has enjoyed growing success, performing across Europe.

6:30pm-7:30pm : Jambinai (The Tell Tale Heart / Seoul-Korea) LiveJambinai creates post-rock strongly influ-enced by the genre's Canadian masters, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, yet allow their music to tread new paths thanks to traditional Korean instruments such as the haegeum, the geomungo, the taepyeongso and the piri. The delicacy of these traditional instruments serves as the perfect counter-balance to the power of the electric guitar, creating an enti-rely unique, trance-like sound. 8pm-9pm : Yamagata Tweakster (Utakata Records / Seoul-Korea) LiveA key figure on the Korean underground, Yamagata Tweakster is a legendary and 100% original performer. With a customary penchant for colourful costumes and suggesti-ve choreography, he brings the same spirit of showmanship to each of his many appearan-ces. Armed with a laptop, a mic and a touch of madness, Yamagata is setting sail to Lyon with one thing in mind: to get people dancing!

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Carte blanche to SeoulBut music

Korean FoodVaried in its flavours and its forms, Korean cuisine is simply bursting with unusual and surprising tastes. A 100% Korean menu will be served up to the Carte Blanche audien-ces, consisting of classic dishes like Korean barbecue, bibimbap and banchan (small side dishes).From Thursday 5 May to Saturday 7 May 2016 3:30pm-9pmJardin du Musée des Confluences (tbc)

Korean CinemaAs unusual as it is prolific, today Korea’s is one the few film industries worldwide to stand up to the power of Hollywood on its home territory. For a long time stifled and limited to propaganda films by strict government direc-tives, in the last thirty years it has become a formidable hotbed of creativity, exported to the biggest international festivals. In collaboration with the Comœdia cinema

Programming still to be finalised.Monday 2 May 2016 at 8pm at the Comoedia cinema

Korean scenoA tribute stage design to Seoul will be spe-cifically created for the Carte blanche at the Gardens of the Musée des Confluences.

Bal Pop special: South KoreaEvery month Le Sucre puts on a traditio-nal-style French ball in partnership with Pop Up Market. To coincide with Cool Korea, for one night only the ball will be Korean-themed!

Saturday 30 April 201611pm-5:00amLe Sucre

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Mini sonoreThe festival for children

It is May 2011. Pedro Winter is dressed up as a giant dinosaur behind the decks at the Piscine du Rhône, an outdoor swimming pool in Lyon, playing for a hoard of delighted children. The smiles beaming from this crowd of blonde heads plant the first seeds of what will become Mini Sonore. Since then, the event has become a festival in its own right, parallel to Nuits Sonores and entirely reserved for children. Over the space of 3 or 4 days the mini festival-goers, having registered free of charge, can take their pick of a dozen creative, musical and multimedia-based workshops.

The concept is a simple one: immerse the children in the world of Nuits Sonores by introducing them to the festival's principal artistic disciplines. There is a particular focus on audiovisual techniques, which tend not to play a part in the everyday lives of children (photo montage, video special effects, stop-motion, new musical forms).

Similarly, the idea is to approach certain more traditional activities (colouring in, painting, cutting out, collage, fashion) from a different angle in order to invite the children to experiment and develop their creativity alongside professionals. Finally, the children get the opportunity to experience their own festival by attending concerts, letting their hair down on the dancefloor, sipping a cordial cocktail or by simply exploring the mini festival site.

From Thursday 5 to Saturday 7 May 2016 / 3:30pm-7:30pmGarden of the Musée des Confluences (tbc) Mini Sonore at Sunday Park x Crédit Mutuel on Sunday 8 Maywith a special retrogaming program.Free to sign up, from Monday 14 March.

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Mini Sonore reinvents itself for 2016!With a reworked site, bigger areas and cover-ed spaces, Mini Sonore is being transformed to guarantee better comfort, maximum security… and ever more scope for creativity!— Free to sign up— For 4–12 year-olds — 4 themed areas— 35 professional supervisors

Taking place in the wonderful gardens of the Musée des Confluences, where the Rhône and Saône rivers intersect, this year's Mini Sonore will be held in three geodesic domes. These domes, mimicking the futuristic style of the majestic Musée des Confluences which over-looks the site, will for a few days become the land of the mini festival-goer!

To allow the kids to let off steam in the open air, Mini Sonore will also have an outdoors recreation area between the domes, where greenery and urban furniture will be transfor-med into one big playground.

This year once more, it is free to register for Mini Sonore, a festival exclusively reserved for children! Fifteen professional supervisors and twenty trainees – graduates of the French na-tional child entertainment training qualificati-

New site, new activities:Mini Sonore reinvents itself for 2016!

on (the BAFA) – will be on-hand to guarantee the security, well-being and enjoyment of the little ones.

The children will be free to explore a site speci-ally designed just for them, where everything is at their disposal, and where the aim is to experiment and have fun.

A group dedicated to the smallest children will give them the chance to enjoy all the activi-ties, in a specially-adapted format for their age group. They will be accompanied throughout the festival by specialised supervisors.

And what about the parents? They can enjoy – in peace and quiet! – the European Lab forum and the free program of Nuits Sonores activities and events taking pla-ce by the Musée des Confluences (including Carte Blanche Seoul and Extra!), or even NS Days, the daytime Nuits Sonores event, at Les Subsistances.

From Thursday 5 to Saturday 7 May 2016 / 3:30pm-7:30pmGarden of the Musée des Confluences (tbc)

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Mini sonoreThe program

Musical Dome Gangpol und Mit & Mémoires d'Avenir Behind the decks, Gangpol will serve up a selection of his incredible collection of records from all over the world, while his trusty compa-nion Guillaumit complements the music with fun interactive videos. Especially for Mini Sono-re, the Mémoires d'Avenir collective – a young team of multi-talented artists from Tangiers in Morocco, who are simultaneously actors, musicians and acrobats – will also be on-hand to entertain the children in the Musical Dome.

— Mask-making with Guillaumit and Mémoires d'Avenir, giving the children the chance to colour in and personalise their own disguise for the party,— Introduction to Gnawa percussion,— A mini percussion concert, with Memoires d'Avenir playing over Gangpol's musical nuggets, specially edited for the occasion,— The interactive fun of the Radio Minus Sound System!

Creative DomeSewer Gadget and Jérémie "Chienpo" Cortial & friends— Le Flippaper : to invent the pinball of the future, armed with nothing more than felt-tip pens and one plain sheet of paper, then play their creation on an old school console worthy of the best 80s sci-fi games.— Paper Tronics : "Wow, imagine if my dra-wings became video games… How cool would that be?!". We all had that dream when we

were kids, and now Low Tech consoles allow the children to become the inventors, the desig-ners and, above all, the players!— Sérigraphie yourself : A screen-printing workshop suitable for all, where the kids get the chance to master the art of multi-layer printing. You need not worry, everyone will end up lea-ving with their own special homemade Mini Sonore silkscreen!

Multimedia DomeKinofabrik, the little animated film factoryThe aim is to produce one collaborative film per day, serving as a shortened history of music: hip-hop, rock, then electronic music. This film is then screened and uploaded online the very same day.

There will be three workshops, for each creati-ve stage, overseen by an expert in the field:

— Creation of characters and sceneryLinda Cerqueda, visual artist, entertainer, clay modeller and musician.— Animation and recording of images on a multi-angle film set. Lyonel Kouro, artist, director, musician, entertainer.— Editing and sounds using fun, child-friendly software.Cynthia Delbart, director, chief editor.

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Mini sonoreThe program

Rereation areaHow does musical chairs to the soundtrack of an electric Nuits Sonores playlist sound? Or how about a giant coconut shy, with jam jar effigies of the worst popstars in history, a tribute to the ancient tradition of tomato throwing? These are just two examples of the barmy games that will be played all throug-hout the day in the Mini Sonore recreation area.The recreation area is supervised by the French Union of Holiday and Leisure Centres (UFCV) www.ufcv.fr

Mini Radio by RTU (radio, interviews, laughter, music and live reporting)The RTU is setting up its studio at Mini Sonore and is handing the controls over to the child-ren for two hours a day! On the schedule: live interviews, their own playlists, a news bulletin with all the latest from the mini festival, ga-mes, and more. In other words, big plans for a Mini Radio!

Cordial bar (glouglou, diabolo & mint cordial)Between workshops, after a musical chairs championship or before a game of Flippaper, it's high time to quench one's thirst! Mini Sonore has its own bar, and it's not just any old drinks stand: the staff have been recruited from among the best barmen on the planet, all of them multiple world champions in cordial cocktail-mixing. Enthusiastically mixing such flavours as banana and grenadine, the cordial bar is there to rehydrate the children, while reminding them that, sometimes, nothing beats good old water.

