Dj Assault kicks ass

More specific: Dj Assault kicks Alan Braxes ass (or booty?).
As a dj it's very frustrating when the guy that plays before you doesn't respect the timetable and overruns your time ... witness a little battle at the decks at the Primavera festival:

Sex IN the city

Here's the result of a busy week: my mix for Bar d'Oh's lingerie-défilé. I recorded it last week, and this weekend the Mademoisselles de Gand took a walk and a dance at the Sex and the City "the movie"-afterparty in Antwerp.

For images you'll have to use your imagination, but if i get my hands on some footage i'll post it for sure!
The mix is only 20 minutes, i hope you'll enjoy it ... and if you don't, maybe your girlfriend will make you :)

Tracklist in collaboration with the choreographer and Bar d'Oh.
Feel free to comment.

Justice - Genesis (intro)
James Curd - Sea of faces
Kenny Hawkes - Play the game
Josh One - Contemplation (King Britt's Funke mix) + vocal
Ellie Medeiros - Toi mon toit
Depeche Mode - I feel you
France Gall - Laisse tomber les filles
Shawn Lee's ping pong orchestra - Get ur freak on
Southern Culture On Skids - Camel walk
The Glimmers - Wanna make out
Tiga - You gonna want me
The Gossip - Standing in the way of control (soulwax rmx)
interlude: SATC - orgasm
Jill Scott - Gimme
SATC movie-theme (outro)

bardéhfilé, grab it over here!

trish

Time for another Fuse-resident post ... Trish. Belgium's leading techno lady has been spinning at the club since the early years.

Her style is very Detroit-influenced, and one of her all-time heroes is Derrick May. Her energy behind the decks is comparable, and so is the way she likes to cut cut cut the melody.

The set was recorded in march '98 ... oh crap, that's over 10 years ago.




MegaUpload: Fuse, dj Trish 28.03.98.




 dj Trish at Fuse 28.03.98

time!

There are some new mixes coming real soon, but for the moment i'm busy doing a mix/soundtrack for a lingerie-défilé. Bar d'Oh is hosting the aftershow of the Belgian "Sex and the City"-premiere and they needed some tunes ...

h2o

One of my top-5 favourite clubs ever is H2o in Pecq, i got to know it thanks to the At The Villa/Le Café-nights in '96 (fridays).

The club has always been booming, and for a while they even had 3 rooms running.
Downstairs played Vince and Johan, upstairs Laurent Warrin, and in the techno-room you could listen to some techno with a.o. Steve Cop.
After a make-over the techno room has disappeared (and to be honest the genre wasn't all that popular in the club in those days).

Nowadays the only original resident left is Johan, he still rocks his "houzy" white-room. After all those years the club can still be considered as an example to others with its innovating line-ups, surprising concepts and personal approach. Always a pleasure to be there!

1989 summer of rave documentary

Packed warehouses, Hacienda, Happy Mondays, hooliganism, secret locations, politics ... here's a very interesting insight on rave-culture and its influence during the 2nd "Summer of love". Rise and fall, the end of an era or just a new beginning?



Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6

a guy called jungle

It can't always be techno, can it? It took me a year and a half to post my first jungle-set. Or is it drum'n bass? Whatever!

I ripped this set from the Groove 21 night, organised and broadcasted by Radio 21 in 1995 . The line-up was very eclectic: Mo & Benoelie, Carl Craig live (a repost on those 2), A Guy Called Gerald live, Mark Broom, Jan & Niels Zanzi (whatever happened to those guys?) ... these are the ones i remember. If anyone has some further information on the rest of the line-up, please let me know.

As for the Mark Broom set: i'm not sure if it's really him behind the decks because it's a trip-hop set (i just based my info on the mc announcing him). So once again, some help id'ing this set would be nice.

Fuse, soirée Groove 21, 15.04.95.

Mo & Benoelie (re-post)
Carl Craig LIVE (re-post)

a tribute to B

April 30th ... 1996 that is! Exactly 12 years ago i went to my first so-called "retro" party.
I could be wrong, but wasn't this like the first retro-night ever? The theme of the night was a tribute to the most legendary Belgian club: Boccaccio (which had been closed down in '93) and took place in Cherry Moon. Behind the decks: Olivier Pieters, former resident and producer of the Bocca-anthem "Even Now".
This night was the perfect oppurtunity for me to catch up with the early house and new-beat years i had missed. The atmosphere was amazing that night, and so was the slightly different crowd (a bit older than on a regular Cherry Moon-night).

Some pictures of the legendary club

MegaUpload: Olivier Pieters at Cherry Moon: a tribute to B 30.04.96.

 A tribute to B(occaccio) at Cherry Moon: Olivier Pieters - 30.04.96 olivierpieters

cirao

Ripping this club's tapes was easier than finding it's logo, but after a little dive into my basement i finally completed this post.

For those who don't know the club: the former swimming pool in Waregem first opened as "Carioca". Round '92 it was renamed "Cirao" and made it's way into clubbing history. Most people remember it as a trance-club with residents like Phi-Phi, Fred Nasen, Yves LBQ, Laurent Warin, Nicolas, Philip Traikos.
The line-up also featured international guests like Blake Baxter, Stacey Pullen and some guests from the Amsterdam-scene like 100% Isis, Marcello, ... who added a fair bit of house and techno.

MegaUpload: Yves LBQ at Cirao. 05.01.96. (weekend after new-year)

 Cirao: Yves LBQ 05.01.96


MegaUpload: Steve Cop at Cirao. 30.10.94. (sunday)

 Cirao: Steve Cop 30.10.94

copmozz

As promised here's another Steve Cop goodie, recorded at a Kozzmozz party in '96. "K" is one of the leading techno-events in Belgium and has certainly earned its spot in our clubbing history.

It all started in '95 on a jampacked boat. Due to the succes of the parties changes had to be made and a bigger venue was found: ICC. Later on the concept moved to the Kuipke and nowadays their homebase is at Vooruit (same location as 10daysOff).
Lots of venue-changes but still in Ghent after all those years ... except for some excursions to Brussels, Holland and even Ibiza.

MegaUpload: Steve Cop 10.08.96. Kozzmozz "vacation trip" 10.08.96.
 Steve Cop @ Kozzmozz - vacationtrip 10.08.96