The website www.breakbeat.is is the online home of Iceland's longest running club night, the Breakbeat.is residency, which has been going for 10 years. They also run a radio show of the same name. And Iceland Airwaves fans will find the name familiar 0- they've hosted and curated a night at the festival for as long as I can remember. This year's is scheduled for Thursday the 14th at Apótekið, with an intersting line-up as always:
I spoke to organiser Kalli…
Hi Kalli, where are you right now and what are you doing?
Right now I'm at home, running back and forth from my desk to the kitchen, stirring the soup that's cooking on the stove in between answering these questions. More generally currently my life is divided
between studying, work and music and a mixture of all three (as well as some soup!)
Can you tell me about the line up for the Iceland Airwaves 2010 Breakbeat.is night?
We've also got a host of Icelandic talent starting of the night with live performances from Hypno, Subminimal, Raychem and Muted, all of whom have been gathering accolades at home and abroad for their music. Last but not least my partner in crime Ewok and myself will be spinning some records back 2 back between acts and for the warm up.
There will be 5 other things going on at the same time – so why should people choose the event?
We like to think our nights have carved out a good little niche in the Iceland Airwaves program and in Icelandic nightlife in general, combining interesting and forward thinking electronic music with a
good party atmosphere. We got great talent gathered for this years edition in a good venue so we believe it should be a great respite from all those indie playing hipsters around town that evening!
Seriously though, our Thursday nights on the festival have generally been the place where everybody still standing ends up for a dance at the end of the night. All fans of electronic music should in our
opinion try and pencil our night into their program.
Some mp3's, audio streams and other goodies from the artists in question will be coming up at www.breakbeat.is/airwaves in the next days. So check that out and follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Have you seen the festival line-up? What other bands are you excited to see?
This years line up is one of the most exciting in years as far as I'm concerned, great international acts and a strong local line up. I'll probably be checking out the more electronic end of the festival and
am excited to see acts like Mount Kimbie, James Blake, Moderat, Toro Y Moi and Hercules & Love Affair. From the Icelandic bands and artists I'm looking forward catch Oculus, Ólafur Arnalds, Æla, Amiina and Reykjavik!
And finally, how about a few local tips for the festival first-timers?
Go get your hangover munchies on at Vitabarinn on Vitastígur, great burgers, then hit the local pools and you'll be ready for another night in no time. After the night out go get some sheep's heads at the
BSÍ bus station and then crash an after party.