Soulwax - Niteversions Live

[ChibukuHayley]

Then Belgian siblings Soulwax released Any Minute Now last year, it may have confused fans of their more successful side project, 2manyDJs. It was essentially a heavy rock album, albeit one with a frisson of electro and a track called E Talking. Nite Versions begins with a cover of Daft Punk's Teachers on which the Dewaele brothers namecheck AC/DC and Motorhead - but there are no crunching guitar riffs, just electronic reinterpretations of recent material. Vocals have been reduced to a minimum, six-strings are replaced with synths and the whole shebang has been segued like a DJ set. E Talking is now propelled by an elephantine bassline, Compute has morphed into bovver-booted glam techno and Accidents and Compliments sounds positively teutonic. Not only have Soulwax delivered their finest album, they've made a dance album that truly rocks.

SEE SOULWAX LIVE AT CHIBUKU SHAKE SHAKE ON 1ST OCTOBER 10-3am at BARFLY, LIVERPOOL. TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM 0151 7085125/5051 OR WWW.TICKETLINE.CO.UK PRICED £16.50 INC BF