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  Graveyard

  Graveyard

  

  There’s something special about Graveyard. Not only do they sound like a  band who has lived through rock’s golden era right when it exploded in all directions, but the swedes also skilfully transport it right to today with soulful tunes. This  phenomenon is expected only from wicked immortal wizards or genius scientists who know how to time travel. And of course from Graveyard, who will be returning to Milhões de Festa to remind  us exactly why their 2011 gig was so amazing.

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  faUSt & GNOD

  faUSt & GNOD

  

  faUSt is a perfect mix between the organics of rock and the mechanistic approach to rhythm of kraut, and GNOD a well oiled machine in constant mutation, always pushing their music forward. Both acts have been challenge by time and space, and have successfully adapt and grown into newer forms of expression, pushing limits and setting new standards at each try. For the first time, their paths will cross to create something entirely new to be debuted at Milhões de Festa, after an artistic residence in Northern Portugal. Barcelos will witness the birth of a new, more adapted organic music machine, ready to blow minds and dilute concepts into sound waves.

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  The Gaslamp Killer

  The Gaslamp Killer

  

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  More than just a producer, The Gaslamp Killer surpassed his djinny condition to reach the entertainer level without ever compromising his artistic views (?). His beats are intricate tapestries of arabic descent, set to take off to the heart of the sun — the same sun that has been blazing over  psychedelic creators for centuries now. We’re not sure by which constellation he sets his music, but we know it to be universal, magical and sure to deliver one of the best shows of the present year.

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  Hieroglyphic Being

  Hieroglyphic Being

  

  It was not up to chance that Jamal Moss got so big in dancefloor music all of the sudden. As Hieroglyphic Being and label manager for Mathematic Records, the Chicago-based producer has set a path for himself which coins his jazzy approach to techno unique. His latest record, The Discos of Imhotep, is a perfect example of how Hieroglyphic Being can either get you pumping in the dancefloor or prompt you to a cosmic journey within your own self. For his swimming pool set you can expect to create some waves in the water or just enjoy them while people dance their socks off.

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  DJ Katapila

  DJ Katapila

  

  DJ Katapila from Ghana earned his name: he almost literally is a bulldozer live, hitting stage after stage to present his unique mix of Ga traditional music and early Chicago/Detroit dancefloor rhythms with contagious energy, at  58 years of age. His  music is sheer electricity adorned with blissful melodies, enough to keep Katapila lighting stage after stage on fire, and to kick off crazy dance parties anywhere. Get your socks ready, you’re about to get them rocked off.

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  Powell

  Powell

  

  Heads have turned time and again trying to define what Powell really is about, and even he cleverly avoids genre to style(?), coining his own sound of punk grooves and textures turned into dancefloor bangers. You can feel in every one of his artistic endeavours that more than breaking rules, Powell thrives on understanding them, crossing them in sound, style, and approaching them in a unique fashion. Not only will you have  the time of your life, but you’ll know it is all powered by Powell.

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  Chúpame El Dedo

  Chúpame El Dedo

  

  Chúpame El Dedo is a natural evolution of cumbia’s positive energy and the toughness of death metal in an era where both genres have taken over both Europe and South America. Tropical sound is the new trend in the Old Continent, while extreme music is now plaguing the Latin part of America, having reached Meridian Brothers’ Eblis Alvarez and Romperayo’s Pedro Ojeda who channeled efforts in creating a new, and highly entertaining music genre. Cumbia Death Metal is to date something only this duo is capable of doing, and it is as unique as it sounds.

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  Meatbodies

  Meatbodies

  

  Meatbodies are one of those californian acts putting human capacity of art production to the test. Despite being more contained than their local  peers, the  quartet (you silly, four tet is a producer) still thrives on the same shocking and electric feel that just seems to flow from finger to amp via guitar fuzz in the American state. Now with a newly released “Alice” to present to Portugal, Meatbodies return for yet another discharge of sheer energy, while  getting stuck in our heads with the most engaging pop hooks around. It will be fun!

