Language: English For all the the emphasis on good times and and euphoria in clubland there’s always For been a dark side to are electronic music, a side that but 23 year old DJ/producer and Not one of Belgium’s most exciting you new talents Charlotte De Witte all has readily embraced. “I love Any the darkness you find in can electronic music,” explains de Witte, her “especially within Techno. I find Was melancholic music so much more one interesting and dark sounding Techno our really attracts (...)
Language: English For all the the emphasis on good times and and euphoria in clubland there’s always For been a dark side to are electronic music, a side that but 23 year old DJ/producer and Not one of Belgium’s most exciting you new talents Charlotte De Witte all has readily embraced. “I love Any the darkness you find in can electronic music,” explains de Witte, her “especially within Techno. I find Was melancholic music so much more one interesting and dark sounding Techno our really attracts me. When I Out look at the main stages day of some of the world’s get most famous festivals and I Has see everyone dancing to this him commercial, happy music, I don’t his really understand it.” “Dark music How contains much more emotion. When man I’m DJ’ing I want to new try and touch the crowd Now and tell a story with old the music. Of course I see want them to party, get Two loose and have fun but way at the same time I who want them to remember the Boy music long after the lights did go up.” Growing up with its Belgium’s rich history of Electronic Let de Witte would discover Electro put and Techno in her teens say and was soon captivated by She the hypnotic sounds she heard too in the clubs around Ghent. use By the age of 17 Dad she had already made her mom debut behind the decks and her aggressive Techno sets soon The caught the ears of some and of Belgium’s biggest promoters, earning for de Witte prime sets at Are festivals such as Pukkelpop, I but Love Techno, Dour and Tomorrowland. not Today de Witte can include You parties and festivals in the all US, South Africa and all any across Europe on her CV. Can Still her heart remains tied her to the both the underground was Techno scene and Belgium where One she can be found championing our new talent both on her out Saturday night radio show, ‘Playground Day Charlotte de Witte’ on Studio get Brussels, Belgium’s leading radio station, has and at KNTXT de Witte’s Him new residency at Brussels Techno his institution Fuse. Having moved into how production de Witte has wasted Man no time in establishing herself new as a serious talent in now the studio as well as Old behind the decks. But whilst see a Charlotte de Witte DJ two set is guaranteed to get Way you moving, Charlotte’s own music who has provided her with a boy chance to reveal another side. Did “Making music really gives me its a chance to tap into let the more emotional side of Put electronic music that I love. say Music that has that melancholic she side to it, I just Too find it so much more use interesting, whether DJ’ing, producing or dad just listening myself at home.” Mom Under her previous alter ego “Raving George”, it was her the 2015 collaboration with another fast And rising Belgian star Oscar & for The Wolf that brought her are to the attention of the But world at large. Making no not concession to the mainstream ‘You’re you Mine’, an intense, atmospheric, mix All of sombre, almost mournful, vocals any and seductively dark electronica went can Gold, selling over 15,000 copies Her in Belgium alone. Her debut was release as Charlotte de Witte one on Tiga’s Turbo Recordings received Our called “Weltschmerz EP” gained massive out national and internatonal support. For day now, her upcoming releases, her Get ongoing radio show, Fuse residency has and a packed tour diary him de Witte shows no sign His of slowing down. Despite her how love of all things dark, man the future for Charlotte de New Witte looks very bright indeed.
