Subbacultcha Belgium March 2019

Ay-Ay-Lee-Koo March 2019

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ARTEFACT SOUND 01.03 ELLEN ARKBRO RATKJE & BARRUK + GAMELAN VOICES

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16.03 Overlast

DE Studio, Antwerp

22.03 Poxcat #3 01.03 Ellen Arkbro + Ratkje & Marcel Bike Café (Poxcat), Brussels

Barruk + Gamelan Voices Begijnhofkerk (STUK), Leuven 22.03 Lena Willikens + Identified

Patient + Mad Miran C12, Brussels 01.03 African Boogie Night

Pekfabriek, Antwerp 23.03 Flavien Berger + Marc Melià 02.03 John T Gast + Oceanic

Het Bos, Antwerp

STUK, Leuven

23.03 Dax J + Headless Horseman

C12, Brussels

KulturA (Collectif Mental), Liège

02.03 Abdulla Rashim + Acronym +

Egyptian Lover C12, Brussels 24.03 The Telescopes + Jet Lag 03.03 Schatrax + DJ Athome + Cleveland C12, Brussels 24.03 Empress Of

Botanique, Brussels

05.03 Fornet + Sergeant Trefpunt (Democrazy), Ghent

25.03 FEELS + Pega

La Zone (PopKatari), Liège

06.03 Le Villejuif Underground

28.03 KAVIR

KASKcinema, Ghent

KulturA (Go With The Flow), Liège

09.03 DJ Ungel ’t Gewelf (Drama Club), Leuven 09.03 Dopplereffekt + Onu Özer

C12, Brussels

09.03 Mega Nouveau Perreo

Beursschouwburg, Brussels

16.03 ssaliva ‘Unshielded’ release party Het Bos (Slagwerk), Antwerp 15.03 Bouge B Day 1 16.03 Theo Parrish

deSingel, Antwerp C12, Brussels

16.03 Club Energie (Ultramaxx)

Minus One, Ghent

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29.03 DC Salas release party

C12, Brussels

30.03 Young Widows + Shoeshine +

Pink Room Magasin 4, Brussels 30.03 Barac + Ion Ludwig +

Mor Elian C12, Brussels 30.03 2 Years Basic Moves

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film 13.03 Video Game Double Bill: Super

Mario Bros + Ace Attorney

KASKcinema, Ghent

15.03 Don’t Worry He Won’t Get

Far On Foot Cinema Zuid, Antwerp 15.03 High Life avant-premièr

Cinema Palace, Brussels 18.03 Escape to Victory

Cinematek, Brussels

theatre / dance 22 & PRICE 23.03

Beursschouwburg, Brussels

29.03 Slow #4

KVS, Brussels

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MORTIER + GALINE

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Amigo

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URAL THOMAS & THE PAIN

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21.03

MDC III + BRIK TU-TOK

CHARLATAN

23.03

EVIL EMPIRE ORCHESTRA

CHARLATAN

25.03

NUBIYAN TWIST + VENTILATEUR

27.03

ISBELLS + CATBUG

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LE MANOU

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FADED: SAN HOLO

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THE GERMANS + GAMEBOYZ

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LE BUTCHERETTES

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JOHN J PRESLEY

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IAN CLEMENT

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ROLAND

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Ay-AyLee-Koo The sound came from far away, a soft vibration in the ether. Through a haze of gossamer clouds, the delicate chirps could be heard tumbling delicately, like feathery snowflakes on a puffy mattress. It was a song that evoked roundness, the velvety state of near-dreams, pushing you into a sweet fog of being and not being. Once more: Ay. Ay. Lee. Koo. A language loaded with the comfort of infancy, taking you in with big round eyes and all the acceptance of an old friend. Whatever it meant, whatever it was trying to say, there was nothing else to do but listen.

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music Ellen Arkbro + Ratkje & Barruk + Gamelan Voices

African Boogie Night ft. Esa, African Diplomat, Dj Boats and DTM Funk 1 Mar - Pekfabriek, Antwerp 23.00 - €10 - free for members What do you get when you invite a South African and Ivorian DJ? Antwerp, Let’s do the boogie? Boogie time! It’s time to boogie! We love to boogie on a Saturday night! High school boogie, African boogie! We said we love to boogie, we love to do the African boogie with you!!

John T Gast + Oceanic 1 Mar - Begijnhofkerk (STUK), Leuven 20.00 - €14 - free for members

2 Mar - Het Bos, Antwerp 22.00 - €10 - free for members

Three performances with three unusual key elements: a 17th-century pipe organ, an Indonesian gamelan and a Norwegian joik. Composer Ellen Arkbro will perform a new composition, followed by Ratkje & Barruk, a collaboration between avant-garde vocalist Maja Ratkje and joik singer Katarina Barruk. Gamelan Voices, aka Nid & Sancy, will take you on an Indonesian-gamelan-electro-trip afterwards. Members need to buy a ticket with a discount code, mail us at memberships@ subbacultcha.be to receive it.

