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Sunwaves Romania Announces Phase I Lineup for SW20

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SW20

Following another successful edition of Sunwaves this past spring, the Romanian beach festival has announced the initial roster of artists set to play SW20 this upcoming August.

Located on Mamaia beach, the festival has long been synonymous with the sounds of Romanian minimal techno and house, featuring the best of the country’s artists mixed alongside a great selection of top-tier guests from around the world. SW19 made headlines when Marco Carola played for nearly 24 hours straight, only to be beaten later that weekend by a 31 hour marathon back-to-back set by tINI and Bill Patrick.

This upcoming August, festival goers will be treated by another stellar selection of music curators: Andrey Zots, Audiofly, Carl Cox, Carlo Lio, Cassy, Cezar, Dj Sneak , dOP, Dubfire, Fumiya Tanaka, Gaiser, Gescu, Jon Rundell, Margaret Dygas, Mind Against, Paco Osuna, Paul Agripa, Petre Inspirescu, Priku, Raresh, Todd Terry and Xandru. More names are set to be announced next week.

Sunwaves has partnered up with Wave Travel to provide attendees with hassle free travel to the festival. Festival tickets are available HERE.

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Listen to 1.5 hours of Ricardo Villalobos at Sunwaves 19

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Photos by Anton Ogarev

Photos by Anton Ogarev

What else is there to say about Sunwaves 19? The Romanian festival made headlines for not one but two seemingly endless marathon sets: the first, a solo 21hr effort by Naples’ own Marco Carola, and the second a tandem 31hr achievement by tINI and Bill Patrick.

There is no doubt that the five-day gathering on Mamaia Nord Beach in Romania certainly produced even more stellar music moments. Not many of the sets appear to have been posted, but a one-and-a-half-hour recording of Ricardo Villalobos did in fact appear on SoundCloud.

We must warn you, it’s not the best of quality recording but it certainly plays good homage to the set put on by the Chilean producer and DJ. The set includes plays of Chris Carrier and Dan Ghenacia’s “Cherie” released on Apollonia, Franco Cinelli’s remix of DJ W!LD’s “Plus Lion” out on Vessel Records and Josh Wink’s “Meditation Will Manifest.”
 

 

If you’re looking for more music from the 19th edition of Sunwaves, our friends at XLR8R have released an exclusive three-hour recording of Faster’s set from the festival. Together with Ricardo Villalobos’ they provide over four hours of rolling minimal techno and house for your listening pleasure.

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Marco Carola Comes Close to Beating 24hr Set Record at Sunwaves

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Marco Carola playing Sunwaves earlier today. Photo courtesy of Beatrice

Marco Carola playing Sunwaves earlier today. Photo courtesy of Beatrice

UPDATE: As of 9:30pm local time on the last day of Sunwaves (May 2nd), tINI and Bill Patrick outdid Carola with a back-to-back set that well topped 24 hours!

Last year Music On chief Marco Carola made world headlines when he played a 24 hour set at Sunwaves in Romania. Pictures made the rounds showing the Italian techno don sitting down while DJing at some point during the 24 hours.

Several tweets and Facebook posts are now confirming that Marco Carola has been playing for over 20 hours, and counting! It is extremely possible that he is going for breaking his own record established last year.

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While Sunwaves is considered the festival destination where marathon 16 hour sets are considered the norm, nearing 24 hours is quite the feat and if anyone was bound to do it this year, it was going to be Carola himself attempting to outdo himself.

According to nightlife videographer LUCA DEA, Carola ended up playing for about 21 hours in total. He suffered some technical issues at some point which resulted in the music being cut off and time off his set being shaved off.

 

Minimal and Techno Reign Supreme on Sunwaves 19 Phase Lineup

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SW19

Romania’s Sunwaves is returning for a 19th edition next April. The iconic festival will take place in the North of Mamaia across six different stages on a beach of ideas, colorful outfits and literally never-ending hours of dancing.

The first lineup release for the acclaimed festival contains a packed list of Romanian minimal techno talent such as [a:rpia:r] trio Rhadoo, Petre Inspirescu and Raresh, as well as Barac, CEZAR, Dan Andrei, Priku, Herodot, Piticu, Alexandra, Arapu, Dubtil, Praslea, Vlad Caia and Suciu. They are accompanied by a roster of guests the likes of Marco Carola, who famously played 24 hours straight at the fest last year, Loco Dice, Ricardo Villalobos, Zip and Seth Troxler just to name a few.

This year, Sunwaves will take place from Thursday, 28th of April until late Monday, 2nd of May 2016. As usual attendees can expect extended DJ sets, after-parties, after-after-after-parties set against the picturesque backdrop of a beautiful beach on the Black Sea.

As we stated, this is only Phase I, so be on the look-out for more announcements to come.

Tickets have been on sale since early February. And yes, they are only priced at 40 Euros right now for the entire extended weekend!

The full line-up in alphabetical order:

Alexandra . Arapu . Barac . Bas Ibellini . Bill Patrick . Cap . 
Cristi Cons . Cezar . Dan Andrei . DeWalta . Dubtil . Gescu . Hector
Herodot . Ion Ludwig . Kozo . Leon . Livio & Roby . Loco Dice . Mahony 

Marco Carola . Mihigh . Petre Inspirescu . Piticu . Praslea . Premiesku(live) .

Priku . Raresh . Rayo . Rhadoo . Ricardo Villalobos . Seth Troxler . Sonja Moonear .

Suciu . tINI . Topper . Vlad Caia . Zip

 


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