Lefto Early Bird
also plays Berlin — 1 night
Underneath the warm sun that hangs over Brussels, a tiny three-by-three metre shack pumps out tunes day and night to a dancing crowd of onlookers. LeFtO is at the controls of Kiosk Radio, a perfectly placed wooden hut in the centre of Parc De Bruxelles. “Good day to you all outside the Kiosk, live from the park. Thank you for coming through,” says the soothing voice of LeFtO. The chatroom pings with hundreds of messages from around the globe as the crowds gradually tune in for another session out of leftfield from the Belgian music connoisseur.
Lefto Early Bird fuels a hub of listeners with an appetite for new sounds, week in, week out. Becoming a household name at Kiosk Radio, as well as mainstay station Studio Brussel, LeFtO always has his finger on the pulse. A quick peek at the DJ’s Mixcloud reveals a hearty range of genres - with everything from house to rap to jazz and more. Fusing sounds from Belgium’s melting pot of musical talent with his relentless passion for new sounds, LeFtO has gone on to work with major names and labels including Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings, Blue Note, BBE, Universal Music, SDBAN and many more.
The rest of it — two more paragraphs
Cutting his teeth on jazz and new beat, a genre that moulded the shape of electronic music in 80s Belgium, LeFtO formed his early tastemaker know-how via his dad’s record collection. “My father mostly played jazz at home, he had a serious collection which I still own myself. I was probably 14 years old when I asked him for money to buy some records,” he says. “With a certain pride, most of what I liked was made in Belgium”. More a selector than anything else, LeFtO continues Belgium’s tireless musical legacy through his extensive palate, brimming with flavour.
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Records out on Universal Music, !K7, BBE, Brownswood Recordings and Blue Note. — their own list on Resident Advisor
The nights
10 listings across 9 nights — one date in August 2026 carries two listings, and both are here.
2026
- Sat 3 OctBossa Nova Civic Clubfirst time · No Vista, Photogénique Records
- Fri 7 AugElsewherefirst time
- Fri 7 AugElsewherefirst time · Darker Than Wax
- Sat 18 AprGood Roomtheir 2nd night · Kiosk Radio, The Lot Radio
2025 — 1 night
- Fri 7 Feb 2025public recordstheir 3rd night
2024 — 3 nights
- Sun 13 Oct 2024public recordstheir 2nd night
- Thu 6 Jun 2024Good Roomfirst time · Darker Than Wax
- Sat 27 Apr 2024Black Flamingotheir 2nd night
2023 — 2 nights
- Fri 15 Sep 2023Black Flamingofirst time · Darker Than Wax
- Sat 9 Sep 2023public recordsfirst time
Their rooms
One tick a night, on the one axis this page has — Aug 2023, where the listings start, to Jan 2027, the last night anybody has announced. The shaded end has not happened yet.
- public recordsSep 2023 – Feb 20253 nights
- Good RoomJun 2024 – Apr 20262 nights
- Black FlamingoSep 2023 – Apr 20242 nights
Once each: Bossa Nova Civic Club and Elsewhere.
Who they play with
Counted from the bills themselves, over bills of twelve names or fewer. A pair's count includes a night that is announced and not yet played; where there is one, the row says when.
- Marco WeibelBlack Flamingo ×2, Elsewhere ×2, and 2 more rooms · Sep 2023 – Aug 20265 nights
The nights, the rooms and the bills are the listings themselves. The biography and the labels are Resident Advisor's. Nothing on this page was written for it.