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Soulwax

Soulwax, headed by David and Stephen Dewaele, is an electronic and alternative band hailing from Ghent, Belgium. Though the Dewaele Brothers have created several major albums under this moniker, they are perhaps best-known for their influential contributions to the bastard pop genre under the name Flying Dewaele Brothers and 2 Many DJ's. and the landmark record As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Pt. 2. The duo has also done a number of official and unofficial remixes, including Daft Punk Is Playing at My House, Robot Rock and Dare.

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Wreckage

Wreckage is the name of more than one artist. 1) Wreckage was a Belgian thrash band with two demos: Sight the five from 1994 and Confusedfrom 1996. They are currently split up. 2) WRECKAGE is the band of TONY LESTAT from the USA, who was a very active man in the late 80s/early 90s Gothic-scene in the USA. His bands LIKE WRECKAGE and the follow-up WRECKAGE were very active and here we get a fine collection of rare and unreleased tracks of typical US-Death-Rock at its best.

Read more about Wreckage on Last.fm.

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The hickey underworld

A Belgian rockband, consisting of members Younes Faltakh, Jonas Govaerts, Georgios Tsakiridis and Jimmy Wouters. They won Humo's Rock Rally in 2006, the most important Belgian rock contest, which has already brought forth bands like dEUS, Das Pop, Goose, Admiral Freebee, Mint, and many others. Their self titled debut album was released in March 2009, and was produced by Das Pop. It's being described (in Humo) as 'hard, melodic, danceable and devilish'.

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Quantum Fantay

Once upon a time in a small city called Lokeren… Two friends and ex-bandmembers of Oregon (Pieter Van den Broeck (Pete Mush) and Wouter De Geest (Jaro) were once again uniting their musical creativity to end up with a final result defined as liquid space rock.
Even people that have been in the music business for ages still wonder what that is. It can best be linked to the band ‘Ozric Tentacles'. The genre makes you higher than high without using any drugs,except for the music itself.

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Aeroplane

There are several artists known as Aeroplane: 1) Aeroplane / Bio
Aeroplane is a Belgium based Dj – Producers duo named Stephen Fasano and Vito Deluca.
Their music is a mix of psychedelic guitars, pop keys, melancholic waves, disco beats & catchy basslines.
They released their 1st 12" in 2007 "Caramellas/Aeroplane" on Eskimo Recordings.
And they got immediately positive reactions from the biggest DJ's and producers around because of there fresh & different sound.

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Murder Intentions

Murder Intentions from Belgium started out late 2004 as a bunch of friends playing pissed off brutal death metal mixed up with touches of grind and hardcore.
After 2 demos, a couple of line-up changes and a whole lot of shows the band finally released its debut album “A prelude to total decay” on november 16th 2009 through SFC records. “A prelude to total decay” was recorded early 2009 by Niek Tournois (Spoil engine) at the Sweet sour studio in Eede (NL) and later on masterd by Robbe K (Disavowed, Arsebreed) at Audiovizualz.

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TRIGGERFINGER

Triggerfinger is a Belgian band with an international sound which appeals to both younger people, who recognize Queens of the Stone Age and old rockers, who are reminded of Led Zeppelin. Triggerfinger receives rave reviews from the media. One such review claims Triggerfinger's live show makes about 500,000 other so-called rock bands instantly redundant. Triggerfinger consists of three talented musicians: singer/guitarist Ruben Block (Sin Alley and Angelico), bassist Paul van Bruystegem - aka lange Polle / Monsieur Paul - who still plays with BJ Scott and drummer Mario Goossens (Noordkaap...

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