* AlunaGeorge and Factory Floor at Pitchfork Music Festival in Paris *

In late 1995, after he had just graduated from high school, Ryan Schreiber  launched Pitchfork Media, one of the most innovative and relevant online music magazines. While it has been sometimes criticized as being too hipster and über cool, the fact is that guys behind Pitchfork have impeccable music taste and are usually very accurate in their recommendations and reviews. I think I share view of many of their readers around the world (and apparently there are more then 240,000 readers per day) when saying that I discovered loads of good music by reading Pitchfork. In 2005 Pitchfork Media was hired by a music promotion company called Skyline Chicago to curate the Intonation Festival at Union Park in Chicago. In 2006, Pitchfork premiered it's own Pitchfork Music Festival in the same park. In 2011, Pitchfork Music Festival crossed the Atlantic and landed in Paris, for it's first full-fledged festival outside of USA, addition to Pitchfork European presence on Primavera Festival and collaboration with All Tomorrow's Parties. While Gimme A Beat missed 2011, this time I was happy to return to Paris, only few months after Rock En Seine festival, to finish my crazy festival packed 2012 with a bang, an amazing Pitchfork Music Festival Paris. The festival happened over 3 days, November 1st-3rd at a beautiful La Grande Halle de la Villette, a stunning 19th century glass and metal structure that stands in the center of the Parc de la Villette, the city's largest public cultural park. 2012 edition of the festival also featured 2nd stage. I thought that this was a very clever way of using this fabulous space, creating a seamless illusion of fluid ping pong transition while moving between gigs and two stages. 2nd stage and 3rd day (2011 edition of the festival was happening over 2 days) ensured twice as many acts and that created even more impressive line-up. During the festival, as you would expect from Gimme A Beat, I've seen many good bands and discovered several new ones. I also had a chance to help out a friend and Parisian Flavor Magazine and capture the street-style and looks of the festival. And I had endless fun strolling around, hanging in the Converse sponsored backstage area; checking out stalls with fun products from local vendors and buying some cool, music related merchandise. All of these impressions and much more I will share with my listeners in tonight's two hour show. And in the true spirit of all-female vibe of Gimme A Beat, in the review of Pitchfork Music Festival Paris I will focus on the female artists and bands with female members that I've seen on the festival. First part of the show will include interviews and music from following bands: AlunaGeorge, musical fusion of Aluna and George that creates sleek, seductive sound of electronic R&B;and Factory Floor, band consisting of Nik Void, Gabriel and Dominic that makes almost hypnotizing, journey-like electronic sound. I will round up my review by taking you through the impressions of performances of few more artists that completed my experience of the festival. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tune in tonight to Gimme A Beat (21.01.2013) for

AlunaGeorge and Factory Floor at Pitchfork Music Festival in Paris with playlist

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