Grimes, Skepta, And More Added To Moogfest’s 2016 Lineup
More acts join an already impressive group.
This year's Moogfest will feature performances from GZA, Oneohtrix Point Never, Blood Orange, Empress Of, Juliana Holter, Lotic, Tory Lanez, and more. The event is scheduled to take place from May 19 to 22 in Durham, North Carolina. Get more info here.
Update, February 9, 11:00 a.m.: The festival added more acts to its lineup today.
Moogfest 2016 will also feature performances from Grimes, Miike Snow, Skepta, and Health. In addition to the music, the festival revealed that it will include workshops by members of The New Museum, an exhibit that "will repurpose old telephone switchboards into working modular synthesizers," and a variety of programming from Duke University and the MIT Media Lab. In total, the lineup includes "more than 250 of the world’s most forward-thinking musicians, artists, and technologists."
Finally, Moogfest released Translational Drifts: Volume 2, an EP of "four contemporary acts remixing covers of tracks by seminal electronic musicians." Check out new remixes from Haxan Cloak and Nosaj Thing below, and buy tickets here.