The eclectic ‘Strange Sounds From Beyond’ club nights always pack a punch. First on the bill is Planet Mu and Apron Records protégé John T Gast. His refreshing and innovative club sounds have roots in industrial techno and UK club music. Second guest is Oceanic, who lets his DJ sets float between ambient soundscapes, gripping ethnic percussion and rock-hard techno.

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Abdulla Rashim + Acronym + Egyptian Lover 2 Mar - C12, Brussels 23.00 - €10 free for members before 01.00 C12 invites Abdulla Rashim, real name Anthony Linell, who presides over Stockholm’s Northern Electronics label with Varg (Jonas Rönnberg). Linell ricochets between the techno world and experimental electronic music, and shares the bill with Egyptian Lover, an American musician, vocalist, producer and DJ, who was an important part of the LA dance music and rap scene in the early 1980s.

Schatrax + DJ Athome + Cleveland 3 Mar - C12, Brussels 18.00 - €TBA free for members before 20.00 Schatrax is run by Josh Brent, who is also responsible for the music on the Schatrax series. DJ Athome is one half of Front De Cadeaux.

Cleveland is the nom-de-guerre of the creative mind of Andrea Mancini.

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Fornet + Sergeant 5 Mar - Trefpunt (Democrazy), Ghent 19.30 - €12 - free for members Post-punk band Fornet are known for their Kraut influences, returning bass line and edgy vocals. Sergeant is the brainchild of Ferre Marnef (Soldier’s Heart, Glints). Expect dreamy, lo-fi songs and a lot of effects.

Le Villejuif Underground + King Dick 6 Mar - KulturA (Go With The Flow), Liège 20.30 - €8 - free for members Le Villejuif Underground formed when a couple of guys got the idea to invite an Australian singer to come sing live in the garden shed of their house in the suburbs of Paris. They’ve been playing together ever since. Their music is best described as garage rock with a DIY attitude, strongly influenced

by The Mothers of Invention, The Velvet Underground and Lou Reed.

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SA 02.03 KRAAK FESTIVAL & A special 24-hour edition of your SU 03.03

yearly encounter with the avant-garde.

FR 08.03

1Y PSST MADEMOISELLE

SA 09.03

MEGA NOUVEAU PERREO

TH 14.03

JAY MNG SPACE JAM RELEASE PARTY

FR 15.03

CHICOS Y MENDEZ ALBUM RELEASE

MO 18.03 FR 22.03 SA 23.03 WE 27.03 FR 29.03

2019

To celebrate International Women’s Rights Day and their first anniversary, Psst Mlle invites six other Belgian female collectives.

The next queen of Madrid is coming to make you shake your culo to fresh reggaetton!

One of the leading men of a new generation of Brussels’ MC’s brings his new tracks to the stage for the first time.

Intelligent lyrics packed in Latin fusion with an insatiable love of music.

SLOWTHAI + PHASM

Explosion of dark and dreamy grime. w/ AB

ALEX ZHANG HUNGTAI

The artist formerly known as Dirty Beaches is back with a new record.

HEARTBROKEN Textasy, Miley Serious, Covco, Bb.zip

They darken the sky over Brussels with a furious, thunderous line-up.

XIU XIU + JOHN BENCE

In this dark universe everything is possible.

ZWANGERE GUY RELEASE SHOW AFTERPARTY Nikske nada namaak, alleen een goeie nasmaak.

DJ Ungel 9 Mar - ‘t Gewelf (Drama Club), Leuven 23.00 - €5 - free for members Drama Club returns for a basement get-together with Düsseldorf-based upand-comer and Candomblé co-founder DJ Ungel. Things are going fast after his outstanding release on Spekki Webu’s Mirror Zone, so make sure you don’t miss this total mind trip of dub shamanism, ecstatic breakbeat and sluggish acid.

Dopplereffekt + Onu Özer 9 Mar - C12, Brussels 23.00 - €10 free for members before 01.00 Electro band Dopplereffekt from Detroit don’t tour very often, so seeing them live is a chance you can’t miss. Minimal techno DJ Onur Özer is joining the bill.

Nouveau Perreo ft. Ms Nina 9 Mar - Beursschouwburg, Brussels 22.00 - €10 free for members before 24.00

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Madrid’s artistic multi-talent, MS Nina, is exactly what a male-dominated reggaeton scene needs. With her unapologetic, bold femininity she breaks the genre boundaries serving up-beat tracks that immediately fill the air with inclusive positivity.

Tune into her latest release, accompanied with lascivious visuals, as a sweet preview of what to expect on the night. Also on the lineup: Pedrolito, Max Le Daron, Mr Orange and Promesses.

