race to the oven

tired and bored

playlist time:

dopplereffekt - linear acceleration
U-ziq - billious paths
Akufen - Quebec Nightclub
Autechre - Peel Sessions 2001
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - I see good spirits and I see bad spirits
Boyd Rice/ NoN - Terra Incognita
DJ Hell - Muscle
Mates Of State - Team Boo
Drive By Truckers -
Legowelt - Wirtschaftswunder
Sisters Of Mercy - Kiss the Blade
Coil - Love's secret domain

It seems I'm slowly more getting into old noise stuff so any advise on this welcome. Also, I need more 80's waxtrax stuff and since I don't get to be on the internet all that much I don't really have time to seek it out, any advise on this is welcome too. Last... anything Boyd Rice....

Quit stepping on my dreams

She looks like Axl Rose

Tour with Strike Anywhere is over. Too much has happened since my last post and I don't feel like typing a whole lot so in a nutshell: I've seen human suspension, lots of partying, an agent orange show, lots of people I hadn't seen in a long time, Isis, did I already tell about that mastodon show we went to? I don't know.
We are now on our way back to Iowa, 3 more shows and I'll have a couple weeks off before the converge tour starts.

This is not a laptop set

Quick post. All of us came down with the plague at one point or another and a couple days ago it was my turn to get sick as dog. So yesterday I did the only thing there is to do which is drown all germs in hard liquor and besides a serious hangover I seem to be getting better. Chicago always shows me a good time. Three days ago the Mastodon/ Converge tour hit cleveland on the same day as our tour so as soon as we got done we went to see them and arrived just in time to catch Mastodon. Pretty awesome.

This tour is a whole bunch of fun. After this one we got a couple weeks of before we go out with Converge and Some Girls for six weeks.

Playlist:
The Hacker
DJ Skinhead
The Notwist
Miss Kittin

Van Kempen <3 Sjarm13

BAND OF THE WEEK: THE HOLD STEADY

great music, even better lyrics. New album coming out soon and I'm way excited. I don't wanna say to much, dig and find out about this yourself.

Me in CBGB's

Holland kids were thinking this show didn't go off?

Canada

been up in canada last couple days. not much going on... shows are good, parties are good. I bought the Decameron and Tristan which I'm pretty excited about. I'm hungry.

Sitting in the laboratory, conducting experiments

Yesterday I went to go see The White Suicide, the band I was in before this one and they tore off the roof. It restored my faith in music from Holland. After that show my mom and dad took me to the airport.
I flew into Baltimore where I got my first taste of the new van. It's got a couple bonus features that'll make long drives a whole lot more bearable.

Did you know the 9:30 club is huge? I didn't. Strike Anywhere packed it to the brim and killed it. They restored my faith in good punk rock played in front of tons of people. There's a been whole lotta restoring going on last couple days however it won't get me to change my playlist which still has no guitars in it:
Dopplereffekt
Legowelt
Chris Clark
U-ziq
Felix da housecat

Advise me on more good stuff people

Because I'm planning on staying in the US after this tour I brought one suitcase of books. It's kinda nerdy.
Tonight's the CBGB'S show. I'm incredibly siked I get to play this venue before they move to Vegas. I'm also excited about seeing my friend Ellen in NY.

BAND RELATED QUESTION 3

The other day I saw a Primal Scream interview on MTV and their bassplayer looked a hell of a lot like The Stone Roses' bassplayer. Can somebody confirm or deny it's that guy?

BAND OF THE WEEK 3: THE AFGHAN WHIGS

This is one of my favourite bands of all time since about 95 when I saw their set at the Pinkpop festival on TV. Immediatly their raw mix of rock, r&b and soul struck a chord with me and instantly Greg Dulli became my first true rock hero, even more so than sid vicious or kurt cabain ever were. For the next two years or so I was pretty much obsessed with the band and I taped every live set on tv or radio until I got more involved with hardcore and gradually lost touch. I missed the black love album but got back into it briefly when 1966 came out. In 2002 I saw gentlemen in the discount bin and my love for the whigs returned with full force and within a couple days I bought all their albums.
My top 3 would be:
1.gentlemen
2.1966
3.black love
the older work is great too but their last three albums are defenitly the best. Below is a video from one of their songs on the pinkpop fest. I just to watch this shit over and over and over. Watch him smoke while singing.
The second is from a song of the black love album and it's at some german fest after the release of 1966 when the band started getting smoother and smoother. They toured with a huge backing band with back up vocalists, keyboards and horn players. Watch how Greg Dulli gets some punk thrown out, it's awesome. I could talk about this band forever but I don't feel like typing so just sit back and watch.

BAND OF THE WEEK 3: THE AFGHAN WHIGS

This is one of my favourite bands of all time since about 95 when I saw their set at the Pinkpop festival on TV. Immediatly their raw mix of rock, r&b and soul struck a chord with me and instantly Greg Dulli became my first true rock hero, even more so than sid vicious or kurt cabain ever were. For the next two years or so I was pretty much obsessed with the band and I taped every live set on tv or radio until I got more involved with hardcore and gradually lost touch. I missed the black love album but got back into it briefly when 1966 came out. In 2002 I saw gentlemen in the discount bin and my love for the whigs returned with full force and within a couple days I bought all their albums.
My top 3 would be:
1.gentlemen
2.1966
3.black love
the older work is great too but their last three albums are defenitly the best. The video I will post here is from a song of the black love album and it's at some german fest after the release of 1966 when the band started getting smoother and smoother. They toured with a huge backing band with back up vocalists, keyboards and horn players. Watch how Greg Dulli gets some punk thrown out, it's awesome. I could talk about this band forever but I don't feel like typing so just sit back and watch. Make sure you also check out some of their Pinkpop set, it's on youtube.

Mark is awesome...

...and offcourse I already knew he's awesome but every other day he proves it again. So today he got me this, it's awesome:

NEW FEATURE 2: BAND RELATED QUESTIONS THAT KEEP ME UP AT NIGHT

My question about the killers got answered, thank you colin. So it looks like that question marks the birth of a new feature: band related questions that keep me up at night.

So yeah, last night another one popped into my head which kept me up. What the hell is wrong with that guitarist from London Beat, who is that guy? Are London Beat still together or has that guitarist moved on to bigger, better things?

check him out, he's the blond guy:

VISA

Today I got word my visa will be granted. Now I gotta go pick it up at the american embassy which is gonna be a huge pain in the ass plus that's gonna hurt my wallet again. but when it's all taken care of I'll be able to stay on tour for a year straight. it's kinda scary but tours for this fall are gonna be amazing.

Question

do the killers actually have a synth player? If so, why isn't he/she in any of their videos?

BAND OF THE WEEK 2

Sorry I'm a bit behind on this weeks band of the week, I been partying at White Mark's place, London and Sittard last weekend so I hardly been home. On top of that they gave me the night shift at a potatoe factory so I work all night and sleep all day.
This week's band of the week is not actually a band but it's DJ/producer DJ SKINHEAD.
DJ SKINHEAD shook the world in the second half of the nineties with his track Extreme Terror, which was faster and more importantly way loouder than anything that was going on in the hardcore/ gabber scene at that moment. DJ SKINHEAD was an alias for Oliver Chesler, a New Yorker who also produced tracks under aliases such as DJ Cybersnuff, DJ Silence, Horrorist and The Narcanosis but most important is the fact he runs Things To Come Records, one of the most respected techno labels.

Since there's no real video of this song you'll have to do with this video of these two young gabber kids dancing to this song. I recommend listening to the song all the way through, it's brutal as fuck.



Links of interest:
Things To Come Records

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