The Basic Moves Of ... (mixes by friends)

Episode Four of the new mixtape series: The Basic Moves Of…

We welcome Penelope for our fourth podcast. Originally from Paris but now living on the sunny coast just south of Lisbon, Penelope recently made her production debut on Tresydos records. Here she shares with us one hour of her personal soundworld, floating between tech-y disco-flavoured house and party electro in a signature clubby style. Spring is coming and the dancefloor waits in expectation – soon, we hope, we’ll be back together. Enjoy everyone! And thank you Pene for this hour of music <3 


https://soundcloud.com/penelope_sound
https://www.instagram.com/penelope__cz
https://www.facebook.com/penelopesound

The Basic Moves Of ... PENELOPE

Episode five of the mixtape series: The Basic Moves Of…

SKR aka Baptiste is from Namur, a city in Belgium where two rivers (called the Sambre and the Meuse) blend together. In the same way water flows in unison, SKR's mix brings together incredibly deep jungle and drum and bass into one beautiful cascade. We used to throw parties together back in the 2000s, so we are delighted that our paths crossed again after all this time. Baptiste is a true believer who's been digging deeply for more than 25 years. The bottomless archive of his radio shows and mixes dives into many styles, all mixed together deftly and purely. He's a modest underground cat, hiding between shadow and light, somewhere at the confluence of two rivers...

https://www.mixcloud.com/Skar_Belgium/

The Basic Moves Of ... SKR

Episode six of the mixtape series: The Basic Moves Of …

Fabricio Silvera is a passionate dj and producer from Uruguay who lives and works in Barcelona. We got to know him a few years back when he played an amazing personal warm up set for the “Montevideo take over” club night at Chez Jacques in Molenbeek/Brussels. We asked Fabricio for a mix and  some time later we received the result ! This ain't hyped music, but deep techno and acid suffused by that special Uruguayan discipline and flow. Music from a special soul who also runs a record label https://d21music.bandcamp.com. Head up, eyes down. Thanks Fabricio. Enjoy movers !

https://soundcloud.com/fa_bricio

The Basic Moves Of ... FABRICIO

Barbara and Basic Moves have been sending emails back and forth the last 7 years since she works at Scape Mastering alongside engineer Stefan Betke. She is a super skilled dj with a backpack full of experience and knowledge of club music and beyond. It felt logical to us to send another kind of email that wasn't an order form or payment confirmation. hahaha.

This mix puts both our feet back on the ground. Barbara fluently mixes minimal house and dub techno with a unique groove that feels so timeless and oh so clubbbbbyyy. Thanks a lot for teaching and showing us your way.

What’s in Barbara’s backpack? She started her career in Munich working for Disko-B in the mid nineties and soon became a resident at the green flokati room of the cult venue Ultraschall. In 1998 she left for Berlin to work as a freelance press and radio promoter. Around 1999 she co-found the label ˜scape, together with Stefan Betke aka Pole, creating an open platform for the productions of Kit Clayton, Jan Jelinek, Deadbeat, Pole amongst many others.

Autumn 2009 Barbara Preisinger founded the 12inch vinyl label SLICES OF LIFE which is focused on organic sounding and diverse club music, with releases by Betke, Mike Huckaby, Baaz, John Tejada and The Mole. The label´s founding year also marked the beginning of the event series DEEP IN THE BOX with regular parties at Berlin´s Club der Visionäre, Wilde Renate, Ipse among other places. In September 2015 Barbara Preisinger moved DEEP IN THE BOX to the Globus floor at Berlin´s legendary TRESOR club, where she has been hosting her parties every 2 months since then.

