Flow Festival announce new stage, expand lineup

28 May 2014, 18:18 | Written by Robby Ritacco

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Finland’s Flow Festival have announced the addition of a new stage for 2014, the MixRadio Music Hall, and with it, have shared a slew of additions to their weekend’s lineup, including performances from Big Ups and Ballet School.

The Festival has already announced sets from the likes of OutKast, The National, Janelle Monáe, Darkside, Blood Orange, Charli XCX and much more. The new stage will give a little more focus to locals, hosting several finnish bands and DJs. Check out the roster for MixRadio Music Hall below, as summarized in a press release:

Friday 8th August will see MixRadio Music Hall present a double act of legendary Finnish DJs Sasse and Jori Hulkkonen. Also performing will be electro duo Phantom, currently enjoying a surge in popularity, along with Ballet School, who will bring their R&B-inflected, eighties-pop inspired brand of shoegaze to the stage. Local acts will include the DJ and rapper Aksim and rock super group Riitaoja, comprising members of Giant Robot, Black Audio and Flaming Sideburns.
Saturday will play host to DJ and producer Samuli Kemppi, rap group Aivovuoto, punk and fuzzy guitars from Teksti-TV 666, along with rap twosome Paperi T & Khid. Also featuring will be new wave punk band Katujen Äänet, post-rock group Mr. Peter Hayden, as well as Shivan Dragn – the new project of Artturi Taira, the vocalist and multi-instrumentalist best known from the successful Finnish bandRubik.
Sunday brings Jaakko Eino Kalevi, an electro artist with a cult reputation, Big Ups, known for their melodic noise-rock, post-punkers Beastmilk, psych-rockers Death Hawks, nineties indie and punk purveyors Gim Kordon, and Rauhatäti, who meld dubstep and hip-hop elements.

Flow Festival will be held from 8–10 August at the Suvilahti power plant area in Helsinki. For more info, check out the festival’s website here.