Soulwax are an electronic band from

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. Centred around brothers David and Stephen Dewaele, other current members include

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and Stefaan Van Leuven. They were first noticed after the release of their album ''

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'', but after that, the Dewaeles started focusing on their other projects, such as 2manydjs (first known as The Fucking Dewaele Brothers/The Flying Dewaele Brothers). Their album '' As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2'' was named the best popular music album of 2002 by ''

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''. The brothers have also hosted a show on Belgian television, ''Alter8''.

History

Career

The 2004 album ''Any Minute Now'' spawned three singles in "

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", "NY Excuse" and the title track. The "E Talking"

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was controversial and restricted to post- watershed broadcast on

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s. Filmed on location in

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'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 "

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" and "Get Innocuous!" by LCD Soundsystem, " Robot Rock" by Daft Punk and " Dare" by Gorillaz. They are friends of artists Tiga, LCD Soundsystem and

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. The album '' Nite Versions'' (2005) 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

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ed into the February 2006 issue of ''

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''. 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

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's " Standing in the Way of Control" as well as their "Ravelight Dub" and "Ravelight Vocal Mix" of

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' "Lovelight". The summer 2006 tour was filmed by director

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, and resulted in the documentary "

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". In August 2006, Soulwax were working on tracks for the new album from Tiga. In late 2006, it was announced in Belgian magazine ''

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'' that David and Stephen Dewaele had formed a band with Shane Doran and his brother-in-law Fergadelic, called Die Verboten. In 2007, Soulwax produced remixes of "

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and "Phantom Pt. II" by

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. 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 the "Clash Arena." Later that month, they took part in the

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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,

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, Riton, Mixhell, Daniele Baldelli, Hong Kong Dong,

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, and Milk Inc. Soulwax produced the debut album by fellow Belgians

, fronted by Soulwax drummer

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, scheduled for 2009 release in the UK. In December 2009, Soulwax produced the song "We Love Animals" for

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with

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. In addition, Soulwax produced the song " Talk to Me" by

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. 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

) as well as Igor's wife Laima Leyton, (also of Mixhell) on synths and backing vocals. This live show was the basis for their album ''

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'', released March 24.

''As Heard on Radio Soulwax''

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 a compilation of the ''Radio Soulwax'' shows 2manydjs did for various radio stations including Studio Brussel (Belgium),

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(UK),

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(UK) and

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(Germany).

VIVID Sydney 2011

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 was broadcast nationally 6 PM nightly from 31 May 2011 to 3 June 2011.

Other work

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

-based dancegroup called Kung Fu. On February 2, 2009, Soulwax made a guest appearance on

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, playing 420 song introductions in a period of 60 minutes.

Film

In 2004, Soulwax compiled 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' "

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" 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 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,

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, Erol Alkan, Tiga, Justice, Busy P, The Naked Guy, So-Me,

, Kitsuné, Klaxons and many more in behind the scenes footage, interviews, etc. As of April 2008, Soulwax's clubbing film/documentary ''

Radio Soulwax ''Radio Soulwax'' is the former project of David and Stephen Dewaele of 2manydjs. It has taken several forms, most recently appearing as aappanhosting 24 individual hour-long mixes, with custom visuals similar to those used in the 2manydjs live ...

'' 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 a different fictional band.

Radio Soulwax

In 2011, Soulwax established a website called

, 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

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. ''Soulwax - Machine'' was conceived and directed by

, who 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 FM

Soulwax contributed to the soundtrack of '' Grand Theft Auto V''. They hosted and supplied the playlist to the in-game radio station " Soulwax FM".

Awards and nominations

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Discography

Adapted from Discogs.

Albums

;Studio albums * '' Leave the Story Untold'' (1996) * ''

'' (1998) * '' Any Minute Now'' (2004) * ''

'' (2017) * ''Essential'' (2018) ;Remix albums * '' Nite Versions'' (2005) ;Compilation albums * '' This Is Radio Soulwax'' (2006) * '' Most of the remixes...'' (2007) ;Soundtrack albums * '' Steve + Sky'' (2004) * '' Belgica'' (2016) ;Unofficial albums *''Most of the Other Remixes...'' An album with remixes that were not included in ''

''.

Singles

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Production for other artists

* Tiga - Sexor (2006) * Tiga - Ciao! (2009) *

- Das Pop *

- " Talk to Me" (2009) *

- "We Love Animals (with

)" (2010)

Discography as 2manydjs

;Official compilations * '' As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2'' (2002) ;Unofficial compilations These unofficial compilations are bootleg recordings of radio shows that 2manydjs did for Studio Brussel. * 12 albums - ''As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 0'' to ''As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 11'' * ''Hang All DJs'' (all volumes) A bootleg recording of their

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for

in 2005 was released under the title ''50,000,000 Soulwax Fans Can't Be Wrong''.

References

External links

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Radio Soulwax

Part Of The Weekend Never Dies DVD Review

Soulwaxmas at the Brixton
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