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Aguila special nineties selection for this Saturday

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:09:09 +0200

dj Aguila provided a super tracklist of the period that Vaudeville was in its high days, the nineties, with some gorgeous house classics ! together with Pop Rules they will be letting you dance this Saturday to the best of a grand period.

Mix can also be downloaded on www.losninos.be/download (after login, also with Facebook)

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Free Vicuna party in June with Mike Simonetti

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:11:47 +0200

Surely you know Mike Simonetti the guy behind Italians Do It Better, the record label housing Glass Candy and Chromatics ! If not, no worries, we organize the afterparty for Brussels Film Festival / Fete de la Musique at Flagey (Elsene / Ixelles / 1050 Brussels) on Friday June 21 and invite this hero. Better, it's FREE, yes, F R E E !

Our Belgian hero Aguila joins in the fun!

There is numerous concerts before the party programmed by BFF from 20:30 on, Vicuna starts at 23:30 and ends at 03:00.

Here's a recent set at the Boiler Room :

See you soon !

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Mummy's little helper

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:27:52 +0200

As you may have noticed, at Los Ninos we love a good Gin and Tonic so I thought to give a bit of information about that little drink that makes us so happy.

Tastes differ, that we know, and different gins make different gin & tonics. You can go for a dry powerfull gin, a light gin, a fruity gin,... The choice is yours!

Gin and tonic became popular because of its medicinal effect. It was used against stomach ache and gallstones.

Gin as we know it has its roots in the 17th century. In the Netherlands and Belgium some liqueur distillers combined maltwine and grain distillates with juniper and herbes like anise, coriander. They made 'jenever' and it became very popular.

From jenever to gin. The English army of Willem van Oranje (at that time ruler of the Netherlands) discovered jenever in the 17th century. This army was in the middle of the eighty-year war against Spain, so they could use a drink. Jenever quickly became popular in the army and got the name 'Dutch Courage'. When the English picked jenever up they called it gin. But gin and jenever aren't made from the same: jenever is made from barley and gin is made mostly made from other cereals.

Gin became very popular when England decided to put huge taxes on foreign alcohol to stimulate the alcohol produced in England. In 1720 a quarter of the households in London where used for production or sale of gin. Because there was so much gin and it was cheap, it became a popular drink for the poor. There was a mass-alcoholism and public drunkenness became an increasing problem. The number of deaths, mostly children, was huge in that time. The Government tried to restrict the production and consumption of gin by setting the Gin Act of 1736. In that way high taxes were levied on gin. This led to huge riots.

In 1742 this act was already no longer in use. But the Gin Act of 1751 was more succesful. According to this law, distillers could only sell their gin to pubs with an (affordable) alcohol license. The quality of the gin became better and the price of gin was slowely increased.

But why the tonic?

The gin tonic originated in the Britsch Tropical colonies. It is there that is was first mixed with quinine, also used to fight malaria. To mix the gin with quinine reduced the bitter flavor of the quinine. Then the quinine and gin were also mixed with carbonated water (sprakling water). And all that lead to a drink that would help out all mommys...

How much gin do you use for a gin-tonic? This differs from person to person. A good balance recommended would be somewhere between 45 and 60 ml gin.

At Los Ninos we go for the middle point of 50 ml, or a tiny bit more depending on the size of your smile ;) When we organize our own bar, we use an organic dry gin of the highest quality, made in London since 1700 : Juniper Green. The gin has won a ton of prices and it's even "by appointment of the Prince of Wales". With the inclusion of 4 botanicals and the organic element this is a good reason to get drunk with good concious at ok price. (available at BioShop)

Now, when at home or taking all the time needed to taste and with a higher budget, we recommend Hendrick's Gin. This one is made in Scotland (normally more known for whisky) but has a stunning 11 botanicals and a unique infusion of rose petals and cucumber. All that wrapped in a wonderful bottle and a stunning website comes along.

Obviously the type of tonic plays also a role in your perfect G & T. You can choose from commercial but good brands like Schweppes (°1783) or go for a less mainstream Fever Tree, Thomas Henry or Q Tonic or buy a delicious syrup of John's Premium ... And this guy even makes his tonic himself!

