Radio Soulwax


Radio Soulwax is the former project of David and Stephen Dewaele of 2manydjs. It has taken several forms, most recently appearing as an and hosting 24 individual hour-long mixes, with custom visuals similar to those used in the 2manydjs live sets.

Background

The earliest incarnation of Radio Soulwax debuted on in around 2001. Initially it featured 10 mp3 playlists, sequenced like DJ sets, although more were added later.
More recently the Radio Soulwax project was revived, because they said that they came to a level that they headline festivals, they can always play for a big audience, etc. But they found at a certain moment that it began to be a bit limiting. They had a lot of musical ideas that they couldn't realise on this level, so they searched a solution.
In 2009, Jan van Biesen, the head of the radio station Studio Brussel, said to the brothers "Why don't you make your own radio?". Now they claim that was the initial beginning of Radio Soulwax. Then they started scanning and encoding their whole vinyl collection: more or less 50,000 records. This job took them two and a half years.
The intro to Radio 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 that encapsulates 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.
Farahmand was also the director of Part of the Weekend Never Dies, their rockumentary.
After the release of the Radio Soulwax App, The Guardian wrote:

Mixes

This is the list of the 24 mixes :