Softback
Written by Koen Galle
Throughout 326 flyers and many stories from the personal archives of Baby
Bee, Smos and a bunch of friends and fellow DJs, the story of the legendary
duo was recreated.
Smos & Baby Bee were prominently rocking the electronic music scene since
its dawn, shortly after the infamous second summer of love in the UK during
the late 1980s and the rising of a new youth culture, a pivotal point in music
history when under the spell of XTC a large audience became enthralled by
the exciting new style of music coming from American cities such as Detroit
and Chicago. They were DJing all over Belgium and through their genuine
approach and straight forward mentality bringing together scenes from
Brussels, Ghent, Antwerp or Wallonia. They were a DJ duo, a constellation
nowadays well known but at the time truly rare. And not to forget, Baby Bee
was a female acting in a mostly male world.
The visual archive presented in this publication generates an important cache
of a creative culture that has been going through ups and downs, but is still
very much alive and kicking to this very day. The book wishes to
commemorate Smos, who is missed by many and remains in our hearts
forever.
