SAM de clercq
Sam De Clercq is a Brussels-based musician and artist, creating Musically through various projects (bontridders, brorlab & Félicette) and creating visual works under their own name.
On this site, you can find more info on me and my different projects. If you want to book me with any of these projects, you can do so through the email button in the top-right of this website.
bontridders
bontridders
bontridders is my solo electronic music project, in which I aspire to subvert certain pop conventions. I was one of the winners of Absolutely Free Festival’s “TRAP HET AFF!” 2022 contest.
In 2024 I played at The Sound Of The Belgian Underground at Ancienne Belgique and Listen Festival at Botanique Brussels.
brorlab
brorlab
I’m the vocalist of Brorlab, my drumcomputerband together with Rafael Valles Hilario (Tuff Guac, Moar) and Casper de Geus (vlerk, Moar, Milk TV).
We’ve released our first, self-titled EP on Dennis Tyfus’ Ultra Eczema label. In September 2023 we released our second record, Working Out In Heaven, on UK label La Vida Es Un Mus.
Félicette
Félicette
Félicette is a project I started in 2023. It's focused around sound experiments and connecting nostalgia to certain physical media and objects. It's parts turntablism, parts intimate ambient songs with small chants.
I released a self-titled EP on labels Toverberg, White Garden and Mostly Interrupted in May 2024.
KOTSKAT & CROP TOP CORE
KOTSKAT & CROP TOP CORE
The two other project I play in are called Kotskat and Crop Top Core.
Kotskat is a no wave punkband with lyrics written by and fronted by Ronny Rens (Ronny Rex & Mostly Interrupted labels), Casper de Geus (vlerk, Moar, Milk TV) on bass, Nele Janssen (Peuk, Head on Stone) and me on drums.
Crop Top Core is a gabber/free jazz improv band together with Casper Van de Velde (Schntzl, Simba, Bombataz), Alan Van Rompuy (Azertyklavierwerke, Vieze Meisje) and Sylvain Haenen (Fievel Is Glauque).
SAM DE CLERCQ
SAM DE CLERCQ
Under my own name I have made video work: animated as well as fictive, mostly during my studies at Luca School of Arts Brussels. Some have resulted in video clips (for example Frankie Traandruppel’s Life Inside a Rocket). My stop motion short film MAGPIE, MAGPIE (2020) made the SCUM 2022 official selection.