Belgium Booms Launch Party

Belgium is one of electronic music's best-kept secrets. From early innovators like the crew behind influential label R&S Records (founded in Ghent in 1984), through to contemporary artists progressing the country's underground techno and 'new beat' roots, Belgium has always known its stuff on the dancefloor. Celebrating the country's considerable influence on modern electronic music is Belgium Booms, a week-long series of club nights, gigs and screenings, kicking off with this belter at Corsica Studios. Headlining are Eskimo Recordings' The Glimmers, a deep, dirty disco and shimmering house duo who've contributed killer mixes to the Fabric and DJ Kicks series, and who are, quite simply, experts at working up a funky dancefloor frenzy. Also on the bill are Trevor Jackson, whose trippy hip hop, psychedelic house and general heady dancefloor trips are always welcome, and two pioneers of Belgium's new beat sound (a heady mix of acid house, techno, sludgy electro, dark wave and various other strands) during the late '80s and early '90s, Dikke Ronny and Erica Powa B. Newer Belgian talent is also repped, in the form of techno-disco producer and Kompakt artist Geoffroy Mugwump, and remixer extraordinaire Moonlight Matters. If you don't want to move to Belgium after tonight then we'll buy you all the moules frites you can shovel down your gob.