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  Electric Wizard

  Electric Wizard

  

  Applauded and worshipped with every new record, Electric Wizard are often described as the heaviest band in the universe. In all honesty, Electric Wizard are today more than a band. If their place as a worldwide institution of doom is unchallenged, the discography and the different incarnations of the British band are also a historical document for a whole universe of cultural manifestations that uncover the darkest spectres of art. From Jess Franco’s cinema to Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft’s literature, their music congeals the most emblematic references of a subculture that feeds off the obscure, horror and witchcraft. After Black Sabbath’s career-ending announcement, many fans and even more press named them as the obvious heirs to the opened spot. Wizard Bloody Wizard, the most recent record, at the same time that it seems to affirm the willingness to do so, opens  a pathway to what appears to become a new era for the collective, which according to their statements, wants to live beyond the credits of their trademark riff.

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  Squarepusher

  Squarepusher

  

  If it’s true that electronic music has reached, today, the peak of its commercial potential, many would say that this once fertile ground for creativity and exploration seems to have cowered before ideas of conservatism and a retromania which chains it of dance music’s traditional canon. In a scene where innovation seems to be more worried about its pension plan, voices like Squarepusher’s become even more relevant. The legacy he has built is unassailable. The first releases such as Rephlex, the Blue Note residency, the aggressive interpretations of jazz, the transversal Music is Rotted One Note, the experimentalism he has imprinted in all his approaches and the transgressive drum’n’bass which would become his signature, are all evidence that the was here is always forward. In his last known release, Damogen Furies, he pushes the will to control musical production in its core to the limit, using self-created software, and so exploring the most brutal and visceral abilities of digital music.

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  Os Tubarões

  Os Tubarões

  

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  The story between Os Tubarões and Portugal is a lengthy one. Led by the incontrovertible Ildo Lobo (the band’s singer until his death in 2014) they hold a historic place in the fight for the independence of the Cape-Vert archipelago, from 1974 to 1994. In their almost five decades of existence, they’ve released eight records that continue to impact all music made with roots in morna, coladeira and funaná. In the year when they’ve announced a new record, with no final release date yet, they return to Portugal to prove why they are one of the most intergenerational of bands.

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  Mouse on Mars

  Mouse on Mars

  

  Recognised as one of the most defining and versatile German electronic projects, the duo Mouse on Mars has forged a unique musical language that oscillates between uncontrollable chaos and meticulously assembled structures. Free from currents, genre conventions and the constraints of the established market, Jan and Andy have worked for more than 24 years in the mapping of their own trajectory, between pop, art, dance music and avant-garde creation.

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  Gazelle Twin

  Gazelle Twin

  

  It is under the artistic cloak of Gazelle Twin that Elizabeth Bernholz, producer, composer and performer, introduces us to the dystopian way she analyses the reality which surrounds her. It was so in Unflesh and Kingdom Come, records in which she dissected themes such as puberty, gender identity and the bleeding lines between consumerism and fascism, and so it is with Pastoral, to be previewed in the Barcelos gig. With a release date set for late September, the new record regards contemporary England, apparently plunged in a new dark age.

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  Lena d’Água e Primeira Dama com a Banda Xita

  Lena d’Água e Primeira Dama com a Banda Xita

  

  She started singing in the 70s, alongside the Beatnicks, but it was in the 80s that Lena d’Água stepped up as one of the most remarkable voices in Portuguese pop-rock. In the boom of Portuguese rock, with Salada de Fruta and Banda Atlântica, and before venturing on a solo career, she paved the way for her elevation to icon status in Portuguese music. For this concert, she takes the stage with Manel Lourenço, the singer and songwriter who performs under the moniker Primeira Dama, and members of the Xita Records collective.

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  Circle

  Circle

  

  They say, about themselves, that: they may not be the best band in the world, but they’re dangerously close to it. An ultra prolific Finnish collective, they are masters of an almost hyperactive ability to conquer ground from different musical genres. From jazz to krautrock, from metal to more psychedelic environs, there seem to be no barriers for the ease with which they summarize and redesign the most diverse musical languages. With over fifty released records, Circle’s legacy may not yet possess the seal of the best in the world, but it is undeniably in the inner circle of cult bands with the highest longevity, worldwide.