http://www.slicesoflife.de/

The Basic Moves Of ... BARBARA PREISINGER

Who is the cat up in the tree? It’s PierrooOoOooOOooo ! Originally from Ukkel south Brussels, full time Arborist, half time Record lover and Double time Clubber. He has been the middle point of the underground house and techno community in Brussels for some years. Pierro is breathing the party and firing energy all the time on the dance floor and behind the decks. His dedication for digging came a few years ago and he has been DJing ever since and started the collective Combine with his friend Fab.
His first cultural memory was the movie that his dad introduced him to of Louis De Funès called Le Corniaud (France 1965), and no surprise, the music in this mix kind of sounds like it. Check it out yourself. We love it ! Thanks Pierro. Hang in there ! 


more info on Pierro you can find here:

https://soundcloud.com/pierro-boonen
https://www.instagram.com/pierro_bx/

The Basic Moves Of ... PIERRO

The hardest working man in the record business steps up with a one-hour-and-ten-minutes no nonsense mixtape traveling into the endless world of belgian (?) club tracks dating from a moment back in time when he used to listen to this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9VBZn_bCzY&feature=youtu.be) … :D

Are we hearing whispering voices during the rainy rave’ie nights? Pim Thomas aka Alfred Anders is the manager and founder of Crevette Records, Runs several vinyl labels and lives/works in Brussels/Belgium. Boss!

The Basic Moves Of ... ALFRED ANDERS

Kim has been touring discotheques as a clubber since before most of us ever heard a techno beat. She was a regular dancer at Cherry Moon, Fuse, P3P, Food, and Silo to name a few classic Belgian clubs and party concepts. She smoothly and slowly observed how things flow in clubbing land, and after all those years she got behind the decks (decks that her husband G. gave her as a present!) and became an excellent, very precise deejay with a selection full of deep, floaty techno grooves and sometimes organic ambient excursions. Her 10 hour-long “More is More” mix she recorded as a live stream (accompanied with visuals by G.) during the pandemic is already a (local?) classic mix that has often been put on at afters-without-turntables. So while this mix is definitely shorter, it’s even better in its own way! Kim has also been helped us with the Basic Moves online communication and now sends out the newsletter, we secretly call her kim.com. 

Welcome to Kim Kenis' musical world full of rich attitude and sharp flavors.

https://soundcloud.com/kimkenis

The Basic Moves Of ... KIM KENIS

Yes yes ! This one took some time, mostly from my side, since the beginning of summer focus has been a bit off-focused. But here we are back on track presenting you a very special summer soaked podcast by Paris-based Tom Joyce.

I met Tom last year in August together with his buddy Juliano at Heidegluehen club in Berlin where he took over the decks after my long warm up set. I got completely sucked into his groove and we later hung out the whole day and night in this special club full of love and peace. A place for real house music. 

Tom also runs the amazing Sounds Benefit label releasing deep electro, breaky house and quirky minimal. 

I’m very pleased to have this classy dj, producer and label owner with us for our most recent podcast.  Open your windows, serve yourself a cold beverage and enjoy the jams in this excellent mixtape. 

Thanks Tom, hope to catch you soon again somewhere on a funky dance floor.

https://soundcloud.com/sounds-benefit-records

The Basic Moves Of ... TOM JOYCE

Samantha ‘theories’ Millows is a Bogota/Colombia-born Artist working in the field of graphic design, video (installations), music, and so much more. She moved to Berlin a couple of years ago where she lives with her partner Valentin Wedde. Both are part of a creative new-skool-multi-dynamic-artist-movement balancing between galleries, raves, happenings, and institutions. 

She is a dedicated music enthusiast and she has been digging and collecting music intensively for the last 10 years of her life. theories really knows what she wants and what she likes, but also what she doesn't like. Still, she stays open-minded with an ongoing possibility of persuasion, always ready for discussion and hungry to learn and explore.

Her universe is definitely rooted in US and UK electro(nica) spiced up by (break)beats of all kinds. This mix reflects her mood and taste, groove and space. 

We connected through fellow electronica colombiana, Adi, 5 years ago in the capital of the country. Since then, Samantha aka theories became involved in the graphic design of “For Playful Manners”, the label Adi and myself run.

