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We are super happy to have had the opportunity to invite and present in Renate islas & Francis99 as part of the Brussels collective Planet.  As promised, we are sharing an almost 3-hour set by the charming Islas, that demonstrates her great records selection. Enjoyyyy and let the ДРОБ control your body!

Recorded live from ДРОБ x Renate edition on 07.04.2023, Berlin 
link: https://ra.co/events/1672023  @islasaliasailsa @p-l-a-n-e-t-b

Islas : drobcast live 6 :

@islasaliasailsa at Ojoo  - 21.07.23

"Sometimes when you play it all just goes smooooooothly. This was one of those. The dancers, the weather, the soundsystem, the friends to the right of the booth at the front, the records just slotting into one another as if by magic, even ordering a new tune and receiving it on the morning of the set. Perfect timing! Falling into place!  Big up Menica, Ojoo and everyone at De Tuin van Heden for creating the context. Hope you enjoy reliving the moment if you were there and discovering some sounds for those who weren’t. HMU for track IDs anytime 😄" - Islas

@p-l-a-n-e-t-b
instagram.com/ailsaaliasislas

Ojoo FM w/ Islas (closing at Ojoo 21.07.23)

Rinse FM Podcast

Anna Wall with Walrus - 25 November 2023

Joe Delon looks back at the Sundaze party that took place at the pétanque hall at Camping 58 in Brussels in late May 2023, with a re-recording of part of his set at the party and a live recording from the epic closing b2b by Dana Kuehr and Islas. 

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Outsiders: Joe Delon (Welt Discos) w/ Dana Kuehr & Islas @ Kiosk Radio 10.02.2024

At our latest stage hosting for Drift we invited Islas for the closing slot. She blew us away with a floor-oriented set crossing genres on the move.

Islas' roots were in the visual art. As she grew, the curiousness to sound grew with her. Starting with sets bringing together ambient, ASMR and spoken word; currently reviving dance floors with energetic and highly percussive gems. As artistic busy bee, Ailsa co-founded the PLANET collective and helped in founding belgian dance label Basic Moves. As person, a down to earth girl whose determination immediately sparkes interests. If you are in Brussels by any chance, check out Islas’ new pop-up shop ‘Objet Petit A’ set up with Dana Kuehr.

Recorded at 29.03.2024

Terra Live Podcast 001 -> Islas (Recorded at Drift X Terra)

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Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/playlist/31NT4Oq48gcKdmttAFbx23
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Taken from "Circadian Rhythms - Basic Moves 20 EP (Basic Moves)". Out June 2024. Buy here : https://basicmovesbrussels.bandcamp.com/music

Basic Moves : ‘’ Not so long ago in 2017, the first release on Michiel Claus’ and Ailsa Cavers’ Basic Moves saw the light of day and especially the shine of night. Produced by founding father Walrus, BM01 set the tone for a record label that focuses on releasing hidden archives from the 90s, whilst combining them with modern club music from the here and now. By highlighting the musical heritage of the Belgian electronic music scene, the label illustrates the continuity between past and present, history and shaping identities of 21st-century artists, undeniably building on the strong foundations of their forerunners.
Seven years and nineteen releases later, Basic Moves is rounding off the series with BM20, a final double 12’’ by one of the major figures from the Belgian underground: Circadian Rhythms also known as Dj Deg. After many years of collecting, deejaying and producing music, his musical spectrum ranges from synth, library and wave, to jazz, funk and disco, from house to techno. His journey started in clubs like Bocaccio (1988 - 1993), and La Gaité (1979 –1989), where young Deg came across deejay’s like Olivier Pieters or Eric Beysens who made him choose the path of becoming a devoted disc jockey himself. BM20 is a sonic witness of Deg’s first musical encounters with his machines, revealing a withdrawn selection of six bedroom patchwork tracks produced between the years of ‘95 & ’99, a time without the internet or user manuals to help you solve the riddles of technology. Though only at the very beginning of his creative process, Deg’s unique personality is nevertheless already clearly identifiable: blending techno with jazz, where moody but hopeful synthlines meet wonky basslines.
In the lower countries, the second half of the 90s was a period of fast & funky, happy Detroit, 140 BPM techno. Whenever Deg was not oscillating between record shops or gigs and had a moment on his own, mostly during morning hours after the club, he would spend his leftover energy in the studio. Either by himself or with his loyal ally Mike DMA, he would benefit from these moments to slow down and give space to a different, introverted sound – processing moods, feelings and thoughts. This record therefore gathers only a few of many (unrecorded) one-shot live sessions which were never intended to be shared – and only existed for the love of music and its power to take you beyond all things known.

Artist social media :

https://soundcloud.com/cr_label
https://x.com/cr_label
https://www.instagram.com/cr_label
https://www.facebook.com/labelCR

Label social media :

https://soundcloud.com/basicmoves
https://www.instagram.com/basic_moves_walrus_islas
http://www.basicmoves.be
https://www.facebook.com/basicmovesbrussels

Basic Moves 20

Miracle

PREMIERE : Circadian Rhythms - Miracle (Basic Moves)

To get you excited for the lite edition of Bonanza coming up in just 10 short days, we thought we would share with you the recording of Walrus’s set from Bonanza 2024. 

