VA - 25 Years Pukkelpop [4CD Box Set] (2010)

Pukkelpop continues to be the quintessential music festival! Discovering new bands, watching established acts excel, witnessing legendary reunions: that is what Pukkelpop is all about. We have our eyes on the future, but now and then we also like to look back and see where we came from. Our line-up demonstrates this every year and so does the first official Pukkelpop 25 compilation box! This extraordinary box with no less than four CDs and 80 artists will take you on a musical journey through the history of Pukkelpop. From fresh faces such as La Roux, Florence + The Machine to lovely ladies such as PJ Harvey and Roisin Murphy. The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy, DJ Shadow, Orbital paved the way for The Bloody Beetroots, Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem. Then there is all the beauty that is Eels, Sparklehorse, Elbow, Elliott Smith, Morphine and The National. And lets not forget genuine Pukkelpop acts such as Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Pixies, Sonic Youth, dEUS, Big Black and Ramones. You can find them all on this amazing four-CD box. 25 Years Pukkelpop The year is 1985. Boys Noize turned three years old. Bloc Partys Kele blew out four candles. Selah Sue, Uffie and Ellie Goulding were not even born yet. That same year a few young people from the town of Leopoldsburg in Limburg came up with the idea to organize a music festival. This marked the birth of Pukkelpop, which took place for the very first time on a football field in Heppen. Front 242 and Anne Clark headlined, attracting 3.000 visitors. Pukkelpop was an instant success. A quarter of a century later, Pukkelpop is more popular and alive than ever before: for the first time there will be a SOLD OUT sign at the festival gates. After 25 editions the same young people from back then still run the show, together with some fresh blood added over the years. Thousands of visitors have experienced wonderful moments standing in front of the various Pukkelpop stages: they witnessed the rise of grunge music, moved to the beats of dance artists for the first time, pogo danced their hearts out at the skate stage or made a unique discovery at one of the smaller stages. Also add camping, making friends, laughing, dancing, ... to the mix, all in that typical casual Pukkelpop atmosphere.