Sugar Mountain 2016 / Photo: Nikki Williams

Sugar Mountain Festival Unveils 2017 Boiler Room Lineup

The folks over at Melbourne’s Sugar Mountain festival sure do know how to throw a party, hey? Not just content with assembling a killer lineup and a restaurant soundtracked by the folks responsible for the music of Stranger Things, they’ve today announced the bands and producers set to grace the event’s Boiler Room stage.

While the main Sugar Mountain lineup includes established names like Dro Carey, Blood Orange, Big Scary and Jaala, the Boiler Room lineup reflects the festival’s interest in exploring electro and the dance underground.

Leading the Boiler Room charge is America’s Mood II Swing, AKA John Ciafone and Lem Springsteen. The pair of producers are perhaps best known for their thumping track Move Me, released to much acclaim back in 2008, and have spent the last few years slowly developing a host of ardent fans.

Italian “disco god” Beppe Loda is also set to appear, as is Melbourne’s own mustachioed muso Tornado Wallace. Elsewhere, German/English export Palms Trax will be blowing minds with his mix of Detroit-influenced beats and powerful songwriting, while local rabble-rouser CC:DISCO! is also set to impress.

The famously odd Baba Stiltz (of Cherry fame) will also be laying down a set, and one can only assume that his mix of genres and gnarly, wild-eyed sense of creative abandon will prove even more thrilling in the live setting.

Better still, come the 2017 iteration of the event, the Boiler Room stage will relocate to a somewhat larger space, and will now take up the area previously occupied by the Car Park stage. Certainly, that means that one can expect bigger crowds, but the festival have worked hard to assure all punters that the intimate vibe that has long defined sets at the Boiler Room stage will not be lost.

How’s that, hey? Pretty unbeatable. Catch the full Sugar Mountain Boiler Room lineup, below.

Watch: Sugar Mountain 2017 Lineup

Sugar Mountain 2017 Lineup

Music

The Avalanches

Spank Rock

Young Tapz

HABITS

…joining

ALTA

Baba Stiltz (SWE)

Beppe Loda (ITA)

Big Scary

Black Cab

Blood Orange

CC:DISCO!

Daydreams DJs

Dro Carey

Jaala

Jack River

Jessy Lanza (CAN)

Kelsey Lu (USA)

Kornél Kovács (SWE)

KUČKA

Little Simz (UK)

Methyl Ethel

Mood II Swing (USA)

Moses Sumney (USA)

My Disco

Palms Trax (GER)

Pantha Du Prince (GER)

Rolling Blackouts C.F.

Slum Sociable

Sui Zhen

Suzanne Ciani (USA) x Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith (USA)

The Belligerents

Tornado Wallace

Weyes Blood (USA)

Sugar Mountain 2017 Boiler Room Lineup

Mood II Swing

Tornado Wallace

Baba Stiltz

Kornel Kovacs

Beppe Loda

CC:DISCO!

Daydreams

Palms Trax

Art

Caleb O’Shea

Elliott Routledge

Karan Singh (JPN / AUS)

March Studios

Miriam Bleau (CAN)

MOMO (USA)

Robyn Moody (CAN) x Caroline Polachek (USA)

Supergroup London – Morag Myerscough x Luke Morgan (UK)

Sugar Mountain 2017

Saturday, 21st January 2017

Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

Tickets: Sugar Mountain

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