Milhões de Festa

Goat
Goat
Motivated by the vodoo curse of the northern Swedish town of Korpilombolo (population 529), Goat are the embodiment of a centenary curse imposed on the village that plays itself as eccentric role-playing with primitive masks, under an infectious and intrusive rock. They present themselves as a kaleidoscope of reinvented and reabsorved genres that will definitely possess you for a while with some withdrawl side-effects. Just like a nice trip.
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Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon
Kicking the conscience out of the human body, Dan Deacon is the most convincing shepperd ever seen in the history of performers, incorporating in his chaotic live acts the many bodies that surround him, elevating his experimental electronics to ecstasy in steroids or, who knows, maybe LSD. It’s time to close our eyes and feel the happiness - in the format of a Dan Deacon gone solo, just like in the good old days.
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The Bug presents Acid Ragga with Miss Red
The Bug presents Acid Ragga with Miss Red
Last year, Kevin Martin & co. were responsible for eardrum damage, alarms sounding all over town and, of course, a mayhem of party with danceall electronic outbursts with the grime darkness of MCs Flowdan and Manga. Milhões is about drawing lines and ignoring them, but The Bug raised the bar to ludicrous levels of mind blowing and party throwing. Since the line is now so far out of reach, we got Martin back to take it one step further: his Acid Ragga mojo, jamaican dance-floor oriented tunes with Miss Red spitting some venom, will make you dance and wear you down. Don’t forget your earplugs, by the way. You’ll need it.
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The Heads
The Heads
The Heads is an essencial name for all headbangers and riff followers around the world. Having incepted in the 90s, in the then so active city of Bristol, the trio early stated their prowess in heavy guitar sound with riffs from the depths of the earth capable of propelling minds into outerspace. We know the band will escape any orbit, regardeless of the mass trying to contain them. Last year, Paul Allen himself proved it with a space out performance with Anthroprophh. Get your G forces checked — it’s going to be a harsh take off.
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El Guincho
El Guincho
Master of his own world, El Guincho came to Barcelos in 2010 as some sort of 80s Spanish pop aparition, making us move through his danceable and quirky stories.
Six years later, Guincho comes back with dreams of incandescent lights inspired by Chinese drug stores that we find every other corner, showing us now compositions that get more inspired by the london scene with new hints of R&B, dubstep and footwork. El Guincho’s new world sounds like a better trip than the ones we’ve already had.
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Adrian Sherwood
Adrian Sherwood
With a CV longer than Milhões’s line-up, Sherwood is the British producer who taught himself not only the art of producing sounds, but also the one of entertwining dub, reggae, house and experimental hip-hop, being responsible for putting the UK scene on the map. We’re not sure what stands out more - the number of labels under his wing, or the names he’s already produced. But we’re counting on being starstruck with his DJ-set by the pool.
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Sun Araw
Sun Araw
Sun Araw is arguably one of the frontrunners in experimental music, roaming free between electronic expressions, kraut rock rhythms, and southern musical coordinates, sounding unique in a disquieting yet familiar fashion. For Milhões, Cameron Stallones will engage its enigmatic cryptic message to distant galaxies in a trio, venturing in hypnotic incarnations of electronic music with the funky approach of conga rhythms e and sax melodies.
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Sons of Kemet
Sons of Kemet
Shabaka Hutchings is no stranger to Milhões de Festa. Having already blown minds and legs with both Comet is Coming and Melt Yourself Down, the prodigious saxophone player is now returning to Barcelos with his two drum kits, one sax and a tuba Sons of Kemet afrofuturistic outfit. Complex, but channeling ancient roots, the brits will bring some a-game jazz to the table. And we’re excited to have our minds blown away once again. Our minds have more lives than cats and are eager to pull carpets under everyones feet. The world is Milhões’s comfort zone.
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Ho99o9
Ho99o9
Ho99o9 woke up to a nightmare: there’s 999 problems building hate in them, and they’re about to vomit them with some real saturated walls of noise and hardcore drumming to tear muscles appart. Everything in the duos live performance is about fighting fire with fire. You hate them? They hate you even more, and they have the wits to back it up. Bring your a-game to the mosh pit.
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Part Chimp
Part Chimp
Part Chimp have been around for long enough to be rock stars. But they’re not. Instead of playing it safe on their success and cashing it up on being Mogwai’s favourite power trio, the London-based rockers just exploded with all formulas and engaged in an adventurous trip of loud playing, genre bending musicianship that have earned’em a well deserved reputation of being unique and unmistakable. Live, they’re massively loud and angry, bruising away.
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Nídia Minaj
Nídia Minaj
