Mention the name 2 Many DJs, and you'll get frantic nods of recognition and approval from dance fans mention the name Soulwax, however, and you might only get a puzzled look. Much against everyone's expectations, the CD grew wings and flew out of the record shops, outselling Soulwax's entire back catalogue and putting the Belgian boys on a par with such scratch surgeons as Coldcut, DJ Shadow and Richard X. They displayed their prodigious mixing talents on the hour-long mash-up As Heard on Radio Soulwax Vol 2, gleefully performing brain salad surgery on tracks by Destiny's Child, Peaches, Iggy Pop, 10CC and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It earned an honourable mention in Nick Hornby's collection of rock-centric essays, 31 Songs, and kudos for the clever cover artwork (based on classic vinyl seven-inches) and smart, hard-edged alt.rock songs - Conversation Intercom, Overweight Karate Kid and (no relation to the Westlife song of the same name) Flying Without Wings.Īlso on the début album was a song called 2 Many DJs, and the brothers adopted this name as their deck-wrecking alter-ego.
Soulwax sold a modest but respectable amount of copies of their fine 1999 album, Much Against Everyone's Advice. Given the success of 2 Many DJs, it's a brave thing Steph and Dave are doing too, reawakening the sleeping rock beast that is Soulwax and risking all on a record that may or may not be the breakthrough they, their friends and their record company are hoping - perhaps even praying - for. "So it's a pretty brave thing for him to do here." "So I knew he was going to do this project, and when it opened up we DJed for him, and Manu Chao came also, because he's a good friend of his, and also 'cos it's the idea for him of having this cultural thing in the middle of Roubaix, which is like a miners' town, one of the biggest immigrant populations in northern France, and this is one of the rougher areas. "But Manu does also this electronic festival, La Villette in Paris, once every two years, and he also does a festival in Lille, and that's very close to Ghent. "I'll be really honest with you, I don't have that much of a connection with Roubaix because I haven't really been here that much," admits Steph. In Belgium, you are either Flemish or Walloon in musical terms, Steph and Dave Dewaele swing from Flemish to Walloon and back again, depending on whether they're DJing or rocking out, and believe me, it can sometimes really mess with their heads.
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But now the brotherly Belgians are back doing the real day job: getting their band Soulwax on the road, rehearsing the new (and old) songs, and trying to remember how to pull those rock star poses again. Steph and Dave have been on a vinyl whirlwind for the past three years, touring the world under their alter-ego of 2 Many DJs. Here they are, on the verge of releasing their second album and about to embark on a major tour, but they're still finding it hard to adjust to being in a band again. You have to forgive the Dewaele brothers if they're feeling a little torn in two. The Belgian brothers talk to Kevin Courtney about the trials & tribulations of reviving Soulwax
I am interested in the innate humor in so-called failure and success while failing and ( hopefully) succeeding onstage.2 Many DJs can spoil the rock 'n' roller, the Dewaeles decided when they set aside their smash hit alter-egos and returned to the business of making music. I am intrigued by movement that is, on the one hand logical and direct, and on the other, transient and fragile enough to fail, crumble, or disappear at any moment. My choreographic and comedic work aims to uncover and deconstruct the complex nuances of character and memory by use of contemporary dance forms, improvisational structures in movement and voice, and alter-egos.
She currently works with Doug LeCours, and regularly collaborates with Neena Ellora. in Dance and Minor in Chinese Language from Mount Holyoke College.
Mariam Dingilian is a choreographer, performer, writer, and comedian based in New York City.ĭescribed as " easily an audience favorite" by The Queens Chronicle, she has presented her work throughout NYC at venues such as Triskelion Arts, Arts on Site, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Green Space, and Howl Happening, as well as Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center (Poughkeepsie, NY), Green Kill (Kingston, NY), and The School For Contemporary Dance and Thought (Northampton, MA).
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