The sixth edition of Rewire music festival is set to take place from Friday the 1st until Sunday the 3rd of April, across various venues in the city of The Hague. Previously, Animal Collective, Battles, Mica Levi & Stargaze present Under The Skin, and Ben UFO were announced. Today the festival released its second wave of artists. New confirmations include a multitude of premieres and exceptional performances.

Newly confirmed acts are: James Holden & Maalem Houssam Guinia (world premiere) Vessel + Black Rain + Pete Swanson (world premiere), Babyfather (Dutch premiere), Jlin (Dutch premiere), Colleen, Total Freedom, Roly Porter, Mikael Seifu (Dutch premiere), Lussuria (European premiere), Emily Wells, Anna Meredith, Paul de Jong, Yannis Kyriakides & Andy Moor, Michel Banabila & Oene van Geel (world premiere), Norberto Lobo & João Lobo Sextet (Dutch premiere), Via App (European premiere) and Bas van Huizen. More acts will be announced soon.

James Holden & Maalem Houssam Guinia
During the month of March, 2014, James Holden left (together with Floating Points) for Marrakesh, to become part of a residency with Maalem Mahmoud Guinia. This co-op has been recorded and released as their EP Marhaba. Last year Maalem Mahmoud Guinia passed away and his son, Maalem Houssam Guinia, took over; upholding the rich African Gnawa-tradition. Rewire initiated this live collaboration between James Holden and Maalem Houssam Guinia: an intriguing combination of traditional and futuristic music.

Vessel + Black Rain + Pete Swanson
A gathering of three Rewire “alumni”: Black Rain and Pete Swanson’s meeting during Rewire 2012 resulted in this new, extraordinary collaboration, which Vessel later joined. This unique partnership of three alumni will now be performed live, commissioned by Rewire, andwill most probably be performed only once. Expect an overwhelming improvisation with noise, dark ambient and industrial sounds.

Babyfather
Babyfather, Dean Blunt’s freshly introduced moniker, explores the London-based art-pop provocateur’s typical, odd methodology once again. Summer 2015, Hyperdub surprisingly released an unannounced first Babyfather EP. Blunt’s characteristic voice – combined with static chopped samples and lo-fi rhythmic textures – forms the firm basis for this new grimy project. Future developments are happening as we speak, since renowned producer Arca has been working on Babyfather’s next release.Their show during Rewire 2016 will be a Rewire exclusive.

Colleen
Colleen is the moniker of the French multi-instrumentalist Céline Schott.She combines her voice with the warm sound of the viola da gamba, crafting her dreamily experimental pop with live loops and samples. Her most recent work, Captain of None (2015), has been received with critical acclaim. Its dub-influenced rhythms and textures, combined with Colleen’s subtle voice and percussive string-technique guarantee for delicately crafted, otherworldly pop songs.

Jlin
Jerilynn Patton, better known as Jlin, is one of the most prominent female producers of the current generation, pushing the Footwork genre forward and ‘moving the genre beyond the dance floor’. Her critically hailed 2015 debut-album, Dark Energy, combines feverish rhythms with mangled vocal snippets. It has been praised by the likes of The Wire and The Quietus as an ‘album of the year’. Jlin’s music sounds forceful, yet ripples with color; an intense, solid sound with rugged rhythms that stop, breathe and roll out in unusual staccato patterns.

Mikael Seifu
Mikael Seifu is an Ethiopian producer, based in Addis Ababa. His novel approach to music sounds like a seamless blend of Ethiopian music with the rhythms and sonic qualities from a wide range of electronic styles – from house to garage and beyond: ‘his own self-proclaimed dream brew of “Ethiopian electronic”. Seifu’s performance offers a shuffled mix of percussion, vocal fragments and keys: made to move bodies and bend minds. His debut LP will be out in January on RVGN Intl.

Roly Porter
UK-based producer Roly Porter creates futuristic ambient music. His work fuses his background, as part of renowned dubsteb group Vex’d, with contemporary classical composition: focussing on sound design and resulting in a singular and often harrowing sound. Porter’s thirdfull-length album, Third Law, will be released on January 22th through Tri Angle Records.The new album is described as “a coming to terms with his goal of leaving dance music as it is, free to explore ideas of rhythm, bass, sound design within his own world without having to shape any of these elements to fit preconceived ideas or rules.” Roly Porter will introduce hisnew live setat Rewire on April 2nd.

Total Freedom
Ashland Mines, better known as Total Freedom (US), draws dancers into a whirlwind of ever-evolving textures and sensations. Unafraid to assault listeners with harsh shifts in mood and tempo, in his hands, R&B-concrète collides with rap, grime and ballroom house, while sung vocals abruptly dissolve into swamps of syrupy, drugged-out noise. As part of the renowned Fade To Mind, Mines has acquired a deserved reputation as a formidable DJ, with his sets taking dramatic arcs through extremes of emotional impact.

