Angst - Lies on 45 (C-30 cassette)

A-01 - Direct Destruction (Special Disco Mix)
A-02 - Direct Destruction
A-03 - Disco Ding
A-04 - Who Programs You?
B-01 - Danslokatie 2
B-02 - De Afval
B-03 - Braak Terrein
B-04 - Navo Lied II
B-05 - Goodbye

"Lies on 45" was released by Angst in 1983 as GBC 13. "GBC" stands for Gezonde Boerse Copulaties (Healthy Boorish Copulations), it was a label by Erik Vloeberghs.

Some other GBC releases not served on this podcast are:
GBC 06 - TNA - Hei Jullie! (C-90 by another alter-ego of Erik Vloeberghs)
GBC 08 - De Weg naar de Hel - Angst & Danny Van Looy (C-90 with poetry readings and sound collages)
GBC 09 - Molensteen - Madam Desmet (C-46 with literary ramblings of a local visionary)
GBC 10 - Koning Der God! - Angst (C-60 with Live recordings)
GBC 12 - De Heistse Zotten (C-60 compilation with LEISD, The Parts, E.Coli, Dansgroep De Knol, Angst, KCN and Johnny Hitparade)

Apart from music production, Erik Vloeberghs als published several stenciled and xeroxed books from 1983 onwards, however none of them in english.

"Lies on 45" continues in unequalled Angst style and delivers another batch of fine samples of synthesizer drones, sound collages and monotone vocal rantings.

"New Uranium Age" (from Force Mental 6)
the vile common divisor sad result 16 births no deaths knowing un-knowing dead maybe valium the dreamt alternative the sun doesn't shine anymore "our tune got lost" in ecstasy by misery in secstasy by serpent smell 1983 world war three can start at last nasal voice these anti-social cases give a misleading vision loving life without problem serpent smell gives to sneezing also sexual criminal "why aren't you on the first bus?" and now our uranium package broken waiting in the rain for a miscarriage hope to those christians much more interesting to see nothing no reconnection no red line satisfied after life That Question "our tune got lost" now fall apart in hundreds of small sects of unbelieving religion for the walls who really don't listen menstruating nuns accused this is a case of religious perversity the accuser said road across in deaf burr language our continuing speech defect penises towards girls laughing kind approaching with your disseminating lies talk from the same barrel "dear darling" we know that a handful of life stinks like pest "thank god, god does exist!" this little powerful science belied crawl out of the reton bucket "check the damage" the girls pretty and youth young my mind again propped with a body gods hate why put the blame on insane the end was not very promising not die like in films that there is no sanctuary not to tell anyone "our tune got lost" new uranium age cancer balls for breakfast pretty is the world indifferent talking not to the point still good there are idealists.
(translation: Danny Van Looy)

Augusto Klamm - Poisonous Fragrances (C-60 cassette)

A-01 - Poisonous Fragrances
B-01 - Thriller
B-02 - New Super Detergent
B-03 - Monologue
B-04 - Enemy
B-05 - Fanfare
B-06 - Machines 1, 2, 3, 4
B-07 - Primitive Cut

"Poisonous Fragrances" was the first and only release by Augusto Klamm (real name is Serge Decraemer) on his own label "The Careerists" A few copies exist with ink smearings and handwritten titles on the cover, the Club Moral release has a plain xerox cover. The recordings were made in 1982-83, the tape was released in late 1983.

All the tracks were recorded in Augusto Klamm's apartment in a HLM building in Jette (a Brussels suburb) where he lived with his mother. No instruments were used, only a (broken) microphone, feedback noise and some shortwave radio sounds. The A-side is actually a collection of bits and pieces, selected and cut into a long diary-type track. Side B has distinct separate tracks.
This tape is a very rare pioneer work from this outsider artist. Augusto Klamm has never been involved with any other music production, never played live, although he was an avid follower of the Belgian Noise scene. Yet these recording bear a hard to find kind of originality and unique music creation. With a minimum of equipment "Poisonous Fragrances" manages to create a gripping sound atmosphere.

A review from "Open System Project" magazine n°6 / mars avril 84.
"bruitage industriel à haut niveau de saturation, voix méconnaissables et torturées, agonie sonore, fracas de ferraille sur fond de crissements atridents."

This tape has previously been posted on the excellent "Mutant Sounds" blog.

Augusto Klamm also appears on Club Moral's "19 Keys/19 Bands" compilation, forthcoming on this stocklist.

The Firing Squad - Pig and Face (C-60 cassette)

A-01 - Bloodbrother
A-02 - Homosexuals
A-03 - Salvation
A-04 - War Zombie
A-05 - All Praise the Poison God
B-01 - Popstars
B-02 - ?
B-03 - Slow Death in the Parents House
B-04 - Control Habit
B-05 - T.V. Christians
B-06 - This Body 'Christ'
B-07 - America

"Pig and Face" was released in 1983 as GBC 11. "GBC" stands for Gezonde Boerse Copulaties (Healthy Boorish Copulations), it was a label by Erik Vloeberghs.

"The Firing Squad" was a one-time recording project with Erik Vloeberghs on vocals and probably some 'Kwajongens in Bloei' on instruments. They never played live except for once when they were supposed to play but the guitarist got involved in a serious car accident. "Pig and Face" was the first in a series of projects where Vloeberghs attempted to make popular music with his own ingredients. A second notable attempt was "The Parts", on which we'll report in a forthcoming episode of our stocklist.
Nothing further is known about "The Firing Squad", and the free lyric booklet that is mentioned on the cassette cover presumably never existed.

Therefore.... some google results for "Pig and Face":
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"Fuck for a black pig and face well legs for fucking hard of lingerie. Outdoor huge nice sex with a porn. If her brunette man not mature great beauties, hot deep with dicks and black to the full porn to face up on the tits behind, lacey treated hardcore and star, asian goods and pictures. Couple up her hardcore glorious porn star lacey to wet your hardcore lacey at star. Two highlights having wax porn in a sure porn. Down old fucked lacey gives her huge porn on a big action. Movies have always been very hot lacey with each porn."

Angst - Greatest Hits (C-90 cassette)

A-01 - G.I.
A-02 - Active & Passive Sodomy
A-03 - Fuck Man Music
A-04 - Angst Disco Show
A-05 - (Everybody Needs) A Lover (Lalala Tralala)
A-06 - White Hell
A-07 - Good People (Where?)
A-08 - God Is A Disease
A-09 - Jules & Marie
A-10 - All Cops
A-11 - There Is A God (But Where?)
A-12 - MO Soldiers To Hell
A-13 - Sex With Mussels
A-14 - Predictor
A-15 - Do You Wish To Die? (Swimming In Shit & Smiling To The Photographer)
B-01 - Wespelaar-Centrum
B-02 - Luc
B-03 - The Boss Is Ill (Who Runs This Joint?)
B-04 - Rabies (Hydrophobia)
B-05 - Rocket Cross (We All Stink)
B-06 - To DOR SS Inspector
B-07 - Be Hostile (Don't Smile)
B-08 - Argentina Is OK! (Death Control)
B-09 - Pushed In The Dirt (I Feel Fine)
B-10 - Follow Me (To Hell)
B-11 - (This Year) No Problems
B-12 - Everything's Always Wrong
B-13 - Love Dries Like Shit
B-14 - Hello Yes
B-15 - Cancer (Me Too)

"Greatest Hits" was released in 1983 as GBC 07. "GBC" stands for Gezonde Boerse Copulaties (Healthy Boorish Copulations), was a label by Erik Vloeberghs, successor of his previous label "ZZ".

"Greatest Hits" contains the best from earlier tapes "Live" and "De Witte Villa" on the previous lable ZZ ZZZ as well as some unreleased older and new tracks. "Very diverse and humerous. Pieces à la Come Org. (Rabies) to disco-stampers (Angst Disco Show). A must for anybody who hates Henk Van der Meyden.
Take special notice of the track "Rabies (Hydrophobia)", it starts off with a Frankenstein-type Iron Man figure climbing up the stairs (to Vloeberghs' room?). Upon entering the room a harsh noise track takes over and mangles the Iron Man with lots of distortion. This is one of the best noise tracks ever produced, an aural picture of pure motiveless violence turning into triumph over its own destruction. The track abruptly ends when Vloeberghs' dad enters the room. This is the conversation that follows: "Are you making everything crazy here or what is this? Is it that loud? I'll stop then. Is it loud? Stop with that. I don't hear it when it's loud. You don't hear it? You should go see a doctor then, it's urgent. Go to Vietnam or go wherever you want, what is this?. Well."

Beste Godelieve en Herman,
Heel hartelijk gefeliciteerd met de geboorte van de kleine Erik. Wat moeten jullie toch gelukkig zijn met dat "stukste hemel" erbij. Om dat kleine letsel gaan jullie toch niet ongerust zijn, zeker? Zoiets komt toch gauw in orde, dat hebben jullie bij Marcske al ondervonden. Is de kleine Erik nu al thuis? En, nog steeds zo'n braaf ventje? Is Marcske ook blij, of beseft hij nog niet wat een broertje betekent? Wij hopen dat Erik ook zo'n flink ventje mag worden als Marc en dat hij z'n ouders heel, heel veel geluk mag schenken. Het beloofde bezoek zal, nu natuurlijk met vertraging, toch doorgaan. Mogen we jullie vragen iets te laten weten van de tijd waarop ons bezoek best zou passen?
Nog eens, Godelieve en Herman, van ons allebei een
(uit "Kom in het Huis van God - Een boekje voor de Moeders" door GOD zelf)

Various Artists - Equinox Event (C-90 cassette + A5-booklet)

A-01 - Ramleh - Return to Slavery
A-02 - Ramleh - Ramleh
A-03 - Dogs Blood Order - Cease to Exist)
A-04 - Death and Beauty Foundation - Speech
A-05 - Death and Beauty Foundation - Whore of Babylon Parts 1 & 2
A-06 - Jill Westwood - Music for Performance
A-07 - Ake - Rape
B-01 - Pure - Ripped Out of the World
B-02 - Krank
B-03 - Club Moral - Exces Kontrol
B-04 - Club Moral - Pinta
B-05 - Club Moral - Buig Nooit en Buig voor Niemand
B-06 - Club Moral - Jack the Ripper in Heaven

The "Equinox Event" was the first major UK/European extreme noise music festival. It was organised by Mary Dowd and ProduKtion on 21 june 1983 at the Musicians' Co-op in London, United Kingdom.
There were a whole bunch of bands scheduled to play, and the event was widely publicised in quite a few noise music magazines at the time. Many die-hard fans from all over the UK, Germany, France, Holland flocked to London to witness it. However, lack of organisation skills and money caused some bands to fail for appearance. Etat Brut only played 'hit and run' concert that would allow them to drive up, play, and drive back to Brussels the same night. A 4-hour ferry crossing was not an option. V-Side, barely surviving in their Gent quarters had no funding at all to travel. So that left only Club Moral to represent the mainland.
As mentioned in the previous episode of our podcast, the Equinox Event was initiated with an exhibition by AMVK and performance by Club Moral at ProduKtion-HAIR on 20 june 1983.
We spent a whole week in Mary Dowd's basement apartment, where every room including the kitchen and even the refrigerator was painted in black. Every day we went out it was as if came out of a nightclub, the only living being that supposedly survived there, apart from Mary Dowd, was a huge dog, living on a can of tinned food a day.
The Equinox Event. Well it looked a lot like a Wasp synthesizer event, since almost every band was using one. And yes, the Equinox Event attracted quite some strange folk. While most of you probably weren't even born, spending some innocent youth in the country, or hey, daring the first steps of a certain punk attitude, these bands were proclaiming violence, perverted sex, torture and wicked magick. But on the other hand there were also 15-year-old Philip Best, experimenting with beer and a shortwave radio, William Bennett, experimenting with more beer and pseudo-political activism, and Steven Stapleton aka "Nurse With Wound", experimenting with even more beer. The "Mystery Guest band" announced on the flyer were to be Whitehouse. They couldn't be named on the flyer because they were 'banned' at the Musicians' Co-op. Supposedly Best was dumped by Mary Dowd in an unsatisfying love affair, subsequently he joined Whitehouse and wrote "Tit Pulp" (dedicated to Mary Dowd), and so both were banned from the Equinox Event. Best nevertheless got lively once in a while whining and screaming "Disco Shit!" (see also our "White Power" podcast episode), Bennett might have thrown an empty beer-bottle towards the stage (but there is no evidence of that), and Stapleton got into an argument with a drunken fellow who pulled out his private parts at a certain point and started pissing all over the place, including Steven's pants. All three were not ready for that kind of Aktionism, so they soon turned their heels to the Musicians' Co-op and headed for the bar across the street to rant further on.
The Equinox Event nevertheless continued. I remember (the late) Ross Cannon having a chair cracked on his head, and using another chair to wear off more bottles while we played, but yes, the mood was on. Ramleh performed their classic "Return to Slavery", Dogs Blood Order happened to be the first performance of what later would be Current 93 (on this occasion with David Tibet, John Murphy and Roger Smith - their track was later renamed "Maldoror Ceases to Exist"), the Death and Beauty Foundation delivered quite a speech and Jill Westwood presented and early performance piece in chains. Ake set the standard with "Rape" and Pure continued to "Rip Out of the World". Krank aka John Murphy performed an agonising soundscape and finally Club Moral set out some stunning versions of "Exces Kontrol", "Pinta", "Buig Nooit en Buig voor Niemand" and "Jack the Ripper" (while AMVK played the organ, DDV placed an axe in the Musicians' Co-op's floor and left the stage, marking the end of the Equinox Event) finalising "In Heaven".
Throughout the recording you can hear the occasional bottle flying through the air, some serious arguments going on with members of the audience, and over & over again Ross Cannon throwing off would-be offenders from the stage.

The cassette came with a 12-page A5 booklet of photographs by Toni Rogerson. Some of these were also published in Force Mental 7. The cover of both cassette and booklet sport a picture of DDV in the performance of "Buig Nooit en Buig voor Niemand", setting fire to some equipment with a blowtorch in an attempt to weld a piece of metal around his leg.
The tape was mastered by R.T. Smith.

There is a noteworthy bootleg release of the Equinox Event by noteworthy member of the audience Graf Haufen. It's a double C-90 cassette in a special package and it has the complete recordings of all the bands' performances.

In the years after this landmark event, many have tried to recapture the spirit of the Equinox Event, but none have succeeded. In spite of all the chaos and the panic and the smalltalk and the brawls and the riots and the discomfort and last but not least all the pissing around, the Equinox Event has remained a landmark in the era of noise music. Either you were one involved or either you just weren't there.

Anyway, Mary, if you are out there - thanks a lot for having us at your place and at your festival - all the best from DDV.

