Retro Acid @ Vooruit, Gent
Saturday, February 12th 2011
Line-up:
Acid Junkies Live (AJ Records, Acid Tracks, Djax-up-beats rec NL)
Rude 66 Live (Bunker, Creme, Viewlexx rec, NL)
RaveOurSouls (Goldfox & Riot, Muziekodroom)
Steve Cop (R&S, Sonic solution, Fuse)
Spacid (Retro acid, FGA)
Price: 13,00 Euro presale; 15,00 Euro door
All Fnac shops + 0900/00600
Vooruit, Gent
Online
www.kozzmozz.com/presale/retroacidwww.fnac.be &
www.vooruit.beTimes: from 23h. till 6h.
More info:
www.kozzmozz.comwww.facebook.com/RetroAcidwww.nl.netlog.com/retro_acidwww.myspace.com/retroacidArtist info:
Acid Junkies Live
www.acidjunkies.comwww.myspace.com/acidjunkieswww.discogs.com/artist/Acid+JunkiesRude 66 Live
www.myspace.com/rude66www.discogs.com/artist/Rude+66RaveOurSouls
www.raveoursouls.comwww.myspace.com/raveoursoulswww.facebook.com/RaveOurSoulsSteve Cop
www.stevecop.bewww.myspace.com/steve_copSpacid
www.spacid.bewww.soundcloud.com/spacidwww.facebook.com/pages/spacid/11914088724www.myspace.com/djspacidConcept:
Retro-Acid is Kozzmozz' second oldest concept and was held for the first time on October 18th 1997 in Vooruit. Since then, a lot of acid heroes and pioneers from all over the world (Damon Wild, Mike Dredd, DJ Pierre, A Guy Called Gerald, Miss Djax, Phuture 303, Dr. Motte, Tyree Cooper, Oliver Bondzio, Like A Tim, Brixton, Random XS, Richard Bartz, Woody Mc Bride, …) passed the revue on Retro Acid, treating us to the entire spectrum from the early 80’s acid house to the harder 90’s evolution …
Retro Acid celebrates the joys that we experience thanks to the famous silver box, the Roland TB-303 bass machine, the machine that had such a huge impact on electronic music, and is still a big influence for many artists today. It sure as hell made us dance till the break of dawn and beyond… actually, we’re still losing our minds over these sounds today! In other words, Retro Acid is thé party for any 303 fan and its unmistakable old-skool Acid sound.
For this edition we invited one of Holland’s most prestigious live acts, the Acid Junkies, who used to be a frequent guest at Retro acid and each time delivered a splendid performance. It’s been a while, but they’re back and since they have been releasing new material as well as re-issuing old classics so we thought it would be the perfect timing to get them back on the Retro Acid stage! Acid Junkies stand for unique live performances embracing all flavors of acid, touching 20 years of their work, from the early releases on the legendary Djax-Up-Beats to their recently launched AJ Records.
It’s no secret that Holland played an important part in acid history, so we also invited Rude 66, hailing from the famous Bunker posse. He’s known for his real live-acts with only analogue equipment and lots of improvisation on the spot. A string of EP’s on leading labels like Bunker, Vynalogica, Angelmaker, the Crème organisation and Viewlexx established Rude’s name as one of the masters of the dark side of electro-wave and acid. He also runs a weekly radio show at I-f’s Intergalactic FM internet radio station and is a member of the 303 Allstars, a live acid collaboration with Cosmic Force, the Acid Junkies, Zero One and Drifter.
The Dutch live masters will be joined by some Belgian names from past and present, starting with Rave Our Souls who came into action after realizing that they missed the early nineties party vibe and made it their mission to bring it back today. They rock it every time on their legendary Rave Our Souls parties and this year took the festivals by storm. Especially for Retro Acid they will play a fun-packed acid set which will put the smiley in the acid.
Steve Cop on the other hand was a steady figure in the nineties party scene with residencies at about any big club at that time from La Rocca over Café d’Anvers to Fuse and many others in between. These days he doesn’t play that often anymore but when he does, he knows how to revive those old days like no other.
The line-up is completed with our resident Spacid, who was at the forefront of the underground party-scene in the 90’s through his Funky Green Aliens organization and has been pushing the early acid sound in Belgium since the very beginning. He will be playing the closing set and those who know what his closing sets sound like, know perfectly what to expect…
Be prepared for a true acid attack from the original acid masters!
Artists:
Acid Junkies Live (AJ Records, Acid Tracks, Djax-up-beats rec NL)
Acid Junkies is a dance act from The Netherlands. Their music is all about having fun: nowadays the only motivation for them is that they enjoy making the music and playing it for a crowd. They do not conform to any hipster styles or fashion, they just make and play the music they like. Live, they present themselves with a mix of solid techno music, played live and edited and enhanced with fragments of all kinds of dance music, spanning the last 20 years.
