W.A.T. live at Pandora's Music Box (1983, NL, new wave) 
Saturday, January 27, 2007, 11:27 AM - Music, - NL, English
W.A.T. (from World According To) were a Dutch trio based on sequencers, slide guitar and a thin female voice.
Ad van Meurs: guitar, voice
Ankie Keultjes: synthesizer, voice
Frank Van Nieuwenhof: bass guitar



They played on Pandora's Music Box, a new wave festival in de Doelen in Rotterdam, 2-3-4 September 1983. A lot of new wave acts played there and a lot is broadcasted on Dutch public radio
(and I taped it):
Siouxsie & Banshees, W.A.T., Durutti Column, Die Haut (& Nick Cave), Howard Devoto, S.P.K., The Box, Peter Hammill, Skeleton Crew, Jah Wobble, Spear of Destiny, Clock DVA, Armoury Show, Kowalsky, Danse Society, Fad Gadget, TC Matic.

In 1984 the festival was organized again. I don't have recordings of that edition.


De Doelen, Rotterdam

1 - Art Lovers [4:52]
2 - Defreeze [4:01]

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Today, Thursday January 25, 20h30, Theater Kikker, Utrecht, NL 
Thursday, January 25, 2007, 01:10 AM - Music, - NL, English
ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC FILMS WEILAND, BRUYNÈL, BADINGS
LUISTEREN! in Kikker Cinemuze/Krachtstroom
Theater Kikker, Ganzenmarkt 14, 3512 GD Utrecht
Thursday January 25, 20h30
an evening with films and a lecture by Frits Weiland

Ton Bruynèl/Bert Schierbeek/Fred van Dijk - video opera "Non sono un uccello", on the history of flying, 1998

James Whitney/Henk Badings - "Yantra", an abstract film with music from Badings' "Kaïn en Abel", 1957

Frits Weiland will give a lecture on the history of the Institute of Sonology and on his own films, followed by a screening of recently digitised versions of his films:
Frits Weiland - Begleitsmusik zu einer Lichtspielszene (inspired by Arnold Schönberg) 1975
Frits Weiland - Filmproject 1 (on the relation of sound and image) 1969
Frits Weiland - Filmproject 2 (on the relation of sound and image) 1975

This program came about with the help of NEAR and Donemus' media library.

For more information and reservations:
http://www.theaterkikker.nl
http://www.theaterkikker.nl/muziekagenda.php

http://www.donemus.nl/near/nieuws.php#item488



Ton Bruynèl:
http://www.donemus.nl/componist.php?zkn ... mp;lang=EN

Henk Badings:
http://www.donemus.nl/componist.php?id= ... mp;lang=EN
http://www.bastamusic.com/productDetail ... aaijmakers

Institute of Sonology:
http://www.sonology.org/



Non sono un uccello and Filmproject 2 were very good.

I hereby share two soundtracks: Non sono un uccello (part of 6 cd box Ton Bruynèl - Looking ears complete) and Kain en Abel (Henk Badings, part of 4 cd box Popular Electronics). Available at NEAR/Donemus and Basta.

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Anthology of Dutch Electronic Tape Music Volume 2 (1966-1977, NL, electronic) 
Sunday, January 7, 2007, 07:28 PM - Music, - NL, English
This double-lp is volume 2 of Anthology of Dutch Electronic Tape Music. I posted Volume 1 (1955-1966) last week.
If aliens invade the earth, they will not understand Grunge, Trance or Gangsta, but this they will.



This lp and volume 1 are re-issued on cd (the recordings are grabbed from lp).
They where available at Raash Records.

UPDATE: Basta made these recordings available again on official cd re-releases in much better quality, direct from master tape: http://www.bastamusic.com/.

Side one [23:38]:
1 Jacob Cats - Cadence-I [6:10]
2 Tera de Marez Oyens - Safed [7:33]
3 Jos Kunst - Exterieur [9:39]

Side two [25:39]:
1 Gilius van Bergeijk - D.E.S. [7:46]
2 Frans van Doorn - Minnuet [9:05]
3 Thomas Arras - A.B.C. [8:33]

Side three [29:00]:
1 Simeon ten Holt - I am Sylvia [15:30]
2 Victor Wentink - Discours [13:20]

Side four [24:16]:
1 Louis Andriessen - In Memoriam [5:06]
2 Peter Smith - Etude-1 [8:58]
3 Tony van Campen - Sintering [9:55]

