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22.02 Montage x Kavir Beursschouwburg, Brussels
02.02 3 Years of Basic Moves ft. 22.02 Ut + Peuk + Tuvalu Magasin 4, Brussels Vlada + Albee + Walrus C11, Brussels 24.02 Orphan Fairytale + Jesus Galerie Vorn und Oben (Meakusma), Eupen 04.02 MISHAPS + PURSSES Super Fourchette, Brussels 25.02 HMLTD + Mathilde Fernandez Botanique, Brussels 07.02 Goat + Fornet STUK, Leuven 26.02 Grid with Stenny + Fresh & 07.02 Booty Booty with Mara Madame Moustache, Brussels Black + Moses b2b lllou + Clio + Haku Minus One, Ghent 08.02 ASPHALT: mad miran + Pasiphae Amigo (Democrazy), Ghent 27.02 AF20: King Midas Sound presents Solitude + Maria W. 12.02 De Ambassade De Koer, Ghent Horn + Ben Bertrand STUK, Leuven 13.02 Hybrid Night: Rumours 27.02 Beraadgeslagen De Studio, Antwerp Reflektor, Liège 28.02 Raphaël s’améliore + La récré 13.02 Deliluh Het Bos, Antwerp + more LaVallée (Vraiment?), Brussels
14.02 Magic Island + Oshlo 29.02 Mo Mamba with Bambii + Campo (Victoria), Ghent Heden + Black Mamba Amigo, Ghent
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15.02 Vieze Meisje + Justine Grillet Campo (Victoria), Ghent
15.02 Mo Mamba with Jubilee + Mimi + Black Mamba Beursschouwburg, Brussels 05.02 And So You See
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15.02 Canadian Rifles + Lilac Pavilion 15.02 Permanent Destruction De Studio, Antwerp + Inne Eysermans Laagzwart, Antwerp 16.02 Piano Days: Lucas & Arthur Jussen Flagey, Brussels 17.02 The Growlers
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After Hours Once the clock ticks off those last hours of the day, closing the door behind you opens new portals. Take a seat somewhere and watch a different world unfurl, one where faces are distorted by shadows, conversations take on conspiratorial overtones, and everything unthinkable mere moments before now logically ensues. The stray souls that find themselves together in this configuration have something to share, a dynamic that reveals itself gradually and infuses different layers of meaning to each phase of the night in an endless string of events, all under the sole scrutiny of fuzzy streetlights. For, as the song goes, if you close the door, the night could last forever.
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music 3 Years of Basic Moves ft. Vlada + Albee + Walrus 2 Feb - C11, Brussels 18.00 - €8 - free for members before 10 PM Living between Moscow and Berlin, Russian DJ and musician Vlada (the Volks, Arma17 / MSC) is a real mood-setter. Raised at the intersection of jazz and funk, Vlada knows how to combine apparently irreconcilable music lines and layers and mix them up perfectly. Albee (Serate) has prepared an A+ dancing mix that will make you move to the beat. Electronic vibes from Brussels-based DJ and producer Walrus are best described as the epitome of idiosyncratic club music. Get ready to be doused in quirky tension and prepare to surf some techno waves!
MISHAPS + PURSSES 4 Feb - Super Fourchette, Brussels 20.00 - €5 - free for members
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Math-rock trio Mishaps, comprised of Joey Wright (guitars), Ziggy Wajskop (drums), and Camille Alban Spreng (keyboard), are joined by four-piece grooverock outfit Pursses (Laura, Dalila, Daria, and Sacha) at Super Fourchette. Offering up sweet riffs, both Brussels-based acts show us what this city is made of. Warm up with guitar melodies and let Mishaps and Pursses whisk you away into the night.
Goat + Fornet
7 Feb - STUK, Leuven 20.00 - €12 - free for members Hailing from Osaka, Goat want to challenge the status quo of (almost) all rock bands. They focus exclusively on pure percussive sounds, whereby melodic instruments are muted to empower the beats and supported by frequent use of harmonics. Fornet, a novel Belgian quintet from Limbourg, will warm-up this STUK evening with energetic post-punk with dashes of kraut-rock and a glimpse of shoegaze.
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Booty Booty De Ambassade with Mara 12 Feb - De Koer, Ghent 20.30 - €15 - free for members
7 Feb - Madame Moustache, Brussels 22.00 - €10 - free for members The people behind the Nouveau Perreo parties - remember Ms Nina and Bea Pelea? - are hosting a new suave night in Brussels, called Booty Booty. For this occasion they’re inviting the powerful and sensual singer and DJ Mara. Expect nothing but the best dancehall, Afrobeats, soca and kuduro.
ASPHALT: mad miran + Pasiphae 8 Feb - Amigo (Democrazy), Ghent 23.00 - €10 - free for members before 1 AM Rotterdam-based DJ mad miran, associated with Clone and Red Light Radio, debuted in 2017 after years of quietly working on her craft in her bedroom. Since her breakthrough in 2018 she’s been playing all over the world. Pasiphae, born in Greece and currently based in the Netherlands, will join her with her skewed and funky electronic soundscapes.