Magical clouring by Kiblind (monumental colouring & magical graphics)Theee exclusive creations in a monumental and magical colouring for Mini sonore 2016 will be shown by the Kiblind magazine team.

Rock Your Gif (Gifomaton)Better than a photo call, Mini Sonore equips itself with a gif-call, a photomaton producing animated images. In reference to the mythics workshops Rock Your Cover and Rock Your Clip that made the glory of the last Mini sonore editions, the children can disguise themselves into a mythical character of the independent music before taking the pose.

From Thursday 5 to Saturday 7 May 2016 / 3:30pm-7:30pmGarden of the Musée des Confluences (tbc)

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Sunday Park x Crédit MutuelDear partner of Nuits sonores since 2011, le Crédit Mutuel, historical support for music, is getting involved with us in the festive and family adventure of Sunday Park !

Sunday 8 May 2016 / 12pm-8:00pmVenue tba / Free

Camion bazar"The Camion Bazar is to the festival what the kitchen is to the house party."A full-time fun generator and dancing machine, the Camion Bazar is one of those curious col-lectives capable of lightening the mood at an electro party, much like Otto 10, Alter Paname, La Mamies, D.KO or Microclimat.Rock n' roll, funk, electro, pop, house… Every style is welcomed with open arms at the collec-tive's trademark truck, and it's all in the name of chilled out, hedonistic fun. Romain Play looks after the music, while Benedetta Bertella is in charge of extra-musical activities including false conferences, a wheel of fortune, sexy yoga, teleshopping, totem parades and fitness classes.

Jumble sale for the Secours Populaire A loyal partner of Nuits Sonores, the Rhône branch of the Secours Populaire charity is setting up a huge jumble sale at the heart of the Sunday Park.

Mini sonoreThe site of the Mini Sonore festival is being commandeered for the day, to give children the chance to experience a temporal adventure via the world of video games. Pacman, Tetris, Mario Kart and Donkey Kong will all give the little ones plenty to do, inviting them to enter their 8-bit universe for some truly barmy life-size games. It's enough to set those joysticks waggling!In partnership with the UFCV

Advance registration is compulsory. You can sign up from 14 March 2016 onwards at www.nuits-sonores.com/mini-sonore

This year's Sunday Park will have the feel of a huge village fair! With its giant jumble sale and pop street party, the festival's closing event will provide the perfect opportunity to simply chill out and have a stroll around.

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Extra!Since 2008, the Nuits Sonores festival has had that little bit Extra! to offer. But how? Thanks to you.

Nuits Sonores invites anyone who may be inte-rested to create their very own event, in order to develop an unusual backdrop to the festival by reinventing everyday locations.To be a part of Extra!, the rules are alarmingly simple: you just have to come up with the best idea in the world.So once more this year, we're going to add a little bit of Extra! to spice up the ordinary. And we're going to do it together.

Curious, extravagant and unique, Extra! invits cultural activists and addicts to electronic and independent cultures to invest incredible and unusual spots, to reinvent the places of our daily lives and to organize an event at Nuits sonores festival.

Since 2008, the Nuits Sonores festival has had that little bit Extra! to offer to festival-goers looking for an experience : to participate to a river cruise or a techno karaoke, to get marri-ed with his best friend or his dog or try to win the title of World Champion of musical chairs.

Everything but a off, Extra! is an extension to the experience of each festival-goer.

Since its launch, Extra! has gathered more than 149 500 participants around some 280 projects, almost always free and taking place in unusual or public spaces.

Budgetary limita-tions can sometimes prevent projects from coming to fruition, Nuits sonores has teamed up with KissKissBankBank, crowdfunding platform dedicated to creativity, to provide support to the selected projects.

The Extra! planning9 February 2016 : Deadline for Extra! projects6 April 2016 : the program is out !

Extra! Best ofOne Friday a month, till the festival, Nuits sonores offers the best of the best of Extra!, at Le Sucre (Lyon). This is Extra! Best of.Save the dates : 12 February, 11 March & 8 April 2016.

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The spirit of the main NightsA passionate, challenging, independent line-up

And so the 14th chapter in Nuits Sonores' colourful history is upon us. Bursting with stories to tell, remarkable characters to meet, and touching moments to experience. These are nights that stay true to their origins, nights that stand resolutely apart from the growing plethora of bloated, media-friendly and too often short-lived artistic projects.

In this context, Nuits Sonores has assembled a group of challenging and passionate artists to offer the public a unique spectacle whose impact will be heightened further this year by the triumphant return of live concerts to the heart of proceedings.Most of the artists present do not flirt with major record companies or the music indust-ry. Rather, they are the driving force behind a cultural scene that is enduring, participa-tive and independent.

In keeping with these aims, the line-up this year has purposefully left the beaten track behind, instead focusing its attention on the contemporary cultural scenes of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. This approach reflects the festival's readiness to fulfil two of its key principles: to engage in dialogue and to reconstruct culture. Principles that are further strengthened by the We Are Europe project and the work of the guest "cura-tors", who have been invited to assist us with the programming of this year's festival.

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9:45pm-10:30pm : L'Effondras (Dur Et Doux / Bourg-en-Bresse-France) LiveA trio who have been roaming the basements and stages of the Rhône-Alpes region of Fran-ce since the start of the decade, L'Effondras perform tortured, brutally honest music. Their eponymous debut album, released on the Dur Et Doux label in 2014, is made up of a string of progressive and hypnotic tracks. A genuinely cathartic listen

11:00pm-12:00am : Turzi (Records Makers / Versailles-France) LiveTurzi is a one-man group dreamt up and dri-ven by Romain Turzi, a specialist in producing disciplined, addictive rock. His subversive music draws inspiration from both Italian film music and German rock. Following on from two masterful releases, C – released in 2015 by Record Makers – is a shape-shifting album, belying previous attempts to pigeon-hole Turzi's sound as krautrock or psychedelic rock. Heard live, this is a complete, elegant and hypnotic experience.

12:30am-1:30am : Pantha du Prince presents The Triad (Rough Trade / Berlin-Germany) For his new project, Pantha du Prince is tea-ming up with his long-time friend Scott Mou and Norwegian drummer/composer Bendik Hovik Kjelsberg. Together they form Pantha du Prince feat. The Triad, a minimal psychedelic group whose music is characterised by heavy

Wednesday 4 May 2016 / 9pm-5am / Ancien marché de gros38 euros, full / 32 euros, reduced rate (loc. fees not included) • Included in Night 1

bass and techno undertones, aimed at both the dancefloor reveller and the more refined listener.

2am-3am : Red Axes (Garzen Records / Tel Aviv-Israel) LiveSince 2009 the Red Axes project, the brain-child of Israelis Dori Sadovnik and Niv Arzi, has been oscillating between post-punk and Italo-disco. Their first album Ballad of the Ice, released in 2014, recalled the crude live sound of their previous project (rock group Red Cot-ton) but blended with shades of a newfound dry, acid electro. The album is an unadulte-rated, groove-ridden digest of eclecticism, pitched somewhere between Portuguese new wave and psychedelia. The duo are currently working on their new label Garzen Records.

3am-5am : Dixon (Innervisions / Berlin- Ger-many) Dj setSteffen Berkhahn, aka Dixon, started making a name for himself on Berlin's club circuit at the dawn of the 1990s. Having quickly established himself at the forefront of the international DJ scene, he embarked upon a series of resi-dencies, from Panorama in Berlin to Fabric in London. The peerless co-founder of the Innervisions label, which he created with the duo Âme, has monopolised the number one spot in Resident Advisor's Top 100 DJs list since 2013.

Pantha du Prince feat. The Triad

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9pm-10:40pm : Mérovée (PapaMaman - Lyon) Dj setMerovee likes nothing more than to shake the techno scene to its very core. A relentless dig-ger, he can draw upon an arsenal comprising ambient, dub, noise and industrial music.

10:40pm-11:40pm : In Aeternam Vale (Minimal Wave-Jealous God / Lyon-France) LiveFor over 30 years, Laurent Prot has been play-ing and recording on cassettes. His music is all about instinct and feeling, mixing modular techno with energetic new wave. In 2014, he signed to the excellent Jealous God label, co-founded by Regis, on which he released his Jealous God 05 EP.

