FLOW FESTIVAL
Suvilahti, Helsinki
A true genius or everything the genre should stand against? From the very first steps of his dubstep career, Sonny Moore, a.k.a. Skrillex, has gained a huge amount of fans – and enemies.
SKRILLEX
(US)
The year 2014 will be remembered as the point of history when things for Skrillex changed. The artist is going through a metamorphosis. Witnessing a Skrillex gig one can never now what’s coming up. But one thing is for certain: these explosive performances have aconsisted of converting nonbelievers to raging Skrillex fandom at the most surprising sites. Most recently, in Glastonbury. Now at Flow Festival.
Swedish electropop artist Jenny Wilson’s fourth album Demand The Impossible was released last autumn. The record pleased both fans and critics and now Wilson is the recent winner of Swedish Grammis awards,
JENNY WILSON (SE)
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JESSIE WARE (UK)
Jessie Ware rose to fame with her 2012 album “Devotion”. Her take on soul and R&B coloured with dubstep is known from such hits as Wildest Moments and Running. New album “Tough Love” to be released later this year!
SCANDIVIAN MUSIC GROUP (FI)
Scandinavian Music Group (FI) One of the biggest Finnish groups known for its catchy folk-pop-rock songs brush their americana with 80s-inspired synth pop through the release of the widely praised album “Terminal 2” early this year. This August in Suvilahti, Scandinavian Music Group will perform a special and strongly visual “T2” show – for the eyes and ears of Flow Festival 2014 visitor only.
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ASTRID SWAN (FI)
Having released her latest, minimalistically blooming album “Astrid4” last year’s October, the dramatic Finnish singer-songwriter presents the audience a truly rare 2014 appearance at Flow Festival.
The Norwegian two-headed electro monster teams up with international pop star Robyn and her gritty R&B combined with sunny Swedish pop. Röyksopp and Robyn are currently touring sold out arenas in the USA, getting media attention e.g. from their performance on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live Show. The joint project will take on Flow on Sunday August 10th in the Lumia Blue Tent, where the trio offers a twohour futuristic show livened up with lasers.
Röyksopp and Robin Do It Again 2014 (NO/SE)
EETU& Ystävät (FI)
Eetu Floor’s music combines Finnish melancholy with French lightness rising to fame with the single release of Purjehtija. This year, the Flow Festival crowd gets to enjoy material from the upcoming “Ystävät” debut album – to be released on September 5th – in advance on Flow Saturday, August 9th.
SARA KIVI& NONORCHESTRA (FI)
Singer Sarah Kivi teams up with producer Non Personin (Niclas Kristiansson) to create whole knitting together a strong rhythmic fabric of bass lines and electronic soundscape.
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PLAIN RIDE (FI)
Formed in 2004, Plain Ride have gone a long way from the strippeddown folkrock expression of their early years to the dark beauty of their latest album Skeleton Kites. The band’s effortless groove and Janne Westerlund’s hoarse vocals gets both the more meditative tunes and hypnotic boogie songs lifted into higher spheres.
HIGH WOLF (FR)
In between Herzog’s Aguirre and Levi Strauss’ Sad Tropics, mysterious and psychoactive, High Wolf’s music mixes cosmic loops, fuzzy guitars, droney synths, mystic vocals and tribal percussions, inspired by primitive and ritual music as well as adventurous modern music.
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The creative audio project of Spencer Clark. The sounds examine esoteric and spiritual concepts through hypnotic layers of rhythm and melody.
MAC DEMARCO (CA)
His style being referred as “blue wave” and“slacker rock”, the Canadian multi-instrumentalist and multimedia artist rose from obscurity as Makeout Videotape.
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NUSLUX (FI)
Strong and hardedged minimal electronic sounds combined with silly melodies create a psychedelic trip to D.I.Y.electrified fantasy park.
SAINT LUCIA (ZA)
The atmospheric quality of JeanPhilip Grobler’s Brooklyn-based electro-pop project is powerful, with the musician’s global travels and history of secret hideaways effortlessly passed onto the audience through his dreamy, shimmering synths.
SOUND & FURY Peeps of the late, great Edward Vesala.
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MAAN (BF)
Two Flemish engineer students who don’t only love their sciences cold. Their debut LP ‘Manifold’ harks back to the misanthropic aesthetics of Belgium’s wave era
EVAN PARKER (UK)
Guided by the saxophonist’s intensity of purpose. Parker’s work, spanning for over 30 years, has been widely acknowledged as “one of the music’s greatest living instrumentalists” (The Times) and “one of the world’s finest ensemble improvisers” (The Wire).
CALVIN GIRLS (FI)
Calvin Girls (FI) A grinding Dj duo, designer Tiia Vanhatapio & Stockholm based producer/musician Tom Hakava, that is obsessed about them classics. Weather it’s underwear or the eclectic mix of 50s–60s R’n’B, Soul, Boogaloo, Psych and good ol’ Rock and Roll. It´s not what you might expect.
TOMOKO SAUVAGE (JP/FR)
The Paris-based Japanese musician / sound artist plays with different forms of water – drops, waves and bubbles.
MIAUX Armed with a Casio and devastating song writing skills. Her music is minimal, melancholic and timeless, somewhere between Roedelius, Ruth White and electronic realisations of Baroque music.
GETTING THERE
The festival area is located near by the centre of Helsinki, easily accessible by public transport, bike or by foot. Street address: Parrukatu, 00540 Helsinki, FI We suggest the use of public transportation or bicycling in coming to the festival. The festival area and its immediate surroundings feature no parking space for cars. Flow Festival includes a guarded bicycle parking area free of charge, which is located by the main entrance. The bicycle parking area’s bike repair spot is open as follows The closest stations and stops: Metro – Sörnäinen Bus – Suvilahti and Sörnäinen (M) Tram – Käenkuja For more detailed information on public transportation, please visit the Helsinki city journey planner by HSL.
Visit Helsinki public transportation. To order a taxi, call 0100 0700. Airport Helsinki-Vantaa Airport is located 11 miles north from Helsinki. The easiest way to travel from the airport to downtown Helsinki is by bus. You can take Finnair City Bus or bus number 615 by day and number 620 by night.
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We seek for sustainable solutions
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We serve responsible food We prefer high class, vegetarian, organic and local food.
We encourage to use eco-friendly transport
We actively encourage the festival crowd to favour environmentally friendly modes of transport to the festival and away. Our festival does not offer parking space for private cars, but encourages people arriving to the festival to use public transpor t or bicycles. Near the festival area, there is a free and guarded bicycle parking area, where the crowd can bring their bikes. It’s also possible to walk to a city festival. On top of taking notice of how people get to the festival, we also take into consideration the pollution caused by the travel of our performers and subcontractors. We work together with local subcontractors and Nordic event organizers to make sure that the travel between places of performance is reasonable.
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We clean and recycle
The amount of waste created by the festival has been minimized during each year of our activity. The restaurants at Flow, for example, use biodegrading cutlery and all the waste is recycled. The festival crowd is encouraged to return empty bottles and cans to the recycling depots by collecting a refundable amount at the time of purchase, which is refunded when the bottles/cans are returned. Recycling guides help the festival audience to sort the waste, and recycling is optimized by adding the number of recycling depots. We also give specific recycling instructions to all our subcontractors and employees. The cleaning of the festival area is conducted by over 200 people so that it will be returned to its usual state as quickly as possible, and so that the waste will not accumulate to the close by areas. In 2013 out of all the waste created at the festival 95% was recycled.