Soulwax are a Belgian electronic band and DJ/production collective from Ghent , who formed in 1995. Centred around brothers David and Stephen Dewaele , other current members include Igor and Laima Cavalera, and Stefaan Van Leuven. The group first rose to prominence following the release of their album Much Against Everyone's Advice , and have released five studio albums to date. Outside of Soulwax, the Dewaeles also perform DJ sets under the moniker 2manydjs (first known as The Fucking Dewaele Brothers/The Flying Dewaele Brothers).
30-407: The group are also known for their project Radio Soulwax . Their 2002 compilation, As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 , was named the best popular music album of 2002 by The New York Times . The brothers have also hosted a show on Belgian television, titled Alter8 . The 2004 album Any Minute Now spawned three singles in " E Talking ", "NY Excuse" and the title track. The "E Talking" music video
60-459: A band with Shane Doran and his brother-in-law Fergadelic, called Die Verboten . In 2007, Soulwax produced remixes of " Gravity's Rainbow " by Klaxons and "Phantom Pt. II" by Justice . Soulwax, under the guise of 2manydjs, headlined their own "Radio Soulwax" tent at the Rock Ness Festival held on 9 June 2007. The following day at the festival, they played a Soulwax Nite Versions show in
90-483: A certain moment that it began 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. In 2009, Jan van Biesen , the head of the radio station Studio Brussel , said to the brothers "Why don't you make your own radio ?". Now they claim that was the initial beginning of Radio Soulwax. Then they started scanning and encoding their whole vinyl collection: more or less 50,000 records. This job took them two and
120-569: A compilation of the Radio Soulwax shows 2manydjs did for various radio stations including Studio Brussel (Belgium), Radio 1 (UK), KISS 100 (UK) and Eins live (Germany). As part of the Vivid Live Festival in Sydney, David and Stephen Dewaele behind 2manydjs and electro-rock outfit Soulwax presented a one-off series of radio shows on 'Triple J' Australian national radio station. The series
150-409: A different fictional band. In 2011, Soulwax established a website called Radio Soulwax , in which a continuous mix played all day, featuring 24 hour-long mixes with visuals similar to those used in the 2manydjs live sets, and included music from many different decades. These "RSWX hours" have since been made available on Vimeo . Soulwax - Machine was conceived and directed by Saam Farahmand , who
180-461: A half years. The intro to Radio 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 Andrew Daffy's The House of Curves in London. Farahmand was also the director of Part of
210-649: A party organised by Kylie Minogue in the Tribeca Grand hotel in New York. Minogue also performed their mash-up of her song " Can't Get You Out of My Head " and New Order's song " Blue Monday " live at the 2002 BRIT Awards , and afterwards released it as the B-side of her single " Love at First Sight " under the title "Can't Get Blue Monday Out of My Head". Online music magazine Pitchfork placed As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 at number 93 on their list of top 200 albums of
240-431: A series of diverse artists including Dolly Parton , Basement Jaxx and 10cc . While some of the tracks are conventional remixes , most tracks are mashup collages with the vocals of one song placed over the instrumental part of another. The sampled material was extensively cleared for commercial release; as a result, only 114 elements appear out of the 187 recordings that 2ManyDJs initially wished to use. The artwork of
270-602: A successful act in its own right, and they performed as headliners on the second stage of the 1999 Rock Werchter festival. Flemish main alternative music station, Studio Brussel , then asked them to become resident DJs for the show "Hang the DJs". It was there that the brothers made their first real mash-ups. In 2002, As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 became the first official mash-up album. Prior mash-ups were bootlegs, never officially released, but Soulwax, and their record label PIAS Recordings , went to great lengths to get clearance for
300-470: Is a collection of remixes of tracks from the album Any Minute Now . In January 2006, Soulwax released their second remix album. Titled This Is Radio Soulwax , it was covermounted into the February 2006 issue of Mixmag . Their third remix album, Part of NYE Never Dies , was also covermounted into Mixmag in late 2008. In summer 2006, Soulwax completed a "Nite Version remix" of Gossip 's " Standing in
