Ahoj, Prague! The Electronic Beats Festival 2012 is SOLD OUT now!
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# Ahoj, Prague! The Electronic Beats Festival 2012 is SOLD OUT now!
It's always a great pleasure to return to Prague. After coming to town
in 2008, 2010 and 2011, **Electronic Beats** will be back on **May 5th
2012 at Archa Theatre** for our fourth edition of the **Electronic Beats
Festival Prague** -- this year around **The Whitest Boy Alive**,
**Grimes**, and **Woodkid** will be joining the festival for live shows,
and **Mike Skinner** (The Streets) playing a dj-set.
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past nine years, you'll
surely have come across **The Whitest Boy Alive**, the pop and
electronic beats outfit of **Erlend Øye**, **Daniel Nentwig**, **Marcus
Kozlowski**, and **Sebastian Maschat**, who've been defining the
soundtrack of a whole generation of city dwellers with their albums
***Dreams*** (2006) and ***Rules*** (2009). In 2012 there may be no news
of a new album (yet), but the live shows of The Whitest Boy Alive alone
are worth every dime (or should we say Czech koruna?).
23-year-old **Claire Boucher** aka **Grimes** has enraptured the world
with her self-produced, ucannily infectious somnambulant pop. With three
records under her belt -- the most recent is the critically acclaimed
***Visions*** -- and a contract with **4AD**, Boucher, a self-proclaimed
embodiment of the 'post-internet' era merging influences from Mariah
Carey to J.R.R. Tolkien, is the underground music brightest, albeit
nebulous, star. We're more than excited for her gig at Electronic Beats
Festival Prague 2012.
Director, graphic designer and musician **Yoann Lemoine** is way better
known as **Woodkid**. In 2011, the Paris based artist released his epic
noire music video for 'Iron', which catapulted him into the centre of
pop culture's attention -- the clip is at around 11.000.000 plays by
now! Majestic brass players, deep drums and Woodkid's intimate voice
made this one of 2011's best songs. Following up on his ***Iron*** EP,
Woodkid is now back with more songs and a live show as epic as that
'Iron' video was.
We're especially proud to announce that **Mike Skinner** (The Streets)
will be playing a **dj set** at Electronic Beats Festival Prague 2012.
Update: TICKETS are SOLD OUT, rsvp to our [Facebook
event][1]{: target="_blank"}, or **follow us on [Twitter][2]{:
target="_blank"} and [Facebook][3]{: target="_blank"}** for updates --
**Twitter hashtags** are **[#EBcz][4]{: target="_blank"}** and/or
**#EBfest12**. See you at Archa Theatre down-the-line!
[1]: https://www.facebook.com/events/186181588150991/
[2]: https://www.twitter.com/ebnet
[3]: https://www.twitter.com/electronicbeats
[4]: https://twitter.com/#!/search/EBcz
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# Ahoj, Prague! The Electronic Beats Festival 2012 is SOLD OUT now! It's always a great pleasure to return to Prague. After coming to town in 2008, 2010 and 2011, **Electronic Beats** will be back on **May 5th 2012 at Archa Theatre** for our fourth edition of the **Electronic Beats Festival Prag...
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Unless you've been living under a rock for the past nine years, you'll surely have come across **The Whitest Boy Alive**, the pop and electronic beats outfit of **Erlend Øye**, **Daniel Nentwig**, **Marcus Kozlowski**, and **Sebastian Maschat**, who've been defining the soundtrack of a whole gene...
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Tolkien, is the underground music brightest, albeit nebulous, star. We're more than excited for her gig at Electronic Beats Festival Prague 2012. Director, graphic designer and musician **Yoann Lemoine** is way better known as **Woodkid**. In 2011, the Paris based artist released his epic noire m...