Party Tip: Black Out

Koen Van Dijck
© Agenda Magazine
25/09/2013
(Tropic of Cancer)

Black Out, the parties you might describe as Catclub’s dark, plush red couch, neon-lit little brother, revels in the heyday of new beat, new wave, Italo-disco, and early house. These parties usually keep you dancing till dawn, but for this edition you’ll have to leave your basement a bit earlier. The programme features two performances by bands who are touring Europe together, and who are doing extremely well. Tropic of Cancer and DVA Damas’s journey is taking them to famous clubs like Siroco in Madrid, Trouw in Amsterdam, and Berghain in Berlin, but they’re kicking things off at a Boiler Room party in London. If that doesn’t recommend them, we don’t know what will. What’s more, both projects have been picked up by techno veteran Regis, who – could this really be coincidence? – is performing at Bozar Electronic Arts Festival that same night. Heavyweights like that are pretty powerful references on your CV. But what does their music actually sound like? The quote Camella Lobo of Tropic of Cancer gave FACT Magazine might speak volumes: “I honestly don’t feel anything unless I am writing about loving and losing and living and dying.”
Their music comes straight from the catacombs of pop music. The step to cold wave, gothic, post-punk, and early electro is quickly taken. Both American acts, one from Los Angeles, the other from California, are also releasing their debut albums this year, Restless Idylls and Nightshade respectively. Brussels’s dark souls have somewhere to go this weekend.

Black Out: Tropic Of Cancer, DVA Damas 27/9, 21.00, €12, Le Brass, avenue Van Volxemlaan 364, Vorst/Forest, www.facebook.com/BlackOutBrussels

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