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I'm a vocalist-emcee in Brussels, Belgium. Born, raised and studied in UK, I then moved onto the European mainland, and until now I've been living in Belgium, with a brief interlude based in Bangkok, Thailand. Along with DJs Saiko (my wonderful and fabulous fiance!) and Rhumble , I'm one of the founders of Hydra, a Belgian drum & bass oriented collective of DJs, MCs, graphic/web designers and promoters - check out the website at www.hydra-breaks.net .
In Thailand, I MCed regularly for Specialist at his Vertigo events and for the Homebass crew, both at the amazing Astra Club. I'm on the mic at events all over the place, and have had my vox released on John B's Nu Electro label . I'm also the vocalist of Loulou Players, a successful electro house group on Sharam Jey's King Kong Records and Darren Emerson's Underwater label.
I've MCed and sung live in Belgium, France, Germany, Holland and Thailand with Storm, DJ Marky, Klute, Pendulum, Raiden, Robyn Chaos, Dylan, Ill Logic, John B, Trace, Skitty, Chris .SU, A-sides, Motion Theory, System D and of course my home boys Saiko and Rhumble.. As a support act, I've been invited to gigs with MC Tali, London Elektricity and 4Hero among others. I've also MCed alongside MCs Jamalski, DOC, Stoneman, Divine , Shaman and more.
Audio Lotus on the mic with DJs Saiko & Rhumble, live @ Aachen, Germany
Get our tunes with John B!

My Interests

music in all its forms, artificial life and evolution, green stuff, techy stuff, organic food, weird science, education, development, travelling ridiculously often (my carbon output is way too high, please help), eating dahl and chapatis, writing lyrics, hanging out with friends, chillage, fucked up films, comics, graphic novels, books, being antisocial when I want to, walking around, photography, infomania, occasional meditation and witchcraft, it's all good...

I'd like to meet:

Music people only please... I do not approve any people who spam me with promo, girls who forget to wear clothes when taking their profile picture, or randoms who just want names for their friend list... DO NOT POST ADVERTS ON MY PROFILE PLEASE. I DON'T DO THAT TO OTHERS, SO PLEASE RETURN THE COURTESY...

Music:

the style without a style... drum & bass, jungle, hiphop, glitch hop, Indian stuff (bollywood, bhangra, desi, classical, all of it), electronic stuff, techno, emo & math rock, jazz, soul, funk, classical, ragga & reggae, clicky minimal stuff... current passion is Thai luuk thung, northern Thai synth country music.

In d&b I dig Amit, Klute, John B, Dylan & Robyn, Skitty, Outrage, Digital, Raiden, Ben Sage, Deeizm, Dom & Roland, Optical (old tunes), Teebee, Pieter K, Polar, Alaska, Metalheadz vibez.

Other stuff: Surgeon, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Johannes Heil, Kanzleramt, Hint, Jazzanova, Foreign Beggarz, Gravediggaz, Christmas Baubles, Wu Tang and all related incarnations particularly Killah Priest, Lewis Parker, OneSelf, Spooky, Ricardo Villalobos...

MCs & vocalists I dig: Louise from Lamb, Stevie Hyper D, Sarah Jones, Cleveland Watkiss, Conrad, GQ, Tali, Roots Manuva, Lady Saw, Ce'cile, Pall Jenkins (3 Mile Pilot), Bille Holliday, Kishore Kumar, Bjork, Lydia Lunch, Zap Mama, Bahamadia, Apani B Fly MC, Alice Russel, Sylvia Robinson, dat girl from the Kidney Thieves.... I could carry on and on and on

Rock wise I dig... Slint, Sonic Youth, 3 Mile Pilot, Tortoise, Oval, Galaxie 500. In classical music it's gotta be Stravinsky, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, John Cage.

