Festivals!

I won’t write too much because neither site has a proper lineup listed, but both Baltimore’s local Once.Twice festival of experimental electronic music and the world-renowned Mutek festival in Montreal are coming in the next few months, and I intend to be at both of them.

I went to a couple of last year’s Once.Twice events and they were great fun, and this year promises the likes of Akufen, Dabrye, AGF, and other glitchy notables. I want to attend all three days of performances this year.

Mutek’s 2004 lineup is still something of a mystery, but rumor has it that Richie Hawtin will be there in his Plastikman guise. I’m not particularly plussed about his most recent Closer, nor did I find his DJ performance to be the spiritual, transcendent experience it’s been billed as, but it’s always interesting to see what notables are doing. Mutek has a great reputation, and its host city of Montreal an even better one, so I’m really looking forward to this, pretty much my first real vacation in well over a year.

More thoughts when final lineups are posted. And don’t even talk to me about Coachella or the WMC. Yes, I know who’s there, all of them. No I can’t go. Yes, I desperately want to. Le sigh.