11:50pm-12:50am : Regis (Jealous God / New-York-USA) LiveBorn Karl O'Connor, and a figure on the elec-tronic music scene since the early-nineties, Regis is an English artist, producer and artistic director. He co-founded Downwards Records in 1993, the Sandwell District collective in 2002, and then, in 2013, the Jealous God label. He has made a career as a top producer, specialising in music ranging from the hardest techno to more psychedelic sounds.

1am-1:40am : Paula Temple (R&S, Noise Mani-festo / Berlin- Germany) LiveA techno artist used to going against the grain,


Paula Temple describes herself as a noisician who understands music first and foremost as a construct of noise and silence. Paula's raw and conceptual techno sound lends her live appea-rances an unique experimental quality.

1:50am-2:50am : Unforeseen Alliance (Const-ruct Re-Form / Paris - France) LiveUnforeseen Alliance is a French techno su-pergroup made up of four genius producers – Antigone, Voiski, Birth of Frequency and Zadig – put together by the latter's label, Construct Re-Form. The project's live appearances are as exciting as they are unusual. Representing a cross-section of the contemporary French techno scene, the collaboration is neverthe-less shrouded by an air of mystery: there is no Facebook page, no Soundcloud account, not even a profile on Resident Advisor. Unforeseen Alliance can therefore only be discovered in the conditions most conducive to fully appre-ciating the energy and power of the project. Which is live, of course.

3:10am-5am : Rødhåd (Dystopian / Berlin - Germany) Dj setA regular on the Berlin nightlife scene, Rødhåd has hoaned his own perfect formula of deep, melancholic techno. The ideal choice for a closing set, his sombre and powerful music aims to raise dancefloors as high as they can possibly get.

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Maitresses de cérémonie : Chantal La Nuit, Fifi du Clavaire et Tracy Gareth (Garçon Sauvage Lyon-France)Garçon Sauvage has a taste for the subversive. The transgender offspring of homosexual and queer cultures, founded by the Plusbellela-nuit collective, is an experimental stage. The audience provide each evening with its own thematic mythology; the very essence of queer.

9:30pm-10:15pm : Shopping (Fat Cat-Milk Records / London - England) LiveDescendents from the post-punk groups of the 70's and 80's, Shopping's nervous music yet remains strangely appropriate for the dancefloor. With its jumpy bass lines, slicing guitar riffs and disco-tinged drumming, this is a group to delight all fans of The Slits or The Organ.

10:45pm-11:30pm : The King Khan & BBQ show (Merge-In The Red / Montreal-Canada) LiveAlthough born in Montreal, the singular cha-racter known as Arish Ahmad Khan has been living in Berlin since the 90's. With his project King Khan & the Shrines, he has played his quirky garage rock at the biggest festivals For the King Khan & BBQ Show in 2004, he teamed up with Mark Sultan (BBQ). A gay icon with an eccentric and ambivalent personality, King Khan's stage shows are unfailingly energetic and colourful spectacles.

12am-1am : Peaches (I U She Music / Ber-lin-Germany) LiveSix years went by between the albums I Feel Cream and Rub. Six years that enabled Peaches

to direct the film Peaches Does Herself (2012), which could have seen her -otherwise known as Merrill Nisker- mellow out. But to think the years could diminish her energy or salacious-ness would be to underestimate her. And for proof this sensual genius remains intact, look no further than the video for her track Rub, which was censored only a few minutes after its release.

1:30am-2:15am : Cakes Da Killa (МИШКА / New-Jersey-USA) LiveFrom Mykki Blanco to Le1f, or even House of Ladosha, it would be too easy to fall back on obvious comparisons when trying to describe Cakes Da Killa. In reality he also draws inspi-ration from Busta Rhymes and nineties rap. A fashion school graduate with an entourage of talented producers, the 24-year-old takes the utmost care of both his image and his lyrics making the rap game look like a piece of cake.

2:15am-3:30am : L'Homme Seul (Garçon Sau-vage / Lyon-France) Dj setL'Homme Seul, resident DJ for the so-called Garçon Sauvage nights, has dancefloors swea-ting to indie dance, deep house and nu-disco.

3:30am-5am : Horse Meat Disco (Z Records Londres-Angleterre) Dj setTogether James Hillard, Jim Stanton, Filthy Luka and Severino make up the quartet known as Horse Meat Disco. Four heads coming to-gether as one, to conjure up as many different interpretations of disco music as possible: deep disco, italo-disco, punk funk, house...


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Over the last 10 years, live manifestations of electronic culture have become increasingly immersive and visual experiences. And light, in all its guises, remains a fundamental part of the most powerful performances. Mapping, LED lighting, holograms and kinetics are constantly being manipulated and blended by the most creative artists.

A committed supporter of contemporary creation for over 30 years, The Absolut Company Creation is taking on what may be its biggest challenge yet in 2016: to devise an entirely inde-pendent facility, capable of bringing genuine added value to electronic music and cultures, free from human input.

And so project OX is born, in collaboration with visual artist Romain Tardy.

Romain Tardy

Romain Tardy is a visual artist who largely works in the field of the digital arts. His installations make use of a full variety of techniques and technologies, including video-mapping, LEDs, kinetics and motion design. They are designed as in situ sensory experiences, using light as a means of accentuating existing architecture or structures that he himself has created.

On 4 May 2016, OX will be making an appearance at Nuits Sonores. It promises to be a unique experience, featuring an exclusive artistic centrepiece!

OX is a TETRO production made for The Absolut Company Creation.

The Absolut Company Creation presents OX

Wednesday 4 May 2016 / 11pm-5am / Le Sucre9 euros full / 7 euros Minuit Bird (loc. fee not included)

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11pm-1am : Moscoman (ESP Institute / Berlin - Allemagne) Dj setMoscoman is a producer and DJ who splits his time between Berlin and Tel Aviv, the city of his birth. He is both the founder and artistic direc-tor of the Disco Halal label, and has also scored various hits on labels such as Correspondant, I'm a Cliché and Eskimo. His individual sound, unfailingly evocative of the sweaty dancefloors of the Middle East, blends techno, new-wave and house.

1am-3am : Soul Clap (Soul Clap Records / Boston - USA) Dj setThe story of Soul Clap dates back to a time when, while searching to understand the history of dance music, the duo happened upon the figure of DJ Caril Mitro. This Boston DJ became their mentor and, soon enough, invited them to join the temple that is Vinyl Connection (alongside artists such as Dimitri From Paris and Frankie Knuckles). The duo were therefore able to learn from the very best, perfecting their DJ and production me-

thods and defining their own style and sound: a melting pot of throbbing house, 80s funk and pre-Timbaland R'n'B. And since no-one emerges from Vinyl Connection without kno-wing how to drop a tune, the duo's DJ sets are reliably epic events.

3am-5am : Kartell (Roche Musique / Paris - France) Dj setKartell is an artist who seems to grow in stature with every waking day, and has been ever since his emergence at the start of the deca-de. And with good reason. The co-founder of the Roche Musique label, whose seminal maxi-single Riviera was the Parisian imprint’s first release, is known for never standing still. Relentlessly touring throughout the world, this young producer has taken part in prestigious collaborations (with Snoop Dogg and Jabber-wocky, among others), can boast the support of artists across the globe (including Kaytranada, The Magician and Bondax) and continues to make a key contribution to the international reputation of the French electro scene.

Wednesday 4 May 2016 / 11pm-5am / Le Sucre9 euros full / 7 euros Minuit Bird (loc. fee not included)

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L'Ambassade12am-1:30am Manoo (Ambassade / Lyon – France) DJ Set1:30am-4:30am Culoe de Song (Innervisions - South Africa) Dj Set4:30am-5:30am Manoo B2B Culoe de Song Dj Set

Ayers Boat3pm-9pm The Bellrays (Fargo, Cobraside, Sultan Sounds / Riverside-USA) Live11pm-1am ALI B2B ki.fran (Atipik Kolektif / Lyon–France) Dj set1am-3am Klaar B2B Ortella (Art Feast Records / Lyon–France) Dj set3am-5am Hergè (Atipik Kolektif / Lyon–Fran-ce) B2B Miimo (Art Feast / Lyon–France) Dj set

Bellona with Difu11:30pm-2am Patrick Vidal(Difu-22tracks / Paris-France) Dj set2am-4am Jus Ed (Underground Quality Brid-geport-USA) Dj set 4am-6am : Laurent Caligaris B2B Jacques Terrasse (Difu / Lyon-France) Dj set

DV112am-2am Jibis (Tapage Nocturne-DV1R / Lyon-France) Dj set

Night 2 / Le Circuit

2am-4am Robert Owens (Chicago–USA) Dj set4am-6am DudMode (Baldwin Records-DV1R / Lyon-France) Dj set

