Neopop Festival 2020
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Neopop is Portugal's most respected electronic music festival, held in the coastal town of Viana do Castelo.
Each summer, the festival invites a lineup packed with techno royalty to the historic port for three days of partying and musical appreciation, metres from the Atlantic Ocean.
With live performances and DJ sets from some of the underground's most exciting talent, Neopop has become a bucket-list festival for techno fans across the continent, looking to experience their favourite sounds in a beautiful historic setting.
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Featuring
Underworld
Underworld are a true one-off - at home headlining the world’s biggest festivals and events, playing underground techno clubs and warehouses, sound-tracking theatre productions or taking over art galleries, disused shoe shops and Japanese department stores. Having cemented their place in the ’90s underground techno scene, the group’s definitive breakthrough came in 1996 when their timeless anthem ‘Born Slippy (Nuxx)’ became the soundtrack of a generation after it was featured in the film Trainspotting. The success of that single catapulted the band from the underground into the heart of the mainstream. The following two decades saw them build on that success while never compromising; selling millions of albums, performing countless sold-out shows, providing scores to productions by Academy Award winning directors Anthony Minghella and Danny Boyle, exhibiting in galleries, and sound-tracking the Opening Ceremony to the London 2012 Olympic Games. The critical and commercial success of the band’s Grammy nominated 2016 album ‘Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future’ saw them headline stages at Coachella, Glastonbury and Summer Sonic.
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John Digweed
Global underground trance and techno DJ voted No. 1 World DJ 2001. Not surprising really as he got his first decks at 14. Worked with fellow dance demi-god Sasha to bring us Renaissance. If you want to hear quality progressive house and trance tunes mixed perfectly then see this man play. He also runs Bedrock Records.
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Amelie Lens
Amelie Lens is a Belgian electronic music DJ, record producer, former model and co-owner of the Lenske record label.
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DVS1
DVS1 (aka Zak) moves floors with a combination of deep musical knowledge, unparalleled enthusiasm, and a vinyl collection of more than 10,000 records. Zak began his DJ career focusing on 90s acid sounds before his style evolved into something more complex, deeper and more rhythmic. He has since branched out into a wide variety of sounds—from hard and fast, to deep and hypnotic, to slow and soulful. A consummate performer, Zak never maps out his sets ahead of time, opting to craft sets spontaneously.
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Ivan Smagghe
Half of the dark electronica duo 'Black Strobe'. A very cool man, and he plays records as well.
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Nicolas Lutz
From Jupiter to Berlin and countless capitals in between, Nicolas Lutz has always operated best on the very outskirts of dance floor culture. A master of mystery and relentless seeker, his knack for unearthing precious gemstones - for immediate exploitation and then, slowly but surely, the greater good of the community - is uncanny, and its this insistence on clearing a path between the unknown and the utterly unexpected that elevate his sets into explorations of faraway lunar landscapes and charters through the depths of murky seas.
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Richie Hawtin
As a DJ, producer and record label owner, Hawtin has created a sound which is now synonymous with the city of Detroit. His project 'Plastikman', originally signed to Nova Mute in 1993, has enjoyed considerable success with minimal, yet extremely danceable, techno recordings.
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Dax J
Dax J is a London born, Berlin based artist, known as a powerful DJ, producer and label boss.
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Paco Osuna
Paco’s imagination, courage and incessant search for new forms of electronic expression have formed him into one of the most sought after acts. Now firmly recognized as one of the primary architects in the development of underground sounds,
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Pan-Pot
Brilliant multi-dimensional duo who have created a dominating presence in the underground scene.
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Rebekah
Former model, Rebekah has managed to match that career with an equally successful one as a DJ. Her mixing abilities, funked-up music style and DJing flair ensures that numerous repeat bookings are made and residencies secured. Whilst overcoming peoples perceptions Rebekah is constantly exceeding the expectations of club promoters and their crowds.
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DJ Deep
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Hardfloor
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Jeff Mills
Widely considered as one of the best DJs and producers in techno, Mills was at the forefront of the pioneering Detroit scene during the 80s. After forming the legendary Underground Resistance label in 1990 with Mike Banks, Mills left to start Axis Records and Purpose Maker to push minimal techno.
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Laurent Garnier
Legendary French producer and DJ who is recognised the world over as one of the most influential men in electronic music as it exists today.
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Nastia
Ukrainian DJ. Her twilight techno, melancholic minimal, stripped down electro funk and sustained house have been wowing crowds all around the world.
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Tale of Us
Tale of Us are Berlin-based DJ and production partnership Karm and Matteo who are currently re-writing the rulebook for deeply moving, emotional electronic music. Together they share a sonic vision that pulls together elements of house and techno with influences from pop, nu-disco and even rock music. While all of their productions are instantly recognizable as Tale Of Us, these range from straight-up dance floor jams to low-slung ambient tracks and more abstract compositions. While both originally hail from North America, Karm was born in Toronto and Matteo in New York, they moved to Italy as children, which is where they met and formed the close working bond that they now share.
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The Advent
AKA Cisco Ferreira and Colin McBean, two of dance music's longest-serving DJs.
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Also Appearing
Acid Pauli, Interstellar Funk, Sensible Soccers, Solar, Matrixxman, Colin Benders, Hector Oaks, Zadig, Lewis Fautzi