Strawberry Fields Unveils 2015 First-Round Line-Up

The seventh annual Strawberry Fields festival recently confirmed its return for this November, and now organisers are beginning to peel back the veil on what lies in store for punters headed to The Wildlands for this year's event, revealing a first-round line-up this morning boasting the likes of Apparat, Mathew Jonson, Oliver Huntemann, Tensnake and many more.

If you're unfamiliar, German muso Apparat — aka Sascha Ring — boasts an international reputation as something of a master electronic musician, having been a previous co-owner of Deutsche label Shitkatapult as well as utterly prolific in his output over the past 15 or so years, with 10 full-length releases to his name, as well as more than 15 singles and EPs. He's wowed Aussie audiences before, and is sure to do so again upon his return to antipodean shores.

Canadian-born, Berlin-based producer Mathew Jonson, meanwhile, has been described as one of "the most distinctive voices in electronic dance music", and represents the undeniable standard of quality applied to gathering this year's Strawberry Fields acts (not to imply anything less for previous events, of course); he, too, has enjoyed a prolific run of releases over the past 10 years, albeit with far more singles and EP releases under his belt than full-lengths - but he's no slouch in that arena, either, with five LPs cited in his discography since 2003.

Also hailing from Germany, Oliver Huntemann is a respected veteran of the global electronic scene, having been an active member of the recording and performing community since the mid-1990s. His musical origins lie in that era's techno sounds, with his style evolving to encompass trance and progressive house as he has developed into the master of machines that he has today.

In addition, proving that there might just be something in the water in Germany that breeds electronic-music prodigies, Tensnake - known to his mum as Marco Niemerski - promises to bring to Strawberry Fields all the party-starting good times, to which we were first widely introduced via widely circulated 2010 track Coma Cat. More an emerging artist than his aforementioned contemporaries, Tensnake has just the one studio album to his name - 2014's Glow - but that's all the more reason to be extra-excited for what he has in store in a live setting, because he's definitely still out to make an impression, which can only be a good thing for fans of having fun.

Also on board for this year's revelry are Bicep, Cobblestone Jazz, Glenn Astro & IMYRMIND, Lapalux, Lord Echo, Max Cooper, Oddissee, Patrice Scott, Perfect Stranger, Peter Van Hoesen, Rodriguez Jr, Sorceress and Soul Clap, with further line-up announcements yet to come.

Second-round tickets will go on sale two weeks from now, on Thursday, 14 May, at 9am, coming in the wake of the sellout early-bird and first-round releases. It's expected that the next batch of passes will follow in their predecessors' footsteps, so head to the festival's website to make sure you're as prepared as you can be to be notified as soon as they're up for grabs.

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