A story to be continued. Thanks for your mix Sam.

https://soundcloud.com/samtheories

The Basic Moves Of ... THEORIES

The next podcast is a special one for me!  And here’s why:

- Dj Rino has a natural instinctive talent towards the craftsmanship of deejaying. 
- This 27 year old Brusseleir has a deep essential love for underground (dance) music and club culture. 
- He also has a soft spot for tunes with a psychedelic, stretched-out groove.
- I truly believe in him as an artist and friend.

This summer Dj Rino was booked at the psytrance and rave festival called Space Safari deep down in the south of Belgium to play a 3h after hour dj set at the Zodiak stage on Sunday morning.

I knew it was an important summer gig for him and he had been busy with his selection and set order for months so I traveled with him, set up my tent, went to sleep & woke up at 7am to hit the misty gray morning muddy dance floor and was blown away instantly. He kept the vibes deep and layered, super balanced and controlled, sharp mixing and a big big smile on his face. The morning sun came to say hello during the last hour and we all shined on. 

Thanks to Dj Rino for your amazing performance, your carefully selected music and full dedication that shapes the Belgian scene at this very moment. Shout out to Space Safari and Tweede Asem for the recording of this delicious psychedelic breakfast. Let’s travel among the stars together with Dj Rino.

https://soundcloud.com/rinobxl
https://soundcloud.com/pinguinsociety

The Basic Moves Of ... DJ RINO (live at Space Safari 2023)

The Basic Moves Of ... a.brehme (live at Sundaze 2023)

The next episode in our podcast series comes from a globe-trotting Belgian deejay on the rise. Antwerp-born, Berliner for a few years and recently settled down in our favourite city: Brussels. Lola Haro doesn’t need much of an introduction. She has been playing dance floors all over the world from Mexico to London, Milan to Paris, Tbilisi to Bucharest. Over a year ago her own record label and party concept called Small Steps blossomed, a home to delicate, floaty club music of all kinds. 

But Rome wasn’t built in a day: from a very early age, Lola was brought up in a musical nest, surrounded by Antwerp’s “creme de la creme” of the house music scene and calling the legendary record shop Wally’s Groove World her second home during her childhood. Suffice it to say Lola is influenced by the old-school generation of club music fanatics, party gurus and diamond city fashionistas. Standing next to the dj booth as a teenager checking those spinning records, sliding faders and eq knobs and coming of age as a club music observer that smoothly but surely became a world-known dj. 

While Lola has been flying high the last couple of years, playing big stages and festivals, she’s always kept her feet firmly set in the underground. We’ve been friends for some time and we share conversations about common personal questions like the search for identity in music, mental dj health, and the balance between the dance music business and the underground electronic world.

This mix has been in the making for some time and the result is a magnificent deep trip into her musical universe. I’m very glad to share this with you all. Thanks a lot for your effort and time spent recording this mix Lola, I wish you a bright future ahead. One foot in, one foot out, always taking lots of small but important steps.

https://soundcloud.com/lola-haro

The Basic Moves Of ... LOLA HARO

Flashback to 1999 and a small, east-Belgian city called Tienen where a teenager named Davy Vandegaer is cruising on his skate ramp in the back of his garden. He’s getting some energy out before heading to “The Sphere” later that night, a bar where he can listen to a new, otherworldly music called ‘progressive’ which was his first initiation to techno music.


Hooked on techno, Davy became a regular (after)clubber at Factory, The Groove, Cherry Moon, Extreme and a few years later started his own party concept with his brother Ken and 2 friends Down Under, holding residencies at Club Silo in Leuven from 2008 to 2011 and Fuse, Brussels from 2011 to 2015. 