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Voltage-control studio (BEA 5), Institute of Sonology, The Hague.
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Anthology of Dutch Electronic Tape Music Volume 1 (1955-1966, NL, electronic) 
Wednesday, December 27, 2006, 06:39 PM - Music, - NL, English
This double album was released by Donemus and intended (I think) to be spread amongst university libraries. Donemus doesn't publish electro acoustic music anymore, NEAR (Nederlands Elektro-Akoestisch Repertoirecentrum) took that over. But their distribution was so bad, they left that to Basta Music.
The recordings were made in several Dutch electronic studios of the Netherlands Radio Union (NRU), Delft Technical and Utrecht University, Philips and CEM Bilthoven.
Dick Raaijmakers wrote the textbook.



This lp is re-issued on cd (the recordings are grabbed from lp). It was available at Mimaroglu Music Sales but I couldn't find it on their website anymore.

UPDATE: Basta made these recordings available again on official cd re-releases in much better quality, direct from master tape: http://www.bastamusic.com/.

Next week I post Volume 2 (1966-1977).

Side one [28:17]:
1 Hans Kox - Three Pieces for electronic organ [3:48]
2 Ton de Leeuw - Study [6:47]
3 Jan Boerman - Musique concrète [3:04]
4 Jaap Spek - Impulses [7:58]
5 Rudolf Escher - The Long Christmas Dinner [6:15]

Side two [29:22]:
1 Henk Badings - Cain and Abel [8:57]
2 Dick Raaijmakers - Piano-forte [4:56]
3 Ton de Leeuw - Antiphonic [15:17]

Side three [27:31]:
1 Frits Weiland - Study in Layers and Pulses [4:46]
2 Hans Kox - Cyclophony III [7:33]
3 Tom Dissevelt - Gamelan [3:05]
4 Axel Meijer - Werkstuk-1964 [2:32]
5 Robert Jan de Neeve - A.F. [1:17]
6 Peter Schat - The Aleph [7:46]

Side four [27:50]:
1 Ton Bruynèl - Reflexes [4:34]
2 Will Eisma - BTH. 3457 [4:08]
3 Klaus Gorter - K45 [5:40]
4 Luctor Ponse - Etude-1 [6:19]
5 Berend Giltay - Polchromie-I [6:42]

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Bilthoven studio 1964: from left to right: Klaus Gorter, G.M. Koenig (sitting) and Jaap Vink.
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A Flux in 3d - Divide (NL, 1982, electronic/new wave) 
Thursday, December 21, 2006, 04:35 PM - Music, - NL, English
I think I now have found all the Vinyl flexi-disks I have. I didn't post them all, some are not really worth it. But this one is ok. The singer liked Alan Vega, I suppose. The instruments are sequencers and distorted guitar.



A Flux in 3d came from Nuenen, near Eindhoven and lived in the same house (squat?) as the members of Nasmak.



Milko Bogaard: voice, synthesizer, guitar, tapes
Ankie Keultjes: synthesizer, sequencer
Kevin Kearny: bass, synthesizer

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Mekanik Kommando - ~~~~~~~ ++/+- (1981, NL, electronic/new wave) 
Tuesday, December 5, 2006, 06:55 PM - Music, - NL, English
Dutch band from Nijmegen. Although I lived in Nijmegen at that time, I managed never to see them. This was a free flexi-disc that came with the first issue of the Dutch modern music magazine 'Vinyl'.



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See also my other Vinyl flexi-discs posts:
Fad Gadget - Untitled (1983, UK, electronic/new wave)
The Danse Society - My heart missed another beat (1982, UK, electronic/gothic)
Chris and Cosey - Night Shift (1982, UK, electronic)
Soviet Sex - Tokyo (1981-1997, NL, electronic/punk rock)
A Flux in 3d - Divide (1982, NL, electronic/new wave)

Signal(s) (1981, NL, new wave) 
Monday, December 4, 2006, 06:00 PM - Music, - NL, English
Flexi from Dutch Vinyl magazine issue 2.
Signal(s) came from the south of the Netherlands (Maastricht, Eindhoven).
The music is, Joy Division like, Doom.



On a French web site they ask 30€ for a copy. Here you can get it for free!

Frank van de Tillaard: vocals, guitar
Hans Nijssen: synthesizer, tapes
Hay Bedaux: bass
Jaques van Erven: drums, vocals, tapes



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