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Amsterdam-based Pascal Pinkert (Dollkraut), Timothy Francis and Aniek de Rooij started their Dutch dark-wave project De Ambassade in 2015. After two EPs, Wat Voel Je Nou and Verloren, they released their first album, Duistre Kamers, recently. Their music is the ideal soundtrack for Seventies and Eighties nostalgia.
Hybrid Night: Rumours 13 Feb - Reflektor, Liège 20.00 - €12 - free for members Hannah Vandenbussche, Stefanie Mannaerts (Brutus), and Jonas Boermans make up ambient triphop electro Ghent-based group Rumours. Delivering sounds reminiscent of early 2000s trance, tribal beats, witch house, goth industrial, and everything in between, Rumours’ versatility will take you on a spellbinding ride. Come out to their Hybrid Night performance at Reflektor in Liège for an evening of spirit-summoning magic.
Deliluh 13 Feb - Het Bos, Antwerp 21.00 - €TBA - free for members In their hometown of Toronto, Deliluh are known for finding the best unexpected venues (think: libraries, subway stations and bakeries). With Beneath The Floors, the art-rock band promises a set of songs that feature stories of characters ‘struggling through the underbellies of modern life’.
Magic Island + Oshlo 14 Feb - Campo (Victoria), Ghent 21.00 - €20 - free for members CAMPO transforms into a performance, movie and music resort for three days during the Enter Through The Void festival. Berlinbased Magic Island released her last EP, Warm Heaven, in July. Her lo-fi R&B dream-pop and haunting voice take us from Syd to LA Priest and match perfectly with Ohslo’s bedroom R&B that subtly breathes early Knife. All events are free
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Vieze Meisje + Justine Grillet 15 Feb - Campo (Victoria), Ghent 22.00 - €20 - free for members Vieze Meisje is Maya Mertens experimenting with loops while singing and slamming Dutch poetry, and Alan Van Rompuy (a z e r t y Klavierwerke) playing with sounds to create a musical universe that ponders the tedium of life. Justine Grillet joins the evening with live compositions, creating samples which she distilled from the process of making ceramic sculptures.
Mo Mamba with Jubilee + Mimi + Black Mamba 15 Feb - Beursschouwburg, Brussels 23.00 - €10 - free for members In 2020, Brussels-based DJ Black Mamba’s resolutions are to celebrate Global Music Club. Various venues across the country have welcomed the idea and have given her a carte blanche on the curation and invitation of an international DJ. For this first
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04.03 KRANKLAND ‘Project Z’ with JJOHANNES VERSCHAEVE / COLIN H. VAN EECKHOUT (CHVE) / JAN SWERTS & ILLUMININE / BLACK FUEL ENSEMBLE & NAOMI SIJMONS / THE WILD CLASSICAL MUSIC ENSEMBLE / THE OSTEND #WACF STREET ORKESTRA
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21.03 OUT THE FRAME HOMEBOY SANDMAN / TRISTAN / MISS ANGEL / MC YALLAH & DEBMASTER / ROEDEL / KRANKK / LUNCH MONEY LIFE / LAIMA / PELADA + more tbc with All Eyes On sat
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number of the series, she’s invited Jubilee and Mimi. Nighttime is truly Jubilee’s time. Raised under the blazing sun of South Florida, Jubilee’s tracks are soaked in freestyle summer vibes, radiating Florida's regional palette of electro and drum’n’bass. Once her tracks are on, you’re taken to a warm swirl of freedom and joy. Of course, Black Mamba will also cover her share of the night with her version of hip hop, UK funk, afrobeats and grime. Oooh la la, it’s gonna be hot, friends!
provoked by the current state of the world, the moody dronefilled melodies create space to ponder what lies ahead.
Piano Days: Lucas & Arthur Jussen
Canadian Rifles + Lilac Pavilion + Inne Eysermans
16 Feb - Flagey, Brussels 16.00 - €31 - free for members
15 Feb - Laagzwart, Antwerp 20.30 - €5 - free for members Portugal’s Canadian Rifles and local acts Lilac Pavilion and Inne Eysermans team up for a night of ambient sounds at Antwerp’s Laagzwart. Channeling mysterious cosmic energies, both acts create hypnotic music influenced by the natural world. With this, there’s a confronting sense of urgency felt throughout their works. Seemingly
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Dutch brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen’s busy 2019/2020 season kicked off at the Salzburg Festival, and includes performances with orchestras in Boston, Montreal, Berlin, Munich, A Coruña, Antwerp, Bern, and Budapest, and an Asian tour in Japan and Singapore. With an active schedule after their Brussels show, it’s hard to say when such rare talent will come back – don’t miss out.
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The Growlers 17 Feb - Het Depot, Leuven 20.00 - €26 - free for members Known for combining surf rock and garage rock, pop, psychedelic rock, garage rock together with parts of new wave, synths and even some disco in their own ‘Beach Goth’ style, Californian band The Growlers recently have released their seventh album, Natural Affair. As at their self-organised Beach Goth festival, you can expect darker but also more upbeat, danceable tunes, sometimes reminiscent of Julian Casablancas.
