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The award winning ArcTanGent is the world’s ultimate music festival for connoisseurs of Math-rock, Post-rock, Noise-rock, Alt-rock and everything in between. Previous acts include Russian Circles, This Will Destroy You, Fuck Buttons, MONO, And So I Watch You From Afar and 65daysofstatic. Capacity is strictly limited to 5,000.
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- Mono (Japan)
- Three Trapped Tigers
- Rolo Tomassi
- Talons
- Tangled Hair
- Body Hound
- Axes
- Quadrupède
- Delta Sleep
- Samoans
- Polymath
- ANTA
- Alarmist
- This Town Needs Guns
- American Football
- SikTh
- Toe
- Caspian
- owen
- Falls
- ALMA
- Town Portal
- Floral
- A Werewolf
- Exxasens
- La Dispute
- Meet Me In St Louis
- Nordic Giants
- Errors
- Animals As Leaders
- Yndi Halda
- Mutoid Man
- Agent Fresco
- Good Tiger
- Raketkanon
- MNHM
- Tiny Fingers
- Gulfer
- Svalbard
- Dialects
- Cheap Jazz
- Kusanagi
- Chiyoda Ku
- SkyHitch
- Mewithoutyou
- Cleft
- Gallops
- Enemies
- Knifeworld
- Let's Talk Daggers
- Eugene Quell
- Adam Betts
- Vasudeva
- Viva Belgrado
- FALL OF MESSIAH
- Zeus!
- Intervals (Canada)
- Plini
- The Brackish
- Envoys
- Bearded Youth Quest
- Super Goliath
- Foes
- Weddings
- Space Blood
- Classically Handsome Brutes
- Sleep Kit
- Monuments
- And So I Watch You From Afar
- Arcane Roots
- HECK
- Hexvessel
- Black Peaks
- Plini
Featuring
Mono (Japan)
A passionately aggressive rock band from Tokyo whose music has been described as 'the soundtrack to the end of the world' but who actually exemplify a more hopeful vision. Their recent influences include orchestral textures and the tale of a girl who, after developing leukemia in the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing put her hope in an old Japanese legend about folding paper cranes. Among the artists Mono have worked with is Steve Albini, who produced their album 'Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined'.
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Canadian outfit from Montreal whose cerebral post-rock doesn't so much form songs as create an all-engulfing mood that threatens to hold unsuspecting audiences hostage. The band is perhaps best known for their lengthy instrumental songs and large membership. With nine semi-permanent members, they create prolonged tracks which utilise short movements, wide volume changes, and numerous recorded and sampled sounds.
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Three Trapped Tigers
Three Trapped Tigers play a mesmeric mix of menace and snarling riffs, interspersed with calm, eerie and contemplative moments of reserve. Mind-bending masters, blurring the line between math-rock, electro-glitch, and prog.
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Rolo Tomassi
25 second assaults alternate with 10 minute sick and twisted trilogies, self destruction, carnage, power, and energy. Over the top of it a girl howls and screams her throat to blood and shreds over moving and powerful, yet meaningless lyrics. It's like a shark attack experience, where you'll find your self mentally swimming in the calm melody before you're hurled through a short, sharp blast of speed and aggression, suddenly you can catch your breath in some sort of oxygen pocket until you're finally ripped up again by the bands variety, unpredictability and ingenious self expression.
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Talons
Forging the explosive energy of hardcore, the subtleties of post-rock and the fractured song structures and complexities associated with math-rock, Talons possess a fascinating sense of urgency and drive, with a sound that both soothes and savages in equal measure.
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