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Sónar by Night is a Barcelona's celebration of global electronic music. Across 4 stages, from sundown to sunrise, experience jaw-dropping live shows, forward-thinking sounds from around the world, and the biggest and best DJs around. Sónar 2023 features a lineup fit for a 30th Anniversary party.

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Sónar by Night

Activities Sónar by Night

<p>Aphex Twin returns to the stage after four years away, and to Sónar for the first time since 2011 for a 30th anniversary headline set. IDM’s enfant terrible, the godfather of modern electronic music, the first audiovisual superstar, a countercultural icon… just some of Richard D. James’ many unofficial titles. If audiences have learnt anything over three decades of his enigmatic and idiosyncratic career, it’s to expect the unexpected. Whatever he’s planning for his show at SonarClub this year, don’t miss this rare opportunity to catch one of electronic music’s most feted performers.</p>

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Come to Daddy

Aphex Twin

<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-05a1ae20-7fff-a243-2cf2-e4aec0106f22">You asked for it, and it’s happening. One of - if not the most - visually arresting and technologically advanced shows in the world is coming to Sónar by Night, as Swedish progressive house maestro Eric Prydz returns to Sónar to present his 3-dimensional spectacle HOLO. ‘The Master of the Drop’ has built a show like no other on earth, where holograms are projected over the heads of the audience, accompanied by his swirling, symphonic electronica. This will be one of the few occasions anywhere in the world to see HOLO this year, a 30th anniversary gift from Sónar to you.</span></p>

A show like no other 

Eric Prydz presents HOLO

<p>Few acts have grown as quickly in electronic music as Matt McBriar and Andy Ferguson. What began in 2008 as a blog - Feel My Bicep - for discovering italo, house and deep disco cuts has turned into the most acclaimed duo in contemporary dance music. A pair of albums - released in 2017 and 2021 - and various singles have established the emotional sound of BICEP as a global commodity. The Belfast duo return to Sónar as superstars, with one of the most powerful and immersive audiovisual live shows of the moment.</p>

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From internet bloggers to stadium-fillers

BICEP live

<p>When she debuted at Sónar in 2017 and went to Reykjavik with the festival in 2018, the prophecy was already starting to become a reality. Alba Farelo was going to have a meteoric career ahead of her. A career that, in 2023, has taken off completely. Bad Gyal is an icon for an entire generation. A global idol who has taken her passion for dancehall and dembow into the realm of Latin trap and beyond, touring Europe, Asia and the Americas. Capable of selling out concerts for over 15,000 people, for the 30th anniversary of Sónar she’ll give her umpteenth huge performance, featuring plenty of tracks from her imminent debut album. This time she’ll do so at home, and, for the first time, at Sónar by Night.</p>

A homecoming for a global idol

Bad Gyal

<p>Peggy Gou was on the cusp of global stardom in 2019 when she first appeared at Sónar (for a memorable back-to-back with Palms Trax). One of the world’s most accomplished DJs returns in 2023 as an icon, and possibly club culture’s most recognisable face. Yet her career has been built the ‘right’ way: on the back of her curiosity, eclecticism and skill as a DJ. Few headlining DJs would cite Japanese electronic pioneers Yellow Magic Orchestra and cult gay disco producer Patrick Cowley as influences; fewer still would regularly drop tracks from labels like Hessle Audio and Hyperdub in front of thousand-strong audiences. A headliner entirely worthy of a 30th anniversary party.</p>

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Club culture’s most curious icon

Peggy Gou

<p>Karin Dreijer is a true pop visionary, a distinctive and unmistakable voice. The musical vocabulary and aesthetic that they developed as one half of The Knife has continued to expand as Fever Ray. With the release of their third album Radical Romantics, they explore romance with typical complexity and vulnerability. It’s a perfect moment for them to return to Sónar for the first time since their debut album was released in 2009. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

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One of pop’s true visionaries returns

