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Soulwax are a Belgian electronic music band and DJ/production collective from Ghent, who formed in 1995. Centred around brothers David and Stephen Dewaele, other current members include Igor Cavalera and Laima Cavalera, and Stefaan Van Leuven. The group first rose to prominence following the release of their album Much Against Everyone's Advice, and have released five studio albums to date. Outside of Soulwax, the Dewaeles also perform DJ sets under the moniker 2manydjs (first known as The Fucking Dewaele Brothers/The Flying Dewaele Brothers).
The group are also known for their project Radio Soulwax. Their 2002 compilation, As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2, was named the best popular music album of 2002 by The New York Times. The brothers have also hosted a show on Belgian television, titled Alter8.
The 2004 album Any Minute Now spawned three singles in "E Talking", "NY Excuse" and the title track. The "E Talking" music video was controversial and restricted to post-watershed broadcast on music television channels. Filmed on location in London's Fabric nightclub, everyone in the video is depicted as being on a different drug, listed from A through Z (including popular drug nicknames).
The group produced a number of official and unofficial remixes, including "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House" and "Get Innocuous!" by LCD Soundsystem, "Robot Rock" by Daft Punk and "Dare" by Gorillaz. They are friends of artists Tiga, LCD Soundsystem and WhoMadeWho. The album Nite Versions (2005) is a collection of remixes of tracks from the album Any Minute Now.
In January 2006, Soulwax released their second remix album. Titled This Is Radio Soulwax, it was into the February 2006 issue of Mixmag. Their third remix album, Part of NYE Never Dies, was also covermounted into Mixmag in late 2008.
In summer 2006, Soulwax completed a "Nite Version remix" of Gossip's "Standing in the Way of Control" as well as their "Ravelight Dub" and "Ravelight Vocal Mix" of Robbie Williams' "Lovelight". The summer 2006 tour was filmed by director Saam Farahmand, and resulted in the documentary "Part of the Weekend Never Dies".
In August 2006, Soulwax were working on tracks for the new album from Tiga. In late 2006, it was announced in Belgian magazine HUMO that David and Stephen Dewaele had formed a band with Shane Doran and his brother-in-law Fergadelic, called Die Verboten.
In 2007, Soulwax produced remixes of "Gravity's Rainbow" by Klaxons and "Phantom Pt. II" by Justice.
Soulwax, under the guise of 2manydjs, headlined their own "Radio Soulwax" tent at the Rock Ness Festival held on 9 June 2007. The following day at the festival, they played a Soulwax Nite Versions show in the "Clash Arena." Later that month, they took part in the Wild in the Country event at Knebworth Park on 30 June 2007. In December 2007, they held Radio Soulwax-mas, a massive Christmas party in Flanders Expo, with guests such as Tiga, Erol Alkan, Boys Noize, Justice, Riton, Mixhell, Daniele Baldelli, Hong Kong Dong, Das Pop, Goose, and Milk Inc.
Soulwax produced the debut album by fellow Belgians Das Pop, fronted by Soulwax drummer Bent Van Looy, scheduled for 2009 release in the UK.
In December 2009, Soulwax produced the song "We Love Animals" for Crookers with Mixhell. In addition, Soulwax produced the song "Talk to Me" by Peaches.
In 2016, Soulwax returned with a new live show entitled "Soulwax Transient Program For Drums And Machinery". The new line up consisted of three drummers (Victoria Smith, Turbowolf and Igor Cavalera) as well as Igor's wife Laima Leyton, (also of Mixhell) on synths and backing vocals. This live show was the basis for their album From Deewee, released March 24.
Despite the Pt. 2 in the title, all other albums in the "series", even Pt. 1, are unofficial fan-released bootlegs. Released from 2002 to 2012, they are mostly compiled from the Radio Soulwax and Hang the DJ series of mixes 2manydjs did for radio stations, including Studio Brussel (Belgium), Radio 1 (UK), KISS 100 (UK), and Eins Live (Germany); the last several installments in the series ( Pt. 12 to Pt. 15) are bootlegs of mixes from Radio Soulwax.
On February 2, 2009, Soulwax made a guest appearance on BBC Radio 1, playing 420 song introductions in a period of 60 minutes.
David and Stephen produced Bolis Pupul's debut album Letter to Yu, and recorded it at their studio, Deewee Studios, in Ghent.
In 2015, the Dewaeles founded the record label Deewee, operated out of their specially-designed studio in Ghent.
Soulwax's remix of the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want" is the credit song of, and featured in the movie 21.
Director Saam Farahmand has filmed Soulwax on their international dates (2005–2007), capturing all the excitement, chaos and humour of the world tour. Soulwax filmed 120 shows with one camera in Europe, Japan, U.S., Latin America and Australia. This resulted in two films entitled "Part of the Weekend Never Dies"; a live music film and a documentary which includes 2manydjs, Soulwax Nite Versions and features James Murphy, Nancy Whang, Erol Alkan, Tiga, Justice, Busy P, The Naked Guy, So-Me, Peaches, Kitsuné, Klaxons and many more in behind the scenes footage, interviews, etc. They performed a sold-out gig at the London Royal Festival Hall, during which they did a première of the film. It came out on DVD September 2008.
Soulwax composed the soundtrack for the 2016 film Belgica by Felix Van Groeningen, crediting every song on the soundtrack to a different fictional band.
In 2025, the Dewaeles, under the 2manydjs name, provided the soundtrack for the Netflix film Banger directed by So Me.
