Don't these guys look far too much like shepherds to be world famous DJs? Honestly I don't think they would look too much out of place tending to their flock instead of ripping up the decks. Maybe they make some extra money around Christmas by appearing in nativity plays, who knows... Not only that, but the guy on the left appears to be receiving oral sex whilst DJing. Very rock and roll! He sort of deserves the sexual favours though, because these two skinny Belgians are, in fact, the Dewaele brothers; founding members of electro-rock group Soulwax.
OK, time to set things straight. The whole Soulwax set up is really confusing. I hardly understood it myself until recently, but here's how things are: Soulwax are an electro/rock band consisting of five members including the Dewaele brothers. The Dewaele brothers remix songs as Soulwax and also play legendary live DJ sets as "2ManyDJS", spinning Soulwax remixes and other "Ed Bangerish" tracks. They also release mixtapes as "Radio Soulwax". Pretty ambitious guys aren't they?
Anyway, now that we've sorted that out, just why am I banging on about some undernourished electro-geeks from the Euros again? Well... an e-mail dropped into my inbox today from Liverpool Academy advertising The Evol 5th Birthday Gig ... featuring 2ManyDJs and Late of the Pier! Let's get this sorted out now; this is going to be amazing!!! 2ManyDJs' sets are absolutely untouchable and their skills behind the decks second to none. Cannot wait until 28th November!! Here's a sample track list of theirs that they did for the BBC at Creamfields this year:
- The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl (Soulwax Remix)
- The Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control (Soulwax Nite Version)
- David Guetta - Jack is Back
- Fake Blood - Mars
- Outlander - The Vamp
- ZZT - The Worm
- Tiga - Mind Dimension
- Luke Francis - The Bomb
- Don Rimini - Let Me Back Up (Crookers Remix)
- Alex Gopher - Aurora
- Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band - A Fifth of Beethoven (Soulwax Edit)
- In Flagranti - Business Accumen
- Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor (Soulwax Remix)
- Mr Oizo - Flat Beat
- SebastiAn - Momy
- Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400
- MGMT - Kids (Soulwax Remix)
- Proxy - Raven
- Justice - Phantom Pt. II (Soulwax Remix Re-edit)
- Daft Punk - Aerodynamite
- ID
...... If that doesn't mean anything to you then you really need to get yourself down there on the 28th for "probably" the biggest party the Academy has seen since Justice in February. If that does mean something to you, then you've probably already booked your tickets, bought your rave paint and stuck Soulwax's remix of "Get Innocuous" on iTunes.
There are some more Soulwax tracks & remixes a few posts down, but here are a couple I left out:
Download: LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous (Soulwax Remix)
Download: Justice - Phantom pt II (Soulwax Remix)
Download: The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy, Hey Girl (Soulwax Remix)
And supporting the Dewaele brothers will be the only purveyors of delirious synth-rock that you can take seriously; Late of the Pier.
Download: Late of the Pier - Heartbeat
Coincidentally, I had been meaning to post about a band that I had seen at the Academy supporting Foals on Friday, it's all fitting together rather nicely isn't it? Anyway... of course Foals were really great, I didn't really need to tell you that, but I thought that their support band, Wild Beasts, did a really great job supporting one of the tightest live bands around. They are a bit kitsch, a bit camp, a bit Script, a bit Coldplay and a little bit Mika. Doesn't sound like a very promising combination does it really? It sounded a lot better in my head.... anyway... red bull is horrible and Jagermeister is also "trés dégoutant", but put them together and you have a killer drink! It's sort of like that...
Anyway, they released a really great album "Limbo, Panto" this Summer on Domino Records, home of Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, Lightspeed Champion & Cass McCombs. They're currently on tour, so catch them in a small venue whilst you can.
Download: Wild Beasts - The Devil's Crayon
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That Soulwax remix of Phantom, is it the one they play in the mix or just the regular from the Most Of The Remixes CD?
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