"Klaus Oldanburg [tm]" from Diskono emailed some information about this May's event:

I'm organising a day of events for Le Weekend this year, same as last year... We're doing 25th May and bringing Ticklish up to play, along with GOEM, also will feature a bar installation from Barcelona's Evol.

...Also muted to be playing at LE Weekend are Peter Brotzmann, Chicago Underground Trio, Acid Mothers Temple featuring Julian Cope and a full scale theatre production of David Thomas's "Mirror Man".

Best

Klaus Oldanburg

Since then, the programme has changed and become clearer. Here are links to the main Le Weekend programme and to the details of the Diskono night.

Artists

GOEM = Minimal techno from The Netherlands.

Frans de Waard - probably most known from his ongoing work with Kapotte Muziek (since 1984), a group that fully concentrates on recycling through musique concrete. Besides being a member of ambient group Beequeen, Quest, Shifts and does silly (in his own words), unsolicited preferable remixes as Captain Black. His day-job occupation is with Dutch record company Staalplaat.

Roel Meelkop - visual artist with a strong interest in music. He is a member of the ducth electro-acoustic band THU20, and composes solo under his; own name. Last year Trente Oiseaux released his first solo CD 9 (Holes In The Head), which was internationally well-received,. Together with Frans de Waard, he is also a member of the live version of Kapotte Muziek.

Peter Duimelinks - besides running the V2-Archief label, also active as a DJ and a former member of THU20 and the third collaborator in the live version of Kapotte Muziek.

Entirely made with a device called, Student Stimulator. This was found in a thrift store, and it s use is to give rhythmical pulses, to coordinate a steady response. The machine is used by Goem to create a wide tapestry of beats, which are triggered by synths and efx.

Equipment used:Student Stimulator, Korg MS 20, Roland SH 21 Boss SE 50, ART

TICKLISH

Micro-Macro. Electronic music that's non-idiomatic and falls between the grooves. Ticklish features London improvisers Kev Hopper (Stereolab, High Llamas, works with Charles Hayward), Richard Sanderson (Chris Burn Ensemble) and Phil Durrant (works with John Butcher, John Russell, Thomas Lehn, Radu Malfatti, MIMEO)) and the video artist Rob Flint. Their music fills up a vacancy. They bring the best models of danceable and cool electronic music into a free pulse. And what's more, they do the reversal: from the abstract heights of the improv scene in England Ticklish push forward to the clicks & cuts of post-techno. Their music is groove without the dictate of the beat, cool without setting on the foreground of a hook. Improvisation without plinky-plonky.

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