The 2010 edition of Les Siestes Electroniques is on its way : a new visual soon and the first confirmations already (Keiji Haino, Kawabata Makoto, Aquaserge, Rebolledo, Mount Kimbie)! Of course, we’ll keep you posted asap :)

In the meantime, we’re warmly recommending you to check those two links below about our local protégé: Plapla Pinky. We garantee you it worth it! Plapla Pinky Live Act Audio here / Plapla pinky Live Act Video here

And finally here are some events that might interest you:

Three tips for you, dear friends,

1. We will be in Berlin for the amazing Club Transmediale festival (Planningtorock, Jackson, Glass Candy, Keiji Haino, Charlemagne Palestine, Etienne Jaumet, Fourtet, Kelpe, Atom TM, Joris Voorn …). So if you wanna meet us overthere, just send us an email and let’s have a drink together :)

2. If you’re in New York, we won’t unfortunately be there for the Unsound NYC session but we warmly recommand you to check the line-up of this event here (Vladislav Delay, Carl Craig, Kadebostan, Moritz von Oswald Trio, Jan Jelinek, Tim Hecker …).

3. And last but nor least, if you’re in our hometown of Toulouse, we’re happy to announce you that our next event will be held on February, 11:

All artists with projects exploring new aesthetic avenues in (mostly) electronic music are invited to submit work. Please pay attention to our previous line-ups before suggesting your music. We kindly advise you that, even if we would especially be interested in discovering work from new spectrum, we are however much into electro - idm - techno - house - disco - dubstep - drone music - contemporary music - avant-rock - krautrock - folk - early electronic … than hardcore hiphop - black metal - native American music - traditional pop vocal music …

Please add to you submission a short bio and all possible links such as Myspace, Youtube, Soundcloud pages and so on. The inclusion of a sampling of live performance recordings and/or video is strongly encouraged. Entries are accepted via email at submission(at)les-siestes-electroniques.com or regular mail to the following address:

Les Siestes Electroniques
Association Rotation
27 Rue d’Armagnac
31500 Toulouse

Please note we won’t be able to confirm the receipt of packages. Artists will be contacted only if their projects have been selected. We would like to thank, in advance, all artists who express interest in the festival and who submit their work for candidacy.

No Deadline - as we are constantly looking for newcomers ;)

We aren’t looking for DJs.

December : last month of the year, last concerts of the year … Forget Uncle Jo Xmas gift and join us! Take your chance, if you’re nearby Toulouse, let’s have a drink together @ Les Siestes Party or listen to Julien Neto’s bliss music @ Electronic_a.

Our next concert in Toulouse will be held at Centre Culturel Bellegarde on November 5 and will starring Plapla Pinky, our newcoming stars that find in post-nerd technologies and themes an energy that would shake any human body. Expect a Max/Msp, Miss Pinky & Monome experience that will make you see those geeky stuffs from a very new point of view …
www.myspace.com/plaplapinky

Last June, we’ve had a nice chat with Wilfried Paris and Etienne Menu about how reading about music could increase our experience of concerts. The lecture was brillante. To follow up, here are some essential reading recommandations:

-Awopbabeloobop Alopbamboom "the golden age of rock" - Nik Cohn (on Google Books)
-Country "the twisted roots of rock n roll" - Nick Tosches
-Lipstick Traces "a secret history of the twentieth century" - Greil Marcus (on Google Books)
-Rip It Up and Start Again "Post-Punk: 1978-1984" - Simon Reynolds (and its nice blog)
-Generation Ecstasy "into the world of techno and rave culture" - Simon Reynolds (on Google Books)
-Turn the beat around "The Secret History of Disco" - Peter Shapiro (on Google Books)
-Ocean of Sound "aether talk, ambient sound and imaginary worlds" - David Toop
-Exotica "fabricated soundscapes in a real world"- David Toop
-Love Saves the Day "a history of American dance music culture" - Tim Lawrence (on Google Books)
-Rock and the Pop Narcotic "Testament for the Electric Church"- Joe Carducci
-More Brilliant Than the Sun "Adventures in Sonic Fiction" - Kodwo Eshun
-Psychotic reactions and carburetor dung - Lester Bangs

and if you read French:
-Gulcher - Richard Meltzer (Denoël)
-Un Jeune Homme Chic - Alain Pacadis (Denoël)
-Novövision - Yves Adrien (Denoël)
-Poppermost - Pacôme Thiellement (Musica Falsa )

Thanks Wilfried & Etienne to keep our mind open !

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Thanks to a partnership with our brother-in-arm Les Piknic Electronik, we are more than happy to invite some of the freshest French electronic musicians to perform in Montreal.

August, 23
Parc Jean Drapeau
Place de l’Homme
10$

► Calder Stage
2:00 pm Péa / fr / live
3:30 pm Jackson / fr / dj set
5:00 pm Joakim / fr/ dj set
7:00 pm Georges Issakidis / ca / dj set
8:30 pm Jackson + Joakim + Issakidis back to back !!

► STM Stage
3:00 pm Menjai / Hydrodisko / fr / dj set
5:00 pm Gaby Bolivar / Dga faü / fr / live
6:00 pm June / Dga faü / fr / live

Further infos on www.piknicelectronik.com

The Eighth edition of Les Siestes Electroniques end up this Sunday with Hudson Mohawke, at sunset, by the Garonne river. We got together with the crowd, with people, with friends and shared good moments. We are particularly happy with this edition hedonistic flavour. Our action has been driven so far by the curiosity of the crowd, the inspiration of the artists and our volunteer’s will. Let’s keep it that way. Thanks to all of them !

By the way, if you’re in France this summer we recommend :

 Sous la Plage festival, July 12th and 13th in Paris

 Aires Libres festival, July 19th in Embrun and September 6th in Saint-Martin de Crau

Enjoy and take care!

2009 line-up of the festival is now 100% confirmed :)

JUNE, 25 @ Ateliers du Théâtre Garonne

Alva Noto
+ Dga Fau After show: Suicide Club + Fukkk Offf

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JUNE, 26 @ Ateliers du Théâtre Garonne

Ariel Pink
+ Kulte After show: Anoraak + The Eternals

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JUNE, 27 @ Bikini

Lawrence
Isolée
Dj Koze
Para One

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JUNE, 27 @ Prairie des Filtres
free open-air concert

Ghostape
Etienne Jaumet
Kim Hiorthoy
Prosumer

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JUNE, 28 @ Prairie des Filtres
free open-air concert

Half a Rainbow
Dominique Leone
Larytta
Hudson Mohawke