Club Moral - 19 Keys (C-90 cassette)

A-01 - 19 Keys (Enochian)
B-01 - 19 Keys (English)
B-02 - Hail to Thee Black Prince

"19 Keys" by Club Moral has been a major project and an all time 'classic' in the repertoire since 1983. It is originally a Super8 film by AMVK "19 Enochian Keys vs 39 Steps of A. Hitchcock". This tape is a recording of the live soundtrack.
"Confrontation of the devilish mechanisms of film-making with the 19 Satanic Rituals to evoke the Devil’s help. The structure of the movie was built on 19 stills of Alfred Hitchcock’s film 'The 39 Steps'. The movie was mostly accompanied by a live music mix of Arnold Schoenberg’s 'Erklärte Nacht' and DDV chanting the Enochian version of the ritual texts to be performed during the original rituals, found in the notorious book of Anton Szandor Lavey, 'The Satanic Bible'.
The story is about 3 friends , a fight and a murder."
(AMVK, film synopsis)

Acting in the film are AMVK, DDV, Dirk Paesmans and Koen Theys (V-Side). Most of the scenes were filmed in the V-Side's house in Gent, where the actors had to improvise with whatever was available to act out the stills that were shown to us.
"On the one hand: The 19 Enochian Keys are the 19 ways to evoke the Devil's help and this is in Enochian, the most brutal, forceful and oldest language on earth. On the other hand: The film 'The 39 Steps' of A. Hitchcock is a weapon, a snaketongue, a story of treason and halfbaken reservation. The reason why we must identify with the protagonist is that he is possessed of no dark secret. Hitchcock is a magician who works with willpower, fear of incarceration, awareness of the force of evil, using secret plots and arch villains, playing with moral fear and eliminating blondes under a constant threat of sexual violence."
(AMVK, Force Mental 7, autumn 1983)

The film was first presented on 20 june 1983 at ProduKtion-HAIR, the hairdressing salon of Paul Hurst and Ross Cannon, and also at the time the one and only place where one could buy Come Organisation products and Whitehouse tapes & records. For this occasion AMVK also made a series of prints and 4 paintings on plexi that were on show for a week.
"In the very small space of ProduKtion-HAIR I hung 10 transparant plastic folios on rubber wires. The folios hang in a certain order, and represent the 19 Enochian Keys. These keys are each on one side of a folio presented by a combination of images of myself, buildings, people in hypnosis and trance. With the exhibition goes a film '39 Enochian Keys vs 39 Steps of A. Hitchcock', in which I make a comparison between the demonic manner of filmmaking of A. Hitchcock on one hand, and the 19 ways of evoking the devil on the other hand."
(AMVK, Hersens met Horens, 1983)

On this first occasion the film was shown twice, once with DDV chanting the Enochian Keys in Enochian and once in English, both times sitting handcuffed in the barber's chair and his head down in the sink. On the recording you can hear the actual sound of the projector running.

The track "Hail to Thee Black Prince", also a satanic ritual, was recorded live at the Equinox Event on 21 june 1983 in London.

The film "19 Enochian Keys vs 39 Steps of A. Hitchcock" has always been shown with the according live soundtrack on several occasions since then.

At a later stage we also made a compilation "19 Keys/19 Bands" with 19 industrial bands performing one of the 19 Enochian Keys.

"The Satanic Bible" was published in 1969 by Anton Szandor LaVey. The book is available from Amazon.
"The 19 Enochian Keys" are available as a pdf from All-Magick.
"The 39 Steps" was directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935, based on a novel by John Buchan. The film is available as a free download from the Internet Archive.

AMVK - Hersens met Horens (A4 xerox-book)

"Hersens met Horens" (Brain with Horns) is a catalogue of all exhibitions and publications by AMVK from 1976 to 1983. There is a short descriptive text in dutch and english and when available pictures and/or illustrations from every event. Since it isn't possible to podcast printed matter (or pdfs), we illustrate this episode with a Super8-movie by AMVK "Place is where the Mind is". The movie was shot in and around Club Moral in 1982. Appearing are: AMVK, DDV, M.Bryo, Willy Tielemans,....

The nuance between feeling something and feeling obliged to feel something exists. 100% feeling thus appears very rare. The aiming now for a conscious and pure interpreting of reality can only come through by means of pure control.
The first step to the anew conscious experience of your own feelings is to get independence against the influences of your education, the milieu wherein this happened, the milieu in which you are now and external attacks, especially publicity, for products as for ideologies and norms for behaviour.
An individual emotional world is necessary for the conscious-renewment which the pure reality-urge brings along. We thus create for ourselves the possibility to understand the nowadays world, to experience it bodily and to appreciate it.
This of course fully aware that from higher on a lot of useful and important information is kept behind. The monopoly by stipulating organs on the knowledge of the evolution. This of course fully aware of all political manipulation, our impotence against every big power.
But watch it! This conscious-renewment act is a very difficult, very dangerous process. You can loose your personality (because you neutralize each inborn grip), you can become schizophrenic (because you always look to yourselves from a distance) or you can, in view of change, get back to the consciousness before (extreme in this way that it, confused with the aim, leads to inadmissible points of view. The power outward.).
The purpose of this whole operation is the new individual which has a very high power of perception, sharp, justified critic and a constant radiation of inner truth.
This pure individual is able, without hidden motives to make contacts with others. His openness makes every communicating act a delight and a useful element for his own evolution.
This state of un-enmity creates a sphere in which each body responds to the mind in it. The impulse instinct-mind-ratio becomes superfluous. The body reacts pure, without inner codes. Man controls his own nature, in complete freedom. The rational dissection of each others acts becomes superfluous, these become one with the always changing and itself-defining universe.
Each short fase of life forms a coherent whole without reasoning, and it is made out of coordinated facets which only register the useful elements out of surrounding and time.
The whole thus becomes a matter of attracting and repulsing of usable feelings and circumstances, useful in view of our own evolution.
By individual training one starts to get surrounded slowly with the right circumstances, human contacts and ideas. An optimal use of each energy is guaranteed. One can hardly imagine what the word 'frustration' means.
Each human being gets in this way the knowledge to develop constantly positive in a conscious state under constant inner control and in benefit of an unlimited naturalness.
(AMVK - May 27, 1976 - introduction to "Hersens met Horens")

Installations, exhibitions and publications covered in "Hersens met Horens":
1. 7 Stripverhalen. 7 comics.
2. We Are Watches, So We Never Come Too Late.
3. Future : Logics = Art : Science
4. Logik : Zukunft = Rekombinant DNA : Serendipität
5. Public Annemy Nr 1.
6. = Basic.
7. Simpletones in de Bajes.
8. The Green Moments Make It All So Acceptable.
9. Komfort Über Alles! - 1.
10. Club Moral.
11. Komfort Über Alles! - 2.
12. 1ste Neocolonialistische Operatie.
13. 2de Neocolonialistische Operatie.
14. 3de Neocolonialistische Operatie.
15. Stress = (Proviand + Politik) x (Jugend + Poison) - 1.
16. Stress = (Proviand + Politik) x (Jugend + Poison) - 2.
17. Industriële Typen.
18. Le Mal, La Morale et Sentimental.
19. Hoeren en Profeten.
20. Cet Obscur Objet Du Désir.
21. The 19 Enochian Keys VS. The 39 Steps of A. Hitchcock.
22. Van Drang tot Dwang 1 & 2.
23. Sans Pitié.

"Hersens met Horens" was also an exhibition by AMVK in Club Moral in may 1983.

More information and recent projects by AMVK are on the HeadNurse website. A daily report "Chapter of Opening the Mouth of Time" is available as a daily blog.

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A.R./T.E. - Macht/Onmacht (C-60 cassette)

A-01 - Macht
A-02 - Infectie 01
B-01 - Onmacht
B-02 - Infectie 02

"Macht Onmacht" (Power/Impotence) by AR/TE was released in 1983 by Trudo Engels as TX 02. It is unclear what TX 01 was, either a xerox/silkscreen poster or postcard, or a live performance.

"Macht" was recorded live in Limelight, Kortrijk on 6 march 1983, on the "Nacht van de Industrie" - an industrial music festival. Apart from AR/TE also La Drôlesse, Angst, Club Moral and Einstürzende Neubauten played.
"Onmacht" was recorded live in Club Moral, Antwerpen on 15 nov 1982, on the occasion of "Objective Normandy" by V-Side (see episodes 20 & 21 of this stocklist podcast).

T.E./A.R. stood for Trudo Engels and an unnamed person sometimes referred to as 'Alma Rozay'. Trudo Engels was a sculptor, performer and installation artist. In his performance in Club Moral he performed a ritual of transformation by pulling the skin of a goat's head over another goat's head, recreating an object that would play a role in some of his later work as well. His installation work was usually on a very large scale with sculptures up to 28m in diameter. All his releases - 2 cassettes, a book and several flyers, postcards & posters used extensive xerox and silkscreen graphics.

As of 1984 he collaborated for several years with Els Huygelen, most notably in the performance and publication "corpulair".

In the late 1980's he founded "Plateau" a dance production platform in Brussels with Ida Devos. Later, and until today, the space changed into "Nadine", still focusing on dance and new media productions.

Trudo Engels now lives in Berlin, we don't know of any present artistic production. The goat's head featured in the 1983 exhibition "Van Drang tot Dwang" (with Claude Yande, V-Side, Erik Vloeberghs, Waving Ondulata, Etat Brut, La Drôlesse, Trudo Engels, Alex Adriaansens, Produktion, AMVK and DDV) in Club Moral and later mysteriously disintegrated and/or disappeared without a trace.

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Bij ons alleen extreme dingen

ANTWERPEN. - In het kader van de Biënnale stellen 17 Antwerpse galerijen beeldhouwkunst tentoon. Na straat-, landschaps-, afval-, gevonden en gerekupereerde kunst, is het nu de beurt aan de performance. Saignant. Niet geschikt voor gevoelige zielen.

In de jaren zeventig kwam nogal wat kritiek los op het artistieke systeem. Heel wat kunst heeft die kritiek zelf als onderwerp. In de jaren zestig zocht die een weg in de "happenings", in het volgend decennium en nu nog heten die manifestaties "performances". Aan tijd en plaats gebonden installaties en akties, vergankelijk, en enkel zinvol binnen een maatschappelijke kontekst. De kunstenaar gebruikt zijn eigen lichaam als materiaal.
Van deze toch belangrijke kunstuiting is in het Middelheim niets te zien. Je moet ervoor naar het alternatief circuit, de niet-commerciële ruimte of het beter kultureel centrum. Eén van deze buitenbeentjes is Club Moral die huist in een afgedankte fabriek. De ruimte waar regelmatig "geperformeerd" en tentoongesteld wordt, is gelaten zoals ze was. Niet witgekalkt, geen helle verlichting, geen prijslijsten. Hier schildert men met bloed, etaleert men een schapekop met dubbele huid, het verdroogd vel van een klein katje begeleid door een aanhoudend miauw op cassette, foto's van geslachtsdelen, een roze deur beplakt met schaamhaar, een zelfgebouwde elektrische stoel. De gemiddelde leeftijd van de exposanten is rond de twintig.
Club Moral (zelf performers): "De hele denksfeer is tegenwoordig zo lauw. Alles wordt getolereerd en gerelativeerd, dat brengt zo'n enorme vervlakking mee. Wij willen dingen brengen die extreem zijn. Die handelen over wat meestal niet aan bod komt. Wij werken met afval uit de maatschappij, niet alleen de tastbare, ook de mentale."
In zijn performance schuwt Danny Devos van Club Moral evenmin het gruwelijke. Snijdt zich met een broodmes herhaaldelijk in de schouder, terwijl een bericht over een lustmoordenaar wordt voorgelezen, en giet (echt) bloed over zijn hoofd. Het zien naar kunst wordt hier een lichamelijke belevenis. De artiest voelt zich na afloop kiplekker. Ik niet. Ik word niet goed.
CLUB MORAL. Van drang tot dwang. Kattenberg 122, 2200 Antwerpen. Open donder-, vrij en zaterdag van 14 tot 18 uur. Tot 16 juli.
(Linda Greeve in De Morgen, 1 juli 1983)

One Hundred Poems from the Japanese - Burroughs (C-90 cassette)

A-01 - You Can Only Call the Old Doctor Once
B-01 - Captain C. Welcomes You on Board

"Burroughs" was released in 1983 as GBC 05. "GBC" stands for Gezonde Boerse Copulaties (Healthy Boorish Copulations), was a label by Erik Vloeberghs, successor of his previous label "ZZ".

"Burroughs" was probably recorded on or around 12-03-1983, as written on a snippet of paper that came with the tape. The recordings are based on tapes by William Burroughs. It is not clear and not mentioned on the tape who "One Hundred Poems from the Japanese" is/are.

Around the same time Erik Vloeberghs published the book "De Ziekte van Burroughs" (Burroughs' Disease). It contains letters (to Sandy Nys, Luk Stenuit, Sabine Puts, Club Moral, Guy De Bièvre, Flurk Notschaele, Chris Serré, Maandblad Komkommer, Madam De Smet, Mike Stout and Hans Barnard) from 1982 to 1983 and notes from 1981 to 1982. It is deposited at the National Library under D/1983/3791/3. Some notes:
35. Dit boek is een regelrechte aanval op ons gezond verstand.
36. Ik ben een levend kadaver. Wie niet?
37. Ik zal alles doen om niet in een middelmatig leven te verzanden.
38. Autodestructie, strijden tegen het idealisme, het hedonisme, het hoempaorkest, het machiavellisme, de intellectuele maneuvers.
39. Invloeden: Bakoenin, Reve, Lao Tse, Serge De Rijck, Nietzsche, Guy De Bièvre, W.F.Hermans, Koot & Bie, Freek De Jonge, Neerlands Hoop, VPRO, Humo, Knack, Schopenhauer, Thomas Bernhard, Beeldenstorm (van Steef Davidson), Luc Vanheerentals, Luc Van Den Bruel, Seneca, Kwajongens in Bloei, De Brassers, Marcus Aurelius, Bijbel, Kamagurka, Monthy Python, Johnny the Selfkicker, Biesheuvel, Wolkers, Cremer, Throbbing Gristle, The Residents, Joy Division, Dome, Devo, Jotie 't Hooft, Gils, Van Ostayen, Elsschot, etc.
40. Ik wil echter niet pretenderen dat U mij voortaan Heer en Schepper van alle leven moet noemen. Neen, zo ijdel ben ik beslist niet! U mag mij gerust met Almachtige of Heiland aanspreken hoor!

Angst - Strijd Tegen de Kerk (C-60 cassette)

A-01 - Untitled
A-02 - Live Kortrijk
B-01 - Untitled

"Strijd Tegen de Kerk" was released in 1984 as GBC 04. "GBC" stands for Gezonde Boerse Copulaties (Healthy Boorish Copulations), was a label by Erik Vloeberghs, successor of his previous label "ZZ".

"Strijd Tegen de Kerk" brings you sixty packed minutes including two long cut-up pieces that use found footage and recordings of television and radio programs with additional effects and synthesizer sounds, and a live-recording of an Angst performance. The main subjects in the cut-ups are political discussions with prime minister Wilfried Martens about the placement of US nuclear missiles in Belgium, and religious radio emissions. It also includes the cracking at the end of a Robert Wyatt record and manipulated bits of a Z'EV live performance. Subjects in the television and radio bits are nuclear weapons, crisis, depression, belief, Jesus Christ, sterilisation, menstruation, etc. The live bits were recorded at "Nacht van de Industrie" in Limelight, Kortrijk on 6 march 1983 - where also La Drôlesse, AR/TE, Club Moral and Einstürzende Neubauten played.

Earlier releases on GBC were two tapes from E.Coli and a re-release of the first Angst cassette. Around the same time Angst als published a (one of many) booklet Chemische Oorlogsvoering (Chemical Warfare) with a collection of cut-up poetry, collages and found photos. An excerpt:
WATCH, DOGS!

