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Artist: Soulwax Genre: Alternative Rock, Electro, Dance Punk Ever wonder where the mashup camp from? Well keep wondering, cause like punk music, someone will always come along and claim they started it long before Malcolm McLaren put it in a storefront window for all of London’s teenagers to gobble up. Since the genre hasn’t any aesthetic attached to it, not one that can be worn at least, it may never receive the heated debate that saw liberty spikes and studded belts battered and befallen all the way to your nearest strip mall. Just as well, because Belgium’s Flying Dewaele Brothers didn’t invent mashups, or remixes- not that it really matters whether or not they did when they’re this prolific at it. Helped along by the fact that they’re the sons of well known Belgian sixties DJ Zaki, and in turn, having grown up surrounded by thousands of records, brothers David and Stephen perform behind the turntables as 2manyDJ’s, a name that comes from one of the song titles off their second LP, Much Against Everyone’s Advice, an album released under yet another moniker found in the album title of their most well known work- As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2. Radio Soulwax finds Dolly Parton alongside Royksopp, and The Stooges alongside Salt N Pepa. Originally using the samples of 187 different artists, the CD only features 114, with the remainder either missing sources or not having legal clearance. The Dewaele Brothers don’t just spend their days playing Frankenstein with other recordings. In addition to an arsenal of remixes, the two have released several studio albums under the Soulwax moniker, among them, 2004’s Any Minute Now. I first discovered them through the single “E-Talking,” a video that goes through the alphabet via illicit substances abused in a nightclub. A line from the song, “Part of the Weekend Never Dies,” is also the name of a tour documentary of which the brothers are the subjects and directors along with Saam Farahmand. The latest recording is a compilation called Most of the Remixes (an album title truncated from the original 545 characters,) featuring sounds from fellow electro cohorts Justice, Ladytron, and Tiga. Lost yet? It’s fine- you only have to go through a fraction of their catalog to see that The Flying Dewaele Brothers/2manyDJs/Soulwax have (perhaps earlier than most, thanks in part to dear old dad) tangled together an interesting web of mashups, remixes, original music, and band names. Discography (as Soulwax) Leave the Story Untold (1996) Much Against Everyone’s Advice (1998) Any Minute Now (2004) Nite Versions (2005) Most of the Remixes (2008) Discography (As 2manyDJs) As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 (2002) |