The sound of Down Under was an eye-opener for me as a young clubber. It was the first time I heard sophisticated, deep, stretched-out minimal house and techno. Davy was the person who invited Nicolas Lutz to Belgium for the first time, and that set changed mine and many others’ musical lives forever. Another WOW moment in little Walrus’ club-life-history related to Davy: I remember going up to the tiny dj booth of Fuse’s motion room, during the early morning hours, while everyone was flying, and asking one of the brothers playing (Ken & Davy) “what’s that spaced out minimal techno tune?” They replied: “Oh it’s a Terrence Dixon release!”

Davy and Ken moved to London and started several warehouse parties, and Davy soon became the resident of the infamous Cartulis parties. He then settled down in Berlin to start his very own deep dedicated techno project called Futurepast. 

Davy proposed a great idea to me a couple of months back to record a mix dedicated to his early clubbing days and inspired by that “dance-café” The Sphere. 

Davy is a great example of an artist who is developing his own path by slowly transforming himself but staying true to his techno roots, and I’m very grateful we all can have a listen to what these roots are. 

ravy davy …

https://soundcloud.com/davyvandegaer
https://soundcloud.com/Futurepastnosenseoftime

The Basic Moves Of ... DAVY

In the far north of Colombia, all the way along the Caribbean coast, you can find one of the world's best hostels called El Rio. This magnificent place is co-run by Ben Davies who left the north of the UK a decade ago in search of sun, snakes and waterfalls.

One element that makes El Rio special is that, since its inception, underground clubbing and electronic music have been central to the project. This manifests as endless club nights, riverside sunrises (and mornings), and the groundbreaking Bonanza festival, a happening that brings together the very best of Colombian, South American and global underground electronic dance music acts, all co-curated by Ben and Adi    

Ben Davies also deejays under the name Benny. His UK roots are never far away, which is something you will hear in this brand new Basic Moves mix, recorded live on Sunday evening of this year’s edition of Bonanza. I was on the dancefloor the whole time and when, a couple of months ago, Benny told me the set was recorded, it was a no-brainer to put it out on the Basic Moves platform.

Snakes, waterfalls and a lot of techno, breaks, trance and acidic goodies … just how we like it … give it up for Benny!

The Basic Moves Of ... BENNY (live at Bonanza 2024)

Max Tournay aka https://soundcloud.com/kafim is an established name in the Brussels underground community. He started deejaying techno music as a resident of the infamous Deep In House collective, who later founded C12 club where he was also a resident for several years. 

Max and I used to play regularly together around 2014/2015 as a deep techno dj duo and shared a couple of nice moments behind the booth. Yet, our paths went separate ways. Max’s interest floated away from club music, pulled towards a more wave-y, slowmo, rock-oriented spectrum. He has been a long-time host on Lyl radio, presenting a show called Basses Besognes focussing on psychedelic rock, garage, shoegaze & other guitar sounds. He also co-runs the (party) collective Curly Teeth, a platform for slowed-down forms of left-field club music.

Flash forward to a couple of months ago. Kafim played a long afternoon set at Horst Club’s intimate “Garage” room during the Gayhaze & Cocktail D’amore 2-day take over. On the dance floor, I was completely blown away by the uniqueness of Kafim’s music selection and super-skilled mixing. The energy that day was very special and emotional for me and the question of asking Max to share his mix after that day/night spent together was very logical. Here is the result of an artist rediscovering himself constantly but always counting on the technical skills of his early techno days. 

Another fact: Max came up with the name Basic Moves when Ailsa and I started the project 8 years ago. I’m so happy that our paths have crossed again, and I can give a platform to this live recording.

So cool Kafim provided the tracklist of the whole mix !!!!