Bouge B Day 1 ft. Granvat & Footwork + DTM Funk + Sirr Tmo + more 15 Mar - deSingel, Antwerp 20.00 - €18 - free for members Bouge B Day 1, and that equals live performances by KRANKk, Cassiel Gaube, Inga Huld Hakonardottir and Granvat & Footwork on the beats of Teklife affiliate Sirr Tmo. You’ll find yourself footworking afterwards through the night to the dance/music footwork culture from Chicago with DJ sets

by Ali-A, Vincent Paolo and DTM Funk.

Theo Parrish 16 Mar - C12, Brussels - 23.00 - €10 free for members before 01.00 Theo Parrish, a legendary name in house music, is a true master behind the decks, mixing deep house with funk and acid. Be early; you don’t want to miss out.

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ssaliva ‘Unshielded’ release party

Club Energie (Ultramaxx) ft. Dyen + VCL + HDMIRROR + DJ Training 16 Mar - Minus One, Ghent 22.00 - €8 free for members before 24.00

ft. ssaliva + Malibu + Ausschuss + Ocomeups + Liyo + Nevrland + Slagwerk 16 Mar - Het Bos (Slagwerk), Antwerp 22.00 - tba free for members before 24.00 Hailing from the outskirts of Liège, François Boulanger favours the lull of the Belgian countryside over the hectic rhythm of the city. Which is somewhat surprising considering the futuristic, syncopated electronic tunes he releases as ssaliva. Veteran Subba members will be familiar with him, a prolific sound trailblazer who’s releasing his new music in company of friends and family.

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Polish your rims for the next edition of Club Energie (Ultramaxx). Niels Verougstraete, founder of the underground label KERM, and Sam Gunst, founder of Ghent-based techno label Euro2000, are inviting Dyen, VCL, HDMIRROR and DJ Training, turning Minus One into an ever-expanding universe in which underground and experimental meet techno for a dark and throbbing night.

Overlast #4 ft. CasseCouilles + Martha Da’ro + Boi Wonder + more 16 Mar - DE Studio, Antwerp 20.00 - €10 - free for members De Studio is hosting a new Overlast night. You can expect business as usual: three halls, nine bands and three DJs. All fresh, Belgian talent, new revelations to discover à volonté. We put our bets on Martha Da’ro!

Poxcat #3 ft. Radio Hito + Summer Satana + Céline Gillain + DJ K-ROL + Poxcat Crew DJs

Flavien Berger + Marc Melià

22 Mar - Marcel Bike Café (Poxcat), Brussels - 20.00 - €7 free for members before 22.00 The girls of Brussels-based DJ collective Poxcat are back with a fresh new party.

Poxcat will feature three live sets by Radio Hito, Summer Satana and Céline Gillain, closing the third edition with DJ sets by DJ K-Roll and the Poxcat crew. The very talented artist Gabriela Gonzalez Rondón will visually support the party with an installation of projections.

Lena Willikens + Identified Patient + Mad Miran 22 Mar - C12, Brussels - 23.00 - €10 free for members before 01.00 Cologne-based Lena Willikens returns to our country, playing C12 for the first time.

The DJ/producer is renowned for her fantastic sets consisting of rarities and varieties within electronic music going from proto-techno all the way to EBM. Joining her on the line-up are Dutchmen Identified Patient and Mad Miran, blessing you with an unforgettable club night.

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23 Mar - STUK, Leuven 20.00 - €16 - free for members One of the rising stars in Belgium, Flavien Berger, is bringing you classic French chanson with an electronic and dreamy twist. STUK also treats us to a performance by master of synthesizer Marc Melià. Members need to buy a ticket with a discount code, mail us at memberships@ subbacultcha.be to receive it.

Dax J + Headless Horseman 23 Mar - C12, Brussels 23.00 - €10 free for members before 01.00 Talking about Dax J, one thing’s for sure: he’s proven himself to be a non-compromising DJ. C12 will also bring the

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less conventional sounds of Headless Horseman, one of the most talked about, mysterious artists in the techno scene.

Entering the C12 rave cave with Dax J and Headless Horseman means only one thing: pounding, pounding techno music.

The Telescopes + Jet Lag 24 Mar - KulturA (Collectif Mental), Liège 20.00 - €8 - free for members The Telescopes are veterans in the noise and shoegaze scenes, who can count Portishead as fans. They play gloomy music with brooding drones underneath.

The dark, subdued vocals of frontman Stephen Lawrie often get surrounded by a swarm of heavy distortion. Jet Lag, the post-punk band from Liège, will support.

Empress Of

After a bilingual four-track EP and her full-length Me, a double single, ‘Trust Me Baby / In Dreams’, was released via Terrible in April 2018.

FEELS + Pega 25 Mar - La Zone (PopKatari), Liège 20.00 - €8 - free for members Following up on their 2016 debut album produced by Ty Segall, Los Angeles garage rock group, FEELS, returns to Europe to promote Post Earth – released on 22 February. Supported by Brussels’ Pega, creating ‘dino-post-punk’ beats, this night is for noise-rock fans who love to dance. With positive political undertones, there should be good vibes all around.