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  The Bug feat. Miss Red

  The Bug feat. Miss Red

  

  It might possibly be one of the fetish names in all of Milhões de Festa’s history. Under the names The Bug, Techno Animal, King Midas Sound or Ice, Kevin Martin has explored the fringes of dub, experimental music and noise, emerging as one of the most transversal figures in the reinvention and re-contextualization of the sound system culture. He returns to Barcelos in the company of the provocative Miss Red, an Israeli MC that one day jumped up on his stage and stole the mic with which she has been burning down stages across the world.

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  Nubya Garcia

  Nubya Garcia

  

  “If there’s a jazz artist about to blow up in 2018 it’s Nubya Garcia”. This was how Rolling Stone introduced the English saxophone player and composer’s name, who has garnered a stand-out position in the United Kingdom’s jazz frontrunners. Praised by the inescapable Giles Peterson, she won the Jazz FM Awards newcomer prize in 2017, and from then on became a usual presence in most of the most influential stages and festivals worldwide. Born and raised in London, of Caribbean ancestry, Garcia references influences in American jazz, blues, soul, roots and contemporary pop. Whether solo or with Nérila - with whom she celebrates and promotes women’s roles in contemporary jazz -, alongside names such as Moses Boyd and Congo Natty, or even in a quartet (format within which she’ll play in Barcelos), she has been turning into one of the fundamental pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that assembles the new pathways of afrojazz.

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  The Heliocentrics

  The Heliocentrics

  

  A London-based psychedelic jazz collective, The Heliocentrics appeared in the 90s, when drummer Malcolm Catto recorded for legendary labels Mo’ Wax and Jazzman. Their début album, released in 1997 by Stone Throw, established their place among the most interesting names in music from the last decades. Balancing the exotic and the “weird”, The Heliocentrics’ universe is vast and evolutionary. Their discography is a document of a journey between the different incarnations of jazz and funk and their incredible collaboration list a sort of introduction to names which marked the post-Mo’Wax movement, from MF Doom to Mulatu Astatke, from Lloyd Mile to Orlando Julius.

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  700 Bliss

  700 Bliss

  

  A collaborative project born of parties and underground nights in Philadelphia, 700 Bliss unite the poetry/spoken-word of Moor Mother (Camae Ayewa) with the dance beats of producer DJ Haram. Exploring the USA’s darkest history, a fundamental part of Camae’s work, 700 Bliss aim for afro-futurism and purification. In Spa 700, their first collaboration on record, the build their message on the most current dance music, to then build atmospheres which are equally earthbound and cosmic. 

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  DJ Paypal

  DJ Paypal

  

  When in 2015 he was asked what it takes to be a good troll, DJ Paypal gave an answer which helps to sum up a large part of the trajectories followed by footwork producers: annoy people but making them feel good at the same time. Saying that PayPal is one of the most fascinating figures in footwork is the introduction which seems compulsory for his musical persona: a sort of balance between fun internet geek and full-soul musician. If as the leader of the Mall Music record label he’s helped to discover a new tome of footwork, in the work he’s developed for LuckyMe he’s made clear his interest in soul and disco, to then lead into Sold Out, the LP released through Brainfeeder, where he showcases all he can reduce to 160 BPM, from soul, hip-hop or jazz.

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  Bala

  Bala

  

  There is a new punk in Coruña which needs to be heard urgently. Suburban landscapes, youth unemployment and average boredom are the right fertilizer for the rage and impatience of a youth that refuses to live in nostalgia. It was this Coruña that Anxela and Violeta decided to “set on fire”. Under the name Bala they released Human Flesh and Lume, records loaded with shrapnel that leave our faces red and frowning, and that throw rock back to its cathartic origins.