Volg het walgelijke pad
De leider op de voet
Laat voor het denken
Geen ruimte

Passtraatje ik zie en ik hoor
De van weerzin snuivende
En van afkeer huiverende
Watchdogs
Onze weifelende alter ego's
Goedendag, allemaal
Weeral een weertje
Automatische steunpilaren
En houten factoren
Deze vector gaat naar morele
Deze ziektebeeld werkt ons in de hand
Hoe heet de gehoorzaamheidsbeleving
Democratie, gemeenschap en verlangen
Levende christenen, groeperingen
Onzin tegenover staat en maatschappij
Je weet
Vele verhalen zijn nutteloos
Watchdogs, informatie alle
Donnés, Stop ze in de LOGON
Invalid option: orde en gezondheid
Please kies een andere code
Liturgie is oosters, niet christelijk
De kruisiging heeft geen sociale betekenis
Het verloop van de dag ziet er ongeveer zo uit:
Moon zegt Moon zegt Moon zegt Moon zegt
Zijn er nog vragen?

Club Moral - Cross of the Good Death (C-30 cassette + poster)

A-01 - Drone - Ja/Oui
A-02 - Goede Dood/Good Death
A-03 - Death
B-01 - Never on Wednesdays in Heaven
B-02 - Now I Am Death

"Cross of the Good Death" was released in 1983 as a documentation of AMVK's exhibition "Hoeren en Profeten" at De Nieuwe Workshop in Brussels, and a performance by DDV at the Campo Santo cemetery in Gent.

The exhibition "Hoeren en Profeten" (Whores and Prophets) opened on 24 feb 1983. There were five series of works by AMVK:

• 1.Hoeren (Tafels.Kruis)
  
• 2.2Gevechten (Transport)
  
• 3. 3Profeten (Graf)
  
• 4.4Honden (Flexor.Relax)
  
• 5.Lichamen (Dwaal!).
  

In the large back building, amongst large piles of rubbles various works were on show: paintings on perspex and mousse, drawings, blue-prints, mixed-media and drawings on the walls.
On the opening night Club Moral performed live. AMVK stood on a large wooden "Carruga" by DDV, reading the text of "Goede Dood" by Pieter Cornelis Boutens. At the same time DDV hacked away the legs of a giant table with an axe, the sound of the hacking amplified by contact microphones.

Goede Dood wiens zuiver pijpen
Door 't verstilde leven boort,
Die tot glimlach van begrijpen
Alle jong en schoon bekoort,

Voor wien kinderen en wijzen
Lachend laten boek en spel,
Voor wien maar verkleumde grijzen
Huivren in hun kille cel, -

Mij is elke dag verloren,
Die uw lokstem niet verneemt;
Want dit land van most en koren
Is mij immer schoon en vreemd;

Want nooit beurde ik hier te drinken
't Water dat de ziel verjongt,
Of van dichtbij hief te klinken
't Verre wijsje dat gij zongt:

Alle schoon dat de aard kan geven,
Blijkt een pad dat tot u voert,
En alleen is leven leven
Als het tot den dood ontroert.
Tracks 1, 2 & 3 include music from Arnold Schönberg, sounds from the movies "Never on Wednesdays" and "Eraserhead" and additional electronics.

Track 4 was recorded live on 17 sep 1983 on the occasion of an exhibition of Antwerp artists in Gent. "On the Campo Santo cemetary I digged a grave, when I lay in it it was closed. While the public was transported with buses to another location, I moved the grave to the Gele Zaal. There I was pulled out from it by my feet and movies and slides about Oppenheimer were projected onto my body, in a microphone I repeated: "Now I am death, the destroyer of worlds". The sound of my voice was electronically distorted into an unearthly grinding and thundering by Paul Hurst."
(from DDV's "Performan")

For the "Carruga" DDV built for the performance at De Nieuwe Workshop, he used a number of large beams from the floor of the building which was to be torn down. Afterwards it resided at the Club Moral in Antwerpen for a couple of years until it was refurbished and included in the 1985 Open Air exhibition "AutomoBiënnale" at the Middelheim Museum in Antwerpen. A huge metal cage was built on top and a running diesel engine was locked inside.
a short documentary movie on "Carruga"

"Goede Dood" is also a track on the first Club Moral Lp "To All Who Are Interested", released by Cthulhu Records in 1989.

After all the building at De Nieuwe Workshop wasn't torn down at all, it now houses a cultural centre "De Markten" and apparently they put in a new floor....

DDV - CRS! (C-60 cassette + poster + paraphernalia)

A-01 - intro
A-02 - Trommels
A-03 - Ik Deel U Mede
A-04 - Shooting Stars
A-05 - Gelukkig Zijn
A-06 - Rhythmus
A-07 - Die Letzte Handgranate
B-01 - Angetreten
B-02 - Ja/Oui
B-03 - Panzerdivision Wiking
B-04 - Alte Kameraden
B-05 - Encephalogram
B-06 - Kris' Truck
B-07 - Fascisten te Zijn
B-08 - Guske's Honden
B-09 - Synthetic Explosion
B-10 - Synthetic Machine Gun
B-11 - Vlaamsche Leeuw

"CRS!" was released in 1983 as a 'concept album' about DDV's military service, which lasted just 9 days, from 8 till 16 dec 1982.

At the time military service in Belgium was obligatory and usually lasted 10 months. At the Centre for Recruitment and Selection at the "Klein Kasteeltje" in Brussels, candidates were tested for their capacities and medical and psychological condition.
On 8 dec 1982 at 08.18hrs DDV marched into the CRS, dressed in a military outfit, crew cut and his weight trimmed down to 47kgs. After fulfilling the necessary procedures and enrollment in the Belgian army preliminary tests started. At the first confrontation with options for the kind of duty to fulfill DDV insisted on an enrollment as fighter pilot. Instead he was sent to the Military Hospital of Neder-over-Heembeek for psychological testing and observation. After an admission of 8 days, the chief psychiatrist declared him unfit for military service, his final decision based on viewing DDV's "Performan" catalogue of performances between 1979 and 1982. On 18 january 1983 a re-examination commission declared recruit 83/14364 with id 154-200959-63 exempt and permanently unfit for military service.

The tracks on "CRS!" are based on field recordings with concealed microphones at the Centre for Recruitment in Brussels, the Military Hospital in Neder-over-Heembeek and a rally by the "Vlaamse Militanten Orde" in Kortrijk (recorded by F. Pinckers). Additional found footage originates from audio cassettes and videotapes found in garbage cans at militaria junk markets.
The original package included a poster with images and pictures and various paraphernalia, including a box of shoe polish. We couldn't find an original poster anymore, so the track titles are just a wild guess of what they could have been.

Etat Brut - H/M (C-30 cassette + xerox)

A - two pieces
B - eight pieces

"H/M" is EB 12 by Etat Brut. "H/M" stands for "Haine et Mépris" (Hate and Despise). It is their "Piece de Résistance" with 10 untitled pieces packed in 30 minutes. Merciless and uncompromising electronic sound in its most raw state, the purest "etat brut". None of the pieces bear titles, and the cover has no information about tracks either. There exists a xerox flyer announcing the tape. it states:

"Telle est la morale: porter la haine jusqu'a son plus haut point, l'absence."

BOREDOM
FUCK
VIOLENCE

I
I
I

NOV . 82
BEAUNE 82

Le repas terminé, je ne peux qu'observer les OS trainant dans l'assiette.

Fragments III is Etat Brut's contribution to Force Mental 3.

alors que les cellules normales ont besoin d'un inducteur pour croitre et se différencier, les cellules cancéreuses seraient devenues autonomes, c'est-a-dire capables de se multiplier sans inducteur exogene

Il faut encore parler de l'individualité et de la société. Pour ce faire, il suffit d'énoncer un paradoxe: le désir de se perdre dans la masse et de nier toute personnalité voisine l'affirmation des volontés particulières. Deux directions, deux intérets différents.

J'ai soudain pris conscience, en m'appuyant sur le garde-corps de béton, de l'énorme silence qui régnait sur tout le paysage

Mais nécessairement, les contradictions se rejoignent et il est toujours aisé de conjuger noir et blanc de telle manière qu'ils se ressemblent. Ainsi, pour démonter l'antagonisme des deux propositions, il suffira d'avancer que la perte de la personnalité est aussi une volonté individuelle. Le renoncement à l'ambition et a la domination tient d'une grande force intérieure. Le refus de mettre cette puissance dans le jeu est un acte surhumain.

Il y avait naturellement des choses que, de son point de vue, la SS se devait de punir énergiquement. Par exemple: propagande politique, écoute de postes étrangers, rapports avec le monde extérieur, démoralisation de SS, sabotages, organisations de réunions antifascistes, lettres passées en fraude, et véritables tentatives de fuite

Et l'humanité dans laquelle on veut se fondre doit rester un égout a nos yeux. Il s'agit de se perdre pas de chercher une nouvelle foi. La foule est et doit rester cet amas répugnant et mou que nous connaissons; nous y serons observateur et non acteur, nous y serons supérieur ou inférieur.

Tout en vomissant, j'appuyais mon front contre la cuisse robuste de l'infirmière

Au nom de la société et de ses valeurs nous pourrions massacrer les marginaux
Au nom de notre conscience nous rirons de la naïveté de la foule
Au nom du temps nous méprisons

Je vous signale tout de suite un tableau dont la photo me semble surement désirable: il s'agit du Massacre des Innocents de Cornélis Cornélisz de Haarlem

Le repas terminé, je ne peux qu'observer les OS trainant dans l'assiette.

Various Artists - Wij Zijn België (C-90 cassette + booklet)

A-01 - Eenheid 81 - Thunder
A-02 - Pseudo Code - Sphynx
A-03 - Human Flesh - Empty
A-04 - Ludo Engels - Untitled
A-05 - Bene Gesserit - What ??
A-06 - Club Moral - Exces Kontrol
A-07 - Let's Have Healthy Children - Piece of My Heart
A-08 - Scream - Two Holes in My Head
A-09 - Didi De Paris - Passiviteit: Ballade van Koen Nijssen, Totaalweigeraar
A-10 - KCN - Silent Pâques
A-11 - Habr Fofo - I Love Nature, but Nature Loves Somebody Else
B-01 - "V" - Wir Sind Wieder Da!
B-02 - Georg Kaminsky's Original Daybreak Buzzards Band - Dance Dan, Dance
B-03 - Danny Van Looy - Als Zodanig
B-04 - Guy De Bièvre - Een Vioolimprovisatie
B-05 - Kiryat Sjemonah - Zaventem, 16 april '79
B-06 - Angst - Een Eigen Vlaamse Staat
B-07 - evw - Landschap
B-08 - RDP - Een Lachbui
B-09 - E.Coli - Mijn Leven als Zatlap
B-10 - Eenheid 81 - Untitled

"Wij Zijn België" (We Are Belgium) was released in 1983, it was ZZ ZZZ 05 in the series by "Angst" (also see previous episodes of this podcast). ZZ ZZZ 04 was "Angst Levend". The 'Welfare' booklet contains interviews with Herbert de Rijck (KCN), Luc van den Bruel (E.Coli) and Erik Vloeberghs.

This compilation of Belgian bands is unique because of the sheer number (at that time) and variety of both pioneer bands and one-off projects. It has bands from Brussels, Antwerp, Gent and the hinterland from Belgium. Notable is the appearance of Pseudo Code, a Brussels experimental new wave band with ingenious electronics. Its members Guy Marc Hinant played as Waving Ondulata and later started the SubRosa record label while Alain Neffe continues to play as Bene Gesserit. Guy De Bièvre contines to work as a composer. Didi De Paris still publishes writings once in a while and keeps a blog here and here.
(we will gladly add or update links to recent projects)

excerpt from an interview in the 'Welfare' booklet.
Q: Why did you start this cassette?
A: Well, just like that. At a certain time, i guess in june 82, i got the idea. And when I have an idea it has to go through, no matter what. I was thinking: a compilation cassette?, everybody makes compilation cassettes nowadays, it is a bout time I do one too. And thus it happened.
Q: Do you have certain expectations regarding sales or anything?
A: No, no. I don't give a damn, as long as it's fun and as long as I like it, because that's of course the most important! I won't go through a lot of trouble to 'promote' this cassette, as they say. No, I do nothing, I lay on my bed at home and I wait and I'll see what happens. Do I care about it? If I sell 10 or 125, I couldn't care less. I think those cassettes are a comedy. But of course what you get is what you get.
Q: Can you perhaps tell us some anecdote regarding "Wij Zijn België"?
A: Perhaps yes. I find it rather funny that Kyriat Sjemonah, a band from Gent who once participated to Humo's Rock Rally, told me that static noise was the most important in their track. They've added some extra noise on top, because they weren't too satisfied with the result. And they use the Palestinian voice because it seems to be very trendy nowadays.
Q: More?
A: Because you want to, perhaps. The track by E.Coli ("My Life as a Drunk"), I had to make myself (Angst), because he (E.Coli) was too lazy. With EMI for instance you don't have to try this because you'll be out the door in seconds. Some of the basic track were by Coli however, when there are visitors at his house, he records it once in a while, but his mother doesn't like it too much. She tells him that he "shouldn't drag our household outside". But E.Coli hàd to be included, because supposedly a cassette won't sell in Belgium if it doesn't have an E.Coli track. He is very popular in Belgium, but then especially with the boys! But does that matter?
Q: Are there bands or people that didn't want to contribute?
A: Etat Brut, Jerry WX '2-Tracks', Mécanique Végétale, Paul Timmermans, Hans Hendrickx and Stragianopff 99 did agree but finally I didn't hear from them anymore, except some excuses than. Everything has its causes!
Q: What kind of music do listen to yourself?
A: I listen to anything within my reach. I like Whitehouse as much as Zjef Vanuytsel, Deep Purple as much as the Human League. The record I'm playing most now is "Metamatic" by John Foxx. And apart from that: Devo, Modern Eon, Joy Division, Mass, Dance Society, classical music, Gregorian, folk music from China, Japan, Morocco, Turkey, South America, Drs. P., jodeling, and so on. My last great discoveries were Mike Jones (an Englishman who makes cassettes, ao "Pretty Flowers" released by the nice Mud Bath Tapes), The Fall, Hans Dorrestijn, Leonard Cohen, Tangerine Dream, Die Doraus und die Marinas and Motörhead. In Motörhead I find the same power and energy as in De Brassers or Whitehouse.

Thanks to Frans De Waard for ripping this to mp3.

Various Artists - White Power (C-60 cassette)

A-01 - intro
A-02 - Ramleh - Fist Fuck
A-03 - Consumer Electronics - Penisator
A-04 - Maurizio Bianchi - Menstruum
B-01 - Sutcliffe Jugend - Pommerencke
B-02 - Club Moral - Eating Limbs
B-03 - Krang Music - Uro

"White Power" was released in march 1983, it was the 11th release on the IPHAR label, compiled by Philip Best.

On 31 oct 1982 he wrote:
dear DDV,
hi! i'm afraid i haven't written to you before but i wonder if you'd like to contribute to a compilation cassette i am at present working on. i am 16 and have a group called consumer electronics; we were on the fur ilse koch album, as were you. i sell cassettes + my magazine Intolerance and have included a sample issue; i'm afraid its a quite old issue (there have been quite a few advances since then) and i now have 9 tapes available.
as i'm still at school i'm afraid i can offer you no payment if you decide to contribute but of course you will receive free copies. i already have contributions from RAMLEH (fist fuck) MANNINGHAM (whore hunting) CHARLES MANSON (tv interview) ASH (penisator) and i have approached many more well-known music workers; most of whom are interested in contributing.
release will be DEC/JAN. and if you want to contribute please send it on normal audio cassette tape.
i've only heard your track on fur ilse koch so i don't know if you also make more musical tapes BUT if you decide to contribute please make your piece as extreme as possible; brainfucking electronics are one of my major passions. i hate TG and their disco-shit.
please send me a list of what you sell as well since i've read great reviews of your work.
consumer electronics should be playing live with whitehouse again soon, please write back again soon,
yours,
philip best.