L'Épicerie Moderne8:30pm-12am Russian Circles (Sargent House / Chicago-USA) Live

La M.M.6pm-7:30pm Palmwine Sound System (Lyon-France) Dj set7:30pm-9pm Forro de Rebeca Live9pm-10:30 Palmwine Sound System (Lyon-France) Dj set10:30pm-12am Kumbia Boruka (Lyon-France) Live12am-3am Analog Africa Sound System (Frankfurt-Germany) Dj set

Le Marché Gare8:30pm-9:30pm Femmes aux Fourneaux (Lyon-France) Dj set9:30pm-10:30pm Male Gaze (Castle Face Records San Francisco-USA) Live10:30pm-11:15pm Femmes aux Fourneaux (Lyon- France) Dj set11:15pm-12:30am The Monsters (Voodoo Rhythm Records / Bern - Switzerland) Live12:30am-1:45am Femmes aux Fourneaux (Lyon-France) Dj set

Thursday 5 May 2016 / 7pm-7am / 14 clubs and gig venues5 euros per event, tickets at the door

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NinkasiNinkasi Kao 11pm-12:30am French79 (Microphone Recor-dings-Limitrophe Production / Marseille–Fran-ce) Dj set12:30am-2:30am Aurora Halal (Mutual Drea-ming / New-York-USA) Live2:30am-3:30am Cømpass (Mutewax / Lyon-France) Live3:30am-6am Zenker Brothers (Ilian Tape- Tresor / Munich-Germany) Dj setNinkasi Kafé9pm-11pm Maggy Smiss (Residente Ninkasi / Lyon-France) Dj set11pm-1am Dote (Dolfeels & Teets) / Lyon-France) Dj set 1am-3am Wavesonik (Elektro system / Lyon–France) Dj set 3am-5am Thomas Melchior(Perlon / Berlin-Germany) Dj setNinkasi Terrasse : Carte blanche à 22Tracks.8pm-11pm La Biche vs Klaaar (Art Feast Support / Paris-France) Dj set11pm-1am Mellotron (Paris-France) Dj set 1am-3am Nick V (Mona-22Tracks / Paris-France) Dj set3am-5am Carlos Valdes (22Tracks / Amsterdam-Netherlands) Dj set

Le Periscope9pm-10:30am Warm-up10:30am-12am Plaistow (Two Gentlemen Records / Geneva-Switzerland) Live12am-1:30am LBNHRX (Unknown References / Brussels-Belgium)1:30am-3am Actapulgite (Unknown References & Le Pacifique Records Brussels-Belgium)

Le Petit SalonSalle 1L-Vis 1990 presents Dance System (Clone Jack for Daze-Night Slugs / London-England) LiveSalle 2 11pm-1am Merlin (Trapage Nocturne / Stras-bourg-France) Dj set1am-2:30am Kuna Maze (Orbit Crew / Lyon-France) Dj set

4am-5:30am Malinké (Artjacking / Lyon-France) Dj set



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La Plateforme9pm-10pm Isolée (Pampa-Classic / Berlin- Germany) Live10pm-11pm Lb aka Labat (Groovedge / Lyon-France) Live11pm-5am Terrence Parker (Parker Music Works-!K7 / Détroit-USA) Dj set

Sonic9pm-9:45pm Dj PJ (Sonic Crew / Lyon-France) Dj set9:45pm-10:30pm Poison Point (Lyon-France) Live10:45pm-11:30pm Rank (Automate Records / Lyon -France) Live11:30pm-12:30am Housewives (Hands in the Dark/ London-England) Live12:30am-02:15am Dj PJ (Sonic Crew / Lyon-France) Dj set2:15am-4am Trevor Reveur (Sonic Crew / Lyon-France) Dj set


Terminal12am-1:30am The Pilotwings (BFDM / Lyon-France) Dj set 1:30am-4am Veronica Vasicka (Minimal Wave / New York-USA) Dj set 4am-7am Ron Morelli (L.I.E.S. Records / New York-USA) Dj set

TransbordeurTransbo9pm-9:45pm Nicola Cruz (ZZK Records / France-Ecuador) Live10:10pm-11:30pm La Yegros (ZZK Records / Buenos Aires-Argentine) Live12am-1am Matias Aguayo (Cómeme / Berlin-Germany) Dj set1am-3am Los Hijos Del Tambor3am-5am Osunlade (Yoruba / Santorin- Greece) Dj setClub Transbo 11:45pm-5am Voilaaa Soundsystem (Favorite Recordings / Lyon-France) Dj set


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Resident Advisor x Nuits sonores

Nuits Sonores is teaming up with Resident Advisor, a loyal media partner of the festival since 2010, to program a very special night at Le Sucre. A varied techno line-up consisting of two live and two DJ sets will showcase the very best that the new techno generation has to offer.

Thursday 5 May 2016 / 11pm-5am / Le Sucre18 euros, full / 14 Minuit Bird (loc. fee not included)

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11pm-1am : Diane (Terminal - Partition Libre / Lyon – France) Dj setHaving studied at a classical conservatory, Di-ane was quick to find an interest in electronic culture and abandon the piano for turntables. Her influences include the experimental tech-no of Juan Atkins and Luke Hess, helping to develop her own unique style. She's got a bit of deep house from Dial Records and Delano Smith, with a touch of Detroit techno. She shakes up cosmic synth sounds with biting rhythms.

1am-2am : Rrose (Eaux / États-Unis) LiveRrose is one of those endlessly intriguing figures, the mystery of his personality only matched by the darkness of his techno sound. It would appear that he was born in 1969 and lives on the outskirts of Washington DC. But hang on, that could be Washington state…?As you can see, trying to explain Rrose's cha-racter is as futile as his art is evocative. Head of the Eaux label, Rrose delivers sombre and experimental live shows, which forever strive to capture the original underground essence of techno.

2am-3am : Vril (Dystopian / Berlin - Allemag-ne) LiveVril is one of the leading names on the Dystopi-an label, which is also home to Recondite and Rodhad. Invariably performing behind a mask, he is capable of producing music of impressive energy and creativity. Wherever he mixes, his sets are notable for delivering a euphoric jour-ney into sound, albeit one tinged with a cer-tain melancholy. Having moved to the German capital, Vril quickly started collaborating with Marcel Dettmann, and he has more recently teamed up with Frenchman Voiski.

3am-5am : Dasha Rush (Raster-Noton, Fullpan-da Records / Berlin - Allemagne) Dj setDasha Rush's carnal, sombre, atmospheric and deeply emotional music pushes the boundaries of techno with its wide range of dreamlike in-fluences. While her first love has always been for experimental music and the continual ex-ploration of emotions, in recent years she has increasingly turned towards the dancefloor, earning the support of artists such as Marcel Fengler and Peter Van Hoesen.

Resident Advisor x Nuits sonores

Rrose

Thursday 5 May 2016 / 11pm-5am / Le Sucre18 euros, full / 14 Minuit Bird (loc. fee not included)

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Night 3 Halle 1We are Europe by c/o pop

9:45pm-10:30pm : Domenique Dumont (Anti-note / Riga-Latvia) LiveSimultaneously textured and minimalist, Do-menique Dumont's music is the perfect way to get away from it all. To turn on the tap of silky melodies from their 2015 LP Comme ça is akin to hitting the relax button. Domenique takes care of the rest.

10:45pm-11:45pm : Low Jack (Modern Love / Paris-France) LiveBorn in Honduras, Philippe Hallais aka Low Jack, co-founder of the Editions Gravats label, is known for going against the grain. With one foot in primal techno and the other in sonic experimentation, Low Jack has made a career out of catching everyone by surprise with a collection of singular and futuristic techno sounds.

11:45pm-00:45am : Weval (Kompakt / Amsterdam -Netherlands) LiveYou certainly have already heard the track Detian, from Weval's debut EP, which featured in an advert starring Penelope Cruz. The duo – made up of Harm Coolen and Merkin Scholte, produces a humming, progressive, melodic and at times downbeat electro. In late 2015, the two put out a new maxi-single on the Cologne label, It'll Be Just Fine / Grow Up, a release that verges on perfection in terms of electronic and vocal production.

01:15am-02:15am : Moderat (Monkeytown / Berlin -Germany)Moderat is one act that surely needs no intro-duction. From the unlikely association in 2008 between Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary – better known as Modeselektor, bass music icons and founders of the prestigious labels Monkeytown and 50Weapons – and Sasha Ring – a.k.a. Apparat, essentially their antithe-sis, a constantly-reinventing exponent of the most delicate electronic music – a collabo-ration emerged that has been breathing new life into Berlin's electronic scene (and beyond) ever since. The project is by no means solely restricted to the studio and Moderat now trawl across the continents, accompanied by the Pfadfinderei studio, dedicated provider of their onstage visuals. The year 2016 sees the return of the group after a year's break, in which time they recorded III, the new album that they will be showcasing at this 14th edition of Nuits Sonores.