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  Scúru Fitchádu

  Scúru Fitchádu

  

  Scúru Fitchadú, from the Creole, meaning «pitch black” or “dense”, is a crossroads between distorted bass lines, sped up drums, noise and the concertina. The most recent project by producer Sette Sujidade, it explores new languages, between the tradition of funaná from Cape-Vert, and the fury of punk. The result is, for all these reasons, complex, different, unusual and dirty, and it has taken the Portuguese musical scene in rounds of fighting.

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  Natalie Sharp presents BodyVice

  Natalie Sharp presents BodyVice

  

  Whether solo as Lone Taxidermist, or in the several collaborations she’s done with names such Jenny Hval or Gazelle Twin, the universe of expression by Nathalie Sharp, who is a vocalist, performer and make-up artist, is defined by the ability to trigger sensorial experiences that thrust the audience into the centre of her live performances. Exploring the symbols and concepts of the post-internet age, Nathalie manipulates on stage a range of non-traditional instruments, costumes, set design, face painting and vocal control techniques, permanently questioning gender, domination and star-power clichés. With Bodyvice, the show she will present in Barcelos, she identifies the channels that allow for the proximity of the human body and technology, creating a set of new sensorial areas which promise an experience, sometimes undecipherable, of industrial “spandex” and noise.

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  The Mauskovic Dance Band

  The Mauskovic Dance Band

  

  The new musical adventure by Nicolas Mauskovic, Jacco Gardner’s drummer, conceived in the studio with friends Donnie Mauskovic, Em Nik Mauskovic and Mano Mauskovic. Feeling around for 70s afrobeat, cumbia and all the hypnotic sounds which are capable of setting off the most swaying and earnest dancing, The Mauskovic Dance Band is today a definite sign of a party, having already played in the most interesting stages in the world and European clubs.

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  UKAEA

  UKAEA

  

  Exploring the intersections between real and virtual in music, in a way that can be equally fresh and exciting, that is the promise made by Pale Master, Liverpool’s most recent electronic music label. With its distribution done solely via cassette tape, the work they compile showcases a group of new “kids2 whose work dilutes the intersections between organic and mechanical, communication and systems of control. It’s here that we find UKAEA, and their The Empire Never Ended, an EP made up of four tracks, recorded in one take, which reflect their strong techno roots and the importance hardware and improvisation take on in their live performances.

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  Warmduscher

  Warmduscher

  

  The Fat White Family’s “empire” shows signs of an infinite expansion. Alongside Insecure Men or the Moonlandingz, Warmduscher are another of the Family’s youngest progeny. Composed of The Saulcano (Saul Adamczewski), Mr. Salt Fingers Lovecraft (Ben Romans-Hopcraft) and several former members of the FWF, the collective seems to follow the genetic impositions of its ancestry: taking a traditional musical genre and doing everything in their power to destroy it. This was what happened with Khaki Tears and again with Wahle City, their new long player, a sort of rock opera which, according to the band, functions as an amusement park for all of those who have already escaped their comfort zone.

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  Vaiapraia e as Rainhas do Baile

  Vaiapraia e as Rainhas do Baile

  

  Rodrigo Vaiapraia started writing songs halfway through 2013, inside a bedroom in Setúbal. Inspired by an adolescence spent going to gigs and watching Courtney Love videos on YouTube. He tried, perhaps too many times, to form bands, which ended up not lasting more than a couple of months, until he found a therapeutic tranquility in the singer-songwriter format. He took his Casio and the thousands of feelings he accumulates, and started assembling the bedroom-pop which defines him.

  This happened on the first EP, produced by Filipe Sambado, it continued on 1755, the record which made it urgent to hear the music he makes, confessional, biographical, purgatorial, breathing the fears and feelings of the one who makes it.

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  Grabba Grabba Tape

  Grabba Grabba Tape

  

  A real cult phenomenon in the international synth-punk scene. Formed in 2004, the Spanish duo of “peluches” quickly caught the ears of the audience and of the music press, especially for the hypnotizing and delirious dexterity with which they grasp the drums-synth format. Short songs, insanely danceable, but never veering off to the more “naff” areas of the dancefloor, reminiscent of Devo, Daft Punk or The Locust. After a ten year hiatus, Grabba Grabba Tape are back to releases and stages, with new tracks and new costumes.

