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Toddla has just  announced that as of April 2012 he will have his own full time BBC Radio 1 show. You’ll be able to catch him each and every week in the early hours of Friday morning 2 - 4am... BooooooooooooooM!

AKA AKA billed for Springfestival 2012

Starting off at Oliver Koletzkis Label Stil vor Talent, AKA AKA did their recent Album on their very own label Musique Burlesque. Hannes & Holger met behind the decks in spring 2008 at one of those openair parties which start as a gathering of friends and overflow in a park-rave of thousand euphoric people. Since then Hannes & Holger concentrate their energies on their collaboration.

Combining the jazzy hip-hop of Boombass with Zdar's phase'n'filter acid-disco, they debuted in 1998 with the club anthem "Cassius 1999”. Now we can’t imagine house without Cassius.

:[Funky Music]: Cassius in the House

Cassius returned to the studio in 2006, for the more experimental single "Toop Toop", but the next album, titled 15 Again, featured more vocal collaborations than the duo had done with Au Rêve.

While rehearsing their 15 Again album tour, Cassius provided the community with the a cappella track of their single "Toop Toop" and encouraged fans and friends to start remixing the song. It became an immediate success: the band started the Cassius Workshop project and released more a cappellas for remixing purposes. They claim to have received more than 400 remixes,[3] since October 2006.

Springsessions 2012 feat. Shantell Martin

Springsessions 2012 feat. internationally acclaimed visual artist Shantell Martin. Her dazzling light projections have been featured in iconic spots such as New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the megaclubs of Tokyo and London, and on the enormous screens at Shibuya and Harajuku crossings in Japan. Martin has quickly infiltrated popular culture stateside -- she’s been cast as herself on quintessential New York show Gossip Girl, interviewed on CNN, appeared on an NBC morning show, and deemed a muse of super-hip design blog, PSFK. In October 2011, she was interviewed in French Glamour as New York’s “coolest it girl.”

Her recent work includes a collaboration with celebrity photographer Nigel Barker from America’s Next Top model, where she created digital sets for a 10 page Tatler Asia editorial with supermodel Christina Garcia. She is working on an exhibition with acclaimed photographer Ben Watts, featuring Watts’ pictures of supermodels and actresses doning Martin’s hand-illustrated 3x1 luxury denim products at the famous MILK Gallery in New York City. Martin’s brand collaborations include a screening in Dell’s 2011 experiential pop up workspace in New York City, drawings in Adidas Japan’s 2008 Spring/Summer look book, and illustrations for luxury fragrance line La Labo, to name a few. She also has created murals in a range of contexts - from the private homes of celebrities to the faces of models and friends.

Springsessions 2012 Conference

The Speaker Lineup so far

Golan Levin, Florian Schmitt (Hi-Res, Nanika), Josh Nimoy, Mario Klingeman (aka Quasimondo) and Jared Ficklin (Principal Technologist, Frog Design). More speakers and schedule will be released shortly.

Topics

Digital Art • Imagination • Inspiration • Design • Visual Culture • Experimental Technology • Interactive Experience • Computational art • and more..

Springsessions will be taking place during springfestival from Wednesday May 16th to Friday May 18th. Location, schedule and more presentations will be announced shortly. The programme will kick off at 12.00 and finish at 18.15, with each session taking around 1h with 15 min breaks in between.

From digital experts to curious cats, we welcome you all; whether you want to exchange knowledge, keep on top of the latest trends, or you just have an interest in new media and creative industries, there's a bit of something for everyone at Springsessions. Come to be inspired and meet like minded souls in a relaxed, creative environment.