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Celebrating ten years of “music for the strange kid at school”, Newcastle’s Distraction Records present an all-day event featuring  cosmic kraut disco, dub-laced metal, electronic drone, blissful ambient, and other diverse musical excursions.

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More info and advance tickets at £6 + 50p booking fee here: http://tinyurl.com/distractiontenyears

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STARRING:

WARM DIGITS

"Machine funk kraut-a-delia - it's rather lovely!" says Andrew Weatherall. And you'd be hard pressed to disagree after engaging yourself in this blizzard-wave sensory overload. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Warm-Digits/115689793776

NECRO DEATHMORT

Hipster bible Vice says "SUNN O))) meets Squarepusher", which is a rather lazy description for this devastating hybrid of lurching dubstep electronics and paranoid-metal doom. Any adventurous fan of heavy music will not want to miss their first Newcastle outing. https://www.facebook.com/necrodeathmort

DIST18

Aye, it's Mushi Mushi, with a slightly different lineup, but employing the same bleep-und-fuzz-und-skreal! and lo-fi cranks and cronks like they always did.

http://www.facebook.com/mushimushimusic

JAZZFINGER

They start noisily. They incessantly build layers of white noise onto of layers of unwieldy dissonance. They recreate an auditory Armageddon with amps. They end noisily. DRONE ON.

http://www.myspace.com/jzzfngr

TEMPELHOF

Downpours of cymbal-like hiss, mournful keys, shuffling beats, low, impassioned - but - dynamic vocals, mechanical shifts and slices, loneliness, solitude and William Burroughs via a Nathan Fake whig-out session, courtest of this Italian duo. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tempelhof-Remixes/234391619939694

DRESSED IN WIRES

Laptronica, Post-Gabba, Blip-Hop, Glitch-Hop, Chip-Hop, 8-bitronica, Wreckstep, Kronk, Bootmash, Dubtech, Dub-Bass Splattercore, Harsh Clunge, Fuckstep, Thugstep, Powerpop, Noisewhore, and Wrongtronica, not in any order. Honey, you tore me apart last night. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dressed-In-Wires-Ruined-My-Birthday/149017188500769

SUMMER NIGHT AIR

Expect minimal drones with a sense of naivety and innocence that's so beautiful it could ooze out of your hi-fi speakers and drip onto your carpet, like Spirualised at their most ambient or Eno at the airport.

http://www.myspace.com/summernightair

FRET!

Schizoid stomp-box driven sonic loops of primal psychedelic garage rock riffage rubbed up against unsettling dark ambient nightmares, where subtle guitar swoons are met head on by a feedback drenched wall of noise. Taking cues from the stripped back garage punk of The Cramps and Jesus & Marychain, coupled with the psychedelic drones of Loop and Spacemen 3, unexpect the expected from this one-man sound clash. http://soundcloud.com/fret

+ DJS TBC