Montage x Kavir 22 Feb - Beursschouwburg, Brussels 22.00 - €8 - free for members until midnight Seems like Montage and Kavir set a challenge to come up with an event designed to trigger epic FOMO, featuring Different Fountains with its experimental techno twists, Turkish visual and sound artist Koray Kantarcioglu with his flowy ambient waves, as well as Ewa Awe, Daisy Darkpark and Kavir DJs De Zoon & Losse Veter.
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Ut + Peuk + Tuvalu 22 Feb - Magasin 4, Brussels 20.00 - €10 - free for members Seventies New York no-wave band Ut headlines Magasin 4, with Belgium’s Peuk, self-described as an early Cat Power amplified by Sonic Youth, and feminist act Tuvalu who rock out against greed and ignorance towards topics like climate change. There’s an anarchistic spirit connecting these bands, making for a night of rebellion – get ready to dance your ass off while saying, ‘Fuck the system!’
Orphan Fairytale + Jesus 24 Feb - Galerie Vorn und Oben (Meakusma), Eupen 20.00 - €10 - free for members Orphan Fairytale’s compositions sketch light yet clear memories of a whimsical daylight bliss somewhere on the verge of reality and
dream, carrying you away naturally as their music reaches your ears. Tinkling bells, reminiscent of the heavenly sounds of gentle harps, set up an innocent and trippy experience. Brussels-based Jesus (FKA Jesus Is My Son) embodies elements of minimal folk, blues and light medieval music. By softly plucking the strings, this Belgian artist creates a melancholic fluidity that reaches slowly and consistentlylike a steaming potion, unknown and healing.
Grid with Stenny + Fresh & Black + Moses b2b lllou + Clio + Haku
HMLTD + Mathilde Fernandez 25 Feb - Botanique, Brussels 19.30 - €18 - free for members London-based HMLTD (acronym for Happy Meal Limited) are a flamboyant six-piece band, soon on tour for their first full-length album. HMLTD play an unconventional blend of punk with tinges of glam rock, which is highly impactful when performed live. The concert will be opened by Mathilde Fernandez, a peculiar artist within the Belgian musical landscape. Her DIY electronic pop is like a washed-out hybrid between Kate Bush and Nina Hagen.
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26 Feb - Minus One, Ghent 23.00 - €8 - free for members before 1 AM Dabbling in different styles, Italian DJ/producer Stenny brings his Boiler Room worthy 90’s techno and IDM inspired sets, referencing Jungle and Hardcore, to a night of love and good vibes with Fresh & Black (Vers b2b dj zwart), Clîo, Haku (El Sistema Pasota), and Julien aka Moses b2b Ilou at Ghent’s Minus One. To get in on all the positive energy, you’ll want to turn up before 1AM.
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AF20: King Midas Sound Solitude + Maria W Horn + Ben Bertrand
27 Feb - STUK, Leuven 20.00 - €14 - free for members Deep-listening night with Kevin Martin (The Bug) and vocalist Roger Robinson who bring their heartbreaking dirge on solitude and loss under the name King Midas Sound. Swedish composer Maria W Horn joins them with her hypnotising patterns, long notes and strong visual and auditory stimuli to get the public entranced. Opener will be Brussels-based bass clarinet virtuoso Ben Bertrand.
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27 Feb - De Studio, Antwerp 20.30 - €15 - free for members Beraadgeslagen brings together Lander Gyselinck of STUFF. and Fulco Ottenvanger of De Beren Gieren in the freshest and funkiest Flemish affair. Check out their debut album, Duizeldorp, for a small taste of what their mix of electro, jazz, hip hop and pop sounds like; it’ll have you rushing out the door and to De Studio for another fix.
Raphaël s’améliore + La récré + Moise Turizer + Mathilde Fernandez DJ set 28 Feb - LaVallée (Vraiment?), Brussels 19.00 - €8 - free for members Vraiment? Is back in Brussels at LaVallée for another night of gem digging! For this second edition, the
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Mo Mamba with Bambii + Heden + Black Mamba 29 Feb - Amigo, Ghent 23.00 - €10 - free for members
5 Feb - STUK, Leuven 20.30 - €16 - free for members
This is numero dos of the Mo Multidisciplinary artist Robyn Mamba series where afrobeat Orlin’s And So You See brings Brussels-based DJ Black Mamba together all of South Africa’s gets to invite an international act to contradictions since Apartheid. celebrate Global Club Music across She engages with Albert Ibokwe Belgian venues. Toronto-based Khoza, a young gay performer DJ Bambii is a real dancehall club from Soweto. He embodies the banger. She’s gonna heat up these seven deadly sins in relation to cold winter days with her catchy the discrimination in contempoclub hits and make you shake it rary South Africa. The result is a all a bit. Expect a sweaty night of funny and explosive requiem for never-ending dance with friends humanity. and strangers! All eve nts ar e free for m ember s.
