Biography: DJ RAKESH
Introduction
My name is Rakesh Thielemans aka dj Rakesh or Black Jack. Why the strange name? I’m originally from India where I was born in 1973. Adoption in 1977 brought me to Belgium where I still am today.
I started fooling around with music at a very young age. While learning piano and battery I was very busy discovering a wild range in music and making tapes. I listened to Prince, Michael Jackson, Wham and James Brown, loving the funk and the genuine eighty tunes such as Grand Master Flash, Breakmachine and many more…
When I was fifteen I officially started out as dj. Always very involved in the music scene through investing in records for parties and organising performances with Elmer Food Beat, Yellowman, Urban Dance Squad and many more. 
Anyway, today I am a full-grown dj with a great love for the profession. I have seen and been in a lot of places and my style is eclectic just like my experiences. Alow me to give you an oversight of my achievements.

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In the late nineties I started mixing in a small pub in Ghent. I came there with about fifty records and stayed three years. That’s really where my name got picked up by people and soon I played during the annual ‘Gentse Feesten’, one of the most notorious streetevents in Belgium, where I still entertain people through the wee hours of the morning.
I participated in a play called Kung Fu and toured Europe with them. We went to Paris, Londen, Amsterdam, Stockholm… Just to name a few. The play had a fixed afterparty where I stood behind the turntables with 2ManyDj’s and Mo en Benoeilie”The Glimmers ”.
Things started booming and I found myself on the festival Ten Days Off, the infamous Eskimo-events, the even more infamous afters and in Culture Club, which is recommended by the inflight magazines upon visiting Belgium.

I started off a new century exploring the city of Antwerp and played numerous styles on numerous occasions such as ‘Free Vibes’ in Café d’Anvers.
When I got back to Ghent the Charlatan became my resident venue and that’s where I still kick it. In coöperation with a friend I opened ‘Sweet16’, a pretty select club in the centre of the city and I was also an actor in the Royal Flemish Theatre “KVS” in Brussels when the organisation asked me to lead the production of their annual parties. I accepted and got together with great names such as Prince Thomas, Pete Herbert,Buscemi,The Glimmers, Tlp,and many more That’s when my name changed to dj Black Jack. By then I had seen about every major nightlife scene Belgium had to offer.

That’s why in 2006 I was looking for new frontiers. I left for a tour in South-America where we hit Santiago (Chili) for the Love Parade, moving on to Argentina where we attended festivals, many more clubs and extraordinary venues.
My recent tour with dj Jah Zulu went through Egypt where we spiced up the Latex Club in Caïro, the beach in Alexandria, Pacha in Sharm el Sheikh and Simbad in Hurghada. Playing in Tanzania,Kenya,Malawi,Zanzibar...

As you can see I can make people from all over the world party like there were no tomorrow.
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My style: eclectic, the best of everything. Oldschool hiphop, deep house, lounge, rock... My venues: KAFEE CHARLATAN,Dour festival, Love Parade, Culture Club, AB Brussels, City Parade,Make up,Belmondo, Vooruit Ghent, Café d’Anvers Antwerp, Mirano, Ten Days Off, loungy beaches, rocky pubs, stylish clubs... My quote: ‘It ain’t over yet!’
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Shoko Igarashi was born in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. An accomplished tenor saxophonist, she is also a versatile flautist and plays alto and soprano saxophone fluently. She has already made her mark as both an arranger and a composer.
 
Shoko grew up surrounded by dreamlike landscapes of abundant nature in the snowy
countryside of Tsuruoka, a mysterious and surreal region renowned for producing the best quality rice in Japan, where she says, “the water and the air feel the purest and where mountains and shrines overflow with ancient mysticism“. After beginning her musical career in Tokyo, she attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree of music. 
She then relocated to Brooklyn, New York where she began regularly performing live alongside innumerable talented jazz musicians. In 2018, she moved to Brussels, Belgium and founded the group Maniac Maison with her partner, pianist Casimir Liberski, and guitarist Lucien Fraipont.
 
Since 2018, Shoko has written and compiled a series of well-crafted, colourful electronic
songs curating diverse influences such as Sly and the Family Stone, Earth Wind & fire,
Japanese City-Pop, 70s jazz fusion, and the anime film music that she grew up learning to play. Her nimble and seamless assembly of these very different elements into her unique sound is astonishingly natural. 
In addition to her primary group Maniac Maison, Shoko worked with Belgian synth-pop band Telex’s founding member and producer Dan Lacksman on her first official solo Album. Her first Electro pop album released from Tigersushi records on May 2022. 

五十嵐祥子　山形県鶴岡市出身。10歳の頃にサックスを吹き始め、高校進学とともに上京。2012年にはバークリー音楽大学に進学。卒業後はニューヨークでの演奏活動を経て、2018年にベルギー、ブリュッセルへ移住。デビューアルバム、シンプルセンテンセスが2022年にパリのレコードレーベルTigerSushi recordsよりリリースされた。

Blck Mamba, a Brussels based artist of Nigerian descent, strives to bring a new vibe to nightlife with a mix of percussive club music.

In 2021 her debut tracks were released on UK label Future Bounce. With her own productions Mamba hopes to contribute to club music’s attitude and community while putting her own spin on the genre. With catchy raps and up-tempo drum heavy productions, Mamba eyes on an energetic and engaged dancefloor.

Blck Mamba is always on the lookout for the sounds of tomorrow so make sure to check out her Club Mamba show on Rinse FM to get introduced to the newest genres and latest tracks.

Don’t forget Mo Mamba - what’s in a name-, a club night to inspire but mostly to have fun at. Spreading the sounds of the scene by inviting like minded dj’s from across the world.

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Collectif  "Le Goût Du Son" : DJ set - Edit - Mixtape

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Le Goût du Son est un collectif de DJs, de Remixers et d’organisateurs de soirées mais avant tout de passionnés de musique.
 
Le Goût du Son défend une certaine idée de la sélection musicale - Open Format - et montre que passer de tout, ce n’est pas rien.
 
La ligne de conduite artistique suit un seul chemin : Le goût, le vrai, l'intemporel, ...


L'intuition et la culture musicale ne s’improvisent pas…
 Afin d’éviter toute faute de goût …., nous fédérons la crème des Djs français « Open format ». Nos DJ ont une sensibilité qui permet de vous raconter des histoires et de créer des instants magiques qui sont le fruit de la rencontre de genres musicaux très différents.
  
Let’s spread the love !
Nous avons tellement de bonheur à partager ...

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