SOULWAX have slowed down 20 year old BELGIAN Gabber, and the results might surprise you!

I’ve never really been a fan of fast-paced electronic music like Happy Hardcore, let alone Gabber. That said, I find this brilliant! I’ve always wondered what it would sound like to slow down those genres. Well someone has, and it sounds pretty neat. Could pass as a modern sounding dance track to be honest. Check it out.

Even though these Belgian records sound very “now”, they are actually 20 years old and were meant to be played at a much, much faster speed. At the time this was the devil’s music for us, but we have learned to listen through the claps and distorted kicks and discovered that if you slow these really dark and heavy techno records down all the way to about 115 bpm, it suddenly makes them sound less frantic, ballsier and a lot sexier. Belgium at its best when pitched down.

The covers of these records are quite generic and don’t really lend themselves to animating , so we figured we would bring you the visual aspect of this musical genre that you can’t not be fascinated by: the dance. We were very lucky to have found some people who can still do the typical moves, and with them dancing in front of the record sleeves (and sometimes inside of them) we bring you our ultimate tribute to a glorious period in our Belgian musical heritage.

We feel very strongly about this hour, and would like to show that quite often, the best things in life are already right in front of us, we just have to open our eyes (and ears) to them. We stand corrected!

@Stilez