switch it

Paris is raving to Edbanger, Berlin exports minimalsounds, so what about London these days?
Well, it seems like there's a new scene, mashing house with elektro, baile funk and hip-hop into so-called "fidget-house". A typical UK-sound with fat drum-rolls (remember speed-garage?) and bouncy beats.
Personally, i LIKE it, but the attention for this style outside of the UK appears to be rather small.

One of the founding fathers is SWITCH, better known as the producer of last years "A bit patchy" anthem. Switch aka dj Dave Taylor/Solid Groove/Brucker has been very active as a remixer during the past year.

His dj-sets are packed with edits and remixes (official and unreleased) for very different kind of artists.

Switch it!

an pierlé

And now for something completely different... 60 minutes of live music by one of Belgiums most talented artists.

Together with her band White Velvet An Pierlé released her 5th album in 2006. Describing music is never easy, (intimate? singer-songwriter? AIR?)that's why i suggest you just listen to this perfomance, recorded at the Boomtown-festival in Ghent.
O yeah, Rolling Stone recently put them in their "Top 25 bands on Myspace".

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filet de poulet / chicken filet ...a 1 minute film

respect to st-dic

Being one of the residents at the FOOD-parties, Pascal Saint Dic caught the attention of the FUSE-club. In 1998 he joined the team and gained his spot in the Motion-room.
2 years later "Respect is burning" gave him a chance to play in the main room, doing a warming-up set for Dimitri from Paris.

St Dic plays a laidback selection of deep house tunes and sets the party of near the end of his set. Good job!

At the end of 2006 "Scalle" said goodbye to Fuse and to the world, may he rest in peace.

MegaUpload: Respect is burning - fuse - 07.04.00

 RESPECT is Burning at FUSE - St-Dic 07.04.00

man like me, oh my gosh

rendez-vous 1983

IMPORTANT NOTE: i currently seem to have some problems uploading files to Yousendit(files expiring to fast, not getting the requeste link ...) i'll try and fix the problem ASAP


have some patience, go play in the snow and come back in a few days, or give me some suggestions for a good "free-file-host" (using the comments button)

EDIT: PROBLEM FIXED

one Hell of a party

In the next few weeks/months you can expect several Fuse-sets on my blog.
Maybe you didn't recognize the picture, but today i'm offering you a
dj Hell-set. In and out of the picture, Dj Hell has always been out there ever since i started listening to electronic music, and i've been following him since his first release ("my definition of house music" on R&S).

The set was recorded in 1999, at that time Hell had an "international residency" at the club ... one year later he released a mix-cd for FUSE in the "Fuse presents"-series. (In 2007 that honour goes to Steve Bug, check my review here, that is if you speak Dutch)

As usual Hell doesn't compromize and mixes house, techno, Chicago ... don't expect to hear elektro or trashy sounds, this set was recorded before the hype!

alice

If you're ever anywhere near Brussels and you'd like to see some nice artwork, try visiting the alice galery.

dimanche après-midi (when sunday wasn't "lazy sunday")

People change, dj's change. Manu Kenton -former resident at the Belgian LAGOA-club- nowadays plays hardtechno, french-tek and other substyles i'm not interested in.
But in '94 he hosted the popular sunday-afternoons in this club. Because these afternoons attracted a very diverse crowd the music didn't pinpoint to one style. Enjoy a fine mixture of house, techno, trance and some Amsterdam-sounds all in one nice blend + a few forgotten classics to top it off.