3am-5am : Bambounou (50Weapons / Paris-France) Dj setJeremy Guindo aka Bambounou has very quickly claimed a place at the top table of the French techno scene. He is signed to 50We-apons, the prestigious label run by Modeselek-tor, which released his debut album Centrum in 2015. Over the past few years, he has colla-borated with Laurent Garnier, remixed Shlømo and Jessy Lanza, and was the subject of a documentary produced by Resident Advisor.

Friday 6 May 2016 / 9pm-5am / Ancien marché de gros38 euros, full / 32 euros, reduced rate (loc. fees not included) •

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Night 3 Halle 2We are Europe by Elevate-Music & Arts

9:30pm-10:15pm : Bajram Bili (Another Re-cord-Le Turc Mécanique / Tours-France) LiveFrenchman Adrien Gachet (a.k.a Bajram Bill) is renowned for his hypnotic, psychedelic sound. Influenced by electronica, ambient mu-sic, techno and, above all, krautrock, his songs are at once uplifting and melancholic, with flourishes of noise coming from his modular synths and other machinery.

10:45pm-11:45pm : James Holden & Camilo Tirado present Outdoor Museum of Fractals (London-England) LiveLondoner James Holden is a lover of impro-vised music. For his new live show, he has teamed up with producer and percussionist Camilo Tirado; together they perform Outdoor Museum of Fractals, whose inspiration Holden drew from Terry Ryley, and which explores the digital systems, the statistics, the order and the disorder at the origins of music. Through his use of analogue synthesisers, sequencers and delays, he produces a repetitive sound influenced minimalist music.

12:15am-1:15am : Elektro Guzzi (Macro Recor-dings / Vienne-Autriche) LiveThe trio who makes up Elektro Guzzi belongs to that group of people who believe techno music needs to be approached from a different angle. These three Austrians experiment with their basic set-up of guitar/bass/drums, providing a new take on the most cerebral

and organic elements of techno music. After five albums in five years, we can deduce their experimentation has been prolific.

1:45am-2:45am : Ninos du Brasil feat Mémoi-res d'Avenir (Hospital Production-DFA / Venise-Italie & Tangier-Morocco) LiveOriginally from the north of Italy, Nico and Nicolo came up with the idea for Ninos du Brasil: an audacious mix of batucada, noise, free rock, samba and electronic music which resulted in some legendary live performances. They will be supported onstage by members of Mémoires d'Avenir, the Tangiers-based gnawa collective that experiments in the domains of art and education.

3am-4am : Powell (Diagonal-XL Recordings / London-England) LiveFounder of the Diagonal label with his friend Jaime Williams, Powell is the author of post-punk and no wave sounds, which he weaves into a provocative and experimental techno. In 2015, after 6 maxi-singles, his musical curiosi-ty saw him release two singles on XL Recor-dings, a giant on the indie music scene.

4am-5am : J-Zbel (BFDM / Lyon-France) LiveWhile they may play around with a mysteri-ous identity, the codes of hardtek and a very nineties image, the quality of J-Zbel's output shows that this trio is not just here to make us laugh. J-Zbel play strong, well and live. A breath of underground fresh air.

Friday 6 May 2016 / 9pm-5am / Ancien marché de gros38 euros, full / 32 euros, reduced rate (loc. fees not included) •

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9pm-10pm : Pouvoir Magique (Mawimbi / Paris-France) Dj setDrawing their energy and rhythms from world music, and with an encyclopaedic knowledge of afrobeat classics, the duo Pouvoir Magique (part of the Paris-based Mawimbi crew) are the authors of a tribal techno characterised by refined percussion and shamanic melodies.

10pm-11pm : Africaine 808 (Vulkadance / Berlin-Germany) LiveFollowing years of musical exploration, crate-digging, mixing genres and redefining rhythms and harmonies from all over the world, two Berliners decided to embark on a mad project: to use an analogue TR-808 in each of their tracks. Their drum machine, programmed with polyrhythmic beats, has been christened Africaine 808 and is the third member of the group, experimenting a sound that goes from slow cumbia to percussive disco and house.

11:30pm-12:30am : Mbongwana Star (World Circuit Records / Kinshasa-Democratic Repub-lic of the Congo) Live Mbongwana Star were formed by Franco-Bri-tish artist Liam Farrell, aka Doctor L, along with Coco Ngambali and Theo Mzonza, founder members of the Congolese outfit Staff Benda Bilili. Together they blend traditional Congolese rhythms, hip-hop, electronica and psychedelic, all with an overriding punk fla-

vour. It's a winning combination, and one that made their album From Kinshasa a stand-out release in 2015.

1am-2am : Konono n°1 (Crammed Discs Kins-hasa-Democratic Republic of the Congo) Live With the unbelievable sound of their electri-fied thumb pianos, and wild rhythm section, Congolese band Konono N°1 have become the darlings of Western indie rock & electronic music audiences ever since the release of their first album Congotronics in 2004. Konono N°1 was founded back in the 1960s by Mingiedi Mawangu, who sadly passed away last year. His son Augustin has been leading the band for the last few years.

2:30am-3:30am : Auntie Flo presents Sun Ritual (Huntleys + Palmers / Glasgow - Scot-land) Live

Migratory bird born in India, having grown up in Glasgow and now living in London, Brian d'Souza aka Auntie Flo plays, since 2011, the claps, congas and other percussions from world music. Having released EPs and LPs on labels such as Huntleys + Palmers, Kompakt and Mule Musiq. Auntie Flo presents at Nuits sonores his live show with Laurie from Golden Teacher.

3:30am-5am : Pouvoir Magique (Mawimbi / Paris-France) Dj set

Friday 6 May 2016 / 9pm-5am / Ancien marché de gros38 euros, full / 32 euros, reduced rate (loc. fees not included) • Included in Night 3

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Night 4 Halle 1

9:45pm-10:30pm : Last Train (Cold Fame Records Lyon-France) LiveRock'n'roll without cliché, pop without naivety. The musicians of Last Train are whipping up a storm of hypnotic music. To catch them on one of their regular tours is to witness a diversion for ears that have been dulled by rock bands for far too long.

11pm-11:45pm : The Coathangers (Suicide Squeeze / Atlanta-USA) LiveThe Coathangers are a group of anger-ridden girls from Atlanta, old friends of the Black Lips, with whom they released a split 7" in 2015. Their latest album Suck My Shirt showcased their biting riffs and break-neck rhythms. This vicious troop of veritable riot girls repeatedly produces tracks sounding like the finest abra-sive no-wave hits you never heard!

12:10am-1:10am : The Hacker presents Ama-to Live (Zone, Goodlife / Grenoble-France) LiveArmed with influences as sombre as they are efficient, this producer from Grenoble first unleashed his techno in the 1990s, notab-ly alongside Miss Kittin, later being at the forefront of the electro-clash movement in Germany. Michel Amato a.k.a The Hacker goes back to his first loves: new wave, sombre powerful techno and hardcore flourishes. He will premiere this exclusive new analogue set live at Nuits Sonores.

1:20am-2:50am : Max Cooper (Fields / London-England) LiveA modern-day virtuoso, Max Cooper draws on both his background as a scientist and his musical talent to create an unique, hypnotic and captivating universe. His album Human on the Fields label in 2014, is a veritable gem, showcasing his ability to handle melodies and sonic landscapes. Renowned for his live per-formances, Max Cooper will perform his new audiovisual spectacle Emergence, an experien-ce as immersive as it is monumental.

3am-5am : Maceo Plex (ELLUM / Barcelona - Spain) Dj set Maceo Plex – real name Eric Estornel – is an American artist with Cuban origins. Over the last 15 years, his development as an artist has seen him reborn under the aliases of Mariel Ito, Plaex, and Maetrik. An eclectic apprenticeship that made his career take off at the start of the decade. His hit Vibe Your Love, which came out ahead of his first album in 2011, confirmed his place in the highest echelons of the world dance music scene.