KAVIR ft. Siavash Amini + crat + De Zoon + losse veter 28 Mar - KASKcinema, Ghent 20.00 - €7 - free for members

24 Mar - Botanique, Brussels 19.30 - €19 - free for members Empress Of is the solo musical project of Los Angeles-based, Latin American singer-songwriter Lorely Rodriguez. Her sunny pop-electro project pools English and Spanish influences and language in an alternative and experimental universe.

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As usual KAVIR equals the crème de la crème of Belgian and Iranian artists.

During the next edition, team KAVIR will screen one short film, one full-length film and one video work selected by guest curator and LUCA graduate Mahdieh Fahimi. The films will be combined with several musical performances (check Siavash Amini!) in a set built by Niloufar Nematollahi and Lizzy Vandierendonck.

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DC Salas release party

2 Years Basic Moves

ft. Fort Romeau + Nosedrip 29 Mar - C12, Brussels 23.00 - €5 free for members before 01.00 DC Salas is inviting Nosedrip and Michael Greene, aka Fort Romeau, to his release party. This London producer is supersizing his moody deep house into bold, big-room fare that often sounds huge and restrained at the same time.

Young Widows + Shoeshine + Pink Room 30 Mar - Magasin 4, Brussels 20.00 - €10 - free for members Kicking off their European tour, post hardcore / stadium noise rock trio from Louisville Kentucky, Young Widows, are celebrating the ten-year anniversary of Old Wounds. This towering album marked a defining moment for the group. Backed

by Belgian groups ShoeShine and Pink Room delivering indie rock and noise punk sounds (respectively), get ready for loud riffs and high energy.

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ft. Mike D.M.A. + The Sect3000 + Nosedrip 30 Mar - Het Bos (Basic Moves), Antwerp 22.00 - €8 - free for members Happy birthday, Basic Moves! Priding themselves on being a place for outsider club music, Basic Moves constantly test the limits of house, techno and electro with their parties and releases. Nosedrip, on the line-up this evening, plays everything from post-punk to new-wave to psych, with an occult aesthetic vibe surrounding his enchanting sets.

Barac + Ion Ludwig + Mor Elian 30 Mar - C12, Brussels - 23.00 - €10 free for members before 01.00

Three established artists will bring the Berlin clubbing experience to our beloved Brussels: Romanian-based Barac, who infuses trance-inducing electro with Liquid Liquid-like beats; Ion Ludwig, who has been producing electronic music for over a decade, while at the same time being one of the scene’s most elusive characters; and Mor Elian, the globetrotting house and techno DJ who has spent time in Tel Aviv, Los Angeles and Berlin.

film Video Game Double Bill: Super Mario Bros + Ace Attorney 13 Mar - KASKcinema, Ghent 20.30/22.30 - €8 - free for members Super Mario Bros is a science fiction / adventure film from 1993, very loosely based on the computer game of the same name. The film follows the brothers Mario and Luigi in a comical dystopia dominated by King Koopa. The plot of the film, however, has a much darker tone than the games. Ace Attorney is a 2012 Japanese legal comedy-drama film, directed by Takashi Miike and based on the Capcom video game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.

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Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far On Foot

15 Mar - Cinema Zuid, Antwerp 18.00 - €5 - free for members One day, John wakes up in the hospital paralysed from the chest down after a wild night of partying ended up with Dexter, his newly met comrade (damn you, Jack Black) smashing his car into a lamppost. John Callahan fought alcoholism for most of his life. He also delivered some of the greatest, desperately funny cartoons of the late 20th century. In this comforting biopic, Van Sant goes back and forth between the AA meetings Callahan attends (featuring Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth as a bored suburban wife running down the streets naked), his rehabilitation and his search for his birth mother.

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club edition

deSingel is een kunstinstelling van de Vlaamse Overheid en geniet de steun van mediasponsors

dans performance concert

Bouge B vr 15 & za 16 mrt 2019

Escape to Victory 18 Mar - Cinematek, Brussels 19.00 - €4 - free for members WWII. Captain John Colby (Michael Caine) and his POW companions – a bunch of pre-war soccer stars, among which a phlegmatic Sylvester Stallone and real-life soccer star Pelé to mention only a few – field a soccer team whose official aim is to lose against the Germans in order to show the world the pre-eminence of German athletes. But in this charmingly cheesy and predictable ‘Great Escape with football’, the allied soccer players not only want to win, they plan to use the match as an occasion for making their own ‘great escape’.