Barely coming off age, Nídia started producing with the same fresh approach to beatmaking as their label mates in Príncipe Discos, but as each and everyone of them, she went as far as to make a sound of her own. The uncontainable rhythms of Luanda merged with the bleakness of deep low techno frequencies and the bright melodies of house music gave birth to a criticaly aclaimed debut LP Danger and launched Nídia Minaj to dancefloor stardom, creating riots and parties all over Europe. The world is next, and there’s a whole world happening in Barcelos.
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Islam Chipsy & EEK
Islam Chipsy & EEK
Having the chaabi culture of Cairo as a starting point didn’t stop Islam Chipsy and his fellow arabic cosmonaut drummer duo EEK to aim for something way bigger than Egypt. Last year, with the release of the debut record Kahraba, they toured Europe and started party riots in clubs just they have been doing in the streets back home. Chipsy, half man, half amazing, will lead a new revolution based on dance and the universal language of rhythmic expression. Sheer happiness in hypnotic waves of sound expect you in Barcelos.
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Marshstepper + HHY + Varg
Marshstepper + HHY + Varg
The manipulation of the human psyche has been a subject of investigation for years and years, but few have managed to control cortex-shattering sound waves as well as Marshstepper and HHY. They’ll be joined by one of the most obscene electronic minds, Varg, a man who takes techno rhythms to decadent levels with intelligent drone/noise cuts and IDM beats. All involved are experts in techno outbursts and dub methods, their frequency manipulation and performative showmanship will both shock you and infect you with mad grooves and uncontainable dancefloor beats. Brace your legs and call your psychiatrist — Aldous Huxley once said no one ought to face mindbending experiences, like this clash of Ascetic House,Soopa Collective and Northern Recordings, with an unsettled conscience.
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Bixiga 70
Bixiga 70
Holding on to their main influence, Fela Kuti (Afrika 70) and the city where they live, Bixiga 70 come alive as the musical collective that mixes cumbia sounds, afrobeat and 70s funk, while proving themselves to be one of the most exciting instrumental groups of Brasil, as well as of any party. Trying not to make yet another vulgar comeback for afrobeat, the 10-piece group do it with more gusto than the others, adding unique ingredients that make up for an unforgettable equation: South American rhythms, perfectly seasoned with many others born in the middle of Africa, making for an authentic explosion of flavours. Remind us to ask for the recipe.
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Nicola Cruz
Nicola Cruz
ZZK has been the main player in pushing South America’s sound forward in each and every turn, thanks to the likes of Frikstailers, El G, Chancha Via Circuito, El Romolom and so forth, most of them have had a stage to shine on in past editions of Milhões de Festa. For this time around, still with the swimming pool as the perfect scenerio, Nicola Cruz will showcase his blue-ish electro-cumbia for us to praise the sun to.
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Evil Blizzard
Evil Blizzard
There’s some weird stuff happening in the UK. You know, Stonehendge, haunted houses and, our favourites, Evil Blizzard, a no wave, heavily distorted masked outfit that will probably get you bare naked during their show in Barcelos. No, the masks are no moto for a robbery, but the heat within their music is unbearably filfthy and shamelessly straight forward. Get naked, people. Evil Blizzard won’t mind.
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Domenique Dumont
Domenique Dumont
Unknown even to his/her own label, Domenique Dumont has created a small universe that is an authentic breath of fresh air: a soft collision of electronic music, dub and pop that comes directly from the tropics, with tracks especially made for the dance floor and for hearts made of butter. It’s the perfect formula for the coldest nights of Milhões, with no need to reach for human contact.
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Goth Money Records
Goth Money Records
Goth Money Records is the musical colective that has already turned some heads around and arched some eyebrows, not only for adopting and incorporating the typical aesthetic of the 90s, but for doing it with the futurism of the present, through sprinkles of chillwave and splashes of auto-tune. Being the true Generation Z, some of them still finishing high school, the colective of six does trap while holding flip-phones, and what could be better than that?
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Legendary Tigerman DJ7
Legendary Tigerman DJ7
Everytime someone said Fuck Xmas I Got the Blues, the Legendary Tigerman came forth to show them the color of his blood — you guessed the colour, and you can guess that in Milhões we’ll al share the same sun grazing over the Mississipi Delta. The blues in the swimming pool won’t come from the chlorine, but from past broken hearts. Let’s hold our cups together for all of them.
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Jibóia
Jibóia
An admited Prince of Persia in a rad acid trip, JIBÓIA is the obvious result of a multicultural free of restraints and that is reflected on the promiscuity of his timber. JIBÓIA takes us by our feet to the most overly sensorial cities in the world all the while inserting the most random coordinates in a schizophrenic GPS locator. His music is the sound of condiments being mixed with the rigorous drums of Ricardo Martins.