"White Power" created quite a stir, both due to it's title and it's cover bearing nothing but a swastika. It fueled the line of thought from some people and bands that despised noise music and accused noise bands of sponsoring right-wing political parties. There was a large debate when we published "The Most Violent Music of the New Right" by Come Org. in our first issue of Force Mental, and later in the US magazine Unsound. Generally spoken most of it was based on envy and attempts to have gigs cancelled and bands banned. In an interview from 1991/1992 Gary Mundy (RAMLEH) had this to say about it:
GH: All Ramleh's releases, with the exception of one tape, were released on Broken Flag. The exception being ONSLAUGHT on Philip Best's Iphar label. He described this as "a cassette of agonizingly dominant hate, sheer contempt.... The first in the new Iphar era of White Power." How did this association come about and what did he mean by "the new era of White Power"?
GM: Again, I know what you're getting at here but there was no right-wing viewpoint to any of the stuff -- we made an error in judgment in testing out the bounds of offensiveness. There was certainly no "movement" of any kind. Since those days, we have made sure that we do not fall into that trap again and go out of our way to avoid being promoted by magazines and record labels as any kind of political band -- we never were, and never would be. It is interesting to point out that the kind of organizations we were accused of supporting would certainly never tolerate the kind of people we really are. Having said all of this, I still stand by our music of that era as being genuinely unique and exciting.
(read the full interview here)

Gary Mundy (RAMLEH) continues to play as a guitarist in the Heavy Metal band Skullflower and Gothic band Breathless. Philip Best played with Whitehouse for a considerate time, and recently has taken up Consumer Electronics on stage again. He also has a blog. Maurizio Bianchi spent some time in religious limbo but returns with new productions. Sutcliffe Jugend have also recently taken up music production again. John Murphy (KRANG) is one of the oldest noise veterans, he played in SPK, Whitehouse, Current 93, Death in June and as an excellent drummer for many pop bands in the studio. Most recently he plays in KnifeLadder.

Club Moral b/w V-Side - 2 Live Performance (C-30 cassette with 2 A3 xerox posters)

A - Kwaad, in Koelen Bloede (Club Moral)
B - Slachting (V,-)

"2 Live Performance" as its title says includes 2 recordings of live performances, one by Club Moral in Midgard, Middelburg on 12 dec 1982, and one by V,- in Club Moral on 21 nov 1982.
Both performances were highly visual, so what you'll hear bears a little description. Videocamera's were sparse at the time, and as far as we know, no pictures of either performance have surfaced.

"Kwaad, in Koelen Bloede" by Club Moral featured audio and welding gear scattered on the stage. AMVK controlled audio tapes and effects, and read out a text. In the meantime DDV ripped apart the right leg of his trousers and started shaping a piece of metal like a boot by hammering it onto a piece of wood. The P.A. people didn't really like the idea, and the low frequency electronics were tearing up the speakers. AMVK continued to read, and DDV welded the piece of metal shut around his leg. After the performance it had to be removed by use of a grinder.

"Slachting" by V,- was already described in the previous episode of this podcast, it was the apotheose of the slaughter-festival by V-Side in Club Moral. "K. stands on a platform holding the goose in his left hand, an axe in his right hand. Next to his head a porn movie is projected with a soundtrack of singing choirs. The sound stops, he chops the head of the goose and lets the blood spurt onto the projection. All the time D. sits naked under a black cloth with the image of a landscape projected above him."

Club Moral and V,- continued to play on joined occasions for a while. The most memorable event was at the Bauplatz in Venlo on 12 mar 1983 where we played a very chaotic set after V,- had set fire to a huge pile of human hair inside the premises. People had to literally crawl outside beneath the heavy gut-wrenching smelly thick cloud of smoke that filled the building.

This episode was removed on 21 july 2007 at 192 downloads.

V-Side - Objective Normandy (C-30 cassette with 40-page A5 booklet)

Although both sides of this cassette have distinctive separate tracks, the cassette nor the booklet list any track titles.

V,- aka V-Side aka Votnik are Dirk Paesmans and Koen Theys. This release is a documentation of a week of performances and installations by V,- on the beaches of Normandy in the summer of 1982, accompanied by Christine. In november 1982 we organised an exhibition and series of performances 'Slaughter Month' in Club Moral.

The following is a remindable report on the expedition. The atmosphere and tension brutally come forward. Besides that, it gives, next to the report of the risks, the failures and successes, a remarkable clear image on the outline of the expedition and the factors that had their influence on it.

South-station Brussels aug 6, 8.10h.
The Trans-Europe-Express will leave at 9.20 am. Paris-Montparnasse 12.10 am. Kolo Kolo by métro to Gare ST.-Lazaire. The turbo to Caen leaves in 20 mins. In the station in Caen we try to rent 3 bikes (Train + Vélo formulae) but they have only 1 mini left. At Bike-Rent-Company Robert we rent 2 ladies-bikes and 1 Sports-Motobécane, compelled by necessity. Caen 5.30 pm. We leave by bike in the direction of Riva-Bella, Objective Normandy Beaches. On the hunting-path next to the channel we cross the Pegasus-bridge, a bridge with a heroïc past. There's going to be a thunderstorm. It's getting dark. In Riva-Bella we find a hiding place right near a maïs-field.

Riva-Bella aug 7, 9.00h.
Whilst waiting for the commando museum to open, we send postcards. Inside. Forbidden to take pictures. We cycle near the coast in the direction of Arromanches. Right before Arromanches is Point Asnelles, which gives a panoramic view on Omaha Beach, with the reminders of an artificial harbor built on june 6, 1944. As tourists we stand on the edge of the falaise. The road to the centre is going steep downwards. Down in the centre we see a modern building surrounded by artillery-batteries. In the front memorial tablets: 'Les clefs de la libération reposent ici'. 'The keys of liberation of Europe'. A long row is going through the bronze gate on which is written in silver letters 'D-DAY june 6 1944'. On the beach still lay a few Phoenix-caissons, 1500 tons each. Washed ashore segments from the Mulberries. We cycle into the country, to Bayeux, where we spend the night in the 'Foyer des Jeunes Travailleurs de France'.

Bayeux aug 8, 8.50h.
Hot cocoa with butter-breads. 10.00 am. Bayeux Memorial with 2 tanks in front of it. Inside much music, much atmosphere. But we had to go very quick to the mass-grave in Colleville-sur-Mer. Cycling like beasts. The back-wheel of 1 ladies-bike is bend and trails against the brake. The sports-bike is missing 2 spokes. We reach the American Cemetery through a large avenue which continues midst the dunes. You can see them laying there. This is Omaha-Red-Beach, of which you can read in the Michelin-guide that here 'la bataille la plus coûteuse du jour J' happened. Charlie Dog, Easy Fox, Sword, Juno, Gold. Une Côte d'or pour eux. Here they lay, their bodies as first class lawn.
30 km westwards Exposition Omaha. Much music, much atmosphere. The night overtakes us on a busy Route Nationale without cycling-path where heavy trucks drive off and on. We spend the night in the football-stadium of Isigny.

Isigny aug 9, 8.30h.
We continue our search for the German soldiers-cemetery of 'La Cambre' which we were looking for yesterday-night already, without any result. Only at the last moment we buy Chicklettes in a Seca-shop we find out where it is. 'Versohnung über die Graben' is a German organisation which arranges the upkeep of German Military Cemeteries throughout the world. Young German volunteers are cleaning the graves. Arrival Utah-Beach 14.30h. The small 'Musée 4', an ex-Nazi blockhouse, you can see a slide-show there. We find a hiding-place in an open-air battery 5 x 5m.
Utah-Beach aug 10, 8.15h.
We are benumbed and the flood-tide is near. I start working on the Atlantik Wall and K. is doing an Emergency-test with his survival-packett. F. takes pictures.

Utah-Beach aug 11, 8.45h.
We continue our works during the whole day. At night we do a shadowplay.

Utah-Beach aug 12, 9.00h.
LANDING-PERFORMANCE.

Utah-Beach aug 13, 8.15h.
We leave for St.-Mère-Eglise, 20 km into the land. From the Airborne-museum we send postcards. Death From Above. We start at 3.00 pm for a 60 km ride against the clock to St.-Lo. La vie de la liberté. After 40 km it starts to rain and it's getting dark. At our arrival we're plain wet and cramped. L'auberge des jeunes warm, dry, cocoa and butter-breads.
St.-Lo aug 14, 8.15h.
Last etappe of 80km. Arrival in Caen 16.00h. With the Turbo to Paris. Arrival 21.10. Night-train to Brussels. Arrival 4.45 in the morning.
Zombies.
(this text first appeared in Force Mental nr3, november 1982)

On 7 nov 1982 V,- Division landed in the Club Moral spaces with 2 vans of equipment. The space is divided in several parts with heavy army canvas, each section portrays a different theme of the expedition with postcards, photos, objects . On 14 nov 1982 the exhibition opens, some 30 people witness the large projection of a movie on the outside wall of the factory building. V,- plays live bells from a balcony and from the roof. Later on inside, a documentary Super8-film and sound bits from the expedition are played.
The next day 12 people show up to watch AR/TE performs his infamous 'Power/Impotence' where he pulls the skin of a severed sheep's head over another sheep's head. The loud performance is stopped by the police. Next D. performs. He lights a fire in the room while drinking beer and rum. He throws some sausages and applesauce in a cooking pot and fries them. While the space fills with choking smoke he drinks more and eats the food, people run to our living room where K. awaits them with a pornographic resistance story.
On 19 nov 1982, 9 people show up to witness D. crawling under a large sheet of plastic in the courtyard. A howling dog is tied to a pole. Accompanied by a large floodlight D. gets undressed and crawls into the cage of a goose. The cold, stiffened and disgusted audience returns inside. K. shows a re-worked Euro-Chimique promotional film accompanied by loud synth music.
11 people are victim to a 45-min long dia-rite on 20 nov 1982. Violence, sex, religion, war, love, aggression and V,-. D spends the night on the concrete floor of Club Moral with 2 shortwave radios next to his head.
Finally 3 people show up on 21 nov 1982 to witness the apotheose of the slaughter-festival. K. stands on a platform holding the goose in his left hand, an axe in his right hand. Next to his head a porn movie is projected with a soundtrack of singing choirs. The sound stops, he chops the head of the goose and lets the blood spurt onto the projection. All the time D. sits naked under a black cloth with the image of a landscape projected above him.

Those were some of the days at the Club Moral....

Angst - Muziek voor Zelfmoorden (1 x C-90 + 3 x C-60)

tape 1
A-01 - Religieuze Feesten
B-01 - Psychische Zieken deel 1 & 2
B-02 - Lumbago

tape 2
A-01 - Langs de Weg
A-02 - Atoomfysica
B-01 - Leven
B-02 - Doodsbedreigingen

tape 3
A-01 - Zo Vierde Ik Kerstavond '81
B-01 - Levensvreugd!

tape 4
A-01 - De Drie Musketiers
A-02 - Positief Denken
A-03 - Dode Zijde
B-01 - Muziek voor een Begrafenisstoet
B-02 - Sexueel

"Muziek voor Zelfmoorden" (Music for Suicides) by Angst is the third release labeled as ZZ ZZZ, the first being "Last Exercise in Self-Destruction" and the second "Angst" (Club Moral Stocklist 012).
The four cassettes come in regular boxes with different kinds of wallpaper as cover and matching cutouts on the cassettes without further labeling. An accompanying leaflet comes as a manual with a statement and details about tracks and personnel.

All actions are completely useless. Therefore it is completely useless and superfluous to act. But is is also completely useless not to act. And it is also completely useless to think about such matters.
One only acts in order not to attract attention in a negative way, to attract attention in a positive way and to meet as little as possible pain and resistance on one's path of life. Stupidity keeps us alive.
But it is also stupidity that kills us. Everybody lives and dies for his own stupidities/cleverness. We should never make a distinction between things. There is only one thing: your conscience.

"Muziek voor Zelfmoorden", released in 1982, is definitely Angst's Opus Magnum and a landmark in the history of noise music. It totals almost four hours of sound collages based on (slowed) voice-recordings, extensive use of echo devices and a wide range of instruments ranging from analog synthesizers to violins, flutes and even cardboard or metal boxes, walkie-talkies and ashtrays. Made in an era of hometaping without computers for personal use, without affordable samplers, recording equipment or electronic devices of any kind this release still stands high above many of the so-called 'ambient' noise that is produced nowadays. Apart from complex but innovative recording and mastering techniques, also the distribution of this release was quite a burden: every tape had to be copied 1:1 and all the covers and leaflets are hand made. Therefore probably only a very limited number of copies are out there.
It is with great pleasure and much respect that we offer this release in our Stocklist Podcast. First of all we hope you enjoy the fine pieces of pioneer noise, secondly we think its value should be relooked upon in view of recent music history.
For technical reasons and to spare you long downloads this edition of the podcast is offered in 4 parts, details about tracks and personnel mentioned on each of the posts, as well as four short extracts from "9.999.999 Miljoen Erotische Variaties" by the "Liga voor Ditjes en Datjes".

tape 4
A-01 - De Drie Musketiers (The Three Musketeers)
EV: synth, tapes.
A-02 - Positief Denken (Positive Thinking)
EV: vocals, synth, tapes, echo device.
A-03 - Dode Zijde (Death Side)
PF: music / EV: idea.
B-01 - Muziek voor een Begrafenisstoet (Music for a Funeral Procession)
XX: music / EV: idea
B-02 - Sexueel (Sexual)
LVDB: vocals / EV: vocals, tapes, echo device, boxes, walkie-talkie.

excerpt from letter of Erik Vl to DDV.
Ridiculous chap,
Isn't it quite time to reflect on thy own self instead of hassling gods like us with your most useless opinion? In the haughty sphere of the Spirit you want to commit the God murder. Monkeylike ridiculously monkeylike parroting is something you can do, but serve God, oh no, Mister is probably too good for such things? Do you know, King of the vermin, that we can catalogue you based on your intelligence and also quite based on your looks, with the donkeys??? You are a kitsch fashion model for uninteresting mail-art magazines, did you know? You are a tiny shunted out mud buffalo only out for sensation & perversions, did you know? You are an uncomfortable human being. One can not get to you with problems regarding pigeon-flying. And by the way, as long as you don't know about Frans Karton, you have no right to open your foul mouth.. The fact that you, Danny the fox, exist is one of the reasons that people quit here and move to Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, etc. and that the most weird and colourful races take their place in our home country. Monkeylike parroting and recording singles, you should be ashamed. And learn to be more polite when you're dealing with people of descent. Not everybody was like you raised in the gutter, remember.
signed by The God Of It.

Erik Vloeberghs' writings have been extensively published in Force Mental as of nr 1. We also have a huge volume of correspondence in our archive, ranging from postcards to 8-page letters. Some of his later poetry is available on this website.
He continues to work as a civil servant, responsible for the website and digital newsletter of the Belgian National Institute of Statistics.