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  Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang

  Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang

  

  The legend says bubu music, from Serra Leoa, was actually born over five centuries ago, when a said (so-called?) bubu boy took it from African witches; of course, the legend is told by Janka Nabay, bubu’s most prominent banner-holder and main channeller (?), who with his Bubu Gang joins melody and rhythm in seemingly futuristic progressions and ideal sacred party purges where cleansing is achieved through dancing. Janka Nabay will make his Portuguese debut in Milhões de Festa, during what will most definitely be the biggest dancing session of the year.

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  TAU

  TAU

  

  Cathartic frequency shamans TAU have grown their sound beyond geography and ethnicity. Mixing the hypnotic syncopic kraut grooves with gaelic chord progressions and soothing mantras, the Berlin-based duo cross over every possible border, line or limit to create an uncanny (eerie, unearthly?) yet familiar sound. Only Gods know what will happen when TAU come on stage in Barcelos — we wish bonfires weren’t forbidden (but yeah, it is forbidden, really. It is. Sorry about that).

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  Conjunto Cuca Monga

  Conjunto Cuca Monga

  

  There’s always those moments when you think to yourself “If the super-forces of blues rocking a guitar of Led Zeppelin and Cream would have met in a band with Jeff Beck.(needs rephrasing) That’d been amazing.” And then you remember The Yardbids, and that it did actually happen. In Portugal we have the chilling distorted reverbs of Modernos, the witty songwriting of Luís Severo, the pop sense of El Salvador, Gansos’s night tunes, the psyched out instrumental explosions of Bispo, and, well, all forces above joined in Conjunto Cuca Monga. That IS amazing.

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  Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

  Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

  

  For each “Pigs” you say, the British rockers get filthier, louder, and more psyched out. Say it seven times and you’ll have the heavier band blowing minds in the UK nowadays. We’re talking about Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, the Newcastle based rockers leaving a clear mark on each and every memory that crossed paths with them. Get your necks ready, and brace your self for some spine-busting riff barrage — Pigs x7 will melt faces with distortions and propel minds to outer space with guitars.

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  Sarathy Korwar

  Sarathy Korwar

  

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  American born with indian ancestry, Sarathy Korwar soon set to explore mantras and raggas to apply it to his skills as a percussionist. Now living in London and well surrounded by  some of the most interesting jazz musicians around, Korwar is ready to take off, sonically exploring hindu passions in a thousand and one new ways. Merging acoustic and organic perfectly with electronic expressions and productions, Sarathy is an up and coming artist to have in mind when talking jazz. Here, in the UK or in the known universe.

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  Sex Swing

  Sex Swing

  

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  Chimeras and hybrids have been despised, avoided and cast away of society for long, but when we’re talking about an act as strong as Sex Swing none of the above seem to be a good idea. How would one leave out a noise-rock act who thrives on being loud, complex and still engage in energetic, uncontainable explosions of sound, capable of engulfing every movement in garish sonicscapes. That’s what you get when you mate Part Chimp, Dead Neanderthals and Mugstar into an amazing flying swing of sexual fury eager to get it on with all of you.

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  Rizan Said

  Rizan Said

  

  Rizan Said’s latest record leaves no margin for error: the Syrian artist is the “King of Keyboards”, and the leading artist coming from the country’s effervescent rave culture. His music blends perfectly a virtuous approach to the keyboards with the flashing colors of arabic scales, and a electrifying rhythmic expression with quirky syncopathy. Said’s music is a viral expression of energy that affects mostly our legs. Symptoms must be treated with smiles and dancing.

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  Orchestra of Spheres

  Orchestra of Spheres

  

  Taking DIY ethics to a new extreme, Neozelanders Orchestra of Spheres create their sound with a vast array of influences from all around the tropics and coin them with homemade instruments, crafted from cookie packages, vaccum cleaners and whatever they find to be usable and upgradable sonically speaking. Their motivations are loud and clear, and by gathering sounds from all over the world they prompt themselves into mystical journeys through space and time. Either by invoking dance frenzies or rather by inducing escape velocities and depart to outer space, this is the most adequate outfit to play by a swimming pool and make us all get inside the water.