And of course I loooove

Movies:

A lot of Asian stuff, old movies, weirdness... old Star Wars trilogy, Toxic Avenger & all the Troma movies, Dark Water, The Eye, Volcano High, anything from Dario Argento, Baraka, Microcosmos, Kamikaze Girls, blah blah... Thai ghost movies about reality TV stars getting hacked to death in abandoned Khmer Rouge prisons...

Television:

is bad for you. But anyway I like the A team, Sopranos, 6 Feet Under, League of Gentlemen, Kinghtrider, that 70s Japanese show that involves a guy wearing a motorcycle helmet fighting against man-moths, the Belgian show made of plastic animals and cowboy dolls.

Books:

Kabuki and all the related books by David Mack, all books by William Burroughs, the KLF's Manual , Jhonen Vasquez, Alan Warner, James Lovelock, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, anything about Asia, Amitav Ghosh, preferably some gritty real life...

Heroes:

Billie Holliday, William S Burroughs, Vandana Shiva, Sarah Jones, James Lovelock, David Mack, Aphex Twin, Stephen Downes, Tim O'Reilly

My Blog

Things that make you go GROWL

1) People working in shops who treat the goods better than the people. Y'know the style, when there's a queue of like 5 people and the staff are busy cleaning or laying out stock and ignoring the cust...
Posted by Lotus on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:13:00 PST

Past dates in Belgium

14/10 -  Massive Drum & Bass Annihilation@ EL BAR 2,rue roger salengro mouscron / 5¬ before 22h,7¬ after*saiko[hydra],twister[hydra],rhumble[hydra],hosted By : Mc Lotus[hydra] & Mc Divine...
Posted by Lotus on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 01:18:00 PST

My next gigs in Bangkok

25/08 at Astra with HomebassPast dates in BKK 13/07 at Qbar with Pichy 09/06 at Astra with Dragon & Homebass crew26/05 at Astra with Storm & Pichy24/03 at Astra, with Dragon & the Homebas...
Posted by Lotus on Sun, 05 Feb 2006 11:47:00 PST

Therapy Sessions Belgium

Get ready to have your head twisted and your ears blown away by one of the heaviest lineups to hit Belgium! Anger UK, Hydra and Wasp present the Belgian edition of the legendary UK event, Therapy Sess...
Posted by Lotus on Sun, 05 Feb 2006 11:05:00 PST

Bangkok d&b scene

Had my first experience of the scene here on Friday... Very impressed I have to say! Dave Specialist puts on some great lineups out here, and rocks the place with some properly funky but dancefloor or...
Posted by Lotus on Sun, 05 Feb 2006 11:00:00 PST

Leaving for the east...

I made a huge decision, I'm moving to Bangkok in January! I'll be living there for at least a year... I still can't quite believe it! So I went to the studio to get some stuff ready before I leave:...
Posted by Lotus on Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:33:00 PST

Electrohouse: Loulou Players site launch !

yeah the Loulou Players site is now online! click here: www.loulouplayers.com. go on, you know you want to! ...
Posted by Lotus on Wed, 23 Nov 2005 04:21:00 PST

back in the studio

Got to do some more recording this weekend! A good session with Gregg aka Kolumbo, Mr Loulou Players himself... :) We did two tracks: "The freaks come out" and "Synthetic life".
Posted by Lotus on Mon, 21 Nov 2005 01:56:00 PST

Interviews: MC Messinian, MC Wrec, MC Verse, MC Coppa

MC Messinian US-based MC Messinian is one of the world's hottest d&b MCs right now, MCing alongside Dieselboy (Planet of the Drums, USA). Lotus from Hydra poses him a few questions about his back...
Posted by Lotus on Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:49:00 PST

Loulou EP 3 out now!

Electro house vibes from my producer Gregg, featuring DJerom, me on the vocals. MP3 downloads available now: http://www.djdownload.com/genre.php?SF=Lou+Lou+Players&S B=1  ...
Posted by Lotus on Thu, 29 Sep 2005 06:04:00 PST