Saturday 7 May 2016 / 9pm-5am / Ancien marché de gros38 euros, full / 32 euros, reduced rate (loc. fees not included) • Included in Night 4

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Night 4 Halle 29pm-12am : Juliano (That Place / Berlin-Allemagne) Dj set Having moved to Lyon in 2005, Juliano very quickly became an activist for electronic music, co-founding the Caramelo label. In 2013 he created That Place, a label at the very forefront of the Lyon house scene ever since. Nowadays a resident of Berlin, he regularly plays the German capital's most prestigious clubs, from Trésor to Griessmuehle

12am-2am : Lil' Louis (FFRR / Chicago-USA) Dj setWhile it may have been Marvin Louis Burns who first declared himself to be "The Founding Father of House Music", nobody can deny that title to him : Owner of a club at the age of 16 and organiser of the very first "rave" in 1977, Burns has been playing DJ sets for over 40 years under the pseudonym of Lil' Louis (given to him by a policeman on a night out at the River's Edge Club in Chicago). A producer sin-ce 1980, he has been behind French Kiss, the biggest-selling track in the history of dance music. Over the course of his career, Lil' Louis has collaborated with the likes of Jay-Z, Lil' Kim, Donna Summers and Louie Vega.

2am-3am : S3A (Sampling As an Art Records / Paris-France) LiveA Parisian symbol of the reinvention of French house via his alias S3A (Sampling as an Art), Max Fader's sound is built around a unique groove made up of the countless sound samples that inspired it. He recently collabo-rated with Laurent Garnier, producing a remix of his track Dinosaurs Are Gone. He made his very first live appearance in2015, it is the very same live set that he will play for a second time at Nuits Sonores.

3am-5am : Dj Harvey (International Feel Re-cordings / Los Angeles - USA) Dj set DJ Harvey, born Harvey Bassett, is a true Lon-don legend, of the sort that only that city can produce. At the start of the 1990s, he enjoyed his first residencies at Moist and Ministry of Sound in London. In his sets, the Black Cock Records founder plays gems of sensual house music drawing their energy from rock.


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9:10pm-10:10pm : Dj K-Sets (Spain) Dj setSpaniard Manuel Sanchez spends his days unearthing audio cassettes in countries bordering the Mediterranean. An unrivalled crate-digger, he showcases the very best forgotten or unreleased tracks on breathtaking mixtapes, which he makes available for free on his website.

10:20pm-11:20pm : Débruit & Istanbul (ICI / France) LiveProducer and multi-instrumentalist Xavier Thomas, a.k.a Débruit, blends world music, abstract hip-hop beats and colourful synths. He has collaborated with several generations of musicians in Istanbul, with a view to de-veloping his own imaginative interpretation of the city, simultaneously traditional, psychede-lic, melodic and experimental. The results are showcased on his latest album and in this new live set.

11:50pm-12:50am : A-Wa (The Eighth Note / Shaharut-Israel) Live With their addictive mixture of hip-hop, Arab folk and electro, these three sisters from Israel – Tair, Liron and Tagel Haim – reinvent the traditional folkloric songs of Yemen. Their vocal harmonies and ancestral dialects fuse with MIDI keyboard-guitars, drums and samples to produce a never-heard-before châabi/dis-co-funk groove. Discovered by Tomer Yosef, the Balkan Beat Box singer who produced their first album, A-Wa's music brims with a fresh-ness and defies traditional boundaries.

1:20am-2:20am : 47Soul (Indiepush / Palesti-ne) Live47Soul are at the very forefront of the dabke and mijwez scenes, types of music that draw their roots from the exotic ambiance of Levan-tine weddings, which are then remixed to give them an electro-dubstep flavour. Founded by members spread out between Jaffa, Amman, Ramallah and Washington, the group has given these traditional styles a new lease of life with their use of distorted synthesisers, chanting and crazed percussion.

2:50am-3:50am : Islam Chipsy & EEK (100 Copies / Cairo - Egypt) LiveIslam Said, alias Chipsy, can regularly be found getting folks dancing at wedding parties or out in the streets of Cairo. In doing so, he has become an internationally-renowned figure on the electro-châabi scene. Signed to the excellent 100 Copies label, he was one of the revelations of the festival at the last edition of Nuits Sonores Tanger. Performing on stage with two percussionists (EEK), his sound plays on the trance-like quality that both electronica and popular Egyptian music have in common.

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Burn & Nuits sonoresEver since its first edition in 2003, the Nuits Sonores festival has been developing excellent relationships with the various brands that have supported this independent cultural project.From the very start, the festival has implemented a strong, mutually-beneficial approach to partnerships based around continued dialogue, resulting in it building fruitful and enduring relationships with numerous businesses. The 14th edition of the festival in 2016 sees burn join the community of Nuits Sonores partners. Historically committed to supporting artists involved in electronic music and street culture, the brand is currently seeking to restructure its approach to the arts in France around a new selection of ambitious projects.

Nuits Sonores and Burn cannot wait for their partnership to get underway, and look forward to offering the festival-goers an even better experience. With a one-off evening event at Le Sucre, creative features throughout the weekend and appealingly-priced drinks, the partnership's presence at the festival will be both smart and artistically ambitious.

Burn is making a commitment to the festival in full acknowledgement of our independence.

Burn - Energy Drink - presents Light it up ! Nuits Sonores is welcoming Burn for a one-off club night on the iconic rooftop of Le Sucre.On the schedule: a stunning setting, unique visual installations combining lighting and graphic arts, creative features and other surprises. All in all, a dazzling experience !

Burn – Energy Drink – presentsLight it up ! – Sold-out

Samedi 7 May 2016 / 11pm-5am / Le Sucre14 euros, full / 10 Minuit Bird (loc. fee not included)

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11:30am-12:30am : Mehmet Aslan (Huntleys & Palmers / Berlin - Germany) Dj set Mehmet Aslan started out with a residency at Hinterhof in Basel (Switzerland) and is now based in Berlin. He's a producer with Turkish roots who has reappropriated his ancestors' music through productions that blend folkloric undertones with contemporary 4/4. Whetherits edits or remixes, his Turkish party anthems have been quick to seduce Tim Sweeney and Acid Arab, as well as the English label Huntleys & Palmers, which signed his first compositions.

12:30am-1:30am : Fatima Yamaha (Magne-tron Music / Amsterdam - Netherlands) Live Fatima Yamaha is the story of a release on D1 Recordings, of a small number of records pressed, and of a side-product quickly put on the backburner. Yet the story picks up fully eight years later, with the electronic scene going mad for that long-forgotten song. For many years, Fatima Yamaha was shrouded in mystery, it ultimately turned out to be the brainchild of producer Bas Bron, also known under the pseudonyms Bastian, the Dutchman, founder of the Magnetron label. In 2015, he collaborated with Dekmantel on a reworking of his hit "What's A Girl To Do?" Meanwhile, his live shows unfailingly live up to expecta-tions, offering refined house complemented by virtuoso synths. A must see!

1:30am-3:30am : David August (Diynamic Music / Hamburg - Germany) Dj setAlthough he has been honing his musician-ship since the age of five, it was not until 15 years later in 2010 that David Nattkemper burst onto the scene under the alias of David August. A permanent fixture on the German techno scene ever since, the young prodigy has proved he has all it takes to be a true great. Signed to the excellent Hamburg-based Diynamic Music, the producer's signature sound blends a solid groove with virtuoso keyboard playing. At the still-tender age of 25, David August would appear to have the world at his feet.

3:30am-5:30am : Mind Against (Life and Death / Berlin - Germany) Dj set"Clearer light, darker darkness ... It is impos-sible to properly appreciate the light without knowing darkness." If Jean-Paul Sartre had been asked to describe the music of Italian duo Mind Against, there is a good chance that he would have ended up quoting himself. The music produced by brothers Alessandro and Federico Fognini – in keeping with the other artists that have released material on the excellent Life and Death label (including Recondite and Stephan Bozin) – is somewhat bipolar. Juxtaposing heavy kick and bass with light synthetic arpeggios, Mind Against's hyp-notic techno takes the listener on a gripping journey to the heart of a cyclical sonic spectre, from which nobody emerges quite the same.

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Samedi 7 May 2016 / 11pm-5am / Le Sucre14 euros, full / 10 Minuit Bird (loc. fee not included)

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Mogwaï

Sunday 8 May 2016 / Doors open at 7pm / The concert begins at 8:30pmAncien marché de gros / 29 euros unique rate

Special Concert Halle 1 - Mogwai

Mogwai play Atomic (Rock Action Records / Glasgow - Scotland) Live

One of the most influential groups of the last 20 years, Glasgow four-piece Mogwai are a veri-table post-rock phenomenon. Heavily influenced by Joy Division, The Cure, The Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine, throughout their career the band have consistently bucked rock scene conventions, interspersing EP releases (they have no less than 16 to their name), with soundtracks for documentaries (2006's Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait) and TV series (Les Revenants), in addition to a succession of remixes. With their progressive instrumental sound, punctuated by explosions of noise, Mogwai's music evokes the fears and anguishes of contem-porary society, immersing listeners in a dreamlike world set somewhere between death and the yearning for an escape. Following Kraftwerk, who performed their album Radio-Activity in Hall 1 of the Ancien Marché de Gros in 2014, Mogwai will become the second Nuits Sonores artist to perform music inspired by the atomic particle, when they take to the same stage this June.