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Permanent Destruction
film Les Misérables
7 Feb - De Cinema, Antwerp 20.30 - €7 - free for members
15 Feb - De Studio, Antwerp 20.00 - €12 - free for members
Don’t worry: this isn’t yet another singalong film (unless you feel so inclined). Through the eyes of a cop who just moved to Paris to join the Anti-Crime Brigade of Montfermeil, Les Misérables tells a story inspired by the 2005 upheaval in the banlieues of Paris, of people wrestling with frustration and guilt in their search for belonging.
The HM Concert is the second show by pop-up band The HM Concert, led by performer Naomi Velissariou and sound producer Joost Maaskant. To a blended backdrop of techno, trap, hardcore and punk, the duo filters the work of German playwright Heiner Müller through topics on misogyny, sexism and feminist extremism. The perfect post-Valentine’s palette cleanser. 15 Feb - Cinematek, Brussels bers. 19.00 - €4 - free for members m e m e for re fre nts a e The winner of the critics’ prize v e All at Cannes Festival in 1991, Young Soul Rebels is Isaac Julien’s one
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Brick, Rian Johnson’s 2005 directorial debut and Sundance prize winner, is an American neo-noir film. The film’s narrative starts with a murder. After finding his former girlfriend dead, highschool student Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) starts investigating the death himself because he doesn’t trust the authorities, resulting in different and interesting plot twists. Come and enjoy this cult classic in the super cosy KASKcinema.
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mad miran It’s only been three years since Rotterdam DJ Miran Belhanafi emerged from darkness to let partygoers know about her new moniker, mad miran. Since then, the spotlight has been shining brighter every day for the young genre-hopper, with gigs sprawling in all directions. Last year alone, mad miran played festivals including Best Kept Secret and Primavera, gigs at De School and XOYO, and went on a mini-tour in India. With interest growing but few interviews to date, we decided to catch this night owl in full flight for a brief moment to chat about sleepless nights, overthinking and making the after-hours her playground.
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Interview by Jozefien Wouters Photos by Karim El Maktaf, shot in Milan
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Hey Miran. We’re curious: what does a night owl like you do to fall asleep? Nothing really… It seems like everything goes against my will or craving to sleep when I most want it. Breathing in and out very deeply does the magic trick sometimes. But my mind often keeps me awake, it’s hard to shut it off. What’s the most recent dream you remember? I’m currently in Italy and having the most relaxing week I’ve had in awhile, sleeping alone in a house up in the mountains, living from sunset to sunrise with total darkness surrounding me in the evening. The last dream I remember here is short scenes of me being lost in the mountains, running, not being able to find someone… but that’s it, that’s all I remember now… It’s weird, the more I think about the dream the more it seems to fade away. Speaking of travelling, what was your craziest clubbing experience abroad as a DJ? I just got back from India, and my expectations did not match reality at all. The floor was filled with local dancers, fully going for it. They told me the underground scene had just started to rise, so I figured people wouldn’t be that open-minded yet. But the night in Bombay
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I played an hour longer than planned, and I even saw someone wearing a Red Light Radio shirt. Music connects! [Laughs] We’re not so different after all… Well, I think the night brings people together, differently than during the day. During the day you kinda have obligations, while in the night you choose to be there and that gives a freedom of connection with those around you. It creates subcultures, with less borders. You connect because you all come alive at night. I met some of my now close friends in a club. We all come from completely different backgrounds, but we choose to step out of that to get into the one thing we have in common. Daytime life should learn from this. [Laughs] Have your party habits changed now you’re a DJ yourself? I rave less, because my weekends are my working hours. Nowadays I try to compensate for my nocturnal life by eating healthy and taking care of myself. I also work at Clone Records, a job with more balanced working hours. And when I party, I close my eyes, stop worrying and become one with the music. There’s a certain unity you only find on dance floors. After a good night of dancing I get enough energy for a couple of weeks, literally.
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As a DJ, the night is your territory. What are you generally up to at midnight? 2am? 4am? 6am? On a weekday, at midnight my thoughts usually are something like, ‘Oh fuck, I’m not tired enough to sleep,’ then at 2am: ‘It’s 2am already, I should be sleepling within the next hour for sure.’ Come 4am: ‘Oh no, are these birds?’, and by 6am, ‘All right, let’s have breakfast.’ In between those thoughts, my activities are opening 50 tabs and throwing myself into a lot of information; finding new labels, chasing all the tracks they have, then occasionally stumbling on something else because someone commented on a YouTube video and pandora’s box just opened. It’s addictive…
ASPHALT: mad miran + Pasiphae 8 Feb - Amigo (Democrazy), Ghent Free for members before midnight
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Basic Moves Basic Moves, the label, turns three. Three years of digging up unreleased tapes, cassettes and vinyls that have never seen the light of day. Three years of releasing those gems suited for the night. To celebrate the occasion, Basic Moves, the family, invited us to their annual Christmas spaghetti dinner, an invitation too good to refuse. In between conversations about hosting artists, the South African underground scene and music journalism, we had the occasion to peek into their impressive record collection and ask some questions.