High Life Avant-Premiere 15 Mar - Cinema Palace, Brussels 19.00 - free for members A group of death-row inmates (including Robert Pattinson, Andre 3000 and Mia Goth) drifts through the cosmos in a lonely spacecraft. But while the ship is heading to the galaxy’s closest black hole, Dibs, a doctor played by Juliette Binoche and basically the authority figure aboard, sets up a system of regular sperm donations and artificial

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inseminations. Freely distorting the conceptions of what an outer-space epic should be, Claire Denis stages an intense, elliptical composition that could be described as an ‘erotically apocalyptic space odyssey’.

theatre / dance PRICE

22-23 March - Beursschouwburg, Brussels 20.30 - €14 - free for members In Melodies are so far my best friend, performer PRICE questions the decaying meaning of language in a neoliberal and hyperreal digital era through music. What are the identities of language today?

And what are possible identities through language? A performative encounter in improvisation with a pianist, a music producer and a fashion designer.

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Slow #4 29 March - KVS, Brussels 20.30 - €9 - free for members SLOW (Slam Our World) wants to bring street art treasures to the stage and into the spotlight by fusing urban expression and theatre. An international guest is invited for each session.

This time Rojo Cordova builds magical bridges between Mexico City and Brussels for the fourth edition.

expo Laure Prouvost 1-31 March - M HKA, Antwerp 11.00-18.00 - €10 - free for members This will be the largest exhibition of the work of artist Laure Prouvost. She offers a broad overview of Prouvost’s career, with an important selection of her formative ‘monologue’ video works up to and including her recent large installations. The expo is showing the work of an artist who develops a complex pattern of thought through various artistic languages.

kinds of portraiture, styles and time periods, but at the same time it tells us something about the persons depicted in front of and behind the camera.

Myriam van Imschoot Until 10 Mar - Argos, Brussels 11.00-18.00 - €6 - free for members A blackbox screening, Le Cadeau is a tribute to the ‘youyou’ (in French) or the ‘zagharit’ (in Arabic), a shrill trill that is used by women in North Africa, the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa, amongst other countries, to express joy and other intense emotions. At the heart of this film are four portraits of women who highlight their personal relationship to the youyou and their voice.

Messaline Raverdy 28 Mar-7 Apr - Argos, Brussels 11.00-18.00 - €6 - free for members

Follow the story of an apprentice filmmaker who settles at her grandmother’s in Messaline Ravery’s Derrière les Volets (Behind the Shutters). The film, Until 28 Apr - Argos, Brussels experienced as a fantastical dream, 11.00-18.00 - €6 - free for members questions the transformation of the female body. Subtitled in English, this > In MORE ABCONCERTS.BE/MOBILITY A concert at AB begins with MIVB thisINFO: exhibition, the alternation of SIC-developed film was awarded Best photos and audiovisual installations Film at 2018’s L’Acharnière Festival and sets a dialogue between different Olhar Film Festival.

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Le Villejuif Underground

These talented modern crooners, who mention Usher, Billy Crawford and Ja Rule as musical influences, just released their new album, When Will the Flies in Deauville Drop, 11 witty and irreverent songs, full of humour and irony. Having done our background check, we knew we were about to deal with a gang of hectic and barely reachable kids, either scattered across France or on the road checking-in at as many venues as possible. Still, we packed our pockets with various lucky charms and took our chance.

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Interview by Hadrien Panelli Photos by Léo d’Oriano, shot in Paris, France

H: So you’re in the van on your way to your second show of the weekend?

Nathan: Yeah bro. We left Epinal and we’re on the road to Annecy.

The landscape is pretty nice here…

The get-in was at 3pm [it’s 4pm when we start the call] and we have three hours left of driving.

Everything is fine in the van because we have fancy drinks and some strawberry pie that we took from yesterday’s catering. We’re touring with our mates from Bryan’s Magic Tears and they’re 30 minutes behind us. Ha-ha!

H: Are you driving?

N: Oh no, surely not. We have our good friend El Loco to take care of us.

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El Loco is our bud from Nantes and he’s now living in our Villejuif house where most of the band’s songs were written and recorded. He inherited it because we’ve all left to live with our women.

H: Subba gave me a theme for the interview: Furbies. Do you remember them?

Antonio, Adam, El Loco: Yeeees.

Furbies! Sure we remember them.

We had some at the house. Those mean creatures could even talk.

A: Adam used to torture those monsters when he was younger.

Thomas: Our Furbies belong to El Loco now. He’s looking after them.

H: There’s a lot of humour in your music. It’s not that common nowadays. Do you look up to musicians of the past (Zappa, Beefheart, The Residents)?

Adam [aka Peter Porc]: We definitely dig Beefheart, especially the early recordings and the first album, Safe As Milk (1967).

H: Could we compare Nathan to Don Van Vliet and the Villejuif house to the Trout Mask house?

Ad: I’d never thought of that but there are definitely some links between the two. It was for both bands a communal space of living and creation... But man, with Van Vliet it was more about sequestration than fun.

H: What about your vision of rock music in Belgium?

Ad: I have one thing to say: BRONT! N: And our friends from Cocaïne Piss. We have the same booking agent in France.

