Dates set for Krake Festival 2015

The week-long Berlin festival begins to unravel this year’s showcase.

Krake Festival is a Berlin initiative headed by Killekill boss Nico Deuster that’s successfully developing its own distinct aesthetic since its inaugural year in 2010. Krake plays host to a more experimental fare of electronic music with headlining commissions in the past coming from classic acts like Plaid, Cris­t­ian Vogel, Mika Vainio, Ulrich Schnauss, Mur­cof and Mono­lake, while making sure to offset its oeuvre by having artists like Tim Exile, Anklepants, Furfriend and Adam Exile play alongside side some of contemporary techno music’s finest in Cassegrain, Perc, Tra­vers­a­ble Worm­hole, to Stroboscopic Artefacts artists and Legow­elt.

Krake takes place during the first week of August in and around Berlin venues, with Friedrichshain club Suicide Circus at its core. While all the names are yet to be announced, or confirmed, the festival has revealed Robert Henke will play as Destructive Observation Field, a project described as involving, “a bright mul­ti­color laser beam points at a black reflec­tive sheet of plas­tic hang­ing freely from the ceiling,” while Moritz Simon Geist will present the robotic drum installation, MR-808 Interactive.

Other arts and culture events will take place at Berlin art space Urban Spree and Berghain Kan­tine, involving live performances from artists like Berceuse Hero­ique’s Ekman, while the heaviest doses of live music can be caught at Suicide Circus with shows schedule for Cassegrain & Tin Man, Sendai, Untold, Mondkopf, Bintus and Eomac. For more information and tickets to Krake visit the festival’s website.

Krake Festival takes place between August 3-9.