D'Anvers

Café d’Anvers presents:

Main Room

DeeJay Smos
Nukov & Yelmet
Axel Haube


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Smos

DJ Smos started his career in early '90s as a duo with DJ Baby Bee, they are considered as one of the pioneer house DJs on the Belgian music scene. They became residents at 'Café D'Anvers' in 1993, where they also played for 'Paradise' and 'Natural elements' from Patrick Socks and many other parties that were organized in 'Café D'Anvers'.

Since 1998 until 2001 DJ Smos and Baby Bee played as residents for 'Eskimo' parties in Ghent, where they did their 'trade mark' closing set in the house room. They also played at other parties that were organized by 'Eskimo' organization ( Belmondo in SMAK museum in Ghent, Culture club, 69, Diesel U awards, 'Make up' club ... ). Between January 2001 and October 2003 they were residents in the Motion room in 'Fuse' in Brussels, where they performed 'soul tech' sessions together with DJ St. Dic.They also played as a resident DJs at Café Capital in Antwerp, and on many occasions as guest DJs in all good Belgian clubs, summer festivals (10 days off in Ghent, Laundry day in Antwerp, Tomorrowland, Extrema, Dour festival, House Torhout, Pukkelpop, City parade ... ) and on the international party scene in clubs like Rex in Paris, Chemistry and Arena club in Amsterdam, 333 in London, Cuttura electronic in Italy etc.. Smos and baby Bee were voted as the best Belgian DJs at 'Ticket nightlife awards 2001' and in 2003 as 'the best national house DJs' at Belgian dance culture website 'Partyguide'.

Baby Bee stopped DJ-ing in 2010, since then Smos has been playing solo as a resident DJ in Café d'Anvers and in the Mystery cub at 'Woods' in Brussels

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Nukov & Yelmet

Hi, we are Nukov & Yelmet. Two close friends from Ostend, Belgium who have the same vision and taste when it comes to music, deejaying and partying. Since we believe in the power of sharing/working together instead of competing with one another, we decided it would be a good idea (and a lot of fun) to team up.
Our vision is that we are “men of music”. With this we mean: we just love music in all its different ways. Be it techno, house, hip hop, rock, reggae... For us there are only two types of music: the bad kind and the good kind. This is what we stand for during our deejay sets; we don’t have a particular kind of house/techno we prefer. We believe in feeling the crowd or the moment and take it from there. This does not mean we don’t have our own sound. On the contrary, it means exactly that. We have the sound of the moment.

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Axel Haube

Axel Haube’s first introduction to the turning tables happened in 2008. At the age of 16, his career as a DJ took off when he got his first gigs playing at Café d’Anvers’ main room and at Noxx’s ‘underground room’ Salle Noire, where he was invited by Tofke to spin numerous sets of tech-house and techno.

After that, his bookings grew and he went on to host the balcony area in Café d’Anvers, while frequently playing in the main room for Labyrinth Productions. His keen ear and natural skills even took Axel to London where he played at Café 1001 and Ministry of Sound along with Paul Woolford & Midland. Many others followed, sharing decks with leading artists such as Joris Voorn, Kölsch, Tale of Us, Pan-Pot, Steve Lawler, Adam Beyer, Ida Engberg, Maceo Plex, Dj Koze, Mano Le Tough, ….

The next few years saw a release of several original tracks on both Sustain Release & Comport records. After putting the producing aside for a few years, Axel is currently working on various new tracks, which are scheduled to be released in 2018.

Axel Haube’s energetic house and techno sets are praised at festivals such as Tomorrowland, Extrema Outdoor, Laundry Day,... In 2017 Axel started his own concept “Kabaal” which took place at Café d’Anvers and Club Vaag where he invited Oxia, Dennis Cruz & Marco Faraone.