Kobermann - Personal Test
Eat Static - Kothluwalawa
RMP - 3’32 »
Senthulà - Termocanal Sin Retorno
Nada D’Aló - Ten-High Straight
Senthulà - Sub Pàramo
Saafi Brothers - Beautiful Satellite	
Nero Zang - Nassau
Eat Static - Lugubrium Dub
Les Animaux Sauvages - Transsauvages
Bernardino Femminielli - L'amour avec moi (Cosmo Vitelli Dub)
Tagliare  - Forza Gravitazionale 
Tankwart - Lurker
Trenton Chase - Narked
Children Of The Bong - The Veil…
Eat Static - Bony Incus (Mucor Mix)
Spiralmaze - Outlines
Twoonky - To Push
Remotif - The Sunken Place
Signal Theory - Parking The Head
Shit & Cheap - Shadowlands
Hybryds - Envy
Maahrt - Noma (A Strange Wedding remix)
Rockers Hi Fi - Highway
Jacques Satre - Port Chastel
Autumns - Raw Product
Axel Larsen - Dans La Peau D’un Simplist
Iro Aka - Tribe Frequency Oscillator
Jhelisa - There’s Nothing Dub
Autarkic & Hectik - Kippur In Kyoto
Free Range - Psychobunny
Atone - Dubcoffee
Cosmo Vitelli - Die Alraune (feat. Sebastian Lee Philipp)
Ezines - Unspeakable In The AM
Green Beats - Aliens In The Jungle
Morphic Resonance - Into Other Worlds (Stoned Mix)
Nick Mackrory - Side Effect
Nicola Cruz - Piglalião
Laika - Black Cat Bone
Leftfield - Inspection (Check One)
Revolutionary Corps Of Teenage Jesus - Protection Rat
Weber - Dr. Clapper
KonsNix - 70A-1
S.M. - Rug Rug Rug
Credit 00 - Slaves Of War
Renegade Soundwave - Renegade Soundwave (The Leftfield remix)
Zillas on Acid - The Corinthian
Headman feat Vongold - Sometimes (New Hook Remix)
Die Orangen - Der Krautback
53X - Solitude
Rayko - Can't Find My Way
Reda Saiarh - Hunters
Khidja - M&M
CEO of Everything - Rozoviy Buhgalter (live)
Jokios Kultūros - Raw Streets
General P.D.C - Amazon Dub (Beesmunt Soundsystem Version)
Curses - Fortify
Wolf Müller - Hochheide Session
SASM - Democracy (Nik Colk Void Remix)
MR TC - Soundtrack For Strangers
MADMADMAD - GWARN
New Hook - Manipulation (Curses Remix)
Credit 00 - New Tech Swing
Bjork - Big Time Sensuality (The Fluke Minimix)

The Basic Moves Of … KAFIM (live at Gay Haze/Cocktail D'amore/Horst Club 2024)

Jill Krecké aka GURL (https://soundcloud.com/j1ll) is a Luxembourg-born, Brussels-based artist & archivist. We met more than a decade ago on the dancefloor of Fuse Club, Brussels. Ever since, we’ve stayed close music/clubbing friends and swum through different moments in our lives, forever positively connected and supportive. 

Properly balanced and in the pipeline for some years (!!!) now, Gurl’s Basic Moves podcast demonstrates her love for detroity electro, wonky breakbeats and dusty techno. Her passion and skills for mixing and digging up this specific sound of dance music have forged her a steady presence in the electronic music scene of Brussels. Since she started performing as a deejay at the age of 22, she’s became part of various projects (Brüxsel Jardin, C12, Planet), not only as an artist but also as a promoter and safe spacer. 

As a number one supporter and participant of our Beautiful Freaks party, it was a logical choice to ask Jill to join the core team. Multitasking 3-dimensional friends forever. Enjoy the energies & roll out the beats. Gurl in the mix!

The Basic Moves Of … GURL

Transmitting from one of Belgium’s most promising electronic dance spaces, the Garage at Horst club. It’s the most intimate room of the club. Ko-designed, ko-invented and ko(be)-built by the deejay behind this live recorded Basic Moves mix: Kuba’97 ! 

