After this month, Music Muziek Musique, the monthly club for music lovers, will be taking a break. This season-long (August 2007-May 2008) experiment to see if Brussels could support a club night with an experimental, but pop, approach to programming, will be winding down till the autumn. And the result of the experiment? Ask us this time next year! (;-). If you look through this blog's archives, you can read the complete story of the night so far (flyers, playlists and all). Here's a brief recap:
August 23 - As well as your eclectic residents, DJ Jammer and The Phantom, doing their thing, Gilli from Torpid plays a solo set as Yikez! and DJ Sensu spins his favourite soul and disco tracks (first in the 'Another Side of...' series of guest sets).
October 5 - We play the Flaming Lips album Zaireeka in its entirety on a bunch of CD players and boomboxes. Sweet. The Balkan Hot Step Soundsystem from Ghent do their thing.
November 2 - The fabulous Tapedeck come over from London for a DJ set. Plus we hear another side of Radio Limburg's Gijs Ramboer, a very talented techno DJ, when he's not being a sports reporter!
November 23 - MMM relocates from Windows to Smouss Cafe to be able to include the huge talents of guest DJ, James Holroyd. The Bugged Out! and Back to Basics resident comes straight from the Chemical Brothers show in Antwerp, where he has been warming up the crowd for the main event, to play Another Side of... for us. Awesome! The full bill is a full-on Vaudeville experience, starting with Davyth Hicks (ex-Revenge, ex-Lavolta Lakota) playing his favourite classic rock, punk, post-punk, goth and grunge records). Hicksy is followed by DJ Slick from Eddy Tornado et les Scandaleux, perhaps the best Rockabilly DJ in Belgium. Closing the night we have the subtle skills of minimal techno DJ, Fernando Daxta (Sirius Pandi records).
December 21 - A pre-Xmas party - Fight Night! Beatles vs Stones, Kompakt vs Kitsune, etc.
January 18 - Back to Smouss after December's show at Windows, and a guest appearance from The Human Jukebox (aka Guillaume Maupin), plus a second slot for Davyth Hicks.
February 22 - Music Muziek Musique presents Unknown Treasures, 'an evening of illegal, unreleased and rediscovered music' at a secret location in Brussels.
Probably my favourite MMM - the secret location turned out to be my flat - yes, I threw a 'facebook party' and survived! There was something kinda cool about random strangers showing up at my front door asking for 'the club'. The guests were very cool too - the illegal part was supplied by DJ Le Clown from Rennes, a lovely guy who makes great audiovisual mash-ups; the unreleased part by Tarzan, a Brussels-based duo with a fine line in downtempo electronica mixed with rock. We also had the pleasure of DJ Jammer's rediscovery of an unreleased Pete Shelley acoustic set, recorded for Piccadilly Radio in Manchester in 1979.
March 21 - Music Muziek Musique presents The Long Good Friday. Harold Shand would have been proud: we brought over three awesome, up-and-coming DJ duos from the UK - Team Mega Mix, STDJs and MeMeMe - for a night of wonky basslines and sick beats. Appalling weather conspired against us, but the Barrio Cafe still rocked.
May 31 - So, here's where season one ends - at Nouveaux Russes with Dance Europe Express (Cardiff-Brussels-Lausanne-Budapest). Our special guests will be Rockem Sockem Robots (Cardiff), Nauru (Brussels), Leo & Tamara (Lausanne) and Polymorphin (Budapest). Eclectic, international, experimental, but accessible, just like MMM as a whole. Seems like the ideal way to sign off for the summer. Hope to see you there! Thanks to everyone who has supported us, and especially Jodie Davies-Coleman in Durban for the great posters and flyers. Till the next time...
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