Slick Chick is a 27 year-old disco-freak from Rotterdam. She started playing records about seven years ago. At the time she and her friends were throwing nonprofit parties in dirty warehouses throughout the Netherlands and beyond.
Wanneer Redevice een pionier en levende legende op het gebied van sonische experimenten uitnodigt om te komen optreden binnen de ideale setting van Studio 80 met z’n moddervette sound system, dan weet je zeker dat het voorgeschotelde geluid je niet alleen zal verrijken...
Terwijl de Sint z’n zak met pepernoten leegschudt en onze grote Kerstvriend de arrenslee weer voorrijdt, dropt Arctic Boogie vrijdag 12 december feestelijke acid en oldskool in club Innocent in Hengelo.
Loveland organiseert dit jaar het grootste Oud & Nieuw spektakel van Amsterdam. De organisatie viert de jaarwisseling in Amstelborgh onder de naam ‘Loveland NewYear’.
A Soul Designer's essence is undeniably connected to the principles of ART – which means human activities concerning esthetic manifestations in order to stimulate the senses, bring emotions and ideas, rather than looking for commercial results. These are the purposes that always guided the life of Fabrice Lig, a talented electronic artist that is today a huge example of forward-thinking mind to all the new generations of computer software producers.
Born about fifty km from Brussels, in the city of Charleroi, Fabrice Ligny used to be a History and Geography teacher, but the music brought him to the forefront of the electronic scene of his Country since his early artistic steps. Owner of a respected background, he has constantly been pushing things forward and bringing quality music under a personal and unique perspective. He started to buy records and then began to produce still young, with the help of a broad musical background that pointed to the many periods of Underground music he has been through on the last twenty five years. From the Break Dance era when he was still a teenager to the raise of the House scene of Chicago, the alternative electronic scene from Europe and the Techno from Detroit, Fabrice absorbed very rich elements that made of him a complete artist with a holistic perspective. For its Sci-Fi Soul essence, Detroit Techno would become his strongest influence; melted to the others, it would give him an eclectic ensemble that would make the difference in the future.
Detroit Techno's principles brought Fabrice Lig close to the idea of making something Soul-Aesthetic and at the same time pointed to the future, just like the standards of Science Fiction's books & movies. This esthetic may explain the large use of sophisticated atmospheres, seductive melodies, chords and rhythms on a perspective of beauty similar to the ones of the Motor-City artists. His natural attraction to these atmospheric ambiances brought him closer to Kevin Saunderson in particular, for which he made a version for a track of Kevin's tune called "Banjo" as E Dancer. (1999) That feeling of intellectual proximity and desire for beauty had approached Fabrice Lig to that scene to the point that he finally was considered "part of the Detroit musical culture itself" according to the words of Underground Resistance's leader Mad Mike, and with that release, the Belgian artist became the first white European to release through a Detroit Techno label : KMS.
Fabrice Lig's production career included releases on very conceptual labels such as Kevin Saunderson's KMS, Laurent Garnier's F Communications, and also Raygun Records, 7th City, Kanzleramt, Motech, Delsin, and more recently Third Ear Recordings and Versatile Records through where 'Evolutionism Promo Single' and 'X-Slaves EP' came out; he also had the opportunity to have some of his tunes included on quality compilations as well. Fabrice also collaborated with Japan superstar Ken Ishii on his last album 'Sunriser' (released on 70 Drums, Japan), and they collaborated once again on the new Soul Designer's album to come.
Also known as the Soul Designer, Fabrice is someone really committed to essence of his artistic Soul. As a natural consequence of his way to perceive, play and conceive Music with no frontiers or limitations, he received constant invitations to play and perform live on acclaimed festivals and events such as Montreux Jazz Festival, Sonar in Barcelone, Detroit Fuse-In Festival (voted best dj performance of 2005 by Detroit free press), I Love Techno from Belgium, Printemps de Bourges Festival from France (With Jean-Michel Jarre on stage), among other important ones, and also countless clubs of respect. After the release of his "Evolutionism Promo Single" on late 2007, Fabrice's new homonym album as Soul Designer is coming out in 2008 together with an international tour called 'Evolutionism World Live Tour' that just started this February with brilliant Fabrice Lig's live performances in Brazil & Japan.
Remember: "Where Techno Soul Meets Futuristic Funk, you will find the Fabrice Lig's Music".
- Interview done on 16-09-2008 "It\'s mainly a mix between all my influences; jazz, funk, blues, techno - with my own sound. It\'s my view of Melodic techno of 2008. (Fabrice about his album \"Evolutionism\")"
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heb de beste man 1 keer gezien in de melkweg en later wat sets op internet gehoord.en wat een mooie funky melodieuze zielvolle sets. producties van hem ken ik niet,maar schijnen heel ok te zijn.
wie deze gast een keer boekt,zou mijn dag echt helemaal maken.
Zijn vetste set zal toch wel die keer zijn dat hij de f-comm avond om 10 days off heeft afgesloten! Draaide ff Garnier naar huis! Live ook zeker de moeite alleen ALTIJD te kort
jouw huisbelg! * ENGLISH PLEASE* your home belgian guy!
