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Soulwax
Performing as 2manydjs in 2007
Background information
Also known as	2manydjs Fucking Dewaele Brothers Flying Dewaele Brothers Samantha Fu Kawazaki
Origin	Ghent, Belgium
Genres	Electronic alternative rock alternative dance
Years active	1995–present
Labels	PIAS Modular Parlophone EMI
Associated acts	LCD Soundsystem Justice Klaxons Tiga Das Pop Chris Goss Peaches
Website	soulwax.com
Members	Stephen Dewaele David Dewaele Stefaan Van Leuven Igor Cavalera
Past members	Piet Dierickx Kurt Huyghe Inge Flipts Helmut Van Den Meersschaut Stephane Misseghers Dave Martijn Steve Slingeneyer Bent Van Looy

Soulwax are a Belgian band from Ghent, centred around brothers David Dewaele and Stephen Dewaele. Other current members include Igor Cavalera and Stefaan Van Leuven. They were first noticed after the release of their album Much Against Everyone's Advice, but after that, the Dewaeles started focusing on their other projects, such as 2manydjs (first known as The Fucking Dewaele Brothers/The Flying Dewaele Brothers). Their album As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 was named the best popular music album of 2002 by The New York Times. The brothers have also hosted a show on Belgian television, Alter8.

Biography[edit]

Career[edit]

The 2004 album Any Minute Now spawned three singles in "E Talking", "NY Excuse" and the title track. The "E Talking" music video was controversial and restricted to post-watershed broadcast on music television channels. Set in London's Fabric nightclub, everyone in the video is depicted as being on a different drug, listed from A through Z (including popular drug nicknames).^[1]

The group produced a number of official and unofficial remixes, including "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House" and "Get Innocuous!" by LCD Soundsystem, "Robot Rock" by Daft Punk and "DARE" by Gorillaz. They are friends of artists Tiga, LCD Soundsystem and Whomadewho. The album Nite Versions (2005) is a collection of remixes of tracks from the album Any Minute Now. Soulwax also played at Ocean View Baptist Church in San Pedro.^[when?]

In January 2006, Soulwax released their second remix album. Titled This Is Radio Soulwax, it was covermounted into the February 2006 issue of Mixmag. Their third remix album, Part of NYE Never Dies, was also covermounted into Mixmag, in late 2008.

In summer 2006, Soulwax completed a "Nite Version remix" of Gossip's "Standing in the Way of Control" as well as their "Ravelight Dub" and "Ravelight Vocal Mix" of Robbie Williams' "Lovelight". The summer 2006 tour was filmed by director Saam Farahmand, and resulted in the documentary "Part of the Weekend Never Dies". Bagpipe player Chris Pyles^[who?] did not play on this album.

In August 2006, Soulwax were working on tracks for the new album from Tiga. In late 2006, it was announced in Belgian magazine HUMO that David and Stephen Dewaele had formed a band with Shane Doran and his brother-in-law Fergadelic, called Die Verboten.

In 2007, Soulwax produced remixes of "Gravity's Rainbow" by Klaxons and "Phantom Pt. II" by Justice. Remixes for "Ice Cream" by New Young Pony Club and "Pogo" by Digitalism had been rumoured, but were never completed.

Soulwax, under the guise of 2manydjs, headlined their own "Radio Soulwax" tent at the Rock Ness Festival held on 9 June 2007. The following day at the festival, they played a Soulwax Nite Versions show in the "Clash Arena." Later that month, they took part in the Wild in the Country event at Knebworth Park on 30 June 2007.
In December 2007, they held Radio Soulwax-mas, a massive Christmas party in Flanders Expo, with guests such as Tiga, Erol Alkan, Boys Noize, Justice, Riton, Mixhell, Daniele Baldelli, Hong Kong Dong, Das Pop, Goose, and Milk Inc.

