Full music line-up of Electrum Up To Date Festival 2024 revealed!

This year our Electrum Up To Date festival will take place on new dates: 30.05-02.06. These four days in Bialystok will be filled with  events, concerts and discussions oscillating around independent electronic music. Once again, we are exploring a variety of sound areas, and we are giving the floor to people full of passion, creating music with courage and taking the listener on a real sound adventure, regardless of whether they play techno, electro, bass or ambient music. Four days full of concerts, parties, exhibitions and conferences in picturesque Bialystok await you.

There is no trace left of the flashy techno posse. In opposition to the obvious programming choices that dominate the scene today, our Electrum Up To Date 2024 program is more like an invitation to a hidden club of genre lovers, where a secret handshake opens the way to truly cosmic journeys. Much of the techno program of this year’s edition is a celebration of not only DJs, but also producers and exceptional live and concert performances. This year’s Electrum Up to Date Festival features a wide spectrum of expression, from pioneers from the British or Dutch scenes through young representatives of fresh genres, the most interesting artists and creators from the Eastern European region to a strong representation of the Bialystok music scene. 

The heaviest baggage will be brought by Colin Benders, an artist who performs on a powerful modular system. The Dutchman, who has released jointly with Speedy J and Dax J, among others (the gentlemen are not related), specializes in multifaceted compositions and improvisations that impress with their depth of sound and the incredible dynamics of vast plans. The detail and precision of the sound is due to the unique idea of his instrumentation. 

Known mainly under the pseudonym Shifted, Guy Andrews will present a premiere live performance under the Carrier label, in which he gives vent to his fascination with abstract sounds. Great classic sounds of the 90s will be brought to Bialystok by Arthur Robert. Georgian HVL, known for his collaboration with the now legendary Bassiani, will perform in Poland for the first time. We hope that Midgar Records head Severja will have time to undergo Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth by May and put together a wonderfully hypnotic set in the meantime. A solid groove will be taken care of by Sepehr, while deep sounds will be presented by mysterious projects VC-118A, Mod21 and the slightly less mysterious but equally interesting Konduku and Prague-based Turk Pink Concrete. The b2b set will also feature other representatives of the Czech scene: Fleika and Marie Pravda. Faster rhythms will be taken care of by Michal Macewicz, a resident of Wrocław’s Ciała, and the more Detroit vibes MATRIX3K from Warsaw’s Miazmat.

For fans of electro, we have prepared treats with the performances of Lake Haze or Tafkamp and the anonymous project named Client_03. The genre-breaking, lo-fi project Rezzett, that is created by Lukid and Tapes, will also appear in Poland for the first time. Also making a rare appearance on stage is MPU101, which will turn up at our Electrum Up To Date after successful releases with Ilian Tape. The premiere live performance in the atmosphere of the most classic of dance music rhythms will be presented by representatives of the local scene Edemski and MARMØ. 

At the junction of genres will play another representative of the Bialystok scene, the great eclectic Andrzej Zielinski. Somewhere between electro, acid and idm also moves the illegitimate daughter of Aphex Twin, Alberta Balsam. At night, blank and Grazyna Biedroń will meet in a surprising b2b.

Banging experience will be the extraoridinary b2b of one of the creators of the experimental form of drum & bass or autonomik, Kid Drama with a representative of the Polish DrumObsession collective, Alegria. Also flying in from the Islands will be d&b player Mantra and legendary dubstep pioneer and DMZ co-founder Loefah. Another of the ’00s veterans, Pinch, will in turn perform an intergenerational duet with Madam X, a devotee of fresh, heavy bass sounds. The heaviest guns, in turn, will be brought out by Katatonic Silentio and The Untouchables, inspired by the darkness of urban music. The bass part of the program is complemented by re:ni, whose hybrid approach to sets fuses together different factions of contemporary club music.

Electrum Up to Date is not only music for dancing, but also a broad overview of what’s interesting in the experimental scene. Slovak-Hungarian artist Adela Mede creates personal songs on the border of folk and ambient, exploring both her personal history and seeking inspiration from her roots. Tradition is equally important to Niczos, who, singing in the language of Podlasie, creates new worlds at the intersection of places, where the local becomes global. The artist will present a new project together with composer Antonina Car called “Toń”. A special ambient AV project will also be presented by the późno collective.