Angst - Muziek voor Zelfmoorden (1 x C-90 + 3 x C-60)

tape 1
A-01 - Religieuze Feesten
B-01 - Psychische Zieken deel 1 & 2
B-02 - Lumbago

tape 2
A-01 - Langs de Weg
A-02 - Atoomfysica
B-01 - Leven
B-02 - Doodsbereidingen

tape 3
A-01 - Zo Vierde Ik Kerstavond '81
B-01 - Levensvreugd!

tape 4
A-01 - De Drie Musketiers
A-02 - Positief Denken
A-03 - Dode Zijde
B-01 - Muziek voor een Begrafenisstoet
B-02 - Sexueel

For technical reasons and to spare you long downloads this edition of the podcast is offered in 4 parts, details about tracks and personnel mentioned on each of the posts, as well as four short extracts from "9.999.999 Miljoen Erotische Variaties" by the "Liga voor Ditjes en Datjes".

tape 3
A-01 - Zo Vierde Ik Kerstavond '81 (This is How I Spent Christmas Eve '81)
EV: vocals, echo device, tapes / ZF: violin / RP: violin / GB, HV, MV, KVM, IB, ML, CDP, AV and MV 2: vocals.
B-01 - Levensvreugd! (Joy of Life!)
EV: echo unit, synth, tapes / LVDB: vocals, echo device, idea, synth.

excerpt from "interview of the author with himself"
I find everything ridiculous, except God and chemistry. Lately I look at everything in a positive way, that means, even the most negative event always still has positive aspects. People are conditioned to look at everything from a negative side. I find that rather pathetic. It is typical that as well people who seriously consider suicide as well as people who strongly condemn suicide (isn't that rather premature, gentlemen?) are usually quite stupid people, look at these mourning heads, filled with their egoist prejudices. They don't even bother to think. But then I know that there is an explanation for everything. But even when you don't know the explanation, knowing that it is there is sufficient. It almost makes any philosophy superfluous.
You might as well live?
Indeed everything consists of facts, so why bother? Making the best of it is probably the best. Sometimes suicide is the best solution, personally I prefer to live, however. Instead of committing suicide I would rather change my lifestyle radically, doing very silly things for instance, and or change of area where to live. Switzerland, Canada, Finland and Greenland rather appeal me a lot. It is typical that a lot of people hate the region where they grew up intensely. If I recall the travels I made with my parents to Switzerland, France, Austria and so on, then I'm sick of sorrow. I think it's so miserable here when you compare it to those beautiful countries. I want to break out of here. Flanders is hell for people who love nature.

Erik Vloeberghs' writings have been extensively published in Force Mental as of nr 1. We also have a huge volume of correspondence in our archive, ranging from postcards to 8-page letters. Some of his later poetry is available on this website.
He continues to work as a civil servant, responsible for the website and digital newsletter of the Belgian National Institute of Statistics.

Angst - Muziek voor Zelfmoorden (1 x C-90 + 3 x C-60)

tape 1
A-01 - Religieuze Feesten
B-01 - Psychische Zieken deel 1 & 2
B-02 - Lumbago

tape 2
A-01 - Langs de Weg
A-02 - Atoomfysica
B-01 - Leven
B-02 - Doodsbedreigingen

tape 3
A-01 - Zo Vierde Ik Kerstavond '81
B-01 - Levensvreugd!

tape 4
A-01 - De Drie Musketiers
A-02 - Positief Denken
A-03 - Dode Zijde
B-01 - Muziek voor een Begrafenisstoet
B-02 - Sexueel

For technical reasons and to spare you long downloads this edition of the podcast is offered in 4 parts, details about tracks and personnel mentioned on each of the posts, as well as four short extracts from "9.999.999 Miljoen Erotische Variaties" by the "Liga voor Ditjes en Datjes".

tape 2
A-01 - Langs de Weg (Along the Road)
CW: vocals / EV: vocals, tapes, echo unit.
A-02 - Atoomfysica (Nuclear Physics)
EV: echo device, vocals, tapes, synth / CDP: vocals / GB: vocals & noise / V: tape
B-01 - Leven (Life)
EV: tapes, vocals, typewriter, plastic bags.
B-02 - Doodsbedreigingen (Death Threats)
EV: boxes, reading lamp, echo device, tapes, harmonica / EVW: synth, echo device. / CDP: vocals / ML: vocals / IB: vocals.

Letter from Erik Vl to Reader's Digest
Dear Sirs,
Last week you sent us 2 money orders to use by us for the book "Most beautiful villages of Belgium" and for your magazine "Reader's Digest". We are sorry to tell you that we don't want to receive your rag anymore. You can eat it yourself. And regarding "Most beautiful villages of Belgium", we have returned this book a couple of weeks ago, clearly within the time-limit you set forward. We didn't like the book at all, it contained way too little popstars and actors from the Dallas-series. Hopefully you won' bother us again, life as it is is without all that pro-american empty-headed girl-adorning pig shit that you clearly are, already dirty enough.
With "most respect".
signed: H. Vloeberghs.

Erik Vloeberghs' writings have been extensively published in Force Mental as of nr 1. We also have a huge volume of correspondence in our archive, ranging from postcards to 8-page letters. Some of his later poetry is available on this website.
He continues to work as a civil servant, responsible for the website and digital newsletter of the Belgian National Institute of Statistics.

This episode was removed on 13 july 2007 at 164 downloads.

Angst - Muziek voor Zelfmoorden (1 x C-90 + 3 x C-60)

tape 1
A-01 - Religieuze Feesten
B-01 - Psychische Zieken deel 1 & 2
B-02 - Lumbago

tape 2
A-01 - Langs de Weg
A-02 - Atoomfysica
B-01 - Leven
B-02 - Doodsbedreigingen

tape 3
A-01 - Zo Vierde Ik Kerstavond '81
B-01 - Levensvreugd!

tape 4
A-01 - De Drie Musketiers
A-02 - Positief Denken
A-03 - Dode Zijde
B-01 - Muziek voor een Begrafenisstoet
B-02 - Sexueel

"Muziek voor Zelfmoorden" (Music for Suicides) by Angst is the third release labeled as ZZ ZZZ, the first being "Last Exercise in Self-Destruction" and the second "Angst" (Club Moral Stocklist 012).
The four cassettes come in regular boxes with different kinds of wallpaper as cover and matching cutouts on the cassettes without further labeling. An accompanying leaflet comes as a manual with a statement and details about tracks and personnel.

All actions are completely useless. Therefore it is completely useless and superfluous to act. But is is also completely useless not to act. And it is also completely useless to think about such matters.
One only acts in order not to attract attention in a negative way, to attract attention in a positive way and to meet as little as possible pain and resistance on one's path of life. Stupidity keeps us alive.
But it is also stupidity that kills us. Everybody lives and dies for his own stupidities/cleverness. We should never make a distinction between things. There is only one thing: your conscience.

"Muziek voor Zelfmoorden", released in 1982, is definitely Angst's Opus Magnum and a landmark in the history of noise music. It totals almost four hours of sound collages based on (slowed) voice-recordings, extensive use of echo devices and a wide range of instruments ranging from analog synthesizers to violins, flutes and even cardboard or metal boxes, walkie-talkies and ashtrays. Made in an era of hometaping without computers for personal use, without affordable samplers, recording equipment or electronic devices of any kind this release still stands high above many of the so-called 'ambient' noise that is produced nowadays. Apart from complex but innovative recording and mastering techniques, also the distribution of this release was quite a burden: every tape had to be copied 1:1 and all the covers and leaflets are hand made. Therefore probably only a very limited number of copies are out there.
It is with great pleasure and much respect that we offer this release in our Stocklist Podcast. First of all we hope you enjoy the fine pieces of pioneer noise, secondly we think its value should be relooked upon in view of recent music history.
For technical reasons and to spare you long downloads this edition of the podcast is offered in 4 parts, details about tracks and personnel mentioned on each of the posts, as well as four short extracts from "9.999.999 Miljoen Erotische Variaties" by the "Liga voor Ditjes en Datjes".

tape 1
A-01 - Religieuze Feesten (Religious Festivals)
EV: synth, tapes, echo device, vocals / "Credo Quod Redemptor Meus Vivit" is taken from the lp "De Mechelse Liedertafel".
B-01 - Psychische Zieken deel 1 & 2 (Psychic Patients part 1 & 2)
EV: synth, tapes, echo device, vocals / WS: flute.
B-02 - Lumbago
SN: synth / EV: synth, tapes, echo device, boxes, ashtray.

Letter from Erik Vl and Luc VDB to Humo's Uitlaat:
As unemployed we earn 12.000 francs each every month. We already had several offers already to be employed, but we smartly refused. How do we use our 12.000 fr? 200 francs a month we spend on food, 100 francs on transport costs for the travel to our sick mother. Every 3 months we also buy her a bouquet of flowers, easily costing 120 francs, so 40 francs a month. The remaining 11.660 francs we entirely spend at our favourite bar on Bacardi-cola's (at 70 francs a piece). The most stupid among you will protest that we enjoy those Bacardi-cola's on the back of the taxpaying little man who bends his trunk from morning till evening to gain a franc. We although think that this reaction is unsportsmanlike and unfounded because:
1° By drinking Bacardi-cola's we support the Belgian liquor industry and also the development countries who after all deliver the raw material for our booze.
2° It is proven that long and exhaustive consumption of alcoholic beverages damage health, so we also give a helping hand to funeral undertakers and limit the overpopulation.
Thank you for your understanding,
signed K.I.B., Heist.

Erik Vloeberghs' writings have been extensively published in Force Mental as of nr 1. We also have a huge volume of correspondence in our archive, ranging from postcards to 8-page letters. Some of his later poetry is available on this website.
He continues to work as a civil servant, responsible for the website and digital newsletter of the Belgian National Institute of Statistics.

DDV - A Sound Atlas of Venereology (C-60 cassette + booklet)

A-01 - intro
A-02 - atmungen
A-03 - atmungen
A-04 - introduction to the patients
A-05 - voices from the patients
A-06 - Pinta
A-07 - Calypso
A-08 - Chancroid
A-09 - Chancroid
B-01 - venereology
B-02 - Herpes Genitalis
B-03 - bone lesions
B-04 - Störungen der Motilität
B-05 - oral cavity lesions
B-06 - Bizarre sexual practises can result in bizarre sexual lesions
B-07 - he
B-08 - end

"A Sound Atlas of Venereology" by DDV is based on the medical book "A colour atlas of Venereology" by Anthony Wisdom in the Wolfe Medical Atlases series, published in 1973. DDV bought it in the late 70s, it is now out of print and a collector's item.
All tracks are by DDV, performed on Wasp and Korg MS50 synth, and recorded in Club Moral in summer 1982 on a plain stereo cassettedeck with no remixing or mastering. On some tracks sound samples from the movie "Possession" (1981) by Andrzej Zulawski (recorded in a movie theatre) are used.
The original edition came as a cassette with no cover, in a plastic bag with a booklet. The booklet contained the lyrics to all the tracks, and a selection of pictures. The cover of the booklet had a colour picture, cut from another medical book. All the lyrics are from "A colour atlas of Venereology" and another fairly old German medical book. Unfortunately we don't have any of the booklets left, and even the original mastercopies seem to have gone astray. The German medical book was used in an artwork by DDV and might have gone astray as well.

Some of the lyrics include:

• Introduction (to the patients) - Many people attending a venereological clinic for the first time are understandably, extremely apprehensive and it is essential that the rooms in which patients are interviewed and examined have quiet, privacy and good illumination. Full clinical examination will often be necessary as systematic disease is often the cause of genital symptoms and lesions. Complete genital examination is always necessary and particular attention should be directed to remote sites where lesions that are helpful in the diagnosis of genital disorders may often be found. These remote sites include the eyes and conjunctivae, the oral cavity, the skin and nails and the lymphatic system. Examination must always include taking specimens for serological examination for evidence of syphilis; in many other conditions further laboratory examinations will be necessary.
  
• Voices from the patients is an example of synthesized male and female voices on a Korg MS50 synthesizer.
  
• Pinta is the least serious of the treponematoses. The disease has a limited distribution and is almost confined to poor native and Negro communities. Transmission is by contagion and nearly always occurs before adult life.
  
• Calypso was not made with a tapeloop but with a 33rpm vinyl record that had a piece of tape stuck on it.
  
• Chancroid is an acute sexually transmitted infection of the genitalia characterised by painful ulceration and frequent bubo formation. It is found throughout the world but is much more frequently seen in warm climates and in populations with low standards of hygiene.
  
• Bone Lesions - Tertiary syphilis of the bones generally begins as periostitis, with later cortical involvement. The osteo-periostitis of long bones is predominantly an osteoblastic process with deposition of extra bone under the periosteum, resulting in the usual findings of thickening and irregularity of affected areas. About 50 percent of patients with tertiary syphilis of bone complain of pain in affected areas; this pain may be very severe and is classically described as 'boring' in character.
  
• Bizarre sexual practises can result in bizarre physical lesions.
  
• "He's very tired, he made love to me all night."
  

Apart from "Pinta" none of the tracks were ever performed live and none have ever appeared on compilations. Although there was wide acclaim among fellow musicians and noise enthousiasts, no reviews or mentioning of this cassette has been made in any music or other source since its release in 1982.

DDV & - Δ t - Bangkok (C-60 cassette)

A-01 - DDV
A-02 - – Δ t
B-01 - Press conference at Club Moral

"Bangkok" was first released as a C-30 cassette with live recordings of DDV and - Δ t at Stollwerck, Köln, Germany on 22 jun 1982. Later on it was re-released as a C-60 cassette with both live recordings on the 'Europe' side and a press conference by - Δ t at Club Moral on 6 feb 1982 on the 'Asia' side.

- Δ t was formed around 1978 by Karel Dudesek, Mike Hentz and Chrislo Haas. In 1980 I met Karel Dudesek at the Festival International d'Art Performance in Lyon, France. He later came to visit me in Gent and Antwerpen, and we kept in touch through mail.
In the meantime we had founded Club Moral and - Δ t started their "Bangkok Project". The idea was to transport a huge stone from the Prescelly mountains near Stonehenge to the soon to open Museum of Contemporary Art in Bangkok, Thailand, and then afterward to the Himalaya as part of the first "Philosophische Datenbank". Before he joined - Δ t, painter and conceptual artist Bernhard Müller had been in Bangkok. There is a rumor that he had a meeting with the director of what was to be the Museum of Contemporary Art where he took him into the courtyard where he had parked his van, and started driving in circles for several hours while they discussed what should happen in the museum. The director liked the 'performance' a lot and promptly invited Müller to organize an international art festival.

Between 1981 and 1986 - Δ t transported the stone from Wales to the Himalaya, first on the flatbed of their Bedford truck, later on a special trailer. They travelled all over Europe, visiting art events, but they also managed to have the stone sprinkled with Holy Water by the Pope or having Rolling Stone (!) Mike Jagger posing next to it.
In february 1982 they were staying at Club Moral to do some repair work on their truck, and for a 'Bangkok' event at Montevideo, an Antwerp art space. We were scheduled to play, and Claude was doing a performance (with pig entrails and molotov cocktails and the whole). As a stage for our performance we built a 6m high metal scaffolding covered with parachutes. While - Δ t drove their truck inside the space, we had to move our scaffolding. By doing so a metal door which served as a platform fell down and knocked DDV and M.Bryo on the head, they were driven off to the hospital with head injuries while AMVK, supported by Raf Bauwens, performed as Club Moral. The show must go on.
In late 1982 - Δ t took off to India, and from 1 april till 30 may 1983 the Bangkok Project was held in the Bhirasri Institute in Bangkok, Thailand. Club Moral were supposed to play, but we never managed to get the funding.