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Nan Kolè
Nan Kolè
Representing the Gqom sound of Durban, in South-African, DJ and producer Nan Kolè is sure to make introductions obsolete: he’ll come, see and conquer, crossing some deep house dubs with complex and warming rhythms; you don’t need to know him and yet you’re sure to dance with him. By a swimming pool! You can thank us by just having a blast.
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Big Naturals
Big Naturals
After performing in Milhões last year as part of riffing mammoths Anthropropph, power-duo Big Naturals are back representing the less glamourous side of Bristol’s sound, bringing some noise punk rock and drone oriented psych rock to the table. All they need is a bass and a drumkit to blow everyone’s mind. There will be waves in the swimming pool, so hold on to your slippers.
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Tomaga
Tomaga
It’s through an extensive exploration of space (be it real or imaginary) that Tomaga create shapes only seen in the darkest of phantasies, giving place to an elusive psychedelia that takes us to a place between conscience and dream itself. Tomaga seems like a multi-instrumental project carefully crafted through letargy that promises to get us stuck in place when they storm through Milhões.
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Filho da Mãe & Ricardo Martins
Filho da Mãe & Ricardo Martins
When we think about jawdropping musicianship, we think about Filho da Mãe, and we think about Ricardo Martins. When the two of them join forces, we get to a realm of pulsar-like explosions of guitar riffing over an array of rhythmic catharsis. Together, their pulling force excells that of massive stars, and they’ll shine as bright as the blazing sun over them, by the pool.
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10 000 Russos
10 000 Russos
They’re certainly not from Greece nor from Russia. 10.000 Russos are a real force of nature engined by three men who play around with psychedelia and give it a diabolical and dark twist, a reflection of the place where they recorded their latest album: in an abandoned shopping mall from the 80s. Sons of the same mother as Goat, Fuzz Club Records, 10.000 Russos are the true experts in materializing the subconscious and bringing it to the surface for a while, glueing us to the floor on which we stand.
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Discos Extendes
Discos Extendes
Extended Records is the product of the casual clash of young and courageous DJs Terzi, Smuggla, Lieben, and Bababa. From the dancefloor to the cabinet, together they engage in house and techno rhythms from all possible angles. Challenging each other, Terzi, Smuggla and Lieben together form Discos Extendes, where all of their different approaches converge into one act of beat dropping, leg infecting dance tunes. Bring a good pair of shoes, or don’t bring a pair at all.
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Riding Pânico
Riding Pânico
Riding Pânico have done it all in Milhões: played every single edition, in each and every stage, in the afternoon, by night, on the reception day, on the closing day. You name it, they pulled it before. Except for curatorship, something the Lisbon-based post-rockers are trying out for the first time — they’ll bring Marvel Lima and Quelle Dead Gazelle to play the Taina stage, and then will bring some of their own tunes to the table, ranging from melodic and ambient endeavors to electronic soundscapes. Either way, it all implodes into a party, or they wouldn’t be our unofficial but ubiquitous artists in residence.
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Cheryl
Cheryl
Real proof that we live in a world that gets more colorful as seconds go by, the Cheryl colective is a semi-anonymous group of four glitter, cats and drag loving people, responsible for the wackiest video art, museums installations and the most abrasive parties that The Big Apple has lived through since the 90s. Cheryl is not a performance, a band or something that you experience once. It’s a lifestyle.
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Barrio Lindo
Barrio Lindo
Barrio Lindo is yet another artist coming from an untamable Argentina, whose creativity brought the dub bass to the digital cumbia and elevated it to late night partying mode. Obviously, there’s no right time to enjoy a cumbia party, but there’s the perfect set: Barrio Lindo will be a perfect fit for the swimming pool, and a guarantee of a latin dance off.
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Extraperlo
Extraperlo
“Chill Aqui” (meaning “chill here”) is both Extraperlo’s new record and the way they live their lives and their music. The Spanish band has been replacing their tenacious will to find the perfect sound and has instead focused on creating (successfully) spaced rythms and sensuality-filled compositions. Their vivacious pop has secured them the spot of one of the most exciting and interesting bands in the national scheme, something that our dearest Quesadilla has noticed.
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Orchestra Elastique
Orchestra Elastique
DJ Quesadilla, who’s nice enough to present to all of us Orchestra Elastique, has describe the outfit as the globetrotters of party-hard improv with warm and modern rhythms. Well, modernity is somethign the london-based ensemble strugles with, changing time and geographical coordinates at each chord progression, ranging from Asia to South American with the surgical approach of Ocidental music. Either way, they know how to have a great time — and how to create a great time to be in. Quesadilla world is getting more and more colorful at each and every new shape it takes.
