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Sunfall Festival Announces The Black Madonna and Motor City Drum Ensemble to Final Lineup

February 3, 2017 By Madhvi Mavadiya

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Last year’s Sunfall Festival welcomed Berlin’s techno producer Ben Klock and Mercury Prize-winner Jamie XX to London’s Brockwell Park and 2017 will bring bigger and better performances. The people behind established UK electronic music venues XOYO, The Nest and Phonox and Croatian festivals Outlook and Dimensions will not disappoint this summer. The fairly new event has always set out to be different and that has been achieved with an excellent daytime lineup and popular night sessions spread out around the city.

Clash Magazine said that “it’s clear that all of their know-how and experience came to the force…successfully forming the festival holy trinity: quality sound, a banging line up, and a top crowd.” This year’s banging lineup includes dance music veteran The Black Madonna, nominated as last year’s Mixmag DJ Of The Year, who is known to give an unforgettable performance. Mixmag reveals that she’ll all about pirouetting in the booth and likes to crowd-surf to ‘Pump Up The Jam’. I mean, that sounds amazing.

Marea Vierge-Noire, XOYO resident, has a thought-provoking theory and philosophy, according to Resident Advisor, that permeates through her music.

Dance music needs riot grrrls. Dance music needs Patti Smith. It needs DJ Sprinkles. Dance music needs some discomfort with its euphoria. Dance music needs salt in its wounds. Dance music needs women over the age of 40. Dance needs breastfeeding DJs trying to get their kids to sleep before they have to play. Dance needs cranky queers and teenagers who are really tired of this shit. Dance music needs writers and critics and academics and historians. Dance music needs poor people and people who don’t have the right shoes to get into the club. Dance music needs shirts without collars. Dance music needs people who struggled all week. Dance music needs people that had to come before midnight because they couldn’t afford full admission. Dance music does not need more of the status quo.

The Black Madonna’s most recent track is the mellow ‘He Is the Voice I Hear’ that draws upon classical music and slowly introduces electro with a truly experimental vision, as if attempting to create portray the evolution of dance music through time. 2013’s Lady of Sorrows two-track synth EP on Argot which includes the euphoric ‘A Jealous Heart Never Rests’ and ‘We Can Never Be Apart’; Crosstalk International described it as “her most fully realized work to date.”

German house and techno pioneer Motor City Drum Ensemble who will also be showcasing his electronic expertise at Sunfall Festival this year, bringing with him European soul diluted with Detroit jazz. 2008 was a big year for MCDE with the release of five deep house snare-bumping Raw Cuts and since then Danilo Plessow has shuffled into the contemporary scene, working with the likes of DJ Kicks on ‘L.O.V.E.’ Check out MCDE’s next UK show at Printworks London in April.

London’s Brockwell Park will also welcome Floating Points, HAAi, Madlib, Mafalda and Theo Parrish and more on Sunday 12th August. Buy your day tickets here.

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