On the occasion of their very own Special Concert at Nuits Sonores 2016, Mogwai will perform their album Atomic in full. For this, their latest LP, the band have reworked a number of com-positions originally recorded for Mark Cousin's documentary Atomic: Living Dead and Promise. The latter was broadcast on BBC Four during the summer of 2015, as part of the commemora-tions for the 70th anniversary of the USA's nuclear attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The band's first release since they parted company with John Cummings in 2015, Atomic is more than a simple album. It is a veritable audiovisual experience, a cinematographic kalei-doscope distilling images of atomic science that simultaneously illustrates the horrific nature of those nuclear catastrophes and the beauty of our infinite universe and its relentless techno-logical progress. Drifting through a hinterland between life and death, Atomic sees the Scots formulating their most ambitious sonic landscape to date.

Stuart Braithwaite (member of Mogwai): "The Atomic soundtrack is one of the most intense and fulfilling projects we've taken on as a band. Ever since we went to Hiroshima to play and visited the peace park, this has been a subject very close to us. The end results, both the film score and the record are pieces I'm extremely proud of."

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Sunday 8 May 2016 / 3h30pm-12am / Le Sucre33 euros unique rate

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Closing party : Ray-Ban x Nuits sonores– Sold-out

Daniel Avery (Phantasy / London - England) Dj set A key driving force behind the English electro-nic scene since the turn of the decade, Daniel Avery has cemented his place among the pan-theon of great producers in double quick time. Lauded by Andrew Weatherall, this former re-sident of London superclub Fabric has remixed everyone from The Horrors, to Django Django and Primal Scream. Avery has an acute sense of musical synthesis: he reinterprets nineties rave music, while subtly weaving in his own modern sounds. Signed to Erol Alkan's label Phantasy Sound, Avery blends acid house, ambient and techno, endowed with the same wholesome primal rock energy that characte-rised the very first techno compositions.

Dj Harvey (International Feel Recordings / Los Angeles - USA) Dj setDJ Harvey, born Harvey Bassett, is a true London legend, of the sort that only that city can produce. It was on his return from a trip to New York in the 1980s that Harvey became DJ Harvey, abandoning his drum kit and leaving behind the punk game to try his hand with a set of Technics, at first with hip-hop and graffi-ti and, in turn, electronica, house and garage. At the start of the 1990s, he enjoyed his first residencies at Moist and Ministry of Sound in London. Since then, for over 25 years, he has been making appearances at the most presti-gious clubs around the world. Years of expe-riences and encounters go into every set that the Black Cock Records founder plays, each one a gem of sensual house music drawing its energy from the rock of its creator's youth.

Laurent Garnier (FCom / Lourmarin - France) Dj set This undisputed godfather of the French techno scene, and globally renowned and respected producer and DJ, has witnessed the growth of Nuits sonores festival at first-hand. A participant year after year, he has made a telling contribution to its development, as well as providing some of its greatest moments : back-to back sets with other pioneers like Carl Cox, or the new generation (MCDE); as a DJ or live; night-long performances or afternoon sets; even a child-friendly appearance for Mini Sonore. Throughout the year, Arty Farty is also involved in managing the artist, notably coordinating his recent project of releasing five records on five labels – which culminated in the release of Home Box on FCom – and maintaining his strong ties with Lyon via his residency at Le Sucre, the venue he plays more than any other.

Forever attentive to reinventions on the elec-tronic scene, Laurent Garnier's artistic journey is one that, above all else, bears the seal of irreproachable integrity taking pride in his unwavering support for emerging artists. Two days after his NS Days as a curator, Laurent's coming back for the Closing party at Le Sucre, another opportunity for the artist to make an unprecedented contribution to this latest edition and, more generally, to continue to stamp his mark on the history of the festival.


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ABOUT NUITS

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Institut français atNuits sonores 2016

The French Institute's mission is to spread French culture around the world, promoting artists, their ideas and works, the French language and the creative cultural industries. It coordinates professional communities, while also encouraging artistic interaction and cultural dialogue. A tool that bears significant influence and encourages cooperation, as well as a source of expertise and advice, it cont-ributes to creating and spreading around the world the image of a dynamic and innovative France.

With a presence in 96 countries, it is the num-ber one partner of the French cultural network abroad (French Institutes abroad, Embassy cultural services, French Alliances).

Every year, the French Institute is involved in:- Over 2000 international cultural projects- 450 art projects carried out with local groups- 650 translations of French authors around the world- 700 guest foreign creators and professionals being welcomed to France- 36,000 cinema screenings- 135,000 subscribers to the Culturethèque digital library- Programmes and tools made available for the 900,000 French teachers around the world

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Useful informationWhat you have to know about Nuits sonores 2016

InaugurationLa Sucrière 49-50 quai Rambaud, Lyon 2e

Wednesday 4 May 2016 / 19:30-23:00Upon invitation: the first 100 buyers will be invited to the Inauguration of the festival.

NS DaysLa Sucrière 49-50 quai Rambaud, Lyon 2e

— NS Days Thursday 5 May 2016 • 3pm-9:30pm26 euros*, full price / 23 euros, reduced price 29 euros, desk price.— NS Days Friday 6 May 2016 • 3pm-9:30pm 26 euros*, full price / 23 euros, reduced price 29 euros, desk price.— NS Days Saturday 7 May 2016 • 3pm-9:30pm26 euros*, full price / 23 euros, reduced price 29 euros, desk price.— Pass NS Days Access to NS Days Thursday, Friday & Saturday / 58 euros, single price.— Pass Nights & Days Access to NS Days Thursday, Friday & Saturday and to Nuits 1, 3 & 4 140 euros, single price.

Mini sonoreJardin du Musée des Confluences (tbc)86 Quai Perrache, Lyon 2e

From Thursday 5 to Saturday 7 May 2016 3:30pm-7:30pmFree access for children from 4 to 12. Registration will be under the responsability of an adult, max 2 children per adult.Sign up for your child from 14 March: www.nuits-sonores.com/mini-sonore

Cool Korea! • Carte blanche à SéoulJardin du Musée des Confluences(tbc)86 Quai Perrache, Lyon 2e

From Thursday 5 to Saturday 7 May 2016 3:30pm-8:30pmFree, within the limits of available places

Extra!About 30 projects across the city. Free

Sunday Park • Venue tbaSunday 8 May 2016 / 3pm-8:30pmFree, within the limits of available places

The main Nights Ancien Marché de gros- Night 1 Wednesday 4 May 2016 / 9pm-5am: 38 euros* full rate / 32 euros* reduced rate / 41 euros at the door- Night 3 Friday 6 May 2016 / 9pm-5am: 38 euros* full rate / 32 euros* reduced rate / 41 euros at the door- Night 4 Saturday 7 May 2016 / 9pm-5am: 38 euros* full rate / 32 euros* reduced rate / 41 euros at the door- Pass 3 Nights Access to Nights 1,3 and 4 / 94 euros* single rate- Pass Nights & Days Access to NS Days Thursday, Friday and Saturday and to Nights 1,3 and 4 / 140 euros* single rate

Night 2 - Le Circuit 14 parties across the City's clubs and gig venuesThursday 5 May 2016 / 7pm-7am5 euros per stage, tickets at the door.NB: some events have pre-sales (plus booking fee)

*Tickets rates do not include booking fees, re-duced rates are available only in pre-sales, to a limited number, at the festival's ticket office from 12 April 2016.

To buy your tickets— Internet sales : www.nuits-sonores.com— At the festival's ticketing, from 12 April 2016— Our Digitick partner and www.digitick.com— In the usual points of sales :Magasins Fnac, Carrefour, Géant, U, Interm-arché, www.fnac.com, and on your mobile phone with La Billetterie by Fnacwww.ticketmaster.fr, Auchan, Cora, Cultura, E.Leclerc

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Special eventsLe Sucre 49-50 quai Rambaud, Lyon 2e

— The Absolut Company Creation présente OX Wednesday 4 May 2016 • 11pm-5am9 euros*, full rate / 7 euros*, reduced rate— Resident Advisor x Nuits sonores Thursday 5 May 2016 • 11pm-5am18 euros*, full rate / 14 euros*, reduced rate— Burn presents Light it up ! Friday 6 May 2016 • 11pm-5am14 euros*, full rate / 10 euros*, reduced rate

*Tickets rates do not include booking fees, reduced rates are available only in pre-sales, to a limited number, at the festival's ticket office from 12 April 2016.

