Patrick Delbaere
GOWAX / GROOVEYARD
📍 Antwerp, Belgium | 📧 Booking: gowax46@gmail.com
GOWAX is a veteran of the Belgian underground with a 40-year legacy behind the decks. While his career spans multiple pivotal eras of electronic music, the last decade has seen him fully locked into the pulse of modern dark alternative dance music.
Operating under two distinct sonic identities, he seamlessly bridges current dancefloor energy with deep subcultural roots:
🎧 GOWAX (Dark Electronics / Industrial Techno / EBM / Metal Crossover)
His primary contemporary focus—both behind the decks and in the studio. Influenced by the gritty, industrial '80s "Liaisons Dangereuses" energy and a lifelong love for heavy underground rock and metal (Helmet, KONG, Urban Dance Squad), Gowax delivers heavy, hypnotic sets and original tracks. Expect a driving, detuned blend of Dark Disco, Electronic Body Music (EBM), Industrial Techno, New Beat, and Electro Wave. It’s electronic body music with a heavy rock-infused attitude—built by a DJ who is a dancer at heart.
🎛️ THE STUDIO EVOLUTION (Access Virus TI Archives x Modern Tech)
Alongside his DJ sets, Gowax is actively producing new tracks by digging into his 10-year-old personal archive of raw Access Virus TI hardware recordings from his psytrance studio era. Using modern production platforms and AI-assisted tools (BandLab / Suno) as his contemporary studio partner, he mutates those classic, sharp hardware frequencies into heavy EBM, industrial techno, and metal-infused club tracks.
đź•ş GROOVEYARD (Eclectic Classics & Mashups)
His monthly residency project at Cafe Des Arts (Berchem). Every third Saturday of the month, he digs into his vast, multi-decade archive to spin an eclectic, open-format mashup of New Wave, eighties classics, funk, world beat, ragga, metal and indie dance—programming anything that feels right to move the floor.
The Heritage:
Before channeling the darker side of electronic wave, Gowax was an influential force across generations of Belgium's club culture. From early residencies at The Hump and The Grooveyard (as DJ Floorwax) sharing line-ups with icons like Smos & Baby B and DEG, to filling main rooms at Red & Blue, La Rocca and Café d’Anvers. In the late '90s and 2000s, he became a pioneer of Belgium’s first Goa and psy-trance waves, holding a residency at the legendary Dance-A-Delic festivals and logging over 1,000 studio hours co-producing tracks with Tom Moons and Tikki Masala (with whom he still curates the world-infused Ethnology mix series).
Forty years of evolution. One constant energy. See you on the dancefloor.
REFERENCE FESTIVALS AND PARTIES
• The Hump (Resident)
• Grooveyard (Resident)
• Red and Blue (Resident)
• Cartiers (Resident)
• Sun Trance Parties (Resident)
• Dance-A-Delic Open Air Festivals (Resident)
• DAD Parties Lier / TRIX / Vilvoorde
• City Parade Luik (Dance-A-Delic Truck)
• Agimont Castle Parties (Resident)
• Old is Gold 5/10
• Trance Dimensions (Resident)
• Sunda Sunda (La Rocca)
• Tribal Roots Parties (feat. Astral Projection, Man With No Name, Etnica, Pleiadians, Electric Universe...)
• Goametric 1/2/3...
• Café D'Anvers (120 Years of Pure Pleasure)
• Kuff Kuff Caplette / Charlatan (22-23)
• Space Safari Festival (21/22)
• Dark Disco Parties Indoor / Open Air (2018-25 Curator)
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