
Raoul Belmans - Bounce to This - May 2006
Submitted By:
2fjeff
Genre: House
Date of Set: May 13th, 2006
Filesize: 93.35 MB
Total Downloads: 8
Biography of Raoul Belmans
As a young teenager Raoul was exceptionally interested in electric boogie music, break dancing, hip-hop culture and black music in general. He started to deejay house music in 1991 a local radio station in his hometown and some years later he broadcasted with some friends a radio show live from the University City of Leuven, the capital of the Flemish speaking part of Belgium, the town where they make the famous Stella Artois lager and also the city where Raoul lives now. The show had so much listeners that his first bookings (in cozy pubs and small parties) started to come in very frequently.
1996 was the year that Raoul’s DJ career stepped into the next level when he was offered a residency at “Food”, nowadays Belgium’s premium house night with a weekly spot at the MC in Leuven and also doing parties all over the country and abroad. Numerous star DJ’s coming from all over the world joined Raoul and the other residents Geoffroy and Massimo Da Costa to play at a Food night and amongst these Derrick Carter, Kenny Hawkes and DJ Sneak count in Food as one of their favourite clubs worldwide. DJ Sneak also spotted Raoul playing with him at Food and offered him to join his booking agency “All World Entertainment” to take care of all his bookings in North America.
Raoul nowadays extensively deejays worldwide in different cities and promoters every time love to see this friendly bloke coming back to their clubs and parties. Some of the cities he already played include London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Dublin, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin, Zurich, Lisbon, Paris, Cape Town, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Moscow, almost every major city in the USA, Auckland (NZ), Melbourne (AU), Sydney (AU), El Juarez (Mexico), Almaty (Kazakhstan), ... amongst many other clubs, festival and parties.
Besides being a very skilled and widely appreciated DJ, Raoul is also very busy producing and remixing tracks for more than 8 years now. Over the years releases of him and his partner Dimitri Dewever could or can be found on record labels such as Global Cuts (R & S) (B), Wally’s Groove World (B), Push & Pull (Nl.), Tronicsole / Solemusic (U.K.), Panhandle (U.S.), Seasons (U.S.), Music For Freaks (U.K.), Fast Forward (Fr.), Lowdown Music (U.S), Amentimusic (U.S.), Tango (U.S.). Oomph (U.S.), Odds & Ends (U.S.) under different monikers like Swirl People, Swirl Peepz, Cosy Creatures, Different Noodles, Tiger Sprouts … and on the remix level he reworked tunes from Street Corner Symphony, Rozzo, Derrick Carter, Spank Da Monkey, Wam Kidz, Soulsearcher, Wizards of Ooze, Jori Hulkkonen, Fred Everything, Alexander East, JT Donaldson, Jonene and many more. The debut album of his main project Swirl People called “Hi mom, let’s dance” was released on the Scottish label Solemusic that host artist like DJ Spinna, Phil Asher, Basement Jaxx, Milton Jackson, a.o. and was highly praised by the U.K. press.
Their highly anticipated 2004 follow up album 'Special Combo', available on Aroma/News, featured already two highly rotated singles on national Belgian radio including “Lideloo dow dow” and “We used to party” featuring Chi-town dj Heather on vocals.
Raoul’s started his own label in 1998 called Aroma in conjunction with Belgium’s biggest dance music distribution and record company N.E.W.S.. It can be now easily put between other labels like Classic, Lowdown and many more with its roster containing releases by Cricco Castelli, Swirl People, Sasha Kruger, Da Cuban Heelz, DJD, Lance De Sardi, Zap Mama, DJ Jonene, JT Donaldson, Alexander East, Olivier Desmet (Oh Dee), Deviate, Blasta La Vista, East Coast Boogiemen, Spettro, Miles Maeda, Dizzy, Thomas White, Caucasian Boy, Dan X & Justin Long, John Larner & Slater Hogan, Jazzy Eyewear, Lawnchair Generals with remixes from Miguel Migs, Drop Music’s Inland Knights, Guiro, Mazi, Wally Callerio, Volga Select (Ivan Smagghe), Freaks, Lawnchair Generals and Rob Mello.
Following the succes of the label Raoul started the radio show “Aroma” on Belgian national radio Studio Brussel since September 2004 joining the team of the infamous Switch dance show. The show is aired every Friday between 10-11pm.
http://www.myspace.com/swirlyraoul