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CRSSD Festival announces fall 2017 lineup

By George Varga
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Chromeo, Australia’s RÜFÜS DU SOL, Cut Copy and Richie Hawtin head the lineup for the 2017 fall edition of CRSSD Festival at San Diego’s Waterfront Park on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1.

They are among the first 42 acts confirmed to perform at the sixth edition of the proudly edgy electronic music marathon, which debuted here in 2015 as a showcase for left-of-center house and techno performers.

The lineup for the 21-and-up festival boasts an international flavor. It includes English DJ and producer Mura Masa, French house music star FKJ (short for French Kiwi Juice), German techno DJ Marcel Dettmann, Russian DJ Julia Govor, Bulgarian DJ KINK and Vienna-based producer and singer-songwriter SOHN.

Tickets, priced at $115, go on sale Saturday at noon through the event’s website: crssdfest.com.

The first CRSSD Festival was jointly produced by San Diego’s FNGRS CRSSD and Goldenvoice, the Los Angeles that produces the annual Coachella and Stagecoach festivals in Indio.

Each successive edition of CRSSD has been put on solely by FNGRS CRSSD. The opening day of the first festival drew a capacity audience of 15,000. A majority of the subsequent editions have drawn sell-out or near-capacity crowds.

Intriguingly, attendance dipped when CRSSD Festival’s second edition in 2105 was headlined by two maverick rock bands, Flaming Lips and TV On The Radio, suggesting that attendees at the festival are more excited by DJs and performers with minimal live instrumentation than by more conventionally outfitted bands.

Other CRSSD Fetsival headliners have included Flume, who performed not long after his 2017 Grammy Award win and pioneering DJ Giorgio Moroder, best known for his work with Donna Summer, Blondie and David Bowie.

Fall 2017 CRSSD Festival lineup (in alphabetical order)

Alex Wax & Fourzan

Ashworth

Bedouin

Breakbot

BROODS

Brothers Macklovitch

Chris Lake

Chromeo

Cooper Saver

Cut Copy

Damian Lazarus & The Ancient Moons

Dena Amy

Denis Sulta

Destructo

Dixon

Elohim

Emancipator

FKJ

Floorplan

Gerd Janson b2b Prins Thomas

Hito

Hot Since 82

Jesse Rose

Julia Govor

KiNK (live)

Latmun

Lee K

Lophille

Marcel Dettman

Mathew Jonson (live)

Mura Masa

Palm Trax

Patrick Topping

Phantoms

Prok & Fitch

Richie Hawtin

RÜFÜS DU SOL

SAINT WKND

SOHN

Solardo

The Black Madonna

The Magician

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George Varga

San Diego Union-Tribune music critic George Varga began drumming in rock bands at 12 and writing professionally about music at 15. A Louisiana native who grew up mostly in Germany, Varga has earned three Pulitzer Prize nominations for his writing at the U-T and is a voting member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to providing live coverage of the Grammy Awards and festivals from Coachella and KAABOO to the 1994 edition of Woodstock, he has interviewed everyone from Miles Davis, Britney Spears and (over a game of chess) Ray Charles to Willie Nelson, Kanye West and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis. A triple first prize-winner for criticism and arts writing at the 2022 and 2023 San Diego Press Club awards and a double first prize-winner at the 2022 and 2023 San Diego Society of Professional Journalists awards, Varga is also a contributing writer for Jazz Times magazine and has written for Billboard, Spin and other publications. After attending San Diego City College and San Diego State University, he created and taught the 2002 UC San Diego Extension course, “Jazz in a Post-Ken-Burns World.” Varga has written liner notes for more than a dozen albums, including by jazz sax greats James Moody and Michael Brecker, and contributed two chapters to the book, “Dylan: Disc By Disc.”

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