inside the box
This mix is one big nod to the progenitors of the (pre-) new beat era. To the guys in the eighties who played their records at the wrong speeds in clubs in small belgian towns like Aalbeke or Destelbergen. To the AB, Liaisons Dangereuses and USA import-guys in Antwerp, the DJ's at Mirano (like the legend JC Maury), the guys from our homebase Aalst (Bogaert, Demeyer, Target records) and everybody who contributed to this unique era in Belgium's musical history.
It's also a balearic
statement of sorts. Balearic in the more original sense of a openness
to variety and non-confirmity in dancing entertainment (minus the
desire/excuse to play Simply Red or other dross). It's an attempt to
bring together some electronic music we like from the last 30-odd years
together in a slo-mo dance mix.
Obviously
we've included some genuine new beat-classics, some imaginary AB
classics, a few 90's bleeps as well as new tracks (mostly played at the
wrong speed) and some bits of our own. We do not aim to recreate
anything. It's all about atmosphere and the philosophy behind it all:
playing all kinds of different electronic music and putting it all
together in a way that it makes sense to us.
We
were both born in the lowlands albeit on opposite sides of the North
Sea (in East Flanders & Lincolnshire). This is an Anglo-Belgian
alliance - the sounds of shared sensibilities and different experiences
coming together. The rave of future past.