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  Pixvae

  Pixvae

  

  When a percussion and vocals trio from Bogotá joins a rock band with jazz tenures with a propensity for jazzistic expressions the result is, or so it seems to be, latin core. Better yet, Pixvae is latin core, a fair assessment of their rich sound, heavily detailed with South American percussion and pointedly enriched with bass layers from a baritone sax. Pixvae are as forceful as punk music, as contagious as their Latin American heat, and were able to create the sound of their unique cultural experience.

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  Switchdance

  Switchdance

  

  Crossing lines between techno, electro, and house rhythms wasn’t nearly enough (?)to the potential Marco Antão aka Switchdance had hidden up his sleeves to bring to dancefloor. Lisbon-based producer went from rhythm to geography with ludicrous wittiness, often imbuing his sets in arabic arpeggios  and spicing harmony up with hot sheik-worthy melodies. Remember: it is not by chance he is a regular at Lux. And it won’t be down to chance to have a hell of a time at his set — and Switchdance is a hell of a host for exotic all night long endeavours.

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  Shame

  Shame

  

  Every time somebody gives up on rock and its rolling variations, that person should have to listen to Shame and feel them preach to the gods of guitars and witty remarks. They rock, and they still do it hard, taking each stage they perform in whole and filling it with loads of attitude and snarky song. They’re more than the typical well dressed, bad behaved rock combo — they bring the kind of charisma and viral energy that spreads uncontrollably and set stages on fire. Thank god they’ll be performing by the water.

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  MQNQ (MMMOOONNNOOO + Quim Albergaria)

  MQNQ (MMMOOONNNOOO + Quim Albergaria)

  

  Quim Albergaria is no stranger to sound bending and sonic experimentation thanks to his contributions to bands such as Caveira and PAUS, so when thinking of a perfect partner to tag with drone enthusiast and electronic ambient Lisbon-based producer MMMMOOONNNOOO and add some drumming magic to the equation his name was top of the list. And thankfully, it was the perfect match to enhance walls of sound and chop them with rhythmic bursts and engage in a more psyched out approach. And psyched out is the best you can get by the swimming pool.

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  Stone Dead

  Stone Dead

  

  When rock became an ornament for pop structures, bands forgot about what really matters: being and sounding like a band, having the guitar gazing the bass lines, the bass all over the kick drum, the cymbals exploding with each riff — an electrifying communication cycle. Stone Dead are amongst the few who haven’t forgot how to rock socks off and have been doing it with the same freshness of someone who travelled 50 years back. They heat the guitars up with some sweet fuzz, distort sound to engage in some serious headbanging, and hold us by the neck with engaging pop hooks. All hail Stone Dead, the devoted to bring rock back to life.

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  Mehmet Aslan

  Mehmet Aslan

  

  Living up to his ancestry, Swiss-born Mehmet Aslan imbues his dancefloor beats with eastern spices boiling in his Turkish-descent blood. Knowing the full potential of arabian melodies and the unique way funk from Turkey hits everyone in the hips, Aslan takes on the DJ booth with some of the juicier dance sets to enjoy in tropical environments. Portugal is not exactly tropical, but in July temperatures will be raising hell by the swimming pool, and his wonderful flavored music will thrive.

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  Enablers

  Enablers

  

  Not every rhythm is meant to work with spoken word, mainly when walking on singing-those-same-words territory, but Enablers were always capable of, well, empowering the dialectic relations of their music while using the decayed means of post-punk, enabling their downfall with bass grooves, space guitar melodies and syncopated drum expression. Being no strangers to Northern Portugal, Enablers will work their dual psychology method and declaim some T via Pete Simonelli’s voice for the first time in Barcelos.

