Soulwax and 2manydjs are playing the Lost Village festival in Lincolnshire on August 27-30. 2manydjs headline the Active Scene stage, hosted by Confidence Man, on Saturday. The festival has already sold out.
More festival dates for Soulwax: they have been added to the ‘We Love Green’ festival in Bois De Vincennes near Paris on June 7, and they return to Pukkelpop in Belgium on August 21.
Erol Alkan and Laima will join 2manydjs at the Abbey Road After Hours rave on February 21 in London. Soulwax will record new music 2 days before this unique event, and it will be played there.
Due to overwhelming demand, the winners who can attend will be contacted on Monday, February 16.
Eddy Temple Morris shared the story of how he got to know “The Flying Dewaele Brothers” at the beginning of this century and how he gave them their first dj set on UK radio on XFM.
Synth History published “3 Questions With Soulwax”. Here’s an excerpt from the interview:
Synth History: What was some of your early gear?
Soulwax: The first synths we bought were the Korg MS-20–that gigantic educational model that looks like a science fiction movie prop–and a Moog Source together on the same day for the amount of 400 euro. They were just sitting in a local music shop back in the early to mid-90s. We had no idea how to use it but, as we tend to do quite often, we purchased it based on how it looks and figured out the sound afterwards.
We used to scour the local wanted ads for synths, guitars, drums, recording gear etc so we’ve been fortunate to find a lot of crazy gear at an affordable price. The internet has totally changed that of course. In a way I guess it’s cool that we now own so much gear that is currently considered ‘desirable’, but it’s not like we are looking to sell it and it has totally sucked the fun out of searching for instruments. Also that hunt was partially motivated by the lack of then-new fun or inspiring gear we could buy, it was all boring digital workstations and modelling synths etc but nowadays there is so much new and fun gear, I doubt we’d do the same if we were 18 years old now. However much we are attracted by the classic machines, I’m not sure we’d save up to buy a museum relic the price of a car to be honest.
Read the full interview here.
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