The 24th of February, which will gives you 24.2 of course , but this year it's on a Monday, that's why BodyBeats choose February 22. Meanwhile it will be almost a month ago when legend Front 242 pulled the plug on their live shows. However, their legacy will always remain, if only because they helped give the name, some even claim they were the inventors of Electronic Body Music. The fact that this genre, from the virtuous conception at the beginning of the 80s on, is still very much alive is proven by the now annually recurring 'International Ebm Day' in the De Casino in Sint-Niklaas.
On Saturday February 22 you can go 'stomping' to the music of Skren, Deleritas, Tyske Ludder, Armageddon Dildos and Portion Control.
Skren is a relative newcomer from Germany who is allowed to kick off, and does so with EBM that winks at the old dark electro in a post-industrial dance sauce, Just stir it! The duo from Düsseldorf was founded in 2012 but now seems to have kicked-off its second youth.
Deleritas is Belgian, with their cradle is in Liège they combines an EBM backbone with techno and aggrotech to create true dance floor killers. Deleritas recently released their second album “Culturae Doctrina” via the Steampunk Alien label. Get to know this album on the ‘international EBM day 2025!’.
Tyske Ludder is a name you should actually know because this formation bombed the dance floor in 1994 with the album “Bombt Die Mörder”, after which they also became very successful in our country with the album “Dalmarnock” on which the hit “Monotonie” made many legs move on the dance floor several times in the 90s. The years have flown by in the meantime but Tyske Ludder is still there, for example they released the single “Silvester” on New Year's Eve. Musically a mix of EBM and typical Teutonic dark electro. Their new album “Weltbühne” will be released at the end of January this year and will probably also be their soundtrack for the ‘international EBM day”. Here you go!
Armageddon Dildos is another project with a name and fame that put their ‘heads’ together in 1989 and for this ‘International Ebm Day” they used their joker, namely a real vintage Armageddon Dildos set. Or electro from the 90s, strongly influenced by the EBM and the darker electro exploits typical of the German electro wave of the 90s but also carrier of an American electro crossover fever. From east to west with this “Homicidal Maniacs”.
As headliner, the still living legend Portion Control was chosen. A band that made the electro industrial scene unsafe from the early 80s, when silence in the 90s, only to resurface again in 2004, to never leave again. Between electro with a sense for experiment and occasionally there's even room for poppy escapade. But always 'to the point' and since the 80s to the present still Cult with a capital C. As you can see, Electronic Body Music can be quite versatile, so come and convince yourself on February 22 at the wonderful De Casino in Sint-Niklaas.
An organization of Bodybeats Production of course, so surf to their website for all practical and information!
http://www.bodybeats.be/en/international-ebm-day/
Click this link for your tickets!
https://decasino.be/concert/ebm-day-2025/
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https://www.facebook.com/events/897008528917224