330-482: The 2manydjs live sets. The earliest incarnation of Radio Soulwax debuted on [web.archive.org site] www.soulwax.com in around 2001. Initially it featured 10 mp3 playlists, sequenced like DJ sets, although more were added later. More recently the Radio Soulwax project was revived, because they said that they came to a level that they headline festivals, they can always play for a big audience, etc. But they found at
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#1732887876618360-423: The two-fingered salute ; designer Marc Meulemans added a brown paper bag over the head of Elton John, to avoid problems with the rights, but original photographer Richard Young refused to let them use the picture anyway. Meulemans then decided to remove the whole photograph by means of Tipp-Ex , leaving just the brown paper bag. In Stylus Magazine , Scott Plagenhoef gave it an "A−" rating and named it "one of
390-652: The "Clash Arena." Later that month, they took part in the Wild in the Country event at Knebworth Park on 30 June 2007. In December 2007, they held Radio Soulwax-mas, a massive Christmas party in Flanders Expo, with guests such as Tiga, Erol Alkan, Boys Noize , Justice , Riton, Mixhell, Daniele Baldelli, Hong Kong Dong, Das Pop , Goose , and Milk Inc. Soulwax produced the debut album by fellow Belgians Das Pop , fronted by Soulwax drummer Bent Van Looy , scheduled for 2009 release in
420-423: The 2000s. At the 2013 Elektropedia Awards, the album was voted the best Belgian dance album ever. On CD copies of the album, it is possible to rewind to before the first track to access "Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Soulwax Elektronic Mix)" by Kylie Minogue . This is accomplished by pressing play, rewinding for 4 minutes and 17 seconds and allowing the album to start. After this song the album moves straight into
450-668: The Dewaele Brothers grew up among vinyl records and started collecting them themselves. On 26 March 2014, students of the PXL university digitalized 5.000 of the more than 40.000 vinyl records owned by the Dewaele Brothers. As a gift back, the brothers played a set at a student afterparty. Radio Soulwax Radio Soulwax is the former project of David and Stephen Dewaele of 2manydjs . It has taken several forms, most recently appearing as an app and web app hosting 24 individual hour-long mixes, with custom visuals similar to those used in
480-523: The UK. In December 2009, Soulwax produced the song "We Love Animals" for Crookers with Mixhell . In addition, Soulwax produced the song " Talk to Me " by Peaches . In 2016, Soulwax returned with a new live show entitled "Soulwax Transient Program For Drums And Machinery". The new line up consisted of three drummers (Victoria Smith, Blake Davies and Igor Cavalera ) as well as Igor's wife Laima Leyton, (also of Mixhell) on synths and backing vocals. This live show
510-581: The Way of Control " as well as their "Ravelight Dub" and "Ravelight Vocal Mix" of Robbie Williams ' "Lovelight". The summer 2006 tour was filmed by director Saam Farahmand , and resulted in the documentary " Part of the Weekend Never Dies ". In August 2006, Soulwax were working on tracks for the new album from Tiga. In late 2006, it was announced in Belgian magazine HUMO that David and Stephen Dewaele had formed
540-586: The Weekend Never Dies , their rockumentary. After the release of the Radio Soulwax App, The Guardian wrote: "They are two more steps along the road to finding out how tablets and smartphones may change the way we experience music." This is the list of the 24 mixes (in order of release): As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 is the first album to be released by Soulwax members David and Stephen Dewaele also known as 2ManyDJs . It consists of 45 remixed tracks by
570-594: The album was also altered following lawsuit threats from the photographer of the original images. The album became a commercial success in Belgium and a critical success elsewhere, eventually selling more than half a million copies worldwide. In 1998, when touring with their Soulwax album Much Against Everyone's Advice , the Dewaele brothers started to perform as DJs at their own after-shows as "The Flying Dewaele Brothers", later renamed "The Fucking Dewaele Brothers". It became
600-680: The best pop album of 2002 in his end-of-year list in The New York Times . The Face placed it second in their list of best albums of 2002, and Spin placed it at #40 in their end-of-year list of best albums, calling it "the year's best novelty record". David Bowie described the mash-ups as "dynamite combinations" in an interview on BBC radio, and gave further praise in an interview in The Times . Bowie also invited Soulwax with him for an interview on French television in 2003. The album ensured many other invitations for Soulwax, who played at
