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Further updates, more acts announced!

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Brand new acts on board:

BLOC is back for 2009! The solar system’s leading indoor underground music event has been re-configured for the future and will feature a more powerful lineup than ever considered possible at a brand new and wildly exciting venue…

To find out more, read on;

There are no words for how excited we are to announce the first five acts on BLOC’s lineup:

THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON – LIVE

Despite massive chart success (most notably with the massive ‘Papua New Guinea’) and constantly being namechecked as one of the most influential electronic music acts of all time, Brian Dougans and Gaz Cobain have not played a show as The Future Sound of London for over ten years.

JAMIE LIDELL

With his unorthodox takes on soul and techno music, electronic experimenter Jamie Lidell has solidified his place as one of the most innovative artists in the underground scene. As part of the groups Subhead and Super_Collider, Lidell pushed the boundaries of dance music, but as a solo artist his work has challenged the common expectations of electronic music performers and composers. His live show has become an infamously exhilarating experience, combining his breathtaking voice with improvised electronic wizardry to create a show that’s uniquely Lidell.

LEE ‘SCRATCH’ PERRY

Grammy Award winning living legend Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry known as the most innovative producer working in reggae, producing records for Bob Marley and the Wailers at his Black Ark recording studio in the seventies. More recently he’s collaborated with Adrian Sherwood and Mad Professor, keeping his own brand of crazily eccentric performance art relevant to the masses well into his seventies.

AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

The Amen-Ra of Universal Hip Hop Culture, the Father of the Electro-Funk Sounds, Afrika Bambaataa founded the sound we know as hip-hop with his kraftwerk sampling, era-defining track ‘Planet Rock’. Along with DJ Kool Herc, Kool Dee and Grandmaster Flash, Bambaataa organized the original soundsystem block parties in New York in the late 1970’s.

FREQUENCY 7
feat. BEN SIMS & SURGEON

An incomparable force of techno power, the dancefloor punishing duo of UK legends Ben Sims and the DJ Surgeon is a no-holds-barred journey to the experimental side of the dancefloor. Not just famed for their innovative, trend setting production that’s championed by DJ’s the calibre of Dave Clarke, Jeff Mills and Derrick May, they are nifty selectors themselves. Between they’ve played at every self-respecting dance event on the planet, from I Love Techno to Tresor via Sonar – and of course everyone’s favourite UK festival – BLOC itself.