Finally, for those with a nice moustache (and their girl / boyfriends who likes gin tonics), you also have this daddy's little helper... A Gin and Tonic moustache wax !

If you are unable to listen on Tuesday night at 20:00, you can download the program here the day after. (and listen to the previous programs)

For this gin occassion Deer du Bois has selected matching tunes or at least those that sound alike :

Dinah Washington / Me and My Gin
The Fonxionaires ft Miss Brandy Butler / Gin and Tonic
Veronique and Davina / Gym Tonic
Bob Sinclar / Gym Tonic

Enjoy your next gin tonic and see you next month! Cheers !

Stephanie

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Deer du Bois presents Prides - Deptford Goth / free tickets

Fri, 03 May 2013 15:10:30 +0200

Here we go, we start it off with a blast :

Here's PRIDES!

This Glasgow trio was tipped by their fellow Glaswegians CHVRCHES to become the next (epic) pop band of 2013 and together with them and Hudson Mohawk they are the setting example that the UK still bursts of sparkling electronic pop talent!

Started as a duo under the name of Midnight Lion, Stuart and Lewis added Mr. Callum to their band and they became PRIDES.

At the moment they only released one song Out of The Blue, but already with the bombastic opening drums, MGMT worthy, together with the bagpipe synths you feel the song bursting open. This is almost symphonic-synth pop with a damn fine layered production behind it!

And thanks to the shifting rhythms and the mature vocals this song becomes catchy without becoming mainstream!

Definitely a band to look out for! On a festival near you this summer, for sure!

Sliding down on the map of Great Britain also the temperature and moods in music become more chill and cold but never without the real emotions of the heart, so let's go for tea with lo-fi electronic producer and artist DEPTFORD GOTH.

His life reads almost like a lyrical superhero story : school teacher by day but RnB inspired singer-ballad-writer by night.

I just discovered Daniel Woolhouse through his new (full) album Life After Deffo, in which deffo is the abbreviated slang for definitely. And with this the tone of the album is set...the feeling and state of post-certainty.

With bands as Active Child, How to dress well and Rhye, Deptford Goth connects well with his more etherical approach of soft-mumbled lullabies and love songs.

The songs are all carefully backed-up with beautiful orchestrations ranging from horns and harp-like strings to muffled rhythms and a firecracker-beat box, all together floating in between the real and synthetic, as Daniel describes it himself with his soft and soothing (James Blake-kinda) voice.

This is the kind of album where every listener will claim one song to himself as the they all feel and sound like pages out of the blue-ish diary of Mr. Woolhouse.

Maybe not the spring-album you were waiting for, but more the late afternoon-gazing-into-the-sunset kind of music!

DEPTFORD GOTH is in concert at Les Nuit Botanique in Brussels on 13/05 in the museum room. We are giving away 3x2 tickets to this concert, so tune in to our radioshow on FM BRUSSEL !

If you are unable to listen on Tuesday night at 20:00, you can download the program here the day after. (and listen to the previous programs)

See you next month!

Deer du Bois

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Mix of Deer du Bois online

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:18:27 +0200

Deer du Bois has recorded the mix he played at the last Los Ninos party.

"Sing along, dream along, love along" would be our best description. You can now download it or check it on iTunes or our podcast.

This is the play list :

1. Radioactive – marina & the diamonds (HTDW x prince clubdancefloor remix)

2. Losing you – solange (cyril hahn remix)

3. You with air – young magic (noah hyde remix)

4. Flutes – hot chip (jd twitch / optimo remix)

5. Far from home – tiga (reprise)

6. The bay – metronomy (2bears remix)

7. White Noize – disclosure ft. AlunaGeorge

8. Bizarre love triangle – new order (shep petitbone edit)

9. A new love – the miracles club

10. Shelter – hercules & love affair (the xx cover)

11. Concierge d’amour - pollyester (rory phillips remix)

12. Love for sale – mickey

13. feed me diamonds – mndr (rac remix)

14. the day we fell in love – appaloosa (Ted & Françis remix)

15. young throats – parenthetical girls (yacht remix)

16. hold you head up – arthur argent (soulwhacked remix)

17. Animal – miike snow (fake blood remix)

18. Space – magic wands (wekeed x michael creange mix)

19. We want your soul – freeland (trumpdisco remix)

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Next party at our beloved Vaudeville

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:36:41 +0200

Time for Summer & time to party !

