Soulwax

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Soulwax
Country	Ghent, Belgium
Years active	1995–present
Genres	Indie rock, Alternative rock, Dance
Labels	Pias
Members	Stephen Dewaele David Dewaele Stefaan Van Leuven Steve Slingeneyer Dave Martijn

Soulwax, headed by David and Stephen Dewaele, is an alternative rock band hailing from Ghent, Belgium. Even though the Dewaele Brothers have released several major albums under this moniker, including Leave The Story Untold (1996), Much Against Everyone's Advice (1999) and Any Minute Now (2004), the two are perhaps best known for their influential contributions to the bastard pop genre under the names Flying Dewaele Brothers and 2 Many DJ's and the landmark record As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2.

The album Any Minute Now spawned three singles in "E Talking", "NY Excuse" and the title track. The duo has also produced a number of official and unofficial remixes, including "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House" by LCD Soundsystem, "Robot Rock" by Daft Punk and "DARE" by Gorillaz. The album Nite Versions (2005) is a collection of remixes of tracks from the album Any Minute Now. David and Stephen are friends of artists Tiga, LCD Soundsystem and Whomadewho.

In summer 2006, Soulwax completed a Nite Version remix of The Gossip's "Standing in the Way of Control", as well as their "Ravelight Dub" and "Ravelight Vocal Mix" of Robbie Williams' "Lovelight". The summer 2006 tour was filmed by director Saam Farahmand, and resulted in a Radio Soulwax documentary. The film will debut at the Cannes Film Festival 2007 in May.

As of August 2006, Soulwax are working on tracks for the new album from Tiga. In late 2006, it was announced in Belgian magazine HUMO that David and Stephen Dewaele had formed a krautrock band with Riton called Die Verboten.

Soulwax have produced a remix of Klaxons' "Gravity's Rainbow", set to be released later in 2007, and a remix of "Ice Cream" by New Young Pony Club to be released in May.

1 Soulwax Discography
2 Discography as 2 Many DJ's
- 2.1 Official Compilations
- 2.2 Unofficial Compilations
3 External links

[edit] Soulwax Discography

[edit] Albums

Leave The Story Untold (1996) (produced by Chris Goss)
Much Against Everyone's Advice (1999)
Any Minute Now (2004)
Nite Versions (2005)

[edit] Singles

Year	Song	U.K. Chart	Album
1995	"2nd Handsome Blues" (10" Vinyl EP)	-	-
2000	"Conversation Intercom"	#50	Much Against Everyone's Advice
2000	"Much Against Everyone's Advice"	#56	Much Against Everyone's Advice
2000	"Too Many DJs"	#40	Much Against Everyone's Advice
2004	"Any Minute Now"	#34	Any Minute Now
2005	"E Talking"	#27	Any Minute Now
2005	"NY Excuse"	#35	Any Minute Now

[edit] Remixes

dEUS - "Everybody's Weird"
Einstürzende Neubauten - "Stella Maris"
Kolk - "Uma"
Tahiti 80 - "Heartbeat"
Zita Swoon - "My Bond With You And Your Planet: Disco!"
Muse - "Muscle Museum"
Lords of Acid - "I Sit on Acid 2000"
Sugababes - "Round Round"
Arthur Argent - "Hold Your Head Up"
Kylie Minogue - "Can't Get You Out Of My Head"
Ladytron - "Seventeen"
Playgroup - "Make It Happen"
DJ Shadow - "Six Days"
Felix Da Housecat - "Rocket Ride"
LCD Soundsystem - "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House"
Daft Punk - "Robot Rock"
Gorillaz - "Dare"
The Gossip - "Standing in the Way of Control"
Robbie Williams - "Lovelight"
Klaxons - "Gravity's Rainbow"

[edit] Other work

The 2001 track "Theme from Discotheque" is by David and Stephen Dewaele from Soulwax, behind the name Samantha Fu. They produced this track for a Ghent-based dancegroup called Kung Fu. In 2004 Soulwax compiled the soundtrack for the Belgian movie "Steve+Sky". Soulwax contributed three instrumental tracks on this compilation by the name "Kawazaki".