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  Pharaoh Overlord

  Pharaoh Overlord

  

  If at the start, Pharaoh Overlord were a love letter penned by three members of Circle to stoner rock, it soon become apparent that the road would not stop there for Jussi Lehtisalo, Janne Westerlund and Tomi Lepänen. Almost as a mirror image of their sister-band’s output, it has known many forms: from stoner to jam rock, from space to krautrock, from heavy to speed metal. They describe themselves as “hypno-improv-stoner-rock” from Finland, succeeding, in their records, in exploring the stoner sensibility that appeals to Kyuss fans, or classics Pink Floyd and Ash Ra Temple.

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  Johnny Hooker

  Johnny Hooker

  

  The most recent phenomenon in popular Brazilian music. A singer, composer, actor and screenwriter, John Donovan (aka Johnny Hooker) has been igniting brazil’s public opinion with a set of statements which question the limits of racial and gender prejudice, battling the deepest rooted conservatisms in the society of the largest country in Latin America. The most recent, where he states that Jesus was a drag queen, earned him a war with the more catholic sectors in Brazil, and shows that, in music and life, his biggest imperative is Heart. This is also the name of his latest record, the one he’ll début in Portugal, a universe of disappointment, storms and sentimental confessions that maps the outcast loves of his life.

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  Mirrored Lips

  Mirrored Lips

  

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  Heiresses of the riot grrl era, Mirrored Lips’ music is always on the verge of explosion. Rhythmic poetry, based on the pillars of beat-driven punk and galloping rock, but with strong connections with free-jazz (the musical point which united them), there is a constant feeling here that the music may, at any moment, derive into different improvisations. Their most recent release, with a name which is unpronounceable in Western Europe, but translates (freely) as “yes, I had long hair but it didn’t make me happy”, is at once aggressive and introspective, questioning the stereotypes and clichés of the female gender in a society of forced expectations.

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  Afrodeutsche

  Afrodeutsche

  

  A ghanian-russian-english producer, Afrodeutsche has been showcasing a vast array of productions which intercross piano solos, techno, house and electro. Cinema; deejaying or the monthly program she has on NTS are just some of the outputs with which she externalizes the creative force with which she looks at the darkest spectrums of electronic and jacking house. She’s played alongside names such as Dopplereffekt or Carl Craig, but it was with Break before Make, her first production under record format that she stood up as one of the freshest voices in afro-futurism, processing her history and political opinions through synthesized confessional melodies.

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  WWWater

  WWWater

  

  This, by Belgian Charlotte Adigéry, is a recent promise. In the past, she has collaborated with dance music legends Soulwax, sung in several projects and even released music under her own name, but it’s with WWWater that she assumes her most interesting facet: an unstoppable voice sheltered by a throbbing rhythmic base and the right dose of electronic, aimed at the feet as well as the soul. Live, she plays alongside Steve Slingeneyer (Soulwax) on drums and Bolis Pupul on synths, exploring several journeys, from The Slits to Ryoji Ikeda, from Shabazz Palaces to Solange.

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  Indignu

  Indignu

  

  They are one of the bands which were born out of the creative veins of the city of Barcelos, a city which has been particularly fertile ground for giving the country new projects in all areas of rock music. Since the release of the rock opera Odyssea, which they toured in auditoriums and venues up and down the country, but also with stints in Spain, France and Belgium, that Indignu have asserted themselves as one of the most solid bands working in post-rock and shoegaze in Portugal. Their most recent record, Umbra, portrays an ash-covered Portugal, describing the dark and haunted scenario in which man lives, on the brink of the apocalypse. A record with memorializes all the souls left in the darkness of the recent incendiary tragedy which ravaged Portugal

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  Kink Gong

  Kink Gong

  

  Destroy to build. This is the first premise with which we should regard Kink Gong’s unclassifiable landscapes. Let’s start at the beginning; an ethnomusicologist committed to documenting the most obscure, unknown and threatened cultural manifestations in southeast Asia, Laurent Jeanneau has dedicated several years of his life to building what will probably be the largest archive of traditional music recordings from that region. A legacy that, as a producer, he rebuilds in the studio, through manipulation and a “cut and paste” game which creates new, psychedelic music, with and ethnicity and nationality which are still unknown. The Portuguese début happens at a time when the producer is preparing to release a new record, through Discrepant Records.

