"This time we're really going to conquer the night."

Barcelona"This time we're really going to conquer the night," celebrates François Jozic, one of the co-founders of the Brunch Electronik Festival. He's referring to one of the new features of this year's third edition: the extension of the event's hours until 3 a.m. They've also extended the programming, which will run from August 7th to 10th and will take place at the Parc del Fòrum (on the 8th and 9th) and the Poble Espanyol in Barcelona (on the 7th and 10th). The lineup features more than ninety artists from the current electronic and techno scene, including Nina Kraviz, Adriatique, and Folamour. High temperatures won't be a problem. "We're working hard to protect people from the heat and ensure no one has a bad time," Jozic reveals. The festival is also expanding its shaded areas and spaces for attendees to cool off.

This is the first time that an opening concert has been scheduled at Poble Espanyol to kick off the four-day festival, which will be hosted by the British duo Maribou State. "A way to warm up the engines in a relaxed way," says festival co-founder Loïc le Joliff. The program combines DJ sets with live music, and Le Joliff assures that the team really enjoys programming artists and bands. He's referring to the other events Brunch Electronik organizes throughout the year in different cities, where there are only DJ sets. One of the festival's challenges, the founders say, is maintaining a balance between different genres of electronic music, established and emerging bands and artists.

Loco Dice, Anetha, Chloé Caillet, and Chris Stussy are some of the names the organizers highlight as must-see up-and-coming acts. They also recommend not missing Klangkuenstler, which forced them to adapt the stage in order to present their new offering. They say the German DJ and producer takes great care of the details and that this time he wanted to have the audience very close. They also highlight the performance of Purple Disco Machine (the stage name of producer Tino Piontek), which will be "a real party" because it will feature many musicians, dancers, and lights on the stage. Attendees also can't miss the Irish artist Róisín Murphy: "There are few artists who have her stage presence," adds Le Joliff.

The festival will also launch a new app so that attendees can plan in advance the shows they want to see and also easily contact the organizers. "How you experience the festival is almost more important than the artistic proposal," says Jozic. The motto, he says, is "joy and commitment," and this translates into being in contact with both the community brunchers as well as with the neighbors who welcome them. The expansion of the Groovy Stage and the relocation of the Harmonic are in response to complaints from last year's audience, who missed shade and felt it was too cramped. "We didn't expand the capacity, but we did expand the spaces to make it more comfortable," they say.