Everyone, Spring is HERE.
Well, okay; not here-here. But “here:” the second-ever San Francisco edition of the steadily expanding MUTEK festival is going down soon: May 2-5, to be exact. Now, the first wave of the electronic music celebration’s artists has been announced, and oh my, you’re gonna like some of these names.
Uniquely focused on American acts among its various local iterations, MUTEK San Francisco will host some of TMT’s estadounidense favorites: Kelly Moran, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Steve Hauschildt & Tzonev, and Lara Sarkissian (of Club Chai).
The supporting international line-up looks equally thrilling, with Amnesia Scanner leading a pack that counts GAIKA, Smerz, Kode 9 (performing with Koji Morimoto), and N.A.A.F.I.’s Tayhana in its roster, among many others. Seriously, there’s a LOT of others, so be sure to check out the full line-up at the bottom of this post.
Tickets for the festival, including 4-day “passports,” can now be purchased through Eventbrite; they range from $150 to $450. Watch a brief recap from last year’s inaugural edition below, and then listen to a track from a lesser known of the just-announced performers, Edna King, ‘cause we know you’ve already listened to Amnesia Scanner like five times today.
MUTEK SF 2019 full first-wave line-up:
Abandoned Footwear & arc (US)
Amnesia Scanner (FI/DE)
Arpanet (US)
BLEIE & Chelley Sherman (US)
Byetone (DE)
Cool Maritime & Emily Sprague (US)
Cruel Diagonals (US)
CYRNAI (US)
Diagraf (CA/QC)
Dopplereffekt (US+DE)
Ectomorph (US)
Edna King (CA)
Freeka Tet (FR)
fuse* (IT)
GAIKA (UK)
The Hacker presents Amato Live (FR)
Halal & Relaxer (US)
Joyfultalk (CA)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith (US)
Kelly Moran (US)
Kode9 & Koji
Morimoto (UK+JP)
Kyle Evans (US)
Lara Sarkissian (US)
Lawrence English (AU)
Layne (US)
Marpi (PL)
Michael Claus (US)
Mozhgan & Josh Cheon (US)
Nihar & Subset (US)
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement (US+FR)
Revlux (CA)
Robot Koch & Mikael Le Goff (DE)
Sepehr (US)
Smerz (NO/DK)
Steve Hauschildt + Martin Tzonev (US)
susy.technology (CA/QC)
Tayhana (MX)
Veronica Vasicka (US)