2manydjs Vinyl Collection & Studio

2manydjs are touring this summer and images have (re)surfaced online showing their exemplary vinyl collection in Ghent, Belgium - from Studio Deewee. The manifesto of the studio is:

DEEWEE is a building, a studio, a label, a record collection and a publishing house.

DEEWEE is all of these things.

Every DEEWEE release is written, recorded or mixed in the building by David and Stephen Dewaele.

Every DEEWEE project has its own consecutive catalogue number.

All different. All unique. All DEEWEE.

This article from architizer details the building and it's rather lavish decor, featuring a centerpiece studio of wall to wall records. Here's an excerpt from the article...

The magnificent recording studio that 2manydjs commissioned us to design is in its final phase. The structure is complete and the façade is installed. The custom made interior is the next step in our process. The façade is covered with a black tile, which gives the building a monolithic feel. The shift in between the different masses and the subtle joints do create a sense of scale, so it still fits in the cityscape of the centre of Ghent.

They've played Rock Werchter, mixing together a myriad of genres like only they know how...
 

Here they are talking about 20 accidental years of mashups and mayhem with The Guardian: 

The international success of 2ManyDJs triggered an identity crisis as the brothers struggled to make the third Soulwax album with producer Flood in London. "We would sit in his loft in Kilburn and try to make dark electronic music, not really knowing what we want to do," Stephen says. "Are we a band? Or are we DJs?"

When that album finally came out in 2004, it was called Any Minute Now as a joke about missed deadlines. Still unhappy with it, the brothers reworked some of the tracks on the clubbier spin-off Nite Versions and toured that instead, playing first as Soulwax and then as 2ManyDJs. "We made it in a week and a half," Stephen says. "And that's pretty much what Flood wanted to make with us. It just took a weird journey to get there."

Perhaps the Dewaeles were destined to be DJs. Their father, Jackie, was a Belgian radio star under the name DJ Zaki. "Our dad would get sent records before anybody else," David says with pride. "You could call him the original influencer." Their mother took on the job of filtering the mail and recommending songs to play. Now in their 70s, the elder Dewaeles are still curious; Wet Leg are a current favourite. Their open-mindedness inspired their sons' own adventures in music.

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