REDNIK’s Rock Werchter 2011 report!

I just survived my first big festival of the summer, Rock Werchter. More of a rock festival (as the name already spoiled), but it also features some nice electronic producers/dj’s name. Let me back up and tell you what I enjoyed the most these past 4 festival days.

James Blake was the only artist that first day with any relevance to this blog. I unfortunally only saw the first part of the performance and really enjoyed it. He didn’t get the best reviews, but I think James Blake just isn’t the artist for a big festival, more of a smaller venue where everybody shuts the f*ck up and listens.

Day two had Chase & Status, The Subs and Goose. Only got around seeying Goose (because of names like the Arctic Monkeys on the mainstage), but damn what a good show. Already been to other gigs by them, but those tracks from the latest album sure don’t miss impact when played live! Also really enjoyed the reworked version of ‘Black Gloves’

On the day number three we have the (commercial?) dubstep revelation Magnetic Man. Too bad Skream wasn’t with them, was apperently becoming a father for the first time that night, so I guess congrats to him by now! Nevertheless the whole marquee crowd got nuts on all tracks. Strong live performance by P Money at the end!

The last day I was getting all siked and pumped up for the last gig: Digitalism. Already played their new album ‘I Love You, Dude’ multiple times and was really curious on how Reaperbahn and Antidote would sound like live. Finally the moment was there. They played a mix of old and new and the old tracks sounded really good, but the new tracks just didn’t came to their right. Antidote sounded weak aswell as Reaperbahn that also seemed to fail technical wise. Could have been better guys allthough the live drummer is a nice addition!

Alright, that was me looking back at Rock Werchter, there were lots more names that I enjoyed or wished I could have seen. Don’t hold back to share your thoughts. Tomorrow you can expect a look forward to Les Ardentes!

2 Many Dj's and Tiga at Rock Werchter 2009

It’s been two days since thousands of people left the festivalsite at Rock Werchter, still one of the best and biggest festivals in whole Europe. A lot of artists and even dj’s got there chance to entertain the festival people. Two of these dj’s (well actually three) were Tiga and 2 many dj’s and these are their livesets (part of it atleast):

Tiga @ Rock Werchter 2009

2 Many Dj’s @ Rock Werchter 2009

Note: The tags of the 2 many dj’s set are messed up it seems, but no panic it is indeed at Rock Werchter 2009!

Rock Werchter 2008

Rock Werchter, a 4 day festival in Belgium, known in the whole world for his perfect organisation. The festival is mainly a rock festival but it has some good dance/electro names this year, I’ll only review these names, because we are still an electro blog.

Thursday 03/07

Shameboy, our Belgian duo. With the release of their second album they had some more “playing room”. They played a varried set with tracks from the new and old album. We got the Shameboy sound we expected, but too bad they didn’t really mixed the tracks together … , we have the liveset ! so you can listen for yourself. Download it right here

Soulwax, … wow. The third time I saw them, but this show absolutely blew me away. A mixture of their own tracks and own remixes all blended into one whole banging set!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKCfRG6OrcU&hl=en&fs=1]

And to end the evening the two Dewaele brothers (better known as 2manydj’s) played a dj-set. They started off very good with some more commercial tracks and more “underground” tracks like , fake blood – mars . But towards the ending their mixing became a bit messy, I guess they were getting tired or something, but hey, I can’t blame them.

Friday 04/07

Not much electro/dance that day, two names: Digitalism and Moby.

I didn’t watch Digitalism till the end , because Moby started around halfway through the set. So I went off pretty early at Digitalism, but good news, the set is recorded and you can download it right here.

Moby, didn’t played a djset, but instead a big liveshow with normal instruments, vocal singer(what a voice!) and of course Moby himself. Moby played all his hits and the more slower songs were reinvented into a dance version, somewhat like the moby remixes album.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF7XcZkhMgM&hl=en&fs=1]

Sunday 06/07

Justice, as expected. A liveset with most of their own tracks and a remix or 2, 3 … . The overall set was good, but the marquee was really packed with people and the screaming and shouting even came over the music now and then. “Because we … are … your friends … you’ll … never be alone again !”

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EPIJFYfLIg&hl=en&fs=1]