Ihr erinnert noch an Gabber? Oder auch die unsäglichen TV-Werbungen für die Thunderdome Compilation? Näher habe ich mich da nie ran gewagt, war das furchtbar.
Und jetzt kommen Radio Soulwax um die Ecke und zeigen mir, dass wir heute im Prinzip das selbe Gegabbere hören wie die Vögel im Pott vor 20 Jahren.
Von 170 auf 115 Bpm runter geschraubt und schon klingt es wie relativ normaler kontemporärer, angeknarzter Club-Sound, der auch von Boys Noize kommen könnte.
Das ganze gibt’s nach dem Klick als „This is Belgium Part Two – Cherry Moon On Valium“ Video-Mixtape inklusive den Horror-mäßigen Tanzschritten.
Oh Boy.
Feiert weiter, es gibt nichts zu sehen!
-> Even though these Belgian records sound very „now“, they are actually 20 years old and were meant to be played at a much, much faster speed. At the time this was the devil’s music for us, but we have learned to listen through the claps and distorted kicks and discovered that if you slow these really dark and heavy techno records down all the way to about 115 bpm, it suddenly makes them sound less frantic, ballsier and a lot sexier. Belgium at its best when pitched down.
The covers of these records are quite generic and don’t really lend themselves to animating , so we figured we would bring you the visual aspect of this musical genre that you can’t not be fascinated by: the dance. We were very lucky to have found some people who can still do the typical moves, and with them dancing in front of the record sleeves (and sometimes inside of them) we bring you our ultimate tribute to a glorious period in our Belgian musical heritage.
We feel very strongly about this hour, and would like to show that quite often, the best things in life are already right in front of us, we just have to open our eyes (and ears) to them. We stand corrected!
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/26148934[/vimeo]
