Biesmans Tells 25 Years Of Club History Through Eight Dancefloors On ‘Moments Of Rapture’
Groovy Tunes was where Biesmans held his first major residency. Watergate was his way into Berlin’s club scene. Both have a place on ‘Moments Of Rapture’, an album that tells the story of his 25 years behind the decks through the rooms that shaped him. Part 2 continues the project ahead of the full digital album release on Muem Records on 13th November.
Belgium accounts for four of the clubs. There’s Cube, where it began, then Groovy Tunes and Shaft. Fuse belongs to a later chapter. Biesmans started playing there after moving to Berlin, a detail that makes the geography of the album more interesting. Belgium is where he got his start, and it was still part of his working life as a DJ after he left.
In Berlin, the memories are as much about people as they are about records. Renate is where Biesmans met his wife and where he has his studio. Sisyphos is the place he associates with having a good time, while Panorama Bar still holds a sense of occasion for him. Each room mattered for a different reason.
“Each one is inspired by that specific place, that specific time in my life,” Biesmans says. He approached each club through the strain of house or techno he remembers hearing there, then worked those sounds into tracks he could play today.
That’s what gives the project its appeal beyond the list of venues. The details that stay with a DJ after years in a room can be as personal as the records they remember hearing. Here, those memories get to go back into a set and become part of somebody else’s night.
