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Moondance Festival – Full Lineup Announced

Bringing festival season to a close Found Series mark the end of summer with one final blow out at Moondance Festival on Sunday 18th September 2016. Tickets are flying out for the Sunday all-dayer so dust off your raving shoes and look back over twenty years of rave culture with a likeminded, unified cross-generational crew.

A celebration of Britain's iconic rave culture, Moondance Festival will be the first of it's kind to take place in an equally iconic British setting. East London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will set the scene for a retrospective, old skool reunion as Moondance celebrates its 21st birthday. Harking back to the traditional Sunday sessions synonymous with early UK raves, Hopkins's Field in the north of the Park opens up to celebrate rave scene instigators and its musical evolution. Curated to bring dancers from all walks of life, the full line-up boasts a smorgasbord of sounds, shining a spotlight on 20 years of rave across 9 stages the best in old skool, drum and bass, garage, house, jungle and grime.

The final announcement sees Moondance Festival welcoming pioneers of the culture, adding stalwarts of the scene to the previously announced Mainstage, alongside fresh new Arena additions, which come the form of Arena 7 and Arena 8, championing urban sounds and upfront house respectively alongside House FM's VIP Arena.

Bringing over 20 years of bass music, the Mainstage welcomes breakbeat legends The Freestylers with a live performance, featuring original artists MC Sir Real, Valerie M and Navigator MC. Matt Jam Lamont also joins the bill. A firm Found Series favourite and a scene kingpin, his sets are a journey throughout the UK Dance Scene, from it's earliest inception through to its current evolution. European house comes courtesy of Italian act Livin' Joy. Famed for carving out a space in the rave scene with 90's classic 'Dreamer', Livin Joy, will be joined on the Mainstage by Luzahnn, with a live performance. Brixton born and bred, former Kiss FM host Rob Blake, will bring the club classic and old skool house vibes to the main stage of the festival.

Some other exciting news just announced, United Festival returns to co-host the main stage: Following the success at Finsbury Park and the road-block tie up for Love Rave NYE, United once again link up with Moondance to bring London's biggest celebration of rave culture.

The Relentless Arena 7 showcases the artists behind the grass-roots sounds of Grime, Garage and Bass. Acclaimed rapper Chipmunk will headline the stage performing his famed live act which saw him shoot to fame, collecting multiple awards from MOBO, Urban Music Awards and many more along the way. With over 6 years of radio shows, urban music night Jamz and label Butterz under their best East London grime duo Elijah and Skilliam bring the best of the genre to the festival. Longstanding British DJ and Producer Zed Bias, known for his pioneering delivery of UK Garage and broken beat, swaps dark club rooms for open air at Moondance. Jammz and Big Zuu will perform live, with additional acts Klose One, Amy Becker, Silas and Snare, Kruel Intentions, Liam D and Lee Freeland & Tony Parsons rounding up the bass fuelled line-up set to surge throughout Arena 7.

Arena 8, the love-child of Found's own Analog and Stush, long-standing purveyors of raves, offers dancers the space to embrace classic, no-frills house music all-day-long. Gaining recognition from BBC Radio 1, DJ Mag and Defected to name but a few, DJ SKT, will headline the collaborative stage. One for the dancers and the house heads, the headliner's set embodies his penchant for classic house, most notable through previous remix work for the likes of legendary house label Strictly Rhythm, as well as Kontor and New State.

Audio Rehab founder, Mark Radford joins DJ SKT, flexing his undeniable ability to transform a dancefloor, injecting it with an energy only made possible through years of selection and involvement in the early acid-house, rave and jungle scenes. Sam Supplier, fellow Rinse FM host will also play Arena 8, bringing true rave energy, a unique force owed to the tacit knowledge earned hosting pirate radio, parties and raves over the years.

Analog and Stush also play host to Tom Zanetti & KO Kane, Booker T, Sy Sez, DJ S, Aluku Rebels, PSR and Snoops.

With over 180 acts playing across 9 stages of music, Moondance Festival at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will be London's biggest celebration of rave culture in 2016.

