Originally, different episodes for this show were made by several artists (David & Stephen, DJ 4T4, Praga Khan, Discobar Galaxie, Extince) but as this became too complex a production, the Dewaele brothers took charge of the entire show. This is where they started toying around with the concept of mash-ups: combining songs that weren’t ever meant to be combined. The show was inspired by the iconic album “My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts” by Brian Eno and David Byrne, in which samples taken from newscasts were put on top of electronic music. Meanwhile, Mark Coenen, producer at the Belgian radio station Studio Brussel, was working on a radio show called Hank The DJ.
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So they jokingly renamed themselves “The Fucking Dewaele Brothers”. In fact, they were ubiquitous – to the extent that some people probably would have thought “it’s those fucking Dewaele brothers again”. By 1999, the brothers were both opening on the mainstage (with Soulwax) headlining the second stage (as DJs) at Rock Werchter, Belgium’s biggest festival. Still, for them it was never about mixing the right or hippest records – it was about having a good time. Growing up between crates of records (their dad, Jackie Dewaele aka Zaki, was one of the first real DJs in Belgium) had given them a particularly balanced taste of music. The brothers were all but happy with the state of DJ’ing at that time and how music had become very compartementalized – DJs were very much limiting themselves to certain genres and were not thinking outside of the box. They are bored just playing their songs and, in an attempt to escape the rut, they start taking care of the aftershows as well, under the moniker “The Flying Dewaele Brothers” – a name unceremoniously given to them years earlier by Chris Goss, the producer of the first Soulwax album “Leave The Story Untold”, when he witnessed the speeds at which they operated his gigantic mixing console.
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As much as they enjoy doing so, they feel like something’s missing from the experience. Stephen and David Dewaele are touring with their band Soulwax having just released the critically acclaimed “Much Against Everyone’s Advice” album. If you find any falsehoods or if you have additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me. Some of it was taken from interviews, some of it I learned by talking to people involved, and some of it is just me reading between the lines of whatever information is out there. Disclaimer: The information presented here is historically accurate only to a certain extent.