Aug. 16-18: Camp Bisco 6 with Amon Tobin, Juan Maclean, more
Jul 20, 2007 1:52 PM
The Disco Biscuits have announced Camp Bisco 6—the sixth year of the band's always-anticipated annual music festival. Offering music's most cutting-edge and experimental innovators, Camp Bisco 6 will host three nights of music and camping at the Indian Lookout Country Club in upstate New York. Camp Bisco 6 welcomes a new era of internationalism and diversity. In addition to three nights of epic Disco Biscuits sets, Camp Bisco will host Simon Posford, OTT and Youth as they bring their dub circus project, Hallucinogen: In Dub to the states for its first ever U.S. appearance. Also confirmed: Shpongle, making its second appearance at Camp Bisco, Israeli trance band Infected Mushroom, the stretched and skewed soundscapes of Brazilian ex-pat Amon Tobin, stunning sample craftsman Girl Talk, dance-punker The Juan Maclean, precision jammers Umphrey's McGee, Sound Tribe Sector 9 (playing a live set one night and a PA set the other), Adam Deitch featuring Slick Rick and The Adam Deitch Project, underground heavyweight Bassnectar, innovative dance music by The Bays, a soulful DJ set by King Britt of Digable Planets fame, experimental rockers Benzos, Allston, MA-based Indobox, world-beat collective The Afromotive, plus Zilla, EOTO, The Join (featuring Jamie Shields & Darren Shearer of The New Deal and Tom Hamilton & Clay Parnell of Brothers Past), Bustle in Your Hedgerow (featuring Joe Russo (Benevento Russo Duo), Scott Metzger (Rana, Particle), Dave Dreiwitz (Ween), Jamie Shields (TND), Lyrics Born featuring a seven-piece live band, The Breakfast, The Grimace Federation, Digital Frontier, Strut, Caveman, Telepath, Psylab and Orchard Lounge.
In addition to three nights and two full days of music, Camp Bisco 6 will offer unlimited car camping, plus RV and family camping areas, daily "Color Wars" festivities which have become a signature Camp Bisco pastime, and of course plenty of food and craft vendors. Indian Lookout Country Club, located in Mariaville, N.Y., just a half-hour from Albany and three hours from Boston and New York City, boasts 200 acres of serene rolling hills and natural beauty and such amenities as flush toilets and showers. As always, Camp Bisco will work with various local officials, venue managers and The Camp Creek Organizers to ensure music fans a fun and safe weekend.
Also this year, Camp Bisco will "go green." Camp Bisco 6 will be powered by 100-percent renewable energy, thanks to sponsors Green Mountain Energy Company and Sustainable Waves. Green Mountain Energy Company and Sustainable Waves are offering Camp Bisco attendees the opportunity to "green up" their concert experience by purchasing a Green Ticket. When you buy a Green Ticket, Green Mountain will green-up the Camp Bisco concert experience by providing, on the ticket buyer's behalf, 250 kWh of green-e certified renewable energy made from sources like wind and bio-energy. By purchasing a Green Ticket, each individual can help offset an estimated 348 lb. of CO2 created by activities like driving their car to the show. For more information, please visit www.begreennow.com/greenticket250 and visit www.campbisco.net to purchase a Green Ticket to Camp Bisco 6.
After a very successful food drive at last year's Camp Bisco, where over 1,000 pounds of food were collected, The Disco Biscuits and not-for-profit Conscious Alliance will again partner to collect donations to benefit local food pantries. Conscious Alliance will be releasing a limited edition print by artist Rob Pea, FREE to those who contribute 10 nonperishable food items or a specified cash donation to the food drive. Donations of low-sodium and health food oriented products are especially encouraged. Ramen Noodles will not be accepted for the free poster. For more information on the important work of Conscious Alliance please visit www.consciousalliance.org.
Tickets for Camp Bisco 6 are available now at www.campbisco.net, www.discobiscuits.com and http://biscotix.musictoday.com. Ticket prices are $130/$145 until 5 p.m. on Aug. 15, $160 at the gate (ticket prices include car camping for all three nights).
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