Geoffroy

Active because the early ’90s, Geoffroy Dewandeler is usually a veteran of Belgium’s dance music picture. Appearing out of the country’s storied New Defeat scene from the past due ’80s, Dewandeler began spinning acid home, techno, and additional styles through the ’90s, with regular gigs at Ibiza and in the U.K. aswell as with his homeland. He went the favorite Belgian golf club Food, and combined several quantities of Moving Home compilations in colaboration with the golf club. In 2004, he started releasing tech-house songs and remixes beneath the name Mugwump. Early Mugwump produces, such as for example 2004 debut 12″ “Mudcleaner,” had been co-produced by Jean Vanesse and Thomas Sohet. Maxime Firket also added towards the 2007 solitary “Memory Street Refund.” Ultimately Kolombo (Olivier Grégoire) became Dewandeler’s primary collaborator, and Mugwump shifted to even more of a disco-influenced audio. Numerous singles came on well-regarded brands such as for example Kompakt, R&S, International Deejay Gigolo, and Cocoon. Dewandeler utilized the William S. Burroughs-inspired Mugwump deal with for his single DJ sets, however the name also described his live music group, offering bassist/vocalist Stephane Fedele, guitarist Thomas Stadnicki, and drummer Lukas Melville. The band’s audio embraced additional affects such as for example post-punk, funk, coldwave, and Krautrock, and their debut record, Unspell, came on Dewandeler’s Subfield label in 2015. Mugwump’s Metempsycho EP implemented a year afterwards, and in 2017 Dewandeler revived his Shifting Home compilation series with Shifting House 2017.