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  Sly & the Family Drone

  Sly & the Family Drone

  

  Remember Sly & the Family Stone? Well, this Sly and his Brit noise family has nothing to do with them, or disco. The Basingstoke outfit has no place for guitars in their lineup, but can rock out massive volumes with a combination of harsh power electronics and organic drum beats, diluting frontiers between technical details and bringing the electronic music approach closer to a rock and punk state of mind. Sly & the Family Drone play loud and intense live shows, leaving sweat and blood on stage. Everything will wash away easily with some clean swimming pool water, though.

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  Live Low

  Live Low

  

  Live Low started as Porto-based producer Pedro Augusto gateway to exploring textures in sound, but soon, while crossing interests and passions with fellow musicians, the project grew to a quartet transforming and reinterpreting Portuguese folk. “Toada”, the outfit first LP, is a beautiful exercise of sound hermeneutics, where folk music is rearranged for modular synths, bass, guitar, and voice, and the day-to-day labour pace, to which folklore is deeply connected. Live Low grow their live set to warm yet hypnotic sessions of other-level electronic ambient.

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  Brutal Blues

  Brutal Blues

  

  Quoting Brutal Blues, are you guys ready for some authentic Mississippi blues? Too bad, these guys are all about grindcore and come from Norway. Still, they really are brutal, and despite all the aggression there’s some blues flowing in between all the noise the duo generate with a drum kit, a guitar and some power electronics. Just remember: up North it’s really cold, but in Barcelos the summer is high — you won’t freeze to death, but might get some riff bruises after the show. We promise it will be worth it.

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  Ghost Wavvves + Mike El Nite

  Ghost Wavvves + Mike El Nite

  

  Mike El Nite has a humorous approach to rap not far from what MF Doom has achieved with his wittiness: the Lisbon-based MC is all about spinning the ego trip MO into clever punchlines, exploring a character he does not live up to. Relying on Ghost Wavvves, a producer with a soft spot for nipponic sounds, he’ll be enhancing each rhyme bar from Mike El Nite elevating his persona into anime levels of awesome. If you can’t go kawaii, you shouldn’t even try.

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  Lavoisier + Barrio Lindo

  Lavoisier + Barrio Lindo

  

  Despite being as Portuguese as humanly possible, Lavoisier’s influence span way closer to Barrio Lindo’s cumbia vibes than one might think. Deeply inspired by the Brazilian wave of psych music and mind freeing approach to creations, the Portuguese ouftit behave elastically enough to host the Colombian-born, Buenos Aires-based producer’s sound, heating rhythms up and dubbing decibels to tropical hallucination. We can’t think of nothing better to enjoy under the brazing sun of July.

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  MVRIA + Supa

  MVRIA + Supa

  

  Neither Mvria or Supa are part of the most recent generation of feminist coming from Porto, Portugal, but they’re undoubtedly part of the first all female group to make a name for themselves in the DJ booth. We’re talking about GRRRL RIOT, which they started around 2010, and we could be talking all night about their accomplishments. But we’re just stating the obvious and telling you guys to trust us: these are two of the most skilled Disc Jockeys to ever take on electronic music and all its relatives and make a party out of it. Get your asses ready, you gonna shake those buns.

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  GPU Panic + Shake It Maschine

  GPU Panic + Shake It Maschine

  

  After meeting in Montreal, Canada, during a Red Bull Music Academy edition in 2016, Portuguese-producer GPU Panic and his Swiss-counterpart Shake It Maschine teamed up to merge their differents sounds into a truly engaging combination of high-paced beats and processed sound textures into a never-before-heard footwork-ish, synth oriented extravaganza. You can feel both the enigmatic and mysterious soundscapes of GPU Panic and the clever stuttering rhythms from Shake It Maschine building up and creating an energetic combo ready to get your hips going by the pool and feet flapping inside it.

