Happy New year!

I suppose most of you didn't realize that I'm 3 week late. But I am. So to catch up you'll get 4 episodes this week. Unless i fell into a blackhole of despair and procrastination again.

Now that you know Soulwax it's time to realize you might already know them, or at least probably heard of them, or seen their name on a festival poster. Because they are also known as 2many DJs.

That's actually how I discovered them without even looking under the paper bags of who could be 2 many DJs. If you were born in the late 1980 or the beginning of the 90's you probably went through the evolution of music consumption. Starting with cassettes recorded on the radio, to CD's, burnt CD's, MP3 on CD's, MP3 on hard drive, MP3 on Limewire, torrent or whatever software was the de facto way to transmit music then, till the modern era of streaming and youtube.

Nowadays you get recommendation through algorithm, mostly (or by people writing newsletters, when they are not 3 weeks late). In the early mp3 era, when you were limited by a bad internet access and your early age of 12, the limit was the extended group of friends and family members that would share their library with you. An older cousin that was into 90's Hip Hop and Rock, a friend's older brother that loved reggae, an uncle that would download everything brand new and popular...

After they zere done with saturating the family computer's hard drive it was time to rearrange and discover all the things they gave you.

This lead me and countless others of my generation discovering unheard stuff on the radio, 90's classics we didn't know and random stuff that didn't make sense. That's how I first listened to 2 many DJ's mixtape, as heard on radio Soulwax part 2. I burnt it on a CD, listened to it quite a lot and didn't realize until much later that I was in the presence of many classics. In contact with many sub-genre I rediscovered only a lot later, when my taste matured and i was ready for something more than Radio soup. So If I had to write my own teachers song, Soulwax would be in it at least twice.

Maybe you've noticed the "part 2" at the end of the album, it's because this mixtape was a part of a series of mixtapes they did for various radio shows at the beginning of the 2000's. They couldn't clean the right for the rest and to be fair, the fact that they achieved to clean the rights for one album is already quite impressive. You can find the other parts on the internet somewhere. Some were even burnt on bootleg CDs.

In Parallel to touring with Soulwax they DJed all around the world. sometimes doing both for a festival.

In 2012, they started a big project called radio Soulwax. A radio airing 24/7 on the internet. Not your typical radio tho. the music came with synced visuals. Each hour was a different mix, on different subject from Rock riffs to Space disco, to slowed down Hardstyle. 24 mixes. Something for everyone.

They even added some visual to their classic as heard on radio Soulwax part 2

Here are my favourite mixes:

Dave, a visual trip into David Bowie's body of work.
Meahri part 1 & 2, something about the distorted visual and the balearic rythm and odd songs makes it my favourites mixes.
Librarian girl, first time I heard about Library music, what a great introduction. and visually pleasing too.
Under the cover part 1, 2 & 3, a perfect party mix when you have a big TV you don't know how to use. 

They actually toured with those big visual on a giant screen behind them when they were DJing. That definitely makes for a nice show.