The four-day festival hosts a comprehensive programme of DJ performances, as well as live band performances.
A highlight of the DJ programme was a special daytime event called Modernity, held at an altitude of 2300m at the Cry d'Er station. A new colour Xone:92 DJ mixer was requested for the event, which included sets by Riccardo Villalobos and friends.
In the evening, Villalobos' concept band, Narod Niki, put on a special show. Narod Niki is a collection of international DJ's forming an improv-techno-all-star band, who perform together using a special variation of Ableton's Live software for synchronisation. The Narod Niki line up at Caprices featured eight producers - including Fumiya Tanaka, Ricardo Villalobos, Luciano, Carl Craig and Richie Hawtin - all of whom were mixing on their own Xone:92, fed to a 16-channel MixWizard sub mixer.
(Jim Evans)
