15 new SPOT acts – a wide variety of Danish and one Norwegian – have been added to 2013s line-up. So far, there are 75 names on this year’s poster.

Besides critical acclaim and success in their homeland, CODY’s latest album, “Fractures”, was released throughout Europe, where the band has also played a number of concerts. The soul duo Ivory & Gold create a dark and gloomy electro pop sound on their latest release. Weighty and melancholic lyrics meet optimistic and catchy melodies.

Mother Lewinsky is a raw and unpolished band, and at SPOT they join forces with the young string players of The Danish National Youth Ensemble, DUEN. It will most likely be a bit less bombastic when the three Norwegian rappers and a dj that make up A-laget take the stage with the sound of rainy days of Bergen and bass heavy southern rap.

The sugar addicted rapper Sukker Lyn also gravitates towards the South with his crunk and trap inspired sound. The wildness of these genres reflects the rappers upbringing at a Danish asylum center. Wild is also a fitting description of the dj trio Yo Felles who combine everything from bailefunk to any number of bass heavy subgenres.

Abbaz ditched his previous alias since a new, brutally honest rap style required a change of name. This is R&B inspired, emotional street rap with the visionary team of producers from Cheff Records supplying the musical backdrop. From the same label we find the dancehall rapper TopGunn. He has produced and participated on several hit songs, and his highly anticipated debut album is on the way.

DUP – The Independent Danish Record Labels present seven acts

Before The Show’s second album has reaped great reviews especially in Germany and they have been called a mix of early Peter Gabriel and Sigur Rós – not bad since these are two of the band’s own favorite artists. PRE-Be-UN is musical playfulness and melodies, which, in collaboration with an electronic universe and Nicolai Koch’s distinctive voice, make a polychrome and unusual whole.

The atmosphere is raw and colorful when The Wands dazzle with their light, naïve and catchy melodies, which are embraced by heavy drones and rattling fuzz guitars. Inspired by the sixties’ American psych scene, medieval tonality and Middle Eastern dessert rock Mechanical Bird is found in the tension field between the psychedelic and the spiritual, the beautiful and the unsightly.

Maskinvåd is centered around the songwriter couple Mathias W. Kjeldsen and Peter Skibsted, and in their eclectic and challenging pop and rock, they fear neither chorus, tempo nor explicit live shows. In 2007 Maria Timm formed a band under her own name after having been part of Marybell Katastrophy and The Broken Beats. In 2008 the first single “Dirty Place” became Track-of-the Week on Danish Radio P3. Johannes Gammelby and the other members of The Malpractice used to play in Beta Satan, which vouches for a competent take-no-prisoners show. It is pop music that wishes you no good. Strokes your hair and stabs you in your chest.