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you can vote now for the top 100 of best dutch pop albums ever… one of the selected albums that you can chose is clan of xymox…

it’s classic EBM time! this weekend I obtained a large bag filled with classic cd’s by the likes of skinny puppy, cabaret voltaire, front 242, frontline assembly & various related projects. price: 1 euro each! not a bad price to fill some essential gaps in my collection…

did you know… that the world’s first radioshow was probably broadcasted in the netherlands on november 6, 1919? on the menu were evergreens like ‘ave maria’, ‘carmen’, ‘le barbier de seville’ and some dutch hits of that time, with titles as ‘een meisje om nooit te vergeten’ en ‘turf in je ransel’ . the show […]

watch out for flying sheep when visiting metal concerts!“A flying sheep’s head hit a concertgoer and fractured his skull at a concert of metal band Mayhem. The band, part of Norway’s death metal music scene, was carving up a dead sheep as part of its stage act when the animal’s head flew off lead singer […]

i always have a respect for solo musicians who dare to encounter their audience armed with nothing than their voice and a guitar… yesterday i saw michael gira, former front man of the swans, perform in the small upper room of paradiso, amsterdam… and it was an impressive and intense experience, not just laidback listening […]

just listened to Radio Heimdallr with a session of Sleeping Pictures. sounds really nice!

do you want to discover some new music? then go to the nice Axess Code mp3-page, with both well-known acts and new talent, mostly french artists, from harsh industrial to soft neo-classical…

saw an entertaining item in a sports tv program this week: a special about songs dealing with football (or soccer for the americans). with of course evergreens like ‘you’ll never walk alone’, but also more indie favourites like new order (‘world in motion’ and even the fall (‘the kicker’), and my favourite dutch footballsong: ‘naar […]

bryan of velvet acid christ in a rant on his website: ‘DJs, please start making “alternative nights”, throw this seperation out. Play industrial, 80s, goth, ebm, future pop, and all the alternative dance stuff on one night. Have it be a ladies night, free drinks, get normal people in, and goths, and rivetheads all in […]

obtained the classic compilation ‘deepnet’, released by side effects, an exemplary dark ambient sampler…

my sister found an old tape in her house, that I must have forgotten years ago. it taught me two things: the music of this mortal coil is of a timeless quality, and I should take a look at my old tapes more often…

on ebay i was bidding on an old siglo xx cd, but $51,00 was way above my budget. apparently it was relatively cheap though, an sa 42 mcd was sold for 101 euro, while a front 242 bootleg 7” fetched $153.50 and the first apoptygma bezerk 12” reached $181.48…

visited a nice party this weekend called ‘night of the rings’. of course trying to profit from the recent fantasy hype, but still a nice concept: celtic, medieval, (neo-)folk and film music, with fantasy video’s playing on big screens…

nice to see Soft Cell at the BBC show TOTP2, with Marc Almond wearing a great hairy outfit and performing two songs: the classic ‘Torch’ and the new single ‘The Night’, which the band already released in 1981, but at that time they chose to record ‘Tainted Love’ instead…

a persistent rumour in internet newsgroups is that boyd rice was found dead under mysterious circumstances. boyd confirmed this himself:“I *am* dead. I was ritualistically murdered in my denver home. To all my fans and those left behind, I wish a ghostly ‘goodbye’. – boyd “

J. Perkin, a singer-songwriter from Utrecht, is tired of people talking during his concerts. therefore he now gives a headphone concert, where each visitor gets a personal wireless headphone to listen to the performance… and there is even an afterparty… (dutch info)

ebay madness: a rare aphex twin lp, ‘analogue bubblebath5’, sold for $1,795.00…

now that’s what i call a nice offer: for 5,95 i bought a box with the first three kim wilde cd’s ;-) and for 2,95 a double cd with hits from the 20 year history of the U4 disco in vienna, including the normal, daf, fad gadget, soft cell, liaisons dangereuses, depeche mode… (but also […]

obtained a compilation today that was high on my wishlist: ‘vhutemas archetypi’, with classic tracks by laibach, huntung lodge, spk, gerechtigkeits liga and lustmord.

now playing: Krzysztof Penderecki – Stabat Mater. classical music won’t get much more frightening than this…