sunday evenin’ tunes – Creature With The Atom Brain : Is That Lady Sniff

Just cause it’s a great band

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finally

Finally home for a longer period. Obviously I hope to cash in on this time but there is so much to do:

blog a bit
cleaning (a lot of cleaning to do since I skipped this years big spring clean up)
reading (still have over 10 books lying around in different phases of being read)
visiting (not only the [...]

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Wannes

A great loss …

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sunday-at-noon tunes – dance kick off

Over the last decades some great dance hits were made, some with an eerie quality to them. Some get their freakiness from their sound, others from their videoclip, some from both.
Here are some pearls:
CJ Boland (featuring Jade4U) – Sugar Is Sweeter (1996):

Aphex Twin – Come To Daddy (1997)
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openwervendag2008 – Bell

Yesterday some construction sites in Belgium where open to a public visit. As I once spent a large part of my day there, I decided to visit the site of Bell, the old Alcatel Bell site in the south of Antwerp.
After the company’s relocation to the center of the city behind the central station, the [...]

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ultimate game

Im memoriam of Gary Gygax, of Dungeons & Dragons fame.

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collecting images

This afternoon I went to the Antwerp Provincial Museum of Photography. The main purpose was to watch the memorial exhibit of Patrick De Spiegelaere. As expected there was a crowd to see the exhibition, but it was worth it.
On the top floor there is a new kind of exhibition around portraits called FACE ON. In [...]

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sunday afternoon tunes – heavy thrash

Last friday I went to Het Depot in Leuven to watch the incredible Jon Spencer with his new band Heavy Thrash (myspace) together with miss and mister Boogaloo.
The support act for the evening were The Sadies (myspace) who also doubled as background band for Heavy Thrash.
First of all, Het Depot is a great room to [...]

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sunday afternoon tunes – beirut

Beirut is at the moment in the middle of the spotlights, but this does not mean there isn’t still a huge potential in these guys. Filled to the brim with talent and good taste it is worth trying them out.
End of last year they released their new album ” The Flying Club Cup” for which [...]

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sunday afternoon tunes – Das EFX ‘92-’93

In 1993 Das EFX released the album “Straight Up Sewaside”. It was not really the most sought after hip hop album of the year. Nor were they the best hiphop act or really very popular. But they managed to get everything typical for hip hop in that period together in a good mix:
Jazzy beats, toasting [...]

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sunday afternoon tunes – the sonics

From 1960 till 1968 The Sonics played a big role in what would become the garage/rockabilly/punk scene. Nearly every second song of theirs is now either a known hit single or a cult hit.
In the eighties there was a real revival thanks to The Fuzztones who ended each of their shows with a set of [...]

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fast years

This year-end came rather sudden for me. Most years you feel the winter period, Christmas and New year creeping up to you and slowly manifesting itself in several forms.
This year however all of a sudden temperatures dropped below zero, rather unexpectedly. Next I had a bunch of appointments and when they were over my working [...]

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sunday afternoon tunes – victims family

Great band, great songs, genial music, fantastic musicians.
I assume it is obvious I am a big fan of theirs.
I was also so lucky as to meet them several times in the flesh and I can assure you, these guys are really nice! Their atitude and social skills increase the “awesome”-factor multi-fold. This is one hell [...]

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sunday afternoon tunes – hithouse – jack to the sound of the underground

Back in 1989 this turned up in clubs and on radio :

The amazing thing was not that is was a mix of popular tunes at that time. After all that’s what jack mixing was all about. The trick was that Peter Slaghuis was a popular producer who managed to produce a [...]

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sunday brunch tunes – The B-52’s

From the first song I heard they got me caught. I still remember hearing “52 Girls” for the first time somewhere around 1982.
Actually, nearly every song The B-52’s made up ’till 1989 (Cosmic Thing) was a classic. Some of the songs in Good Stuff also got them some chart hits.
And now time for some music [...]

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