This year’s festival is a very rare U.S. appearance for Kraftwerk, marking their first performance for Moogfest and their first time ever in North Carolina. The Kraftwerk project was started in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider at their Kling Klang Studio in Düsseldorf, Germany. Within a few years Kraftwerk had achieved international recognition for their revolutionary electronic “sound paintings” and musical experimentation with tapes and synthesizers. With their visions of the future, Kraftwerk created the soundtrack for the digital age. Their compositions, using innovative looping techniques and computerized rhythms, have had a major international influence across an entire range of music genres, while their use of robotics and technical innovations in their live performance illustrates Kraftwerk’s belief in the respective contributions of both man and machine in creating art. In recognition of the quartet’s boundary-pushing use of music technology Kraftwerk will be honored with the Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award in January 2014. Their legacy is timeless and legendary, and their creativity will continue to influence and inspire future generations.

Like Kraftwerk, Chic is closely linked to an important musical movement, and has been recognized as a leader in electronic music production. Chic’s distinctive approach not only resulted in some of the finest dance singles of their time, but also created a template for urban funk, dance-pop, and hip-hop in the post-disco era, while Nile Rodgers remains a hugely successful leading producer, composer and performer.

Other Moogfest 2014 musical talent announced includes the always ambitious Baltimore pop usurper Dan Deacon, Brainfeeder producer The Gaslamp Killer, deep house luminary Sasha, salacious New York rapper Le1f, globe trotting disco and soul funk duo Soul Clap, Animal Collective’s Avey Tare’s new band Slasher Flicks featuring former members of Dirty Projectors and Ponytail, and Chicago’s acclaimed producer Green Velvet. Plus UK’s electronic shape shifters Darkstar’s third US appearance and Art Department, the brainchild of Canadian techno/house legend Kenny Glasgow and Jonny White, and more.

Moogfest 2014 Phase 2 Headliners and Nighttime Performers (in alphabetical order)