Fabrice Lig is considered by his peers & techno fans around the globe as a world class producer. He is well known for his particularly funky use of Roland’s sh101 analog synth, and for his especially emotional and personal melodies and harmonies.
There is no doubt that after more than 10 years of self teaching of production processes, complex midi programming and harmonies, Fabrice’s sound is unique and recognisable between the thousands of weekly techno releases.
Demonstrations of that skill appear on cream of the cream techno labels such as KMS (Kevin Saunderson) & 7th city records (Dan Bell) from Detroit, F-Communications (Laurent Garnier) from Paris, Raygun records from Hamburg, Playhouse records from Offenbach and most recently on the finest Berlin Based label, Kanzleramt (Heiko Laux).
It was 1988 when Fabrice was touched by his first Dance music shock - “I was 15, on a dance floor of a Belgian club when I heard Big Fun from Kevin Sauderson’s Innercity project. It was an emotional shock, I’ve never felt that kind of powerful emotion before. The day after, a friend of mine who used to work for a radio station told me that it was called Techno music. It was my first contact with Detroit electronic music”.
After his first DJ and production experiences under the Interwaves and Bug Orchestra nicknames, it was the end of 1998 when Fabrice rose to the rank of an artist of Detroit’s music history, to the praise of Mad Mike himself, thanks to his classic remix of E-Dancer’s Banjo track on KMS: “Fabrice is a part of Detroit music's history by being the first white producer to record on KMS, and the first double groove recording from NSC”.
After that point, Fabrice’s career drew the regular attention of the International Techno Community, thanks to many critically acclaimed releases:
From his classic “Justice”, “Escape from Nowhere” or “Galapagos” tracks on Raygun records to the “even deeper EP” with his peer Titonton Duvanté on Detroit’s 7th city records, from the “Greed” remix for Laurent Garnier to his acclaimed first album for his Soul Designer project on F-Communications and dozens of other productions and remixes, Fabrice has built a solid discography and reputation, confirmed by his reknowned appearances on the best worldwide club & festival Line ups. (Fabric London, Fuse Brussels, Loft Barcelona, Sub Club Glasgow, The End, famous Respect! Parisian parties, Sonar Festival, world famous official Montreux Jazz Festival, Bourges festival (On stage with Jean-Michel Jarre), plus some tours in US, Canada, Japan and the whole of Asia).
Some recent highlights of 2003 are the already classic “Meet you in Brooklyn” EP on Playhouse records, the “Universal Tech” & “Los Picaros” EPs on the newly signed to world class techno label, Kanzleramt.
All these works in 2003 are could be considered as teasers when compared to the forthcoming new album due to be released on Kanzleramt, April 26th 2004 - which will probably be the year of Fabrice Lig and Melodic Techno.
“My 4 Stars” is already considered by the lucky ones who had a promo copy in their hands to be a new step in melodic techno history. It is certainly the most rich and personal album from Fabrice. Featuring live percussion, straight vocal harmonies and saxophone recordings - the result of the combination of the best sounds of analog old school gear with the use of new incredible computer possibilities.
After more than a year of studio work, Fabrice is about to hit the road again for his “My 4 Stars” Worldwide Tour.
Selected LABELS :
Fabrice appears on this followed labels for own productions or remixes :
KMS (Detroit-Usa), 7th City (Detroit-Usa), F-Communications (Paris-France), Raygun (Detroit-Usa/Hamburg-Germany), Playhouse (Germany), Residual (Columbus-Usa), Kanzleramt (Germany), Third Ear (London/Tokyo), Starbaby (Bakersfield-Usa), Music Man (Gent-Belgium), Central (Berlin-Germany), Native (London-UK), Silver Network (Paris-France), Serotonin (New-York-Usa), V2 Music (Paris-France), Deep4Life (Chicago-Usa), Elypsia (Brussels-Belgium), Clone (Rotterdam-Netherlands), Serie (Liège-Belgium), Adrenogroov (Switzerland), Digital Soul (UK), Local (Gent-Belgium), Unlimited (Lille-France), Shield (Lile-France), Respect! (Germany), Confused (Germany), Foreplay (Brussels-Belgium), Superstition (Hamburg-Germany), Initial Cut (Paris-France), ...
