Bloc Festival 2011 Announces First Acts

The renowned electronic music festival, Bloc Weekend, returns in 2011 for it's 5th Birthday and has just announced its first exciting acts to be taking to the stage at Minehead on the weekend of the 11th-13th March.
Having provided expert sets from the biggest names in electronic music over the past few years, from Skream and Benga to Aphex Twin to Lee Scratch perry, Bloc is gaining a reputation as the biggest event for innovative electro, house and dubstep acts in the British calendar.
The acts set to headline are Aphex Twin and Magnetic Man, both on the back of hugely successful years who have proved their abilities time and time again at providing the best live stage shows. The inclusion of Mala, Jamie xx, Loefah, SBTRKT, Toddla T and L-Vis 1990 show the huge diversity of this line-up, set to provide an enormous experience to fans of electronic music, both young and old.
This year, Moderat, Claude Von Stroke, Joy Orbison and Vitalic are also among the acts already announced, sure to provide an eclectic mix of post-dubstep, techno and electronica to keep the audience blissfully dancing at Butlin's, Minehead. Tickets range from £140-80 per person and can be ordered in groups of 2-8, depending how many friends you're taking down with you.
Moderat, the combination of producers Modeselektor and Apparat, have already played huge nights last year as well as curating their own huegly successful night at Manchester's Warehouse Project. Excellent dubstep will also be provided by Digital Mystikz and Beardyman as well as exciting new techno project from Seth Troxler, Sean Curtiss and Shaun Reeves,Visionquest. Just announced this week, techno legend Laurent Garnier has also been booked to close the event with a full live show, setting the stage for Bloc 2011 to be the biggest in its history.
For more information check out the Bloc Weekend website and keep checking Fuse Fm for updates.

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