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MADA TREKU
MADA TREKU
Coming from Favela Discos, one of the most whimsical labels out there, MADA TREKU is the alter-ego of the O’Porto based Nuno Loureiro, creator of an agressive and perverted techno. “Learning Exercises on How To Move On”, edited just a month ago, is not just an ill-conditioned and hypnotic record, but also the proof that whatever happens in the Porto scene is as conventional as is Lotharian.
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Eat the Turnbuckle
Eat the Turnbuckle
When you just can’t wrap yourself around the violence in metal music, Eat The Turnbuckle is called to the stand: they bring wrestling moves, some fighting themes and a violent enough death metal with a harcore rib. For this reason, and plenty more, we find Eat The Turnbuckle guilty of being big humans that can squash you with either sound or physical force. While wearing spandex. Talk about having a pair, uh?
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My Expansive Awareness
My Expansive Awareness
So the name Doors was taken, but not the feeling of open the so called gates of perception of which Huxley talked about in the book Morrison and co. ripped of. The Zaragoza rock outfit make each and everyone of our five-to-six senses tingle by soaking their guitars in effects and grazing their amps on the sun. With My Expansive Awareness, we’ll get over-extimulated, sensitive and will see a new world - or even the future!, we don’t really know, so stop asking. DJ Quesadilla says they’re the best on playing rocking garages with tamborines. We trust the dude.
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Quelle Dead Gazelle
Quelle Dead Gazelle
Quelle Dead Gazelle twisted their sound so badly that post-rock turned lost its stone like, riff-driven purpose to become an electronic monster, hauting dreams with colors. The duo has a bright approach to guitar sound, turning their backs to organic textures and elevating rock to the realms of digital exploration without ever sounding less punishing to the eardrums of chord nerds. We’re all in good hands, folks! Just ask Riding Pânico, they’ve been playing Milhões for ever, now, and added Quelle Dead Gazelle to the bill themselves.
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Qer Dier
Qer Dier
On verge of sounding like a post-whatever band, but never really being one, Qer Dier bring to the table the always certain formula of repetitive, trance inducing rhythm to hold the audience on their long-running tunes. That’s actually the Lisbon-based band’s realm, of throwing themselves into space-like rock trips in high pace, grinding your ears with vacuum guitars and punishing your body with a tight rhythmic turbulence. Quesadilla says they’re just like Swans, but better. We’re sure they’re nicer people anyway.
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Wume
Wume
With no margin for errors, rhythmic repetitiveness works as cathalist for Wume and their kraut oriented musical architecture. The drum-synth duo elaborate an intricate frequency of engaging harmonies and adventurous melodies, often remind us of the gaming culture in the 90s. Let’s just admit our Final Fantasy is having the greatest of times by the pool. Wume will take care of it.
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Malandrómeda
Malandrómeda
If Mike Skinner’s Streets got trapped in a gameboy in Santiago de Compostela during a hot 90s summer, the result would end up to be Malandrómeda, a sick duo from Galizia rocking electronic lo-fi beats, tropical rhythms and spanish accent rap. With a punk vibe to each song, they’ve been putting records out at an unatural pace, having put out two records so far in 2016. We’re not sure how many more will come until Milhões, but we know it’ll be enough to get the party going.
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Ghost Hunt
Ghost Hunt
If ghosts are their main target, space is certainly their church. Ghost Hunt will force any willing soul into introspection with just a guitar, a bass and some help from synths, a true jorney through the cosmos with a one-way ticket.
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Vozzyow
Vozzyow
From the PORNO colective, Vozzyow represent the very loud need to exist, making everyone aware of their very crude and raw presence. The routine from the three friends who like each other “very much” is almost transe-like, carrying us all to their ritual-filled, timeless sludge, mixing ancient and new. They come as a cortesy of the Galician promoter La Melona and the local Macho Alfa.
Uppercut
Uppercut
Rarelly post-rock humbles itself into getting a punk vibe, but that’s not Uppercut, the brothers from Galizza presented to us by the good folks of Discos de Arena. These post-rockers have the same inbuilt hatred towards canon solutions in post-whatever that Fugazi had towards punk — and due to it, they just don’t repeat them, not before a little twist. Uppercut deliver short, epic narratives with a chilled down approach to melodic endavors. It ought to be a heck of a time — and you’ll never see a good hook punch coming.
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Surma
Surma
With a touch in sonic escapes way too similar to a brush stroke, Surma paints songs beyond the lynguistical limitation in music, addind texture, modulations to beautifuly written songs. Surma is Débora Umbelino, a girl whose wits around music-making are undiabely good and breathtaking — count on her to bring some new colors to the blue side of the swimming pool.