Selected CLUBS (Live or Dj set) :
Fabric-London (UK), The End-London (U.K), Sub Club Glasgow (Scotland), Club Milieu (Singapore), Fuse club-Brussels (Be), CCA-Glasgow (Scot), Maria Club-Berlin (Germ), Club 672/StatdGarden-Koln (Germ), Think-Tank –Leeds (UK), Loft-Barcelona (Spain), Atmosphere-Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Rosthoflager-Zurich (Switz), La Fabrique-Tokyo (Japan), Club Underground-Nagoya (Japan), Club Dawn-Osaka (Japan), Silo-Leuven (Be), Made in Brussels (Be), Sonik-Brusssels (Be), Decadence-Gent (Be), Pure club-Tournai (Be), Tresor club-Berlin (Ger), No Ufo’s-Berlin (Ger), Ostgut-Berlin (Ger), Art Theatre-Koln (Ger), Phonodrome-Hamburg (Ger), Depot- Stuttgart (Ger), Maria Club-Berlin (Germany), Club 672-Köln, Germany, Rotary – Frankfurt (Germ), La Villa Rouge-Montpellier (France), Olympic-Nantes (France), Auftrieb 2000/Labor-Hannover (Ger), Lasal Club-Barcelona (Sp), Nighttown-Rotterdam (Nl), Bootleg Café-Rotterdam (Nl), Doornrosje-Nijmegen (Nl), Rex Club-Paris (Fr), Mezzanine de l’Alcazar-Paris (Fr), Batofar-Paris (Fr), Loft Club-Lausane (Switz), L’Usine-Genêve (Switz), HQ's-Dublin (Irl), Les docs du Sud-Marseille (France), Kerma-Helsinki (Fin)...
Selected PARTIES & FESTIVALS (Live or Dj set) :
Montreux Jazz Festival (Switz), Sonar 2002 Festival-Barcelona (Spain), MEG festival-Montréal (Canada), Ten Days Off Festival-Gent (Be), Ososphère Festival-Strasbourg (Fr), Nordik Impact Festival-Caen (Fr), Opaque-Columbus (Usa), Sequence Festival-Vienna (Austria), Malfunction 3rd anniversary-Columbus (Usa), Le Printemps de Bourges with Jean-Michel Jarre on stage (Fr), I Love Techno-Gent (Be), Respect is Burning ! – Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Mixmove Salon-Paris (Fr), Dj’s attack-Toulouse (Fr), BMX-Tra championship-Knokke (Be), Wex Festival (Be), Nuits du Botaniques-Brussels (Be), Les sensations d’Esfacy (Fr), Dour Festival (Be), Alive Festival-St Vith (Be), Nandrin Festival (Be), Festivibe-Aiseau Presles (Be), Osmose at l’Aéronef-Lille (Fr)...
jouw huisbelg! * ENGLISH PLEASE* your home belgian guy!
heb de beste man 1 keer gezien in de melkweg en later wat sets op internet gehoord.en wat een mooie funky melodieuze zielvolle sets. producties van hem ken ik niet,maar schijnen heel ok te zijn.
wie deze gast een keer boekt,zou mijn dag echt helemaal maken.
11/02 in Rotterdam op de 6 jarige verjaardag van dat bootbenen café!
jouw huisbelg! * ENGLISH PLEASE* your home belgian guy!
heb de beste man 1 keer gezien in de melkweg en later wat sets op internet gehoord.en wat een mooie funky melodieuze zielvolle sets. producties van hem ken ik niet,maar schijnen heel ok te zijn.
wie deze gast een keer boekt,zou mijn dag echt helemaal maken.
11/02 in Rotterdam op de 6 jarige verjaardag van dat bootbenen café!
goede shitttt!daar heeftie een paar jaar terug ook al een keer gedraaid volgens mij.zou eignelijk naar tobi neumann gaan in DH,hmmm choices choices.misschien de twee zaken combineren,eerst rdam en dan met de nachttrein richting het Haagse...
heb de beste man 1 keer gezien in de melkweg en later wat sets op internet gehoord.en wat een mooie funky melodieuze zielvolle sets. producties van hem ken ik niet,maar schijnen heel ok te zijn.
wie deze gast een keer boekt,zou mijn dag echt helemaal maken.
11/02 in Rotterdam op de 6 jarige verjaardag van dat bootbenen café!
Fabrice Lig
Sat the 29th of January 2005 Belgium / Brussels / Fuse / Final Scratch Party / DJ
Sat the 22nd of January 2005 Belgium / Gent / Decadance / "Underground resistance" Night with Dj 3000, Suburban Night / Dj
Music Tip: Frederic Galliano
Biosphere
System 7
GusGus
MZR
Oef The Suburban Knight in de Deca? dikke shizzle hoor... DJ 3000 is ook vet...
Nightflight feestje, Fabrice Lig is daar resident op en wordt elke 2 maand gehouden! wel dikke line-up jammer dat ik hiervoor moet passen anders lukt het niet met mijn rustiger aandoen voornemens
jouw huisbelg! * ENGLISH PLEASE* your home belgian guy!
heb hem vorig jaar 1 keer gehoord (in Melkweg geloof ik...5 Days Off) en moet zeggen dat hij me toen aangenaam verrast heeft!!
Zijn release op Kanzleramt vind ik wel leuk klinken..niet heel bijzonder overigens..
A Soul Designer's essence is undeniably connected to the principles of ART – which means human activities concerning esthetic manifestations in order to stimulate the senses, bring emotions and ideas, rather than looking for commercial results. These are the purposes that always guided the life of Fabrice Lig, a talented electronic artist that is today a huge example of forward-thinking mind to all the new generations of computer software producers.