However, the stone never made it to Bangkok and was left in custody at the Austrian Embassy in New Delhi in India in early 1983. The idea was still to get it up in the Himalaya, but for the time being it was thrown in the Ganges near Rischikesh so it would get more 'aura'. After a successful contribution to the New Delhi Triënnale the stone was fished from the Ganges, and a polyester mould was made. First the stone remained in a temple, but then it was moved again to the garden of the Austrian Embassy, where it remains until today.

The Bangkok Project was primarily financed by the issue of 'shares'.
"Through the acquisition of this share /1/ you become a co-owner of the rock /2/ which the group minus DELTA t will transport from England to the Himalayas, where it will be deposited as an international monument 1982. Its sight will be published after the accomplishment of that projekt. The shares rate correspond to 1 kilometer of the projekt Bangkok /3/ 'or' as the precise proportion of the rock weight respectively. There are 19967 shares in all, and they are numbered. The rock is an integrated part of the art market and the majority of share holders decides apon further activities. 1 each sale or subsequent sale has to be registered. 2 european culture-rate. 3 co-operative artistic field research concerning international cultural exchange."

In 1987 Dudesek and Hentz founded PONTON Mobile Art Project, basically a private radio station, which later went into VAN GOGH TV, the first world wide interactive television project. Karel Dudesek is course leader at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, London. In 1996 he realised Worlds Within for the Olympic Games in Atlanta. Mike Hentz founded Frigo, Code Public and Radio Bellevue in Lyon, France. He is professor for Multi-Media Art at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste in Hamburg. Chrislo Haas was also an original member of DAF, he died in november 2004 at the age of 48. Bernd Müller became a Sufist and is now an islamitic artist, he lives with his wife and many kids in Pakistan. Bangkok Project shares n°s 6648 till 6665 are still available from Club Moral.

Various Artists - Blanco (C-90 cassette)

A-01 - V-Side
A-02 - M.Bryo
A-03 - Angst
B-01 - Club Moral
B-02 - Etat Brut
B-03 - V-Side
B-04 - Bonus

"Blanco" was recorded live on 18 june 1982 at Galerie Blanco in Antwerp, Belgium. The idea was to raise some money because previous events organised at Club Moral had been cancelled by town authorities and we had run into troubles with tax authorities, security regulations et al.
Apart from the recorded performances there were also installations by Claude and Waving Ondulata, films by J.C Wouters and Fugitive Cinema, and videos from The Kitchen, New York and De Nieuwe Workshop, Brussels.
The evening started out around 19.30hrs with a performance by V-Side. Dirk Paesmans and Frank & Koen Theys were laying in the gutter of the street outside the gallery with shortwave radios tied to their head. DDV interviewed people about their opinion towards the performance, which was stopped by the police after about 15mins. On stage M.Bryo kicked off, a one-man new wave synth project of Mark Burggraeve. M.Bryo was part of an emerging new beat generation which also produced bands like DMT, The Klinik, Vomito Negro, etc. Next to torture the sound system was Angst. With nothing but cassette players and effects Erik Vloeberghs instantly brewed an exquisite noise set just using found footage and home recordings of his parents, relatives and neighbours chatting and whining. Then Club Moral took the stage. With Super8 movies and slides for visual effects some of the classics including 'Eating Limbs', 'Der Wind Schlagt um' and a rare 'Hail to Thee, Black Prince' were performed con brio. Etat Brut would fulfill their usual role of aural rapists with the most powerful and obscene electronics. To finish off in chaos V-Side came onto stage again.

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Environment-werk, film, video, muziek in Galerij Blanco.

ANTWERPEN. - Galerij Blanco, gevestigd aan de Pieter Potstraat 3, pakt vrijdagavond uit met een hele reeks manifestaties, die zij samen organiseert met Kattenberg 122 en Club Moral. De twee laatstgenoemde organisaties werkten totnogtoe altijd in het grote pakhuis aan de Kattenberg te Borgerhout, maar de gemeentelijke overheid heeft daar een stokje voor gestoken. De feestavond in Galerij Blanco krijgt daarom tegelijk een benefiet-sfeertje, want stilletjes wordt gehoopt om de financiële put, veroorzaakt door dit Borgerhoutse veto, wat te dempen.

De gemeentelijke ingreep kwam namelijk net op het moment dat de Brusselse teatergroep Banlieue een aantal voorstellingen kwam geven. Dat feest kon dus niet doorgaan zodat de gedane investeringen slechts gedeeltelijk gerekupereerd werden. Reden van de gemeentelijke bemoeienissen zouden het gebrek aan veiligheid en het 'vergeten van belastingen' zijn, maar het feit dat het officiële gemeentelijke kultuurcentrum vlak in de buurt ligt zal ook wel meegespeeld hebben...
Kattenberg 122 en Club Moral zijn trouwens niet van plan alle aktiviteiten in hun kompleks stop te zetten: volgend werkingsjaar zullen er verscheidene tentoonstellingen gehouden worden, terwijl de andere aktiviteiten elders onderdak vinden.
Zoals vrijdag in Galerij Blanco bijvoorbeeld. De avond wordt opgedeeld in vier groepen van aktiviteiten. Wat muziek betreft brengt Etat Brut elektronische muziek met wetenschappelijke inslag. Club Moral zelf brengt geluidsuitbarstingen van twee beeldende kunstenaars. M.Bryo speelt populaire dansmuziek met nefaste gevolgen, Kwajongens in Bloei slaken gefrustreerde kreten en echo's uit de krisis en Votnik schiet nerveuze flarden vanuit holle mediavaten. Als de muziek even gevat is als de omschrijving kan het een leuke avond worden.
De Gentenaar Claude en Waving Ondulata brengen environment-werk, terwijl de filmsektor vertegenwoordigd wordt door veelbelovende super8 filmpjes van J.C. Wouters en korte films uit de gerenommeerde Fugitive Cinema-stal.
Maar vooral het video-aanbod belooft veel: er zal namelijk (onder licht voorbehoud) een overzicht te zien zijn van recent werk van The Kitchen, het New Yorkse Center for video, music and dance, een naam als een klok bij de video-adepten. Het gaat om een pakket uit het aanbod dat de dag tevoren te bekijken valt in de Brusselse Nieuwe Workshop: werk dus van John Sanborn, Nam June Paik, John Logue (o.m. een filmpje over Laurie Anderson) en vele anderen. Daarnaast ook nog inheems video-werk uit de kollektie van Club Moral, Videotto, Post Scriptum, De Nieuwe Workshop en een selektie 'Portretten' van Waving Ondulata. Galerij Blanco dus. Aanvang 20u.30, toegansprijs 80 en 100 fr.
(Marc Ruyters in De Morgen, 18 juni 1982)

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M.Bryo continues to play as KOYT! and some songs are available from his website. Claude has discovered Photoshop. Waving Ondulata continued to work and perform and later on founded SubRosa.

DDV - Performan (A4 xerox-book)

"Performan DDV" is a catalogue of all (56) performances by DDV from 1979 to 1982. There is a short descriptive text in dutch and english and when available a picture from every performance. Since it isn't possible to podcast printed matter (or pdfs), we illustrate this episode with a rare movie that surfaced only last year after being stored away in a box for over 20 years.
On 5 sep 1980 DDV placed 6 self-made ladders on the marble staircase of the International Cultural Centre (ICC) in Antwerp. Then he fell down from the stairs 6 times. By coincidence part of the performance was recorded on Super8-film by Annie Gentils. Nothing ever happened with that film reel until Johan Pas curated the exhibition "Dear ICC - Aspects of contemporary art in Belgium 1970-1985" at the M_hka in Antwerp. The exhibition sported a mass of documentary items about installations, performances, concerts and movie-shoots at the ICC, and we remembered about the movie. 2 days before the exhibition opened the reel was dug out of a crate and transferred to DVD.
The version in this podcast is a remixed version DDV made for Factor 44's UKKR/ICC remod event, but never made it through the Great Chinese Firewall.

In the 1980s "Performan DDV" was edited as a xerox-book in various numbers, in all no more than 75 are out there. In 1997 we published a reworked version, covering all performances until 1996 (ending with the one Jan Hoet never saw), as a smaller A5 xerox-book. From that one even less are out there.
The full version of "Performan DDV - 1979-1997" is available on DDV's website.
To fill the gap in some people's libraries who have been begging us for copies for ages, we've made a brand new reprint of the original "Performan DDV" in a one-time edition of 50 copies. It's available in our WebShop Tal Para Qual, or contact us if you don't have PayPal.

We also consider a remix-project with the Super8-movie for which we invite video and sound artists either to remix the video or make a soundtrack. Shoot your ideas and we'll see what happens.

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Magog Universal - Erradication Time (C-46 cassette)

A-01 - Untitled
B-01 - Untitled

"Erradication Time" is the only release of Magog Universal we know about. Also I couldn't find any correspondence leading to the origin or the maker of this cassette. It was released in early 1982 in Britain. The music on "Erradication Time" is a fine example of early sound-collages using found footage, synthesized and shortwave noise, and effects. Both sides contain one long piece. The back of the cassette has written "For Timothy Evans" on it, and the image used on the cover is taken from a newspaper article about Timothy Evans.

Timothy John Evans was hanged at the age of 25 in Pentonville Prison, London on 9 march 1950 for the murder of his infant daughter Geraldine. In november 1949 he was living with his wife Beryl Thorley at 10 Rillington Place in London, in the flat above John Reginald Christie. On 2 december 1949 the bodies of Beryl and Geraldine were found hidden in the wash house. Evans had gone to the police and confessed to killing his wife by giving her some 'abortion pills' . Later he confessed to strangling her in an argument about money when he found out she was pregnant, and strangling the baby two days later. A couple of days later he withdrew his confession and named Christie as the murderer. Supposedly Christie, who had been a medical attendant during the war, agreed to perform an abortion on Beryl, and she died in this attempt. In panic he also strangled the baby. The investigating officers concluded that Evans had committed both crimes, however he was officially only charged with the murder of his daughter Geraldine. Christie was they key witness heard by the court, and finally the jury found Evans guilty and he was convicted to death by hanging.
In march 1953 the new tenant of 10 Rillington Place discovered a door to a kitchen pantry plastered over with paper, when he removed the paper and opened the door, he found the bodies of three strangled women. After a search of the house and garden, three more bodies were found, including Christie's wife Ethel. On 31 march 1953 Christie was arrested. His modus operandi was to 'treat' women for various diseases ranging from headaches to bronchitis, as well as perform abortion operations. He would render them unconscious with gas, strangle and rape them. During interrogation he confessed to murders as early as 1943, including the murder of Beryl Evans. He was tried at the Old Bailey, and hanged at the age of 55, from the same gallows and by the same executioner as Timothy Evans, in Pentonville Prison, London on 15 july 1953.
While Christie never confessed to killing Geraldine Evans, there was a wide public outcry for the innocence of Timothy Evans, since Christie had been the key witness at the trial and obviously lied about the death of Beryl. In 1965 Ludovic Kennedy wrote his pièce-de-résistance "10 Rillington Place" in which he dug out the whole case to conclude with an apparent miscarriage of justice. In 1966 Timothy John Evans was awarded a posthumous pardon, later on the case led to abolition of capital punishment in Britain. "10 Rillington Place" was made into a landmark Serial Killer 'docudrama' by Richard Fleischer in 1971 with John Hurt playing Timothy Evans, Richard Attenborough playing John Christie and Judy Geeson playing Beryl Evans. The film was shot at the actual location of the murders in Rillington Place and is a must-see for true crime buffs with a truly stomach churning performance by Richard Attenborough.
Rillington Place was renamed to Ruston Close shortly after Christie's execution and is now demolished.

If anyone has more information about "Magog Universal", or if the author of the cassette reads about this, please contact us and we'll update the information.

Kwajongens in Bloei (KIB) - Kousen Breien voor Melaatsen
(C-60 cassette)

A-01 - Unknown
A-02 - Unknown
A-03 - Unknown
A-04 - Unknown
A-05 - Unknown
B-01 - Unknown
B-02 - Unknown
B-03 - Unknown
B-04 - Unknown
B-05 - Unknown

"Kousen Breien voor Melaatsen" (Knitting Socks for Lepers) is as far as we can reconstruct the third release of Kwajongens in Bloei (Urchins in Bloom). The first one was "In Wording", the second one "De Mars der Kwaadaardige Gezwellen". It was a co-release with "Finger in the Dyke" Records from Holland.
The tape has 5 tracks on each side, the cover doesn't list any titles, it was released in march 1982.

Kwajongens in Bloei was an idea of Erik Van Woensel, a multi-instrumentalist. Other members were Wim Ceuppens, Erik Vloeberghs aka "Angst" and Luc Van Den Bruel aka "E.Coli".
They played live on some rare occasions, the first time was on a free-podium in Hallaar. Nihilistic texts were read onto synth drones and rhythms, within minutes the complete audience apart from some drunken sods had left and after 8 minutes the PA was shut down by the angry owner of the venue. KIB played on for another fifteen minutes on their own amplifiers. This concert was released on their second cassette.

To our knowledge only 3 cassettes were released, and in december 1982 an epitaph was published in Vloeberghs' "9.999.999 Miljoen Erotische Variaties":
Yes "it's true, KIB is no more".
You remember probably that what was supposed to be the farewell concert (in Wiekevorst) of KIB eventually didn't happen because Big Danny still happened to be in E.Coli's arse. Yes, we admit that we have willingly indulged in all trends and picked up success wherever we could grab it. We also admit that we wanted too much success in a too short span of time, and apart from that: things didn't go that well among the individual band members. Luc (E.Coli) wanted to go more into disco, he wanted people would jump around dancing onto our music, you know what I mean. Vloeberghs wanted to make covers of American Top bands like KISS, Boston, ELO, Asia, Kansas, Styx etc. Erik Van Woensel on the contrary was not allowed any longer from his mother to get involved with music after troubles with the youth brigade. We admit: at the top of our career, drugs, alcohol and boys were warp and woof in KIB. Especially the singer frumped from one to the other. "As long as it can strip down its pants it's allright for them" told Myriam about us. The result of course a whole list of venereal diseases. You will understand that KIB could not go on longer like this, the lovers went from one hand to the next and the money was spent in a record on heroin and doctors. IF we even played (because not every organiser had enough money to organise a concert with us), we had to perform while swimming because everywhere where we came the male semen was up to our chin, that's how made the fans were about us then.
We have heard in the meantime that E.Coli now has a relationship with the guitar player from "The Machines" and that the singer is with Will Ferdy. But how long this will last is another question. We have also heard that Jan Van Woensel has sworn off macrobiotics and is now wasting his fortune in gambling casino's. And there is a rumour that E.Coli is doing the streets in Leuven to earn his money.
Anyway, the Kwajongens are dead. This means that bands such as Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Virgin Prunes, 23 Skidoo, Whitehouse, Come, Einstürzende Neubauten, Club Moral, Nocturnal Emissions and Killing Joke, whom as we know have stolen their whole repertoire from KIB, will have to find their inspiration elsewhere. The future will learn what the future will be. All there is is awaiting.

