Les Siestes Electroniques

Based in Toulouse, Southern France, Les Siestes Electroniques is a summer meeting point for emerging artists from the field of music & digital culture. Its ambitious motley line-up mainly focuses on electronic musicians and aims at a professional audience as well as the general public.

The fact that its open air concerts are free of charge makes Les Siestes Electroniques a rare and precious occurance within the landscapes of European festivals. Les Siestes offers an opportunity to experience the best of contemporary music though concerts, club nights, workshops and exhibitions.

Next edition of the festival will be held from the 23rd to the 27th of June 2010.

There’s you, there’s baguettes, and there’s dancing : it’s Les Siestes Électroniques (which means "the electronic nap"), plugging in, turning on, and rocking out.
Pitchfork

Anyone who’s ever been to Montreal’s Piknic Électronik or Cologne’s PollerWiesen knows that electronic music is best experienced outdoors and in daylight. Toulouse’s peerless Les Siestes Électroniques, now in its seventh year, perfects the formula with evening concerts performed before a laidback audience sprawled on a spongy lawn.
Earplug

Small yet perfectly formed, Les Siestes Electroniques (or, The Electronic Nap for those of you dozing in French class) is the champion of the scaled-down festival experience. The action will switch day-to-day between different Toulouse locations, with a single stage giving a refined and focused feel to things. Oh, and did we mention half of the events are free ? Nice.
Resident Advisor

Past line-up
Murcof, Colleen, Apparat, Funskstorung, Lusine, B.Fleishmann, Tujiko Noriko, Gangpol, Richard Devine, Aoki Takamasa, Orchestre de Chambre National de Toulouse, Yoshihiro Hanno, Dabrye, Donna Regina, The Konki Duet, Domotic, Sylvain Chauveau, DAT Politics, Trapist, Jan Jelinek, Thomas Fehlmann, Marc Collin, Mike Dread, Arte Radio, AGF+ Vladislav Delay, Brooks, Feadz, Modeselektor, Noze, Rex The Dog, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Justus Koehncke, Krikor, Legowelt, Hauschka, Schneider TM, Juan Atkins, Daniel Wang, Ada, Robert Henke, Pascal Comelade, Pierre Bastien, Sebastien Tellier, Appleblim, Fujiya & Miyagi, Chateau Flight, Superpitcher, Marco Passarani, Para One, Joakim, Todd Terje, Atom Heart, Bertrand Burgalat, So So Modern, Fancy, Turzi, Lindstrom, Damian Lazarus, American Tourister, A Mountain of One, Milky Globe, Isan, Emperor Machine, Mondkopf, Damon & Naomi, Dapayk & Padberg, Smith n Hack, Alva Noto, Fukkk Offf, Ariel Pink, Anoraak, The Eternals, Lawrence, Isolée, Dj Koze, Etienne Jaumet, Kim Hiorthoy, Prosumer, Dominique Leone, Larytta, Hudson Mohawke...

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