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AUDIOSCOPE is an organisation committed to raising money through music for the national homelessness charity Shelter.

Since 2001, AUDIOSCOPE has raised over £25,000 for Shelter, presenting the best in local, national and international independent music in the process.

This year's AUDIOSCOPE festival runs from midday until midnight and features:

CALIFONE: Ever-changing musical cinema from one of America's most inventive bands, touring their stunning new album Stitches. Spaghetti westerns and dusty folk clash with drum machines, sparse electronics to create a music like no other.

ESBEN AND THE WITCH: Taking inspiration from nature and literature, art and science, as well as the odd PJ Harvey and Scott Walker record, Esben and the Witch have been ploughing a unique furrow of what they call 'nightmare pop' since 2008, and now share a label - and no small musical common ground - with the likes of Sonic Youth and Cat Power.

PET MOON: Founding fathers of the Blessing Force movement, Pet Moon take everything Andrew Mears learned as a sometime member of Foals and Youthmovies and distil it into a mutated blend of R&B with twists of skittering electronics ,twisting guitar lines and anthemic indie pop.

EAT LIGHTS BECOME LIGHTS: Two drummers, growling Moog basslines, pulsing electronics and the transcendent Neu! beat - Eat Lights Become Lights are krautrock heaven updated for 2013.

GRUMBLING FUR: Alexander Tucker has graced the Audioscope stage twice before, and he's back with new project Grumbling Fur on Thrill Jockey with Guapo/Ulver man Daniel O'Sullivan. Psychedelia driven by pulsing electronics, shamanic chants and some beautifully innovative pop songs.

FONDA 500: You might know Fonda 500 from their stunning Truck Festival shows. If you don't, imagine a joyous live experience, with Led Zep, SFA, the Beastie Boys and Cornelius each writing a quarter of their songs.

PYE CORNER AUDIO: Part of the legendary Ghost Box Records label, Pye Corner Audio explores a parallel universe in which Boards of Canada were allowed to soundtrack every eighties children's TV series. That's a universe we want to live in.

THOUGHT FORMS: One of the stars of the final All Tomorrow's Parties festival and labelmates of Beak>, the two sides of Thoughts Forms sound like Sonic Youth playing doom, with an awesome array of sounds at their disposal.

SALVATION BILL: Hometown musical icon Ollie Thomas (ute, Grinding Young) serves up dusky, alcohol-soaked tributes to a mysterious Piedmont blues musician nicknamed 'Salvation Bill' from the American deep south.

TOMAGA: Bat For Lashes/Shit and Shine drummer and Oscillation bassist come together in a union of improvised drum, synth and processed guitar chaotic beauty.

LISTING SHIPS: Oxford-based, nautically-inspired instrumental post-krautrock band. Recording in lifeboat stations and on uninhabited islands, their songs are inspired by tales of the sea as much as by Can, Tortoise or Fugazi.