Kwajongens in Bloei played live in Club Moral on 8 may 1982.
Erik Vloeberghs continues to work as a civil servant for the Belgian National Institute of Statistics. E.Coli published 2 more cassettes "Wo sind die Blümenkinder geblieben?" and "Die Traurigkeit, die toten kann", and is now a successful businessman. We don't know about the whereabouts of the other Kwajongens in Bloei.

Angst - Angst (C-60 cassette)

A-01 - Untitled
B-01 - Untitled

"Angst" is ZZ ZZZ 02. This is the second release by Erik Vloeberghs, preceded by "Last Exercise in Self-Destruction".
The tape has 2 long compositions based on recorded conversations, effects, synthesizer drones and occasional drums and other instruments. Nor the tape itself, nor the cover gives any information about the tracks or the band.
There exists no printed catalogue of the many releases of Erik Vloeberghs and we couldn't find any other information about this release. It was published in early 1982, while Vloeberghs was also involved in "Kwajongens in Bloei", to be featured in a next episode of the ClubMoralStocklist Podcast.

"Angst" is a landmark in the history of Belgian noise music. It was the first release that stood far away from the many new wave synth music bands as well as from the upcoming power electronics or mechanical rhythm stuff. The involved sound pieces were based on a recording of a Christmas party at 'De Witte Villa', and heavily layered with slowdown experiments and ambient sounds. The idea of music was heavily related to writing in the cut-up tradition of William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, but at the same time not influenced by audio works from these artists.
Erik Vloeberghs was also a great writer and poet, he published several volumes of his own writings on looseleaf pages and/or xeroxed editions including "Eerste Rapport van de Liga voor de Vernietiging van het Heelal" (1000 copies, 1981), "9.999.999 Miljoen Erotische Variaties" (door "De Liga voor Ditjes en Datjes, 1982), "De Ziekte van Burroughs" (1983), "Kom in het Huis van God!" (1983) en "Notities" (1984) to name a few.

Erik Vloeberghs' writings have also been extensively published in Force Mental as of nr 1. We also have a huge volume of correspondence in our archive, ranging from postcards to 8-page letters. Some of his later poetry is available on this website.
He continues to work as a civil servant, responsible for the website and digital newsletter of the Belgian National Institute of Statistics.

Jerry WX - 2Tracks (C-60 cassette

We don't have a copy left in our archives of CM011 - 2Tracks / Jerry WX, instead we offer an excerpt of Jerry's performance in Club Moral on 22 sept 1982.
(If anybody has a copy of this cassette readily available, please contact us so we can make arrangements to complete the digitalisation of our stocklist)
On 22 sept 1982 we organised a concert of "Velvet & Der Ground", a new band by Walter E. Baumann from Frankfurt-Am-Main, Germany. They were touring over Europe, and Club Moral was to be the only Belgian venue. At that time the organisation would take a lot of time & money to pay for transport & fee for the band, so we decided to move to a larger space nearby, which we could use for free. We stuck up a lot of posters, had publicity and interviews on local and national radio. Nevertheless Baumann and his Velvet never showed up....
Scheduled as support act was Jerry WX from Brussels, who just published his first cassette on the Etat Brut label. EB011 would be the only full release by an other artist on the EB label.

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Jerry WX aka Jerry Wanker started his career as a punk rocker in the band "Chainsaw", with Micky Mike aka "Snowy Red". He actually only had a very short encounter with power electronics before turning to "Digital Dance" and finally "The Revenge", a garage rock band.
Jerry also worked as a producer and studio musician for a number of Belgian Bands until 2000, when he died of an Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

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The photo of Jerry was taken by kraut

Etat Brut - Géometrie d'un Assassinat (C-60 cassette)

A-01 - Hélicoptères
A-02 - Intro
A-03 - J. Michaux
A-04 - Hertz
A-05 - Poles du Cerveau
A-06 - Dealey Plaza

B-01 - Karol Simon
B-02 - 7 h 30
B-03 - Allright

"Géometrie d'un Assassinat" is EB 9. Preceding release is EB008, previously available on this podcast as CM002 "DDV/Etat Brut".

To many this is regarded as Etat Brut's most 'accessible' release. Although at first sight the music may seem rather enjoyable, the themes or underlying content does not differ from the violence and disturbance of previous releases.
The idea of brain damage, interference and chemistry seeded in the earlier releases is here fully featured by the 'Surgeons of Electronic Hardcore' as they were called in 'Cassette Gazzette n°7': "This C-60 dissects with a timely realism, the victims that we are of the machine or of the ambient bestiality. The sound material, raw to say the least, works on the wretched corpse with precise notions, a sharp point. Neither sentimentality or hawkishness. Armed with the experience of their autopsy, they lavish care on the severely wounded persons of their euthanasia on the incurables in a final cry of agony (which is ecstasy, of course). A sound universe at the point of intersection of the industrial experimentations / machinations and the German cosmic rock. From this truth-document, one will remember above all "Poles du Cerveau", "Dealey Plaza" where the texts will convince the ultimate sceptics, "Karol Simon", cut-up incision gives free reign to convulsive spasms approaching the dance, and "Allright" howled by DDV in a psychotic trance".

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Further on "Dealey Plaza" reveals a joint interest of Etat Brut and DDV in the life and times (and it's end) of Lee Harvey Oswald. "Karol Simon" is an early proof of fascination for Sex Murders while "7 h 30" describes the dangerous and haunting atmosphere of the infamous 'viaduct' between Etat Brut's lodgings and the centre of Brussels after many sleepless nights. "Allright" kinda became a classic on sparse live performances of Etat Brut. The sound sample (from the movie "The Deerhunter") is played and re-played from a walkman straight into a microphone - no electronic sampling there but instead instant real live-button action by a psychotic DDV.
Those were the days....

Etat Brut - Emissions 01 (C-60 cassette)

A-01 - Introduction
A-02 - Lines of Murder
A-03 - Psychosomatique
A-04 - Fragments
A-05 - Salade
A-06 - Une Meilleure Nutrition
A-07 - Indigestion
A-08 - Compréhension et Communication

B-01 - Une Machine Qui Reproduit Mes Paroles
B-02 - Variations
B-03 - Sermon
B-04 - Sifflets
B-05 - Poubelles
B-06 - Imbibés d'Urine
B-07 - Belfast
B-08 - Interlude
B-09 - Manoeuvres Politiques
B-10 - Un Certain Plan de Maîtrise Intérieure
B-11 - Pollution
B-12 - Locus Solus

"Emissions" is EB 7. Preceding releases EB 005 was a 4min Super8 film "Lines of Murder" and EB 006 an untitled 5min Super8 film.
The tape was released around june/july 1981, on 19 june 1981 Etat Brut played live with Mécanique Végétale at the Club Moral in Antwerp.

On 1 june 1981 they played again at the Beursschouwburg:
1) One of the machines decides not to work.
2) Man of the P.A. decides we play too loud and just turns the volume down. We had to scream and to hold all dolby's out and all volume at max value.
A scramble
We were making a song called "Belfast" and all sounds were saturated and completely mixed. A big noise. I tried to get some sounds out of it. Not possible. My friend had to scream over the top and people could just see him scream but didn't hear very much. Strange impression probably.
3) I get excited. Smashed my bass on the stage and leave. My friend stay and keep on screaming on the noise. I come back with a chair, smash it on the floor and break it in two pieces. I take another chair and throw it through the stage to the other side. Then cut the power.
4) People seemed to like it (?) and applauded for an encore. We didn't do that, of course.

Deux électroencéphalogrammes (1 et 2) et les battements du coeur enregistrés pendant un sommeil normal (A) et pendant six secondes (représentées par la bande) de bruit dont les diverses intensités dépassaient 70 dB.

Etat Brut - Mutations et Prothèses (2 x C-20 cassette + several xerox collages)

I-A-01 - Informations
I-A-02 - Malaise
I-B-01 - Hommes Nus
I-B-02 - Marche (1)
II-A-01 - Crash
II-A-02 - Douce Nuit
II-A-03 - Marche (2)
II-B-01 - Bande Sonore du Film "Paysage Mental"
II-B-02 - Bruit

"Mutations et Protheses" is EB 004. Preceding releases EB 001 was a C-60 cassette (featured later on this Stocklist) "Cassette n°1", EB 002 was a 4min Super8 film "Paysage Mental", EB 003 a xerox package "Cellule Cancéreuse".
The tape was released in march 1981, on 3 april 1981 DDV joined Etat Brut for a performance at the "Underground on Stage" festival in Brussels. "The 'music' we will play in the show at the Beursschouwburg is already on tape. Actually, the machines make the noise themselves. There's no gesture of musician in it."
The performance lasted about 10 minutes. I was standing on the left side of the stage before a screen on which film footage of a violent nature was shown. A girl was standing on the right side reading a text. The sound of the machines was extremely loud. I threw my right leg in the air as high as I could several times. To my left foot a rope was fastened at which somebody pulled at a non-defined moment. I suffered a concussion of the brain.

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After all who needs a brain? take a bullet to my eyes, blow them out and see if I die....
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can I really exist behind the lines of murder?
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tolérance du visage humain
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"sadistic psychopaths were given the task of devising sex fantasies involving Reagan. Results confirm the probability of Presidential figures being perceived primarily in genital terms; the face of Johnson is clearly genital in significant appearance - the nasal prepuce, scrotal jaw. Faces were seen as either circumcised (Kennedy, Khrushchev) or uncircumcised (Johnson). In assembly-kit tests Reagan's face was uniformly perceived as a penile erection. Patients were encouraged to devise the optimum sex-death of Ronald Reagan."
(+ parties de ce texte en français)
"multiple-track cine films were constructed of 'Reagan' in intercourse during
a) campaign speeches
b) rear-end auto-collisions with one and three year-old models changes
c) with rear exhaust assemblies
d) with Vietnamese child-atrocity victims
Reagan thus appears as a series of posture concepts, which reformulate the roles of aggression and anality."
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toutes ces informations se perdent dans le fracas cérébral
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paysages de morts, l'être se dissout dans ces images de plages désertées, de mers sales mouvantes, de campagne immonde et vide
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not even a cry / not even a scream / I feel bad.
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(suit un montage sonore d'information radio et tv sur l'attentat contre le Président Reagan).

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In a letter of 18 april 1981 'Hans' wrote for EB: "There are not many reactions to the gig, so far. In fact, it's always the same, to whatever we release. I suppose it's not entirely paranoia, I mean, not always... No reactions, bad or good, right or wrong, black or white. There's always such a distortion between internal feelings and the related expression that it is quite interesting to get feedback to see what is this distortion, how it comes and where it goes. I mean the whole living situation in which we're stuck is forming the distortion and this is maybe far more interesting than the original feeling itself. By the way, the more significant consequence and feedback of the gig was your head concussion."

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There exists a bootleg of this cassette release on 2 red vinyl 7"s by a french label 'Vinyl Feces" MLEBMP 01-7.

Club Moral - Attack on Stuttgart (C-60 cassette)

A-01 - Hindi Introduction
A-02 - The Time that We're in Here
A-03 - Randomness
A-04 - What I'm Gonna Do about You
A-05 - Unknown Movie Scene
A-06 - Lonely Weekends
A-07 - Mangelmusik
A-08 - I Want to Lick You Empty
A-09 - Oorlog
A-10 - Eating Limbs
A-11 - Space, the Final Frontier
A-12 - Death Threats
A-13 - Hoe Minder Ik Weet
B-01 - Hindi Introduction
B-02 - Death Threats
B-03 - Mangelmusik
B-04 - Lonely Weekends

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"Attack on Stuttgart" was the first music performance by Club Moral. It happened on 19 september 1981 on the occasion of a performance event "Das Konzil", organised by Boris Nieslony in the Künstlerhaus of Stuttgart, Germany.
"Das Konzil" was mainly a discussion event for performance artists (ao. Harrie de Kroon, Mike Hentz, Jacques van Poppel, Franklin Alders,....) and organizers, with quite a lot of drinking, endless talks and little action. The Club Moral 'attack' took place in a small room with no windows and all 4 walls covered with mattresses. We played very loud with heavy bass volumes. At the end of the concert people were complaining of nausea and vomiting.
There were two separate involvements, the first was more or less in the afternoon, Etat Brut also played on the same event. The second stint happened in the evening, with Etat Brut joining us to perform "Death Threats" and "Lonely Weekends".
We travelled by train and stayed for three subsequent days in Stuttgart. Etat Brut travelled by car, arrived in time for the first concert in the afternoon, and drove back to Brussels after the evening stint.

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Boris Nieslony was for some time head of the "Kleinen Ausstellungsraum" in Hamburg, Germany. He continues to work as a performance artist and organiser of performance events. He formed the performance group "Black Market" and now he's in charge of the "Art Service Association"
Relations, talks, events and discussions among performance artists and organisers are still being organised through the "IAPAO" (International Association of Performance Art Organizers) network.

Club Moral - Attack on Autonomia (C-60 cassette)

01 - Oorlog
02 - Eating Limbs
03 - Mangelmusik
04 - Lonely Weekends
05 - Mangelmusik
06 - What I'm Gonna Do about You
07 - Kontrol
08 - Death Threats
09 - Wat een Leven
10 - Death Threats (reprise)

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"Attack on Autonomia" was actually Club Moral's third public performance. It happened on 24 october 1981 in a squat-factory near the Brussels University. The event was organised by Votnik.
Several other bands also played, apart from Votnik I don't remember any of the other performances. There's little doubt that any of those other performances was documented. Etat Brut were scheduled to play but decided not to since they opposed the 'anarchist' character of the event.
The night before we played at the "Cool Gate" in Brussels with Etat Brut, Mécanique Végétale and Pseudocode. Both our and Etat Brut's performance were recorded and maybe subject to a next series of archive material release.

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"Votnik" continued to organise events, perform and exhibit. Later they changed their name to "V-Side", and later on simply "V". It's members continue individually, Dirk Paesmans is notorious for the pioneer internet art website www.jodi.org while Koen Theys is a well-known Belgian video artist.

The "Für Ilse Koch" archive has been removed due to 'copyright' issues:

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From: "Susan Lawly"
To: "DDV"
Subject: Fur Ilse Koch
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 15:49:11 +0100
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What the hell are you doing, Danny? Take down that Fur Ilse Koch bootleg link right now, it's copyright material.

Thanks for your IMMEDIATE cooperation, best, WB.

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From: "DDV"
To: "Susan Lawly"
Subject: Re: Fur Ilse Koch
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 17:47:58 +0200
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william,

just as the podcast says, i'm putting our club moral stocklist into the public domain for archival purposes. there is a widespread interest in the early days of club moral and electronic and noise music in general, whereas much -if not most- of the original material is no longer available because it is long out of print, incredibly difficult to find, or -in our opinion- absurdly overpriced. making this material available in a widespread yet low-quality format, we hope to entice visitors to our webpages to support artists and labels by buying the newest releases. the reactions have been unanimously positive so far.

personally i also think the idea of copyright material is slightly overrated, i doubt that you actually own copyright or have permission to use the material released on the record, or -by the way- re-release the etat brut track on 'anthology 2'.

however, if you insist i will take the file offline (it will go away after a while anyway to make room for forthcoming products), and inform the visitors to our webpage by quoting our correspondence upon this matter.

all the best,

ddv

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From: "Susan Lawly"
To: "DDV"
Subject: Re: Fur Ilse Koch
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 16:57:49 +0100
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Hi Danny,

You can put any of your own material online as you wish (including the track you made included), but take off now an album that we released ourselves independently. It's got little to do with your opinion on record prices or what you doubt or not, it's amateur internet piracy to in your words 'entice' i.e. market your webpages.

