Well, well well… summer is just around the corner bringing with it long days, unforgettable nights, beach parties, mounting trips a load of sunshine, buckets of fun and mass bunch of exiting events that you can’t miss for the world…

One of them being of course the Sonar festival in Barcelona, which apart from an amazing line up it’s also one of Europe’s main gathering points for professionals in the music media entertainment. As every year, they are giving out a free Sonar Bag to professional attendees, in the bag includes a cd, courtesy of Budweiser and Recycled Sound, here you will be able to here four eclectic tracks from our in house producer Ben Dusak…

The line up for Sonar 2008 is:
Sonar day
Thursday 19 June : CCCB & MACBA
Asstrio (ES)
Bass Clef (Blank Tapes/UK)
Chacho Brodas (Del Palo/ES)
Christopher D Ashley (Sunday Best/UK)
Díscolo (LowClub/ES)
DJ Lui (Electric Cafè/ES)
DJ2D2 (Del Palo-SonarMusic/ES)
Galis115 (Miniatura-Ruralita/ES)
Internet 2 (ES)
Jahbitat (Project Mooncircle-Discos Compulsivos/ES)
Little Dragon (Peacefrog/SE)
Lucius Works Here (Foehn/ES)
Manu González & Vidal Romero (Go Mag/ES)
Pan Sonic (Mute-Blast First/FI)
Santiago Latorre (Accretions/ES)
Take (Eat Concrete/US)
Two PIAS DJs (Pias/ES)
Uke (Jabalina Records/ES)
XX Teens (Mute/UK)
CAPSULE presents
Pram (Domino/UK)
ZX Spectrum Orchestra (Warm Circuit/UK)

EMILII RECORDS presents
Arbol (ES)
Deefried (ES)

Friday 20 June : CCCB & MACBA

Aixònoéspànic (ES)
Blackjoy (FR)
Deepchord presents Echospace (Modern Love/US)
El Guincho (Discoteca Océano/ES)
First Aid Kit (Closer/ES)
F-on (Downbeat/Deep-Explorer/ES)
Jneiro Jarel’s Shape Of Broad Minds (Lex/US)
Kalabrese pres. The Rumpelorchestra (Muve/CH)
Konono Nº1 (Crammed Discs/CD)
Le Rok (Karaoke Kalk/DE)
Nisei vs Za (BCore-Acuarela/ES)
QA’A (ES)
Quiet Village (!K7/UK)
Tara de Long (Fatal Recordings/US)
Tender Forever (Green Ufos/US)
Vasco Ispirián (The Room-Playgroundlabel/ES)
Virginie (VE)
Yellow Swans (Load/US)
Yo Majesty (US)
NINJA TUNE & COUNTER RECORDS present
Daedelus (US)
J Mountain (UK)
The Heavy (UK)
The Long Lost (US)

Saturday 21 June : CCCB & MACBACaboSanRoque (ES)
Camping (PuPilo Records/ES)
COH plays Cosey (Raster Noton/DE)
DJ Birdy (ManzanasTraigo!/ES)
DJ Key (Funky Noise/MA)
Doozer (BrokenLoop/ES)
Electrotoylets (ES)
Grobas (Thrasher Home-981Sessions/ES)
Kid Acne (Lex/UK)
Matmos (Matador/US)
Northern State (Ipecac/US)
Señor Rosa (ES)
Skymark (Soulsociedad/CH)
The Black Dog (Soma/UK)
The Duloks (UK)
The Field (Kompakt/SE)
DIRTY presents
Dirty Sound System (FR)
Discodeine (FR)
Pilooski (FR)
FLOGSTA DANSHALL & HARMÖNIA present SKWEEE
Rigas Den Andre, Pavan, Joxaren & Daniel Savio (Flogsta Danshall/SE)
Randy Barracuda, Mesak, Sla & Eero Johannes (Harmönia/FI)

OSAKA INVASION presents
Bogulta (JP)
DJ Scotch Egg (Load/JP)
Maruosa (Renda/JP)
Ove Naxx (Accelmuzhik/JP)

Sonar by Night

Thursday 19 June : SonarPark, Fira Gran Via (M2)

Ben Watt (Buzzin’ Fly/UK)
Goldfrapp (Mute/UK)
Leila (Warp/UK)

Friday 20 June : Fira Gran Via (M2)
BC vs JC feat. Darren Emerson (UK)
Boys Noize (Boysnoize Records/DE)
Diplo (Mad Decent/US)
Dj Soak (Coffy Records/ES)
Erol Alkan (UK)
Ewan Pearson (Misericord/UK)
Frankie Knuckles (Def Mix/US)
Hercules and Love Affair (DFA-EMI/US)
Justice (Ed Banger Records/FR)
Madness (Lucky Seven/UK)
Pulshar (PhonoBox/ES)
Rob Da Bank (Sunday Best/UK)
Róisín Murphy (EMI/IE)
Suite on Clouds (ES)
The Pinker Tones (Pinkerland/ES)
Yelle (Source Etc./FR)

BBC Radio 1 presents
Flying Lotus (Warp/US)
Mala (Digital Mystikz/UK)
Mary Anne Hobbs (BBC Radio 1/UK)
Shackleton (Skull Disco/UK)
Selected by Mary Anne Hobbs

MINUS presents CONTAKT
Gaiser (US)
Heartthrob (US)
Magda (US)
Marc Houle (CA)
Richie Hawtin (CA)
Troy Pierce (US)

RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY RADIO presents
Buraka Som Sistema (PT-AO)
Theo Parrish (Sound Signature/US)

… + artists soon

Saturday 21 June : Fira Gran Via (M2)

Angel Molina (SonarMusic/ES)
Antipop Consortium (US)
Buraka Som Sistema DJ’s (PT)
Check One (ES)
Chloé (Kill the DJ/FR)
Clark (Warp/UK)
DJ Mehdi (FR) vs A-Trak feat. Kid Sister (US)
DJ Yoda Magic Cinema Show (Antidote/UK)
Dubfire (Sci+Tec/US)
M.I.A. (XL/UK)
Miss Kittin (Nobody’s Bizzness/FR)
Neon Neon (Lex/UK-US)
Oscar Mulero (Warm Up-Zero Oscillator/ES)
Ricardo Villalobos (Sei Es Drum/CL)
Sharon Schael (Female Pressure/VE)
Soulwax (Modular/BE)
X-102 discovers The Rings of Saturn (Underground Resistance/US)
Yazoo (Mute/UK)

DIAL presents
Efdemin (DE)
Pantha Du Prince (DE)

ED BANGER RECORDS presents
Busy P. (FR)
Krazy Baldhead (FR)
Nil (FR)
SebastiAn (FR)

FREERANGE presents
Jimpster (UK)
Milton Jackson (UK)
… + artists soon