This weeks featured artist is someone I met here on last fm. I got a recommendation from someone who just joined the Belgian Electronics group about Aurex, and I must say I was quite impressed by the beauty of the tracks. It tends a lot to the minimal style, but with a lot of attention to mood and atmosphere. I like that a lot. His album One is not yet available, but I’m recommending it to you anyway! Enjoy

Aurex

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Biography:

Aurex a.k.a. Stef Vanderhaeghe lives in Hamme (Belgium). In 1999 he bought his first synth and…

Arbeid Adelt!

Here in Belgium we all know Marcel Vanthilt. He was a famous VJ on MTV. But he here in Belgium he is most known for being a member of the jury for the Eurovision song contest and for presenting a stockload of television shows! But most of us still know “De Dag Dat Het Zonlicht Niet Meer Scheen” as the song that changed music in Dutch forever! This song is not available on last fm but this album is: Des Duivels Oorkussen

www.myspace.com/arbeidadelt

Arbeid Adelt was a Belgian new wave band formed in 1981 by frontman…

Foochow:

Tim is an artist I know from www.electrobel.be . I always liked his perfect mix of electro-trance. and I'm glad to meet him here @ last.fm! Cheerz

Biography on www.foochow.tk

In the early nineties, Belgium was known for its EBM (Electronic Body Music) and dark electronic bands like Front 242, A Split-Second, Klinik, Dive, Insekt, Poesie Noire and The Neon Judgement. Non-Belgian acts like Skinny Puppy, Leather Strip, Cat Rapes Dog, Placebo Effect and many others produced a quite similar sound.

At the same time, Belgium witnessed the birth of a dance-revolution that soon spread across the borders.…

Lena
Lena
: A thing that always pops in my head when thinking about 80s synthpop. I was just old enough to pass that era conscious of music. So here's one of my earliest memories! The Essential
album is truly an essential!

2 Belgen: Bio from the Belgian Pop & Rock archives

Crazy duo from Ghent.
The band initially consisted of guitar player (later multi-instrumentalist) Rembert De Smet and drummer Herman Celis. The name ("two belgians") was jokingly explained as "the only thing we had in common : our nationality".

Almost all the songs are written by Rembert De…

www.diskonnekted.com

Well It’s hard to deny but belgium is the land of EBM – electro. And Diskonnekted is busy to elaborate the genre into oblivion. Especially Neon Night managed to draw my attention with his stunning mixture of electro, progressive techno and big beat. There’s a new album coming “Old School Policies” but in the meantime enjoy this one: Neon Night

Bio from the website:

Diskonnekted is the Belgian dance project of Jan Dewulf by which he tries to combine progressive electro tunes with a broad spectrum of alternative dance styles ranging from EBM and big beats…

Channel X

These songs remind me of the old Serious Beats cassete's I had in the days (I was one of the few who still didn't have a CD player) Anyway another product from the MNO school! Ready to Groove to Move?

Bio from the Channel X page (Channel X - Praga Khan)

What happens when five talented, good lookin' youngsters meet at the Boccaccio, a famous club in Belgium, and want to be noticed ? They simply pick up the phone, dial Jade 4U/Praga Khan/Oliver Adams and introduce themselves, knowing that if they could get an appointment, they…

A while ago I dug up my BEL-80 collection. It features two tracks from Aroma Di Amore (A Band that was a very eclectic star at the Belgian sky). But it aso features two tracks from a guy called Fred A. Did some research on that name and found out it was Fred Angst of Aroma Di Amore. At that time I met ZooL. (also spelled: ZooL). on the Electrobel forum! He just released his Vadem album on U-Cover. I liked it's crispy-eclectic, but also very acoustic feel. When I did some research on Zool I found out he…

Telex is also a classic. I only recently found out about them with the release of their 2006 album How Do You Dance? I was surprised I hadn't heard of them before! While doing some research on them I found out they influenced an enormous list of bands. So here is this weeks featured artist. And to prevent magnificent work to pass whitout notice Looking for Saint Tropez is this weeks featured album.

Telex (band)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Belgian synthpop group Telex was formed in 1978 by Marc Moulin, Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers, as…

This weeks featured artist is Technotronic, To be honest “Pump up the Jam” was my first encounter with Belgian electronic music. So it brings back very good memories every time I hear that track. joy

Technotronic:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Technotronic is a studio-based Belgian House Music project formed by Jo Bogaert (born Thomas De Quincey, 1954, Belgium) in 1988. Together with Ya Kid K (born Manuela Kamosi in 1973 in Zaire), he produced the hit single "Pump Up the Jam" which was originally intended as an instrumental. An image for the act was put together utilizing Zairian-born fashion…

Because of the rise of video's on last fm. I'm gonna give you, if possible, a vid of the featured artist of the week.here's the first one, My ravesex anthem: Lords of Acid - I Sit on Acid

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=fuQHT7nmYHU

Cheers