vrøge @Ondersteboven festival 2022

AIS De La Montagne b2b vrøge @Paradise bar | Just one of the many hours

vrøge @DISCOSMOS 07-10-2022

We did an amazing 4 hour long b3b but unfortunately something went wrong with the recording luckly we could save this first part!!

Feverfew b3b vrøge b3b SAMI @Bronze Beach 23-09-2022

vrøge @Overstag rivercruise 2023

Recorded the 2 hours I played at the NAR during De Beatshow. 

The hours are filled with every wobbly brassy banging sound I felt like playing and the people seemed to enjoy it. I Put in some freestyle, Disco, various house tunes, synthwave and of course some lovely zouky tunes.

Apologies for the bouncing needle somewhere in the middle but someone was dancing his ass off which landed right against the booth

Don't be scared to ask any ID's, I love to share them all

vrøge @NAR de Beatshow 18-01-2024

Here is the result of the best invitation I got so far from the lovely and good looking Haverdi. 

Physically I crossed almost half the globe all the way to Tbilisi tp play at Haverdoba in Lovebar, but musically Haverdi and I covered the entire world within these two hours. Of course some Zouk, some African funk, Calypso, and some sprinkles of disco, you name it we probably played it. 

Enjoy this superb 2 hour B2B ride!

Haverdi B2B vrøge @Haverdoba x Love Bar, Tbilisi 05-04-2024

The second recording of the boys in action in Tbilisi!

This time recorded from Café-Gallery with a great soundsystem and an impeccable wooden dancefloor that made you experience the music through your feet.

We started off slow with a nice groove and headed towards the more deeper sounds that house can offer with of course here and there some worldsy influences.

Hope you willl enjoy it as much as I did that day and every other day when I listen back to it

Haverdi B2B vrøge @CAFE-GALLERY, Tbilisi 06-04-2024

Here is the recording of me throwing around some vinyl for 2 hours and a bit at the NAR. 
Loved every bit of it. Started of gently with some beautiful zouk love and slowly built up the energy through a whole variaty of new but also some all time favorite records. Before ending it all with some timeless disco favorites I also dived a little into my house collection that I am picking up again more often.

Hope you all enjoy it as much as I did and still do :)

vrøge @NAR Suite Of Medley 19-04-2024

Greatly composed track by Dany Play and Guy Remy with some beautiful solo vocals of Dany Plays own daughter Ké Karine.
https://www.discogs.com/release/23670488-Dany-Play-K%C3%A9-Karine-Insuportable

Josh tipped the record to me, mainly for the A2 track Sa Dan L'Anmou (definitly make sure to check out that gorgious zouk love track as well). But after flipping the record and hearing Songe for the first time I immidiatly fell in love with the enegry of the track.

Did some cutting and pasting; removed a slowing down part, made a new intro and rearranged the track. Also beefed it up a little to lower end of the frequency spectrum since the recording sounded a bit hollow at first. So in short I tried to make it somewhat more DJ and dancefloor friendly.

All credits to all the artists that created the track, without them this was never put into the world! 
Last thing, please always makes sure to get to the end for that super sexy sax solo of Alain Hatot.

Dany Play / Ké Karine - Songe (vrøge edit)

High energy zouk edit from the first album of the drummer of Kassav'; Claude Vamur.

He has been a drummer for the greater part of his life. Before joining Kassav' he was mainly focused on jazz. But in this track you will most definitely hear his love for the drums and zouk.

I did a lot of rearrangements and skipped most of the first part of the track. The middle and end is where the real party energy is and I tried to use that througout the entire 4 minutes. Also reused the shaker and added a very slight kick for some more cluby experience.

Claude Vamur (Colo) - Azizouk (vrøge edit)

3 hours of me opening Soenda Festival at the Lipton stage. 

Although the photo might suggest something else, I was on from 12.00 untill 15.00. It was an amazing experience to play at the Soenda ground and finding my name between all these other superb artists. 
This time only brought my usb full of house tracks. This made the experience even more fantastic and fun doing a 3 hour full house set. Started off with some beautiful deeper tracks building towards some more cluby vibe with some newer and oldskool tracks inbetween.

Hope you enjoy all of it!

vrøge @ Soenda Festival 25-05-2024

5,5-hour journey of AIS De La Montagne and vrøge during the afternoon session of Locomotion x Radio NAR of the rooftop terrace of the NAR.

We had the best time playing together after a long time and especially doing such an extended set. We kept it chill nicely played into the perfect weather. Lots of worldsy tracks but also expect a bunch of funky and groovy stuff. 
Perfect set to put on your speakers on your beautiful Sunday

AIS De La Montagne B2B vrøge @ Locomotion x Radio NAR 11-07-2024

vrøge @Rumba Tropicale x Pier 15 27-07-2024

Not a real taxi service but a magical music group from Martinique that produced some quality early year zouk tracks.

Taken from their first album released in 1988 that they also named Taxi Kréol, I took the Tropicana (Rainbow) track for some rework.

https://www.discogs.com/release/10225419-Taxi-Kr%C3%A9ol-Taxi-Kr%C3%A9ol

Used the drum solo as both the intro and outro for the edit and rearranged some bits to give it a bit more constant vibe for the dancefloor. Big oldskool zouker to give the dancefloor a lil kick.