To buy your tickets— Internet sales : www.nuits-sonores.com— At the festival's ticketing, from 12 April 2016— Our Digitick partner and www.digitick.com— In the usual points of sales : Magasins Fnac, Carrefour, Géant, U, Intermarché, www.fnac.com, and on your mobile phone with La Billetterie by Fnac, www.ticketmaster.fr, Auchan, Cora, Cultura, E.Leclerc

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Terms of access

— The 3 main Nights (Night 1, Night 3, Night 4) of the Nuits sonores festival as well as parties happening in Le Sucre are forbidden to minors (under 18), even accompanied by a legal guardian.An identity check will be made at the entrance of the main night venue. — The 3 NS Days (NS Days Jeudi, NS Days Vendredi, NS Days Samedi) of the Nuits sonores festival are accessible to minors uif accompanied by a responsible adult, desi-gnated by the legal guardian of the minor, and upon presentation of discharge.An identity check will be made at the entrance of the main night venue. For those under 18, concerning the access to NS Days :Please download, complete and return the signed release on our website along with a photocopy of the identity cards of:- the legal guardian- the responsible adult- the minor concernedto [email protected] Nominal discharge for a maximum of 2 minors.

Pro pass Nuits sonores 2016Access to Nights 1,3 & 4 and to NS Days Thursday, Friday and Saturday, to Inaugurati-on day and to the festival's pro bar200euros, unique rate

Pro pass Nuits sonores x European Lab 2016Nuits sonores: access to Nights 1,3 & 4 and to NS Days Thursday, Friday and Saturday, to Inauguration day and to the festival's pro barEuropean Lab: access to all public conferen-ces, prioritary access to pro modules, networ-king250 euros, unique rate

Pro pass Day Nuits sonores x European Lab 2016 details on www.nuits-sonores.com80 euros, unique rate

Terms of access— Do not buy this ticket from a stranger There is no guarantee for validity. It could be a photocopy or a counterfeit ticket! It is strictly forbidden to re-sell a ticket at a price greater than its face value.— We recommend you arrive as soon as doors open to avoid waiting in line.—We advise you to purchase tickets in pre- sale, as concerts can sell out.— In the case of one or more artists at the festival having to cancel due to ecxceptional circumstances or Force majeure, tickets are non- refundable.— Alcohol consumption is forbidden to under 18s on all Nuits Sonores sites.— Organisers can refuse entry to any person whose behaviour is deemed dangerous to themselves or to others, particularly if in a state of inebriation.— All main Nuits Sonores venues are acces-sible to people with handicaps. Please make yourself known at the welcome point.More info at [email protected]

Ticket exchangeA ticket exchange will be available on our website for reselling and purchasing tickets in a safe and legal setting: nuits-sonores.zepass.com

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Play it cool with TCL/Sytral !— Travel as much as you want with the TCL / Nuits sonores ticket, for the unique price of 5,50 euros !

Tickets for sale from 2 May 2016, available in every ticket machine of the network.

Do the return trip with TER Rhône-Alpes !— From 4 to 8 May 2016, with the TER illico Événe-ments rate, have a 50% discount* on your TER return

trip to go to Nuits sonores.*On the normal rate, from every station in Rhônes-Alpes to Lyon

Smartphone App Nuits sonores 2016Soon available with Deezer & Greencopper

Merchandising Nuits sonores 2016Buy yourself Nuits sonores 2016 on store.nuits-sonores.com

Soon available

Info, tickets and merchandising from 12 April 2016. La Galerie des TerreauxPlace des Terreaux, Lyon 1er

Follow us onFacebook : Nuits sonores

Twitter : @nuits_sonores Instagram : @nuits_sonores Hashtag : #nuitsso2016

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Nuits sonores goes cashless !A secured currency sur le festival.

In 2016, the festival launches his own money, secured, to give the festival-goers a better expe-rience.

Everyone will be able to use the Nuits sonores cashless card to pay drinks, food, merchandi-sing…in all the main sites of the festival. It will be charged 1 euro and will be still valid for the next editions.

Save time and create easily your account on our website.You will then be able to (re)charge credits at any time from the mobile app, the website or direc-tly in our cashless points of the festival.

Follow the consuming details, secure the transactions, save time and enjoy Nuits sonores: the festival makes your time here easier.

The cashless card isn't linked to your bank account. You won't be debited more than the amount you've decided to credit. Every transaction will be done at your demand.It's possible to get your credits repaid on simple demand from 9 to 15 May 2016, only on www.nuits-sonores.com

The data couldn't be used for commercial matters or other use than a internal etude for the Arty Farty association.

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Eating out at Nuits Sonores 2016 in association with Food Trucks Gourmets

Home-made. Reasonably-priced. Local, but with an international flavour.

This is the pledge made by Nuits Sonores 2016 and partners Food Trucks Gourmets, who are going to every length to put on a magnificent spread of food for this year's festival-goers.

A dozen food trucks will be set up at all the festivals main sites, including the Ancien Marché de Gros, La Sucrière and the gardens of the Musée des Confluences (subject to confirmation). And the cherry on the cake? Revelers will be able to pay for their food using the festival's cashless system.

In addition to the Maison Pignol outlet, cur-rently located in the gardens of the Musée des Confluences, food from a selection of inde-pendent restaurants will also be available, in association with Carte Blanche Seoul.

Tous les jours du festivalPlus d'infos sur www.nuits-sonores.com

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Programs to be revealed soon

Extra!Nuits sonores invites whoe-ver wants to, to submit his or her event with Extra!. This program aims at giving rhythm and enhancing the festival with fresh ideas. 30 projects will be selected after the call for project finishing on Febru-ary 9th, and will be anounced on April 6th 2016.

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Nuits sonores' partners

Great partners

Institutional partners

Patron of Honour

Sponsors

Official partners

Patrons

LY NVISA

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Cool Korea partners • Carte blanche to Séoul

Confluence 2016

Media partners

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Story and philosophyBorn in 1999 in Lyon, Arty Farty is a totally European and independent non-profit organi-sation. We aim to develop and promote inde-pendent culture in music and the visual arts, as well as all related disciplinary fields and modern aesthetics including graphic design, food and digital creation... Here at Arty Farty, we pride ourselves on commitment and activism. We strive for a renewal of generations and public strategies in the cultural field, both locally and on a Europe-an scale. As such, we fight for the notion of cultural entrepreneurship, the protection and redistribution of public means for culture and a strengthened emphasis on the vision of culture in constructing tomorrow's cities.

Events and activitiesIn this regard, Arty Farty invents and produces events, the main ones being Nuits Sonores Lyon (since 2003), the European Lab forum (since 2011) and Nuits Sonores Tangier (since 2013).

We also provide advice and artistic directionfor other organisations and cultural venues, especially la Gaîté Lyrique in Paris (since 2008) and Le Sucre in Lyon (since 2013). We also worked in service to several companies, brands, agencies, cultural institutions and communities.

Over 15 years, we have developed projects in over thirty cities across the globe, mostly in Europe. Arty Farty has broadened its horizons artistic management for a number of emerging artists, both French and international, and a few well-established artists, such as Laurent Garnier.

Networks and ressourcesArty Farty is now part of a larger ecosystem that began to develop in 2010. This inclu-des Culture Next (Le Sucre’s management company), A.K.A. (a booking agency created in partnership with Alias) and Transmission (Le Transbordeur'ss management company). In 2015, Arty Farty is also working on the creation of a creative hub bringing the eco-system closer to the organisation in a physical location, as well as an incubator for cultural enter- prises and a space for co-working.

We are also involved in several european networks, especially De Concert!, Yourope and Culture Action Europe. We are in cons-tant discussion with the European bodies, especially for our expertise or as a european projects holder, notably for 2014-2020 Europe Creative.

Arty Farty is 83% self-financed. Our public resources (17%) come from the European Uni-on, the City of Lyon, the Rhône-Alpes Region and the Ministry of Culture.

Today, we have 21 full-time employees and 900 members. Our assignments and projects are carried out in collaboration with fifty partners, sponsors and patrons, and over 100 cultural organisations (that are particularly involved in the Nuits Sonores festival and the European Lab forum) as well as some 500 suppliers and service providers.

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