Thanks again for your cooperation, hope you're well, best, W.

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From: "DDV"
To: "Susan Lawly"
Subject: Re(2): Fur Ilse Koch
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 23:47:19 +0200
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william,

i've removed the thorn in your eye from our podcast page. we will continue to post next items from our stocklist in the near future for reasons & purposes explained, too bad you have a different opinion.

apart from that we continue from the black ashes of club moral dead and buried, beware....

ddv

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Various Artists - Für Ilse Koch (12" 33rpm vinyl)

A1 - Imperial Japan: under the victory banner.
A2 - Musique Concret: exit.
A3 - Come: come sunday 2.
A4 - Aleister Crowley: nature of the beast
A5 - Nurse With Wound: fashioned to a device behind a tree
A6 - Lebensraum: consumer electronics
B1 - Leibstandarte SS MB: plutoniumetrio.
B2 - Charles Manson: cease to exist.
B3 - Etat Brut: necro.
B4 - Wiking DDV: nordic perversions.
B5 - Whitehouse (live): mindphaser - anal american.
B6 - Heinrich Himmler: europe lives.

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A release by Come Organisation (WDC 881021) from 1982. The regular edition came in black vinyl, a limited edition of 100 came in red vinyl.
"Für Ilse Koch" was the second compilation after "The Second Coming". It contains a huge variety of sound and participants; the power of technology with Leibstandarte SS MB, the laziness of Charles Manson, the brutal violence of Whitehouse live aktion, the pomp of Imperial Japan, the atmosphere of NWW, the electronics of Etat Brut and Viking DDV, the depths of Come, the avant-garde Musique Concret, the satanic majesty of Aleister Crowley, the dynamism of Heirr Himmler and finally the the savage attack by Lebensraum all cohered together for a record that must rate as the most unique of all time.
The listeners of these records will always enjoy the most intense reactions of all.
(source: "Birth - Death, The Whitehouse Compendium" by Kakos/Strength Through Joy Productions 1986)

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In the early years, Club Moral was with Aquilfer from Italy the only Europe mainland distributor of Come Organisation products (records, cassettes and booklets). We also published their notorious article "The Struggle For a New Musical Culture" in Force Mental 1, which sparked off worldwide bans and imputations on their and our fascist nature.
On 23 feb 1982 we were invited by William Bennett:
"Dearest DDV, We're planning a new compilation featuring violent music! Would you like to contribute? If you would please record 3 tracks of not more than 4 minutes each from which one will be selected for inclusion. When you are ready I will send you the contract terms. I must know your decision by feb 26th and the music must be delivered by march 5th. Anyway, I look forward to hearing from you soon, best regards! Yours, William Bennett."
Instead of the contribution we sent (of which the only copy may exist in the Come Org archives), Bennett chose to use "Oorlog" from our earlier release "Mit Neuen Waffen". For some reason we're also listed as "Wiking DDV", and the track was renamed to "Nordic Perversions". Also Etat Brut's track was given a new name.

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Come Organisation is now overtaken by Susan Lawly, exclusive label for Whitehouse and Extreme Music series: "we produce exquisite and extraordinary works of music and art whose comprehension will violently challenge to the fragile core of a naked soul".
Nurse With Wound continues to record and a wide variety of recordings are available. Lebensraum aka Consumer Electronics recorded some cassettes, later Philip Best joined Whitehouse and recently he performed solo again. MB aka Maurizio Bianchi stopped recording in 1984 when he became devoutly religious, he withdrew from electronic music until 1998 when he was given his own label "EEs'T Records" by Emanuele Carcano from Alga Marghen Records. Charles Manson remains in prison at California's Corcoran State Prison and is up for parole in 2007. Etat Brut will feature on forthcoming issues of this Stocklist. Whitehouse continue to record and play live. Their latest album "Asceticists 2006" is now available.
Some tracks of "Für Ilse Koch" appear on the "Anthology 2 - Come Organisation archives 1981-82" CD.
The original track where Nurse With Wound borrowed the famous sample "Nein papa, ich will nicht papa" can be found here.

DDV - Zeno X (cassette C-30)

A1 - Resonantiepunctie.
A2 - Gastric Ulcer.
A3 - Peter Carlier: Sadist.
B1 - Duizend levens van Rathé.
B2 - Tarzan Mark.
B3 - Jaded.

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This was the first 'multimedia' package by Club Moral. It featured a C-30 audio cassette by DDV, a recto-verso printed poster and an original artwork by AMVK. The edition was published on the occasion of AMVK's exhibition "Industriële Typen" in Zeno X Gallery from 25 feb till 25 mar 1982. Most of the tracks on the cassette were performed live by DDV on the opening night.
On show in the exhibition were 5 series of paintings on plexi "Men - Women - Pronouncements - Purpose - Order" in an organised chaos on walls and floor.
The poster is the third issue of AMVK's self-edited magazine "Public Annemy". It consists of a variety of images, collages and texts.

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"Resonantiepunctie" is a recording of DDV's voice on reel-to-reel tape, the tape is pulled through the tape-recorder by hand, no additional effects have been used. "Peter Carlier: Sadist" is based on the writings of Peter Carlier, a Belgian convicted sadist murderer, you can hear a rare performance by AMVK on flute. On "Tarzan Mark", DDV persists a young boy to shout until he's completely exhausted. "Jaded" is a cover of James White and the Contortions.

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In later years DDV has been corresponding with Peter Carlier in prison for a while. Carlier's present whereabouts are unknown. Xavier Rathé is on the cover of Force Mental 3, he died when he fell off a building in Amsterdam in the early 90's. Mark was our neighbour boy at Club Moral, he has a daughter and is divorced from his wife. AMVK continues to exhibit at Zeno X Gallery.

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This is a review on AMVK's exhibition:

De vrije associaties van "Industriële Typen"

In Galerij Zeno X (Leopold De Waelplaats 16 te Antwerpen) stelt tot 25 maart de Antwerpse Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (AMVK) schilderijen tentoon. Het zijn vijf reeksen van werken die de naam "Industriële Typen" meekregen. Mannen - vrouwen - uitspraken - doel - orde: die vijf thema's werden in een conventioneel zinloos en betekenisloos verband samengebracht, naast elkaar geplaatst. Het zijn alle felkleurige en breed uitgestreken schilderijen op plexiglas, met een veelheid aan figuratieve en non-figuratieve uitdrukkingsvormen, meestal schokkend, omdat in de op het eerste gezicht ruwe schets vaak een sterk herkenningseffect zit. "Conventioneel zin- en betekenisloos" zeiden we. Voor de argeloze kijker is er inderdaad geen verband tussen de reeksen onderling, tussen de schilderijen en de bijhorende teksten, die je op posterformaat (gratis) worden aangeboden. Maar het verband is niet rationeel. Het zijn emotionele en gedachten-impressies bij elk werk, die weer verbonden worden met ander werk in andere reeksen, of met de aankleding van de galerij zelf. Daarom is deze tentoonstelling ook zo boeiend: geen louter prentjes-kijken, maar een confrontatie van je eigen inventiviteit (waarbij je de bakens van je eigen, gewoontegetrouwe conventionaliteit zo ver mogelijk moet verzetten) met die van de "kunstenaar".
AMVK laat nadenken, zonder rationele gedachten of sluitende antwoorden aan te bieden. Je denkt wat je wil, je associeert zoals je wil, je zoekt het zelf maar uit: tégen de verstarring van de allesomvattende zekerheden, tegen het strakke normenbesef.
Bij een schilderij in de reeks 'orde' citeert ze: "De impulsen van middelmatigheid drogeren. Ze zijn verslavend en verwekken creativiteit. Daarom is België zo'n vruchtbaar land tegenwoordig". Doorgedreven trivialiteit, die de gedachte bewust op zijn kop zet. Zoals de hele wereld overigens.
De tentoonstelling kan bezocht worden vrij, zater- en zondag van 14 tot 18 uur, tot 25 maart.

(Marc Ruyters in De Nieuwe Gazet, 3 maart 1982)

Mit Neuen Waffen (C-60 cassette)

A-01 Oorlog (Autonomia)
A-02 In Tirol
A-03 Exces Kontrol
A-04 The Birds are Singing in the Sky and the Fish are Swimming in the Sea
A-05 Interludium
A-06 I Like it in Here
B-01 Nova Akrilik Cie
C-01 Short Intro by - Δ.t
C-02 Oorlog (Budapest)
C-03 Eating Limbs (Budapest)
C-04 Tarzan Mark (Budapest)
C-05 Lonely Weekends (Budapest)
C-06 Calypso Rhythm (Budapest)
C-07 Gastric Ulcer (Budapest)
C-08 Da Beeleke (Budapest)
C-09 Exces Kontrol (Budapest)
C-10 Poem by Gyuri Kozma
C-11 Trabant
C-12 Short Outro by - Δ.t

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A joint release by Club Moral and Nova Akrilik Cie, re-released in 1983 as "Mit Neuen Waffen +" with a different B-side.
The first actual 'Club Moral' recordings with DDV on synths, found footage and voice and AMVK on synths and voice..
All tracks were recorded on a plain cassettedeck, the live tracks recorded on a Sony Walkman.

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"Oorlog" was recorded live on 24 oct 1981 in "Autonomia", a squat project by "Votnik" (aka V-Side) near the VUB university in Brussels. The pounding synth on "Exces Kontrol" is a beaten FBT synth that we (still) borrow from Raf Bauwens. "I Like it in Here" was also the soundtrack for an AMVK-installation.
"Nova Akrilik Cie" were from Paris, where they initiated "Usine Pali-kao", a factory building with a programme of exhibitions, performances and concerts. We were booked once for 2 nights on 28 & 29 nov 1981, with Etat Brut joining on the first night. The first night about 15 people showed up in the ice-cold space to watch us play while wearing heavy coats and gloves. We were paid a share of the door-money, so we gave it all to Etat Brut. The second night only 3 people showed up....
No track titles have ever been available for the B-side, if you happen to know more about it, please contact us.
The first edition of "Mit Neuen Waffen" ran 100 copies, after that we added a recording of our 17 jul 1982 concert in Budapest. The concert was in an exhibition "4 Landscapes" by Janos Veto in the artist village Szentendre next to Budapest. The gallery was in an underground basement, completely carved into the rock of the mountainous area. Only sound equipment available was a hi-fi system. We plugged the Wasp into the phono input, threw some cassettes inbetween and DDV used a wooden stick as a microphone (you can hear it banging on "Exces Kontrol"). "Da Beeleke" sports the voice and laughs of Guy Cassiers. "Trabant" is Janos Veto's Band. We actually arrived in Budapest due to an uncertainty of playing in Vienna, it was Mike Hentz from "- Δ.t" who got us in touch with Janos Veto and Gyuri Kozma. A report with photos from the Hungarian stint is published in Force Mental 2, p. 23-25.

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This is the translated text of Gyuri Kozma's poem, written on 24 jul 1982:
"You know I don't know
but there's a funny feeling
just knocking on the horizon
and I wonder what if
the next moment wouldn't
come but there would be
an other moment coming, apologizing
in the name of the next moment
which couldn't come and
then you have to accept
the situation : you're sitting
here, in the afternoon gloom
with no friends, no love no
values no money no prospects
and you were about to think
that maybe you should change
your behavior : be nicer to
the neighbour a dog or just
think nicer things and then
in the midst of all this,
waiting for your next Martini
looking the legs of those girls
who will eventually leave you
now well, here you are, facing
the next-after moment, that
came to tell you the very
next moment had some other
things to do, something was
more important than you again
and I'm sure you couldn't do
better - you have to sit
here, waiting for a moment
it's humiliating : it's just
a little moment, and, which
is more, not even the right
one so it should be easy to
say something, hello for instance,
but here you are, looking for
a word and you won't find it
- the next moment
got inside itself"

DDV / Etat Brut (C-60 cassette)

A-01 Tone
A-02 The Time that We're in Here
A-03 What I'm Gonna Do About You
A-04 I Want to Lick You Empty
A-05 Eating Limbs
A-06 Death Threats
A-07 Ik Heb Zo'n Pijn
A-08 Lonely Weekends
A-09 If You're Looking for Trouble
B-01 Machine
B-02 Machine
B-03 Machine
B-04 Machine
B-05 Machine
B-06 Machine

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A joint release by Club Moral and Etat Brut, also known as "EB 8".
DDV's tracks were made with an EDP Wasp synth, voice and various found footage. On track 8 and 9 Etat Brut play extra synths. Etat Brut's tracks are made with Korg MS 20 and MS 50 synths, Roland drum-machine, effects and found footage.
All tracks were recorded on a 4-track TEAC cassetterecorder.

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The sound footage on "Eating Limbs" (an all-time classic!) is a recording from a 1978 DDV-performance where he frantically hits two hammers onto each other.
The text of "Death Threats" is a message DDV received on a postcard in the mail, the sound footage on this track is a recording from a 1978 DDV-performance where he was dragging a stone across the floor of his basement for 1 hour.

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An additional review from Cassette Gazzette n°5:
A: Danny Devos: 4 sept. 1981: Cet anversois est simplement le talent le plus original dans le Royaume de Belgique. Sur cassette come sur scène, c'est toujours boulversant et nouveau. Une manière obsédante et sans merci d'asséner ses vocaux/cris, répétant des phrases ou des onomatopées insistantes sur rythmes de synthés s'accordent parfaitement avec la voix. Des bruitages métalliques viennent renforcer les assauts. Et vous en redemandez car cette musique possède un côté shamanique qui vous libère.
B: Etat Brut: Machines. Alliés à l'électronique, des bruits de machines, des cut-ups d'ambiances sonores diverses (usines, voix véhémentes ou même d'opéra), donnant de nos paysages technologiques une curieuse peinture sonore. Curieusement rythmés, ces bruits machiniques forment un tout étrange, accaparant. Les sons que produisent les machines sont leur côté le plus poétique et effrayant tout à la fois, et cela, Etat Brut l'a compris et le rend bien. Une nouvelle forme de musique concrète que vous devez découvrir.

The Simpletones (7" 33rpm vinyl)

A - Gibst mir dein hand, und geht mit mir auf dem strand.
B - Don't be cruel, to a heart that's true.

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The Simpletones are Johan Desmet on guitar and Rudy Cabie on electric organ. The music is consists of a variety of combinations of the same 3 notes over & over.
In the early years they only played during performances by DDV. The first occasion was AMVK's exhibition "Basic" at Art Something in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 12 sept 1980. More information on the performances of DDV and The Simpletones here.
In later years The Simpletones have evolved in a big band with up to 20 participating musicians. They released a 12" 45rpm vinyl "Wir Sind Wieder Da!" in 1983, and a full CD "Einfach" in 1993. On both releases DDV performs some vocals and/or 'narrative voice'.
Johan Desmet continues to make music, including several operas and soundtracks for theatre plays. Rudy Cabie died a couple of years ago. DDV continues Diggin' for Gordon

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The title of track A of 'The Simpletones' was taken from the German newspaper BILD-Zeitung, it was a story about a boy who brutally murdered his girlfriend after a last walk on the beach. Track B was recorded live in the basement of Albert Frèrelaan 93 in Gent, with DDV vomiting during the full 8 minutes of the track.