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Interview by Hannes Rooms Photos by Basic Family, shot in Brussels
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Basic Moves consists of Deg, Walrus, islas, Francis99, Boudewijn Ericx, Eva Claus, Michael Stordeur, Jakob, Gurl and friends. They call themselves musical outsiders who share a real dedication to underground clubbing, always on an adventurous journey through the outer limits of house, techno and electro. Ahead of the dinner, Walrus warned me his labelmates aren’t that fond of interviews, so they weren’t aware of my presence. A promising start… But once I arrived I was greeted wholeheartedly and introduced to the family, because that’s what Basic Moves actually is: a group of DJs, producers, graphic designers, filmmakers, organisers or just supporters of music and each other. While some have already spent years in the scene, others only joined later. But despite the differences in age, experience and job descriptions, I can’t but describe them as peers. HR Basic Moves is a place for outsider club music. What’s a musical outsider? BM Someone who doesn’t walk the lines of fashion, trends, or hype. Someone who follows his/ her heart, stomach and ears. The idea of something being ‘outsider’ means it doesn’t fit inside any standard box or mould, nor any category that has strict lines and borders. So outside is also kind of a synonym for openness. HR Are you outsiders in different ways as well? BM I guess so, following what we just described we apply this
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approach to most things in our lives. We try to be as true to ourselves as possible, whether it’s in the music we listen to, the things we attend or buy, or the projects we support. Sometimes this means going against the stream, sometimes it might be counter-productive but deep down it’s worth it. Of course, a Christmas party doesn’t come without presents. All attendees and I were surprised by hand-crafted ceramic sculptures by islas and hand-picked vinyls by Walrus. Handing out the vinyls started lengthy conversations: ‘You already have that one? You never heard of this label? This one sounds like *insert little-known producer*. I found this at *insert foreign music shop*.’ I was handed The Sect3000 (BM08), which included a 400-word backstory about tracking down the original ¼” eight-track reel-to-reel in Zurich and remastering it back in Brussels. I definitely recommend reading the intriguing origin stories of all their releases on the
Basic Moves website. Fun fact about their website is that you can keep (almost) endlessly scrolling with nothing to see but darkness. It’s like scrolling yourself back in time. HR Looking back at three years of basic moving, walk us through the realisations you’re most proud of. BM The connections and friendships made by working on releases, chronicles and events. Also all the people we met along the way, a lot of whom have become close friends. Being able to archive some important music and stories on a vinyl format that might otherwise have been swept away with the wind. HR What unexpected moves are you planning for the future? BM A lot! Our latest release, BM12 Caustic 14, will come out at the end of January; in late March we co-curate a stage at Listen! festival alongside our good friends of Kalahari Oyster Cult. We’re also working on a series of compilations accompanying our chill-out events called Gems Under The Horizon. Then there’s our three birthday club nights in Brussels, Barcelona and Leeds to celebrate our three years of existence, and a tour in China & Japan after the summer. And last but not least, in
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August we’ll curate the Cochilo floor at the great Waking Life festival in Portugal together with Intrinsic, a collective from London. As true renegades of the night, the Christmas dinner only served as warm-up for a club night later on, so we packed the vinyls and hopped in an Uber to Anderlecht where islas had to play a closing set just after another Brussels household name, DJ Lawrence Ledoux. While islas seamlessly mixed one vinyl into the other, the nightowls present danced peacefully along, well into the after-hours. HR Which track from the Basic Moves catalogue suits best for the after-hours? BM Circadian Rhythms – Sleeping Soul (BM11).
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Mathilde Fernandez Gothic Jeanne d’Arc, soprano princess, Mylene Farmer acolyte… Mathilde Fernandez puts on many faces. Hailing from Nice, she’s already had an interesting career. She graduated in performance and video art and worked in a theatre company for years before dedicating her life to music. But she refuses to be put in a box; just when you think you can pin her music down as goth electro-pop with influences from Kate Bush and Nina Hagen, she releases a hardcore project with gabber legend Paul Seul. On the subject of her music and shows, she also refuses to bring the expected: her songs are often accompanied by intricate video clips, and her performative concerts are one-time experiences. She called from Paris, which was shaken up and in chaos by the gilet jaunes strike, and talked about performing, upcoming projects and the state of things.
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the songwriting process I have a whole videoclip in my head. I love doing short concept EPs, because this gives me the freedom to explore new worlds every time. When I was younger I practiced a lot of photography, staging my friends and myself and taking pictures. I still feel like I’m doing the same thing with the visuals. Tell me about your collaborations with Paul Seul. M: I’ve been following Paul Seul for quite some time. I was very inspired by the new wave of gabber in France, and especially by the Casual Gabberz crew. Paul Seul’s productions stood out for me, so I reached out to him for a remix of my Hyperstition EP. That was the beginning of a big collaboration between us under the name Ascendant Vierge. We’ve been working on an album for almost a year; I think it will be ready for spring. He recently moved to Brussels, so we work together pretty much every day. It’s very exciting. You live in Brussels, but work both here and in Paris. How do you feel these cities differ? M: I moved to Brussels six years ago, when my primary focus was still performance. I was very attracted to the live arts scene, with companies like Peeping
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Tom or Les Ballets C de la B by Alain Platel. I also appreciate the attitude of people in Brussels. The quality of life is very different from France; people are more free in their minds. I was a bit bored with the need of French people to categorise art. I got asked questions about whether I was a singer or a performer that I didn’t want to think about. Are you making rock, electronic, classical music? I just don’t want to waste my time with this. I do love going to Paris from time to time because the city is like electricity. It’s full of energy, pollution and misery. What have you been listening to lately? M: I’ve been listening a lot to Afromanticism by Moses Sumney. I also think the new tracks from Grimes are very good. I’m super excited for her new album, Miss Anthropocene, that’s coming out soon. I also really like a Brussels-based rapper called Sidisid and his Butter Bullets project.
