on August 15 2007, i was interviewed on Eavesdropper's excellent Core Audio radio show

for one hour, Yves played some of the tunes i was influenced by...and we had a nice chat about the music played and the music scene in general

Trans - Karlheinz Stockhausen
The Silver State - Mannequin Lung
Infinition - Quadrant
Dreams of Leaving - The Human League
Farmer in the city - Scott Walker
Ba-Benzélé - Jon Hassell + Brian Eno
Neptune - Model 500
Distant Lights - Burial
Track with no name - Forgemasters

mp3 available on request ...

did a set for the excellent modyfier blog

here's what i wrote (check the set on the modyfier blog)

there was a time when i used to be able to talk more about music, but nowadays, it seems as if i have difficulty expressing what i hear...process...i see my self as a live dj, someone that needs an audience to play, i'm very much a vinyl person, i need to be able to physically feel what i play and vinyl comes closest to this aim i have, the frequencies are better, more interesting and there's the object of course, much more tactile than mp3's, also there's the apparent contradiction in playing vinyl that contains futuristic musical information, in my opninion, a lot of electronic music plays with contradictions or seemingly contradictory elements...i've been playing minimal music for a few years now, this minimal stance always drew my attention, whether it was techno or house or even classical music, basic channel and all things berlin ten years ago are a big influence, first and second wave detroit producers, dub and reggae, modern classical music, but equally the first european wave of electronic pop music in the seventies...ah well...it is difficult to mention influences because music is always and still changing, it is every music lover's experience to discover new and inspiring things all the time...right now i'm getting deeply into the london dubstep phenomenon...

Close up is the small pre-weekend music concept of Ivow and Sensu.

Bringing you quality music that does not necessarily fall under the 'minimal' banner.

Check out our residency at Wax Club, Brussels. Once a month the weekend starts Thursday.

Hope to see you there.

next one is ... 08.03.2007, 10 p.m.

66, Boulevard Anspach
1000 Bruxelles

www.thewaxclub.com
www.myspace.com/djsensu
www.myspace.com/ivow106

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some sensu news… two sets this week…

01.03.2007 CLOSE UP at wax club, together with ivow

might play a lot of old and 'forgotten' tracks tonight…

boulevard anspach 66

1000 bruxelles

10 pm

03.03.2007 at café belga

another eclectic set at the belga, for your listening pleasure…

place flagey

1050 bruxelles

10.30 pm 

special focus…

jamie woon – wayfaring stranger (burial mix) – live

this quite run-off-the-mill soulful pop track receives a superb remix treatment by burial, displacing the original vocal though a band-pass filter into a futuristic and heavily garage influenced dance track, this is certainly my absolute favorite track of the year so far…

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=28411

some records…

pendle coven – hex ep – modern love

various artists – death is nothing to fear 1 – spectral sound

andy stott – handle with care – modern love

stamp release – l a c – stamp release

jus-ed – some shit ep – underground quality

best

sensu

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thought I'd share some words of wisdom (not mine) with you all…

"Behind every man alive today stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth. Now this is an interesting number, for by a curious coincidence there are approximately a hundred billion stars in our local universe, the Milky Way. So for every man who has ever lived, in this universe, there shines a star. " (from Arthur C. Clarke's foreword in 2001, A Space Odyssey, 1968)

oh, and i'm playing at café belga tomorrow (24.02.2007)

24.02.2007

22.30

Café belga

Place flagey

1050 bruxelles

all my best

this year's KULTURAMA/ARTEFACT festival features some amazing music...

15.02.2007 sleeparchive live (de), thomas brinkmann live (de)

16.02.2007 kode 9 + the spaceape live (uk), virus syndicate live (uk) + dj bunzero (be)

17.02.2007 monolake live (de), arco renz (de)

17.02.2007 andy stott live (uk), nathan fake live (uk) + dj sensu (be)

check out the full program and more info at:

www.kulturama.be

www.stuk.be

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some records...

half hawaii – into you – perlon

ben klock – czeslawa – ostgut ton

redshape – telefunk – styrax leaves

mala – bury da bwoy – dmz

andy stott – handle with care/see in me – modern love

dick raaijmakers – the complete tape music of dick raaijmakers – basta

radiq – the grass roots e.p. – logistic

jamie woon – wayfaring stranger (burial mix) – live

mira calyx – eyes set against the sun – warp

some sets coming up...

24.02.2007 @ café belga, brussels

01.03.2007 close up, with ivow (club 106- be), @ wax club, brussels

03.03.2007 @ café belga, brussels

24.03.2007 forwart, last showdown at the mines, with dj pete (scion, chain reaction - de), @ the mines, genk

30.04.2007 click clack international machine KLUB night, with sylvie marks (bpitchcontrol - de), @ der machine, leuven

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close to heartbreaking...providing an overview of your favourite records is never easy, you just have to get used to the idea that you'll surely forget about some stuff...
below is the list i provided for the JJ Records email update + some other stuff is mentioned here, as it also rocked my musical universe in 2006...
you don't even have to look closely to realize this year i got deeply into dubstep (after breaking a lot of Burial tracks already in 2005, during my warm up gigs for the Statik Dancin' party) and was also extremely impressed by the return of the Berlin Hardwax crew of Pete, René and Torsten Pröfrock...albums by Scott Walker, Matmos and Boxcutter provided solace and awe...and the Catenaccio label was by far the most interesting minimal label around...

(above picture by ronny wertelaers)

so...my favourite 2006 records...
andy stott – 'merciless', 'the nervous ep', 'choke/for the love' – modern love
burial – 'burial' – hyperdub
kode 9 – 'memories of the future' – hyperdub
skream – 'skreamizm vol. 1' – tempa
ricardo villalobos – ' fizheuer zieheuer' – playhouse
t++ - 'aquatic/storm', 'space pong/space break' – erosion
substance & vainqueur – 'surface/immersion' – scion versions
scott walker – 'the drift' – 4ad
benjamin fehr/ffwd – 'before we crawl ep' – catenaccio
melody boy 2000 – 'monotone fantastique' – futuro advertising agency (previously released on dum in 1994)

and...some other stuff...
shackleton/mordant music - 'i want to eat you/hummdrumm' - mordant music
skream - 'skream' - tempa
skream - 'tapped/dutch flowerz' - tempa
boxcutter - 'oneiric' - planet mu
vex'd 'degenerate' - planet mu
various - 'mary ann hobbs warrior dubz' - planet mu
pinch - 'qawwali' - planet mu
sleeparchive - 'hospital tracks' - sleeparchive
monolake - 'alaska remixes (surgeon/substance remixes)' - imbalance
rhythm & sound - 'smy remixes (carl craig remix)'- burial mix
rhythm & sound - 'smy remixes (sleeparchive remix)' - burial mix
soundstream - 'love jam' - soundstream
matmos - 'the rose has teeth in the mouth of a beast' - Matador
audion - 'mouth to mouth' - spectral
arthur russell - 'first thought best thought' - audika
pinch - 'punisher (loefah/skream mix)' - planet mu