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FULL LINEUP:

MOONDANCE & UNITED MAIN STAGE
THE FREESTYLERS LIVE FEAT. MC SIR REAL, VALERIE M, NAVIGATOR MC
TODD TERRY
JOEY BELTRAM
A GUY CALLED GERALD LIVE (EVOLUTION OF DANCE MUSIC)
MATT JAM LAMONT
ALTERN8 LIVE
GENERAL LEVY LIVE
LIVIN JOY FEAT. LUZAHNN LIVE
ANGIE BROWN LIVE (BIZARRE INC)
CHANNEL ONE SOUND SYSTEM
RATPACK VS SL2 LIVE
DJ PHANTASY WITH SKIBADEE & SHABBA D
ROB BLAKE
TWISTA & TRIX
ACID BROTHERS

ARENA 2 – GARAGE NATION (GARAGE)
ELIZABETH TROY (LIVE)
VAPOUR MC (LIVE)
SPECIAL MC (LIVE)
ARTFUL DODGER VS DJ LUCK AND MC NEAT
OXIDE & NEUTRINO
FOUNDATION (STICKY & SCOTT GARCIA)
MIKE DELINQUENT
DJ CARTIER
JASON KAYE
RAMSEY & FEN
JUNIOR BUZZ
DJ LISTENER

MCS VIPER, CREED, B LIVE, RANKING, CKP, KIE, LOKSIBOY

ARENA 3 – BREAKIN SCIENCE (DRUM & BASS)
ED RUSH & OPTICAL
HAMILTON & FRANKEE (RAM RECORDS SHOWCASE)
MAMPI SWIFT
SUB ZERO
SHADOW DEMON COALITION (SLY, TRIGGA, BASSMAN)
NEW BREED CREW (MAJISTRATE, LOGAN D, EKSMAN, EVIL B, FATMAN D, HERBZIE)
U.N.C.Z (RUFFSTUFF, FUNSTA, HARRY SHOTTA & DREPS)
GUV & TURNO
INTER
SLB & BOYLAN
TERRY M & KEZMAN

MCS EKSMAN, EVIL B, SKIBADEE, GQ, IC3, HARRY SHOTTA, BASSMAN, TRIGGA, FUNSTA, STORMIN, FATMAN D, HERBZIE, DREPS, GRIMA, AZZA, DEEFA, FUNKTION

ARENA 4 – EPIDEMIK (OLD SKOOL & JUNGLE)
FABIO & GROOVERIDER WITH MC MC
SHUT UP & DANCE SHOWCASE FEAT. RAGGA TWINS & PETER BOUNCER
DJ SY
SLIPMATT
BILLY DANIEL BUNTER
UNCLE DUGS & NICKY BLACKMARKET
DJ SENSE
MR X & VINYL VERA
DAN REWIND & GENETIC
LISA DIZZY BLONDE & BONNIE BLAZE
JOHNNY B & SOCIAL LOGIC
PARKER & REMIXX

MCS MC MC, RAGGA TWINS, CHARLIE B, SKIBADEE, WHIZZKID, SHABBA D, FIVE ALIVE, FEARLESS, BLACKA, CUTTER, EXPRESS, RIBS

ARNEA 5 – JUNGLE MANIA x ROAST (JUNGLE)
CONGO NATTY FEAT. CONGO DUBZ
DILLINJA & RANDALL
GROOVERIDER
MICKY FINN
DJ RON
KENNY KEN
BROCKIE
BRYAN G & JUMPIN JACK FROST
SHIMON (CLASSICS SET)
DR S GACHET & ASHATACK
REDLOCK
MCS GQ, SKIBADEE, FEARLESS, IC3, DET, RAGGA TWINS, MOOSE, FLUX, EXPRESS

ARENA 6 – PROMISED LAND (CLASSIC HOUSE)
FAST EDDIE (LIVE PA & DJ SET)
ALISON LIMERICK LIVE
MARSHALL JEFFERSON
NICKY HOLLOWAY
TERRY FARLEY
BRANDON BLOCK & ALEX P
HUCK FINN
PHILGOOD & RAM
ARKOSS
EZM

ARENA 7 – RELENTLESS (GRIME, GARAGE & BASS)
CHIPMUNK LIVE
ELIJAH & SKILLIAM
ZED BIAS
JAMMZ LIVE
BIG ZUU LIVE
KLOSE ONE
AMY BECKER
SILAS & SNARE
KRUEL INTENTIONS
LIAM D
LEE FREELAND & TONY PARSONS