H: The ’90s were a special time for you, right?

Ad: Oh, for me yes. I started playing music in the ’90s. Your question reminds me of an anecdote. When I was a teenager, I went to see Blood Arm at La Maroquinerie and I was crowd surfing to the stage when I spit on the singer while he was on the ground. The crazy thing is that this guy interviewed us in Berlin last year. I showed him the video of my glorious moment. He was shocked!

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H: Are you excited to come back to Liège in March?

N: Sure man. The last time we came, we trashed the place. This time will be even better.

Ad: We’ll avoid eating in a friterie.

When we played in Ghent, we had some issues with a Turkish frites seller. Nathan threw a chair in the air in the snack bar and the guy called the cops. Nathan was finally held in custody for a few hours…

H: Can we end with some recent film or music references that you want to share?

EL: Toy. T: Kaaris.

A: Bryan’s Magic Tears.

N: In terms of movies, you should check Mandy with Nicolas Cage, made by Benjamin Mendy, you know (lol)!

A: I’ll go for Heaven Knows What

by Benny and Josh Safdie.

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Ms Nina Jorgelina Torres, also known as MS Nina, is a pioneer in the peachy NeoPerreo scene. With her liquid honey sound and feminism-flavoured lyrics, she unwraps reggaeton and trap music from the overly maledominated cultural norm. Her stirring sounds and aesthetic shine a much-needed light on inclusivity and sexism in music.

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Words by Angela Donskaia Photos by Cora Ă lvarez, shot in Madrid, Spain Styling by Helena Soufi and Muah Sandra Merinero

MS Nina, my performing persona, is the confident girl who isn’t afraid, she’s the

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not performing, is the sweet and shy one of the two.

I embody both personas

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Sirr Tmo It’s freezing in Chicago when we’re on the phone with Sirr Tmo. The DJ, dancer and producer affiliated with the Teklife crew – DJ Spinn, Traxman and the late DJ Rashad – calls himself an ‘aspiring artistic scientist’.

He talks passionately about footwork culture and has a clear vision of what the scene should look like both in its cradle, Chicago, and worldwide. He speaks like he dances, with twists and turns, fast and energetic. Time to check his temperature ahead of the performance at Bouge B in Antwerp.

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Interview by Hannes Rooms Photos by Lyndon French, shot in Chicago, USA

H: What’s the state of footwork in Chicago these days?

ST: The scene digressed. People haven’t seen monetising opportunities here. Other people have been able to make money out of footwork, but this is the hood, people don’t see beyond local events. But it’s redeveloping. Just a few months ago, a group of leading figures – the Chicago footwork coalition – came together to bring structure and professionalism to the community.

Basically putting the stamp on Chicago footwork and starting to work with locals again. We’re supporting each other’s events and getting the youth more involved.

H: How’s footwork music evolving?

ST: We’re gonna take it back to what it used to be. Footwork comes from, but is different than, juke culture. Footwork is battle culture, while juke is rooted in a club environment. We didn’t just play footwork, but also dancehall, R&B, hip hop, grime and old school. Because some people weren’t ready for the music at the time, we made it more acceptable. Then we switched it up.

But right now we gonna take it back and make it a bit more friendly to the world. Footwork is gonna change within the next couple years to a point where different genres can fit within it.

H: What are you trying to achieve when producing?

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‘Footwork is a masculine, battle culture to challenge each other’ ST: I make music based on my emotions. I mostly do synth and I wanna be the sample itself in some type of way. I do fusion music.

We all take different influences, but I try to mix these in a different way than anyone has already done it. I’m working on hip hop, grime, house and footwork right now. My footwork is definitely different.

I was in multiple crews before Teklife and a solo artist at first. I never imitated, I always did it my way. But right now, I’m working to get into Afrobeats in the future or even EDM house. I wanna play footwork at Tomorrowland, could you imagine?

H: Your latest release was written during ‘some of the greatest and roughest times of my life and it syncs with my inner being’.

ST: Somebody got shot and a bullet went through my window. And a lot

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‘I wanna play footwork at Tomorrowland, could you imagine?’ of footworkers have died in shootings. That’s that. But I’m more worried about my future. I’m basically at the point where either I take my craft seriously and do it full time or put it down. So when I’ll go on tour, I may stay abroad to perform and make a living out of it or I go back to America and be an average person.

I’ve gotta make moves. My father told me, ‘If they say you to stay over there, stay over there.’

H: What can our members expect from the ‘Come on Feet’ show at Bouge B? ST: It’s gonna be a contemporary street dance performance. I’m introducing two footwork dancers from Chicago and Belgian dancers Rabadance, Geoffrey Ananana and Samantha Mavinga are bringing their Afrobeats background to the table.

Then there’s Granvat, who will do the live instrumentations and me,

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being from Chicago footwork, I will be communicating with the dancers and with the musicians. We’ll put on a show with only four days days preparation.

