Jahcoozi in Belgium

I played in Brussels last friday for 'Stainage' @ Recylclart. It was a massive party! The crowd out there were on it from doors opening til the end.. There must have been about 400 people still there at 5am, something that doesn't happen that often in London anymore, unless it's an off-location warehouse party or something. The club was mad. During the day it's a walkway through a train station in central Brussels, during the evening it's a nightclub.. check it out..

here: http://www.recyclart.be/


"Recyclart, you either love it or hate it but, whatever you do, don’t miss it. A railway station turned into a cultural venue is not the norm. In any event, punk and skaters, crazy artists and others addicted to electro sounds feel at home there. And that’s quite natural given the quite original and inventive selection of music they play there. Electroclash, of course, but also live reggae music and other happenings"


Front Entrance to Recyclart

Hotel room was big

passed through to drop my bag off and switched on the TV to find this message, and there was BBC 1 on it, so i smoked some weed the promoter gave me and watched Children In Need for an hour.

I shared the bill with Jahcoozi and DJ Wonder (Roll Deep) on a headline flex, and there were sets from local talent and the promoters, who seem to have built a healthy bass music scene in Brussels (Big Up Kalib & Chantal!)

Wonder smashed it, starting off with DIM - Is You on Boys Noize. Then going into some hyped up dubstep including some Caspa & Rusko tunes and Prodigy - Breathe (NumberNin6 Remix) which went off, before finishing off with some of his own stuff, older bits like What, Face, Asia etc, and one of his new tunes 'Angels' which i think is coming out on his label Wonderland soon.

Jahcoozi were sick. They're a Berlin-based trio formed in 2002 fusing ragga, hip-hop, dubstep and electro amongst other influences.. They have a mad, unique sound. The MC is Sri Lankan/South London Sasha Perera. First time I saw/heard her on stage i thought 'she's a bit like M.I.A', but then I researched her background and found out she was making music about 2 years before M.I.A even started, so the 'copycat' label i'd originally given her was thrown out straight away.

I recorded a video of their performance of 'BLN' which came out on ASound in 2007.