Taxi Kréol - Tropicana (vrøge edit)

My Rearranged version of this extraordinary instrumental zouk track of Edouard Sevele and Patrick Pierre who have also released some sick stuff under the name Flash.

https://www.discogs.com/release/4444699-Branch%C3%A9-Pou-C%C3%A9-F%C3%AAtes-La

But as Branché they put out this album called Pou Cé Fêtes La including this great tune Déliré that they devoted to their dear friend Freddy.

As most might know I am the biggest fan of some good brass sections. This edit is the prime example of that. I skipped the guitar solo (because in my opinion it disrupted the brass flow), reaggended some bits and made it more DJ friendly. So the end result is an instrumental zouk tune filled with amazing brass instrument solos!

Branché - Déliré (vrøge edit)

Somewhat deeper zouk track from the only solo album (at least as far as I could find now) of Ruddy Gustan named Anti Stress:

https://www.discogs.com/master/1571360-Ruddy-Gustan-Anti-Stress

On the ablum there are quite a few other wonderful tracks but the groove of this one just hits me different.

Only did some reaggangements and left out a slightly weird hypnotonic part out so it is better suited for the dancefloor.

Ruddy Gustan - Akt 2 (vrøge edit)

My recording from this wonderful dance hidden somewhere in the woods around Utrecht because according to the big rule book this party was not allowed to happen. And that is also why unfortunately the police put a stop to it.

However, I got lucky that that happend way after I finished this set. Since it was my first Illicit party to play at I decided to prepare differently, but the end result did not suffer from it.

Felt super free to play anything I felt like playing and it all worked like a charm. Gave the party a good kickstart and afterwards it was all just pure unfiltered fun!

vrøge @Bushfunk Vol.1 22-06-2024

vrøge @Kinetic 31-08-2024

The album is probably best known for the insanely good track "Europe Soul," but it has more beauties.
Here is my little rework of the B2 track called Kominikasyon. Love the energy of the track, especially those horns that give off the right good energy.I made it more DJ-friendly and added just the right amount on the drumbeat for the right party feel.

Christian YéYé - Kominikasyon (vrøge edit)

This Afro-pop gem showcases the incredible vocals of Ivorian singer Nayanka Bell, known as the "Barbra Streisand of Africa." Her voice is accompanied by a blend of more traditional Ivorian rhythms and smooth pieces of electronic pop on top of it.

Little side note; This album won the Africa Music Award in 1994, which is the same year she won the prize for most beautiful female voice of Africa. 
And I totally get why she won both prizes!

The track’s arrangement is a perfect balance of organic and modern elements. Where I normally would go for the horns (that are incredibly warm and energetic in this track), for it the guitar part that gets me in this tune.

For this version, I did some rework on the structure to enhance the flow of the track a bit. I did use the CD version of the album for this edit. But most work went into redoing the drums ever so slightly to give the track somewhat more body for the big systems.

Nayanka Bell - Ahou (vrøge edit)

First got in touch with Voyage due to their Lady America track. But after hearing that, what we now call iconic closing in 2019 I was truly mesmerized by what Voyage produced. 
After checking a bunch of their releases I stumbled across this disco bomb from 1982 that can be found on the album One Step Higher:

https://www.discogs.com/master/163482-Voyage-One-Step-Higher

It originally lasted 7.5 minutes and consisted mostly of this beautiful, slower orchestra part. Although I also like that part's sound, the more energetic part caught my ears. So, after having it in my collection for a while, I decided to change a thing or two. I tried to capture the more energetic side of the track that keeps on giving for the dancefloor. Which are mainly the intro and outro that were surprisingly difficult to get around. Also some rearrangements and a little tweaking of the lower end frequencies.

But all kudos of course to the incredible French disco band Voyage for producing this piece of art!!!

Voyage - Follow The Brightest Star (vrøge edit)

Recently digged Latin House groover with a superb bassline part before the whole thing explodes in a nice samba vibe:

https://www.discogs.com/release/1062334-Kunte-Latino-Kunte-Latino

Did some little rearrangements so it is more playable in the club because I mainly skipped over the 1,5 minute during break that would kinda kill the dancefloor in my oppinion

Kunte Latino - Kunte Latino (vrøge's massive bongo edit)

Vwel - Envie De Toi (vrøge edit)

Rework I did on a great slow stepper from the genius artist and trombone player Abdul Raheem.

https://www.discogs.com/release/2783839-Abdul-Raheem-Che-Che

The album was first released in 1993, one of only two releases he did under the alias Abdul Raheem. But besides those two releases, he had an amazing musical career with various musical styles. Before he released his two albums, he was part of the renowned band Osibisa!

His various musical influences resulted eventually in this album called Che-Che. For the edit, I reworked the original and the instrumental version, tweaking some sounds here and there.

So I hope you enjoy it!

Abdul Raheem - Che-Che (vrøge edit)

A recording of me performing the so-called Dis Jockey ritual trying to endulge people in the beauty of music.
I tried doing this with a variaty uplifting global genres, so I hop you enjoy it!

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