630-677: The first real contenders for album of the year". Zane Lowe called it a "historical record", in Belpop , a documentary about Soulwax on Belgian TV channel Canvas . The album peaked at #2 in the Flemish Ultratop album chart, staying in the chart for 41 weeks, and reached #29 in Norway, #31 in the Netherlands, and #79 in France. The album was certified a gold record in Belgium. Neil Strauss rated it
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#1732887876618660-542: The playlist to the in-game radio station " Soulwax FM ". Adapted from Discogs. An album with remixes that were not included in Most of the Remixes . These unofficial compilations are bootleg recordings of radio shows that 2manydjs did for Studio Brussel . A bootleg recording of their Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1 in 2005 was released under the title 50,000,000 Soulwax Fans Can't Be Wrong . As sons of radio and TV host Zaki,
690-458: The recordings used in the mixes. The duo originally wished to include elements of 187 recordings, but eventually used 114 of them. 62 were refused permission and 11 could not be traced. The track "Shake Your Body" lacked clearance, as the license owner could not be found. 2ManyDJs included it anyway, because they felt its exclusion would be a waste. The cover was originally taken from a photograph of Elton John outside Langan's Brasserie giving
720-469: The scenes footage, interviews, etc. As of April 2008, Soulwax's clubbing film/documentary Radio Soulwax is finished. They performed a sold-out gig at the London Royal Festival Hall, during which they did a première of the film. It came out on DVD September 2008. Soulwax composed the soundtrack for the 2016 film Belgica by Felix Van Groeningen , crediting every song on the soundtrack to
750-479: The soundtrack for the Belgian movie Steve + Sky . Soulwax contributed three instrumental tracks on this compilation under the name " Kawazaki ". Soulwax's remix of the Rolling Stones' " You Can't Always Get What You Want " is the credit song of, and featured in the movie 21 . Director Saam Farahmand has filmed Soulwax on their international dates (2005–2007), capturing all the excitement, chaos and humour of
780-512: The world tour. Soulwax filmed 120 shows with one camera in Europe, Japan, U.S., Latin America and Australia. This resulted in two films entitled "Part of the Weekend Never Dies"; a live music film and a documentary which includes 2manydjs, Soulwax Nite Versions and features James Murphy, Nancy Whang , Erol Alkan, Tiga, Justice, Busy P, The Naked Guy, So-Me, Peaches , Kitsuné, Klaxons and many more in behind
810-599: Was broadcast nationally 6 PM nightly from 31 May 2011 to 3 June 2011. The 2001 track "Theme from Discothèque" is by David and Stephen Dewaele from Soulwax, under the name Samantha Fu . They produced this track for a Ghent -based dancegroup called Kung Fu. On February 2, 2009, Soulwax made a guest appearance on BBC Radio 1 , playing 420 song introductions in a period of 60 minutes. David and Stephen produced Bolis Pupul's debut album Letter to Yu , and recorded it at their studio, Deewee Studios, in Ghent. In 2004, Soulwax compiled
840-638: Was controversial and restricted to post- watershed broadcast on music television channels . Filmed on location in London 's Fabric nightclub , everyone in the video is depicted as being on a different drug, listed from A through Z (including popular drug nicknames). The group produced a number of official and unofficial remixes, including " Daft Punk Is Playing at My House " and "Get Innocuous!" by LCD Soundsystem , " Robot Rock " by Daft Punk and " Dare " by Gorillaz . They are friends of artists Tiga , LCD Soundsystem and WhoMadeWho . The album Nite Versions (2005)
870-414: Was inspired to create an interpretation of the ethos behind the project. The result is a film featuring model Marilyn Rose that encapsulates the audio-visual obsession of Radio Soulwax, according to Soulwax themselves. The film was previsualised, edited, and post-produced by Andrew Daffy's The House of Curves in London. Soulwax contributed to the soundtrack of Grand Theft Auto V . They hosted and supplied
900-465: Was the basis for their album From Deewee , released March 24. The only official compilation As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 , was released in 2002 and is composed of 45 tracks the Dewaele brothers were able to clear the rights from. They originally requested rights for 187 tracks and got clearances for 114 of them. 62 were refused and 11 remained untraceable. All the unofficial releases ( As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 1 and 3 through 11) are in fact
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