Soulwax produced the debut album by fellow Belgians Das Pop, fronted by Soulwax drummer Bent Van Looy, scheduled for 2009 release in the UK.^[2]

In 2009 December, Soulwax produced a song, "We Love Animals", for Crookers with Mixhell. In addition, Soulwax produced the song "Talk to Me" by Peaches.^[3]

In 2016, Soulwax returned with a new live show entitled "Soulwax Transient Program For Drums And Machinery." The new line up consisted of three drummers (Victoria Smith, Blake Davies and Igor Cavalera) as well as Igor's wife Laima Leyton, (also of Mixhell) on synths and backing vocals.^[4] This live show was the basis for their album From Deewee, released March 24.^[5]

As Heard on Radio Soulwax[edit]

The only official compilation As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2, was released in 2002 and is composed of 45 tracks the Dewaele brothers were able to clear the rights from. They originally requested rights for 187 tracks and got clearances for 114 of them. 62 were refused and 11 remained untraceable.^[6]

All the unofficial releases (As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 1 and 3 through 11) are in fact a compilation of the Radio Soulwax shows^[7] 2manydjs did for various radio stations including Studio Brussel (Belgium), Radio 1 (UK), KISS 100 (UK) and Eins live (Germany).^[8]

VIVID Sydney 2011[edit]

As part of the Vivid Live Festival in Sydney, David and Stephen Dewaele behind 2manydjs and electro-rock outfit Soulwax presented a one-off series of radio shows on 'Triple J' Australian national radio station. The series was broadcast nationally 6 PM nightly from 31 May 2011 to 3 June 2011.

Other work[edit]

The 2001 track "Theme from Discothèque" is by David and Stephen Dewaele from Soulwax, under the name Samantha Fu. They produced this track for a Ghent-based dancegroup called Kung Fu.

On February 2, 2009, Soulwax made a guest appearance on BBC Radio 1, playing 420 song introductions in a period of 60 minutes.^[9]

Film[edit]

In 2004 Soulwax compiled the soundtrack for the Belgian movie Steve + Sky. Soulwax contributed three instrumental tracks on this compilation under the name "Kawazaki".

Soulwax's remix of the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want" is the credit song of, and featured in the movie 21.

Director Saam Farahmand has filmed Soulwax on their international dates (2005–2007), capturing all the excitement, chaos and humour of the world tour. Soulwax filmed 120 shows with one camera in Europe, Japan, U.S., Latin America and Australia. This resulted in 2 films entitled "Part of the Weekend Never Dies"; a live music film and a documentary which includes 2manydjs, Soulwax Nite Versions and features James Murphy, Nancy Whang, Erol Alkan, Tiga, Justice, Busy P, The Naked Guy, So-Me, Peaches, Kitsuné, Klaxons and many more in behind the scenes footage, interviews, etc.
As of April 2008, Soulwax's clubbing film/documentary Radio Soulwax is finished. They performed a sold out gig at the London Royal Festival Hall, during which they did a première of the film. It came out on DVD September 2008.

Soulwax composed the soundtrack for the 2016 film Belgica by Felix Van Groeningen, crediting every song on the soundtrack to a different fictional band.^[10]

Radio Soulwax[edit]

Soulwax established^[when?] a website called Radio Soulwax, in which a continuous mix played all day, featuring 24 hour-long mixes with visuals similar to those used in the 2manydjs live sets, and included music from many different decades. These "RSWX hours" have since been made available on Vimeo.

Soulwax - Machine was conceived and directed by Saam Farahmand, who was inspired to create an interpretation of the ethos behind the project. The result is a film featuring model Marilyn Rose that encapsulates^{[according to whom?]} the audio-visual obsession of Radio Soulwax. The film was previsualised, edited, and post-produced by Andrew Daffy's The House of Curves in London.^{[citation needed]}

Soulwax FM[edit]

Soulwax contributed to the soundtrack of Grand Theft Auto V. They hosted and supplied the playlist to the in-game radio station "Soulwax FM".

Awards and Nominations[edit]

Discography[edit]

Adapted from Discogs.^[11]

Albums[edit]

Studio albums

• 
  Leave the Story Untold (1996)


• 
  Much Against Everyone's Advice (1998)


• 
  Any Minute Now (2004)


• 
  Nite Versions (2005)


• 
  From Deewee (2017)


• 
  Essential (2018)

Compilation albums

• 
  This Is Radio Soulwax (2006)


• 
  Most of the remixes... (2007)

Soundtrack albums

• 
  Steve + Sky (2004)


• 
  Belgica (2016)

Unofficial albums

• Most of the Other Remixes...

