Asheville, NC (Top40 Charts/ Hummingbird Media) Moogfest 2014 is proud to announce a landmark lineup of musical acts led by
Kraftwerk,
German electro visionaries, and
Chic featuring
Nile Rodgers.
Kraftwerk will play three performances across two separate nights. The
Kraftwerk live experience is a perfectly synchronized audio-visual spectacle complete with pristine digital sound and breathtaking 3-D projections. It is a pure electronic art-rave that epitomizes Kraftwerk's musical and technical innovation, and embodies the spirit—and new direction—of Moogfest 2014. The other legendary headliner, Chic featuring Nile Rodgers, is recognized as one of the most influential bands of the disco era and has been nominated eight times for induction into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This announcement also confirms that previously revealed daytime headliners,
Laurie Anderson and
Giorgio Moroder, will perform as part of the nighttime music program: Anderson with her one-woman live show, "
The Language of the Future" and Moroder with one of his famous DJ sets. Only talent of this caliber could lead a long list of performers that include some of the most important DJs and musicians influenced by Moog and dedicated to musical innovation. Over seventy additional acts are still to be announced in the coming months.
This year's festival is a very rare U.S. appearance for Kraftwerk, marking their first performance for Moogfest and their first time ever in North Carolina. The
Kraftwerk project was started in 1970 by
Ralf Hütter and
Florian Schneider at their Kling Klang Studio in Düsseldorf, Germany. Within a few years
Kraftwerk had achieved international recognition for their revolutionary electronic "sound paintings" and musical experimentation with tapes and synthesizers. With their visions of the future,
Kraftwerk created the soundtrack for the digital age. Their compositions, using innovative looping techniques and computerized rhythms, have had a major international influence across an entire range of music genres, while their use of robotics and technical innovations in their live performance illustrates Kraftwerk's belief in the respective contributions of both man and machine in creating art. In recognition of the quartet's boundary-pushing use of music technology
Kraftwerk will be honored with the
Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award in January 2014. Their legacy is timeless and legendary, and their creativity will continue to influence and inspire future generations.
Like Kraftwerk,
Chic is closely linked to an important musical movement, and has been recognized as a leader in electronic music production. Chic's distinctive approach not only resulted in some of the finest dance singles of their time, but also created a template for urban funk, dance-pop, and hip-hop in the post-disco era, while Nile Rodgers remains a hugely successful leading producer, composer and performer.
Other Moogfest 2014 musical talent announced includes the always ambitious Baltimore pop usurper
Dan Deacon,
Brainfeeder producer
The Gaslamp Killer, deep house luminary
Sasha, salacious New York rapper
Le1f, globe trotting disco and soul funk duo
Soul Clap,
Animal Collective's Avey Tare's new band
Slasher Flicks featuring former members of
Dirty Projectors and
Ponytail, and Chicago's acclaimed producer
Green Velvet. Plus UK's electronic shape shifters
Darkstar's third US appearance and
Art Department, the brainchild of Canadian techno/house legend
Kenny Glasgow and
Jonny White, and more.
Moogfest by night celebrates the most influential musical masterminds of the 21st century recognized for the evolution in their sound.
Moogfest 2014 Phase 2 Headliners and Nighttime Performers (in alphabetical order)
Adult
Art Department
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks
Bottin
Chic
Daedalus
Dan Deacon
Darkstar
Erika
Escort
Gaslamp Killer
Giorgio Moroder
Green Velvet
Kaytranada
Kraftwerk
Lapalux
Laurie Anderson
LE1f
Les Sins
Mark Farina
Mike Simonetti
Nick Monaco
NRP (No Regular Play)
RJD2
Sasha
Shigeto
Slow Hands
Soul Clap
TOKiMONSTA
Two Fresh
Wolf Eyes
These artists will join in the company of the nightly music showcase curators including Experimental Record Labels Warp Records, DFA, Fool's Gold, Ghostly International, No. 19 Music's Social Experiment, RVNG Intl., and Driftless Recordings. Plus Electronic Tastemakers Crew Love, Brooklyn-based Cultural Organization AFROPUNK, Detroit's Movement Festival, North Carolina's Hopscotch Festival, and Austin's Switched On.
With an experimental lineup of daytime conference programming led by cultural, artistic and technological luminaries, and punctuated by a diverse line up of landmark nightly performances, Moogfest 2014 honors the creativity and inventiveness of
Dr. Robert Moog and pays tribute to the legacy of the analog synthesizer.
The daytime platform explores the synthesis of music, technology art and innovation with a participatory program of conversation and collaboration led by Futurists, Musicians, Scientists, Authors, Filmmakers, and Pioneers of Electronic
Music Instrument Design, Alongside multimedia artist
Laurie Anderson and electronic music pioneer
Giorgio Moroder, Moogfest's Phase 1 daytime announcement includes film composer
Cliff Martinez, futurist thinkers
Jerome Glenn,
Nick Bostrom and
George Dvorsky, MIT Media Lab's
Joseph Paradiso, sonification
Professor Bruce Walker,
Make Magazine's Mark Frauenfelder,
OMNI's Claire Evans,
SETI (
Search of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) artist in residence
Charles Lindsay, and more.
TICKET INFO:
Moogfest 2014 GA Day and Night Package: $299*
Moogfest 2014 offers a limited number of Night (Music) Only Tickets at $199 while supplies last.
Moogfest 2014 offers a limited number of Day (Conference ) Only Tickets at $249 while supplies last.
VIP tickets available at $499
More information on tickets, VIP packages and payment plans available at www.moogfest.com/tickets
Day
Five days of mind-expanding conversation, experimentation, and collaboration for creative and technology professionals across seven venues in downtown Asheville. The conference is guided by pioneers of music and technology, and co-curated by some of the most important thinkers of today.
- 5 days, 8 venues, over 60 talks, panels, discussion, presentations, and film screenings with futurist thinkers, inventors, entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, artists, and musicians. First announcement (Phase 1) HERE.
- New Media art installations and interactive technology experiences and exhibitions
- Film screenings
- Experimental performances
- Workshops and other interactive educational forums
- Open-source hardware hackathon
- Day programming Hours: Wednesday 3pm-7pm, Thursday - Sunday: 11am - 6pm, Sunday 11am - 3pm.
Night
Five evenings of landmark musical performances by new trailblazers, early pioneers of electronic music, and major headliners.
- 5 nights, 10 venues, over 100 artists including concerts, experimental performances, and new music showcases.
- Night programming hours: Wednesday - Saturday: 7pm - 2am, Sunday 3pm - 6pm.
Moogfest VIP Package - $499*
Includes all benefits of the GA ticket PLUS:
- VIP's Get in First EVERYWHERE
- Priority Festival Check In
- VIP Entrance at Each Venue
- VIP lounge at US Cellular Center with Private Bar and WiFi
- Reserved Seating and Areas for VIPs
- Moogfest 2014 Program
- Moogfest T-Shirt
- Moogfest Gift Bag
- Exclusive Invitations to VIP Only Events
- Plus Much More To Be Announced…
- *Plus Applicable fees
Moogfest is also offering a limited run of unique VIP experiences for the true synth aficionado at www.moogfest.com/tickets
Moogfest also hosts free events open to the public:
- 4 day street festival, including new media art installations and live music
- 2 day North Carolina Tech Expo & Interactive Job Fair
- 5 day new electronic instrument pop-up shop
