good cop, bad cop

Good cop: Steve Cop
Underneath you'll find a 90 minute mix Steve did at Fuse in 1994. It was online some time ago (before i started up this blog), but it seems like a lot of people missed it at the time, so here's the repost. As a part of the Antwerp-scene Steve played alongside the world's best dj's, mainly thanks to his residency at Café d'Anvers. Nowadays he's become a familyman and still does some dj'ing every now and then (but not often).

The mix sets of in a housy mood with Carl Craig's remix of Tori Amos' God, from there on it slowly builds up to end in techno-mayhem.

By demand i also did a repost of the Mo&Benoelie-set at Fuse, you can read the original post over here.



DJ Set Steve Cop (Fuse, September 17, 1994) Soundcloud



DJ Set Mo & Benoelie (Fuse, April 15, 1995)  Soundcloud

rue blaes straat 208

The adress of the notorious Fuse-club ... but also the same building that hosts/hosted Mad Club and La Démence.

Underneath are 2 recordings of those concepts.
First is a 75 minutes-Mad Club set, it features resident dj's Yves Deruyter and Rudy. The club used to be open every wednesday -but that seems like ages ago- and was managed by Boterham (slice of bread if you prefer :)
The second set, fortunately is only 35 minutes (short impression), it was recorded in La Démence by resident-dj Elias, as featured in this picture. La Démence is a gay concept, it's still running after all those years (monthly).

La Démence White Party - sunday 22.03.98 dj Elias

papa Väth

Last days have been rather busy, with some fine jazz at the Bluenote-festival, the opening of the 10daysoff, and some garbage-camping at Dour ;)
(by the way, i'm doing a few 10days-reports at allnighters.net ... that is if you speak dutch)

Time to recover and get back in shape with some vintage techno?
Underneath's a link to a 2h30 mix by Sven Väth, recorded at Fuse in '98. Väth's been at the top for over 15 years now, and it seems like he'll stick to that spot.
I saw him play earlier this year (once again ... at Fuse) and it was one of the best sets i'd heard in months.

New link: 3parts in a split-RAR:
Sven Väth, 25.04.98 part 1
Sven Väth, 25.04.98 part 2
Sven Väth, 25.04.98 part 3

Derrick May have a temper, but he's one hell of a dj

No need to introduce this techno-don. I saw him perform a few times and i especially liked the way he blends techno with house (and the odd classic) instead of pinpointing to one style.
Usually his mixing skills are top noch, but once i saw him have an off-day in the Vooruit venue at a Teknoville-party. Due to technical problems that night mixing wasn't as smooth as it should be, so when it really got to Derrick he just took his headphones and threw them into the backstage area. Therefore "temper, temper" in this thread's title.

The set below starts with some ultrafunky house, and from there on evolves further into Detroit and straight-on-techno. Enjoy these 72 minutes (there's a little skip during Green Velvet's "Coïtus"-track ... skip... Coïtus, so hard not to make a dumb joke about that).

91 . 92 . r4v3p0st

Things have been rather calm on the upload-front last week, so i thought i'd make it up with a triple-post:

Set 1 is a repost (back by popular demand):

Club 55, 1991. Info in the original post. True RAVESTYLE!

Set 2 was recorded in Antwerp at the legendary Café d'Anvers in October 1992. The sound is more clubby/housy, after all this is the city where the Wonka-label was founded. I don't have an exact date, or the name of the dj (must be one of the residents at that time: Koenie? Steve Cop? ...) but it's defenitely worth checking out (and the tapequality seems very ok).

Set 3 is a 90 minute-mix recorded in a small local club called Chéops (closed down after a police raid if i remember well). It sets of rather calm in a true sunday-afternoon style, but after about 10 minutes in come the classics. The recording was dated 1991.

 Chéops - Philippe Traikos 1991

Extra set: while i was at it, i also did a new upload on the At The Villa post from some time ago, it's a dj-set by residents Marko & Johan, recorded in 1994 (nice thing about this set is that you actually here the crowd go mentall on the background ... and then there's the music)

Read the original post here. Direct download

Hope you'll enjoy them!

if the kids are united

été d'amour

For those who might doubt it, RESPECT is still going strong, so if you get near Paris this summer, i'd advice to go and chè chè chè chè chè, chè check it out! You can take a look at the wha whawha wha what's it all about over here.
One of the jocks who will once again hit the decks is Romain BNO, a resident since the early days.
Underneath you'll find the set he played at Fuse, 07.04.00 (the same night Dimitri from Paris played, set still online by the way).
From Markus Nikolaï's "Bushes to Blake Baxter's "Sexuality", ...
must have been one hot damn night.

Romain BNO, fuse 07.04.00

"his face looked like plastik, man!"

Before the internet became part of our lives, clubbers stayed informed about nightlife thanks to flyers and magazines. One of those magz that was there from the beginning is Out-Soon magazine. What started as a collection of flyers has now turned into a true nightlife/lifestyle magazine.

Some years ago they hosted a few parties of their own, ... and guess what? Underneath you'll find a link to a recording that was made on one of those magical nights. It features a dj-set by Richie Hawtin, better known these days as "the min_mal king". The set was recorded many years ago, it's just as deep as what he plays nowadays, but let's say it's "a bit" harder/faster (better/stronger?)

josh 'used to be a dread' wink

I love acid (but that quote was claimed by Luke Vibert), and i can think of many great tracks, ... but if i had to take 1 record out of my collection, it would be "higher state of consciousness" by Josh Wink.
My all time favourite song! (that is, electronic)

As a dj it took him way to long to get the credits he deserves over here in Europe. Strangely enough his popularity has increased only the past few years, thanks to the minimal-hype, while his interests are much wider than this. "Variety" is the nice thing about the set underneath: a blend of acid, breakbeats, techno, a lot of house, some dubby and even progressive influences ...


i am ready ;) Josh Wink 16.10.99 at Fuse (2 hour-set)

a nurse with a tattoo

This must be the look that made the french kitten popular.

As for music, i got in touch with her after the release of her Champagne ep (featuring the coky "Frank Sinatra" hit), a collaboration with The Hacker on the Intl. Deejay Gigolo label.

The set underneath was recorded 1 year after this release, and it sets off with a 30min. live-act of this duo (mind the Gameboy in the intro), then followed by a dj-set. The tracklist is very diverse, it starts with Prince's "When doves cry" and explores acid, techno, elektro, minimal (the real stuff) and even some booty kinda influences.

If you like this kind of diversity, try checking her Radio Caroline vol.1 mix-cd, the track-selection is very nice.