This is the 12th Melt! festival which returns as a three day event, Melt! is held in a giant industrial museum, Ferropolis, in the city of Gräfenhainichen, south east of Dessau, Germany. The festival features electronica dance music from pop and indie though to ambient beats and hop hop, spread across 6 floors with more than 80 live acts appearing over the weekend.
The acts confirmed include Oasis, Travis, Kasabian, Tiga, SOOL, Röyksopp, Noys Noize + Erol Alkan, Phoenix, A Critical Mass ft. Henrik Schwarz, Aphex Twin + Hecker, Baddies, Bloc Party, Bodi Bill, Bonaparte, Boy 8-Bit, Caribou, Digitalism, Fever Ray, Diplo, DJ Phono, Ellen Allien, Filthy Dukes, Foals, Gossip, Hudson Mohawke, James Yuill, and more. See the bottom of the listing for the complete line-up.
The doors open at 3pm every day with performances beginning at around 5pm and going on thru' the night, with the Sunday headliner expected to end just after 11pm.
An attraction of the festival is the actual location, Ferropolis, an open air museum of huge machines from the 20th Century. Some of the machines weigh up to 1980 tonnes and reach 30 metres high.
TICKETS
Day and weekend tickets (includes camping and parking and an official swimming permit for the Gremmin lake) are now on sale and are priced as follows:
3-day weekend ticket is priced at 99 euros.
2-day ticket (Fri 17th & Sat 18th July 2009) is priced at 77 euros.
Daytickets will be availaible for 45 euros from May onwards.
Early bird tickets were available. Now the full price above applies. To buy tickets, click here.
TRAVEL DIRECTIONS
Directions: From the A9 Berlin-Leipzig -> exit Dessau Ost -> B 185 to Oranienbaum -> in Oranienbaum right B 107 to Gräfenhainichen -> between Jüdenberg and Gräfenhainichen left to Ferropolis.
By public transport: By train to Dessau central station, then by bus to Ferropolis.
The camping site opens on Thursday at 03:00pm, and closes on Tuesday at 01:00pm.
Camping and parking is included in festival ticket price.
The confirmed line-up so far includes The complete line-up is: !!!, Animal Collective, Amazing Baby, Aphex Twin + Hecker, A Critical Mass feat. Henrik Schwarz, Âme, Dixon (live), Matias Aguayo, Baddies, Kasper Bjørke, Bloc Party, Bodi Bill, Bonaparte, Boy8Bit, Boys Noize + Erol Alkan, Brodinski, Buraka Som Sistema, Cajuan, Caribou, Channel X, The Cheapers, Philipp Cerfontaine, Cold War Kids, Crystal Castles, Deadmau 5, Delphic, Digitalism (live), Dinky, Diplo, Jochen Distelmeyer, DJ Koze, DJ Phono, DJ Supermarkt, The Dodos, David Dorad, Drop the Lime, Andreas Eckhardt, Ellen Allien, Empro, Tim Exile, Fabiano, Fever Ray, Fieber Tanz, Filthy Dukes, Foals, Sascha Funke, Glasvegas, Goldie, Gossip, Daniel Haaksman feat. Deize Tigrona, Hell, Matthew Herbert(DJ-Set), James Holden, Jazzanova Live!, Sven Jozwiak, Paul Kalkbrenner, Karrera Klub, Kassette Boys, Kasabian, King Kong Klub, Klute, Markus Kavka, Kiki, Klaxons, Kode 9 & Spaceape, LA Roux, Les Yper Sound, LunaCity Express, Michael Mac (Club NME), Magnetic Man feat. Skream& Benga (live), MC Justyce, Mediengruppe Telekommander, MarcusMeinhardt, Metronomy, Mikroboy, Moderat (= Modeselektor + Apparat +Pfadfinderei live), Hudson Mohawke, MSTRKRFT, Muff Potter, Mujava, Lars Christian Müller, ND Baumecker, The New Wine, Oasis, Passion Pit, Phoenix, Pilooski, Polarkreis 18, Revolver Club, Radio Slave, Jesse Rose, Röyksopp, Scharrenbroich trifft Gunjah, Shir Khan, SimianMobile Disco (live), Skinnerbox, Luke Slater (live), The SoundtrackOf Our Lives, Daniel Stefanik, Gunnar Stiller, Super 700, SweatClub DJs, Team Recorder, AnnaTernheim, This Will Destroy You, Thunderheist, Tiga, Tobias Thomas, Travis, Trentemøller (DJ-Set), TRG, The Virgins, TheWedding Present, Markus Welby, The Whitest Boy Alive, WhoMadeWho, PatrickWolf, James Yuill, Yuksek, Zander VT, and Gisbert zu Knyphausen.
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