Aroh DJ

Born and raised in-and-around Brussels, Aroh DJ has spent the last decade pushing underground music as a DJ, label-head and curator in the Belgian capital. Never the man of the hour, yet somehow always on point.

With a broad sonic palette, he brings a selection of tunes deeply rooted in the archive of the subterranean music catalogs and yet is ever in the search of those fresh cuts. In a club context his musical style is wide-ranging with a track selection leaning towards the dramatic and obscure. Forever flirting with the outskirts of Techno, Wave, EBM and Rave but always transfusing them into a solid package regardless of BPM. 

As one of the central figures in Brussels’ underground circuit with shows at Horst Festival, Pukkelpop, Fuse, Funke, Gay Haze, Paradise City, Doel Festival and many more he’s proven his worth over the last few years at many of Belgium's prime club-nights, festivals and events. With recent international shows at Nitsa, Mihn Club, Left Bank, Garage Noord and many more, he’s also exporting his sound to places outside of his home country. 

At the helm of Kontakt Group, the label and event series he co-founded in 2017, he has been releasing records and tapes from artists close to his more alternative musical taste in wave, post-punk and electronica. As a resident of Kiosk Radio he also hosts a monthly show in Brussels where you can catch him floating along the borders of (Post)-Punk, Downtempo/IDM and electronica. 

Otis

Otis is the founder of Slagwerk, a Brussels-based label notorious for their parties, bringing together the ever-surprising stretches of contemporary music – its history includes James Ferraro, Amnesia Scanner, Crystallmess, Oli XL, Varg2TM, Sky h1 and Vegyn. – and a delight in the many faces of club, never disconnected from the families it fosters.

That partying is not something one should take lightly, understands Slagwerk like no other, showing that only in its experimental and dynamic embrace one can escape both nightlife’s over-intellectualizing and tootrivializing impulses. At Slagwerk, and so too in Otis’ continuous escapades as a DJ, the trivial is never just banal, the poppy never just popular, but the cutting-edge never turns pose either.

In Otis’ sets, rigid conceptions of music are left aside, cul-de-sacs explored conditionally through humor, affect and instinct alike. Staying true to the thrill and shuffled spirit of online musical discovery, sound and songs connect and disconnect, flow and disrupt, genres are exploited and transgressed, melody seduced and swept.