Ancienne Belgique

Watch here the AB Session of Soldout. This Now_Series chooses resolutely for electro with fresh national and international talent.Soldout, namely the duo David and Charlotte from Brussels, appropriat...

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Watch here the AB Session of Soldout.

This Now_Series chooses resolutely for electro with fresh national and international talent.

Soldout, namely the duo David and Charlotte from Brussels, appropriately head the bill. Following their debut ‘Stop Talking’, they toured through Europe and finished up at the CMJ Music Marathon in New York. In 2007 they met Jason Boshoff, known for his work for Groove Armada, Basement Jaxx and Shy Child and he promptly suggested mixing their new album. New album ‘CUTS’ proved to be a bomb too: a more somber tone, but still a danceable rollercoaster. Following a Botanique concert that was sold out weeks in advance, the Soldout party caravan will stop on the Anspachlaan in mid February.
Watch the AB Session here.

Anderson is a duo from Amsterdam (Bas van Nienes and Jeroen van der Werken) that are currently just breaking through with their album 'It Runs In the Family'. Just as their debut 'We Radio Anderson', this new record was released on the Volkoren label (16 Horsepower, At The Close Of Every Day) and so the design again plays a key role (this time with 10 unique postcards). There's a certain musical affinity with The Postal Service (the liaison between Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie and Jimmy Tamborello from Dntel) or The Notwist too, but with a big wink to dance and so we recognize scraps of Prince and Pet Shop Boys.

MVSC is a project from MONTEVIDEO, those 4 young guys from Brussels who first presented themselves to an audience last year during ABBota. With their energetic and compelling electro-dance-rock, they were hailed as the newest Belgian rock sensation at the time, think: The Rapture or !!! Now they’re fraternizing with electro miracle-man and Dirty Dancing resident COMPUPHONIC to together provide dancefloor mechanisms that raise the roof. Following an avant première in the VUB Kultuurkaffee on 11 December (as part of ABClubCircuit) then finally live in the AB.

Norwegian Casiokids play around with all sorts of electronica, just like primary school children. So its not so strange then that they also give shows for children in their homeland (with Digitalteateret). But aside from that they were also able to win the heart of our travelling man at the Oya Festival in Oslo, with their grooves that waver between dark electro and naive pop. A revelation that has just been included in the succulent Moshi Moshi stables.

Timing
7:00 doors
7:45 MVSC (= Montevideo vs Compuphonic) (ABBox)
8:30 ANDERSON (Club)
9:15 SOLDOUT (ABBox)
11:30 CASIOKIDS (Club)

Since early 2006, AB has been laying new tracks with the NOW_SERIES. Samples of what’s happening today in a broadly defined genre are presented sporadically under this title. Our ears are pricked in all directions and of course we don't forget the local talent either. Further, no blinkers: all sub-genres must be able to be represented in order to introduce the audience to particular tendencies.

With the support of

Soldout live in Liège

Casiokids - Live In Roskilde

Anderson - Trevor - On The Dancefloor