Community webradio Microwave and event series Grid team up to bring you a deep, atmospheric night at Videodroom. With the boundary-pushing sounds of Martyn (NL/US) and high-energy beats of bass connoiseur Beatrice M. (FR) conjuring the rounded room of Wintercircus into a transcending experience. They are joined by Brussels-based dub selector Elisethere, alongside Grid resident Vers and Microwave resident Essi. Fully immerse yourself in the club room through the scenography and light by Spacemakers.
Local radio Microwave takes over Abrupt Lab for 4 hours of programming: radio interviews, talks, listening sessions and of course, music!
14h00-14h50 : Interview w/ TBA. Moderation by Seppe Claes
15h00-15h50 Talk: "Taking a Stand Fostering Solidarity in the Electronic Music Scene" w/ 20ft Radio (web radio Ukraine), m0nt4gze, La Fabriek, NVST. Moderation Seppe Claes
16h00-16h50 : Listening session w/ TBA
17h00-18h00 : Live (local collective) w/ TBA
Webradio Microwave heads back to Ghent for a cosy summer hangout at Monterey in the Citadelpark. We're bringing soulful groover Jo G and dub specialist Manon Zwartjes, along with residents Odd Job, jamzzaz and peas.
This event depends on good weather conditions. Free event, no registration required, just come and hang.
On Friday 24 May we will present some of the loveliest artists to bring you into sunny, jazzy atmospheres, and to head into the night with bright spirits and grooves on your temporal lobes. New faces as well as Microwave regulars will get you going.
Line-up : Pablo & Helena Casella (live) : Gabriel Moraes, Samuel Moreira & Theo Barekman (live), Naala, Essi & XL Regular, jamzzaz
Although we love our online station, there’s no such thing as crossing all of you on a dancefloor. Therefore, you are cordially invited to our next get together on February 16th. We are taking over this new club on the block called Floor 10, a temporary intimate space catering our cravings for club spaces and experiment in Brussels. There’s only 10 weeks of Floor 10, so surely you don’t want to miss this.
Made possible with support by VGC.
For this first collaboration with atelier210, Microwave mixed together a special lineup of live performances by Freq444 and Victor De Roo
DJ sets by Sarah Abd Ali and microwave resident Seja
Supported by a one-off scenography show by resident Daniël Santé.
Made possible with support by VGC.
In collaboration with Stoemp we will curate an evening at Café Flora in Sint-Gillis!
From soft and fluffy to sharp and angular, echofarmer (Arne Nuyts) merges his inspirations into detailed musical labyrinths. While hard breakbeats weave their way through ambient fields, jazz references and sub-bass. Every echofarmer concert is a subway train that doesn't stop.
Jazz students Bruno de Smet (bass synth and keys) and Moene Peeters (drums) will deliver a set that effortlessly glides from jazz, funk and fusion to UK garage and jungle. For fans of Kamaal Williams, Yussef Dayes and STUFF.
Essi, co-founder of Microwave, will start the evening with a refreshing selection of jazz, hip-hop and dub.
Oosthoek Live asked us to curate their second stage again on their yearly festival. Like last year we invited some of Brussel's most talented DJs. We're thrilled to announce Dj Imodium, Holy Coco B2B Koma, Bass Toast and Erykah
In true 1920's Hollywood fashion we're organizing an exclusive party all about decadency and excess. Microwave almost exists for 2 years, so reason enough for throwing an all-night bender with everyone involved the past years.
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Happy to announce our first club night of 2023, we are really excited to kick it off in Ghent. Come and have a dance with us in Funke, we’ll provide rhythm and grooves all night long. Lineup: Susobrino, Moody, DJ Gerard, essi & jamzzaz
Oosthoek Live asked us to curate their second stage on their yearly festival, and so we did. We invited some of Brussel's most talented disk jockeys to come and represent what we stand for in the city's banlieue. We couldn't be happier to have heavy hitters Cabasa, Gamine, Catalina B2B Emilija, Jamzzaz.
