Background By http://www.myspace-gen.com/ THE PAST: The man is a DJ all right: in the early 80's he was ERIC B during funky NEW WAVE nights all over Europe; together with OLIVER they dominated NEW BEAT at Bocaccio(on sundays) or spearheaded La Rocca on Saturdays for 10 years in a row, right up to Who's Who's Land, if you know what I mean... (the triumvirate of legendary dance temples).
He made quite a few dancerecords whether as composer, producer or editor on tons of record labels (PIAS, R&S, Accor, Afrotraxx, Sony...) and under a pile of aliases (of which CALVIN STONES is just one...).
But since 1998, ERIC BEYSENS is ERIC POWA B and rediscovering himself, picking up the nrg of Eric B, that definitely changed Belgian dance music as a matter of turntables.
THE PRESENT:
So, for the first time in twenty years the world can enjoy electro again, coming from a generation born under the wings of Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, New Order or Depeche Mode... Here ERIC POWA B re-finds his personal structures but also his guardian angels and his demons which made him able to release the party beast inside during almost 25 years!
On Surprise (home of Vive La Fête, Mascotte, The Backlash, Sickboy,Onderklank,Sierra Sam...) he returns with eleven sonic, independent dancetracks made of contrasts, anger, enthusiasm and electronic respirations and still forming one whole.
BIOGRAPHY
ERIC"POWA" B. A.K.A Eric B. Started his DJ-career in the early eighties("La Gaite", le "55", and the infamous "BOCCACCIO" where he resided for years)
He made a huge success of Antwerps "LA ROCCA" over a period of 10 years. Returning to Brussels, he became resident DJ at Whos Whos Land(RIP)alongside the now world famous Junior Jack. This was his regular spotuntil 2002.
Aside from his Belgian career, he had a pretty hefty European schedule,playing the well-established clubs like D! club (Ch),Pulp(Fr),Nouveau Casino(Fr),Paradiso(NL) Pacha (Sp),La Dune(Fr) Rex(Fr), Amnesia (Sp), Queen (Fr),Sugar Factory(NL) Fuse (Be), Café dAnvers (Be),
Needless to say he also played alongside many of the worlds greatest Djs:SvenVath, Laurent Garnier,Play Paul,Terence Fixmer, DJ Hell, Scratch Massive,Dirt Crew, Charles Schillings,Roger Sanchez,Kiki from Silver Surfer,Derrick May, Marshall Jefferson,Freeform five,Jef K,Junior Sanchez,Joey Beltram,Carl Cox,Jerome Pacman,Damian Lazarus.... to name but a few.
He's actually resident of the"Kamping K./International Deejay Gigolo"parties in "Café d'Anvers".
Neither was he ignored in the production world. Labels like R&S, Music Man, PIAS
Eric was responsible for introducing the club compilation concept to Belgium with LA ROCCA vol. 1 through 10 The next logical step was, of course, his own label Accor, which saw the light in 1994.
Later he founded his second label Afrotraxx, in collaboration with PIAS. It attracted the attention of lots of Djs including Sneak, Jon Cutler, At Jazz, Stonebridge
Afrotraxx inspired his first album BlastnPowa presents Mangorama. Other labels released tracks of his work (Noise Traxx, Discomatic, Sony Music,Dirty Dancing) can be found on a whole series of compilations (15 years Cafe d'Anvers,Bangkok 2002, Le Prince Maurice, Casio G-shock Dj culture, Nu jazz) and it doesnt end there, the communication company Kiube invited him to compile a electronic lounge album and his band Astrolounge (lounge concept - Dj &jazz musicians) is an equally successful endeavour.
Since 2004 Eric released a bunch of tracks for the Belgian company Lowlands (Distribution and Records labels www.lowlands.be, home of 'Vive La Fête') under different monikers: ERIC"POWA"B.,BARCODE,ONDERKLANK,ELEKTRIC MISTRESS and THE BACKLASH.
"The Backlash" is an electro-punk project with Julian K thats kicking up a storm in the UK.(Charted in the Ministry of Sounds vital vinyl at ..5. Subject of an article in The Face and is currently charted by quite a few international Djs).
Their live performances are quite something and well worth checking out. They 've just realised a full album"SERIAL CLEANER"(out january 2006).
His first solo album Minute Mindwas out on june 2005 also on "surprise records"
SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
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-ERIC 'POWA' B : Minute Mind -2xLP SURPRISE 029LP - ERIC 'POWA' B : Minute Mind -CD
-THE BACKLASH 'Magnificent 7' - SURPRISE 014 (CD) - SURPRISE 015 (12')
-THE BACKLASH 'SexAndDrugsAndRockAndRoll + VLF Rmx!' - SURPRISE 017
-ERIC POWA B 'Cash' - SURPRISE 018
-ERIC POWA B 'Freeze' - SURPRISE 021
-THE BACKLASH 'Shave our Soul' - SURPRISE 024
-ERIC POWA B 'The Trip' - SURPRISE 025
-THE BACKLASH 'sexgames' - SURPRISE 037 with Alex Smoke & Pan/tone remixes
-THE BACKLASH:SERIAL CLEANER 2x LP SURPRISE 031 CDSURPRISE 031 CD
-ERIC POWA B 'FACELIFT/BOCCA'-SURPRISE 051
-ELEKTRIC MISTRESS 'POISONED/REQUIEM'-SURPRISE
(other):(2005)
on DIRTY DANCING RECORDS:BARCODE"DATA NEW BEAT"ddr003
on COLORZ:PLAXXO"MAGMA/GAMMA RAY"colorz001
on X-RATED:ERIC"POWA"B. vs NORMAN BATES"X_RATED TRACKS" xr001
on AFROTRAXX/PIAS(1999-2001): "ASTROLOUNGE"vol 1 to 4
"AS SEQUENCE" "CONTACT/IMPACT"
"ERIC"POWA"B."FREAKIN"
on R&S(1988-1990):HNO3 "DOUGHNUT DOLLIES"
WHAREHOUSE PARTYBOYS"WHAREHOUSE GROOVE"
WHAREHOUSE PARTY BOYS"CAN YOU MOVE YOUR BODY"
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