Radio Soulwax
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Radio Soulwax is the current project of The Dewaele Brothers, it is a website that hosts a constant mix of different music all day and every day. It features 24 hour-long mixes with visuals similar to those used in the 2manydjs live sets, and includes music from many different decades. Like the visulas of their Under The Cover Tour as 2manydjs, the visuals for Radio Soulwax are made by Fergadelic, After they complete the project, they have stated in interviews that they will work on their next studio album.
They started this project, because they said that they came to a level that they headline festivals, they can always play for a big audience, etc. But they find that it began at a certain moment to be a bit limiting. They had a lot of musical ideas that they couldn't realise on this level, so they searched a solution for it.
Jan van Biesen, the head of the radio station Studio Brussel, said in 2009 to the brothers "Why don't you make your own radio?". Now they claim that that was the initial begin of Radio Soulwax. Then they started scanning and encoding their whole vinyl collection: more or less 50.000 plates. This job took them two and a half year.
Soulwax - Machine was conceived and directed by Saam Farahmand, who was inspired to create an interpretation of the ethos behind the project. The result is a film that encapsulates the audio visual obsession of Radio Soulwax. The film was previsualised, edited and post produced by The House of Curves in London. Farahmand was also the director of Part of the Weekend Never Dies, their rockumentary. After the release of the Radio Soulwax App, The Guardian wrote
- "Two more steps along the road to find out how tablets and smartphones may change they way we experience music."
This is the list of the 24 mixes (in order of release):
- Introversy (28/06/2011)
- Cover Version Covers (04/07/2011)
- Under the Covers (Live on Tour) Volume 1 (04/07/2011)
- Librarian Girl (04/07/2011)
- Blue (04/07/2011)
- Nothing Worse than a Bad Rap (04/07/2011)
- Celestial Voyage part 1: Quest for Orlak (04/07/2011)
- Jack In the Box (11/07/2011)
- Mehari 1: Fairlight Computer Video Instruments (18/07/2011)
- Hardcore or Die (25/07/2011)
- Into the Vortex (01/08/2011)
- CherryMoonOnValium (08/08/2011)
- Celestial Voyage part 2: Pink Galaxy (15/08/2011)
- Under the Covers (Live on Tour) Volume 2 (22/08/2011)
- Axe Attack (29/08/2011)
- D&S CO (05/09/2011)
- Mehari 2: Fairlight CVI (19/09/2011)
- This is Belgium Part 1: New Beat (21/10/2011)
- Baluta Discos (31/10/2011)
- Pin Ups (17/11/2011)
- Benelux (07/12/2011)
- Under the Covers (Live on Tour) Volume 3 (19/03/2012)
