The Summer may be over for Magic Waves, but Winter has only just arrived with December 10/11 in Corsica Studios being the date and place for the festival’s return.
(November 2010) IN the Summer of 2009 a festival like no other landed in Corsica Studios, London. In the context of a bulging brochure of electronic shindigs The Magic Waves Festival in London stood out from the crowd. The two nighter did not just bring some of the legends of italo disco back, it captured the modern heart of spaghetti dance with some high quality synth pop and electronics thrown in for good measure. It looks like Magic Waves was to be a once off, a shot in the night. But, Magic Waves has returned. The Summer may be over for Magic Waves, but Winter has only just arrived with December 10/11 in Corsica Studios being the date and place for the festival’s return.
The italo lights have been dimmed, with electro and electronics shifting into Corsica Studios with the seasons. The line-up draws on homegrown talent, a generous smattering of pioneers with handful of legends battling it out for top spot. The darker side of electronics is on display here, from the industrial synthesizers of Shemale and the frightening visage of MANASYt to the EBM antics of Gesaffelstein and electro of Dynarec. Likewise, Amsterdam’s Rude 66 is set to bring his sinister analogue sounds to London. The Netherlands electronic elite are well represented at the revived Magic Waves with festival veterans Mark Du Mosch and Alden Tyrell being called on once again, with Tyrell teaming up with DJ Overdose this time for a liveset from The Hasbeens. To keep the salivary glands flowing is Crème Organization boss DJ TLR and French music man The Hacker, and to put them into overdrive is the recent addition of IntergalacticFM numero uno: I-F. Framed as one of the pioneers of the italo revival I-F is sharing the limelight with electrofunk legend Arabian Prince aka Professor X. Alongside this buffet of electronic talent is a diverse slice of homegrown DJ’s and artists. The likes of Ali Renault, Fancy and Spook and Meschi are lined up with Road to Rimini and Slabs of the Tabernacle DJ’s. But this isn’t the extent of this two night affair, with even more on music on offer:
The prices are the same as last year, a seriously reasonable £35 for both nights (no this does not include a 70’s style chalet in London town, and no bad thing.) If you missed the first Magic Waves, that’s a pity. But don’t make the same mistake twice. Roll on December.