It looks like we will party a last time at the wonderful Vaudeville as the owner hesitates to rent again for nightly activities. Let's enjoy this 19th century splendour, this nineties club nostalgy, this room with a fabulous balcony view and so much more. This time with 2 bars, 2 toilets, 2 cloakrooms.

From the line up we can confirm Bruce Botnik and a special teaming up of Aguila and Pop Rules. The latter will prepare a 90s set to reflect at how Vaudeville was back at the time. More about the line up will be confirmed soon !

See you on Saturday May 25 !

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Video of the last party April 13

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:21:18 +0200

Stellar OM Source, Acid Washed, Deer du Bois, The Stress, Sheniqua World Tour all in one night ... We were happy and from the video we could reconfirm that many of you were too :)

In a radio interview we were asked which words would come to mind when thinking of Los Ninos. There were many yet "open minded" and "rollercoaster" came instantly. So hope to see you at another openminded rollercoaster at Vaudeville on May 25 !

Big hugs and kisses to such an incredible crowd !

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Nearly Saturday and lots of things rolling in

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:03:33 +0200

While the excitement is growing for the party of next Saturday, more and more material comes in.

A new mix of The Stress who will close the night at Recyclart

And a teaser video from Deer du Bois as he will bring his VJ, Brice (so be early - you'll avoid queues too)

And a nice video of Stellar OM Source who will play live

And we bought some extras for the occassion (long live give aways !). Here's a hint :

And Sheniqua has new shoes and prepared high-impakt visuals !

Oh so lovely to see you again !!!

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Deer du Bois on FM Brussel VII : Autre ne Veut - John Grant

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:56:56 +0200

Smooth and soft, hard and rough, this week we go pop, but the kind that will make you move into all kind of places, intimately close or anxiously far away...like the 80s and 90s!

We start with Autre Ne Veut, the alter ego of Arthur Ashin, a Brooklyn based artist/singer/producer.

He's been evolving from soft RnB-infused vocal pop to a more mature and striking sound, bringing together all the good stuff pop is all about! (think female choirs, falsetto voice-moments,...)

On his recently released debut album "Anxiety" his references to the very fragile and dark songs by bands like How To Dress Well are completely gone and the very bright rays of optimism are shining out of almost every song.

In his musical style he has boosted the slow back beats from the chillwave he came from, to a much more moving-and-pumping-up-the-volume level by combining the avantgarde RnB elements with a big dose of indie-pop/rock. Even the personal and close to the body lyrics can not make you stop moving, not even during the ballads. His energetic voice just won't let you.

Anxiety is out on Mexican Summer and he's touring as we speak! So that's why we are deligthed to annouce that Autre Ne Veut will be performing in Brussels at Madame Moustache on Friday 19 April with the also amazing Belgian pop-noir act Children of the Palace as support act! So come early for a whole muscial must-hear night organised by Subbacultcha! And even more good news : we are giving away 2x2 tickets for this concert, so listen to our radio show or go to our win-page !

Check out here the first single of Autre Ne Veut's new album : Counting, in which he gets a vocal back-up by Mykki Blanco!

And then we go deep, rough but also gentle inside the mind and soul of a great bearded man : John Grant.

Starting his career as an alternative rocker in the Denver-scene, John Grant went solo in 2010 to become a singer-songwriter.

On his criticaly acclaimed and prizewinning debut album Queen of Denmark, that he recorded together with folk-rock band Midlake, he tried to write off his personal demons and his struggling with alcohol and drug addictions, but also the coming to terms with his sexuality.

While touring with his first album he arrived in Ireland where his music got the attention of Sinead O'Conner who covered one of his songs and who is doing some backing vocals on Pale Green Ghosts.

In the mean while he performed with Hercules & Love Affair and his music was featured in the gay movie Weekend.

All this experience got him eager to make another album and he felt the time was ready to add something extra to his music. By moving to Iceland he met Biggi Veira, the guy behind the electronic dance-act GusGus. Together they started working on the new album Pale Green Ghosts and they created an intruiging gem of an album.