Mathilde Fernandez 25 Feb - Botanique, Brussels 28 Feb - LaVallée (Vraiment?), Brussels Free for members
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De Ambassade After releasing the two instant cult seven-inches, Verloren and Wat Voel Je Nou, in 2016 and 2017 respectively, Amsterdam’s dark/cold/new wave outfit De Ambassade left us empty-handed and perplexed for two years; we wanted to discover and settle forever in their universe of eerie DIY synths, understated Dutch vocals and reverbdrenched drums. But then, a couple of months ago, there it was – the release of Duistre Kamers on the ever-great Knekelhuis imprint, which turned out to be nothing less than a sublime exposé of De Ambassade’s songwriting and producing skills. We called singer and synth player Pascal Pinker and bassist Timothy Francis (third member Aniek de Rooij could not make it but was there in spirit!) for a curtain-raiser to their show in Ghent.
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Interview by Dries Robbe Photos by Danny Griffioen, shot in Amsterdam
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How are you doing since the release of the new record? Pascal & Timothy: Very good! All shows have sold out, we brought a lot of merch that sold out pretty fast too, enthusiastic audiences. Actually, all you ever want a release to be. So, I guess the De Ambassade hype is real? P: I don’t like hypes, but sometimes, they just happen. What are your musical backgrounds and how did De Ambassade start? T: I always was a bass player – and still am – and started playing music in the punk scene. P: I started studying audio design at art school, but quit after
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some time and started making records on my own. I founded Dollkraut, did some releases with this outfit and then started De Ambassade as a side project. I had some ideas which I started working on together with Timothy or other musicians, which eventually led to Duistre Kamers. In fact, I was attracted to other ‘areas’ in music and wanted to explore them, also on the technical and musical production part. T: I also play in Dollkraut, and I think another reason we started De Ambassade as a live band, was that there was some
buzz after the Verloren single. People started asking who we were, where we came from… there was clear interest in a live act. In the liner notes of Duistre Kamers on Bandcamp I read that, ‘Beneath the surface lies a deeper Dutch language narrative celebrating free speech and thought, starkly in opposition with a world where alienation and solitude create ever more distance between all beings.’ Is that a political statement? P&T: Where did you read this? I think the label added this. They have this punk attitude and DIY vibe. We can relate to this; we always rebelled towards one thing or another or didn’t do things in the most convenient way. We don’t like things to be too clear or figured out too much. Your sound clearly refers to the ’80s wave music. How did you end up there? T: We just wanted to make music and ended up there – it’s not that we explicitly wanted to make music that sounded like that. But we obviously listened a lot to music from this era. P: The ’80s is a source of inspiration, and we share ideas, mindset and characteristics with the musicians of that period. What do you want to bring about with your music? P: I always like it when I can make people happy with our tunes.
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A girl who attended a show of ours at the Strange Sounds From Beyond festival ran towards me and told me that the Geen Genade and Wat Voel Je Nou single really helped her to get through a depression. I was baffled by this, and can’t deny that this really meant something to me.
De Ambassade 12 Feb - De Koer, Ghent Free for members
Ines Claus artist
When we visit Ines Claus in her brand new studio to chat, she serves us three big blushing eclairs. The good kind, from the bakery down the street. As we go over her work she flutters between paintings, drawings, an installation and books. ‘It’s still too empty here.’ The work she makes comes in all sizes but with a consistent sense of mystery and humour that lure you into her world with ease.
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Interview by Elise Dupré Photos by Tiny Geeroms, shot in Ghent
You graduated with an MA in Drawing at KASK, yet here we are in your gorgeous studio, surrounded by mostly paintings. Is that a clear evolution in your work? : You’re pretty free to explore on your own in that programme. I evolved to working with paint, mainly because I associate it with endless possibilities. Paint is a material I can use in different ways, it allows me to work on big canvases and allows me to work with colour in a way I’ve always looked for. And it allows the tempo that I like. The tempo? : Yes. I’m trying to capture the spontaneity, the hastiness of drawing. It took me a while to figure out what material would be best for that approach. Now I mainly use black ink and acrylics. It allows me to work fast, and it dries fast too. It feels very familiar and responds well to my work. I have the feeling you’re very productive. Was that urge to constantly create always present? : I think so. I’m always working on many different pieces at once. I like working fast and I like the meta that’s in my work sometimes. Elements in drawings inspired by photographs I take, making appearances in paintings or in my books. I’m always cutting, pasting, redrawing, installing.
