Laundry Day - Saturday Sept 3rd 2011 - Nieuw Zuid

Grandson of a famous musician, Andy was raised up with music but his passion for this art reveals late to him. In 2004, aged 17, he meets DJ Furax and this meeting is decisive. Through spending time with the artist, Andy discovers electronic music and also learns the mixing skills which are closely linked to it. With Furax’ support, he launches out into a deejay and composer career under the name Darkxcess. But Andy wants to go further: wishing to share his passion, he creates, in association with a friend, the party concept 2Reactions, which main goal is introducing deejays from various horizons for the first time in Wallonia.  Above all, Andy is a passionate young man, an impassioned dreamer, utopian, a word and poetry lover, a romantic ignoring himself, shortly: an artist. Art transcends him, the stage is his element and music is like a second skin to him.  His musical interests are quite eclectic: he likes the melodies of Lynda Lemay, Raphaël, Calogero, Laurent Voulzy, Julien Clerc, Fonky Family, without leaving out the singer Damien Saez, whom Andy truly worships. The poetry contained in Saez’ lyrics puts Andy’s emotions and philosophy in words.  Since his promising first steps, Andy already performed at various events such as City Parade, Phase 04, The Qontinent or Bass Events Outdoor, as in several clubs (Complex, Cap’tain, Teknik Factory, Metropolis,..). He has already performed beside confirmed artists such as Furax, Headhunterz, Brennan Heart, Wildstylez, Neophyte, Evil Activitiés, Korsakoff, Coone, Chicago Zone, Lobotomy Inc, Dark-E, Ghost,… etc.  Laurent, for his part, began a career aged 16 under the stage name Underbass. He fell in love with the hardstyle sounds at a very young age, 14. He never turned away from them. His passion quickly drove him beyond the fact of simply listening to his favourite tracks, so he launched into composition.  As a child, he already played the piano and imitated the songs he heard on the radio. His interest in the piano never disappeared and helped him evolve fastly when composition was finally concerned.  Meeting Andy was the start of a promising collaboration, and above all, it gave birth to a strong motivation to improve his skills even further.  Sharing a common passion, Andy and Laurent quickly became close friends and figured out their common view on music, thanks to their perfect complementarity in composition. All this led them to start the duo Unloaders !