BIOGRAPHY
"Smos and Baby Bee are well known names on Belgian house scene. They have been rocking the dance floors in all famous Belgian clubs since 1991, when they were amongst very few DJs who started playing house and garage at numerous underground parties in Gent. They are famous on their funky, soulful, uplifting sound which is mixed from deep and dubby house, tribal grooves and tech-house.
They became residents for Saturdays at "Café D'Anvers" in 1994 where they also played for "Paradise" parties from Patrick Socks. In 1996 they hosted their
"Elastic" nights on Sundays. They are still playing at "Café D'Anvers" their
famous 8 hour sets each second Saturday in a month. Besides Saturdays, they
are also residents for "Technics" and "One night in Bankwog" parties from
Hush Hush promoters, which take part every once in a while on Fridays
at "Café D'Anvers".
Since 1998 they have been playing as proud residents in a house room of "Eskimo" parties in Gent, which had presented to Belgian audience some of the biggest names in underground house music scene. Since beginning of 2001 they have been residents at "Fuse" in Brussels, where they now play 3 times in a month in a house room "Motion".
They have been playing at all biggest Summer festivals in Belgium, and you could hear them at "10days off" in Gent since 1998.
You may also find them behind the decks of all important Belgian clubs where there is played house music and Baby Bee is also one of the female DJs who play for "Babelitious" parties.
Smos and Baby Bee played on many occasions abroad and the long list of clubs where they performed together includes "Rex", "Queen" and "L'Enfer" in Paris, "Roxy" and "Chemistry" inAmsterdam, "Pacha" in Ibiza, "333" in London, "Rust" in Copenhagen etc.
The list of famous DJs that they played with includes Kenny Hawkes, Luke Solomon, DJ Dis,Mark Farina, Joeri Hulkonen, K. Saunderson, Silikone Soul, Johny Fiasco, Idjut Boys, Derrick Carter, Dixon from Jazzanova, Basement Jaxx, Ashley Beedle etc.
In 2003 Smos and Baby Bee started to DJ and produce under pseudonim of Elastix The idea was to get a new name which would give them the freedom to produce music and DJ with more 'elastic' choice of music styles than they were able to do in their trade mark house sets This is what they say about Elastix :
"In our 20 years of DJ career and passionate record collecting, we got to know so many amazing artists and different styles of dancing music For longer than 15 years our DJ hearts are beating on rhythms of modern electronic music, but our music roots are going deep in jazz, disco, funk, oldskool hip-hop, breakbeats and '80s new wave and avangarde With Elastix we are on the mission to wake up some of those rare pieces from our collection, re-edit them and put them in appropriate mix with some of the newest, coolest music"
So far Elastix played free style sets together with Idjut boys in '333' club in London, with Ramon Santanas from Chicharrons in 'Rust' club in Copenhagen, at 'Luna', 'Petrol', 'Betty Ford Clinic' and 'Play' ( Café Capital ) parties in Antwerpen, 'Diesel U awards' and at '10 days off' in Ghent, while their mixes were broadcasted on Switch ( Studio Brussel )
DISCOGRAPHY
DJ Bert and Smos and Baby Bee : "Freaktion" ( Cold Records, COLD 001, 1996 )
R.A.W. :
"Shit, Goddamn!" and "Mr. Cool" by Smos and Baby Bee, Kelvin Smits, Sebastian Kalonji
( Eighttrack, ET 001, 1999 )
Wizards of Ooze : "Hi-fi" ( WHa? roots, , 2000 )
Max Berlin : "Elle et moi", "Ton coeur qui bat . . ." remix by Elastix ( Eighttrack, ET 005, 2003 )
Soundtroopers : "Damn freaks", remix by K-Bonus and Elastix ( Eighttrack, ET 006, 2004 )
Elastix : "Don't stop" ( Eskimo, Cat. Nr. 541416501210, 2004 )
Café D'Anvers : "10 Years anniversary" compilation 2000
Café D'Anvers : "Free vibes and Saturdays" compilation 2001