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  Krake Ensemble

  Krake Ensemble

  

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  Under the alter ego KRAKE, Pedro Oliveira draws inspiration from Norse mythology to venture, solo, in a project that starting from percussion explores a more experimental and electronic language. Expanding his tentacles beyond the treated drums, the sound takes in influences such as Will Guthrie, Ches smith, Steve Noble, Chris Corsano, Julian Sartorius and Jaki Liebezeit. For Barcelos, he will join Alexandre Soares, Luís Fernandes, Julius Gabriel and Angélica Salvi, in a unique concert which will rework some of the musician’s compositions through experimentation and improvisation.

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  Gonçalo

  Gonçalo

  

  Guitarist and master of texture in the lush Long Way to Alaska, Gonçalo has followed a new direction, without the company of his fellow Braga natives. He has taken with him some of the most delicate and sweet melodies, always with ambient crescendos, which are processed but nevertheless organic, and which characterize his maximum expression. Being a songwriter does not void the possibility of creating a songbook according to one’s own rules, those of someone who elevates the importance of all the other senses in the perception of music. Boavista, his début album, a chameleon, freed from references, stepping onto universes which are sonically disparate. Morning light and communion arise from it; night and its solitude and introspection; they’re memories which are always crossed with present living; it’s the constant mutation and evidence that we should try being everything, to really be something. A collection of songs devoted to pure experimentation, which between organic instrumentation and samples create the parallel ecosystem of someone who is unafraid of trying everything, to really be something.

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  Cacilhas

  Cacilhas

  

  Cacilhas is the name taken from the old fishing village opposite Lisbon, a place where Shela (keyboardist for Riding Pânico and LAmA) and Casper Clausen (Liima, Efterklang) began writing music in a noncommittal way. The tracks are snapshots of a Lisbon glimpsed from faraway, and include sound captured from the Tagus river, from the fishermen and atmospheres that make up the area’s daily life. The project plays live for the first time in Barcelos.

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  Paisiel

  Paisiel

  

  Enigmatic name for the project by the drummer, percussionist and sound sculptor João Pais Filipe and German saxophonist Julius Gabriel. Founded on the individual exploration of sound and the expressive possibilities of instruments, this duo’s music refuses to be fitted into references, matches or obvious affinities. Heterodox and digressive musicians, moving freely among experimental music, jazz, rock and the remaining undecipherable declinations of new musical categories.

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  Tajak

  Tajak

  

  Ever since they released Amsterdam 211 that we’ve realized that Tajak’s music would never be monochromatic. With blatant references to the counterculture’s top names (Stooges, Spacemen 3, Suicide, Can, among others), the Mexican trio has appropriated history to, singlehandedly, give it a new chapter, made up of textures and shapes that go beyond genres. Suicidal music by definition, they say, what is certain is that Alvaro, Carlos and Coco escape any deterministic path, reinventing themselves at every second, free from pretension, disguise or labels. Introspective music with a single goal: to shoot up into the brain.

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  Ensemble Insano

  Ensemble Insano

  

  With the calendar’s turning pages, and the outlook that comes with that gesture, Ensemble Insano becomes, ever more, a trump card for Milhões, Barcelos and the creative Minho region that sprouts over there in an almost uncontrollable fashion. Under the leadership of André Simão (Astonishing Urbana Fall, la la la resonance, Dear Telephone), different generations of the city’s musicians cross for a unique and indefinable moment. We always have to see to believe.

