Wawawewa! It’s August, that time of the year again. Hamburg’s lovely river island of Wilhelmsburg is playing host to no less than six official stages for MS Dockville, August 21-23. And what a fine line-up the chaps managed to bring together this year: Interpol, Caribou, Four Tet, Little Dragon, Darwin Deez, Rangleklods, Sylvan Esso, All We Are, Dan Deacon, Hayden James, yadda yadda yadda the list just goes onnn and on. Plus lots of local acts. Surreal! And what’s most beautiful about MS Dockville is the fact that it’s taking place on an actual island, with a whole lot of green and bees and a small forest and the silver Elbe running by.

Team Poule’s first hot tip is Danish electronic legend Sekuoia. He has been at it for some time and sports one of the finest live performances currently on the market. Should be a banger to watch under the skies – playing just before Rangleklods. His latest EP titled Reset Heart came out in March on Berlin label Humming Records. Attached below is the total dreamer Waves taken from his last record. Sekouia plays Maschinenraum on Sunday, 19h10.

Shhhh! Hope you are sitting down with your good headphones on because this is extra exquisite. Emmecosta are three Italians Claudio, Alfonso and Aldo who spent the last couple of years in Göteborg in Sweden and here they come with a stellar debut EP under their wings: soft but distinct beats, crystal clear vocals and a spheric electronic shell around it. Attached below is Brontos – which comes with a beaut of a new video – taken from their rad EP Untied which is out this fall on hot new label Icons Creating Evil Art (ICEA).

So, on the back of breathtaking photos coming in from former-planet Pluto a couple weeks ago, here comes Brooklyn ensemble Sun Cut Flat – lending their name from a Bob Dylan reference. That’s as far as similarities go though. The duo plays one of the finest pop sounds you will hear all year: a bit of indie vibes, a lot of almost funk like grooves and a distinct tropical stream to it as well. It is with great honour than that Team Poule plays host to the premiere of their new single Lil’ Yamaha. A perfectly smooth soundtrack to the dreamy days of early August: roofs top swimming pools, orange air and Negroni cocktails. Take it away.

Copenhagen has to be one of the completest cities in Europe, and the world even. The air has this clear and clean feel to it, bike lanes are wider than the streets, people are the nicest you could imagine and everything just looks really aesthetic. Nicely set in this piece of paradise is Trailerpark Festival which happened last weekend over the course of three days and nights. Among the great sort of head liners in an almost exclusively Danish line-up were Kwamie Liv, Oh Land, Silvana Imam, Den Sorte Skole and Rangleklods who all delivered brilliant performances on the stages which were all set in the Copenhagen Skatepark. Especially Rangleklods’ live show is an absolute standout, pictured above. The current single Schoolgirls is attached below and off their great album Straitjacket which came out in spring. Beyond.

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Uuuh – Trailerpark Festival is so close you can almost feel its breath up your neck. Another absolutely stellar gem in the great line-up is yet another Danish native: Emil Germ. Denmark is producing one hit at a time, it must be something in the drinking water up there or how they know their ways around a bicycle. Emil Germ’s disco-infused dream pop is among the most catchy sounds you will hear all year. Attached is the phenomenal track Tease And Burn off his debut album Adult Party which came out earlier this year. Get your hand on that.

Emil Germ is playing the Royal Stage, Thursday 18h15.