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]
