Brussels quartet ECHT! use their combined jazz talent to create concrete beats that still manage to groove elastically. ECHT! is real (really though, it’s Dutch for ‘real’): no computers or music apps to get people moving, but conventional instruments played by true artists.

With their debut album ‘INWANE’, released last year through SDBAN, the Brussels natives moved beyond a cult status they had cultivated through support by connaisseurs like Rik De Bruycker and Lefto, and through their brewmixes: live beat to beat ‘dj-sets’ where they play original material and reworkings of, among others, Kendrick Lamar, De La Soul, Childish Gambino and Slum Village. On ‘INWANE’, ECHT! prove that they can perfectly translate this live vibe to a record. But there’s still nothing like seeing the band on stage. Did we mention to bring your dancing shoes?

Master drummer Lander Gyselinck (STUFF., BeraadGeslagen, LABtrio, …) and much asked keyboard player Adriaan Van de Velde (Pomrad, J. Bernard, Mauro Pawlowski, …) cross stick and key in a sweaty/floaty alliance they formed in a Brussels basement right before the 2020 lockdown.

On their debut album as Lander & Adriaan the gents take you on a broody night filled with dreams, (delirious) dancing, heavy beats and walls of synths. Doombient. Fusili rave. Dom hop. Night bop. A schizo meeting between a night of raving and a jazz wine tasting. Tested and approved at the few places that allowed actual dancing in 2021.