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The Wild

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The Wild

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SA 16.01.2016 19:00 uitgesteld!
FR 05.02.2016 19:00 nieuwe datum!

The Wild has been Out There the last 15 years, making radio for Urgent.fm (2000-2012) and Fm.Brussels (2012-present) and Djing all over the place.

Besides that he has been curating 100s of concerts and parties as a professional promotor. Collaborating with venues as Democrazy (where he curated the Dyn-O-Mite nights - with artists such as Mulatu Astatke, Lee Fields, Ebo Taylor, Major Hawthorne ...). He set up the first Belgian Boiler Room in 2015 (with Lefto and Tangram Labelnight + STUFF), organising the Playa Del Soul festival in Ostend (celebrating Marvin Gaye with an expo, concerts and party).

Besides curating events he is also collaborating with UK labels Finders Keepers and Jazzman Records. For Finders Keepers he has made 3 releases with Belgian avant garde electronics by Louis De Meester and Karel Goeyvaerts and the reissue of the soundtrack of The Antwerp Killer. For Jazzman records he has done researched and licensing for the Popcorn and Spiritual Jazz compilations.

The Wild is also a well travelled record collector, he has amongst others travelled to Morocco, Iran, Irak, Indonesia, Brazil, Us, Japan, Korea, Trinidad & Tobago, India in his quest for interesting music and vinyl. On his label Out There Records he reissues some of his finds.

As a Dj The Wild will travel with you to all the continents adding EU and US flavors and oddities.

As a Dj he played in Istanbul (Arkaodo), Romania (Control Club), Portugal, Italy, Germany (Habitat Festival), Holland, Los Angeles and all over Belgium... done warm up gigs for Dj Shadow, played back to back with Jonathan Moore (Coldcut), Andy Votel (Finders Keepers), JD Twitch (Optimo), Jazzman Gerald (Jazzman records), Frankie Francis (Sofrito)...