The Acid Junkies started in 1992 as producer Stefan Robbers' solo project. It was his way of saying ‘thanks’ to all the originators from Chicago. The Part 1 EP on Eindhoven’s famous Djax-Up-Beats label became an instant success and soon the Acid Junkies were a real band. His partner in crime for this operation is Harold de Kinderen, who provided Stefan with the Roland TB 303 he used for the first Acid Junkies EP and who has been a full band member since that day.
The Acid Junkies can play an audience like one of their synths and can bring the biggest cynic into full-blown ecstasy. And so the Acid Junkies became known as one of the best live dance acts throughout the world. They have performed live shows at just about every major rave in Europe, like Germany’s prestigious Mayday, as well as major Dutch festivals such as Noorderslag, Lowlands and Dance Valley. The band also conquered Chicago, where they shared the stage with their one-time heroes Roy Davis, Robert Armani and Woody McBride.
In the mean time a few more EPs and 2 albums saw the light of day. These releases are renowned for their added entertainment, in the form of cardboard TB303 construction kits, collector's stickers, connect-the-dots pictures, voting forms and other gimmicks. Needless to say the element of humour is a very important one in the band, a feature not unique, yet quite rare in the dance scene.
Their third album EU (1998) is a bit of a surprise: electro, disco, chemical and even drum & bass are incorporated in the trademark Acid Junkies sound, a blend that works surprisingly well. Release number 303 on Djax-Up-Beats is a special one, on which they team up with Miss Djax herself for some fresh tracks.
In November 2001 a new CD album, ‘Live’ was released. Forced by continuous demand from their fans, it contains a live recorded set from October 2000, taped at a venue in the band’s home base Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The Live album marks the end of an era for the band, after a long period of combining acid house and techno on a live stage. In 2002 the Acid Junkies present a completely new live set, with many DJ influences such as the use of fragments of records from the last 20 years, from old to new, combined with sampled song parts, live drum programming and electronic locked grooves.
In the summer of 2004 the junkies celebrate their 10 year live act jubilee. At end of that year they release a brand new album, B.O.D.Y. which is baptized ‘the jubilee album’ but contains only new tracks. The duo grabs the influence of Electronic Body Music (EBM) from the eighties: fast en furious techno in an electronic jacket but recorded with the latest production techniques.
Under the name ‘The Acid Plant’ they create again a complete new live set in 2005 which brings the analogue gear and know twiddling back on the front of the stage. They also introduce a periodical download of their latest live set so that the audience can listen and enjoy their newest sounds at home, giving them an industrial city heritage as never before. Industrial acid to the max! In 2007 part 3 of the series, and an additional release called 'Bacteria' concludes this exciting episode.
In 2008 Acid Junkies present a new direction: slower pace, equal energy is their new motto. They also introduce a new digital label to the music worls: AJ Records. The label is primarily a digital imprint, with high quality releases distributed my many popular online stores. Ranging from old skool acid bleeps to high tech electro with a scent of industrial and EBM-Body music, they can go anywhere they want with this label and that is exactly why they founded it.
Rude 66 Live (Bunker, Creme, Viewlexx rec, NL)
From deep atmospheric soundtrack acid to dark industrial electro-funk and melancholic electronic wave disco, Rude 66 has done it with a Dystopian edge of new wave-futurism.
Via noise and EBM in the 80's, Rude 66 landed on Bunker Records in 1993 where, with Unit Moebius and I-f, he defined the acid sound of The Hague: lo-fi acid from the sewer. In 1997 Rude 66, bored with corporate techno and empty distorted acid, evolved his style to dark electro funk. A string of EP’s on leading genre labels like Bunker, Vynalogica, Angelmaker, Crème organisation and Viewlexx established Rude’s name as one of the masters of the dark side of electro-wave and acid, pushing his analogue studio to the limits on already classic tracks like Machine, Black Sabbath, My 909, Overkill and his most recent releases The 1000 year storm, As and the Sadistic Tendencies album.
New upcoming releases include a split 7” with US shoegaze band Screen Vinyl image and a 2LP of mostly unreleased archive material from 1992-1998 on Crème.
For the past 15 years, Rude has perfected a sound that employs everything from early 80’s alternative club music to his own dark acid past, from oldskool electro to Italian soundtracks. Rude’s choice of workhorses (mostly vintage analogue synths and drum machines) and recording methods (still using a big mixing desk and analogue reel-to-reel recording) have resulted in an instantly recognizable signature sound: hard, dense but full of detail and groove and still carrying trace elements of the classic sound of The Hague.
His signature sound has been applied to a number of remixes for other artists. Rude has run the Vynalogica label for the CEM studio in Amsterdam and has his own weekly radio show at I-f’s Intergalactic FM internet radio station. Rude is also a member of the 303 Allstars, a live acid collaboration with Cosmic Force, the Acid Junkies, Zero One and Drifter.
Rude 66's acclaimed live shows are intense improvisation workouts featuring mostly analogue equipment. They include live vocals by Rude’s wife Shaunna, and are based loosely on the studio tracks. Rude has dragged his equipment all across the world for over 15 years from small squats to big festivals, and knows like no other how to rock a crowd hard.
