Biesmans – Moments of Rapture (album)

25 years behind the decks, and it’s time I told this story.

I wanted to make an ode to the clubs that shaped me as an artist. So I wrote one track for every club that mattered: 4 in Belgium, Cube (where it all started), Groovy Tunes (my first big residency), Shaft (my most conflicted time), Fuse (where I started playing after I moved to Berlin), and 4 in Berlin, where I became who I am today, Watergate (my gate into the Berlin scene), Renate (where I’ve met my wife and have my studio), Sisyphos (where I always have a good time), Panorama Bar (the most mythical of all dancefloors. Still unreal).

Each one is inspired by that specific place, that specific time in my life; it’s a snapshot, but seen through the lens of who I am as an artist now. Every club, every moment in my life, had its own sound, its own strain of house or techno that defined that time for me. So I took those sounds with me, and mixed them with the feelings, the moments of rapture I experienced in those places. That’s the sonic backbone of this whole album, and it’s also why these are real club tracks, made for the floor, not the couch.