Fever Ray

<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-c7d5f32a-7fff-6b34-d59a-99a133c2cd7f">If 2021’s ‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert’ inched British rapper Little Simz closer to stardom, then her December 2022 album ‘</span><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syaYvz2PCL0&amp;list=PLluZQCi5D-7W55ZSVggPdCy-22eQwMFJD" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syaYvz2PCL0&amp;list=PLluZQCi5D-7W55ZSVggPdCy-22eQwMFJD">NO THANK YOU</a>’ has sent her into orbit. Kendrick Lamar,&nbsp; Timbaland, and OutKast’s Andre3000 have long been admirers of Simbiatu “Simbi” Ajikawo’s effortless flow and open-hearted lyricism, but the last two years have seen her burst onto the collective consciousness. Her dextrous rap mixes social commentary and personal narrative with anthemic refrains, and feels tailor-made for a headlining slot at Sónar by Night. The next great rapper you discover at Sónar might just be Little Simz.<br>&nbsp;</p>

The world’s next great rapper 

Little Simz

<p>If electronic music, once an underground movement, has reached the biggest stages of the world's largest festivals, it’s thanks to artists like Solomun. The German producer and DJ has ascended to the highest level from humble beginnings in Hamburg, and these days finds himself rubbing shoulders with the biggest EDM stars. He’s done all this while staying faithful to the same music he’s been playing for years: melodic, deep and emotional sounds that fall somewhere between deep house and melodic techno;&nbsp; and of course, ocean-sized drops. An Ibiza icon and mass idol who’s even been profiled in The New Yorker, Solomun finally makes his debut at Sónar for our 30th anniversary.</p>

A star who's stayed faithful to his roots

Solomun

Sónar by Night Activities 

<p>SonarClub is the biggest stage at Sónar by Night and in the entire festival. Each year, over 15,000 people gather under the covered pavilion of Fira Gran Via, turning it into a gigantic club. It’s also where some of the best audiovisual shows on the planet are unleashed on the Sónar audience.</p><p>At Sónar 2023, SonarClub hosts some of electronic music’s most iconic figures, the biggest audiovisual shows of the moment, and the most prominent and renowned DJs from the global club circuit.</p>

SonarClub

<p>It’s not Sónar by Night without watching the sunrise over SonarPub by Thunder Bitch. The biggest outdoor stage at Fira Gran Via has hosted everything from hip-hop concerts to techno, house and disco sessions of all kinds, plus some of the most memorable closing sets at Sónar by Night.</p><p>For the festival’s 30th anniversary, SonarPub by Thunder Bitch will vibrate to the sound of visionary pop, as well as dancehall, hip-hop, house, disco, multi-coloured techno, and everything in between.</p>

SonarPub

<p>SonarLab by Resident Advisor is where the spirit of electronic music past, present, and above all, future, comes to life at Sónar by Night. The music we dance to at night is more diverse than ever before, and the 14 acts selected by Sónar and Resident Advisor for 2023 reflect that: jungle and drum’n’bass share the stage with forward-thinking techno and the classic sound of Detroit, while experimental producers cross paths with a new generation of selectors and alternative pop icons. A lineup that pays tribute to the open-mindedness that first inspired the pioneers of club culture and continues to unite electronic music fans today.</p>

SonarLab

<p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">A club within a festival. This is the concept behind SonarCar by TOUS, a circular dance floor with surround sound located in the heart of Sónar by Night. It serves as an oasis within Sónar by Night, where the audience can experience DJ sets in a more intimate setting than on the main stages.</span></span><br><br><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">This year, SonarCar by TOUS hosts a by-now traditional extended set on Friday, with a unique back-to-back preceded by an experimental session. On Saturday, the stage will be transformed, featuring a diverse range of emerging Spanish artists whose new sounds are energising younger generations.</span></span></p>

SonarCar

Sónar by Night Stages 

Discover over 70 activities - concerts, DJ sets, debates, masterclasses, and more - spread across five stages and various spaces. 

Sónar by Day

The international meeting of art, science, and digital culture within Sónar by Day that explores how creativity is changing the present and imagining new futures.