H: How would you describe footwork dance?

ST: It’s a mixture of all the basic footwork steps from each dance genre. It’s a masculine, battle culture to challenge each other. For example, you dance with closed instead of open hands. It’s spins, glides, tricks and then you have the combos, and if you’re really great you can improvise all of that. But it’s also about crowd pleasing, showing your big moves to attract the loudest yells. Some do it for crowd reactions and some do it for the craft. But in the end it’s all about gaining respect.

H: You tweeted: ‘The floor is lava dancing on soundwaves’...

ST: [Laughs] It’s a very spiritual vision of contemporary dance. When I footwork, people say it often looks like I’m floating. I’m levitating and not touching the ground.

H: Thanks for the interview.

Anything to add?

ST: I’m in Belgium until the end of April. If any talented dancers read this, link up!

Bouge B Day 1 ft. Granvat & Footwork + DTM Funk + Sirr Tmo & more 15 Mar - deSingel, Antwerp free for members

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Summer Satana Screams, drum machines, positive storytelling…

Summer Satana’s live performances are as haunting and dramatic as they are honest and fragile. Brussels-based self-taught singer, composer and producer Tiphaine Larrosa – her real name – performs on stage with an uncompromising feminist resolve. Noticing a gender gap in the music industry when she was still a teenager at Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, she decided to create opportunities for herself and make her appearance on stage. She hasn’t left it since, and we got the chance to pin her down before her live gig at Poxcat #3 Party.

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Words by Souria Cheurfi Photos by Elies Van Renterghem, shot in Brussels

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‘I like to see women scream on stage at concerts, there’s something therapeutic to it’

Poxcat #3 ft. Radio Hito + Summer Satana + Céline Gillain + DJ K-ROL + Poxcat Crew DJs 22 Mar - Marcel Bike Café (Poxcat), Brussels free for members before 22.00

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‘I think you have more to prove as a woman, and that’s not only in the music industry’

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artist

Lizzy Vandierendonck is a fresh-faced, Ghent-based artist who graduated from KASK in June 2018. Amidst a pile of LPs, in the glow of a pink neon light bar, with soft music in the background and muted rain clattering on the windows, we found ourselves talking about camaraderie, specificity and the art of getting up and just doing stuff. It provides a momentary view into what keeps this artist busy.

Interview by Nanerle Ferket Photos by Tiny Geeroms, shot in Ghent

N: In June you graduated with 1:48 (nachttijd). Can you tell us what your graduation project was all about? : In 2017 I threw a party. I built decorations, there was music – a soundscape was provided by Lieven Martens, and Dennis Tyfus was on the turntables – and of course, I invited some friends. No friends, no party. Back then, I was attracted to the ability of photos to lie. I wanted to play with the concept of FOMO and confuse people. The idea was that the whole affair had to be destroyed.

What happened was some of the people who knew of the plan started breaking things down.

First, others got mad in response or were simply shocked, but in the end everyone was tearing the place up, only to band together and start building again. I had known I wanted to throw that party and afterwards I liked how things had gone down. It was just that I didn’t know exactly how to move from there and what to do with the space I had to fill afterwards for the presentation of my master’s project.

N: About that: I read that by re-using your materials from the party, you were recalling memories? : I did re-use the materials from the party, and I tried to rebuild the scene as it was left months

before. I also made and played a mixtape based on what I remembered from that night. That way the audience, when entering my space, was visiting a recollection from the 2017 party. So I guess in a way my installation did recuperate memories from the party, but I’m not quite sure whether I would have described it like that myself, nor if that description covers what it was. I don’t particularly like abstract expressions, or flowery terms. I prefer specificity. In that sense, I’m happy that I’ve graduated. Talking about my work too much makes me lose focus; things often seem to go far more naturally when I just get up and do.

N: What are you working on now? : I get inspired by the night scene, by partying and by my friends. Don’t get me wrong: I enjoy paintings and sculptures but they don’t necessarily make me want to create things. I’m a doer, I like obtaining skills and working with my hands. During my master’s year I realised I was very interested in building scenery. My newest work is a project in which I am putting all of these aspects – music, friends, building things – together. Bar Camaraderie will be a one-night karaoke bar set in a night shop. The scenery will be crafted by myself and my friends.

Guests can come and sing their favourite songs, while I’m directing the movement and placement of decorations and lighting. The experience is a real-life video clip, if you will.

N: Do you have any plans after that? : I’m planning on doing an internship for a stage builder to acquire some technical skills. I never really wanted to be an intern for artists because then you work for them.

I want to work for me. I’m also thinking of opening my very own club. Recently, I went to ADAM in Brussels and visited Night Fever, an exhibition about club culture from the Sixties till now. I was very attracted to the forms and designs of the Seventies. When I went

there, it suddenly dawned on me: maybe I should just get up and open a club myself. The nightclub as a concept, the culmination of all that inspires me today.