Emily Wells
Emily Wells is an American performer and producer known for her varied use of classical and modern instrumentation as well as her skillful approach to live sampling. Wells has recorded and produced several albums including the critically acclaimed Symphonies: Dreams, Memories & Parties and Mama. Her eclectic music combines electronics, orchestral strings, jazz structures, pop sensibilities, and vibrato-laden vocals. She contributed to the soundtrack for Park Chan-Wook’s Stoker and created a piece for Terry Riley’s 80th birthday in conjunction with WNYC.

Michel Banabila & Oene Van Geel presentMusic for Viola and Electronics III (world premiere)
Michel Banabila and Oene van Geel first met in 2013, during their collaboration for the Cloud Ensemble EP. Excited by the idea of further combining their sound-worlds, they embarked on a new venture, to continue their electro-acoustic narrative. This resulted in Music for Viola and Electronics I (2014) & II (2015): a diverse neo-classical mix of viola improvisations, ambient textures, minimal compositions, and modular experiments. At Rewire they will present a world premiere: a new improvisation which will lead to Music for Viola and Electronics III.

Anna Meredith
London-based composer, producer and performer Anna Meredith came to prominence as a classical composer before branching out into electronica. Her sound is frequently described as ‘maximalist’ ‘uncategorisable’ and ‘genre-hopping’. She explores the different worlds of contemporary classical, avant-pop, electronica and experimental rock with her ecstatic, spirited music.her debut-album, is set to be released in March 2016 through Moshi Moshi/PIAS. Meredith will perform with her band of classical musicians and a line up of Anna on clarinet and electronics plus two cellists, electric guitar, tuba and drums.

Paul de Jong
Paul de Jong is best known as the co-founder, cellist and resident found sound savant of the beloved, defunct collage-pop duo, The Books. Five years after that band delivered their final album, The Way Out, to much acclaim, de Jong delivered his first solo album names IF last year. De Jong’s solo worksteers a course from joyously eccentric folk-pop to humorously inside-out jazz, resulting in a refreshing piece of outsider art with a replay value that’s off the charts. Paul de Jong will perform IF live for the very first time in The Netherlands on April 3rd at Rewire 2016.

Lussuria
Lussuriaisan ambient industrial project formed by Jim Mroz.His first full-length record, 2014’s Industriale Illuminato, is heavily influenced by cinema; with atmospheric sounds that refer to pulp horror and claustrophobic crime scenes. Lussuria’smusical atmosphere is created through a combination of sound collage, sampled loops, and deconstructed musical sections.His work has been recognized as one of the leading voices of modern Ambient Industrial. At the moment Mroz is working on the followup to the 2014 album. It promises to carry on in the ice cold traditionLussuriais known for.

Norberto Lobo & João Lobo Sextet
There’s more than one way to listen to “Oba Loba”, the collaborative LPby brothers Norberto Lobo and João Lobo; as a folk work going beyond the codes of this music idiom, “weird folk” included, or as a jazz opus contaminated by other expressions, more than what usually happens in the “creative jazz” segment.The music here is hybrid, ambiguous, ambivalent, interstitial and a big surprise for all those who could think that the presences, as sidemen, of Giovanni Di Domenico, Jordi Grognard, Niels van Heertum, Lynn Cassiers, Ananta Roosens, Daniele Martini and Gregoire Tirtiaux are evidences that there´s some jazz, or some free improvised music, going on. Well, it’s not true. Jazz is there, alright, as are multiple folk elements, but there’s much more to ear.

Yannis Kyriakides & Andy Moor
Yannis Kyriakides (electronics) and Andy Moor’s (guitar) fruitful collaboration has resulted in multiple acclaimed records; most notably their releases Rebetika (2010) and A Life is a Billion Heartbeats (2014). The musicians explore and mine the rich and mysterious terrain of Greek rebetika, which serves as a matrix or palette onto which they improvise using electric guitar, live sampling and electronics. This results in hypnotic, improvised pieces that try to capture a sense of the gesture and tonalities of the Greek source music.

Via App
South Carolina-born and now Boston-based 20 year-old Dylan Scheer is known for her rebellious mediations with techno and house. Known as a key member of Brooklyn’s emerging electronic music underground, her dizzy, dark but extremely funky music goes deep in the most manic and unreliable ways.Her glitchy, slow and bass-driven music flirts with outsider dance vibes. Via App’s recontextualizing experiments with dance ingredients are perhaps more akin to those in the noise realm: genuinely strange in insanely heavy ways.

Bas van Huizen
Bas van Huizen is a Dutch artist based in Xi’an, China. He mainly uses guitar, voice, found objects and computer to record work that ranges from beat based electronic music to more abstract work. Kluwekracht, his first album released through Moving Furniture Records, touches the spheres of ambient, electro-acoustic music. Rich, firm soundscapes are contrasted with brittle musical sounds like bells and glitches.

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