Soulwax

Soulwax come out of Ghent, Belgium, built around the brothers Stephen and David Dewaele, with Stephen singing and both of them piling on synths and guitars, and Stefaan Van Leuven on bass. The drum stool turned over early, from Piet Dierickx to Stéphane Misseghers, but the brothers' taste for collision stayed put: rock guitars that behave like dance records and pop hooks bent slightly out of shape.

Much Against Everyone's Advice, out in 1999, is the record that pushed them into the wider world, with "Saturday" and "Too Many DJ's" leading the charge, bratty and switched-on. It set up everything that came after: five studio albums, the Radio Soulwax project, and the brothers' DJ sets as 2manydjs, a name that started life as something much ruder. Their 2002 compilation As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 was hailed by The New York Times as the best pop album of that year, and they even hosted their own Belgian TV show, Alter8. MTV Europe nominated them for Best Dutch & Belgian Act in 2004 and again in 2005.

These days Igor Cavalera is part of the current lineup, alongside Van Leuven and the Dewaeles.

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