Exploration in the field of interesting electronic textures is the modus operandi of Italian artist Marta De Pascalis, who draws rich, psychedelic sounds from synthesizer minimalism. Flora Yin-Wong, on the other hand, operates with concrete music techniques and experiments with delicate electroacoustic sounds. Composer Stefan Węgłowski also uses delicate drones, and beautiful electroacoustics are the domain of Kenyan KMRU. At the other end of the spectrum lies the music of Puce Mary, whose powerful industrial sounds pierce to the marrow. 

In addition to her solo performance, American composer Lea Bertucci will also direct a performance of her composition “Vapours” for string quartet, which will include Resina and Julia Ziętek. The band Maldives, or Marek Pospieszalski and Kuba Janicki, will arrive on the occasion of the premiere of their new album entitled “Eden.” The local experimental scene will also be represented by Tymek Papiór with a solo performance for percussion and electronics.

The opening night at the Arsenal Gallery, on the other hand, will be an opportunity for a Polish-Ukrainian meeting and a broad look at dance music, from trance and hypnotic sounds heard in the sets of Shjva or Rethe, respectively, through the juicy techno of Richie Beige to the frantic deconstructed rejw of JmDasha. MAYBE WE CAN HAVE FUN TOGETHER is a rave-perfmance at the power plant initiated by Ukrainian new media artist Ivan Svitlychnyi, co-curated by a team consisting of: Dmytro Fedorenko, Tatiana Kochubinska, Liera Polianskova. The event is part of the Electrum Up To Date Festival and the MAYBE WE CAN HAVE FUN TOGETHER exhibition, which will be on view at Arsenal Gallery’s second location on Mickiewicza 2 Street from 10.05 – 21.07.2024.

The Up To Date festival we organize has become recognized for its great love of independent music, its unique commitment to social issues and its concern for the planet. The last point has become a strong link between us – the festival team – and Electrum, a Bialystok-based company that is a leader in Climate Tech. Shared values and goals, as well as a vision of long-term cooperation based on respect and understanding, became the spark to strengthen our ties. The year 2024 has therefore become not only an opportunity to celebrate the 15th anniversary of our festival, but also a new chapter in its history, which we are entering together with a like-minded title partner – already as Electrum Up To Date Festival. 

FULL and NIGHT passes for the Electrum Up To Date Festival 2024 are now sold out. Individual tickets are on sale, as well as Industrial Outdoor passes entitling entry to party nights on festival Friday and Saturday. To meet the needs of festival goers and in line with the #dontworrybeyourself philosophy, the organizers have introduced group tickets, which entitle groups of friends to cheaper entry to the festival. The number of tickets and passes for the festival is limited.

FULL LINE-UP:

Adela Mede live (SK/HU)
Alberta Balsam (NL)
Andrzej Zieliński (PL)
Antonina Car & Niczos pres TOŃ (PL) – premiere
Arthur Robert live (AT)
blank b2b Grażyna Biedroń (PL)
Carrier live (UK) – premiere
Client_03 (UK)
Colin Benders live (NL)
Edemski & MARMØ live (PL) – premiere
fleika b2b Marie Pravda (CZ)
Flora Yin Wong live (UK)
HVL live (GE)
JmDasha (UA)
Katatonic Silentio live (IT)
Kid Drama b2b Alegria (PL/UK)
KMRU live (KE/DE)
Konduku (NL/DE)
Lake Haze live (PT)
Lea Bertucci pres. Vapours (US)
Loefah (UK)
Malediwy (PL)
Mantra (UK)
Marta De Pascalis live  (IT)
MATRIX3K (PL)
Michał Macewicz (PL)
Mod21 live (IT)
MPU101 live (DE)
Pinch b2b Madam X (UK)
Pink Concrete (TR/CZ)
późno hybrid AV (PL)
Projekt New Hope Crew (PL)
Puce Mary live (DK/DE)
re:ni (UK)
Rethe live (PL)
Rezzett live (UK)
Richie Beige (UA/PL)
Sepehr live (IR/US)
Severja (IT/DE)
shjva live (UA/PL)
Stefan Węgłowski live (PL)
Tafkamp (NL)
The Untouchables (BE)
Tymek Papior (PL)

VC-118A live (NL/FI)

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ELECTRUM UP TO DATE FESTIVAL
30.05 – 02.06.2024
Białystok
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