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  The Evil Usses

  The Evil Usses

  

  Think Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band mixed with Frank Zappa and Sun Ra, and you’ll understand where The Evil Usses are positioned. The four-piece has been acclaimed for their live performances’ unbridled energy, which according to them are situated somewhere between “rock not jazz” and “jazz not rock”.

  They went through several projects until finding themselves in the sum of saxophone, guitar, bass and drums, which they showcase now, and are part of one of the most creative collectives in Bristol, BLOOM.

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  Suave Geração

  Suave Geração

  

  It’s in the mix between popular traditions such as the summer “romarias” (traditional holidays with religious roots) and friendly interactions on terraces that this Suave Geração was born, an occasional disc-jockey collective.

  They prefer performing on Sundays, the day for gatherings par excellence, offering a visit through many eras, geographies and styles, with a special highlight for easy listening. Spaces for a counterpoint between local and global cultures, with music as the interlocutor, they usually take place in locations with a strong vernacular culture, such as local sporting and recreational societies, or places connected with popular interactions in cities.

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  Cumbadélica

  Cumbadélica

  

  A project started by Igor Ribeiro and Marie Lopes when they found out that they shared the same passion for ethnic music on the dance-floor. Cumbadélica brings together cultures and people from different parts of the globe, creating a dense atmosphere and a ritual ambience, where the cosmos and magic dissolve with music. Catarina Querido, aka Pudeur, joins the project and through video explores visions from another galaxy.

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  DJ K-Sets

  DJ K-Sets

  

  It is the largest and most interesting tape compilation in the Middle East, available to everyone on the internet. Fuelled by Manuel Sánchez, a multidisciplinary artist who, since his university days has developed a taste (and nose) for some of the most unknown melodies and songs in heritage areas of Mesopotamia. From northern Africa to spain, from the Balkans to Central Asia, from gypsy rumba to techno, there is room for everything and everyone on this journey through car radios of the Turkish, Kurdish, Persian and Arabic post-industrial era.

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  Eduardo Morais

  Eduardo Morais

  

  A strict prospector of the Portuguese far west, he set off more than a decade ago on expeditions to DJ booths all over the country. Accompanied by magical boxes filled with precious seven inch records discovered in moldy basements and warehouses, he challenged listeners with overlooked Psychedelia and Northern Soul anthems, up to strange incursions into the world of soundtracks in the temporal axis of the 1960s. Today, moving from the global electric music from distant latitudes to the libertarian sound pallet conquered by Post-Punk and disco in the following decades, he’s involved in the genesis of danceable projects such as Electric Rainbow, with Jacco Gardner and Maria P; W.A.S.T.E. Club dedicated to b-sides from the 80s; Kaleidoscope, a psychedelic night ran by DJ A Boy Named Sue; and Catarata Fulminante, a monthly program broadcast on Sundays.

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  Independent Music Podcast

  Independent Music Podcast

  

  Personal project by Gareth Main and Anthony Chalmers, Independent Music Podcast arises from the willingness to create content that could showcase new independent music weekly. From 2010 until now, a lot has changed in Gareth (journalist) and Anthony (one of the most interesting gig promoters in London)’s lives. They’re thinner, for a start, more involved with the stranger and darker music from all the different corners of the globe, and less obsessed with producing jingles. They have kept the passion for the incredible, they say, which they’ll share with the Barcelos audience in a DJ set which will also be a live podcast.

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  Aerobica X @ MdF

  Aerobica X @ MdF

  

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  Decibélicas

  Decibélicas

  

  Decibélicas are an experimentalic musical group made up of +/- 5 humans from Venus who explore the music-temporal spatiality of the Pit.       

