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Spacid started collecting music from a very early age and played occasionally on weddings and block parties.
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His first influences were Synthesizer Greatest (Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis ...) and new wave club classics (Front 242, Depeche Mode ...), later welcoming Belgium's New Beat craze and early Chicago house.
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Spacid's first steps playing in front of a public dates back to 1991, while being a resident dj at Le Café in Kortrijk. There, once settled behind his trusty Technics, he played all the early electronic music this dance culture had to offer in those days.
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Together with some friends, Spacid organised his first parties in 1992, which turned out to be a big success and paved the way to setting up the club Carioca. He was only 17 then. The club was short-lived but is still remembered as one the legendary and trendsetting clubs in Belgium.
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1994 saw the founding of Funky Green Aliens, a party organisation and booking agency concentrating on promoting groundbreaking music & arts and introducing international artists to the Belgian scene. These parties, mostly illegal, were very successful and still to this day represent the true roots of Spacid's dj career.
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By 1997 he was propelled to slots at the biggest clubs and parties in Belgium and abroad, such as Dance Valley, Ten Days Off and Kozzmozz.
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His name started popping up in all major Belgian clubs and events and today he is resident at various important party concepts such as Body To Body at the famous Culture Club, Beats Of Love, Elektron, Retro Acid, Ultra …
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As the label boss of Radius Records, he seeks to expose the foundations of the electronic side of 70's and 80's disco, highlighting not only its innovative aspect, but also its importance in today's electronic dance music. Check the Radius website http://www.radiusrecords.be to find release info, press clippings, etc.
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Ever since 1997 Spacid has played nu skool electro, although he can easily be found playing other genres like all types of experimental electronics, minimal, all shades of electro, acid, house and probably the most favourite of them all, disco in all its forms.
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Spacid's sets are fuelled by an underlying thought process aimed at providing party people a good time and at the same time opening up music that is less evident to a larger public.
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Apart from a busy dj schedule in Belgium he regularly plays abroad. Just have a look at line-ups of parties, festivals and clubs in France, the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, Poland and Malta. He manned the decks in British clubs and parties like Club Trash, Herbal, The Key, House of God, Downtownsounds, Human Zoo, Death disco and played in about every major Dutch club such as Paradiso, Club 013, Melkweg, Effenaar, Doornroosje. He was even invited at the Berlin Weekend club and Paris's 'Respect is Burning'.
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A real ambassador of the vibrant club scene, both his quest for innovation and his reverence for the past transpire in his work as a dj.