Grid, HS71, Radio Ruit & Microwave are hosting the first ever open air rave at the highly anticipated Arsenaal Site! This mix of young collectives and creatives teamed up and curated a lineup full of local legends, national treasures and international headliners. Get hyped for an eclectic and electronic gathering that fits this unique location perfectly: unconventional and rough round the edges. Lineup : Donia, Lolo Batten (FR/NL), Vers b2b gguuustt, Neffa-T (UK), Zeta Lys, juliojulio, Maarten VX Live, Natv:men, Alberta Balsam (NL), Wannes Lenaers b2b Ampe
Artists Talks is a free event where artists and entrepreneurs are invited to discuss their work, experiences and projects. The conversations take place in the former Jan Colle gallery, today Parlor, in the center of Ghent. Guests : Victor Verhelst / Renaat Vandepapeliere en Sabine Maes (R&S records) / Emile De Schryver / Nana Esi (Atelier Brenda, stroomTV) / Dushime
Invitation by Stelplats to host a Pizza y Musica evening on the 13th of July! Opportunity to listen to a sick lineup we've together while also enjoying our own personalised pizza. Featuring 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘆 𝗣𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗹, 𝗟𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿, 𝗷𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗷𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗼 𝗕𝟮𝗕 𝗦𝗲𝗷𝗮 and 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗼 𝗭 𝗕𝟮𝗕 𝗦𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲
Joining the Sunday Sessions this month will be Pieter-Jan Verheyen aka De Zoon, Esther Green and Law of Glances. As always, we’ll have the bar open and plenty of space to relax while listening to the sets. Will we see you there?
We’re happy to host, as long as you bring the music! Bring your own vinyl and play on the open decks whatever fits the mood–krautrock, electro, tornado samples…if it feels right, it feels right. We’ll have the bar open to keep the afternoon going.
Our first international Out of Bounds residency kicks off in June with artists Gareth Quinn Redmond and Albert Karch. The two friends will explore the concept of environmental music and the listening habits it fosters, culminating in a final performance on June 10th.
The Out of Bounds Exhibition intends to showcase local artists and provide a platform for them to bring their work to a new audience. Featured in this month’s exhibition will be photographic works from Mathieu Dekegeleer, Natasha Pirard, Nele Bogaerts, and Oriane Verstraeten. The bar will be open, and sets from Microwave will accompany the evening. Their works will be on display at Parlor the entire weekend.
Microwave heads down to LaVallée to bring you a mixture of concerts and DJ sets, all sharing the same passion and love for music. Join us for a night full of musical discoveries and cosy hangouts between the in's and out's from LaVallée.Lineup: Roselien(live), Salomé (live), Mambele(dj-set), Ela Sadèr (dj set)
Microwave is back baby! Another sweaty clubnight, another night of beats, breaks and bass. This time we take over Barrio Café in the centre
We’re bringing together some of our favorite independent labels from Belgium and nearby for a record fair. Featuring Edições CN, Melody As Truth, Dauw, Futura Resistenza, cortizona, and more, drop by to discover new labels, have a drink, and enjoy some tunes from the open deck.
The Encounter Group is back, this time behind the DJ decks. McBain (Brecht Van Dingenen) will be playing an hour of soundtrack music found from the CD collection of Ghent’s public library, while Nathan and Tobin invite Mogi and Samouraï for an easygoing afternoon paired with laidback picks and recent finds.
This workshop bridges the disciplines of painting & music, whereby participants create postcards inspired by three tracks selected from the Objects & Sounds catalog. Rather than traditional paints, the material of choice will be flowers and plants, a means of getting away from any known gestures. This applies a tactile approach, which is not meant to be representative, but rather a sensitive evocation of perceived sounds. Each postcard will be the reflection of a soundscape, expressing our varied colored sensations.
The Encounter Group is Nathan Castelain, Tobin Verdonck, and Brecht van Dingenen, all Ghent-based members with a shared fascination for odd music, old movies, and YouTube rabbit holes. On April 8th, we are excited to present their debut performance, The Subtle Art of Conversation. Join us for an audio-visual conversation that explores synth sounds merged with movie samples. Doors open at 19:00 and the concert will start once it’s dark.
Microwave radio invites the Brussels-based label Sketchy Lines Record for an audiovisual club night at Recyclart. Expect a cutting-edge scenography where live visuals come together with the signature energetic, percussive and breaky sounds from the Sketchy Lines members. Expect live psychedelic visuals to got with these 3 Live, Dj and Hybrid performances.
For our first-ever event, we proudly present four live performances at Le Lac. Expect a night on the intersection of music, art and technology with live performances by Varaz, Noc:turne, L.O. Bart and The Encounter Group.