Soulwax - Machine was conceived and directed by Saam Farahmand, who was inspired to create an interpretation of the ethos behind the project. The result is a film featuring model Marilyn Rose that encapsulates the audio-visual obsession of Radio Soulwax, according to Soulwax themselves. The film was previsualised, edited, and post-produced by Andrew Daffy's The House of Curves in London.
| 1998 | Zamu Music Awards | Much Against Everyone's Advice | Album cover | |
| 1999 | Zamu Music Awards | Soulwax | Live-act | |
| TMF Awards | Soulwax | Best Belgian Rock | ||
| 2 Many DJ's | Best Belgian Video | |||
| 2000 | TMF Awards | Soulwax | Best Belgian Rock | |
| Much Against Everyone's Advice | Best Belgian Video | |||
| 2002 | Zamu Music Awards | 2 Many DJ's | Dance | |
| TMF Awards | 2 Many DJ's | Best Belgian DJ | ||
| 2004 | Joseph Plateau Awards | Steve + Sky | Best Belgian Composer | |
| TMF Awards | 2 Many DJ's | Best Belgian DJ | ||
| 2005 | MTV Europe Music Awards | Soulwax | Best Belgian Act | |
| MVPA Awards | "E Talking" | Best International Video | ||
| 2007 | Rober Awards Music Poll | Most of the Remixes | Best Various Artists Compilation | |
| PLUG Awards | Nite Versions | DJ Album of the Year | ||
| DJ Awards | 2 Many DJ's | Breakthrough | ||
| 2009 | International Dance Music Awards | Soulwax | Best Dance Artist (Group) | |
| 2011 | BT Digital Music Awards | Radio Soulwax iOS | Best Music App | |
| Radio Soulwax | Best Radio Show or Podcast | |||
| DJ Awards | 2ManyDJ's | Best Eclectic House DJ | ||
| 2012 | UK Music Video Awards | Radio Soulwax - "Machine" | Best Music AD | |
| 2017 | Best Art Vinyl | From Deewee | Best Art Vinyl | |
| Music Industry Awards | Best Album | |||
| Best Artwork | ||||
| Soulwax | Best Live Act | |||
| Best Dance Act | ||||
| 2018 | UK Music Video Awards | "Is It Always Binary" | Best Live Video | |
| 2020 | Grammy Awards | Marie Davidson - "Work It" (Soulwax Remix) | Best Remixed Recording |
Discography
Albums
Singles |
| 1995 | "2nd Handsome Blues" (10" vinyl EP) | — | — | |
| 1996 | "Kill Your Darlings" | — | Leave the Story Untold | |
| "Great Continental Suicide Note" | — | |||
| "Caramel" | — | |||
| 1998 | "My Cruel Joke..." | — | Much Against Everyone's Advice | |
| "Conversation Intercom" | 65 | |||
| "Much Against Everyone's Advice" | 56 | |||
| 1999 | "Too Many DJ's" | 40 | ||
| "When Logics Die" | 56 | |||
| "Saturday" | — | |||
| 2001 | "Conversation Intercom" (re-mix) | 50 | ||
| 2004 | "Any Minute Now" | 34 | Any Minute Now | |
| 2005 | "E Talking" | 27 | ||
| "NY Excuse" | 35 | |||
| 2016 | "Heaven Scent (feat. Chloë Sevigny)" | — | — | |
| "Transient Program For Drums And Machinery" | — | From Deewee | ||
| 2017 | "Do You Want To Get Into Trouble?" | — | ||
| "Missing Wires" | — | |||
| "Close To Paradise" | — | — | ||
| 2018 | "Essential Four" | — | Essential | |
| 2020 | "Empty Dancefloor" | — | — | |
| 2025 | "All Systems Are Lying / Run Free" | — | All Systems Are Lying | |
| "New Earth Time" | — | |||
| "Gimme A Reason / Meanwhile On The Continent" | — |
| Einstürzende Neubauten | |
| Zita Swoon | |
| dEUS | |
| Kolk | |
| Tahiti 80 | |
| Muse | |
| Lords of Acid | |
| Kylie Minogue | |
| DJ Shadow | |
| Ladytron | |
| Arthur Argent | |
| Sugababes | |
| Playgroup | |
| Felix Da Housecat | |
| LCD Soundsystem | |
| Gorillaz | |
| Daft Punk | |
| Gossip | |
| Robbie Williams | |
| Klaxons | |
| LCD Soundsystem | |
| Justice | |
| Hot Chip | |
| Human Resource vs. 808 State | |
| Kylie Minogue | |
| West Phillips | |
| The Chemical Brothers | |
| MGMT | |
| The Rolling Stones | |
| Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden | |
| Tiga | |
| Paul Chambers | |
| LCD Soundsystem | |
| Late of the Pier | |
| Walter Murphy | |
| Arcade Fire | |
| Joe Goddard | |
| Goose | |
| Pulp | |
| Ego Troopers | |
| Metronomy | |
| Tame Impala | |
| Hot Chip | |
| Jungle | |
| James Righton | |
| Warpaint | |
| Tiga | |
| Mixhell & Joe Goddard feat. Mutado Pintado | |
| Jagwar Ma | |
| Charlotte Gainsbourg | |
| The Peppers | |
| Tendts | |
| De Staat | |
| Marie Davidson | |
| Robyn | |
| LA Priest | |
| SG Lewis, Robyn & Channel Tres | |
| Róisín Murphy | |
| Warmduscher | |
| Sylvester | |
| Fontaines D.C. | |
| Chet Faker | |
| Diplo & Damian Lazarus feat. Jungle | |
| Priya Ragu | |
| Peggy Gou | |
| Wet Leg | |
| Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul | |
| Sébastien Tellier | |
| Oliver Sim | |
| Peder Mannerfelt | |
| Marie Davidson | |
| 2025 | "Push Me Fuckhead" (Soulwax Dub Mix) |
| "Sexy Clown" (Soulwax Dub Mix) |
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