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Marvel Lima
Marvel Lima
If you’re playing with your sunglasses on, you better sound as cool as you look. That’s something we can count on Marvel Lima to be: cool AF. They have that careless groove that make ladies and boys everywhere sigh they hearts out, and pass out of hard, uncontainable dancing. They’re rock, they have a nice ethereal touch to take as in and blow the chorus in everydirection. Get hooked on their melodic endeavors — trust Riding Pânico, who put their necks on the line for these kids.
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Ensemble Insano
Ensemble Insano
On each of the latest editions of Milhões de Festa, we asked the different generations of musicians that compose the sound of Barcelos to join forces in an unique, epic moment that always ends up defining what Milhões is really about: more than showcasing shows, we work on building memories. It all starts with the artists, but we will all be part of them in the end.
PO+AL
PO+AL
Legendary status is one hard to reach, but if there’s a pair of musicians gazing it, ignoring it and writing their own tales it’s called PO+AL. The junction of Pedro Oliveira, drummer and member of Green Machine and Dear Telephone, and guitarist Alexandre Soares, founding member of seminal portuguese rock act GNR, uses the improv lyngo to create new ways of communicating intricate, complex ideas. We’ve got some food for the mind here, people.
Aggrenation
Aggrenation
‘Cause there’s no party like a punk party, there’s no better way to elevate the level of craziness in festival. We asked crust punks Aggrenation to take care of it, and they replied with some d-beat tunes, the toughest of attitudes and a loud and violent metal sound to get it in the right tone. So, guess we’ll find you in the mosh pit? We’ll be thanking our brothers in SWR for the bruises.
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GAIKA
GAIKA
Despite the filthy subs and numbed down rhythms on each and everyone of his beats on the latest mixtape, “Security”, GAIKA is no less ragga than each of his grime counterparts. His raunchier, as explicit, and way more decadent, altering perceptions with dope beats and sludgy frequencies. Get your knees ready, the london-based MC is looking to busting them with sound.
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Oozing Wound
Oozing Wound
Al Cisneros once said “if a riff is good enough, you should be able to play it for over 10 minutes”. Oozing Wound disagree, and we like their method: if a riff is good enough, sledge through it until you drop on your knees of excitement. It doesn’t mean the Thrill Jockey rockers won’t throw sucker puches via amped guitars and sick tones. Get your spine ready for the bust.
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Filho da Mãe
Filho da Mãe
Portugal always had its guitar virtuosos, and still has. Rui Carvalho, aka Filho da Mãe, is part of the new generation of artists with a new take on fingerpicking and classical guitars, merging a punk urgency with beautiful melodic endeavors. His latest album, “Mergulho”, transforms sound and space into a web of breathtaking aquatic songs that will make his surprise appearance in the city of Barcelos something to remember.
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OTROTORTO
OTROTORTO
TORTO is a trio of crooked rock, playing with their own set of rules what should have been a highly canonic approach to songwriting. For Milhões de Festa, the Porto-based band will drop an arm and ad a leg to the outfit, not bringing their bass player Miguel Ramos, but playing with pianist Hugo Raro in a new effort they call OTROTORTO. Expect the unexpectable, expect rock and no songs, just music.
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Ich Bin N!ntendo
Ich Bin N!ntendo
Coming from a completely jazzed out Norway, Ich Bin N!ntendo definitly think outside the box: to their post-rock rhythms they ad noise and heavy riffing, with electrifying results, always with a free approach to sound and texture — it’s hardly by chance they’re collaborators with the likes of Mats Gustavson and Paal Nilsen Love. We’re talking about civilized chaos here.
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Favela Impromptu
Favela Impromptu
Favela Discos is, by far, the best collective emerging in Porto’s music scene in the last couple of years. With uncontainable creative outputs always coming out, the label dives into experimentation with rock, jazz and electronic without any kind of genre limitations and going into multiple directions and languages. For Milhões de Festa, we asked them to make sure nobody stops partying during changeovers in the first day. Brace yourselves, Favela is coming.
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"Rádio Popular" by Paulo Cunha Martins
"Rádio Popular" by Paulo Cunha Martins
Popular parties is something you can’t take from a portuguese during the summer. Folk, latin and the notable pimba music all join forces throughout the country working as the official soundtrack of hundreds of parties where there’s no age limit. Paulo Cunha Martins will bring his most exquisite selection of romantic and classic tunes to hold ground during dinner time in Milhões. There’s no stopping until the 25th of July.
Sol Sistema
Sol Sistema
Sol Sistema roughly translates to Sun System and, yes, the name says it all: a small sun powered sound system that joins the efforts of rapper, funk-producer, percussionist and witty sampler O Gringo Sou EU, and his turntabelist miracle-worker DJ VA. The duo will be playing a traveling show that will serve as a guide through Barcelos to the secret Arruadas Merrell shows.