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Surrounding myself with my work. I do feel like my process has become more deliberate nowadays. I look more, contemplate more. Working on large formats and with certain materials has slowed me down. Some require multiple layers. In one of my recent works I used pencil and needed to go over and over and over a detail before it had the tone and consistency I wanted. You’re also making installations and books. : Sometimes the work just needs that. I started making these books out of classical cheap mops, sewn together quite quickly. Sometimes they’re plastified; sometimes not. I draw, paint and print on them. The feeling of flipping through the books is very uncanny. If it gets wet, the mop is ruined and then the book is lost. It’s a funny thing, and a good tension field to work with. Some motifs are recurrent in your work. Can you elaborate on your sources? What images or stories stimulate your work? : I collect books with good images and covers, and I’m also heavily inspired by the visual language of advertising and on Instagram. The thin line between high culture and borderline cheap. In my master’s I was studying the image
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of the palm tree in modern art and in history. They are usually imported and appeared in my work as a character. Like the palm trees in Los Angeles, which were apparently all imported and planted there? : Exactly. Did you know there’s a little red beetle, called a palm tree weevil, that ended up in the US and is now eagerly attacking those palm trees? It’s causing quite a stir. The images of lanes with huge palm trees is
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so iconic, so important to that culture, and it’s currently being taken down by a little beetle. Very fascinating. A lot of your work shows people walking, usually wearing fabulous shoes. : Yeah, I’m obsessed with shoes. I’m a fervent walker. I love how they transport you from one place to the other and can make such statements while they’re at it. There’s a pair of cowboy boots here in my studio that I painted with acrylics.
You just moved into this new studio. Would you say there are key moments in your artistic practice so far? : Art book fairs and social media have proven their value, as they put me in contact with interesting people. And I think exhibitions are always key moments. There is the build-up and the actual adrenaline when the show is over. But that’s when you also reflect on your work again: the show was great, but how do I go on from there again?
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Ines Claus – The Giftshop at Enter Through The Void, Exit Through The Gift Shop CAMPO victoria, Ghent 13-15 Feb campo.nu
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Why is a raven like a writing desk? Lisa Uchechi Ijeoma, Kato Dalle and Lucciana Bolivar are wearing Emma Vandenberghe's 2019 collection styled and photographed by Femke Fredrix.
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Enter Through The Void, Exit Through The Gift Shop CAMPO victoria & Kunsthal, Ghent 13-15 Feb daily or all-inclusive tickets selected concerts free for members; free exhibition access at CAMPO campo.nu
From performances to talks to movies and concerts, Enter Through The Void, Exit Through The Gift Shop is a sacrament of alternative forms of exhibition, connecting various artistic disciplines. Taking place at Ghent’s iconic Kunsthal and CAMPO victoria, the three-day arts festival features young, upcoming and cutting-edge international artists, most performing in Belgium for the first time. Programme highlights include an intimate workshop on natural movement and emotional intelligence by singer and visual artist BEA1991, and the Belgian première of Hate me, Tender, an exploration of hate and feminism by Swiss performance artist Teresa Vittucci. ‘She will mesmerise you with the blink of her eye! But so will Sophia Rodriguez and all the others,’ comments festival curator Laurens Mariën. A highlight of the eclectic festival programme is the trance-like drumming performance by Stina Fors, an Amsterdam-based Swedish artist who describes herself as a punk band who sometimes kills with a powerful voice, sometimes seduces until exhaustion. In the evening, CAMPO’s resort setting will take the audience into a cinematic world, with a sunset screening through the heavy steam of outdoor jacuzzis, while the various architectural installations at Kunsthal will transform into a sleeping place for the artists. ‘The audience and artists are equally important to us. All artists are in their twenties, early thirties. It was very relevant to us to bring people together from the same generation,’ adds the organiser.
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Met een schat van 6000 jazzplaten van eind jaren ’50 tot begin jaren ’90 is de bibliotheek Het Predikheren een walhalla voor liefhebbers van jazzmuziek en vinyl platen. Vele van deze platen zijn ware collector’s items en worden niet meer ontleend. Toch willen we deze parels delen. Op 3 zondagenmiddagen doorheen het voorjaar zullen DJ’s en jazzfanaten met de collectie aan de slag gaan. Vanaf 10u30 draaien ze twee uur lang hun favoriete platen terwijl jij rustig naar de parels kan luisteren, lezen en van een aperitief genieten. Lazy Sunday, the vinyl way!
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24.05 LARA CHEDRAOUI Frontvrouw van Intergalactic Lovers, en DJ met een bijzonder eclectische smaak.