John Grant's crooner-voice, you might know from his first album, is still there, but for some songs the electronic beats and synth effects lift up the sound to another level, referencing even bands as Yazoo and New Order.

Lyrically John still sings about his obsessions, memories of a lost lover (who left him) and even about being HIV-positif (Ernest Borgnine). So the beats haven't bleeped out the true feelings in the songs.

Listening to the album is like being inside John's head, sometimes you'll hear true singer-songwriter songs but then also you'll experience the feeling of drifting away into a neon-colored state of extasy. Moodswings turnend into a consistent and touching album!

Take a listen to Pale Green Ghosts and if you like what you hear, then you can go and see him in concert at Botanique in Brussels on April 18th! And because we love music and John Grant so much we are also giving away tickets for this concert. To win one of the 3x2 tickets, just tune in onto our FM Brussel radio show!

Here is one of the uppers on the album : Sensitive New Age Guy!

If you are unable to listen on Tuesday night at 20:00, you can download the program here the day after. (and listen to the previous programs)

See you next month!

Deer du Bois

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Vintage furniture + win a hotel night

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:02:39 +0200

For those who remember the episode about vintage clothing (my first time on radio) will remember that I'm a huge vintage lover. This radioshow I would like to talk about vintage furniture and I had a little chat with the owner of one of my favourite shops, Fabrice from Brocéliande.

Vintage is mainly a term in the fashion world, but it is also useful for furniture and objects. More specificaly objects that are made between the twenties and seventies. They have specific features which characterize a certain era. A valuable vintage object has minimal wear and minimal damage.

The term 'retro' is used to point out a certain style. The difference with vintage is that it stands for the revival of a former style in new designs. So you can find new clothing and furniture which are retro.

Here are some of my favourite vintage adresses in Brussels:

Brocéliande: Kartuizerstraat 44, 1000 Brussel (But hurry because the store closes in August 2013!)

Via Antica: www.viaantica.be

Hautes Antiques: www.hauteantiques207.be

Showroom 144 : www.showroom144.be

If your budget isn't that much have a look on Kapaza.be or dekringloopwinkel.be (you'd be surprised what you find in far away village kringloop stores).

To make you experience the vintage feel : you can win one night in the Vintage Airstream Room of the Vintage Hotel (parallel street of Avenue Louise, Rue Dejoncker 45) with a value of 250 euro. They are housed in a start of the 20th century mansion and house 29 uniquely looking rooms. In their wine bar you can taste wines from around the world. Your room is in the magnificent vintage trailer of 1958 (remember the expo in Brussels?), so ... ready for GLAMPING (= glamour + camping) ? Join the contest here

and this is a photo of another room in the hotel ...

If you aren't able to listen to the radio program live, then come back to this site a day or two later to be able to download the episodes.

Cheers

Stephanie

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PIc: vicunas to wake up softly

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:41:40 +0100

www.vicuna.be

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Line up: addition to Vicuna

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:22:43 +0100

Soft like a cashmere blanket. Subtle, touching. We are glad to add a concert to the Vicuna line up of December 3 of Bright Entity.

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thanks: mixed emotions

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:07:51 +0100

we apologize for the waiting time. we didn't expect so many people showing up and had staff not showing up and equipment missing. shit happens.

still, we are glad to have shared hot - steamy - moments with you even if it didn't always feel like a "usual" los ninos (whatever that is). changing locations has many challenges, but we hope you appreciate our efforts in sharing adventures and discoveries.

we would like to thank you, the staff ( manu, ronny, patrick, jean paul, jamel, sasha, younes, michel, elke & brother, jerome, mademoiselles pipi ), the deejays ( fabio beaverhausen, sixsixsixties, aguila ), madame dame, paulo guerreiro for the visuals, light&sound team, sophie from brasserie belle vu, somethingto.com, bioshop, red bull, blender. hope we didn't forget anyone..

thx to aguila for playing this 1989 gem 'black out - phase 1, lil louis' (you know ... from 'french kiss')

already looking forward to the next rollercoaster... www.vicuna.be... 3/12 at recyclart with tim sweeney

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