Popcorn Melodies

In the organizer's words:

Popcorn Melodies is back - for two evenings in a row!

After a long break, you have the rare opportunity to experience veterans and top DJs from the Belgian popcorn scene in Munich.

Popcorn? Belgium?

Spiegel Online: "What seems like a joke is an excavation of a more exciting kind. Popcorn is a genre that emerged in Belgium in the early seventies and owes its name to a club near Antwerp. The club, named after the James Brown song "Mother Popcorn", was a place where well-dressed Belgians came together every Sunday evening to dance to soul, jazz, R&B and ska songs from the fifties and sixties."

The Guardian: "Belgium's 'Popcorn': the last underground music scene in Europe: Antwerp's answer to northern soul has a drowsy, decadent vibe and its DJs favor eclecticism, jive music and playing records at the wrong speed."

At Popcorn Melodies you get the best of rhythm & blues, rock'n'roll, tittyshakers, exotic instrumentals and the ballads notorious for popcorn sound for jiving, strolling, bluesing, jitterbugging and lindy hopping or simply swinging on your ears (and legs).

Compared to comparatively fast rockabilly or northern soul, the popcorn beat has a somewhat slower rhythm, but that doesn't mean that the songs are any less danceable! In order to achieve the right groove, some fast numbers are slowed down a little or ballads dripping with strings and heartache are pitched up. The Belgian DJs use special turntables and pick-up systems for this - a rare insight into the beginnings of club DJ culture - a tip here is to read the book "Last night a DJ saved my life".

On Friday, May 2, "Franky Pop" and "Mika" from the "T.M. Club" and "Le Majestic" (La Louviere) as well as "Bo" from the "Black & White Club" (Tessenderlo), who already caused a sensation at the first Popcorn Melodies, will heat you up at the Muffatcafe . The three have been collecting rare and obscure vinyl records for decades - they are among the masters of their trade. By playing such records in Belgian clubs, the boys are responsible, among other things, for giving old or almost forgotten stars of 60s soul and R&B a second career in Europe, including names such as Tommy Hunt, Nancy Holloway, Maxine Brown, Baby Washington, Don Gardner, Gene Chandler, Dean Parrish and Sidney Barnes.

On Saturday, May 3, there will be another opportunity to listen to ultra-rare, but also extremely danceable sounds of various genres from original single records at the Schwarzer Hahn, alongside reasonably well-known "hits". Locals "The Cat's Pyjamas"(Hit, Git & Split) and "Soul Sunny"(Shoot your Cuffs) and Doo-Wop-Chris(Chills & Fever) will be playing.

As an additional treat live the "Black Valentinos" will heat things up: 3 good dressed gentlemen playin' some Rock'n'Roll with an exotic twist!

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