@lizzyvandierendonck

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SALON #01 w/ Manara instagram.com/salon.gent

SALON promises to turn the cosy, homely feelings of Ghent’s latest hangout spot, amigo amigo, into a proper club night. To do so, they invite Manara to Belgium once more to showcase her versatile mixing skills. She became one of London’s favourites by grinding hard, both at her NTS radio shows and during swirling live DJ sets. She has the nickname ‘queen of the blends’ because of her effortless shuffles between hiphop, hard drum, grime, UK funky and Bollywood. Some of us might remember her lastminute performance at last year’s KAVIR. Salon #01 takes place on Saturday, 16 March, but the ‘#1’ gives away they’re in it for the long run.

Attend the Facebook event for free entrance.

BABYDEMON2006 babydemon2006.bandcamp.com

Spacey raps drenched in autotune pouring straight from some trap house in Aalst, only to be interrupted by gunshot salvos. Not sure if that sounds realistic to you, but it accurately describes BABYDEMON2006’s work. The careless deliverance, emo lyrics and lo-fi productions are of course reminiscent of Bladee, Yung Lean or Uli K, but this demon definitely has some torments of his own. Formerly known as Babysavage, he’s part of the NO PRE$CRIPTION PO$$E together with Ravenwolf and Hydro, and furthermore affiliated with other cloud rappers Flansie and MADCHA. His tracks are popping up and disappearing on Soundcloud faster than you can blink, so keep your eyes peeled for another hazy but hard-hitting release.

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The 12th edition of the Offscreen Film Festival, the annual rendezvous for aficionados of cult cinema, takes place in Brussels from 13 to 31 March.

Programmer Dirk Van Extergem is proud to welcome guest of honour Roberta Findlay, not really a household name, but an icon for lovers of sleaze as one of sexploitation’s most prolific filmmakers. From the ’60s to the ’80s she worked as director, actress, cinematographer, screenwriter or distributor on over 40 productions. Her career embraces the heyday of grindhouse cinema in the seedy 42nd Street and Times Square districts of NYC. Like The Deuce, but in real life.

She started out as a factotum alongside her then husband, Michael Findlay, specialising in ‘roughies’: sexploitation featuring BDSM, spanking and other ‘non-standard’ proclivities. She took her place in the director’s chair for the first time on The Slaughter (1971), later re-released as the sensational Snuff, with extra sequences added to suggest a real murder had been committed on screen. After Michael’s tragic death, infamously decapitated by a rogue helicopter blade on the roof of the Pan Am Building in New York, she continued on her own, making many X-rated films such as Angel Number 9.

She crossed over into horror and made a killing in the straight-to-video horror market of the ’80s with the visceral urban exploitation hit Tenement: Game of Survival. Aged 71, this energetic pioneer is still kicking ass. The Bronx is coming to Brussels!

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we visit you

Tell us, what do you do in life?

A: I’ve been studying medicine since 2013. At the moment, I’m doing an internship at the forensic medical institute of Liège. I would like to work as a primary care physician next year and maybe work in Italy, with people in small villages close to nature.

What do you like best about your place?

A: The disposition of my father’s house is continuously changing, we are always moving from floor to floor. There’s always a different atmosphere, I love changing and renewing my home. I also like to host friends while a good album is playing in the background. The space lends itself well to that.

What kind of music are you listening to at the moment?

A: I’m keeping myself warm this winter with Adore Life by Savages, the last Slowdive, ? by xxxtentacion, Lunar Glyphs by Desolate and Dominique A. Some songs: ‘Fine Mess’ (Interpol), ‘I Feel Free’ (Dilly Dally), ‘Sea as It Glides’ (Julie Byrne), ‘Fall in Love Again’ (The Vagina Lips), ‘Terrible Luck’ (Peter Kernel), ‘Anti-Gravity’ (These New Puritans).

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Name Arthur Weber Age 25 Zodiac sign Scorpio Subbacultcha member since January 2019

What’s the first record you bought?

A: Life is Peachy by Korn.

What’s your favourite pastime?

A: I enjoy discovering new music, longboarding, writing about anything (cooking, Haïku, summaries…) and reading. I’m reading Les nourritures terrestres’

by André Gide, a hotspot for pleasure.

Any guilty pleasures?

A: I love putting jam on BBQ food What was the name of your first teddy bear and what did it look like?

A: His name was Gros King Kong.

Actually, he wasn’t a gorilla but a black bear as tall as he was wide, hairy with a friendly glance. I miss him like in the song ‘Comment revoir Oursinet?’ by Sébastien Tellier.

Have you experienced any regrets recently?

A: My end-of-study work was a mess.

Which future Subbacultcha show are you looking forward to?

A: I’m looking forward to dancing to Theo Parrish’s vibes.

Photo by Clémentine Piret, shot in Liège

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