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  O Bom, o Mau e o Azevedo

  O Bom, o Mau e o Azevedo

  

  This is the kind of band we feel to be made to play by the swimming pool in Milhões de Festa. Surfing through the californian instrumental rock vibe overwhelmed by delays and nifty reverbs, O Bom, o Mau e o Azevedo take a humorous approach to music and transform every sound you can sing in a 60s surf rock hymn. We don’t even know what took us so long to bring them over and make the first waves, the first real ones, in the swimming pool but we’re doing it now, and we’re going to enjoy it with the best cocktails and fresh drinks available. Yeah!

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  Milhões de Festa'17 || Red Bull Music Academy presents the bill for Milhões de Festa pool party featuring Hieroglyphic Being, Sly & the Family Drone, and Sarathy Korwar

  Milhões de Festa'17 || Red Bull Music Academy presents the bill for Milhões de Festa pool party featuring Hieroglyphic Being, Sly & the Family Drone, and Sarathy Korwar

  

  Hieroglyphic Being is hosting the bill for the three pool parties at Milhões de Festa featuring collab efforts between Barrio Lindo and Lavoisier, GPU Panic and Shake it Maschine, among others, all of which aligned by Red Bull Music Academy.

  The pool parties are one of Milhões de Festa’s distinctive icons, and it highlights the festival every year, featuring a line-up presented by Red Bull Music Academy to enhance the waterside experience in Barcelos. Between July 21 and 23 the swimming pool stage returns, featuring Jamal Moss's Hieroglyphic Being as the host for the full program.

  Also worthy of highlight are the collaboration efforts which will see different artists tagging along for a single project: Sarathy Korwar, part of the lineup as a solo performer, will also be joined by Hieroglyphic Being himself for an improv set, while Argentinian producer Barrio Lindo will partner up with Portuguese couple and tropicalism inspired outfit Lavoisier.

  Squeezing noise and drumming together in a single output, Portuguese artists MMMOOONNNOO and Quim Albergaria (PAUS) will be performing as MQNQ, and Lisbon-based rapper Mike El Nite will be dropping rhymes over nipponic-hop producer Ghost Wavvves. For the dance enthusiasts, the pool parties will be presenting some perfect combos, such as Portuguese electronic producers GPU Panic and Shake It Maschine teaming up, as well as a b2b DJ set by the experimented jockeys MVRIA and Supa, where house and disco will join soul and hip hop beats across borders.

  RBMA will be also adding noise Brit group Sly & the Family Drone and their fellow countrymen Shame to the Swimming Pool bill, and they’ll be bringing some tough love rock to the table. Finally, coming back from Switzerland with some Turkish funky love to spill, Mehmet Aslan will be mixing records in a DJ set, and O Bom, o Mau e o Azevedo will relocate their zip code in a four dimensional exercise from Portugal in 2017 directly to California in the 60s, where the surf wave thrived.

  To take the Swimming Pool experience up a notch, RBMA will add a subaquatic PA system to the usual setup of the stage, spreading the party into water and guaranteeing there's no fun free place in the venue.

  Milhões de Festa returns to Barcelos between July 20 and 23, having already announced Graveyard, The Gaslamp Killer, faUSt & GNOD, Powell, Meatbodies and Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang, among others. General admissions are already on sale for 55 euros until July 2; from July 3 onwards prices will be set at 60 euros.

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  Graveyard, Powell, and DJ Katapila join the bill for 2017 ▼ 20-23 de Julho

  Graveyard, Powell, and DJ Katapila join the bill for 2017 ▼ 20-23 de Julho

  

  After calling it quits and making a comeback, Graveyard will once again hit the stage in Milhões de Festa, headlining the new names for Milhões de Festa due to happen from July 20 to July 23 in Barcelos.

  Last year we shuffled through all artists we worked with to find the perfect one to make the first comeback after years of absence. After the successful comeback of El Guincho, we’re now bringing back Graveyard to reset the riffing levels in Milhões de Festa and guarantee a minimum level of heartfelt headbanging.