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  FAVELA DISCOS

  FAVELA DISCOS

  

  Adega Cooperativa de Marte, Amigos da Anta, Psico-Baile and Fação Barulho

  It’s the third year that Favela Discos accepts the challenge of filling up one afternoon at Milhões with a unique and site-specific project. This year, Favela Impromptu picks up the theme suggested by the festival, “tradition isn’t what it used to be”, to reinterpret the concept of a traditional Minho party. An afternoon divided into four moments that have all the ammunition to create a new tradition. It starts with the presentation of Adega Cooperativa de Marte, followed by the performance/gig by Amigos da Anta. Later in the day, there’s a space for Psico-Baile, which will culminate in the performance of the post-techno-bagpipes band Fação Barulho. There will be a lucky draw with a vegan ham as the prize, so come ready to bet.

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  Motion Within

  Motion Within

  

  A past which was a future (car, fordism, man, frenzy, industry, pollution, capitalism, disappointment – uncontrolled exploitation of the Earth), and a present moment, with the help of women’s nature, with a view to a sustainable future (the female voice, nature, life, fertility). 15 women who, apparently, have nothing to do with that car, but go and get it, showing their acceptance towards reality, but not resignation. These united and free women use their voices individually and collectively as a form of locomotion. A surreal tableau where organicism extrapolates reason.

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  DJ Lynce

  DJ Lynce

  

  Even though it seems paradoxical, DJ Lynce personifies, at the same time, the figure of the anti-DJ and an undisputed name in the clubbing scene in the city of Porto. The owner of an impressive record collection, which he handles with an extraordinary dexterity, a big part of his uniqueness comes from the ability to understand, at each moment, the flow of the dance floor. For those in the know, no further explanation is required. The others will have a space to find out, in Barcelos.

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  Peter Gabriel Duo

  Peter Gabriel Duo

  

  Gabriel Ferrandini and Pedro Sousa are two of the most notorious names of a new generation that views music as a space without barriers for creativity. Solo, or in the multiple combos where we see them play, from the north to the south of the country, Ferrandini and Sousa objectify the most communicative dimension in music, reminding us of everything it can be or convey. In a duo they are a body of energy in constant evolution, seeking communion between artists and audience in an unrepeatable moment.

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  Phantom Chips

  Phantom Chips

  

  It’s almost been two decades in which Australian Tara Pattenden has dedicated herself to sonic exploration as a game to meet the audience. Moving between noise and experimentation, conjugating samplers, recordings and paraphernalia of electronic instruments on stage, Phantom Chips invites the audience to interact with the suits she creates. Deliberately crude, artisanal and strange, the monstrous instruments she designs appeal to fun and improvisation, in an unrepeatable communion with the space and time in which she performs.

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  Sereias

  Sereias

  

  A meeting of the kinetic with dead landscapes, in a post-aquatic-jazz-punk savagery.

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  Croww

  Croww

  

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  Ell Granada

  Ell Granada

  

  J.P. Granada is an earthling, Portuguese, and Aveiro native. In a world devastated by the atomic rains of 2018, he is no common earthling. The sole survivor of a rare kind of music bipolarity, the result of several years of being exposed to radio waves and beams.

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  GSY!PA

  GSY!PA

  

  GSY!PA explores the darkest universes of the mind, using percussion as an instrument to direct the audience towards mediation territories. Not very distant from what This Mortal Coil or some of 4AD’s more experimental names do, it creates songs that feed from digitally manipulated voices, somewhere between crying and screaming.

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  Marilyn Misandry

  Marilyn Misandry

  

  Marilyn Misandry is a trans drag queen and gender terrorist, whose work explores trans-misogyny and the difficulties imposed on women whose physical type are outside the beauty standards valued by current-day society

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  Nashgul

  Nashgul

  

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  Pé Roto

  Pé Roto

  

  Anesthetized by the anguish of living between bells and smocks, to fall into the enslavement of this “pit” seems like the natural fate of all that cross their path. Pé Roto is the anger that echoes from the depths of this decrepit place, that wanta to condemn all to die in a mass grave. Beer in hand and lit cigarette, Pé Roto exude hate and nervous words which paint the pit in shades of black.