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by Hannes Rooms
MC Yallah hakunakulala.bandcamp.com
Powerful and futuristic rapper MC Yallah moved from Kenya to Uganda where she was introduced to the people behind the renowned Nyege Nyege festival. Together with French producer Debmaster, she released a debut album Kibali on the brand-new label Hakuna Kulala, a sub-branch of Nyege Nyege Tapes. The record combines femcee Yallah’s intense delivery in Luganda and Swahili with Debmaster’s crackling and distorted production style to explosive effect. The two debuted their live show at Unsound last year becoming one of the sensations at the showcase festival. No excuse to miss Yallah’s chemistry on stage as no less than three stops are scheduled during their European tour at Beursschouwburg (20 Mar), Vooruit (21 Mar) and OLT Rivierenhof (29 Mar). Without doubt MC Yallah looks set to follow other East African artists like Otim Alpha and Kampire onto the international stage.
Elvin Brandhi soundcloud.com/elvin-brandhi-1
Another signee of the Hakuna Kulala label is Welsh producer and sound artist Elvin Brandhi with a collaborative project called Villaelvin for which she teamed up with percussionist Omutaba, rappers Hakim and Swordman Kitala and producers Don Zilla and Oise. The Head Roof album was made back in April 2019, when Brandhi was staying at the Nyege Nyege villa in Kampala and features field recordings of Evangelist churches and the swamps surrounding the Boutiq Studios, improvised vocals and bass-heavy production. Furthermore, Brandhi is part of the SHAPE platform 2020 roster alongside household names like LYZZA and Stella OM Source, countrymen Ben Bertrand and Céline Guillain and Subba favourites Oli XL and Moesha 13. Catch Elvin Brandhi playing Sonic Acts Amsterdam on 21 February.
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Hannah De Meyer – hi Baubo, + Ezra Veldhuis & Bosse Provoost & Oshin Albrecht – SUN-SET (before: Kosmogonie) 6-8 Feb, 20.00 Toneelhuis (Bourla theatre & V36), Antwerp toneelhuis.be
Theatre author and performer, Hannah De Meyer, has received international acclaim for her impressive solos Levitations (2017) and New Skin (2018). For her new performance, hi Baubo,, she takes inspiration from Greek mythology to further shape her psychedelic, eco-feminist universe. Bosse Provoost and Ezra Veldhuis once had the idea to make a performance with light as the sole performer. This research has resulted in an intimate show about the dark moment before the universe was born, on the cusp between ‘nothing’ and ‘something’.
House Of Lux – DOLLHAUS: Camp & Couture 15 Feb, 22.00 Bar Rodin, Antwerp facebook.com/houseoflux.be
In May 2018, five drag enthusiasts from Ghent organised their first show and the collective House Of Lux was born. Since then, they’ve been hosting their Queerly Beloved shows and throwing their FETCH parties, as well as performing at numerous other events. This time, they come to Antwerp to transform the historic Bar Rodin with a full show and proper after party. Expect stunning looks and energetic lip-sync performances in a queer safe space. Dressing up is encouraged!
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SoundImageCulture (SIC) helps you break up the solitude of developing your audiovisual project on your own. For 18 months, we provide you with individual and personalised development support. Projects are fed by group discussions, active workshops and meetings with a personal tutor. International guests participate in collective debates, offer master-class days and host face-to-face meetings with participants, broadening the spectrum of our contributions. Collective sessions take place every two to three months in Brussels. The coaches of SIC 2020/2021: Effi & Amir, Mary Jiménez, Jorge Léon, Vivianne Perelmuter, Didier Volckaert; Patrick Codenys (sound mentor), Isabelle Ingold (editing mentor). International guests will be invited according to the selected projects.
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we visit you Anna Lancy
Age 22 Zodiac sign Gemini Instagram @lancryy and one for my art, @_wastoid Subbacultcha member since September 2019
Tell us, what do you do in life?
Right now I'm studying politics, doing a lot of painting and working in a bar. I love where I live in Brussels.This city is so energetic and unpretentious. People are cool, bars are open late, theres always something to do. All without the coldness and inaccessibility of bigger cities like London. What kind of music are you listening to at the moment? I can’t get enough of Shygirl and SASSY009… I’m also listening to Tirzah, Broadcast, slowthai, Joni Mitchell, Autechre and Dean Blunt literally every day, and Kim Gordon’s recent solo project. And Underworld (iconic) are incrementally releasing this soundtrack / video project which feels like an audio time capsule of ’90s UK rave culture. Also 2000s Arab pop… you should check out Gawaher. Finally, I’ve been listening to my friend and Brussels-based DJ Catalina’s mixes daily. She’s amazing. What’s the first record you bought? I remember begging my parents for a CD of Monkey Business by The Black Eyed Peas when I was, like, nine. I loved it so much that I gave a presentation about it to my class at school. What do you like best about your place?
What’s your favourite pastime?
I switch it up every few months. Earlier this year I was writing, cycling and partying a lot, watching old movies… Nowadays I’m playing more music – especially guitar and piano – and teaching myself to produce. Apart from that, I love thrifting and exploring the city and I’m always painting or drawing. Any guilty pleasures? I think I like partying a bit more than my parents would want me to. I also really intensely love Kanye. What makes you dance? It doesn’t take much to make me dance. But it’s always nice to be in an inclusive space where other people love to dance too. Have you experienced any regrets recently?
These days I regret being British.
Which future Subbacultcha show are you looking forward to?
Anything at STUK because I want to discover Leuven a bit more!
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