The charming Electric Ocean People, one of Hamburg’s finest bands, will play Dockville this year: Minimal post-pop, almost orchestral sound. They are currently working on their second album, their debut Belly Of A Whale came out a year ago. One of those bands whose true potential is really difficult to put on a tape, gotta see them on a stage. This should be great one.
Electric Ocean People are playing Butterland on Sunday, 15h40.
Hot new group from Hackney this one. Leisure produces some rad mix of soulful RnB vocals and synths with a dance sensibility. Mega fresh, just the right tunes for a hot summer night. Tourist is their latest, and only, offering. Taken from their debut extended play titled Flux.
Another gem you most certainly do not want to miss at MS Dockville next week: Vimes. The duo based in Cologne is already looking back at quite a successful year 2013. Having played numerous gigs around the globe, including the prestigious South by Southwest in Texas. Driving electro-pop with sort of a natural almost folk feeling underneath, backed with an impressive visual set. They released a great album on Berlin’s Humming Records.
Attached is UpStairs, Vimes will play Maschinenraum, Saturday 17h20. That is twenty minutes past five in the afternoon.
Team Poule has a home field advantage for this one. Hamburg’s own MS Dockville is gonna go down deep next weekend, August 16-18. Set on the island Wilhelmsburg between the Northern and Southern branches of the Elbe river, Hamburg’s stream of life, the scenery couldn’t be more fitting for this festival with the city’s skyline to the north and the massive harbour to the south. You can also access the festival area via boat which does sound like a dream you never knew you had come true. Also, the musical line-up is a rather great mix of obvious international names and some great local acts too. There will be: HAIM, Crystal Fighters, Foals, Kakkmaddafakka, Mø, MS MR, Rangleklods, Star Slinger, El Perro Del Mar .. just to name a few.. and here are some of Team Poule’s picks that fly under the our radar:
First off is Rampue. Sort of house, sort of disco, sort of just chilly and nice to listen to. Rampue has been around for quite a while but he sounds fresh like a newborn baby. Attached is Mama Was A Progrocker off his new 12-inch, out on Hamburg’s infamous Audiolith Records earlier this year.
Rampue will play Maschinenraum, Sunday 14h30. Note to self: what kind of slot is that?
Infectious, red-hot new group from Paris. Team Poule’s home away from home. Agua Roja do sound kind of dangerous, and then you hit play and it’s this warm yet melancholic mix of 70’s pop and modern electronic bits.
There is an old Japanese saying that goes Tōdai moto kurashi, meaning It’s dark at the foot of the lighthouse. This is an über-chill remix by Toronto’s Jellosea. Team Poule is off to Trailerpark Festival in Copenhagen, gonna leave it at that.