Precint

All narratives are extended through days and nights, and the tale of Milhões de Festa is no different. What starts at noon, must not end at sunset. Milhões goes almost from dawn to dawn, and all nights will take place in the prescinct, where headliners, two stages (Milhões, and Lovers), a food court and various chillout areas provide the kind of fun Lionel Richie would approve of, with a intimate and cosy feel to it: all night long, baby.

Arruadas Merrell

Milhões de Festa has always nurtured a symbiotic relationship with Barcelos, the city that has its doors wide open to receive artists, festival goers, and everything related to the festival. This year, we invite you to explore Barcelos and discover the secret shows we’re promoting in unusual and peculiar places around town. On the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of July at 3.30pm Sol Sistema (O Gringo Sou EU + DJ VA) will perform a traveling show to guide all adventurous minds through the city of Barcelos to each secret location, where Filho da Mãe, Ich Bin N!ntendo and OTROTORTO will introduce you to new sounds and new beautiful locations. Sol Sistema will meet you at Praça dos Poetas, in front of the ticket office.

Swimming Pool

There’s still a better way to start a summer day than a dive at a swimming pool with a cocktail and some sick tunes and kickass artists performing by the side. This combo takes place every year in Barcelos for Milhões de Festa, and the swimming pool is one of the highlights of the festival.

Taina

Some pleasures in life are so simple and obvious that turn out frequently overlooked. Since we love eating, and we have to do it, Taina stage offers you a bold lineup with a side-menu of the best regional delicacies, from wine to all kinds of meat (vegies, be assured you’ll be eating cruelty free food as well).

Camping

Milhões de Festa’s free camping spot is located in Parque da Cidade, situated in the centre of Barcelos and near the festival precinct. The park is completely surrounded by a green and relaxing scenery, appropriate for Nature-gazing and relaxing. There’s a ‘round-the-clock security team, hot water showers, bathrooms and the best high-maintenance conditions for every festival goer at Pavilhão Municipal, inside Parque da Cidade. Camping opens on the 21st at 2:30PM.

1-day ticket holders will be allowed to use the camping site for during the day correspondent to the ticket (i.e. tickets for the 23rd will grant access to the camping site from the 23rd to the 24th).

Hotels

Eat & Drink

HOTEL BAGOEIRA
Av. Dr. Sidónio Pais, 495
4750 BARCELOS
253 811 236
www.bagoeira.com

HOTEL DO TERÇO
R. de São Bento, 7
4750 BARCELOS
253 808 380
www.hoteldoterco.com

RESIDENCIAL ARANTES
Avenida da Liberdade, 35 1º
4750 BARCELOS
253 811 326

RESIDENCIAL SOLAR ESTAÇÃO
Largo Mar Gomes Costa, 1 – Arcozelo
4750 BARCELOS
253 811 741

RESIDENCIAL D.NUNO
Av. D. Nuno Álvares Pereira, 76
4750 BARCELOS
Tel: 253 812 810
www.residencial-dnuno.com

RESIDENCIAL O GALO
Lugar Da Pena – Gamil
4755 BARCELOS
Tel: 253 832 683

Bway Guest House
Rua de Custódio José Gomes Vilas Boas • Nº 44
4755-059 Barcelinhos, Barcelos • Portugal
253 825 090
http://www.barcelosguesthouse.com/

Bar do Xano
R. Bom Jesus da Cruz
4750-270 Barcelos
253 816 264

Divinal
R. Elias Garcia, Barcelos
253 825 814
http://divinal.pt/

Historial
Largo do Apoio 14
4750-261 Barcelos

Restaurante Solar Real
Praça de Pontevedra
4750-328 Barcelos
253 813 439

Restaurante Turismo
R. Duques de Bragança
4750 Barcelos
253 826 411

Xispes
R. de Miguel Ângelo 58
4755 Barcelos
918 050 267

Yume Sushi
Largo Dr. José Novais 1, Barcelos
936 705 820

By Car

North
From Corunha, take E-1 / AP-9 to Vigo
Take the A-55 exit to Tui and follow the road to Portugal

Portugal
Take the E01 / A3 / IP1
Take the exit to A28 to “Viana do Castelo, Caminha″Follow the road until “Neiva, Braga, Barcelos”. Take the exit and follow the road N103 to "Braga, Barcelos"
Take the exit to "Barcelos Centro"

South
From Lisbon, take A1 to Porto
Once in Porto, follow A28 road to Viana do Castelo
Take exit no. 17 to "Estela, Zona Industrial" and follow the EM502 road until you get to N205.
Follow N205 road to "Barcelos Centro"

West
From Barcelona, take B-10 to "Ronda Litoral" and follow A-2.
Then follow E-90 / B-23 and take the exit to "Lleida, Zaragoza" on the E-90 / AP-2 road
Follow E-90 / AP-2 and exit to E-804 / A-68 "Logroño Pamplona"
Follow E-804 / A-68 and exit to E-5 / AP-1
Follow E-5 / AP-1 and exit to E-80 / BU-30
Follow E-80 / BU-30 and exit to A-231
Follow A-231 and exit to A-66 until you enter A-52 road
Follow A-52 until you get to N-532

From Madrid
Follow A-6 to "Puerto Guadarrama" and exit to A-52.
Follow A-52 until you get to N-532

In Portugal
Follow N103-5 and take exit A24 / IP3 / E801 to "Chaves"
Follow A24 and exit in A7 to "Porto, Guimarães"
Follow A7 and exit in A11 to "Braga"
Follow A11 and exit to "Barcelos", N103
Follow N103 and exit to N205.
Follow N205 to "Barcelos Centro"

Schedules

Precint: on the 21st the precint opens at 7pm; on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th opens at 4pm.
Swimming Pool stage: opens on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th at 12.30pm; closes at 8pm.
Ticket Office: on the 21st opens at 2.30; on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th at 12.30pm.
Camping site: opens on the 21st at 2.30pm - closes on the 25th at 2.30pm.

