Radio Soulwax - Part of the Weekend Never Dies

‘Part Of The Weekend Never Dies’ is a documentary into ‘Radio Soulwax’, a touring concept that for the past three years has showcased the amazing talents of Soulwax. The four Belgians; programmed, promoted, DJ’d and played live each and every night alongside a revolving array of some of the most exciting acts in modern music, travelling relentlessly through the four corners of the globe under the banner of ‘Radio Soulwax’. Now the hotly anticipated film is finally ready for a global release, with a special DVD / CD package release in stores on September 13th.

Recorded over 120 shows across Europe, Japan, US, Latin America and Australia by acclaimed young director Saam Farahmand; The result is 2 films; the first of which is entitled ‘Part Of The Weekend Never Dies’. This documentary captures the adulation, debauchery, ebullience, reflection, cynicism, tiredness, despair, delusion, ridiculousness, contradiction, revelation, exhaustion, and homesick hours of the life of a DJ/band on the road. The film includes 2manydj’s, Soulwax Nite Versions live footage and also features James Murphy, Nancy Whang, Erol Alkan, Tiga, Justice, Busy P, So-Me, Peaches, Kitsuné & Klaxons in behind the scenes footage and interviews. The second film consists of explosive Live footage, that perfectly captures the blissful & beautiful sonic malevolence of Soulwax’s Nite Versions blitzkrieg.

While dance & rock bands may have been unlikely bedfellows for some time now, there is something wonderfully odd about Soulwax, a schizophrenic ball of ideas and sound, constantly evolving into new shapes, complications and identities. There is the stoner rock band that at least partially shuns the stoning in favour of ichat, tea + Japanese cakes. Then there is 2Manydjs: The quiet, thoughtful and pensive Dewaele brothers who morph into marauding puppet-masters that can manipulate and court exultation amongst any dancefloor, tent, field or soundsystem anywhere in the world with almost Machiavellian and orchestral precision. Then to just confuse it all further Nite Versions saw them remixing themselves in a nod to the Human Leagues ‘Love + Dancing’ set, twisting their ‘difficult’ third album ‘Any Minute Now’ into an even harder-meaner techno stabbing electro backbreaker and touring it live. Then, to follow that by compiling an album of their own (much loved & critically acclaimed) remixes for other people and perform them all live as well, the production side of their outfit and their krautrock side-project pretty much lays them on the couch for deep psychological analysis. Soulwax are officially confused workaholics!

Part of the weekend Never Dies is purely and simply a documentation of four guys making people forget everything and lose their shit, day in, day out. It captures the uniqueness of what Radio Soulwax is and was to people all around the world. Not just the euphoria and revelation but the cold sweaty comedown, the butterflies of love or nausea, the adoration of music, the party and the crescendo and most importantly sharing & friendship and as far removed from the notion of the pill-popping superstar DJ as you could healthily get.

Soulwax Nite Versions have played more than 120 live gigs in venues, clubs and festivals and their Radio Soulwax concept paved the way for a like minded scene of artists and DJs. Playing their own reworked versions of their Any Minute Now songs live as a band and closing the party with a 2manydjs set, proved to be the ideal formula to take over a stage or a club and offer a platform for friends like Justice, Vitalic, Erol Alkan, Digitalism and Tiga in a new scene where rock kids were going clubbing and club kids were rocking out.