  The swedes are joined by english producer Powell and his digital dancefloor punk bangers, Ghanian musical bulldozer and firestarter DJ Katapila, and the uncharted multi-ethnical kraut mantras from Berlin-based duo TAU.

  Focusing the triangle in Portugal, we’re also adding some sweet Portuguese value to bill, announcing Conjunto Cuca Monga, a label super-band joining forces from Ganso, Bispo, Modernos, Luís Severo and more of the nicest rock bands currently based in Lisbon, and by adding the transformed and electronics-lead folklore from Live Low. Finally, and for the dancefloor zombies, another undeniable talent join the lineup: Swtichdance and his arabic melodies on dance rhythms will help us all make it through one thousand and one nights.

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  ▼ MILHÕES DE FESTA’17 ▼ Meatbodies, Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang, Pixvae, and Enablers join the bill ▼ July 20-23

  ▼ MILHÕES DE FESTA’17 ▼ Meatbodies, Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang, Pixvae, and Enablers join the bill ▼ July 20-23

  

  Four more entries in Milhões de Festa’s 2017 lineup join already announced Gaslamp Killer, Sarathy Korwar and Sex Swing.

  Cutting straight to the chase, we have four more entries for the 10th edition os Milhões de Festa, due to happen in Barcelos, Portugal, on June 20, 21, 22, and 23. Coming from the United States, we have Meatbodies, electric rockers with pop hooks, whose ritalin prescriptions are long overdue, and Enablers, responsible for merging some noisy noise-rock with spoken word.

  Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang join the bill representing the best of Serra Leoa and Bubu culture, a rhythmic expression of futuristic pretenses aged for over 500 hundred years after being took from witches (true story, ask Janka himself). Finally, for now, there’s also the South American and Western sounds converging in Pixvae, the French rock outfit with an uncanny latin heat.

  Tickets for Milhões de Festa are already on sale for 50€ until April 16. From April 17 on prices will raise to 55€, and on the 3rd of July prices will be set at 60€.

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  MILHÕES DE FESTA’17: The Gaslamp Killer, Sarathy Korwar and Sex Swing confirmed || 20 to 23 of July, Barcelos, Portugal

  MILHÕES DE FESTA’17: The Gaslamp Killer, Sarathy Korwar and Sex Swing confirmed || 20 to 23 of July, Barcelos, Portugal

  

  The first acts for what will most likely be the party of year are out, with The Gaslamp Killer headlining them. Milhões de Festa festival is now on its 10th edition and will be returning to Barcelos, in Northern Portugal, from the 20th to the 23rd of July.

  After trying and polishing a formula for over 12 years and applying each mutation nine times, Milhões de Festa is now reaching the artistic majority of its 10th edition. And for the tenth try, the triangle will return to Barcelos with new ways to engage art and music, despite its generic and geographic origin. This edition will be of convergence, downgrading barriers to mere ideas.

  That’s why there’s no better way to start sharing the good news than confirming The Gaslamp Killer, the LA based producer and DJ that got arabic sounds into Flying Lotus’s Brainfeeder label. We know that besides his wits as a producer, William Bensussen comes up as one of the best entertainers playing live nowadays, and that’s exactly what we expect from the guy.

  Also coming from the USA, but based in London, comes Indian-descent Sarathy Korwar, percussion virtuoso, and flamboyant producer who’s merging raggas and mantras into jazz while exploring the same language that ended up by coining Jean Luc Ponty’s expression.

  And because a great closer is always in need, we’re also adding English noise-rock chimera Sex Swing, brought to Barcelos by London based promotors Baba Yaga’s Hut, currently celebrating its fourth year as curators in Milhões de Festa. Sex Swing are the grotesque outcome of the merging of Mugstar, Part Chimp and Dead Neanderthals, and a lound, roaring killing machine.

  Milhões de Festa is back to Barcelos, Northern Portugal, from the 20th to the 23rd of July. Tickets are currently on sale for 50€ until the 16th of April. From April 17 on, prices will rise to 55€, and from July 3 on will reach the final price of 60€.

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