Train

International train to Vigo
Inter-Regional to Valença
Urban train to Nine, with transfer to Barcelos

Bus

From Porto

From all Portugal

TAXI

http://www.taxisbarcelos.com/

Tlm. +351 933 614 433

Tlf. +351 253 177 212

central@taxisbarcelos.com

Airport

Metro do Porto - Exiting the airport, at the metro station, catch the Campanhã/Estádio do Dragão/Fânzeres line (the orange one) and exit at Campanhã (train station).

http://www.metrodoporto.pt/

All schedules for Milhões de Festa 2016

Arruadas Merrell close the official line-up with Ich Bin N!ntendo, Filho da Mãe and others || Taina is better than ever
Arruadas Merrell close the official line-up with Ich Bin N!ntendo, Filho da Mãe and others || Taina is better than ever
The four main stages being complete, Milhões de Festa adds to its line-up a few more acts that aim to bring you the full Barcelos experience, with strolls through town with Merrell, Favela Impromptu and Rádio Popular.
Even though we’ve declared the line-up closed, reducing Milhões to just the four stages is a disservice. With that in mind, and with Taina’s migration into a new location inside the precinct, it only makes sense to announce more names, concerts and activities that shape up a whole new Milhões’s paradigm.
With a better circulation in mind, as well as the intent of creating new dynamics between the several programmed acts, Taina’s relocation into a new home, the precinct, doesn’t mean it’ll lose its trademark goods: Minho’s good food and drinks under a slight breeze. Taina’s concerts are free on the first day only.
With the city in mind, we go on a stroll with Merrell to the coziest and most distinct spots in the heart of Barcelos, with guitarist Filho da Mãe, OTROTORTO and Ich Bin N!ntendo, all concerts being free.
Back in Taina, this year’s line-up for our beloved stage can count on two very distinct acts. Favela Impromptu, from Porto-based, irreverent Favela Discos, will be sure to step up their game between concerts with their unbridled creativity on the first day. On the other three, “Rádio Popular”, by Paulo Cunha Martins, promises to take us all into a mindset where it’s okay to enjoy Portuguese popular music with no strings attached.
And, finally, to ensure our quota of healthy practices and choices, in a collaboration with Villa Nazca, at 11 in the morning on the 23rd, there’ll be a group Yoga class followed by a relaxing session at the camping site.
More info on www.milhoesdefesta.com and below:
Filho da Mãe
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Portugal always had its guitar virtuosos, and still has. Rui Carvalho, aka Filho da Mãe, is part of the new generation of artists with a new take on fingerpicking and classical guitars, merging a punk urgency with beautiful melodic endeavors. His latest album, “Mergulho”, transforms sound and space into a web of breathtaking aquatic songs that will make his surprise appearance in the city of Barcelos something to remember.
OTROTORTO
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TORTO is a trio of crooked rock, playing with their own set of rules what should have been a highly canonic approach to songwriting. For Milhões de Festa, the Porto-based band will drop an arm and ad a leg to the outfit, not bringing their bass player Miguel Ramos, but playing with pianist Hugo Raro in a new effort they call OTROTORTO. Expect the unexpectable, expect rock and no songs, just music.
Ich Bin N!ntendo
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Coming from a completely jazzed out Norway, Ich Bin N!ntendo definitly think outside the box: to their post-rock rhythms they ad noise and heavy riffing, with electrifying results, always with a free approach to sound and texture — it’s hardly by chance they’re collaborators with the likes of Mats Gustavson and Paal Nilsen Love. We’re talking about civilized chaos here.
Favela Impromptu
@ Palco Taina, July 21st
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Favela Discos is, by far, the best collective emerging in Porto’s music scene in the last couple of years. With uncontainable creative outputs always coming out, the label dives into experimentation with rock, jazz and electronic without any kind of genre limitations and going into multiple directions and languages. For Milhões de Festa, we asked them to make sure nobody stops partying during changeovers in the first day. Brace yourselves, Favela is coming.
Paulo Cunha Martins presents "Rádio Popular"
@ Palco Taina, July 22nd, 23rd and 24th, 8pm-9pm
Popular parties is something you can’t take from a portuguese during the summer. Folk, latin and the notable pimba music all join forces throughout the country working as the official soundtrack of hundreds of parties where there’s no age limit. Paulo Cunha Martins will bring his most exquisite selection of romantic and classic tunes to hold ground during dinner time in Milhões. There’s no stopping until the 25th of July.
GAIKA, Oozing Wound, Aggrenation, Varg and other acts complete the line-up || Daily tickets and full programme revealed tomorrow
GAIKA, Oozing Wound, Aggrenation, Varg and other acts complete the line-up || Daily tickets and full programme revealed tomorrow