Billed 'the king of the dark electro-wave death race' by slick promoters, Rude likes his tracks to sound like you're on the red carpet pathway to hell. Dancing.
RaveOurSouls (Goldfox & Riot, Muziekodroom)
RaveOurSouls is the succesful old skool rave project from Goldfox and Riot. Realizing they both missed the early nineties party vibe, they decided it was time for action.
They started hosting their own nights, wrecked mayhem at parties and festivals, released fresh RaveOursouls tracks, and tried to make people experience the freedom and unity these early raves had. RaveOurSouls wants to go back to a time when people went to a party to party, when music was pure expression and emotion without any rules or regulations.
The guys don't take themselves serious, but they do take the music serious. You can say they're pretty much the opposite of other acts
Their parties and dj-sets are, hopefully, intense, menacing, very physically and visually expressive and last but not the least a musical journey through the early rave when there were no boundaries.
Think smileys, rave, acid, jungle, breakbeat, glowsticks, crazy dresses, booming soundsystems and good times.
Steve Cop (R&S, Sonic solution, Fuse)
Steve started messing around with records at the age of 16. At that time he got some mix-tapes from a DJ called Sven Van Hees (Global Cuts, Gemini) and tried to do the same mixes as he did on the tapes. Some people heard Steve play and asked him to perform in Brussels with Mark Kamins and Poltergeist. That was his first big party.
After that party, Renaat from R&S Records contacted Steve to do some studio work for him together with C.J. Bolland. He also started to work in La Rocca as Light-Jockey. After a while Steve got the chance to play with the resident DJ Eric Beysens and he became the second resident together with Eric. They also played together at Bocaccio Life in Gent. At that time he also did a lot of parties across Belgium and Ibiza.
After playing in La Rocca for a couple of years Steve moved to Café d’Anvers. There he shared the decks with DJ Koenie. Because Café D’Anvers was also big in the Netherlands, he did a lot of parties there. As it was getting hard to combine a residency and playing in other countries, Steve left Café D’Anvers at that time.
In this period he also played at the Wild & Lethal Trash Party for Walter Van Beirendonck and supplied him with music for one of his fashion shows in Paris.
In Holland a club called Exposure contacted him to do some regular nights there, so he had some kind of a home-base again. After 2 years in Holland Steve looked for a new challenge and returned to Belgium. There he started in a new club called FUSE.
After that he got another regular spot at a Waregem club called Cirao Dance Hall.
In the meantime Steve was also a guest DJ in clubs all over the world going from Rex Club in Paris to Chili (South America), Cocorico in Rimini (Italy) and other countries and even a DJ set on the catwalk for Dirk Van Saenen’s Transformations fashion show also in Paris. When that was over Steve played together with Zzino at The Scene located in Oudenaarde.
For the moment he enjoys family life and does the occasional retro set solo or with his good friend Tomaz. Recently he also started a new concept with Peter Decuypere called, The Hipson Brothers.
Spacid (Retro acid, Ultra, Ghent)
Spacid started collecting music from a very early age and played occasionally on weddings and block parties. His first influences were Synthesizer Greatest (Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis ...) and new wave club classics (Front 242, Depeche Mode ...), later welcoming Belgium's New Beat craze and early Chicago house.
Spacid's first steps playing in front of a public dates back to 1991, while being a resident dj at Le Café in Kortrijk. There, once settled behind his trusty Technics, he played all the early electronic music this dance culture had to offer in those days. Together with some friends, Spacid organized his first party in 1992, which turned out to be a big success. 1994 saw the founding of Funky Green Aliens, a party organisation and booking agency concentrating on promoting groundbreaking music & arts and introducing international artists to the Belgian scene. These parties, mostly illegal, were very successful and still to this day represent the true roots of Spacid's dj career.
By 1997 he was propelled to slots at the biggest clubs and parties in Belgium and abroad, such as Dance Valley, Ten Days Off and Kozzmozz. His name started popping up in all major Belgian clubs and events and today he is resident at various important party concepts such as Body To Body at the famous Culture Club, Beats Of Love, Elektron, Retro Acid, Ultra .. Apart from a busy dj schedule in Belgium he regularly plays abroad. Just have a look at line-ups of parties, festivals and clubs in France, the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, Poland and Malta. He manned the decks in British clubs and parties like Club Trash, Herbal, The Key, House of God, Downtownsounds, Human Zoo, Death disco and played in about every major Dutch club such as Paradiso, Club 013, Melkweg, Effenaar, Doornroosje. He was even invited at the Berlin Weekend club and Paris' 'Respect is Burning'.
A real ambassador of the vibrant club scene, both his quest for innovation and his reverence for the past transpire in his work as a dj. Spacid's sets are fuelled by an underlying thought process aimed at providing party people a good time and at the same time opening up music that is less evident to a larger public.