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  Anadolu Ekspres

  Anadolu Ekspres

  

  Known locally for their ‘Turko≠Dutch’ club≠night Anadolu Ekspres¨ DÆJÆ Klapsalon Haylayf DJ have been forwarding the legacy of Turkish music for more than 3 years. The almost obsessive urge of the diggers has lead to a music collection that includes rare vinyls stacked carefully next to boxes of forgotten tapes¨ not to mention their flash≠drives full of wonky mp3’s. Operating as Anadolu Ekspres DJ’s they invite you to an eclectic journey of obscure Turkish rarities. Feverish¨ excellent stuff to dance to.

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  SuNA Yoga

  SuNA Yoga

  

  She, Lisete Santos, is a kindergarten teacher and yoga instructor. Practicing since 2006, she’s been in different schools under different teachers. She’s attended workshops in Philosophy and Yoga Practice, and lectures with Tulku Lobsang. She’s trained in Mindfulness Meditation, and is certified as a teacher by Yoga Alliance. He is a visual arts teacher, and a musician. From an early age he was in contact with Bhakti Yoga and the foundations of Mantra. Later he became interested in Budism, namely Zen Meditation, initiating in the Zazen practice. More recently, he trained in Mantra and Meditation, under the teachings of Krishna Das (Mantra), Thích Nhât Hahn (Mindfulness) and Kamlesh D. Patel (Raja Yoga). Introductions made for the two teachers in charge of balancing the body and mind of festival goers this year, every day in the early afternoon.

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  Necromancia Editorial

  Necromancia Editorial

  

  As it has been happening for a long time, Chili Com Carne is back at Milhões de Festa to implement an independent label fair, NECROMANCIA EDITORIAL!

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  And there will become freaking awesome surprises, Brazilian magazine

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  Another: there will be news from Finland from the future extinct label

                                                  MMMNNNRRRG!

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  It’s been five years of collaboration between Milhões de Festa and Chili Com Carne for the creation of an independent labels fair, which provides examples of the best, and less than best, things being made in the country. There will be comic books, records, fanzines, cassette tapes, and books from Chili Com Carne, Lovers & Lollypops, MMMNNNRRRG, Rui Moura, Sarna and Xavier Almeida. The “merch” for bands playing the festival this year will also be on sale in the fair.

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  Silent Disco

  Silent Disco

  

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  Geração Aumenta

  Geração Aumenta

  

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  FAT OUT – Festa da Abelha Gorda

  FAT OUT – Festa da Abelha Gorda

  

  Croww, Marilyn Misandry, GSY!PA, Hajahh and Queen Bee Supergroup.

  They’re some of the most hectic, strange and obscure parties in the united Kingdom. Fat Out, that’s the name of the Manchester collective that Milhões invited to curate the event which will, for the first time, bring to Portugal that celebration of the experimental, queer and electronic scene that is its trademark. The Portuguese relative will be named Festa da Abelha Gorda (Fat Bee Party), and will encompass a handful of performances. From the darkest offerings from Croww, to the meditative spaces of GSY!PA, the work by “gender terrorist” Marilyn Misandry to the dancing incursions of Hajjah or the collaborative performance by Queen Bee Supergroup, which will count with the participation of Natalie Sharp (Lone Taxidermist) and Deyar Yasin (UKAEA). The motto here is “to bee yourself”, aided by all the glitter you can get your hands on. If you don’t bring it from home, don’t worry, Fat Out will provide a space to transform us into our best festive selves.

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  SWR Barroselas Metalfest

  SWR Barroselas Metalfest

  

  Nashgul, Greengo, Pé Roto and Ell Granada

  For the last twenty one years, SWR has done its job as the essential showcase for the most extreme metal, turning the small village of Barroselas into a compulsory pilgrimage site for metalheads from all over the globe. That’s why we hand over to them, for yet another year, the honor of choosing three national projects which they feel can be a good sample of what’s being done in the most underground corners of heavy music. Nashgul, Greengo, Pé Roto and Ell Granada are the names that in 2018 will bring “rottenness” to Milhões, in a purge of demolishing slow riffs, which will last while there are things to smoke and drink.

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