Milhões de Festa closes down its prominent line-up with GAIKA, Oozing Wound, Aggrenation, PO+AL, Varg and Ensemble Insano, promising to bring the daily tickets and programming tomorrow, as well as extra announcements soon.
There’s only one month left till the non-stop conglomerate of party that is Milhões de Festa comes along. We’re announcing the line-up for the four stages, this time with GAIKA’s dragged and decadent grime, Oozing Wound’s hard rock party, Aggrenation’s over-the-top distortions in a d-beat rhythm, brought to you by SWR Barroselas Metalfest.
This wave of announcements (that promises to be followed by others in the next few weeks) also brings PO+AL along, a project that brings together peixe:avião’s Pedro Oliveira and the marvelous guitarist Alexandre Soares in a transcendent act made of improvisation only. The resident and ever-changing Ensemble Insano also hops on the train to Barcelos, with the Swedish Varg hopping on the Marshstepper + HHY one, staying under an artistic residence that’ll begin in Porto, at Café Au Lait, and will culminate in Barcelos.
This being said, it only makes sense to announce the daily programme tomorrow, as well as the daily ticket price. Tomorrow there can already be all sorts of planning for whether you prefer Taina’s soft breeze and good food or the never-ending train of fun and chill that is Milhões’s pool.
Adrian Sherwood, Nicola Cruz, Big Naturals and more added to Red Bull Music Academy stage at Milhões de Festa
Adrian Sherwood, Nicola Cruz, Big Naturals and more added to Red Bull Music Academy stage at Milhões de Festa
There are two months left until Milhões de Festa takes over its local of birth, Barcelos, from the 21st of July until the 24th. So it only makes sense to announce the kind - and amount - of names that will surely make this one of the most diverse and exciting festivals of the summer season.
The Red Bull Music Academy is a phenomenon not only known for diving head-first into artistic promiscuity, but also for curating one of the things that distinguishes Milhões from other festivals: the never-ending musical kaleidoscope that is the stage by the pool.
RBMA curates the pool with several exciting acts, starting with a DJ-set from London-based legend Adrian Sherwood, the effervescent fusion of cumbia with electronic music from Nicola Cruz and The Legendary Tigerman’s blues, which also come in the DJ-set format.
Big Naturals’s krautpunk, via drones and explosions of noise, will certainly be held accountable for any sort of tsunami happening around the pool area, whereas Nan Kolè can only be held responsible for honouring his South African roots by mixing deep house with Durban beats. Don’t mess around with TOMAGA, however. They are sure to put everyone around them in a state of lethargy with their electronic textures, in a place where conscience and dreams can almost touch.
The duo Filho da Mãe & Ricardo Martins promise to leave little space for everyone else at the pool, filling it with the art of crafting laced sounds and the art of ordering them, respectively. Two trips are also being prepared: the one to space with Ghost Hunt at the cockpit and to the land of feel-good songs, from the indie-popish WE ARE MATCH.
Finally, Red Bull Music Academy’s stamp in Milhões de Festa finishes off with Wume, who play bright soundtracks with a repetitive rhythm, ideal to float and dream in the water, Barrio Lindo’s digital cumbia with mad bass frequencies, and Surma, who paints beautiful and perfectly executed landscapes with rich melodies.
Adrian Sherwood
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Nicola Cruz
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Nan Kolè
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Big Naturals
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The Legendary Tigerman
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TOMAGA
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Filho da Mãe e Ricardo Martins
▽ Label ▽ Video
Ghost Hunt
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Barrio Lindo
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We Are Match
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Wume
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Surma
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Ho99o9, Marshstepper + HHY, Cheryl join the bill for 2016
Ho99o9, Marshstepper + HHY, Cheryl join the bill for 2016
Os eventos Isto não é o Milhões de Festa começam esta semana em Coimbra e Lisboa e vão subindo as temperaturas até 21 de Julho, o dia D. Ao cartaz juntam-se agora Ho99o9, Marshstepper + HHY, Eat the Turnbuckle, Cheryl e MADA TREKU.

With the likes of Goat, The Bug, Dan Deacon, El Guincho and much more already aligned for the 2016 edition of Milhões de Festa, running in Barcelos, Portugal from the 21st to the 24th of July, we’re now adding Ho99o9, Marshstepper + HHY, Eat the Turnbuckle, Cheryl and MADA TREKU to the bill. We’re closing in on the final lineup!
First of, from the USA come punkster with hip hop groove Ho99o9, death metal wrestlemaniacs Eat the Turnbuckle, performance and party collective Cheryl and the hauting and chockingly act of Marshstepper, who will join forces with Portuguese producer and dub master HHY.
As for Portuguese aditions, we’re betting all of our chips in MADA TREKU, Porto’s newest electronic output.