Electronic legend Giorgio Moroder will headline the first ever London Electronic Arts Festival (LEAF) next month.
The event, mixing talks and workshops with film screenings, exhibitions and performances, is to run November 7-10 at several venues across London, including the Shoreditch’s Electric Light Station (the festival’s base, dubbed the LEAF HUB). Back by sizeable Brit promoters SJM Concerts, LEAF also promises appearances by Trentemoller, The Bloody Beetroots, Major Lazer, Eats Everything, MK, Arthur Baker, Omar Souleyman, William Orbit and Horse Meat Disco.
According to LEAF founders Ben Turner and Rob Da Bank (who also performs), the new event is about confirming London’s status at the electronic music scene’s frontier. Both Moroder and New Order will appear ‘in conversation’; the latter promises an account of Ibiza’s influence on their seminal 1989 album Technique. Eats Everything, MK and Baker, meanwhile, front a specially streamed Boiler Room party at LEAF HUB, and renowned contemporary artist Dinos Chapman (usually to be found working with brother Jake) presents an AV installation of new art piece Luftbobler.
“It [London] may not have invented electronic music” Da Bank and Turner jointly declare in LEAF’s press materials, “but it gave it a global focal point for decades. Its influence from DJs to parties, flyers to technology platforms has been pivotal to the durability and the inventiveness of this scene. LEAF aims to bring all of this together for the very first time in the capital.”
Full calendar of activity at www.leaflondon.net
