Percept Live recently announced the homecoming of Asia’s largest dance music festival,
Sunburn to Goa in collaboration with Klassique events represented by Shailesh
Shetty. After a hiatus of over 3 years, the festival giant name for nearly a
decade. Fresh off the success of their latest dance floor anthem ‘American
Dream’, theforward thinking electronic duo’s return to Sunburn after 7 years
will be making its grand return to its birthplace.
Spanning over two days, a brand-new format
“Sunburn Klassique” will be held on the 23rd and 24th of February 2019 at
Vagator, the venue where the festival was first hosted in 2013. Sunburn which
enjoys an undisputed monopoly in the music festival industry recently concluded
its 12th edition of its annual showcase in Pune and enters its 13th year in
2019.
The festival will feature 4 stages i.e.
Klassique, Techno Kraft, Psychedelic Cirkus and Vinyl Ambulance and will have
over 42 artist performing including the likes of KSHMR, Markus Schulz,
Claptone, Art Department, Sultan & Ned, AlleFarben, Arjun Vagale,
Ankytrixx, Sonic Species, Liquid Soul, GMS, Mandragora, MidivalPunditz w/
Nathulal Solanki, Richard Durand, UnderHer, Janux, Bullzeye, Beyond 120, David
Phimster, Joel Discobar, Ma Faiza, Almost Human, Alexander Smith, HeikoLaux,
Leon Pereira, Moscada, Nic Thomson, Roman Sheronov, Sashanti, VeronikaFleyta
among others.
Making his return to Sunburn in Goa after
2015 is the best live act in the DJ circuit, KSHMR. Ranked #19 on DJ Mag’s 2018
list of Top 100 DJs, KSHMR has been making India proud by taking his
heterogeneous sound to different parts of the world, and has been hailed by
many, as a champion of his immersive cinematic sound. The forever achieving
diligent record producer, Niles Hollowell-Dhar from Berkeley, California with
deeply seated Indian roots has been a festival front-runner.
Making his India festival debut,the
mysterious house music producer, Claptone with his signature golden mask with a
beak is one of the highest- placed house DJ in the Top 100 DJs Poll who curates
The Masquerade events everywhere from Ibiza to Amsterdam to Melbourne.
Having headlined Sunburn way back in 2013, the German-born, but
Miami-based DJ Markus Schulz who won the DJ Times‘ America’s Best DJ for an
unparalleled third time, will be sampling some of his signature hybrid trance
sound he is responsible for with spine-tingling melodies and outrageous
basslines.
Trance fans can exult as Dutchman Richard Durand who visited
Sunburn in 2012 will be dropping some adrenaline pumping baseline from his
album ‘The Air We Breathe’ which he released recently after a 6-year hiatus.
Canadian Jonny White, acting Head of No.19 Music, Art Department
will return to Sunburn once again after 12 years. The prolific producer’s
original style landed AD at the forefront of a major underground music
movement, transcending genre barriers and breaking down walls as few other
underground artists have. Their game-changing contribution to the electronic
music landscape has been undeniable, garnering accolades such as ‘#1 Track of
the Year’ at the Beatport Awards, the iTunes #2 ‘Best Electronic Album’, hailed
as the “hottest duo in dance music” by DJ Mag, awarded the ‘Track Of The Year’
by Resident Advisor (UK), Groove Mag (Germany), and #2 in Mixmag (US), and
voted #6 Top DJ’s in the world.
Live electronic act, composed of Kalden Bess and Jessica
Abruzzese, UNDERHER who describe their music as “music to have sex to” will
ensure dark, twisted fantasies meet a controlled reality with their immersive
set.
Liquid Soul, the solo project of Swiss artist Nicola Capobianco,
with more than 100 hypnotic tracks and a best Beatport artist and a best
Beatport track acclaim under his belt, has undoubtedly paved the way for
progressive psy-trance landscape and will showcasing some of his hard hitting
sounds.
Ever since Mandragora, one of the most undisputed names in
Brazil, released his first track, fans have been bewildered trying to catalogue
him. The people that know him closely say he can produce a complete album in
one weekend!
UK electronic artist Sonic Species, established as one of the
world’s leading producer of cutting-edge psytrance will ensure not to
disappoint. Initiated into the global psytrance tribe after attending his first
rave in the early 2000s, currently signed to the Nano Records label, Sonic
Species is set to release his second album this year, the follow-up to his 2012
debut ‘Unleash The Beat’.
The KreuzbergerFrans Zimmer has reached heights others can only
dream of. Having evolved under the artist alias ALLE FARBEN, Berlin based DJ
and producer has played over 3000 shows, more than 350 streams on Spotify, 200
million views on YouTube, 2 million downloads.
In the realm of classic dance music duos, few are more
recognizable than Sultan + Shepard. From releases like ‘Where Are You’, ‘In The
Air’, ‘When We Were Young’, ‘Make Things Right, to remixes like their remix of
‘Locked Out Of Heaven’, they’ve remained a household name.
Sunburn Klassique will also feature the best home-grown artists
from across genre, such as Arjun Vagale, Ankytrixx, Ma Faiza, and
MidivalPunditz, some of them making their Sunburn come-back. The festival will
see an assortment of techno, trance and commercial names ensuring a time travel
to what Sunburn was in its heydays. The event will also embrace a food court,
flea market and an adventure zone as seen in its annual showcase.
Karan
Singh, CEO, Sunburn states, “Goa has been the birthplace of Sunburn and we are
truly excited to be back. We have aligned our overall programming keeping in
mind this vision and have signed on many artists who made their initial India
appearances at the festival in Goa. Sunburn introduced the concept of dance
music to India and has aided in building music tourism across India. Over the
last 12 years we’ve evolved from being just a music festival to an aspirational
brand with millions of loyalists. We hope our return to Goa is truly memorable
and magical and we can once again build Goa into a thriving music destination.
As a practice, we will deliver the most intrinsic and enhanced fan experience
without compromising on our production and experiential ethics. A massive
festival like Sunburn is built on foresight and passion and we’re going in all
guns blazing to make an even bigger mark in 2019.”
