The Glimmers (Бельгия) - electronica, disco, neo disco

Ava (http://djmag.ru/) and other - http://www.myspace.com/theglimmers The Glimmers Biography Real name / Mo Becha, David Fouquaert Moniker(s) / Mo & Benoelie BORN M: 1970. In Ghent, Belgium. B: 1969. In Ghent, Belgium. FAMILY M: There was a bit of music in the house, a bit of African music, Arabic music and Michael Jackson. But we had a lot of radio and recording tapes from the radio when I was 10-years-old or something. The jukebox in my parents’ bar was owned by a company that delivered 7 inches, whenever they replaced the selection we got to keep what they took out..They were all scratched and had played on the jukebox 100-times already. But it was still cool to have those to play around with and listen to. B: My parents used to have Clubs and DJ Bars in the late 70s in Ghent. My father was the DJ, he played a lot of Rock and Seventies stuff. I remember at the age of 8 I saw him playing records. I wanted to do that as well! My love for music and dj-ing definitely started there. MUSICAL ROOTS M: The first 7-inch I bought with my own money was Tainted Love by Soft Cell, we still have it in our record collection. By the age of 11, I frequently visited my Aunt in Amsterdam and I remember the music on the radio was brilliant.. I recorded a lot of tapes there and on one of those tapes there is a track, that to this day, I still haven’t found out what it is – I only know that at that time I had a great feeling about it and I hope that one day I’ll bump into it so I will finally be able to rest. B: Mostly popular music, the stuff that the local radio was playing. I remember buying my first 7-inches in the early 80s, Rockwell for example . Then the Break Dance and Electro Boogie hype came over from New York. Movies like Beat Street and Wild Style were available on VHS and I saw them maybe a hundred times. My friends were into the breakdancing, but I was more interested in the musical part. I started buying the records and started imitating the scratches by DST or Flash. From those days on, you could say that I was really bitten by the music bug. DJING M: We have been DJing for about 20-years now. Early November 1987 was really our professional nightlife debut. We started playing in a club for 300-people, called Fifty Five. A small, dark, medieval basement with a HUGE soundsystem. We played there every Saturday from 10pm till 8/9am. Throughout the night we had to play really different sorts of music because at 10 o’clock all the youngsters came in and wanted to hear the new beat and pop stuff, but then a couple of hours later the audience changed – the more experienced clubbers came so we had to change the music – and then at the end it was the old rockers coming in, sipping whiskeys at the bar having us playing the Rolling Stones. B: It was an extremely good learning school and I think that is really the foundation of how we play now and how Ghent got its sound. We were so focussed on covering the whole musical landscape as much as possible, pleasing everybody who came in, however we had 10-11 hours to prove ourselves, compared to having only one-and-a-half - two-hours sets nowadays. http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj-page.aspx?id=856 Website / www.glimmertwins.com Знамениты музыкой и тем, что свой новый альбом решили не продавать, а дарить своим поклонникам (russian dj mag)