Deleste is pleased to announce a new round of confirmations for our 14th edition, taking place on May 22nd and 23rd in Valencia, with the Viveros Gardens as the main stage. Joining the previously announced artists (Primal Scream, Apparat, Kerala Dust, Holy Fuck, Los Invaders, and Billy Nomates) are Norwegians Röyksopp with a special DJ set, along with British acts Anna Calvi and The Molotovs. The lineup is further rounded out by DJs Mateo Cabero, ME dj, Miss_Tra, and Toxicosmos, who will provide the soundtrack for each day before, between, and after the concerts, ensuring a seamless Deleste experience. There will be parallel events in various locations throughout Valencia, expanding the experience and creating the #DelesteRoute that transforms each edition into something bigger than just a festival.

Röyksopp is a Norwegian electronic music duo formed in 1998 (although they state the following on their press release, and it’s only fair to include it: “We suppose it’s time to remove the prefix ‘electronic’ from the debate about our music. It’s just music, isn’t it?”). Its members are Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland, childhood friends who together have established themselves as one of the most solid reference points in European electronic music since the release of their first single, “So Easy,” in 1999. This success was definitively reinforced two years later with their debut album, Melody A.M. (released on the Wall Of Sound label, at the time one of the epicentres of that sound). Since then, they have consistently experimented with various genres (house, ambient, synth-pop), playing with duality in their music—sometimes a little sad, sometimes a little cheerful; sometimes dark, sometimes humorous; Today epic, tomorrow naive—in what amounts to a reflection of their personalities, as the two are very different. A clash of contrasts from which, however, they have drawn an organic unity, with two halves that complement each other with warmth and create a captivating aesthetic whole. Their discography includes ten albums, the latest being True Electric, released in April 2025, and two Grammy nominations (in 2009 for Best Remixed Recording / Non-Classical, and in 2015 for Best Dance / Electronic Album for Do It Again), seven Spellemannprisen awards and three nominations (the Norwegian equivalent of the Grammys), a Brit Award nomination, an MTV Europe Music Award, and another award and a nomination at the Swedish Music Awards…

And we could continue with more examples of their relevance, such as their song “What Else Is There?” And “Eple” was chosen by Pitchfork for its “500 Tracks of the Decade” list for the first decade of this century. Their debut LP, the aforementioned Melody A.M., was chosen as the best album of that same decade by Norway’s most widely circulated newspaper, Verdens Gang, a selection in which another of her albums, The Understanding, came in fifth place.

Now it’s the turn of London’s arty rocker Anna Calvi, who, with just one single released, “Jezebel,” a song popularized in the 1950s by Édith Piaf, was already receiving praise from Brian Eno (who said of her that she was “the greatest thing since Patti Smith”) and touring with Grinderman. She had also caught the attention of Bill Ryder-Jones, the then guitarist of The Coral, who insisted that the prestigious Domino label sign her. They did it, and she’s still going strong. Shortly after came her self-titled debut album, whose inner turmoil, with its shamanic intensity, so captivated the BBC that they named it one of the defining albums of 2011. Before that, in 2009, she had uploaded covers of songs by Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, and TV On The Radio to YouTube, which generated considerable buzz. So much so that grand comparisons—”the new PJ Harvey” was the widespread moniker that began to circulate—started pouring in.

In October 2013, she returned with her second album, One Breath, even more personal than its predecessor, which reached #32 in the UK and #30 in the US (there, on the emerging artists chart). A reflective and vulnerable work, poised between optimism and despair, beauty and its absence, it maintains the ferocity of her debut album, but with greater urgency and a wider range of textures and emotions. In Calvi’s words, “It sounds like that moment right before you open up to the outside world and be honest with others, and how terrifying that is. It’s scary, but it’s full of hope, because what’s going to happen to you is something that hasn’t happened to you yet.”

Since then, in addition to a few singles, she has released three EPs, “Strange Weather” (2014), “Live For Burberry” (2017), and “Tommy” (2022), and two LPs, “Hunter” (2018) and “Hunted” (2020). The latter is a re-recording of its predecessor, featuring collaborations with Joe Talbot (IDLES), Courtney Barnett, Julia Holter, and Charlotte Gainsbourg, and explored a new rawness in her music, a primal energy pushing the boundaries of her guitar and voice, which she had revealed on “Hunter.” Both albums were a kind of catharsis, where she was more candid than ever about sexuality and breaking down gender norms and conventions. Her new album is due in 2026. For now, in October 2025, she released a cover of Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s “I See A Darkness” featuring Perfume Genius. This is her first new music since composing the atmospheric, visceral soundtracks for the fifth and sixth seasons of the BBC series “Peaky Blinders,” whose final episode aired in 2022. This music was released as a single throughout 2023 and 2024. Calvi has been nominated three times for the Mercury Music Prize and once for the BRIT Award.

Finally, The Molotovs are one of the most promising young bands in the UK. In their repertoire, the Cartlidge brothers (Matthew on vocals and guitar; Issey on bass) deliver sharp, powerful anthems, which they perform live with an intense stage presence reminiscent of the late seventies, leaving nothing behind and connecting directly with the audience. They have drawn from new wave, punk and the mod scene and from there their first album has sprung forth, fresh out of the oven (it was released on January 30, on the Marshall Amplification label: the name says it all), which is entitled “Wasted On Youth”.

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