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

claude young

If you're in for some heavy scratchin' & jugglin' Silo is the place to be on april 18th. Claude Young is coming over from Japan and will be playing alongside Steve Rachmad, Marco Bailey, Tom Hades and The Advent (live).
Underneath's a little something to get you in the mood: over 2 hours of Young, recorded back in '98. (Let's say a decade ago :p)

Claude Young "Oxxident-Avondland" at Red & Blue 15.05.98. part1
Claude Young "Oxxident-avondland" at Red & Blue 15.05.98. part2

Claude Young also started a blog recently, you can interact with him over here.

Check some of his skills in this little movie.
And by the way, i'd hate to spoil the party but i wonder if he still plays with vinyl (check some of his more recent videos and you'll see what i mean).

Cop again

As promised here's another Cop set, recorded at Silo a little further back in time(that's right, they had a vivid techno-program in those days ... and luckily this hasn't changed if you see who's playing nowadays).

Steve Cop, Silo 11.11.95.

steve cop

A few weeks ago a friend of Steve Cop mailed me to see if i wanted to rip some of his tapes ... didn't take me long to decide :)

In the early nineties Steve did a few productions for the R&S-label as Sonic Solution (ao Beat time, and Ravesignal II together with CJ Bolland) but most of you probably know him as a dj.
A few of his residencies: H2o, Café d'Anvers and Silo (Loop-parties).
I'll try and share some of this stuff with you in the next few weeks.
The links will also appear on a new blog, dedicated to Steve only, in order to keep this collection alive. (Steve's friend runs his new blog over here).

Here's an apetizer on what's coming:

Steve Cop, Loop 21.11.97.

Félicitations à Sebastian Tellier qui représentera la France au festival de l'Eurovision 2008, un excellent choix. Douze points de ma part ;)
En plus: en Anglais? Times are a changin'!

who's warming up?

Time to take a little step into the unknown. I'm posting a mix ... but i'm not sure who's playing.
The thing i like about it is that it was recorded at the very beginning of the night, probably by one of the residents (Deg?).

While most of you know Fuse as a techno-club, early clubbers know you can often enjoy some laid back dubby tunes at 10 o' clock, followed by some lazy house, smooth techno and as time goes by: the stuff people really came for :)

An early night with the unknown dj, somewhere in 1999.


One of te tracks at the beginning of the set is The Orb's "Blue Room", my god how i love that track! While doing some research on youtube i discovered some other Orb footage: here's a little piece of the live-show they did in Vorst Nationaal back in '95, the track is called "Towers of Dub".

master reese

Sometimes i have the impression dj's used to play more crowpleasers back in the days (for me that's "the nineties"). Or is this a false impression and did the unknown tracks become classics as time passed by?

A question worth thinking about!

Anyhow, lots of classics in the sets underneath: Arkest Blaze, Women Beat Their Men, Bassline and Goodlife (his own stuff), the inevitable French Kiss, ... but also plenty of forgotten tracks and things to discover.

re-post

New stuff coming up, but first i'll try and keep a few people happy by reposting some sets that have been offline for a while, don't forget to read the original posts for some side info ;)

g-force at Montini "techno '95" 20.07.95 original post


steve cop at Fuse 17.09.94 link original post