Kobe is part of the early generation of Horst alumni. From his early 20ies he has been involved in this world leading and ultra professional hybrid architecture, art, culture and (club) music festival. They are organising a yearly festival in May and a burgeoning club space that operates throughout the rest of the year on the Asiat site just outside of Brussels. Back in 2018 Kobe started together with a crew of music heads and dreamers a nightlife collective called nacht which operated from the socio-cultural spot Stelplaats in Louvain. This being said Kobe is also the head of production at our Beautiful Freaks parties, a fantastic cook, creative DIY handy person, cider maker, pizza master & great human to have around anytime of the day or night. 

Now let’s put some attention to what Kobe loves the most … records! He has been working hard, digging through the fruitful orchard that is dance music (and beyond), to make his own special brew. This live recording is a perfect reflection of what he loves and has discovered over the last couple of years. We hear shreds of deep techno, spaced out minimal, 80s inspired body music workouts, psychedelic oddities, proggy weird b-sides…and more; definitely not the easiest spread to put together. In Kobe’s hands these three and a half hours are a cruizin’ ride, produced in the dj booth he has built and danced-to by the community Brussels has been (re)building over the last decade … with Kuba’97 unquestionably at the heart of it.

https://soundcloud.com/kuba97

The Basic Moves Of … KUBA'97 (live at Garage/Horst Club 2025)

The Basic Moves Of … islas

Attention music lovers ! This is an ultra ultra special mix, since it is the long-awaited islas Basic Moves podcast. Ailsa Cavers aka islas and I started and ran the record label and club nights together for the first four years. As time takes things and things take time (and life rolls on (and off) and on) our paths have brought us back to sharing friendship, culture, and music again :)

islas also Ailsa is a creative centipede roaming the fields of art, design, music, literature and so much more. Originally from Reading (UK) but relocated to Bordeaux (FR) in the early 2000s where she studied at Ecole Des Beaux Arts before landing in what is now her hometown, Brussels (BE). Together with a bunch of like-minded souls she started the electronic music collective Planet, ran a music pop-up called OP-a with her bff Dana Kuehr…overall islas is a busy, gifted artistic bee that never stings.

Sooo to the music: 2 years in the making, this mix is a story of carefully selected, funny and open-minded club music dug up in the garden of electro house, quirky tech house, Detroit techno, and millennium minimal. All with an islas twist and topped with an English, French and Belgian sauce. Praise the lovely, steezy Ailsa alias islas forever !

https://soundcloud.com/islasaliasailsa

The Basic Moves Of ... islas

The Basic Moves Of … OSCAR FAIVRE (live at Hoppetosse/The Joint 2025)

The next episode of our mix series is from Oscar Faivre, recorded at the legendary Hoppetosse boat in Berlin during The Joint party back in May 2025. Oscar opened with a long deejay set, setting the vibe for the night. This French-but-now-Berlin-based record lover masters the craftsmanship of a warm-up set like no other. In a world where dance music becomes faster and instantly flashy, Oscar takes the opposite direction, and during that night he took us on a journey into deep, honest house music of all kinds, not shy to play grooves with colours and richly-arranged tracks. 
Oscar is an architect by day; you can hear this in his carefully curated track selection and overall flow of the recording. Teamed up with his friend Eltous, he runs Tunnel, the record label and event. With only two records out, they have defined a modern deep house sound rooted in authenticity and history. Good things take time, and Oscar is in no rush. Let’s take time together and enjoy the ride.

https://soundcloud.com/oscar-in-stereo-space?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=0

The Basic Moves Of ... OSCAR FAIVRE (live at Hoppetosse/The Joint 2025)

Third episode in the new mixtape series : The Basic Moves Of ...

Adi accompanies the latest release on the label with this long awaited mix. She describes it herself as a portrait in which she represents the entire reflection of everything that is going on in the world at this moment. listen for yourself. Thank you Adi once again.

The Basic Moves Of ... ADI

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The Basic Moves Of ... (mixes by friends)

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