EDM-pioneer Islam Chipsy – together with band EEK (two drummers!) and their unique form of E(gyptian) Dance Music (a mixture of electro & traditional Egyptian sounds and rhythms) – has been tearing through homeland Egypt with the force of a hurricane. Prolonged, goading keyboard-compositions are pushed to a climax by extremely explosive drum work. Islam Chipsy & EEK were irresistibly danceable at Dour, Transmediale in Berlin, as well as at our Recyclart in Brussels this summer.
All those who ended up in the eye of this dance storm and lived to tell the tale speak of an ecstatic experience with one of the world’s most infectious live acts of the moment. Sounds like the ideal stuff to chase away any approaching winter blues at the end of November!
- DJ-Set Tommy Denys
Genre: Dance, Electronica, World
AB & Beursschouwburg
In order to emphasize our good musical neighbourliness, the Flemish Cultural Houses AB & Beursschouwburg began working together on a structural basis. Both houses have already collaborated occasionally in the past, remember the co-production around the Æthenor concert (the band encompassing Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’ Malley) or the edition of Brussel Feest whereby Tommigun provided the soundtrack to Marc Didden’s classic film ‘Brussels By Night’.
Since September ’13, these occasional collaborations have been structurally embedded. So it was that both houses now regularly organize a concert together (having kicked off with Shangaan Electro 12/10/13 & Cut Copy 29/11/13) in the Beursschouwburg that is promoted by both parties and whereby the focus is on exciting and adventurous music. All this with only one goal in mind: further enriching Brussels’ cultural and musical landscape.
