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"Oh, cool, yeah, let's try this!

Let's mic these drums."

We can do this...

And left to his own devices,

it can... I mean it's

kind of a never-ending flow.

And Steph comes in and...

It slices the sausage

and ties it in a knot.

And there you have a sausage. Before

that it was just a long tube of meat.

Goodnight, you've been great.

- We have a little present for you.

- Oh, sorry.

You're going to see on the monitor

what we have for you.

They want your autograph after

the show. Let me push the button.

OK, this is the present for you.

A little kiss for the camera.

This way, girls. That's it.

Do you like that kind of girls?

- Can they cook?

- Yeah, she can cook.

Probably peanut butter sandwich,

but she can do something else

that's so much better...

I'm a little bit afraid

of them, though.

Thank you very much for being here.

It's a pleasure to have you.

They're on live tomorrow

at Salon 21:

Soulwax and 2ManyDJs.

You've been watching Calibre 45.

See you there.

In duos there's always

one manic one and one calm one.

I think Dave is the calm one

and Steph is the manic one.

They're brothers,

so they have exactly the same...

There's one taste, and then

they just fight endlessly about it.

That's a good T-shirt.

It's true! It took me a while

to figure you guys out.

On the surface

you're wildly different,

but you're different because

you fill the gap the other one leaves.

So if one of you's upset, the other

one's like, "What's the big deal?"

And if one of you thinks

that something's really good,

the other one thinks it's overrated.

I figured that out in Ghent,

which is where it all gets magnified.

You were really stressed out about

something with the record.

Something was just not good enough.

Steph was like,

"Dave's getting so upset about this.

We need to finish it."

There was this long thing like,

"Dude, just don't worry about it.

"I don't care! It's fine."

And then we were

walking from the B&B...

...and I'm walking with Dave

and we're talking about things,

Steph is slightly behind us,

and Dave and I are walking ahead.

We're taking a slight turn and Steph

goes, "Why would you go this way?

"What's wrong with you?"

Dave was like...

"This is where I naturally went,

I didn't know there was a right way."

"You know there's a..."

You were so mad!

It went on for the whole walk.

And it suddenly clocked:

You guys just flipped positions.

You walked out of the studio

and you took over the upset guy and

you took over the unflappable guy.

And... something else

with something else.

It's not real taste, it's not like

you differ that much, it's just...

Otherwise you'd

just sit there, like, "Yeah."

If this ends up in the movie

then it's a really boring movie.

We might be struggling for material,

Steph. I'm sorry it's come to this.

If we are using this,

I'm sorry that it came to this.

I don't like going on tour.

On average we've been home

one out of six weeks.

I think a lot of our friends have

given up trying to keep up with us.

A really massive strength of the tour

is that everybody knows each other

and everyone's a fan of each other.

At least, I like to think so.

But it wasn't a scene,

it was just sort of...

It was just coincidental that all of

us were emerging at the same time.

And it just so happened

we had similar tastes in music.

And we met each other

and we all became friends.

And I think that was because we made

effort to actually do things together.

What's wrong with saying "scene"?

It is a scene.

It wasn't a scene

like everyone lived in the same city,

but we lived in this other city,

the city of seeing the same people

no matter what or continent you're on.

It's a bit like a family.

Which grows and grows, and

travels and travels all over the world

and I think Radio Soulwax

has become like a culture now.

Honestly I don't know how it happens,

how physically a human being

can withstand so much

touring and performing.

Every night,

night after night, for years on end.

It's pretty remarkable.

To do five live shows,

and then put a different hat on

and go out and be a DJ afterwards...

I can't imagine

what that would be like.

I kind of... It must have knocked

seven shades of sh*t out of them

doing it every night

for how long they did it for.

Tell us about your father.

It was, I think,

'67 when he started DJing.

We grew up amongst

thousands of records, which is good.

I got to spend a lot of time

in my dad's collection.

All the valuable things

are all stolen by me now.

Will you say something about Stefaan?

I don't know...

He's so quiet, Stefaan.

He's like... In a way he's like

the third Dewaele brother.

But the silent one.

And he does a lot of work

in the studio with them,

on the computer,

programming and stuff,

but he never speaks.

Which would be your favourite band?

Maybe the song, or...

Just to name one band, it's torture.

Say it.

ELO.

No, that's a band I'm not really into.

- You're not really into ELO?

- I like a few songs...

- Come on, Don't bring me down.

- No, thank you.

Evil woman?

Good drum break?

My friend from New York sent me

a text:
"Hey, I'm in bed with Baker."

This girl that we both like.

Morning!

Was it like there was an ad?

"We need a drummer."

They were like, "Can you drink?"

Taste that.

That's sunshine in a glass.

"Can you do drugs?"

- OK, good point...

- "Do you like to dance?"

"How about girls?"

"What would you do in a bathroom

with a female presenter from Mexico?"

Ghent's such a weird place.

On the one hand you guys are like...

You're in a city, so you can

go see art and designers go there,

record stores from all over the world,

but on the other hand,

it's like a tiny town you grew up in

where you guys are football stars.

You're kind of half-time heroes there.

You're kind of like, "Remember me?

I got that big pass in 1988?

"Won the whole state championships.

That's right, baby."

So it a weird place to be from,

for an American.

- You want to go to a hotel?

- Yeah.

Those kids said nothing to that guy.

He just started telling them things.

If you're underage

and you're homeless,

you're arrested for...

Just right there.

Hanging on the streets,

that's against the law.

- They call this a free country.

- What's free about it?

Go outside your car without your ID

and see how free you are.

Not looking...

Check this out.

Four people can play.

Deluxe version.

I mean it!

We were into complex worlds.

I'm just following

Soulwax around. I have to.

I will hunt you down and kill you

when I get out of jail.

- What's your name?

- John. Or the naked guy,

I know you're jaded because

you've been here a thousand times,

but I haven't.

Now I'm coming to kick everybody out.

C alert.

You've got twelve

band members on there?

Who are the rest

of the people on there?

We're going to keep all

the passports here and look around.

You're going to play your remix album

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