Spirit Catcher

It’s funny but people tend to be a bit down on poor old Belgium, full of boring bureaucrats in suits banning our fucking sausages. Well here’s one good reason to get excited about Belgium – Spirit Catcher. Jean Vanesse and Thomas Sohet, are amongst the best producers in dance music right now, a description we don’t use lightly. Their excellent debut artist album Night Vision, which we released earlier this year, is testament to this status, becoming album of the issue in many leading dance magazine around the world.
Both have a diversity of experience to bring to the table and a wide variety of influences. Both cite Kings of Jazz, Herbie Hancock and Quincy Jones through to classic 80s boogie sounds of Zapp, Prince and Chic/Nile Rogers and on to the sounds of Detroit techno pioneers such as Juan Atkins and Derrick May as major forces in their own productions. In terms of experience both have been involved in making music from an early age in different ways. Jean’s father is a sound engineer, so naturally he lived around studios, constantly meeting musicians and singers. At the age of 12 he had his first drum lesson and a few years later he began experimenting with analog synths releasing his first record at the tender age of 17.  Since finishing his degree in sound engineering Jean opened his own professional recording studio in 2000.
Our genius keyboard player Thomas on the other hand worked his way through the musical ranks playing in various Belgium funk bands, gigging all over the country. He also works for a sound design company and assisted on the production of the Monsters Inc video game and several other commercials and record projects.
These guys have become one of Europe's most exciting production partnerships and live acts since they began 7 years ago. In that time they’ve clocked up the impressive list of labels that they’ve worked for and seem to have become  everyone’s favourite remixer, sprinkling their deep future disco sounds over a list of artists as long as your arm.
As well as a prolific output, Jean and Thomas also have a fierce live show, which, like their album, has its roots in the origins of electronic music, using a classic midi dance music set-up using a mixing desk, effects and live keyboards.