
Starski & Tonic - Petrol - Antwerp BE - Mar 2008
Submitted By:
szikkboj
Genre: House
Date of Set: Mar 23rd, 2008
Filesize: 41.75 MB
Total Downloads: 2
Biography of Starski & Tonic
Dj Tonic started Dj'ing in 1995. Although he started off in the drum 'n bass scene, he was already listening to some fine house music as well.
In 1998 Starski got the opportunity to start playing at Decadance (Ghent). One year later he met Tonic at the record store and one thing led to another: pretty soon they became an eclektic dj-duo! Their dj-sets were a mixture of moody grooves, deep house, funky shit and breakbeats.
At one point Tonic bumped into electro and got addicted right away. Influenced by I-F, Italo was the next thing he got himself involved in. Starski started exploring the depths of good electronic grooves and a bit later got hooked on disco-electro too.
As time went by, their musical taste evolved, resulting in dj-sets that cross over between electro, house, italo, new beat, 80's, funky grooves, disco-electro and dark pop.
October 2002: Jan Van Biesen asked Tonic if he wanted to make a weekly contribution to Switch, thé dance program of Studio Brussels on Fridays and Saturdays. Electroshock was born... For the new season (2004-2005) Starski & Tonic keep on selecting and mixing tracks for Switch.
At the end of 2002, Dirk (Eskimo Recordings) asked Starski & Tonic to become co-residents at Culture Club in their home town Ghent. Following ‘2 Many Dj’s’ and ‘The Glimmers’, Starski & Tonic are the third resident-duo of Belgium’s finest, Ghent-based, club: the infamous Culture Club. They started their Culture Club-residency in 2002; one year later they were offered a new residency at Belgium’s second biggest eclectic/electro-ish club: Dirty Dancing in Brussels. During that same year ‘5voor12’ (the guys behind the
“10 days off…”-festival) opened their club in Antwerp: Petrol. Again Starski & Tonic were asked to play on a regular basis in Antwerp’s biggest club.
Due to these 3 residencies S&T are playing all over Belgium and already played in countries like France, England, Germany, Poland, Holland, Scotland...
The basis of their success is that S&T are always pushing their musical limits! Combine that with their ‘no-nonsense’ attitude and you won’t be surprised that they’ve already established a very good reputation in the eclectic/electro-scene of today.
This has even led to a prestigious gig at London’s finest: FABRIC (july 2006); which confirms once more that these lads got their fingers on the boogie button!
Last year Starski & Tonic teamed up with fellow townsman and multi-instrumentalist Othello (Bolchi, Foxylane) to start a new project called “The Subs”: making twisted dirty, funky music for open-minded people is what they have in mind!
The Subs have already made a few tracks and remixes and their first release (“You make me spill”) was featured on the 'Dirty Dancing Compilation vol.2' (march 2006) and is now being played on national radio in Belgium (Studio Brussels). After this unforeseen success The Subs signed a deal with record company N.E.W.S., which means there’s more to come in the near future…