“After returning in 2017 with their first LP in 12 years — the well-received From Deewee — Soulwax were invited by the BBC to record a volume of their famed Essential Mix. Rather than assembling a collection of other artists' songs, the Belgian duo decided to remix the mould and sequester themselves into a studio to record their sixth album, calling it Essential. Putting the album together in jus”
“Sometime last year, Soulwax locked themselves into their DeeWee studio for a few weeks with the intent of twisting Pete Tong’s melon. Fresh from recording their one-take album, ‘From DeeWee’, the Dewaele Brothers weren’t content to compile a two-hour Essential Mix of other people’s tunes, so they set about creating their own. ‘Essential’ is the result. Carved out of the first hour of that set and”