An album with remixes that were not included in Most of the Remixes.

Singles[edit]

Remixes[edit]

• 
  dEUS – "Everybody's Weird"


• 
  Einstürzende Neubauten – "Stella Maris"


• 
  Kolk – "Uma"


• 
  Tahiti 80 – "Heartbeat"


• 
  Zita Swoon – "My Bond With You And Your Planet: Disco!"


• 
  Muse – "Muscle Museum"


• 
  Miss Kittin – "Requiem for a Hit (2 Many DJs Remix)"


• 
  Lords of Acid – "I Sit on Acid 2000"


• 
  Sugababes – "Round Round"


• 
  Arthur Argent – "Hold Your Head Up"


• 
  Chaka Khan – "I Feel You"


• 
  Whitey – "Leave Them All Behind"


• 
  Kylie Minogue – "Can't Get You Out of My Head"


• 
  Ladytron – "Seventeen"


• 
  Playgroup – "Make It Happen"


• 
  DJ Shadow – "Six Days"


• 
  David Bowie – "Rebel Rebel"


• 
  Felix Da Housecat – "Rocket Ride"


• 
  LCD Soundsystem – "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House"


• 
  Daft Punk – "Robot Rock"


• 
  Gorillaz – "Dare"


• 
  The Gossip – "Standing in the Way of Control"


• 
  Robbie Williams – "Lovelight"


• 
  Klaxons – "Gravity's Rainbow"


• 
  Justice – "Phantom Pt. II"


• 
  LCD Soundsystem – "Get Innocuous"


• 
  Hot Chip – "Ready for the Floor"


• 
  Human Resource vs 808 State – "Dominator"


• West Phillips - "(I'm Just A Sucker) For a Pretty Face"^[13]
  


• 
  Rolling Stones – "You Can't Always Get What You Want"


• 
  Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band – "A Fifth of Beethoven"


• 
  The Chemical Brothers – "Hey Boy Hey Girl"


• 
  Tiga – "Mind Dimension 2"


• 
  MGMT – "Kids"


• 
  Dizzee Rascal – "Bonkers"


• Paul Chambers – "Yeah, Techno!"


• 
  LCD Soundsystem – "You Wanted A Hit"


• 
  Late Of The Pier – "Best In The Class"


• 
  Goose - "Synrise"


• Joe Goddard – "Gabriel"


• 
  Arcade Fire − "Sprawl II: (Mountains Beyond Mountains)"^[14]
  


• 
  Pulp – "After You"


• Ego Troopers - "Her Pool Party"^[15]
  


• 
  Metronomy − "Love Letters"


• 
  Jungle − "Julia"


• 
  Tame Impala − "Let It Happen"


• 
  Hot Chip - "Huarache Lights"


• 
  Warpaint - "New Song"


• 
  Shock Machine - "Open Up The Sky"^[16]
  


• 
  Mixhell & Joe Goddard - "Crocodile Boots"


• 
  Jagwar Ma - "Slipping"


• The Peppers - "Hot Caramel"


• 
  Palmbomen - "Stock" (GTA V)


• 
  Charlotte Gainsbourg - "Deadly Valentine"

Production For Other[edit]

• 
  Tiga - Sexor (2006)


• 
  Tiga - Ciao! (2009)


• 
  Das Pop - Das Pop


• 
  Peaches - "Talk to Me" (2009)


• 
  Crookers - "We Love Animals (with Mixhell)" (2010)

Discography as 2manydjs[edit]

Official compilations

• 
  As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 (2002)

Unofficial compilations

These unofficial compilations are bootleg recordings of radio shows that 2manydjs did for Studio Brussel.

• 12 albums - As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 0 to As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 11
  


• 
  Hang All DJs (all volumes)

A bootleg recording of their Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1 in 2005 was released under the title 50,000,000 Soulwax Fans Can't Be Wrong.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Soulwax.

• Official website


• Radio Soulwax


• Part Of The Weekend Never Dies DVD Review


• Soulwaxmas at the Brixton