Walrus is a label boss, running the iconic Brussels imprint Basic Moves, deep digger - as comfortable playing techno as he is ambient and downtempo - and all round lovely human being. 

Opening up the main floor on the Saturday night, this is Walrus in house, deep house and tech house mode. Low slung grooves, acidic chuggers and the occasional break, this is that wraps you up and cuddles you in it’s warmth and good vibes, just like the man himself.

Rio 004 - Walrus (recorded live at Bonanza 2024)

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-circadian-rhythms-systematic-soul 

Walrus' praised vinyl only label @basicmoves prepare to release their final double 12-inch courtesy of local legend and all time Belgian underground hero Christophe De Groot aka Circadian Rhythms spanning squelching acid, muffled 808 kicks, skewered techno, sinewed synth-work and jazz piano.

Circadian Rhythms - Systematic Soul [Basic Moves]

DJ Rino
soundcloud : @rinobxl
instagram : www.instagram.com/dj_rino_pinguin_society/

Walrus
soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/basicmoves
instagram : https://www.instagram.com/basic_moves_walrus/

Neverending Sounds w/ Dj Rino & Walrus @ GIMIC - 20 December 2024 WALRUS

(Re)opening up the rain room on Sunday evening 19h - 23h. 4 hours of sometimes playful, sometimes deep, consistently fresh US/K club music.

Dana Kuehr b2b islas ~ Horst Club x Gay Haze x Cocktail d'Amore ~ Rain Room

soundcloud : @claradddd
instagram : www.instagram.com/clara_dddd/

Clara D @ GIMIC - 08 January 2025

In 2017, Matthias launched his record label named Superluminal, after the astronomic motion observed in 1902 by Jacobus Kapteyn in the ejecta of the nova GK Persei, which had exploded in 1901. His discovery was published in the German journal Astronomische Nachrichten, and received little attention from English-speaking astronomers until many decades later. It appears to travel faster than light, its existence could conceal the most inexplicable mysteries of our universe which gave birth to many of the secrets hidden in the path of mysticism and esotericism.

The label celebrates its 8th Anniversary with Matthias's first self-released album. The instalment pays homage to the roots and influences the artist has genuinely embraced throughout the years. An immersive composition which summons a line from the sounds of the past to the present, designed meticulously and displayed within gatefold cover.

It certainly manifests a polyhedral vein with some very cerebral, experimental songs among more dancefloor oriented music. The artist delves into a self exploratory leap of synth-driving notes, striking chords of late decaying dub pianos. Certainly a journey that pairs conceptual alignment with more clubby-essential, stripped-down recordings.

The song's progression evokes atmospheres from the far out worlds, carved into a space-echoing psychedelic trip with sinister tribal-percussive rhythm. The song's arrangements are simple-complex drum's versatile patterns, forged and elegantly blended into cinematic soundscapes.

This is a one way ride to the forest of mysteries, from which, there is no return. The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark.



The Edge Of Night

Matthias - The Edge Of Night | Album  2x Vinyl 12" gatefold

Basic Moves chef Walrus and Metrolux honcho XDB go b2b for the very first time for From Athens to Brussels with love. Heady house and deep techno swirl into a maelstrom of masterful grooves.

From Athens to Brussels with love w/ Walrus B2B XDB @ Kiosk Radio 25.01.2025

Basic Moves founder Walrus joins us on the podcast this week. Active as both a DJ and producer for well over a decade, Michiel's also been putting on some of Brussel’s finest parties in recent years, under both his label's banner and a new series called Beautiful Freaks, which he runs alongside Pinguin Society Collective and many other friends.  

Quality and warmth ooze from everything he’s involved in, reflecting an all-round lovely human. DIM322 is no different, a hazy journey through soft breaks, earworm electro, housey goodness and more. We’re very excited to welcome him for a Dimensions this summer.

@basicmoves

DIM322 - Walrus

Macadam met Islas ● STL.Radio ● 10.05.2025

[FINISSAGE] Pour le dernier jour de l' Exposition Unexistant - Alec De Buscchère et de Waiting to Blossom*Constallations de Pascale Barret & avatars, l'ISELP vous invite à un finissage festif en présence des artistes.
DJ SET AMBIENT islas & walrus (Basic Moves)

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islas & walrus dj-set (ISELP Brussels June 2019)

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after studying visual arts, creative centipede
ailsa cavers aka islas slowly drifted 
towards a growing interest in sound. 
islas began crafting long, throbbing
sets that bring together delay
pedals, ASMR, spoken word,
movie scores, and ambient
sounds, playing with the
friction that exists when one
record meets another, with the
joy that erupts when sounds
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participated in the creation of
belgian dance music label basic
moves, and recently co-founding
the PLANET collective, islas propels
dance-oriented sets,
all the while conserving a
passion for sampled and loopy
vocals, wonky percussion,
intoxicating breaks, and bird
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a place for outsider club music based in Brussels/Belgium

walrus dj bookings : 
stijn@headsup.brussels

Basic Moves distribution : 
distribution@clone.nl
For Playful Manners distribution : 
nick@smallblackdots.net 
Gems Under The Horizon distribution: 
markus@wordandsound.net
Back catalog : 
https://basicmovesbrussels.bandcamp.com/

islas & walrus dj-set (ISELP Brussels June 2019)

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