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Melt Festival 2016

Melt Festival 2016 is one of the most distinctive rock and pop festivals in Europe. Its reliably huge lineup is known for producing one or two surprises, with the likes of Kylie Minogue and Sven Väth lining up alongside each other at 2015's edition.

 

The Gremminer Lake is dissected by the Ferropolis peninsula, setting the spectacular machinery of the old mine against a stunning natural landscape and lending a whole heap of individuality to the festival.

Melt Festival 2016 is famous for its all night music, with festivities running until around 7am each morning.

Meanwhile, the Sleepless Floor stays open from the minute the festival site opens until the very end.

 

A flickering sea of lights, pulsating beats and beaming faces as far as the eye can see – the City of Iron awakes again. Three days of pure musical euphoria lie ahead of us in July. Hot newcomers and international heroes grace the stages below the breathtaking coal mining diggers of days gone by, hosting debaucherous gigs and parties breaking the boundaries between quiet and loud, electro, hip hop and indie, mainstream and subculture.

 

Melt! started out as a small stronghold for rave lovers and techno enthusiasts at the quaint Bernsteinsee Velten in 1997, relocating to Lärz Airport in 1998 until it turned Ferropolis into a shining beacon of light in 2000 and became a major force on the international festival circuit.

 

While headliners like Disclosure, Deichkind, Tame Impala, Two Door Cinema Club, Boys Noize (live) and many others rock the Melt! Stage, this year’s edition of the festival has many more things up its sleeve. True to the motto ‘more variety, more freedom, more water, more chilling’, the 2016 Melt! Festival will be a larger, even more motley adventure playground than ever before – with everything a festival-goer could possibly want.

 

Check out the new Block Party for food, arts, culture (and of course music) of various genres, or the Forest for an open-air restaurant, cinema and hammocks, a place to come down and relax. Right next to it is Gremmin Beach – formerly Melt! Selektor – with Solomun, DJ Koze and Black Coffee, et al. Swimming and skinny dipping are strongly encouraged here – the beautiful sunsets and sunrises practically demand it.

 

Overall the grounds offer many more places to relax and get away this year, with more points of access to Lake Gremmin than in the past; for the first time, you and your crew have access to many areas once reserved for festival production staff.

 

Location-

Ferropolis

06773 Gräfenhainichen

Germany

The iconic home of Melt! is a recovered opencast coal mine in the east of Germany, between Leipzig and Berlin. The site's towering cranes and iron machinery give Ferropolis its name, as well as furnishing the festival with a memorable backdrop.

 

Line Up-

Thursday

Illesnoise

Niko Schwind

Oliver Koletzki

Several Definitions

 

Friday

Acid Arab

Andhim

Andy Stott (live)

Ben Klock

Black Coffee

Black Cracker

Block Party

Boys Noize (live)

Cosmin TRG

Damian Lazarus

Dekmantel Soundsystem

DJ Koze

Forest

George FitzGerald

Gold Panda

Graham Candy

grrr!

Helena Hauff

Horse Meat Disco

Isolation Berlin

Jamie Woon

JD Samson

La Fleur

Leon Vynehall

Liss

M83

Makam

Mano Le Tough

Marco Resmann

Matthias Meyer

Maya Jane Coles

Mura Masa

Noah Kin

Partok

Peak & Swift

Pev & Kowton (Livity Sound)

Roosevelt

Sango

Sarah Farina

Sascha Schlegel

Say Yes Dog

Shifted

Skepta

Sleaford Mods

SOPHIE

Special Guest

Still Parade

Tame Impala

Vessels

Vril (live)

Yo! Sissy does Melt!

Zed Bias

Zomby

 

Saturday

Andy C

Benjamin Damage

Blind Observatory

Chance & Dark

Deichkind

DJ Phono

Dr. Rubinstein

Drangsal

Ed Davenport

Fatima Yamaha (live)

Floating Points (live)

Freddy K

Hard Ton

Hi Fashion

Ho99o9

Jamie xx

Joey Anderson

Juju & Jordash (live)

King Kong Kicks

Kobosil

Kode9

Kollektiv Turmstrasse (live)

Kytes

Lady Leshurr

Laurel Halo

Maceo Plex

Magdalena

Mind Against

Modeselektor (DJ-Set)

Oddisee & Good Company

Ø [Phase]

Peaches

Peggy Gou

Renato Ratier

Schwarz Dont Crack

Shed

Solomun

Stephan Bodzin (live)

Stimming (live)

The Revolver Club

Tom Trago

Two Door Cinema Club

Virginia (live) feat. Steffi & Dexter

Woman

 

Sunday

Bob Moses

Bomba Estéreo

Boris

Chvrches

Circa Waves

Coma

Cormac

Digitalism

Disclosure

DMA’S

Ellen Allien

Gunjah

Heidi

Honey Dijon

Josh Wink

Kim Ann Foxman

Klyne

Kuriose Naturale

Lea Porcelain

Local Suicide

Motor City Drum Ensemble

Muallem

Pan-Pot

SG Lewis

Team Recorder

The Black Madonna

Tiga (live)

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